Key

Keep in mind this is all based on theories and hypothetical situations. I'm not really asking for anybody to mathematically prove people wrong, the point of this thread was more to just see if there are people who think that something like this could somehow be possible, even if the possibilities are completely unrealistic.

The Batlord

**** me if I know, but if I were to hazard a guess, if parallel universes did exist, I don't think they would be alternate timelines.

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Key

Mathematics aside, do you ever think about what it'd be like to have the possibility to look into a parallel universe and decide the fate of something that you already know is going to happen? Or to somehow change said thing from happening? That thought alone just blows my mind because even though the possibility isn't there, it's still something that if it were possible, the outcomes would be incredible.

Trollheart

Even if it was a bridge, well, no you're not going to act differently, but say it was old and crumbled? You either made it over to the other side or you didn't, and two new universes are born. Or you could meet someone if you cross the bridge that changes your life; go back and decide you forgot to lock your car and then change your mind about taking a walk over the bridge (maybe you get a call) and you never meet that person. So yeah, on the smallest things large events can turn.

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Trollheart

One point there: you have to be careful not to meet yourself. Unless of course you're Stewie and Brian, who met about a hundred duplicates of themselves. Two identical objects cannot share the same space/time, and if they do, look out universe!

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The Batlord

But it's not just going to get old and crumble for no apparent reason. It's still going to be bound by the same natural laws that govern the other bridge. It'll get old and crumble at the same rate.

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Key

That's where another theory comes into play where you're not allowed to disrupt your own existence in a different universe because it could drastically alter your existence / terminate your existence. However, to have that kind of power would be almost unstoppable.

Chula Vista

A person putting their child into a stove, and then leaning against the door while their kid screamed and fried alive?

Or how about this recent TV showbiz hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack

There's simply some **** with humans that defies all logic and reason.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Key

I actually agree with you here. I don't want to get nerdy, but this is how it was explained in Bioshock Infinite:

The Batlord

It defies your ability to understand it. That does not mean that it defies objective logic. Seriously, you are committing a recognized logical fallacy, and you need to question your premise.

Argument from incredulity - RationalWiki

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