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[forasecond]

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How many of you are familiar with BOTH the concept and realities of time travel and the multiverse AND quantum physics?

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[chulk]

Your first step is figuring out what this place would be classified as. Not all universes are created equal, this could be a localised offshoot for example.

Then you gotta figure out your universe's which is a little bit harder if you don't already know.

Once you know that you can look into devising a method of travel between the two, but the multiverse is a big place. An infinite number of universes for an infinite number of possibilities. You need enough data points to pinpoint yours without getting it mixed up with another place where everything happened the same, except you woke up on the other side of the bed one morning.

Want me to keep going?

[forasecond]

What kind of classifications do universes even have?

Is there a way to find out, even though I have no idea what my universe's classification would be?

Yeah. Yeah, that part tracks. It's a little bit like time, in that way. The infinite ways it can spiral out into new timelines.

[And then something occurs to him and it's like a punch to the gut.]

Would you say that when a timeline diverges from whatever was the original trajectory, that it creates a new universe altogether?

[chulk]

Pocket universes, alternate dimensions, stuff like that.

There's a guy who claims he can look that up. However I'm going to suggest extreme caution when dealing with him. He's from my universe and isn't known for being trustworthy. His thing is with magic which isn't my wheelhouse. The alternative is to wait and see, I'm not the only genius around there's a good chance someone might invent something.

And I can't confirm that either way. Those kinds of changes are hard to observe from the outside perspective and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference from the inside. I can only theorize.

[forasecond]

Got it.

I'm not keen on magic, as a general rule. I don't trust it.

What would you theorize, in that situation?

[Right now, he'll take theories. He'll figure out the realistic application later.]

[chulk]

I'm thinking no. The dead branch remaining as part of the unique signature of the universe while the new folds itself in like it's always been there. You could argue that each universe is in itself a different branch off another one, but that's getting a little too complicated.

Ultimately the amount of energy required to form a completely new universe from a diverging timeline means it doesn't seem likely to me.

[forasecond]

[That makes sense. Actually, it makes a lot of sense, and it makes some things loosen in his chest. If it's just time that they've broken, there's a bigger chance of being able to fix it. That's a "when we get home" problem, though. This little endeavour of his right now is his main focus.]

Good. If you're right, that makes what I'm looking for a lot less complicated, suddenly.