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Tom Mazanec · 09-04-2018, 01:42 PM

To be conceived, your parents have to copulate perfectly to the picosecond and Angstrom. And for them to exist, their parents have to do so as well. And so on.
Now the mathematics of weather gives rise to the butterfly effect...a butterfly flapping its wings changes the weather after a time from what it would have been.
So why do we get things like worlds where Alexander the Great's Empire still stands and Jesus of Nazareth was never born, but Adolf Schicklgruber is a famous artist and convert to Judaism?

09-04-2018, 01:42 PM	#1
Tom Mazanec Join Date: Oct 2007	Why do dopplegangers keep being born centuries after a divergence? To be conceived, your parents have to copulate perfectly to the picosecond and Angstrom. And for them to exist, their parents have to do so as well. And so on. Now the mathematics of weather gives rise to the butterfly effect...a butterfly flapping its wings changes the weather after a time from what it would have been. So why do we get things like worlds where Alexander the Great's Empire still stands and Jesus of Nazareth was never born, but Adolf Schicklgruber is a famous artist and convert to Judaism?