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Old 09-04-2018, 04:38 PM   #3
David Johnston2
 
Join Date: Dec 2007
Default Re: Why do dopplegangers keep being born centuries after a divergence?

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Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec View Post
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?
The justification in Infinite Worlds is that the worlds don't exist in isolation from each other. They influence each other to cause these kind of coincidences and to attract worlds who have that kind of synchronicity. Which why there's a world of intelligent dinosaurs where every nation has exactly the same boundaries as those of Homeworld few years previous.
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