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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
After a fashion it could be true if this is actually some kind of infinite worlds campaign but that's not an option that would occur to them in a pre-quantum physics time.
Incidentally the Inspector might find himself seconded to Special Branch just because he's their only witness and already knows too much.
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Originally Posted by Irish Wolf
Why would quantum physics be necessary to decide "extraterrestrial"? We had ETs in fiction long before quantum mechanics, or even relativistic physics (The War of the Worlds was serialized in 1897, and the Great Moon Hoax, in which life forms were supposedly sighted on the Moon using powerful telescopes, came out even earlier, in 1835).
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Bolded relevant parts. If he's from, e.g. Infinity, he is, after a fashion, an alien, in that he does not come from the specific iteration of the planet earth he's on. However, even if that is the case, members of a society without quantum physics will probably not think of it as a possibility.