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Old 10-11-2007, 02:36 PM   #31
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What about worlds with completely different geography, like Yrth?
IMO, Yrth wouldnt be an alternate Earth, but rather a different habitable planet.
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Old 10-11-2007, 03:46 PM   #32
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IMO, Yrth wouldnt be an alternate Earth, but rather a different habitable planet.
Ok, but according to RAW, it's a different timeline. It even shares the same star constellations & such.
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Old 10-12-2007, 02:46 AM   #33
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Alright now, this might a bit off topic, but I gotta ask one thing that's puzzled me about Infinite Worlds. Normal conveyors and projectors can only shift timelines, not locations, right? The place you jump from is the same exact location in the timeline where you arrive to?
While it clearly says this about World Jumpers (unless you also have Warp), where does it say conveyors and projectors can't move things to different location?

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IMO, Yrth wouldnt be an alternate Earth, but rather a different habitable planet.
See page 150 of Infinite Worlds.
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Old 10-13-2007, 10:52 AM   #34
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A similar headach. Eventually, the most recent echo is going to reach the point of Van Zandt's experiments. Since he is in a different Quantum, he will almost certainly stumble across different timelines than Earth-Beta (though that is what he might call it).
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:00 AM   #35
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A similar headach. Eventually, the most recent echo is going to reach the point of Van Zandt's experiments. Since he is in a different Quantum, he will almost certainly stumble across different timelines than Earth-Beta (though that is what he might call it).
I think Van Zandt's experiments wouldn't work on an echo.
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:11 AM   #36
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I think Van Zandt's experiments wouldn't work on an echo.
Of course, that would make them stop being an echo. And, apparently, when things stop being echos, they shift quantums (or occaisonally become an anchor alternate, but that's pretty much impossible in this scenario). It's possible, however, that "Van Zandt doesn't discover parachronics" won't create the sort of shift that Centrum wants for their grand scheme of "throw Homeline into a distant quanta", which would explain why they're not simply waiting a few years for the echos to shift naturally.
Alternatively, maybe each echo that turns into a "Van Zandt doesn't discover parachronics" actually cements Homeline's position in the quanta! That gives a nice "victory condition" for I-Cops on an echo - keep Centrum from changing history until 1995, and then you win!
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Old 10-13-2007, 11:15 AM   #37
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Perhaps there are an infinite, countable number of worlds, rather than an infinite, uncountable number.
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Old 10-13-2007, 12:04 PM   #38
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A few other things to consider:

"Infinite" is sometimes used, esp. in common speech, to mean an indeterminably large amount or extent (but possibly still finite).
Besides, 475,109,253,361,111,027 worlds just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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