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MJ (observant) wrote in avengers_net,
@ 2018-01-26 22:07:00

Entry tags:

- network, michelle jones, stephen strange

I have some additional questions about this alternate timeline idea. Anyone who wants to answer, feel free to jump in.

✄ If I'm in an alternate timeline, then aren't we all in one?
✄ Are we supposed to try to get back to our original timeline? Or is that going on without us? Or with an alternate version of us?
✄ How long have we been in this alternate timeline?
✄ Since we're probably all making different decisions than we would have, and changing this more and more with each moment, is it even possible to get back to where we were supposed to be?
✄ If we do something here, and it doesn't affect 'real' time, doesn't that free us to start a revolution?
✄ What if we die in this wrong time? Do we die in real time, too?

I need to know so I can plan my week.

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doctor__strange
2018-01-27 04:23 am UTC (link)

1. We are all part of this timeline, together.

2. Our original timeline is going on with that version of us, and this one is going forward this version of us.

3. I believe it originally started to splinter off when I had to rewind Hong Kong, running very close together, but I'm uncertain if something else might have also contributed to sudden and further destabilization.

4. It would affect real time, as would a revolution, but ok?

5. This is real time, in this universe, and for each of us. So death would be death. As far as I know, but having died so many times I lost count, I can't say I recommend the experience.

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	observant 2018-01-27 04:26 am UTC (link)
	So basically fusing time back together would mean eliminating one version or the other. I meant to say that if we did something radical here, it would only have an impact here, not there, right? Like the kind of thing you're not supposed to say in case the government is reading what you write and is ready to arrest you for it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doctor__strange 2018-01-27 04:32 am UTC (link)
	Yes, and I couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't collapse them both, and kill us, and them. Yes, if you did something radical here, it would only have an impact here. As far as I know. I hope. I think Stark has seen to it that the government would have a very hard time reading anything on here. Ever. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

observant
2018-01-27 02:31 pm UTC (link)

So... when someone shows up in this timeline... does that mean they weren't here before? Like... everyone I see on a regular basis is still around. What if one of them pops over from the other timeline suddenly? Why aren't there then two of them? And if they are still in the old timeline, is that a new version of them? Or did that version of them split into two and one ended up here, and the one that was already here fizzled out of existence?

Every time I think about writing a time travel story I end up doing this and decide it's not worth the effort.

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doctor__strange
2018-01-28 02:39 am UTC (link)

Hmm. They were already here in this timeline, not in another. It means that wherever they were in this timeline, for whatever unfathomable reason, they were drawn here to this city. It's this timeline's selves that are being drawn here.

Essentially? Yes. The other...let us call it the "main timeline" universe that we're from, seems more stable and has our counterparts in it. You're still you, everyone else around you is still them. When time split, branching off from the same universe, it created you's and two of everyone else, and everyone wouldn't ever know they were anything else but themselves, and have identical sets of memories and experiences. Complicating this, there's literally countless versions of all us all, in vastly different variations and living in vastly different circumstances, throughout the Multiverse. Time branches off more than we imagine it does. There's one where the Nazis won WWII, and the timeline went on from there. There's even one where the Chitauri invasion was successful. ~~I've seen some of these. Not recommended viewing.~~ Each are like branches on a massive tree, each becoming a timeline all their own.

Even if concepts of time can get profoundly messed up trying to explain all of the variables and possibilities, these are good questions to ask. It does make for good stories, just not the ones you probably wanted to live through.

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	observant 2018-01-28 03:04 am UTC (link)
	So we're stuck here and have no power to change anything. Sounds like more of the same if you ask me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	doctor__strange 2018-01-28 03:10 am UTC (link)
	It is. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amazinspiderman 2018-01-30 08:46 am UTC (link)
	I wish I had the answers to some of those questions. All I know is that despite being in an alternate timeline I'm still behind in my robotics project. (Reply to this)