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It depends on what crackpot theory you believe.
I'm fond of the "if you change the past, then it splits off into an alternate universe" load of bull shit theory.
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Oh man...I love talking about time theories and qauntum physics...
Here's more info on alternate reality theory:
Erwin Schrödinger, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1933, presented alternate reality theory. It was in 1935 that Schrödinger published one of his most famous papers, Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox…now widely known to those in the field of Quantum Physics as “Schrödinger's Cat.” The imaginary situation he proposed was this…
A cat is placed in a sealed box. Attached to the box is an apparatus containing a radioactive nucleus and a canister of poison gas. The experiment is set up so that there is a 50% chance of the nucleus decaying in one hour. If the nucleus decays, it will emit a particle that triggers the apparatus, which opens the canister and kills the cat. If it does not do this within the hour, the cat lives. So here we have a situation where the cat has a 50/50 chance of living. However, since the cat, the device, and the radioactive material are hidden under the box, nobody outside can tell whether the device has been activated yet. This leads the scientist to ponder the following: if you can't see that the cat is dead, does that mean it's still alive? Likewise, if you can't see that it's alive, does that mean it's dead? This scientist is preoccupied with a theory that two parallel universes exist inside the box at the same time: one where the cat is still alive, and another where the cat has been killed. And both of those universes will continue to exist until he lifts up a corner of the box to find out for sure.
This theory has since grown into what happens when you make a choice, and how that makes alternate realities. For instance…right now I’m writing this, but since I made a choice to write this, another reality split off where I’m not on OWF. Considering we make so many choices throughout our day, it’s hard to comprehend how many realities exist…in theory.
-oddguy