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[benames]

ok so

this is a little preview to the lecture I'm giving at the Iskaulit soon: The Amazing, Awesome, Absolutely Terrifying Physics of the Multiverse -

So the multiverse, which used to be a theory that is clearly being verified with each passing second is the force that connects an infinite number of alternate universes. Back home, we called ourselves Earth-1 but since we're not dealing with earths anymore, you can just call your home Universe-1.

Now, theoretically, there is an endless number of universes alternate to yours! they all have a version of you. For instance, I met my Earth-2 self which was a traumatic experience since he had the worst hair do since John Travolta did Grease.

[ and he was a psychopath but nevermind those details ]

This here is not an alternate universe, it's a pocket dimension since we have people here from various universes. Usuallym we have only one version of a person at a time BUT, if there ever was another version of YOU, then, you're in the same lifeboat as I am. You have met your Universe-2 self. Hope it was a good time. I'd love to meet the version of me who runs a highly successful company and can afford endless videos games but, I'm getting distracted.

Thing is, time in YOUR world didn't stop, which means that the YOU here is now an alternate version of the YOU at home. If you two ever meet, the one at home would be Universe-1 and you would be Universe-2. Talk about confusion, right?

it also means that if we ever find out how the Atroma is doing alla this that we can go full on Sliders. If you wouldn't want to go back to your world, you could go somewhere else since there is a YOU back home carrying on with the life you have left when you got here.

basically, it means that in theory, we might be able to visit each other's universes and times and if you have a cute girlfriend here you won't literally have to be star-crossed lovers.

Me, I'm less stuck on the 'you jump through the wormhole, I jump, Jack' and I'm more keen on discovering the sham that must be National City's pizza.

For a longer version of all of this and a talk about philosophy, physics and timelines, you can come to my lecture or just come visit me on the blameless. bring food.

Cisco Ramon, out!

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[precedented]

I'm surprised by the lack of references. You really restrained yourself.

[benames]

So many people don't get them, it's tragic bc a. I feel so alone b. we don't have enough movies here for me to do a basic pop culture course.

it's mostly so I won't cry.

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[resnipstance]

[Wryly amused:]

You know... the truly amazing part about this post was that I understood everything you wrote about the scientific stuff and absolutely nothing else.

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[benames]

Yeah, I mean, if I had the resources, I'd have a course about pop culture: the basic 101 but there is a tragic lack of movies and songs around here.

[ he can't work like this, Atroma, gosh. ]

I mean, I wish they'd give us a decent media library.

[reconstitution]

There have been a few alternates here at the same time. The pasts were the same, up to a turning point.

[benames]

Sometimes it's like that

one decision can change the timeline and create a parallel universe, after all.

really makes you think about the what-ifs.

Some of the alternates share pasts, some even act alike but others are like

only identical in looks. there doesn't seem to be any consistency with those things.

[outstandingbalance]

[That raises a disturbing possibility.]

So if there's a version of us still living our life, and we're a copy... does that mean we can't go back to our old lives?

[benames]

nah

my thought is that they can create the multiverse + timelines so that they send us back to the second before our alternate selves were created.

aka our alternate selves disappear off the face off the timeline and we take their place.

[takingkarabusiness]

Barry didn't make a copy of himself when he visited us, did he?

[benames]

not really

it's different with speedster moving around the multiverse. your world isn't a pocket dimension.

I mean, it's the time that's really a problem. supposing our worlds carry on with a version of us, the atroma have to be careful about the exact second they send us back to or there'll be one hell of a paradox.

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[passingthrough]

I've met another me. We were the only two mutants in the prison for a long time. Heard about several other versions of me. Probably up to...six universes? Seven if you count the one where I'm just a character in a comic book.

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[benames]

Well, that must be a record. I only met one other me and he was a douche. D'you know if you and universe-2 'till seven selves share anything beyond the looks and maybe the name?

[ he supposes that maybe the names can change, too. nicknames. codenames. ]

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[winn]

[ he's got counterpoints to some of these theories, but he and cisco discuss the multiverse a lot. what they haven't done that much of lately? just hang out. it gets priority. ]

discussing migraine-inducing physics is always better over drinks. your place?

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[benames]

yep

i'm in the lab just knock or shout before you come in

[ seeing the zoom hologram without warning can cause a mild heart attack, after all ]

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[ladybro]

-- And that's only the preview?

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[benames]

I have props and charts and questions for the actual thing!

[ look, this is important ]

I mean, who doesn't want to know more of the multiverse seeing we're right in the center of it all.

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[bryces_pup]

[Ok, medieval fantasy person is having a hard time swallowing a lot of this. BUT SHE'S GONNA DO HER BEST!!!]

So... there's basically two versions of me right now? One here and one back home? So... what happens when we go home? Does one version disappear?

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[benames]

Got it in one.

[ you get a thumbs up, Riona. ]

I mean, theoretically, they bring you back to the exact second before the other you was created so she disappears and you stay to continue down the timeline.

[thetruehistorian]

That does seem like it would explain some incongruities I've encountered here. Thank you for sharing. Consider me interested in the lecture.

What was it like, to meet yourself in person? Other than "confusing", of course.

[benames]

hey, you're always welcome! I mean, it's just a theory based on everything we discovered in my universe.

Uh

well

he was a douche so it wasn't really a moment of pride me for me

but if I ever meet the me who I suspect runs the world?

I'll be stoked!

[feathery]

this lecture business is really just a cleverly disguised ploy to wheedle free food out of the curious audience isnt it

[benames]

everything I do is a cleverly disguised lot to wheedle free food out of the curious

well.

that and I'm actually curious to hear if other people are studying the multiverse in their universes.

[poisoninmypocket]

I do beg your pardon, Professor Ramon, but you wouldn't happen to know what would have the power to destroy a universe? Or a whole suite of them, perhaps?

[He's not a supervillain, he promises.]

[benames]

sorry pal

I'm not really in the business of building another deathstar.

you'd have to ask vader.

[ rumor has it he's here somewhere. cisco might or might not have cried when he heard it ]

[brainiest]

Does that mean that, since I was in the Drabwurld, too, there's Universe-1, Universe-2 and Universe-3 versions of me?

[benames]

y e p

that's exactly what it means. there's the you of your home-universe, the drabwurld-you and space-you.

when they send you back, the you currently in the drabwurld will disappear and replace by you-you who will disappear here, too.

[ and he will cry 4ever. ]

[interstices]

God, that sucks.

[benames]

which part?

the alternate universes?

multiply yous?

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[paraclete]

I wonder if things could be a bit different from what you're saying, however.

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[benames]

dude

the one thing I learned in everything I've seen so far

it can always be very VERY different

you got a theory?