Multiverse and Variants

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Novela book wrote: 04 Aug 2021, 10:45 I believe the author chose to discuss only a few variants of Gary because he wanted those to impact the storyline. we don't know how many variants exist in the multiverse, it can be possible that some don't even exist.
Yeah, that's a good point! There might be a chance that other's variants don't even exist. You put a new perspective here!
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The variants are not in contact, so they should not be affected by what is happening in the different worlds.
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Anilllll wrote: 16 Jul 2021, 04:24 How can one believe that there is a different variant of the other and everything they do will impact the other also, but in this book, Gary's other variants are not much affected by the murder of Michelle and what about the character's variants? I think the author missed some of the storylines because he wanted the book to be well understood by the readers.
There were several repetition passages just to make the reader understand when explaining the actions on different worldines. This is when the author primarily focused on only one character. What would be the story like when there were several characters involved, and if the author had to describe different outcomes to their actions? That will be a difficult task and readers also will be having hard time digesting the story line.
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Perhaps the problem is only when the worldlines interact. Gary would not have been affected if he had not known about another worldline. If he were tried in his worldline there would be no issue with another, so it is only the issue of lucid dreaming and the other worldlines getting mixed up that was the isdue maybe
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This has been a great discussion topic. it's hard enough to follow a creative plot with explicit or hidden motivations in one dimension, it would be impossible for me to carry more than one dimension in my head. If I wrote all the clues on white cards, as some of the best detective stories do, I would need many packs of white cards and how could I lay them out to see unthought-of connections. I'm glad if the author was sparing me that.
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The author is on the right track, as others also support the theory that the other-self will not be affected in some cases. But only if they are in the same world, whether in a dream or not.
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I am not quite sure about this because what I know from this book is the other variants or what you call worldliness doesn't affect what the other one does. It can only affect in something like a dream, hallucinating etc.
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I think you are right, at least in part, because the book would be rather complicated if each character's possible worldlines came into play. I think there's also a little causal effect in play too. I gathered that the reader is led to believe that whether or not Gary does or does not get hit by the lorry has something to do with the worldlines. According to the professor, someone, perhaps one of Gary's friends (Buzzard suggests), believes that Gary did die that day. It leans towards this being the cause of the worldlines, but it is not actually stated. There's a short story by Ray Bradbury called "A Sound of Thunder" that talks about a time traveler who goes back in time and steps on a butterfly. This stepping on the butterfly causes changes in the time traveler's present day. It's sort of a lesson about messing with the past which also emphasizes how much of an effect one tiny change can have. So, maybe in addition to it being very complicated to focus on more than one individual, there might be some alternate reasons.
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I don’t think the author said the actions of a variant would affect the other. Rather it’s if one discovers this phenomenon and proceeds to control it through dreaming, lucid dreaming to be exact.
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I think what the author want to established is that each worldline is independent. And if each of them is independent, then their events will be independent too except one interfere. If this is the case, then the author did not miss anything in the storyline.
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