Nimoy in Fringe finale
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I was reading about that the other day.
I saw the first episode and didn't care for it, but I understand it's gotten better since.
I saw the first episode and didn't care for it, but I understand it's gotten better since.
I am about to watch the whole thing via DL from the void. A friend is burning them for me. I was as wowed by where and what building they were in as I was seeing Nimoy!!
Never watched Fringe, but that little bit at the end sure has me intrigued.
Are they playing around with alternate timelines again?
Are they playing around with alternate timelines again?
More like parallel universes.
I liked it how they back lit his ears t9ill they almost glowed, just so we were sure they weren't pointed.
The first episode of Life on Mars handled this mind fuck better, but the comic book Ex Mchina still holds the biscuit in these matters.
The first episode of Life on Mars handled this mind fuck better, but the comic book Ex Mchina still holds the biscuit in these matters.
Well, technically, it would be an alternate timeline.
Parallel universes have completely different laws of physics.
The problem is that those terms get thrown around and mixed up a lot in SciFi.
A parallel universe can be anything. It could be wildly different from ours or just slightly off. An Alternate reality is usually just slightly off from ours.
Parallel Universe means a universe that was created through different starting conditions. In other words, a different Big Bang.
As long as an alternate reality shares its origin with ours, it's just an alternate timeline taking place in our universe.
Fringe clearly depicts an alternate timeline, where laws of Physics, people and locations are the same, but where events unfolded differently.
As long as an alternate reality shares its origin with ours, it's just an alternate timeline taking place in our universe.
Fringe clearly depicts an alternate timeline, where laws of Physics, people and locations are the same, but where events unfolded differently.
In 1954, a young Princeton University doctoral candidate named Hugh Everett III came up with a radical idea: That there exist parallel universes, exactly like our ­universe. These universes are all related to ours; indeed, they branch off from ours, and our universe is branched off of others. Within these parallel universes, our wars have had different outcomes than the ones we know. Species that are extinct in our universe have evolved and adapted in others. In other universes, we humans may have become extinct.
Yes, I know all that. But what you are describing are alternate timelines.
Just watch this:
http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
Just watch this:
http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
No, it's a description of parallel universes from the guy who first suggested them.
But parallel universes are not defined like that.
Everett was describing alternate timelines, but called them "universes" because he didn't know any better.
Imagine it like an onion. The onion is the universe. The layers within it are all timelines that are possible within that universe.
But there are other onions that have different shapes. And those onions have layers of their own.
Everett was describing alternate timelines, but called them "universes" because he didn't know any better.
Imagine it like an onion. The onion is the universe. The layers within it are all timelines that are possible within that universe.
But there are other onions that have different shapes. And those onions have layers of their own.
A parallel universe is just that, parallel to ours, with the nearest one just one step away. But actually, the term multiverse was used almost 60 years earlier, also called parallel universe. These can also be called "alternative universes", "quantum universes", "interpenetrating dimensions", "parallel worlds", "alternative realities", "alternative timelines". There is nothing to say that a parallel universe has to have wildly different physics or properties. It can, but it can also be as simple as the season finale of Fringe.
Of course, the terminology is moot in the end. It's something alternate and that's what matters.
But I prefer the more modern way of distinguishing between an alternate timeline and an alternate universe because it feels more well-defined than the old model.
It also helps to clear a few things up in Trek.
for example:
Fluidic Space --> alternate universe
Mirroruniverse --> actually an alternate timeline (it's still within the universe that we know)
But I prefer the more modern way of distinguishing between an alternate timeline and an alternate universe because it feels more well-defined than the old model.
It also helps to clear a few things up in Trek.
for example:
Fluidic Space --> alternate universe
Mirroruniverse --> actually an alternate timeline (it's still within the universe that we know)
Oh, yeah. The first time I got to the last page of that first issue was a serious kick to the crotch. Still the one book I wait the most for every month.
As for Fringe: I'm starting to think I've been remiss not keeping up with this show.
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