I don't know if it was a tactical time weapon to avert MAD or the Texas Superconducting Super Collider that was cancelled in this timeline- but I'm confident that we are in the alternate timeline. How it happened, I don't know- but it did. The SSC was over 3 times more powerful than this timeline's LHC collider at CERN. LHC was able to find Higgs Bosons which give particles mass. I think in the other time the SSC was able to find whatever it is that gives space a time component and also the time anti-particle that annihilates time.
In any case, I don't know how it happened, but I know it did and somehow some information transferred to this time line. Specifically, for me knowledge of a scar that I never had until this week. I remember always having a scar on my right temple, but in this time I've ignored the memory because I've had a lipoma in that spot for years. However, this week I had the lipoma removed and now I'm developing the exact scar and accompanying nerve damage I always remember having. I remember it right on my face, but the growth has kept me distracted.
I think this may also be where the Mandela Effect comes from, because many of the changes people remember occurred around the time that the SSC was canceled and it's funding was redirected to the International Space Station and Space Cooperation with the Russians.
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varialus ago
I think /u/goatboy is onto something. I don't know about you all, but our current timeline seem weirder than it should be. Pokemon Go, Arab Spring, failed coup, BLM, Trump, Hilary, SJW's, refugees, Snowden, NSA, Obama, Space X, Tesla, Tesla's Autopilot, Apple's comeback, Nintendo Wii, Facebook, Farmville, detection of planets outside our solar system, practically instantaneously reversal on societal views about homosexuality, rapid and drastic changes to race relations, improvement then sudden decline of Russia relations, 9/11, terrorism, the direction of the EU under the influence of Angela Merkel, drones, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, all female Ghostbusters, and I'm sure you can think of other bizarre developments over the past couple decades. If /u/goatboy is correct, then I hypothesize that the world will never "normalize" but rather the divergence will continue to accelerate making the world exceptionally off kilter, especially to those of us born before our timeline switched to the alternate timeline, but less so for those born after our timeline switched. Our current timeline is a bit weird, but not too bad so far, but if /u/goatboy is correct, then our reality may go further off the rails in directions that we are unable to rationally project. We didn't create the messed up youth, but their reality will increasingly take over and there's nothing we can do to resist the changes. We can teach our children the old ways of western philosophy and try to maintain pockets aligned to our original timeline, but if /u/goatboy is correct, it's going to be a losing battle no matter our efforts. We can resist if we want, but we need to come to terms with the new reality and try to make the most of this bizarre new reality in which we will find ourselves.
TreadCarefully ago
I believe we are 'on the fringes' of experience. Namely on the edge of probable realities which civilization can survive.
Like an experiment to breed mice to survive in the toughest environments.
Or punishment.