Timeline Quantum Foam?

Even thought Michael Crichtion died on Tuesday, I think this question is appropriate. In the book timeline, there are alternate universes that exist. This is also in the book Gunpowder Empire, but other than that... My question is, Are there really universes that really exist like that? If there were than it would end so many problems that the world has.

Think of it. We could harvest oil on alternate Earth's with no humans that exist yet or with very premature humans. Or see alternate history before our very eyes.

Or we could see the Roman Empire with our own eyes and even maybe see Jesus Christ and see if he is real!

leave any comment on this subject. Anything that would be interesting to see would be really cool too.
 
Asimov wrote a story called "Living Space". The premise was that each family would homestead on a lifeless alternate Earth, and commute through the interdimensional portal each day. The problem came when an Earth with such a homestead was colonized by people from a Nazi victory timeline.

Not to mention the aliens at the end.
 
About the roman empire, in an alternate universe, we wouldn't see jesus, that happened in the past. Alternate universes are in the present, but they are different worlds. You could see the Roman Empire with a time machine (if they existed) instead of ngoing to an alternate universe
 
About the roman empire, in an alternate universe, we wouldn't see jesus, that happened in the past. Alternate universes are in the present, but they are different worlds. You could see the Roman Empire with a time machine (if they existed) instead of ngoing to an alternate universe
What about an alternate timeline where the universe started ~2,000 years later than it did OTL? Under an infinite-alternate-universes hypothesis, such a universe MUST logically exist. It would neatly solve any time-travel paradoxes as well.
 
What about an alternate timeline where the universe started ~2,000 years later than it did OTL? Under an infinite-alternate-universes hypothesis, such a universe MUST logically exist. It would neatly solve any time-travel paradoxes as well.
In "Timeline", they said that the reason you didn't have causality problems was because you time-traveled into a different universe--thus you didn't mess up your past, although the alternate universe was exactly the same as your past, including changes caused by your presence.

I don't really get it, but I don't really get general relativity, either.
 
What about an alternate timeline where the universe started ~2,000 years later than it did OTL? Under an infinite-alternate-universes hypothesis, such a universe MUST logically exist. It would neatly solve any time-travel paradoxes as well.

I didn't think of that.
 
What about an alternate timeline where the universe started ~2,000 years later than it did OTL? Under an infinite-alternate-universes hypothesis, such a universe MUST logically exist. It would neatly solve any time-travel paradoxes as well.

If that universe began 2,000 years later humans might not exist as the path of evolution would be completely different.
 
If that universe began 2,000 years later humans might not exist as the path of evolution would be completely different.
Infinite possibilities means that there has to be a universe where history has been otherwise identical to OTL. The implications of infinity are quite vast.
 
In "Timeline", they said that the reason you didn't have causality problems was because you time-traveled into a different universe--thus you didn't mess up your past, although the alternate universe was exactly the same as your past, including changes caused by your presence.

I don't really get it, but I don't really get general relativity, either.

Man, what an awful book that was.
 
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