Are we living in *THAT* alternative universe?

[Taverner]

I get the feeling that any moment, the folks from "Sliders" are going to walk in and say something like "This is the world if JFK was killed in Dallas/RFK was killed in California/Nixon won re-election/Carter lost the 80 election/Bush won the 2000 election..."

And his cohorts shudder, thinking about the implications of those events...

[The Wielding Truth]

1. I have had the same thought over and over since Bush was our President. It defies logic. Doesn't it?

[athenasatanjesus]

2. I'd like to live in a universe where Sliders lasted 7 seasons...

...and wasn't always being interfered with by the network.

[Generic Brad]

3. I miss the Crying Man

Sure hope he landed someplace safe and continued the adventure.

[KatChatter]

4. Find the cigarette smoking man if ye seek the truth

[NBachers]

6. Here

[mmonk]

5. Nah. We appear to be somewhere between the 1890's and 1929.

[EC]

7. It's beginning to look like the world they slipped into

where you worked for credits on their credit line and had to keep spending it and earning for it. It also could be suspended for any reason leaving you without living expenses.

[jimlup]

8. Let's just be damn sure it isn't the alternative universite in which Obama loses to Romney in '12

God that can't happen. No No No! Stop me from even thinking about it.

[freshwest]

9. They created some awesome alternatives, but were never allowed to stay in the best ones.

But yeah, I take comfort in the fantasy that on a parallel Earth, they are not being forced to listen to the hateful prattle of lunatics. And that the people living there aren't trying to destroy their planet.

[Initech]

10. Maybe that guy Griffin from Men In Black 3 is controlling the universe.

"This is my new favorite moment in human history!"

[annabanana]

12. I love that "guy" . . . . n/t

[Initech]

13. Maybe Agent K forgot to leave a tip sometime during the 2000 race.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. Sliders never did any multiple scenarios like that.

It was always just one change. Most alternate universe stories do that so they can explore the implications of that one event.

Of course they never write about the universe that is identical to ours except for one quark that is a different phase out in a distant galaxy somewhere, or the one with that other quark out of phase. Or even the ones where maybe two particles are slightly different than ours. (Can you tell I have no respect for multiverse theories other than as interesting fiction?)


If you like this kinda stuff you should read "The Number Of The Beast" by Heinlein.



*spoiler alert*




In that book you think that the people traveling between universes are from our universe, until they get here. Then two start listing Presidents and they say "Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...."

In their universe JFK wasn't killed. IMO one of the best paragraphs Heinlein ever wrote.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Worse

This is the universe where Spock won't just have a beard, he'll have a Mohawk.



If Dick Cheney was ever Vice President in your universe, this is how it turns out.

http://thoughtcrimewave.blogspot.com/2008/02/evilest-spock.html