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Permalink Reply by Francine S.Marzilli on January 30, 2012 at 3:21pm

Of course I like the third theory with its endless possibilities. The only thing that I don't like is the fact that the bad time line keeps going.  I thought the third theory was like what they were doing on Fringe but I'm not sure. I don't think the characters have the kind of control that quickly changes events or moves characters from one reality to another as you have talked about above though.  Both  worlds in 2 of the realities are dying because of some things that Walter did. Peter and all the characters are in all the realities unless they died.  Many of the characters flip between realities sometimes living out a story in that reality. Sometime it connects or influences events in other realities other times it doesn't. I think there are 4 different realities.   Peter is trying to use a machine to get home from another reality but that machine has caused problems for different realities. There is a watcher  whose job it is to follow all these realities and fixes things to keep all going.  He's just told Olivia that he's checked all the time lines in the different realities and she has to die in all of them for things to be ok.  I think he also looks for the best scenario for an event to right everything. What do you think is  it similar or not Fun to ponder;)

 

 

Permalink Reply by Gerard J. Marzilli on February 12, 2012 at 9:25pm

Hmmm, I forgot all about Fringe!  I really should watch that show, it seems right up my alley.  Im interested to see that it has a watcher.  That kind of reminds me of "The Watcher" who is an alien who watches the varied time lines in the Marvel Universe.  I subscribe to the multiple time lines theory myself.  In fact I think reality may just be our brain's feeble attempts at dealing with the fact that there is no time and that past, present and future and all their possibilities are happening right now all around us.  Also I recommend Stephen Kings new book 11/22/63, which is about a man who finds a wormhole back to 1958 and sets about trying to prevent Kennedy's assassination.  It has some interesting thing about the nature of time and our ability to change the past.

Permalink Reply by Francine S.Marzilli on February 13, 2012 at 3:09pm

I think Fringe might be fun for you to watch because of your work on "Quantum Theory".  But I think that you have to start from the alternate universe thread and follow it through. That didn't start at the beginning of the series.  I find it confusing because all of the breaks they take.  After watching last weeks episode I think Peter might be in his own reality but doesn't know it because noone recognizes him. I think that is because "The Watcher" tried to erase him but didn't do it completely.  He was showing up to Walter in any  reflective surface causing him to think he was going crazy.  Olivia is starting to have dreams about times with Peter.  At the end of the episode Olivia claimed she is starting to remember their past.   

I looked up 11/22/63.  Looks like a great read.  I'll definitely pick it up.

In response to your theory that there is no  time and that it's our brain's  attempt to deal with past, present, and future happening at once I have some questions.  Why can we remember the past and not see the future? Wouldn't it make more sense to forget the past and see the future.  After all we  can't change the past but we can change the future. At least in our reality.  And if all this is happening in multiple realities... Why has our brain shut off the other realities? Why can't we choose the reality we want?  Something to think about.