On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Benjamin Franz wrote:

I think Hitomi once mentioned a belief/theory that every 'fictional'
universe actually exists, and is 'real' to itself?

Heinlein did something like that in The Number of the Beast.  A good read,
especialy if you like crossovers.

Which is, of course, just a special case of the 'Many Worlds'
interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - which more than saying that every
*fictional* world really exists somewhere, says every *possible* (no
matter how improbable) world exists. So there is a world where everything
is exactly the same, except I didn't write this message. And one where the
only difference is that I actually finished this sen...

 Funny.... :)
 But...
 I think reality can and does give and take more....
 Little things like that can be glossed over by odd explanations like...
 you never posted...you decieded to end in a humerous way or you wer cut
off...I personally don't think that this factor would cause such a
world-shift as to make a real and percevable difference in reality...
I DO think however that major eevents which change both civilization and
topography do.
 Something like the OJ trial is minor...and if WE had been shunted down a
different path it or something close to it would still have happened.
 JFK living would have created ripples however as it would have probably
avoided the Vietnam confilict, more developed and urged on the so called
"space race" BUT Watergate would have still occured in the shape of
Marilyn Monroe.
In the Quantum Leap Universe if Project Starbright had actually worked the
whole process of leaping would never have happened but we would have FTL
travel. Would Becket still have gone on to build Ziggy and work on QL?
 possibly...but with a lot more publicity and more funding.

Who knows....?

                       N

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