comes directly from a webcomic
Well not entirely, but i think the diagram is a good one.
from what i understand, and i like this understanding because it allows for time travel, there are an infinite number of universes each reflecting a certain effect of actions taken in this one. i flip a coin, in another universe the coin falls heads, in mine, it falls tails. A series of universes where every action that may potentially has happened happen. These universes exist independently of each other and by the manipulation of time-space, one can be sent into an alternate past (the past would have to be alternate for, as Kim states in the comic, our past has no record of time-travelers, so our future must not contain any. )
So mr. time traveler gets in his ship in the future, pushes the button and is sent to 2008, he is actually opening an alternate universe (this also reconciles the grandfather clause, because as an impartial observer of this universe, he has no effect on the future of his own universe and thereby can not effectively kill his grandfather or hitler's grandfather, or anyone, and have it effect his own timeline.)
Also, for your reading pleasure i submit Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies" not multiverse theory but a great story about time travel.
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A great story.
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