History Quotes / AlternateUniverse

-->--'''Miss Minutes''', ''Series/{{Loki}}''

->This is one reason that some experts believe there may have been many other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason we exist in this particular one is that this is one we ''could'' exist in. As Edward P. Tryton of Columbia Universithy once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

->'''Iron Man:''' Do you have any idea how many other dimensions are there, Jan?\\

'''Iron Man:''' That's right, and ''no one else'' does.

-->'''George''': I think the Purple Potty brought us to some kind of strange, backwards universe.\\

-->Go then, there are other worlds than these.

-->"No one can say how many universes there may be, or how many cycles of ages in each universe there may ever have been; how many Brahmås, how many Vishnus, how many Shivas. O King of Gods, there are those in your service who hold that it might be possible to number the particles of sand on earth, or drops of rain that fall from the sky, but no one will ever number all the Indras.\\

-->"From generation to generation, we pass along the lore about the distortions in the world borne by the Mega Evolution mechanism. And about the existence of [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire another world, which we have long observed to be just like this one and yet not the same]]... That's right. A Hoenn region that's almost exactly like this one we live in. Filled with Pokémon and people like us. A world where maybe the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, where Mega Evolution is unknown... A world where that war 3,000 years ago...never happened. A world where the ultimate weapon was never even built. And in that Hoenn of that world... What would happen if one day, out of the blue, a meteoroid appeared? What would happen to the people of that world, without the technology to destroy the meteoroid or the power to warp it away? ... Looks like it's beyond the power of your imagination."

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-->--''CaptainUnderpants''

-->"From generation to generation, we pass along the lore about the distortions in the world borne by the Mega Evolution mechanism. And about the existence of another world, which we have long observed to be just like this one and yet not the same... That's right. A Hoenn region that's almost exactly like this one we live in. Filled with Pokémon and people like us. A world where maybe the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, where Mega Evolution is unknown... A world where that war 3,000 years ago...never happened. A world where the ultimate weapon was never even built. And in that Hoenn of that world... What would happen if one day, out of the blue, a meteoroid appeared? What would happen to the people of that world, without the technology to destroy the meteoroid or the power to warp it away? ... Looks like it's beyond the power of your imagination."

-->-- '''Bill Bryson''', ''A Short History of Nearly Everything''

-->--Zinnia, ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]''

-->--Zinnia, ''[[VideoGame PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]''

"From generation to generation, we pass along the lore about the distortions in the world borne by the Mega Evolution mechanism. And about the existence of another world, which we have long observed to be just like this one and yet not the same... That's right. A Hoenn region that's almost exactly like this one we live in. Filled with Pokémon and people like us. A world where maybe the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, where Mega Evolution is unknown... A world where that war 3,000 years ago...never happened. A world where the ultimate weapon was never even built. And in that Hoenn of that world... What would happen if one day, out of the blue, a meteoroid appeared? What would happen to the people of that world, without the technology to destroy the meteoroid or the power to warp it away? ... Looks like it's beyond the power of your imagination."

-->-- '''[[HinduMythology Vishnu]]''' disguised as a boy, JosephCampbell's ''The Inner Reaches of Outer Space'', originally from the Brahma Vaivarta Purana

-->This is one reason that some experts believe there may have been many other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason we exist in this particular one is that this is one we ''could'' exist in. As Edward P. Tryton of Columbia Universithy once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."

-->The first thing to realize about parallel universes, the ''Guide'' says, is that they are not parallel.\\

-->'''Iron Man:''' Do you have any idea how many other dimensions are there, Jan?\\

-->'''Chuck''': Just because an other of you did something does not mean you are even capable of doing that yourself.\\

-->--''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly Harmless]]''

->'''Chuck''': Just because an other of you did something does not mean you are even capable of doing that yourself.\\

-->-- Stephen King, ''{{The Dark Tower}}''

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-->-- '''[[HinduMythology Vishnu]]''' disguised as a boy, JosephCampbell's ''The Inner Reaches of Outer Space''

->This is one reason that some experts believe there may have been many other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason we exist in this particular one is that this is one we ''could'' exist in. As Edward P. Tryton of Columbia Universithy once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time."
-> -- '''Bill Bryson''', ''A Short History of Nearly Everything''

->The first thing to realize about parallel universes, the ''Guide'' says, is that they are not parallel.\\
It is also important to realize that they are not, strictly speaking, universes either, but it is easiest if you don’t try to realize that until a little later, after you’ve realized that everything you’ve realized up to that moment is not true.\\
The reason they are not universes is that any given universe is not actually a ''thing'' as such, but is just a way of looking at what is technically known as the WSOGMM, or a Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash doesn’t actually exist either, but is just the sum total of all the different ways there would be of looking at it if it did.\\
The reason they are not parallel is the same reason the sea is not parallel. It doesn’t mean anything. You can slice the Whole Sort of General Mish Mash any way you like and you will generally come up with something that someone will call home.
->--''[[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly Harmless]]''

->'''George''': I think the Purple Potty brought us to some kind of strange, backwards universe.\\

-->-- ''CaptainUnderpants''