But there were counterparts of people you knew in that universe? Then if this world diverged from the one you knew at least fifty years in the past, and you're from some time in the future, it doesn't seem likely that this is the same world.
[If she's thinking about it correctly. But surely the vagaries of parents and grandparents still meeting -- and great-grandparents, or even more -- would depend on a thousand chance events. In divergent worlds, the more time that passes between the divergent event and the current day, the less likely that individual people -- individual chance genetic combinations -- would have counterparts in each world....]
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But there were counterparts of people you knew in that universe? Then if this world diverged from the one you knew at least fifty years in the past, and you're from some time in the future, it doesn't seem likely that this is the same world.
[If she's thinking about it correctly. But surely the vagaries of parents and grandparents still meeting -- and great-grandparents, or even more -- would depend on a thousand chance events. In divergent worlds, the more time that passes between the divergent event and the current day, the less likely that individual people -- individual chance genetic combinations -- would have counterparts in each world....]