A while back, I read Michael Crichton's book Timeline. I think that the speculative science the science fiction of the book is based upon is interesting. This is the many-worlds (worlds here means universes) interpretation of quantum mechanics created by Dr. Hugh Everett of Princeton. (This theory is also seen in "Star Trek: The Next Generation.")
According to this interpretation of quantum mechanics, whenever different viable possibilities exist, the universe splits into other universes, one for each possibility. In each of these universes, everything is identical except for the one different choice. From the point of each particular choice, the universes develop independently, and no communication between them is possible. In this way universes branch endlessly.
The novel Timeline spawned Timeline Computer Entertain, a computer game developer that created the Timeline PC game.
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