Old Project Avalon Forum (ARCHIVE) - View Single Post - As your Timeline Changes, are People, Places, and Things Disappearing?

10-11-2008, 03:39 PM

Many of you are probably curious on the impact of changes regarding your choices in your timeline. Here is an entry I found in a blog called, "strangetower.com" that talks about vergences.

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As I’ve talked about in previous posts, I believe that each of us human beings has a small number of branches in our personal timelines — but there are a lot of us human beings, over 12 billion have lived on earth so far. So, how do we go about naming all of the billions and billions of alternate timelines that arise from each of our various individual choices? It’s not enough to simply name them sequentially — that is overly confusing and hard to keep track of. We have to think of some way to group the timelines so that we can distinguish them in some meaningful way.

Branches in the timeline differ quite a bit in how far-reaching they are. The branches in my own personal timeline have very little impact in the scheme of things, whereas the outcome of WW2 is a serious split in the timestream. So we have to have a scheme to categorize branches based on their extension in time: how much of an impact the branch makes.

Major vergences affect the entirety of an era, or multiple eras
Moderate vergences affect large portions of one era
Minor vergences are just blips on the radar, making major changes, but only for a limited amount of time
Hairline vergences affect only small areas, often just one lifetime or one part of one lifetime.
Now, it’s important to note that what might be a minor or hairline vergence for the entire timeline, might be a major vergence for an individual. Especially since this blog pertains so much to my own personal timeline, we’ll need to be specific about whether I’m talking about major or minor relative to the timeline as a whole, or to my personal, specific lifeline.

This blog entry talks about the affects of a Time Traveller:

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The least understood form of timeline shift, the cross vergence occurs when there is a change in the timestream earlier than a given person or group or people — in other words, someone changes the past. Usually, when this happens, a parallel timeline is created, where everyone in both parallel time periods remembers the specific history of their own timeline. So, for example, if someone goes into the past and kills your father before you are born: usually the result will be two timelines: one in which you exist and all of your friends and family remember you, and one in which you never existed and no one remembers you. But sometimes this process isn’t complete. In the above example, ‘you’ might continue to exist in the timeline where ‘you’ were never born. There you are, either strucken with amnesia, or with a head full of memories which don’t match the reality you’re in. Alternately, ‘you’ might disappear, but one or a small group of people continue to remember you.

Cross-vergences are like naturally occurring paradoxes. Usually they are self-repairing — people are labelled ‘insane’ and life goes on. Sometimes the problem corrects itself, the people who find themselves in the wrong timeline either disappear, change, or shunt naturally to the correct timeline. There is considerable debate in the time travelling community about whether to interfere with these ‘natural’ paradoxes, in the same way that you would if these problems were caused directly by the interference of a time traveller.