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- From: bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB)
- Subject: Re: Nature of Phoenix and the Multiverse
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:44:05 GMT
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- jwlr@escher.cc.rochester.edu (James Willer) writes
- >> Marvel seems to be playing with the 'go back in your own past and create
- >>a new timeline' idea {reprecented by Bishop}, the 'you can only enter into
- >>another Earth's past' {Represented by Rachel Summers and Guardians of the
- >>Galaxy}
-
- >Those two concepts are actually the same. (The reason you can't enter your
- >own past is that your presence *creates* a divergence.)
- It appears that I failed to properly explain the difference between these two
- consepts so here goes. In the 'go back in your own past and create a new
- timeline' things are as James Willer descibes them: the travelers very
- present changes history. What makes this different from the 'you can only
- enter another Earth's past' is that the history before the traveler's
- arrival is the same as the one they know and only changes AFTER their
- arrival. In the cases of both Rachel Summers and the Guardians of the
- Galaxy latest trip back in time history had changed BEFORE either of
- had arrived. Take Rachel's world for instance, since Phoenix never existed
- in this world (Excalibur #52) its history had diverged long before
- Kate Pryde or Rachel showed up to change history.
- Maybe the idea would be better stated as 'you can only enter another
- Earth's past that diverged before you arrived'
- Comments welcome
-