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Infinite Universes...

I heard a theory the other day... well a few weeks ago
and it really got me thinking... Wondering if it were true. If it could be true...

The theory went something like this...
When a person makes a decision, a parallel universe is created, where the oppisite or the other choice is made. In a simple example, say if one person comes to a fork in the road and goes right, then a universe will be created where the person went left. So each time a decision is made, a new universe is created, for every decision. For every person. A different universe is made. So each second; millions of universes are being created on a different spacial plane. It is said that this is the meaning of universe. Millions of people, making millions of decisions creating millions of universes...

It got me thinking that maybe everything we do in life, is meaningless.
Because in some other universe, we made the oppisite decision.
So I could hate someone right now, and on a different world, I would find them quite pleasent.

So there are an infinite number of 'earths' right now, and some are so similar you could spend a life time searching for a difference, while others are so dramatically different that seeing one of these earths would destroy my entire sense of thought.

Say on one earth, a fish was never brave enough to climb out of the water, so humanity never flourished. Or on another, nuclear war has demolished human life.
But there would have to be a first earth for this theory to hold any water. Perhaps an 'Earth Prime' that existed before thought. But I imagine by now that earth has long been abdandoned.

When I heard this theory, the man explaining it said that he was going to destroy 'Earth Prime' therefore destroying all existence as we know it... And when asked why, he simply said "Because it is the only decision that makes sense." and in a way, I see where he is coming from. Because if this theory is true, every single person would be contradictions to themselves. Everything would be a shadow to everything else. Therefore nothing would matter on a grander scheme of things.

But with this theory, I started to think about what would I change. Would there be any moment that I would love to just go back too... and see how I turned out from there. Of course I thought of many... But then I got to thinking about if I would try to change... Or maybe even kill myself in that universe and takes my own place because I thought I liked that certain life better. Oh the stuff I ponder when television stops working...