Timeline for Naming parallel universes
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 18:21 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Clone 1 John Smith "I earned all that money in MY universe before I was cloned, so it is all mine'. John Smith clone 2 "No I earned all of that money before the clone, so it is all MINE.' Just coming up with a naming convention is not going to solve the problem of financially splitting the economies, and then merging them into some form of mega-universal-financial-system. But all births going forward from the clone would NOT share identical DNA, nor have a doppelganger in any other universe. Only the existing-at-clone-time people would. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | I understand the conundrum with identity and identity theft. But the bank accounts would be identical until the clone. It wouldn't matter which bank account you accessed from a time before the clone. The bank account numbers would be exactly identical. The bank balance would be exactly identical. The only way to avoid identity theft between inhabitants AFTER the cloning, and after the desyncing, would have to be on some basis other than biological or place-of-birth metrics. Would you retroactively change a bank account number, and allocate the bank balance, between future clones? | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 10:03 | comment | added | Ventifacts and Yardangs | The naming convention isn't just for the reader's benefit - it's essential for their society to function. You don't want your parallel universe self to be able to access your bank account or your Facebook page. If your parallel self travels to your Earth and commits a crime, you and the Interdimensional Police both need a way to convey that it wasn't you who did it. As the universes diverge, this naming scheme becomes increasingly crucial - they'll develop different populations and cultures, and we'll need names for Earths like we need names for nations. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 4:10 | history | answered | Justin Thyme the Second | CC BY-SA 4.0 |