Timeline for Portals to Parallel Earths: Economic Effects
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| Apr 8, 2019 at 21:04 | comment | added | Ventifacts and Yardangs | Keep in mind that permanently leaving your home universe behind is a very serious choice. Your job, your friends and extended family, all the connections you built up in your life are basically gone, since the "you" in the world you're hiding out in wouldn't let you take their place and access their versions of those things. I think a choice like that would be out of the question for any organization that built roots of any kind. Only the most desperate militias that already severed their ties would resort to it. | |
| Apr 8, 2019 at 16:52 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Another implication of this strategy may be that militarily defeating a government completely might be impossible. Since any government or terrorist group being defeated could just open a bunch of portals and have them and their duplicates from many worlds all travel to a single world where they will have be much stronger due to their combined forces (leaving them absent from the rest of the worlds). Though if the worlds they fled from or were attacking found the traces of their former portals they might team up against them. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 14:11 | comment | added | AndreiROM | @type_outcast - thank you for your support, that last line of yours is exactly what I had in mind. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 7:07 | comment | added | type_outcast | @VakusDrake I think AndreiROM understood that. "open a portal, drop a tactical nuke" would obviously need some (peaceful) delay in between. Your point about hiding your intentions/actions is indeed a problem your story will need to address, but I think it would be a mistake to downvote this answer, as it brings up a number of scenarios that (possibly with a little work) seem quite plausible. A lot of people and governments would see their doubles not as allies, but potential competition, especially those with a suspicious nature. "I know how that guy thinks, and where he hides the money..." | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:36 | comment | added | Vakus Drake | Ok I think you misunderstand the question somewhat. If you opened a new portal events would diverge at that moment, if you dropped a nuke it would hit the nuke coming from the other side of the portal... Not to mention the older worlds that won't be synchronized are well known so you can't hide it if you nuke them. | |
| Dec 8, 2015 at 5:19 | history | answered | AndreiROM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |