Literature
Verseworld - Time Travel
To understand time travel, one must first understand what the Altverse is and how it functions.
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Diagram of the Altverse
The Altverse is the infinite collection of alternate realities/timelines attached to every Verseworld that have varying degrees of divergence—from minor shifts in personal choices to radical changes in history, physics, or biology. Each reality exists independently, but no single reality is the “main” reality—that concept is purely subjective to its inhabitants.
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Diagram of a Verseworld/reality
However, unlike structured universes with predictable laws, the Altverse operates in a state of pure chaos—there are no governing forces, no centralized control, and no universal order dictating how realities interact.
The Altverse does not expand or shrink in a conventional sense; it is already infinite. What appears to be the "creation" of new alternate realities is actually the revelation or branching of preexisting timelines based on observation,
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