User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-4028641-20140106233604/@comment-7102512-20140110073433

Oh, I see the problem! It's basically what people think is an "alternate timeline". One account tells us that time can rewritten, meaning that you can always change time and the events in it. (TV: Father's Day) Another one though tells us that alternate or parallel universes are created when an event occurs when there are many possible outcomes so time gets separated into two universes with two different timelines with different outcomes of the same event. (TV: Doomsday) I think we should create a distinction between the two, since both of them result in an alternate timeline.

Here's my definition of alternate timeline and alternate reality.


 * Alternate reality or alternate (parallel universe)
 * A reality created when an event with several possible outcomes leads to the creation of multiple realities or universes with their own timeline and different outcome to the same event, like branches if a tree.


 * Alternate timeline
 * A timeline created when time gets rewritten.

See what I mean?