Discuss @Thande 's latest article here
Also The Year Without a Summer is the reason "Frankenstein" exists.
Natural disasters I feel come up oddly little in AH in contexts where such destructive events are seen as harbingers of change or collapse in a society or regime.
IIRC Thande's own Look To The West got mileage out of this with the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, with the recovery efforts going better so it wasn't seen as a divine judgement
The butterfly effect is also defined as a quantum effect in which a small change anywhere will effectively instantly ‘reset the dice being thrown’ everywhere else in the universe—but though this is probably the most scientifically rigorous approach to AH, it also feels disappointingly non-common-sensical to the human mind wanting a connected narrative.
I just re-read that part and now I'm wondering if saying 'instantly' conflicts with the idea of information propagating at lightspeed. Has anyone ever brought that up with regards to the many-worlds interpretation? Granted, it would be rather difficult to test!Very pleased you made reference to my Copenhagen Interpretation of Alternate History!
I just re-read that part and now I'm wondering if saying 'instantly' conflicts with the idea of information propagating at lightspeed. Has anyone ever brought that up with regards to the many-worlds interpretation? Granted, it would be rather difficult to test!