One where history has been altered in somd big massive way wherever that be
no moon landing
heroshima and nagasaki not being blown to pieces
one of the many coldwar close calls that has happened during history not being a cold War close call but instead a bbq so for an example Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov not going on his better judgement and reporting the false weather balloons to > higher soviet command or prehaps > B-59 Submarine if if wasn’t for one of those senior offices not putting in his key history as we know it would have been altered for the worse
I’d probably start with a table of contents universe to see what the various options are. Then I’d look for ones with interesting pathogens, like de-aging viruses, and parasites like in that one episode of Futurama (I just wouldn’t be worried if someone loved me because of who the parasites made me into).
Then I’d go visit versions of universes around the present time after I had made various changes in the past to see how it impacted things. The beauty of the multiverse is that I wouldn’t even have to ever do those changes in the first place, another version of me would have taken care of it, so I could just jump to the results. Then I could also check out the ones where I failed but still had an impact, they would probably be interesting.
I’d crash Stephen Hawking’s time traveler party. I’d be crashing it because I’m not really a time traveler, though I suspect he wouldn’t be disappointed.
I’d try to satisfy my curiosity about things with similar laws of physics before checking out more different ones because I suspect it might be difficult to find your way back. There’s just so many variables that could change from universe up universe, and each one of those could be its own dimension you could travel along. It would be so easy to get lost, plus there’s a good chance I wouldn’t be capable of existing in an infinite number of them and would cease the moment I tried going to one of those.
It’s possible that in the multiverse, every moment of this current universe is happening simultaneously. So I wouldn’t be traveling to our past, but another version of us’ present, which just looks like our past. I could go there and cause that universe to believe time travel has been proven and then return to this one and nothing would be different.
Though I will admit that traveling in such a way does stretch the definitions to the point where “is it time travel?” becomes meaningless.
To be honest, I’d be genuinely curious if they went through their own struggles with expectations, especially ones tied to apparent gender identity. Hell, do they even identify the same way I do? What ripples throughout my entire sense of self could have been caused just by something so seemingly simple?
Would we be even remotely alike?
Probably have consequences on my psyche, but meh. Waking up each day is, too.
To a universe where a version of me that’s close to who I currently am has travelled to all the universes I want to explore and made a top 10 list of universes to visit first
My first stop would be the one where the world came together to tackle greenhouse gases with the same urgency we handled CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer. Not a huge difference but hopefully a big improvement.
I would also like to see what happened in the one we did not handle the CFCs and the ozone layer disappeared, just so I could feel like we aren’t complete fuckups in our reality.
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