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John R. Lunise
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On the subject of horses, allow me to ask you a question: When you were a child, what was the name of the bear family who taught valuable life lessons in easily digestible books?
Chances are, you answered 'the Berenstein Bears'. And, as it happens, that is incorrect; it is the Berenstain Bears.
How can everyone misremember this? How can something so patently true turn out to be terribly false? Some people will tell you it is the 'Mandela effect', named after a shockingly large number of people believed Nelson Mandela died in prison... but simple mass misremembering is a fairly boring answer, isn't it?
Consider instead a possibility physics allows us: that infinite universes exist, that every possibility spawns a diverging universe. Consider then that these different universes must be ruled by mathematics and science, that were were able to observe them, some concrete, tangible difference must exist to distinguish them.
Consider also that the laws of physics as we know them are, in some cases, simply and utterly inoperable. The quantum scale, for example. Or a naked singularity. It is, therefore, conceivable that through some quirk of physics, some awesome miracle... we have merged or shifted into a world in which horses never existed, and chocobos always did.
Impossible, you say, and perhaps rightly so... but I have no better explanation.

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May Sfondi okay but please explain to someone who may or may not be high school drop out level educated

John R. Lunise There are infinite universes; several of us ended up in a different one with a noticeable change.

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May Sfondi what is this scifi bullshit????? you cant expect me to believe that

John R. Lunise And why not? It is grounded in solid scientific theory.

May Sfondi no, evolution is solid scientific theory. you cant even test for something like that

-Well maybe she knew a LITTLE about science.-

John R. Lunise That is correct. Theoretical physics are, quite by definition, untestable: they seek a mathematical and coherent framework to explain reality in a way which corresponds to available evidence.

May Sfondi then isnt it equally possible youre full of baloney

John R. Lunise It is not, as I had roast beef for lunch.
John R. Lunise My theory, of course, may be completely inaccurate, but to argue that you would need to present a theory which more closely adheres to the available facts and evidence, or provide new evidence which discredits it.

May Sfondi mandella effect is what they call it, right? when a collective people misremember something? look, it may not hold up, but it still feels more believable than alternate realities

John R. Lunise Take a look around you, and tell me how believable it feels that we are on a round planet, moving at incredible speeds around a great ball of nuclear fusion, in the vast emptiness of unfathomable distances.

May Sfondi y u gotta come at me like that. what'd i do to deserve this.

John R. Lunise Well, it might be because you said "your theory explains more but this SEEMS more believable" to someone who has spent a decade of his life in scientific academia...

May Sfondi yanno what? that is totes fair, my dude. my bad.

John R. Lunise It's all right. We're just a bit sensitive about that, after the whole 'Galileo' thing, you know.