Alternate universe

[Bob The Mercenary]

One day, a group of scientists switch on the Large Hadron Collider and in doing so confirm the existence of the multiverse. After some tinkering they discover that it is possible to step into the machine and be transported to one of these universes. After stabilizing it enough for use by the general public, they decide to charge a small fee for a trip to see your alternate self.

What do you catch your alternate self doing?

[Kepor]

Posting on an internet forum.

[DFM]

Being a loser.

Then I punch him and tell him straighten up.

[Doc ock rokc]

Depends on what alt universe/dimension Really
Hell for all we know we could meet Jenkins and his "friends"

[Mike McC]

Krylo.

[BitVyper]

I give him hell for not inviting me to his wedding.

[Archbio]

What do you catch your alternate self doing?

Visiting another alternate self.

[Terex4]

If we're talking about one of those everything is the complete opposite dimensions, then my alternate self would be outdoors drinking something diet.

[Ryong]

My alternate self would then be a thin jerkass who hates sweets, shuns gaming and is crazy religious.

[Wigmund]

I (original 'verse) don't know what I (other 'verse) would be doing, but I (original 'verse) know I (original 'verse and probably other 'verses as well) will be killing me (other 'verse) before the other me (multiple other 'verses) get to me (original and first other 'verse) so that I (original 'verse) may consolidate all my (all the other 'verses) life force into one body.

Mine (original 'verse).

[Flarecobra]

Probably be dead.

[Ecks]

That is a dangerous question sir.

The answer is most likely classified to all but the highest security clearance levels. Because other me would totally be an awesome spy. Not a lame one like Jack Bauer, who gets captured and beat up every other week...

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Probably be dead.

'Bout the same for me, considering I always wanted to be some kind of uber mythical beastie thing in an alternate universe. It'd be doubtful normal me would make it back from the meet and greet

[CABAL49]

Myself. It's not gay!

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Running the mob....


What? Your multi verse self is sometimes your opposite. Your evil self.

Well that or doing insanely well in college (straight As)

[bluestarultor]

Speaking from a realistic perspective where there are major decision points in one's life, I have a scary high chance of being dead. If I hadn't moved out of Milwaukee, I probably would have gotten myself shot somehow, and there are several periods in my life where shit just went down the tubes and I would have eventually cracked had I not left those places. I would be a VERY different person than I am here and now if any one thing did not go as it did. I think in most cases, I would like myself, or sympathize with or understand myself, because I still have all of the possibilities stored in my core, but I think many of the other possibilities would have a low tolerance for me or be quite bitter. At this point in my life, it would be difficult or impossible to help fix things for any of them.

Speaking from the "evil universe" line of reasoning, I'd probably just be mostly like myself when people manage to piss me off, only all the time. I'm well capable of being a poisonous bastard and just choose not to be unless it just gets to be too much for me to justify putting up with. After that point, depending on how long in coming it's been, your downfall will be orchestrated in an increasingly intricate and ultimately inevitable fashion, much like digging your own grave and me just pushing you into it, where the length and pain of the fall is directly proportional to how much ammunition you've given me. The evil me would probably find out all sorts of nasty stuff and go around utterly destroying reputations while seeming angelically innocent.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Speaking from a realistic perspective where there are major decision points in one's life, I have a scary high chance of being dead. If I hadn't moved out of Milwaukee, I probably would have gotten myself shot somehow, and there are several periods in my life where shit just went down the tubes and I would have eventually cracked had I not left those places. I would be a VERY different person than I am here and now if any one thing did not go as it did. I think in most cases, I would like myself, or sympathize with or understand myself, because I still have all of the possibilities stored in my core, but I think many of the other possibilities would have a low tolerance for me or be quite bitter. At this point in my life, it would be difficult or impossible to help fix things for any of them.

Speaking from the "evil universe" line of reasoning, I'd probably just be mostly like myself when people manage to piss me off, only all the time. I'm well capable of being a poisonous bastard and just choose not to be unless it just gets to be too much for me to justify putting up with. After that point, depending on how long in coming it's been, your downfall will be orchestrated in an increasingly intricate and ultimately inevitable fashion, much like digging your own grave and me just pushing you into it, where the length and pain of the fall is directly proportional to how much ammunition you've given me. The evil me would probably find out all sorts of nasty stuff and go around utterly destroying reputations while seeming angelically innocent.

Remind me not to piss you off. :sweatdrop

I'm well capable of being a poisonous bastard and just choose not to be unless it just gets to be too much for me to justify putting up with.

I think that could go for quite a lot of people.

The multi verse is truly an amazing theory. being that there's a universe for every possible out come in one's life. Not to mention the domino effect that one's choices can have on everyone else's lives. :)

[bluestarultor]

It's not something anyone here has to worry about. I haven't actually done that kind of thing since high school, and the people I did it to totally had it coming. It takes a lot over a long period of time to get me to that stage, but if I do, I'm better at it than I'm comfortable with in a normal state. :sweatdrop

[Geminex]

I think I'd be arranging flowers, petting dogs, helping old ladies across the street.

Because I think if there's such a thing, then I'm the evil twin.

[Amake]

My negative duplicate would probably be posting on the Inter Net about how much life sucks and nothing fun ever happens.

And then go out and eat babies.

[Green Spanner]

Probably be having a party with a whole load of other alternate selves from other alternate universes, whereupon they notice me, and everything stops with the mandatory record-scratch. They all then proceed to glare at me until I slowly back off into my home universe, whereupon the festivities restart.

Bastard, the lot of them.

Except the me that wears that 17th century cavalier hat. He's pretty cool.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I'd be tracking down and killing off all my other alternate mes' and absorbing their life force, becoming slowly more and more powerful until I become "The One" and rule the multiverse.

Probably.

[Corel]

It'd just be me with a goatee.

This opposite me would probably comment on how evil I was with my lack of goatee and we'd take it from there.

[Grimpond]

I'd try to bang myself.

[Nique]

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Or they may not work that way. I dunno. I think the 'Star Trek' version of 'opposite' universes has always rang false. What's to say the universe we found would have 'alternate' versions of anyone, or life at all?

[synkr0nized]

Likely I would catch myself meticulously stalking and murdering each and every one of you.

Possibly for the delicious juice in your heads.

[Bob The Mercenary]

Likely I would catch myself meticulously stalking and murdering each and every one of you.

Possibly for the delicious juice in your heads.

We're talking about an alternate universe.

[Locke cole]

He ain't here. He's checking out an alternate universe.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

One me is more than enough. I'd get real damn sick of a second me real damn quick. Knowing my own reactions would take the fun out of my antics somethin fierce.

[bluestarultor]

Likely I would catch myself meticulously stalking and murdering each and every one of you.

Possibly for the delicious juice in your heads.

We're talking about an alternate universe.

And I think you mean "chewy caramel center."

[Wigmund]

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.

Or they may not work that way. I dunno. I think the 'Star Trek' version of 'opposite' universes has always rang false. What's to say the universe we found would have 'alternate' versions of anyone, or life at all?

Someone's being Mister Seriouspants today..or are you really someone from the alternate 'verses sent here to prevent me from killing the other me and becoming an all-powerful God?

[synkr0nized]

You don't see posters just suddenly not posting any more, do you*? Clearly I am not enacting this plan in this universe.

And, no, I am confident I chose juices, not caramel.


* If you are noticing these things, please let me know as well as provide your address and a list of fears.




In yet another "alternate" universe that has been described by others, I have quite the large "secret lair" under ground and at least one ridiculously overpowered giant robot [indirectly] under my command.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

You don't see posters just suddenly not posting any more, do you*? Clearly I am not enacting this plan in this universe.

And, no, I am confident I chose juices, not caramel.


* If you are noticing these things, please let me know as well as provide your address and a list of fears.




In yet another "alternate" universe that has been described by others, I have quite the large "secret lair" under ground and at least one ridiculously overpowered giant robot [indirectly] under my command.
No.

I WILL SURVIVE!

[Nikose Tyris]

This is my alternate universe.

[Nique]

Someone's being Mister Seriouspants today..or are you really someone from the alternate 'verses sent here to prevent me from killing the other me and becoming an all-powerful God?


I'm just tired of Cowboy-Nique from the alternate universe lording his hat over me. Th' Jerk.

[Fenris]

What do you catch your alternate self doing?

Masturbating.

[Premmy]

getting my ass kicked probably.

[Magus]

Wouldn't alternate universes pretty much never have anyone who actually looks like you because the random nature of allele expressions would lower the chances of finding your "twin" greatly? Heck, your parents would also look pretty different too, probably, and so on and so forth. Factor in the chances of universes with your parents not getting together, or your grandparents, on back and back, and probably doing it with totally different people, and the chances of finding "you" seems to go down pretty low.

Not to mention universes where the Aztec Empire developed steel weapons and gunpowder and conquered Eurasia. Those universes are really going to be messed up genetically.

Although I suppose with enough time you could find "you", except with a cleft chin that looks all manly and clefty.

EDIT: My alternate self is posing manly and boldly for women on magazine covers.

[mauve]

I'll bet Alternate Universe Mauve rides a jet-propelled hoverbike and fights crime. She probably wears super-cool dark sunglasses all the time and never has to worry about internet failure.

That stupid show-off gets everything. I'm gonna key her hoverbike and tp her front yard if I ever meet her.

[Dauntasa]

Seeing as I already have a goatee, he'd probably be nice, handsome, and clean shaven.

[Flarecobra]

I'll bet Alternate Universe Mauve rides a jet-propelled hoverbike and fights crime. She probably wears super-cool dark sunglasses all the time and never has to worry about internet failure.

That stupid show-off gets everything. I'm gonna key her hoverbike and tp her front yard if I ever meet her.

And probably wears something other then Mauve, and is a melee expert, huh? :P

[mauve]

Exactly. She probably wears fuschia or something and is proficient in six forms of martial arts and weilds a machete. And a shotgun for good measure.


Hmmm. Maybe keying her hoverbike isn't such a good idea.

[Flarecobra]

Well, there's always manure.

[KeienSlayer]

Truthfully, I'd go in with big intentions of beating myself up and/or playing video games against myself to see who was better to realize that other me had gone to find first me in my dimension. So I'd steal all of other me's stuff, since other me would probably steal all of first me's stuff.

Long story short, I'm a terrible person. Unless other me isn't terrible. In which case I would now have two sets of things.

[bluestarultor]

Wouldn't alternate universes pretty much never have anyone who actually looks like you because the random nature of allele expressions would lower the chances of finding your "twin" greatly? Heck, your parents would also look pretty different too, probably, and so on and so forth. Factor in the chances of universes with your parents not getting together, or your grandparents, on back and back, and probably doing it with totally different people, and the chances of finding "you" seems to go down pretty low.

Not to mention universes where the Aztec Empire developed steel weapons and gunpowder and conquered Eurasia. Those universes are really going to be messed up genetically.

Although I suppose with enough time you could find "you", except with a cleft chin that looks all manly and clefty.

EDIT: My alternate self is posing manly and boldly for women on magazine covers.

This is utter rubbish. The worst that could happen is that the other you is already dead and your dad went furry. :p

[krogothwolf]

This is utter rubbish. The worst that could happen is that the other you is already dead and your dad went furry. :p

Stop trying to project your dreams on others!

[bluestarultor]

Stop trying to project your dreams on others!

... Well someone's never played Chrono Cross.

[Magus]

No, no, what is most likely to happen is people from this alternate universe's future fight reptile people from another alternate universe's past for control of our universe's present. Or something like that.

[Wigmund]

No, no, what is most likely to happen is people from this alternate universe's future fight reptile people from another alternate universe's past for control of our universe's present. Or something like that.

Wasn't that the plot of Sliders towards the end of the series?

[BitVyper]

Wouldn't alternate universes pretty much never have anyone who actually looks like you because the random nature of allele expressions would lower the chances of finding your "twin" greatly? Heck, your parents would also look pretty different too, probably, and so on and so forth. Factor in the chances of universes with your parents not getting together, or your grandparents, on back and back, and probably doing it with totally different people, and the chances of finding "you" seems to go down pretty low.

Not to mention universes where the Aztec Empire developed steel weapons and gunpowder and conquered Eurasia. Those universes are really going to be messed up genetically.

I like to view it in the Amber way - since all worlds are mere shadows of Amber, shadows that are close to each other tend to be similar with increasing differences as you get further away from where you started.

Wasn't that the plot of Sliders towards the end of the series?

I think that was actually in the first or second season.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Yeah they had a run in with a species called the Kromaggs at the end of season 2, who were a non-human race that had evolved on another earth and had developed Sliding technology, but then found world after world after world of humans and no more Kromaggs, so they started invading them all.

Fortunately, this whole plotline only occured in an alternate universe where Sliders didn't finish after a second season and was still good.