fatherjeff wrote:MACJR wrote:I am all for a multiverse more like it was originally in DC comics. Limiting a multiverse to 52 Earths makes about as much sense as Supergirl having stomach problem after taking a gulp of alcohol... or Superman being affected by tear gas as I read in a 1990s issue (don't remember which issue... just that it was incredibly lame). Hello, Superman, Supergirl, invulnerable to the extent they can bathe in acid and fly through the vacuum of space without a space suit. Anyway... moving on.
I think limiting a miltiverse to 52 planes of existence shows an incredibly limited imagination. ;)
In quantum physics, yes, on the radical side, the theory of a multiverse is that it is pretty much infinite in scope. There could be many billions of Earths almost identical to our own. The further away you get the more different they could be until you get to places that seem nothing at all like anything we know or have experience of. It is even possible that the laws of physics could be different in an alternate reality. So much so that you could find yourself in a universe where you could not exist at all and thus cease to exist as soon as you arrive there. Oops.
MACJR
Yes, this is my point. And it seems like every character has a different earth? That's bonkers. But they can vibrate (!) into another earth? I just think this is lame and very limited. And why would some of these characters exist in some earths and not others. Why isn't there a Bruce Wayne born in every universe?
No, not a different earth for each character, but an earth for many of the characters that were originally published by other publishers owned, or acquired, by DC were placed on an earth in a universe of there own.
Some speculate that if a multiverse really exist that the different universes are separated by vibrating on a different frequency... thus, the Flash family of characters have the ability to travel between universes. Yes, perhaps a bit corny but it does make sense if you think about it. If you can believe that a Flash can exist, it works.
As for a single person, or character, being on every earth in the multiverse, no, not necessarily so, in fact, this is not likely at all. Think about it, if each earth is different in some way, even if almost identical to the earths nearest to it, and look basically identical to ours, they are still different in some way. The further you get away from you’re the earth of your universe the more things change. In a nearby universe your parents may never have met and you were never born. In a universe a bit further away your great, great, great, great grandparents never met so much of your recent family tree was never born. Think how different societies would diverge as more and more of history develops on different paths. Get even further away and the humans didn't even evolve. Maybe a different branch of the primate family evolved as our branch of chimps died out, or maybe another animal evolved into the dominate race and the primates never did.
And no matter what others may think, I feel that limiting the number of earths to 52 is not at all realistic in a multiverse theme. ;)
I can go along with them only knowing about 52 earths, or they can only get to 52 earths, but not that there are only 52 earths.
MACJR
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