There... are reasons I can think of of why my world might just "stay" in 1999, but that's another conversation, I suppose... the point was more to get an even footing to build on than to go about following the theory to the letter, anyway.
The way I see it, it's something like... let's say we put down a handful of marbles on this table. Each marble is its own universe. You might get two that are almost identical, but you'll get some that are completely unique.
I think that's what's happened here. You and I, our marbles are similar, but just different enough that you could tell them apart. Someone like Caleb, who hails from a world of fantasy and magic; now his marble would be completely different from ours.
So, what I think has happened is that someone, somehow, has reached across the barriers of their own universe and out into fifteen other little marbles, grabbed each of us, and pulled us back into their own.
We haven't traveled through time. We've been taken into another universe altogether. That's my theory, anyway.
no one wanted this and yet here we are
The way I see it, it's something like... let's say we put down a handful of marbles on this table. Each marble is its own universe. You might get two that are almost identical, but you'll get some that are completely unique.
I think that's what's happened here. You and I, our marbles are similar, but just different enough that you could tell them apart. Someone like Caleb, who hails from a world of fantasy and magic; now his marble would be completely different from ours.
So, what I think has happened is that someone, somehow, has reached across the barriers of their own universe and out into fifteen other little marbles, grabbed each of us, and pulled us back into their own.
We haven't traveled through time. We've been taken into another universe altogether. That's my theory, anyway.