Running away

Three things -

I was catching up with my reading and I ended up reading abstract of a now defunct journal which talks about three different versions on Unified theory.
Last week I was watching X-Files out of sheer boredom and there was a statement made by Mudler - "Each universe can produce only one outcome.
In Solitaire (or Sudoku) for that matter, the game has only one solution.

I felt that the three items are kind of related. Irrespective of the number of choices that one is presented with, the end can be achieved by choosing the right one. I wont be debating on if the end is "correct" or "moral" or "right" or any of those quasi-philosophical metaphors. Solitaire as I understand has one solution. During the course of the game, if one flip is missed or wrong card is dropped to newly vacated space, then in all probabilities, the game is gone. In the journal which I stumbled upon, presented with three versions of unified theory. One by relativist, one by theorist and the third - its never clear in the article. Read the article here. The author calls this phenomenon as "convergence of the minds". I heard something similar in "Fringe" but passed it out as a myth. In theory, greatest minds at times converge on one single idea or one single point of view. The interpretations and/or derivation which follows this idea could be different but the basis of their beliefs always remains constant. This argument leads to the second bullet point. The first time I heard this dialogue, I had missed "Each" in the sentence. This one word brings about a complete change in the meaning of the sentence. Mulder understands the possibility of multi-verses and that is the reason why he concludes that per universe, the solution or the outcome is always constant thus subtly hinting that time travel would not marr the essence of time in a given reality. This theory is interesting since the basic concept is derived from space-time paradox that Einstein documented post-relativity era.
In "Fringe" Dr. Walter Bishop explains the basic concept of multi-verse in a simple sentence.
"The road not taken."

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