The Garden of Forking Paths

LJ! Hi! you haven't read all of the same material, but I think these ideas are awesome, so, over the next few weeks, I'm going to post about them and see if I can maybe even have some awesome discussion.

The realistic and honestly pretty terrifying version of parallel universes that split exponentially as the realization of every choice that could have been made

Awesome things related to this topic:
This story by Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths
This painting by Escher: Angels and Demons
This startrek episode, particularly after 35:00: Star Trek TNG Season 7, Episode 11: Parallels
This old batman/superman movie: Justice League: Crisis on two Earths
and a little bit of Lovelock by Orson Scott Card and even some Fight Club (an awesome movie that I swear I won't spoil at all)

( I cut this massive wall of text for your convenience, but if you read and/or respond to it... <3 <3 <3 )