Discussion: Clear some things up

"Well we all know that the Cat is officially out of the bag about Peter. The chick who can tell when people don't belong sniffed out Peter's "glow" and now she's in on this secret. that he's really from the other universe... I wonder how this will play into the story!!!

Which brings me to my next question... as Nina Sharp descriped the theory that there can only be one of each thing in each place (the smashing of the globes together example) how is it possible then, that Walter, William Bell, Olivia.... how can they move between universes... if there is already one of them in that other universe and they go there, that would suggest that while they're there - there is 2 of them???

Walter must've taken Peter from another Walter, else Peter wouldn't exist!! So what I'm saying is wouldn't Nina's theory go to 'crap' so to speak!?

Feast on that question for a while!"

"Well we all know that the Cat is officially out of the bag about Peter. The chick who can tell when people don't belong sniffed out Peter's "glow" and now she's in on this secret,that he's really from the other universe...I wonder how this will play into the story!!!
Which brings me to my next question... as Nina Sharp described the theory that there can only be one of each thing in each place (the smashing of the globes together example) how is it possible then, that Walter, William Bell, Olivia.... how can they move between universes... if there is already one of them in that other universe and they go there, that would suggest that while they're there - there is 2 of them???

Walter must've taken Peter from another Walter, else Peter wouldn't exist!! So what I'm saying is wouldn't Nina's theory go to 'crap' so to speak!?

Feast on that question for a while!"

"From what Walter said when he was describing to Olivia what deja vu was, every time we make a choice, we choose one path, and somewhere else another version of us chooses another path. It keeps branching out, and sooner or later each path will cross - we do something in this reality, that our alternate self does in another reality - or already has done - and we know we've experienced it before. Now how we know what our alternate selves have experienced, is another question! One that Walter doesn't fully explain, except to say that when we cross paths with what our alternate selves have done, that we experience deja vu. So we have all these alternate selves on alternate worlds doing the choices we don't take. But I don't know that the writers are holding true to this for the actual explanation of the alternate world Rather, the ZFT manual that Peter finds in Ability, says that there are other dimensions, and one of them that is slightly more advanced technologically than ours is the one that has already started sending people over - the First Wave, shapechangers, we now know. And Peter. But since Olivia and Charlie are in the same place in both worlds - FBI agents - the theory of different decisions doesn't hold true."

"I think I meant with the last statement about the theory of different decisions not holding true, is that it hasn't been explained if an alternate self of ours (or Walter's or Olivia's) chooses a different option, but the rest of their choices are the same, are they necessarily on a different path? would they have a slight detour and then the paths look the same? Or does it branch away completely even though everything else is the same? I know I'm probably over-analyzing this too much! It just means I am fascinated by this theory of deja vu and alternate selves, and I want to see how it works. I expect that as Fringe goes further on we will get some more answers about deja vu and alternate selves and worlds.Maybe I should reword the last sentence to ask if it's possible to make decisions differently but end up doing the same thing, like alt-Olivia and alt -Charlie are doing!! So: given that alt-Olivia and alt-Charlie are in the FBI as our world characters are, how does the different choices theory of deja vu fit in with the alternate world being slightly technologically ahead of our own? Do they fit? Are we talking about different realities here?

Good point raised, jbehme. None of my views on this show are set in stone, because in this wonderful show we learn something new almost every episode :-) so I ask you in turn (and anyone else out there who has a theory about this), does the theory hold true?"

"Also if the story becomes too complex it would be difficult to follow, so we let certain paradoxes exist and give these clever writers a little poetic license, so that they can create a workable reality, albeit flawed. "

"I think I meant with the last statement about the theory of different decisions not holding true, is that it hasn't been explained if an alternate self of ours (or Walter's or Olivia's) chooses a different option, but the rest of their choices are the same, are they necessarily on a different path? would they have a slight detour and then the paths look the same? Or does it branch away completely even though everything else is the same? I know I'm probably over-analyzing this too much! It just means I am fascinated by this theory of deja vu and alternate selves, and I want to see how it works. I expect that as Fringe goes further on we will get some more answers about deja vu and alternate selves and worlds.Maybe I should reword the last sentence to ask if it's possible to make decisions differently but end up doing the same thing, like alt-Olivia and alt -Charlie are doing!! So: given that alt-Olivia and alt-Charlie are in the FBI as our world characters are, how does the different choices theory of deja vu fit in with the alternate world being slightly technologically ahead of our own? Do they fit? Are we talking about different realities here?

Good point raised, jbehme. None of my views on this show are set in stone, because in this wonderful show we learn something new almost every episode :-) so I ask you in turn (and anyone else out there who has a theory about this), does the theory hold true?"