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Phrasing to me suggests that the relevant slice of the 3+1-manifold has changed due to temporal interference, (perhaps quite a large slice!) but not that the entire universe was wiped away and rewritten. (/grumbles about the metaphysics of the DWU making very little sense and someone needing to clean it up/) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:13, 17 August 2023 (UTC) | Phrasing to me suggests that the relevant slice of the 3+1-manifold has changed due to temporal interference, (perhaps quite a large slice!) but not that the entire universe was wiped away and rewritten. (/grumbles about the metaphysics of the DWU making very little sense and someone needing to clean it up/) [[User:Najawin|Najawin]] [[User talk:Najawin|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 06:13, 17 August 2023 (UTC) | ||
:: Yes… Importantly the ''facts'' of the case aren't really what's in doubt. It's ''how the author presents it''. The whole "thing" with [[palimpsest universe]]s is that in ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'', Parkin takes a situation that in most authors' lingo ''would'' just be "the still-singular main universe's history was rewritten", and treats its different "editions" as each deserving the name of "a universe" in general even though they succeeded one another instead of existing in parallel in such a way that travel with them might ever be possible. This warrants creating pages for the various "states of reality" thus identified by Parkin (which just so happen to match up to different eras and branches of ''Doctor Who'' lore IRL, e.g. the DWM-comics continuity or the Virgin continuum, and thus act as a bizarro mirror to the similarly-meta taxonomy of "alternate universes" in ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]''). But crucially, I don't think we should create pages about palimpsest universes about "versions of history" seen in ''other'' people's works, even if they exactly fit the ''definition'' of a Parkinnian "palimpsest universe", if those other people ''don't'' present them in ''terms'' of distinct timelines/realities/universes. That's the tricky bit. [[User:Scrooge MacDuck|'''Scrooge MacDuck''']] [[User_talk:Scrooge MacDuck|⊕]] 12:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC) | |||
