Okay. So, a while back I watched Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths.
SPOILERS
At the climax of the movie, Owlman attempts to blow up Earth Prime, the Earth from which all other Earths originated. He believes this is the only action that could have any meaning, because whether he chooses to do something or not, an alternate reality is created to facilitate another/the opposite decision. However, by destroying Earth Prime, all other Earths will die. There wouldn't be an alternate Earth on which he didn't choose to destroy Earth Prime. Both actions, in any other case, would happen regardless of his decision, and thus it is the only actual choice.
Batman ends up sending Owlman(along with his bomb) to an uninhabited alternate Earth. When confronted with the options "Yes or No?" for the abort sequence on the bomb, Owlman just stops and says, "It doesn't matter."
My three questions:
1) Is Owlman's theory necessary correct? If there is a function of existence that creates an alternate version of the original based on choices, then let's forget even the obvious question that follows my skepticism of "Wouldn't that mean Owlman created a second multiverse where he didn't bomb Earth Prime?". More fundamentally, by the act of exploring the multiverse, isn't there another multiverse in which the multiverse was not discovered/explored?
I recognize entirely that I may just be reading too much into this, and that it might end with Earth Prime, but c'mon. Superman isn't even from Earth! Would he die, or would it just change the history of multiverse created by Krypton Prime in which Superman landed at different coordinates?
2) Is Owlman still alive? Wouldn't this same function make him abort the explosion of the bomb on an alternate uninhabited planet?
3) If there were alternate realities based on decisions and choices, do you agree with Owlman?
This may seem like a rant, and it certainly feels like own reading it. But, I just had to get some opinions, this has been bugging the hell out of me. Alternate realities are somewhere between almost as bad and atrociously worse than time travel.
SPOILERS
At the climax of the movie, Owlman attempts to blow up Earth Prime, the Earth from which all other Earths originated. He believes this is the only action that could have any meaning, because whether he chooses to do something or not, an alternate reality is created to facilitate another/the opposite decision. However, by destroying Earth Prime, all other Earths will die. There wouldn't be an alternate Earth on which he didn't choose to destroy Earth Prime. Both actions, in any other case, would happen regardless of his decision, and thus it is the only actual choice.
Batman ends up sending Owlman(along with his bomb) to an uninhabited alternate Earth. When confronted with the options "Yes or No?" for the abort sequence on the bomb, Owlman just stops and says, "It doesn't matter."
My three questions:
1) Is Owlman's theory necessary correct? If there is a function of existence that creates an alternate version of the original based on choices, then let's forget even the obvious question that follows my skepticism of "Wouldn't that mean Owlman created a second multiverse where he didn't bomb Earth Prime?". More fundamentally, by the act of exploring the multiverse, isn't there another multiverse in which the multiverse was not discovered/explored?
I recognize entirely that I may just be reading too much into this, and that it might end with Earth Prime, but c'mon. Superman isn't even from Earth! Would he die, or would it just change the history of multiverse created by Krypton Prime in which Superman landed at different coordinates?
2) Is Owlman still alive? Wouldn't this same function make him abort the explosion of the bomb on an alternate uninhabited planet?
3) If there were alternate realities based on decisions and choices, do you agree with Owlman?
This may seem like a rant, and it certainly feels like own reading it. But, I just had to get some opinions, this has been bugging the hell out of me. Alternate realities are somewhere between almost as bad and atrociously worse than time travel.
