I have a question.

[conuly]

Let's suppose that there are an infinite number of alternate timelines running right now, for every little teeny tiny difference possible in the universe.

Now, we all know about the trousers of time and all, or of flipping a coin - but if you add time travel into the mix, would it make sense that all the futures are still "real" even if they haven't happened yet? So there's an infinite number of worlds that are exactly the same as this one, in every detail but what will happen next? (Or in a million years, or whenever?)

I mean, if this weren't all a house of very flimsy cards, would that make sense?

And on another note, for some reason this is making me think of the exhibits in the Natural History Museum, which we went to today. (See? I'm a good aunt!) In the Hall of Asian Peoples they have a few dioramas of ancient cities, for different time periods. And in one of them, they really have a miniature person on a flying carpet above it :P

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[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I have been, but I actually missed the comic where that was cleared up? You mean last week's?

[conuly]

*shrugs* Dunno for sure which week.

In it, FutureHiro explains that he shot Sylar several times, but he kept regenerating. When he came back, everything seemed to be the same - he was trying to figure it out when PastHiro appeared.

Since in this universe, Peter is the one who blew up, and since in that universe PastHiro *clearly* hadn't met his future self, or else he'd've remembered (unless the Haitian is involved, of course), it's pretty likely a different timeline already.

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I was reading it as "Future!Hiro's knowledge of what happened is only what he remembers, but the rest of the world may know different." For example, Future!Hiro remembers that Claire died, but nonetheless she is actually alive and hiding in Midland. So it is just as possible that Future!Hiro remembers having stabbed Sylar and Sylar regenerating, but it never actually happened like that (because Sylar couldn't have regenerated, because Claire is still alive) so Sylar must be alive for some other reason, like in the "revised" (sans-dead-cheerleader) timeline, Hiro never stabbed him. Or maybe (in the "revised" timeline) Hiro *did* stab him but Linderman healed him.

In any case, my best interpretation of the way the timelines work together is that there are multiple Hiros, but only one timeline, and any changes made in the past affect the current timeline, but not the current Hiro.