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(Intro post here)
For reference, here is a list of the photos used for the focuses, in the order taken:
( Cut starts here for obvious spoiler reasons )
Conclusion
An interpretation of the focus jumps as creating independently existing parallel universes results in a great deal of fridge existential horror, a great deal of regular existential horror, immense and exponential cosmic fragmentation and fractal growth, and an ever expanding array of new systems that we would have to suppose to be there for no reason except to provide explanations for the ways in which the alternate timelines behave - or more to the point, are never observed to behave - despite the total lack of empirical support for any such systems existing.
All this, when a model of a single changing timeline can account for all observations with a tiny, elegant subset of the systems the parallel universe theory would have us conjecture.
For reference, here is a list of the photos used for the focuses, in the order taken:
( Cut starts here for obvious spoiler reasons )
Conclusion
An interpretation of the focus jumps as creating independently existing parallel universes results in a great deal of fridge existential horror, a great deal of regular existential horror, immense and exponential cosmic fragmentation and fractal growth, and an ever expanding array of new systems that we would have to suppose to be there for no reason except to provide explanations for the ways in which the alternate timelines behave - or more to the point, are never observed to behave - despite the total lack of empirical support for any such systems existing.
All this, when a model of a single changing timeline can account for all observations with a tiny, elegant subset of the systems the parallel universe theory would have us conjecture.