[S5 Spoilers] Breaking the Loop Theory
So earlier today I was thinking about the fear dimension and how it affects the SHIELD universe, and it got me thinking about possible other effects.
Each dimension is essentially it's own little pocket universe with an entirely separate set of laws and constants: that means that whatever naturally occurs within each dimension has zero effect on others. Now if we go back to Doctor Strange and Dormammu, you'll remember his realm has zero concept of time, and it was Strange with the time stone that meddled with the world order by bringing time with him.
Now, running with that concept of no time and applying it to the fear dimension, that would mean the world is entirely dynamic; nothing is set in stone. That would mean this time something new and different could occur because there is no fixed chain of events, and it could affect Coulson's world.
I know this is unlikely,but it makes the most sense to me. What do you guys think, am I bonkers?
Posted Mar 13, 2018, 5:11 AM UTC
You're incorrectly looking at it as a repeating loop...it's not a groundhogs day situation. There's no loop, it's perfectly linear time...they just skipped ahead and back out of sequence. So there was only ever one interface with the rift.
You're missing the point. The events of the past and future are intertwined, and yes the rift only appears once, but the rift is not bound by anything other than when it can appear.
Both universes would require a timeline in order for it be fixed, but if the rift never has one then there is no predetermined outcome. It's nothing but pure luck and probability that the same sequence has occurred in every timeline we've seen.
In it's simplest terms it's basically wanting to travel somewhere. SHIELD is the train on tracks, and fear is the AI car with no set path or destination. They both start in the same location, but unlike the train the car can do whatever. Whether is gets to the same place as the train is pure chance.
Every timeline? There's only one timeline. And sure, it could've been anything when it appeared. But now it HAS appeared and it WAS something. The probability has collapsed to an outcome that can't be changed.
I don't understand where you think there's a capacity to have things go any different. There's only one event, and we've had it happen now. It's in the past and immutable now.