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Originally Posted by TorrnT  Made up a universe of sorts.
Humans, one of the most advanced and oldest races in the universe find they are alone in the Universe, not by intellect but by species. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs turned out to be a freak 1 in a billion billion chance.
With population increasing the search for new worlds to inhabit is paramount to the expansion of the human race. But the league of alien races which are 99% theropods
View humans with the utmost suspicion and want to keep them fenced in on there own world.
Now with news that the humans have discovered how to time travel, fear has grown that the humans may go back in time and cause mass extinctions on the theropods home worlds, thus promoting their own species throughout the universe.
(Twist: they both have their eyes on a newly discovered planet.....Earth).
The time line earth is found and the reasons why earth is so important reveal them selves later
This was a short story with a shock ending that i never got around to finishing, (due to a new project) just thought i would throw it out there. I have loads of this kinda stuff lying around. |
But, fot there to be dinosaurs everywhere, (assuming, and this is a very big assumption, that evolution will automatically bring up the same adaptations to handle the same problems - in fact, our data here on Earth would suggest the opposite) either the dinosaurs would have had to spread out from a single point, which fossile evidence would suggest would have to have been the earth, or had time travel to organise the extinction event in which the trilobites were supplanted etc., back ten billion years.
More reasonable would be a sheaf of universes where every choice produces a bifurkation, a splitting of the time path into two near identical parallel tracks. Unfortunately this would be giving us a google of extra universes a second, and all the close ones would all be populated by humans who'd got just slightly different histories, so we need a collapse mechanism that means that minor differences warp back and reinforce, rather than separating, probably related to the "observer" function in uncertainty theory. So human history keeps folding back on itself, and round the human thread are a load of "primitive" threads where man never left Africa, and various animals became dominant in their regions, without ever feeling the need to discover intelligence. These all split off at the extinction point, when there was a noticeable lack of observers to collapse the eigenstate.
Then, around this is the sheaf of dinosaur worlds where the asteroid missed, and the few which have developed intelligence did it quite a lot earlier than mankind, and have learnt travel between the individual histories long ago, but never explored through the dinosaur-free zone because there were so many other worlds with nice tasty hadrosaurs, and the right climate (intelligence will develope in the carnivores, evidently; how much brain do you need to sneak up on a cabbage?)
And way, way out are other sheaves where trilobites still rule, or bilateral symmetry was never chosen as the optimum way of facing up to the world, and distributed intelligence takes the place of chordate hierachical organisation...