Alternate Universe

To anyone who's ever wondered about intelligent life in other galaxies, this post is for you.

This thought originated while playing the popular action role-playing game Fable II, it takes place in the fictional world of Albion which has just arrived to it's early modern period (Similar to our colonial period). This is a world full of adventure and wonder, creatures that we would find very odd in our world. It's filled with swords, guns and magic, but that is far from the point. In this game you play the role of an orphan who loses his sister and is almost killed. You are faced with choices throughout you're characters life, good or bad. The choices you make shapes and molds the world in which you play into what it will become. For example, at the beginning of the game you and you're sister are trying to scrounge up 5 gold pieces to buy a magical song box which may or may not grant the user 1 wish. So you run around the town doing deeds nobly or you can decide that you want to be mischievous and take the bad route. The fifth and final gold piece requires you to hand over 5 warrants for arrest for criminals around the town. The life changing decision that you must make is whether to give the warrants over to the towns guard so he can put away the criminals and save the day, or to give the warrants to the criminal so that he can rip them up and cause more crime around the city.

Depending on the choice you make the future can be bright or it can be bleak. If you hand over the warrants to the guard, the city will be thriving, the town will be wealthy, the guard you gave them to will be the Head Guard of the city, and you will be praised by everyone. However, if you decided to hand the warrants to the criminal, the town will be a slum, the people will be suffering, the people will despise you, but the criminals will love you.

This was just a little introduction and an example into my own thought. The universe is vast, it doesn't end it only expands. We have only set off so little into the everlasting nothingness and we really don't know what's out there when it comes to intelligent life. Other than having planets that populate life which is different then our humanity, think about planets that might be exactly like earth, solar systems that might be exactly like our Milky Way Galaxy.

What if there is another planet like earth, it is populated by humans just like our earth. Let's call this other planet Xearth. It could be possible that Xearth started at the same time that our earth did, and everything was exactly the same. Of course everything starts off the same in the universe, but then things begin to change. Remember everything is unique, nothing is quite like the other, just like two snowflakes. At one point in time, something that happened on earth changed it's course of history, and at the same time something on Xearth happened, but it was completely different than what happened on our earth. And so begins our paradox.

Now here is the tie in to the video game that I mentioned. In the game you only had two roads to pick, the good or the bad, which subsequently led to two more roads along the way. This forms a whole branching of events to unfold in the world. All it takes is one wrong turn. What's to stop us from saying that maybe we made all of the wrong choices, and Xearth made all of the right choices, it's obviously a rhetorical question since this is just a theory, and knowing that is impossible. With all of the war, natural disasters, man made disasters, and anything else which may go wrong in this world, I don't believe it's crazy to say that there might be a world out there which made better choices then we have. If this is true though, Xearth might be more advanced in certain ways of living life, faith, health, technology... and peace.