She concentrated, and the mosaic organized into two portions, one slightly larger than the other. In one half, that death-terminus came very soon. In the other, it was some distance off.
Hmm.
I suppose this kind of sorting is how she arrives at the numbers.
She judged the size of the individual parts, and the number snapped into her head.
Which was not to say her power didn’t help her out with that. The numbers are far too precise for there not to be a probability calculator in her head.
43.03485192746307955659 percent chance she would die in the next thirty minutes. The chance was steadily ticking upward with each passing second, with possible realities becoming impossible and fading from her view, or being replaced with other possibilities, effectively shifting over to the other side.
That is not a good number.
…I’m curious as to how Wildbow decided the decimals, whether he used some form of randomizer, or just key-mashed a numpad. I’m inclined to think the latter, especially because there seems to be a bias towards the middle and higher digits, 4-9.
Anyway, how exactly do new realities become possible? Shouldn’t any reality that could be a result of a future moment along a branch be visible as another branch from that moment even before she gets to it physically?
Might that have something to do with influence from outside the universe, such as the dandelions empowering someone somewhere in the world?
Or maybe it boils down to quantum mechanics?
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