An interactive thought experiment · No. 001

The Almost-Same Universe

Two universes begin almost identically. Their stars obey the same laws of gravity. Change the initial arrangement by one millionth—and watch whether the future remembers.

A pocket-sized cosmos ✦
●Universe A / bright
Universe B / pale echoes
Tap the sky to give the second universe a barely perceptible push.
Elapsed cosmic time
0.00
Arbitrary gravitational units
Separation of futures
0.001
Root-mean-square position gap
Growth since beginning
1.0×
Compared with starting difference
How far apart are the two futures? · logarithmic scale