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Originally Posted by shoni7510
That is how I understood the differences between parallel and linear time but that is just me others may have a different view that I would like to hear
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Linear time: time is a (linear) series of moments in a fixed and ordered sequence, each moment (except first or last if such exists) has exactly one preceding and succeeding moment.
Parallel time: timelines that run simultaneously and have a fixed relationship to each other. Most commonly the 'rate' of time passing is the same in each one. Parallel timelines can also merge and diverge from each other at various 'branch' points. Note that timelines in disconnected parts of reality might be simultaneous but if they are not synchronized/connected to each other, they are not considered 'parallel'. In other words even though there is 'time' on the Earth plane and the Astral planes, they are not parallel timelines because passing of time in one plane wanders with respect to the other planes.
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As such parallel timelines can be made of any type of timeline including linear timelines. They need not be all of the same type.
In the case of this universe, the common view on timelines is that each moment in time is followed by all possible next moments in time each in its own parallel time. Each of those timelines, then proceeds at the same 'rate' branching into its own parallel timelines. Basically, at any moment more than one thing could happen, the universe splits into the necessary number of timelines exactly one for each possible happening. Note that these possible happenings (and splits) are on the quantum level not human level. From a macro (human) point of view everything that can happen (constrained to the laws of physics) does happen in a separate timeline. As time 'proceeds' more and more splits happen creating more and more parallel timelines.