User blog comment:VonGlusenburg/Alternate universes, probability and alternative outcomes/@comment-1375165-20120816052432/@comment-4621372-20120817065151

QAA is a general rule designed to make sure people don't write about EVERYTHING, but it is most certainly not true that everything remains the same. Tiny things build up. In other words, EVERYTHING requires chance, because ANYTHING is possible. Really, a TL in which a magical asteroid turned everything to glass is just as possible as one in which I ate a sandwhich for breakfast this morning instead of cereal. It is simply... implausible. So implausible and improbable that the universe will reach heat death before the possiblility reaches 1 in a trillion, but still possible. And thus ANY POD causing ANYTHING is possible.