[extropy-chat] thank evolution for the interstate highway system

[Mike Lorrey]

--- "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1 at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Don Dartfield wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, then yeah, that would be an incorrect usage.  Unless he's
> trying to
> > coin a new "popular usage" meaning for the term.  Perhaps we should
> ask
> > him. <g> It might be handy to have a single word term for an
> alternate
> > universe in my writing, rather than always having to use "parallel
> > universe" or "alternate universe" or "from anooooooother
> > dimEEEENSSSSSSSion..."
> 
> How about "stringworlds."

Well, 'timeline' is commonly used in many of the genre publications.
Paratime, paratemporal, and parareality are also used. One story I read
a long time back used 'schizm' as well.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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                                       - Mike Lorrey
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