Fic piece

This is a ways off, and I'm not sure if I'll end up keeping it, but I had this going around in my head, and I really wanted to put it down before I forget it.

Wish I could say it was for "Derailed," but nope. Hopefully I can do much better work on it after "The Elephant in the Room" is done. And if I don't get sidetracked into sequels for it.

"He's creating a Westphall Singularity!"

"A what?"

"In the '80s, Dr. Tommy Westphall came up with this theory of multiple universes and how they could interconnect, in a kind of defiance of Schrodinger's cat. But by affecting one universe, you could affect all the others--Newton's 3rd law on equal and opposite reactions, and Everett's many worlds interpretation of the cat thought experiment. Affect one point, and it affects them all."

"Huh?"

"It's like comic books, Ben. Think of various titles running their own stories, apparently disconnected. Then a huge crossover event draws them together and sets them in the same universe."

"Still not getting it."

"Let's say that in one hero's comic, a major city was destroyed. That means it has to be destroyed in the others' comics. If one has a very strict definition of physics or magic, it holds true for everyone else. Things begin to contradict each other. And eventually, the only way to fix things..."

"...Is to retcon."

"Yes, in essence. The Westphall Singularity is a cosmic retcon. If the Decay eats away at Cross-Time, the Singularity will grow larger until all of time is swallowed up."

I'm not a physicist; I just use Wikipedia. Many-worlds interpretation and Schrodinger's cat. Tommy Westphall is not a physicist either; he's a character in St. Elsewhere and prominently featured in Dwayne McDuffie's editorial Six Degrees of St. Elsewhere.