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From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Back to the future. Solution. Minispoiler.
Message-ID: <136@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 16:12:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 18 16:12:10 1985
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Postulate a pair of futures... 2 time tracks diverging from the instant
Marty arrives in 1955.  In world 1, the original world in the future,
George McFly is a nerd. In world 2, the world Marty ends up in, he's
a yuppie.

Marty 1 goes back in time & causes the split, producing George 2 and Marty 2.
Marty 2 then goes back in time. Because his father isn't a nerd he has
trouble recognising George  in the soda fountain. Maybe he doesn't recognise
him at all or maybe he's too cool (like his parents he's a lot less scatter-
brained then his world-1 counterpart) to go haring off after his parents
before talking to Doc Brown. Hell, maybe Doc-2 suggested that if he ever find
himself in weird circumstances he should try to find him (doc) before panicing
(I can see it now: "Of course! Doc KNEW I was going to end up back here...").

So for one reason or another Marty 2 never interferes with his parents. He
hangs around with the Doc for a week and goes back to the future. Guess
WHICH future? World 1, of course. Boy, is HE surprised.

And where did Johnny B. Goode come from? Simple: it came from nowhere. That
sort of thing is SOP in time travel stories. Remember the timebelt in
"The Man Who Fondled Himself"? Or the main character in "All You Zombies"?
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