Great article. The OA addresses this and is worth watching — one of the most innovative science fiction shows around. Also as we learn more about the craft which travel faster than light speeds our navy fighter pilots are observing often and close up, wouldn’t it be amazing to learn they came from our future or from a parallel universe?
I’m playing around with the idea of parallel universes and probabilistic outcomes in my latest book —one of my characters travels to a world where we didn’t use fossil fuels, but rather adopted Tesla’s theories of tapping ambient sources of heat in the air, water and ground. Bingo no climate change. (one of my major themes cli-fi). If only we could revive those technologies fast and immediately hindsight is always the best — or foresight or ?????