Timeline Slips

Maybe memory fails identically at scale. Or maybe, the fringe says, we moved.

Everett's 1957 relative-state interpretation is mainstream physics' minority-but-respectable reading of quantum mechanics; it involves no communication or travel between branches. The lore borrows its vocabulary for timeline-shift experiences (Mandela clusters, 'quantum jumping' self-help). The node marks the borrowing: real physics supplying metaphor, metaphor circulating as mechanism. Links the Mandela effect and quantum immortality (the interpretation's genuinely unsettling thought experiment, argued in academic philosophy).