Vonnegut-5

Current Year: 1946 The universe known as Vonnegut-5 deviates from our universe in a way that is not yet understood by our science and is widely considered one of the strangest and most unique parallels discovered so far. The Earth of Vonnegut-5 is apparently subject to seemingly random appearance of naturally-occurring short-lived intertemporal wormholes. These wormholes seem to only last for several hours or even several seconds before disappearing, but anything or anyone that enters within the vortex-radius is sent through the intertemporal bridge to a (seemingly random) destination in the past or the future. Why these wormholes appear, what governs where they appear or for how long and what governs what two points of chronological time they connect is currently unknown and the subject of enthusiastic research.

While the sudden appearances of wormholes are rare in the relative comparison to the span of a human lifetime, research has indicated that they have in fact resulted in the universe having its own history altered on several occasions. Humanity as a whole in this universe, according to our research, does not yet know about this phenomenon existing at all, largely due to the rare and unpredictable nature of how wormholes appear, and the fact that anyone close enough to observe them is close enough to become an involuntary time-traveler. The Earth in this universe deviates from our world in several places that were believed to be naturally-occurring POD’s that defined this universe’s difference from our own, but research has indicated that the actual organic POD of this universe is the wormhole phenomena itself. The historical changes that have lead to differences in this world’s timeline from our own has been the result of people and objects being propelled backwards into the past and altering events, either intentionally or accidentally. Temporal-transients traveling to the future has also had an effect, but not as significant as the ones resulting from retrograde time-travel.