Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-74.104.206.83-20130730235710/@comment-17727644-20130925234816

Well to be honest, at first in the series, they didn't know what timeline they were in. They actually went into the future and bought back a machine that was invented to do that to tell them if I remember correctly.

Well a main "timeline" is like certain events. Like for example, if a pivotal person died (let's invoke godwin's law here), Say like hitler for example. He's a pivotal person in the timeline, he affects a ton of the things. The average joe does not affect things. But what happened if Hitler was never born? Thus, that would require jumping to a new Rope entirely because it alters too many things at once. Basically to answer your question - there is no main timeline. Every single possible choice that could happen, is happening simultiously on each individual strand that makes up those ropes. Perception would dictate that whatever you decide to determine is the "main Timeline" is simply a point of reference so that you don't end up throwing up much like in a video game that has no targeting reticle (which is why video games have targeting recticles in the first place, otherwise nearly everyone would throw up from motion sickness).