Long-Term Intervention

Infinity is concerned about the pos-
sibility of very long-term interventions.
For instance, if a pivotal figure like
Alexander the Great or Karl Marx
were murdered as a child, no histori-
cal differences would show up for
years . . . but when they appeared,
they would be huge. Possibly,
Centrum can’t compute the effects of
such interventions – or perhaps, if
echoes exist in part because of human
culture, only a large and sudden shift
in popular attitudes can effect a
change. It could be that if a key indi-
vidual is removed prematurely, some-
one else will appear to take his role in
history. Thus, removing Hitler well
before his rise to prominence might
only result in a similar dictator
appearing, with little change in
events. Parachronic intervention is
still an art rather than a science.