Scientific Discoveries
Scenarios exploring how different scientific breakthroughs or their timing might have changed history
What If The Voyager Probes Never Launched?
Exploring the alternate timeline where NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 missions never ventured into the outer solar system, significantly altering our understanding of planetary science and humanity's reach into deep space.
What If The Windscale Fire Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Britain avoided its worst nuclear accident in 1957, potentially transforming the future of nuclear energy in the UK and globally.
What If Thomas Edison Lost The Current Wars?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse decisively defeated Thomas Edison in the War of the Currents, reshaping America's electrical infrastructure and technological development throughout the 20th century.
What If Time Travel Was Possible?
Exploring the alternate timeline where humans developed the capability to travel through time, fundamentally altering our understanding of physics, causality, and human civilization itself.
What If Underground Nuclear Testing Never Stopped?
Exploring the alternate timeline where international efforts to ban nuclear testing failed, allowing underground nuclear detonations to continue into the 21st century with profound implications for global politics, the environment, and nuclear proliferation.
What If Universities Never Developed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where medieval universities never emerged as institutions, fundamentally altering the development of knowledge, science, and society throughout history.