Scientific Discoveries
Scenarios exploring how different scientific breakthroughs or their timing might have changed history
What If Cold Fusion Actually Worked?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1989 cold fusion announcement led to a verified, revolutionary energy technology that transformed global energy production, economics, and geopolitics.
What If Creationism Was Never Challenged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where scientific theories like evolution never emerged to challenge religious explanations of human origins, profoundly shaping modern science, education, and cultural development.
What If CRISPR Was Never Discovered?
Exploring the alternate timeline where CRISPR gene editing technology remained undiscovered, profoundly altering the trajectory of biotechnology, medicine, and human genetic innovation in the 21st century.
What If Darwin Developed Different Relationships with Asia?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Charles Darwin's scientific journey through Asia reshaped his evolutionary theory and transformed the colonial scientific relationship between East and West.
What If Deep Learning Never Emerged?
Exploring the alternate timeline where deep learning algorithms never achieved their breakthrough moment, dramatically altering the development of artificial intelligence and technological progress in the 21st century.
What If Einstein Never Developed Relativity?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Albert Einstein never formulated his theories of special and general relativity, potentially delaying mankind's understanding of spacetime and fundamentally altering the course of 20th-century physics and technology.