What if...

What if JFK had not been murdered? What if Mark Antony had not fell in love with Cleopatra? I think the development of human society is a stable system. If Christopher Columbus had been killed in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, someone would discover the new world later and history would go back to track. However, there were many occasions (usually have to do with accidents) where the history looks very fragile. For example, what if JFK had escaped the shot by 3 inches?

We can’t experiment history unless there is a Ctrl-Z key or a time machine to undo the critical events. It is possible for us to simulate, or at least to imagine if some historical events had happened in other ways. There is an interesting wiki website: Alternate History Wiki. There are many alternative scenarios such as “All the way with JFK”; In “Florida voted Blue” Gore won the Florida electoral votes; In “Rising Sun”, Japanese Navy won the Battle of Midway in 1942 and forced US to sign a cease-fire treaty; In “ROC circa 1970” the US supported Chinese Nationalist to win the civil war in 1947 so there won’t be PRC, only a short Korea War and no Vietnam War; In “Alexander Empire”, Alexander the Great lived much longer so he conquered Rome and solidified his empire.

So far I don’t see any practical meaning of this “simulation technique”. But it might be helpful for Terminator to execute its mission more efficiently.