Rick and Morty appreciation thread!

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Ouroboros24 said:

More spoilers.

Yes, it's part of the many-world theory, but the use in the first episode, the many worlds theory goes in deeper, like Inception.  We can say there's an infinite amount of Ricks and Mortys and Summers in different universes, right?  But all those other doppelgangers don't have a direct cause and effect with any other RM&S(Rick, Morty & Summer) in this episode.  In this episode though, the world pertains only to this specific RM&S, no other universe rick and morty and summer are involved.  Say if any of the other ricks died within this RM&S, they would have died as well because their existence would collapse without them.  The RM&S that we're watching, the writing tells us that they are in themselves contained and if there is a split, it would be death because they aren't suppose to split.  They were the Originals and in this case the Many worlds theory cannot work within their concept.  At the end of the episode, they all combine into one being, with everything that's occured being remembered in this solo reality.  They were one RM&S, but if they others died, they're specific reality would be destroyed as well.  So yeah, it is Many-world theory, but it goes deeper, more confined to a specific MR&S and their Time stream. 

As for the Tesseract, it's just a mind exercise.  The 4D model of a cube being rotated, it doesn't necessarily have to be rotated, but if it were, it would look like the video that's linked below.  This is having to do with an extra dimension.  And this is why Rick and Morty is such a great show.  They understand the concepts of how you may think of a 4 dimensional object by using mind exercises.  You cannot see a 4 dimensional object, but you can see it's shadow in the 3rd dimension.  Image 4 segments, all the same cube, but due to either duration or something else, it is in flux of position and it would seem as if it were rotating.  As, say Donnie Darko, with the long ungelating line from birth to death, duration or just faith is what's making it worm like in that movie. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-WyreE9ZkI

My head is hurting just trying to grasp the concept myself.

The "more deeper" consequences to every of the characters from the different realities is the result from the writers using their science fiction freedom to create that element of suspense and threat I was talking about. I related what we saw in that episode to the most fitting established idea I know of. It may not fit perfectly to the many-worlds interpretation, but that is due to the freedom the writers took at the moment of writing. And that is perfect :D I love shows that mess with Science and throw our minds to fly.