T-Rex: Building a time machine is hard!
T-Rex: But maybe, building a machine to go to an alternate universe: NOT SO HARD??
T-Rex: See, Dromiceiomimus, my new plan is to visit alternate universes to take back objects and ideas from them! Hopefully that will be much easier than using godless science to violate the natural laws of time?
Dromiceiomimus: So it's the same old "steal technology from the future" idea?
T-Rex: A little! But a lot of alternate universes would probably be at about the same tech level. What I'm really interested in is culture!
Utahraptor: You're hoping that in alternate universes, you'll get alternate versions of Hamlet!
T-Rex: Exactly!
T-Rex: That's a great example. Shakespeare wrote some fantastic plays, but there's only so many of them. But infinite parallel Shakespeares on infinite parallel typewriters pretty much have to give us some terrific pieces of literature!
Utahraptor: New ideas and themes from the Bard WOULD really be something!
Narrator: MEANWHILE IN UNIVERSE X95:
T-Rex: Shakespeare is the greatest author in history, but all he's written is 38 plays and 154 sonnets about "how much [he] likes to gaze at yonder bosoms"!
T-Rex: Sometimes I feel like the only purpose of our whole universe is to act as a warning for others
