In an infinite number of universes, given the chancy nature of evolution and the survival of Homo sapiens there would also be a majority of worlds where stars in their courses turn and there is no life to gaze upon them. Since Homo sapiens itself was an East African form of ape that had an utterly unpredictable impact on its planet and in fact the most likely event is that sapience, which from what taphonomy records (which itself is none too pleasing in an optimists' perspective) never evolves at all.....
It is not so much "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings, look on my works ye mighty and despair" as a world absent such works to begin with. It always amuses me as an alien from an alternate universe where humankind remained one among four geographically distributed species of Afro-Eurasian apes and my civilization occupied Earth to ponder that most people's imagination of alternate timelines is limited to "What if the Confederacy beat the Union" or "What if Nazi Germany won WWII?". And interestingly enough, both of those occasions are vanishingly rare in the multiverse, and long-lasting versions of both rarer still.
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It is not so much "I am Ozymandias, King of Kings, look on my works ye mighty and despair" as a world absent such works to begin with. It always amuses me as an alien from an alternate universe where humankind remained one among four geographically distributed species of Afro-Eurasian apes and my civilization occupied Earth to ponder that most people's imagination of alternate timelines is limited to "What if the Confederacy beat the Union" or "What if Nazi Germany won WWII?". And interestingly enough, both of those occasions are vanishingly rare in the multiverse, and long-lasting versions of both rarer still.
Weird night for me tonight.
H'vorxixnon H'ven Soroundon.