User blog comment:Pawn of Atlas/Important Discussion for Rapture Storyline page/@comment-1500935-20140406084007/@comment-94.196.95.114-20140418191600

It is a different Rapture absolutely for sure.

The Grandfather time travel paradox will be the only possible solution. As soon as a traveller from a different parallel universe enters Rapture, a new Rapture containing the traveller will exist. This could be called the parallel universe paradox.

There will be a parallel universe where Ryan is still a boy, if a parallel traveller goes to that universe and kills young Ryan, there will be: 1. a continuing universe with young Ryan still alive. 2. a new universe where young Ryan is killed and Rapture is never built.

As soon as a traveller steps into a different parallel universe every action by that traveller will create a new universe. Just being there will create a new universe. Parallel universe travellers create new worlds just by their presence being there even if the traveller takes no action. There will be a universe where the traveller exists and a universe where the traveller does not exist.

Every Rapture and Columbia that has had a traveller visit them will be different.

Actually the very notion of a single prime Rapture is ridiculous in a parallel universe theory.

The only true Rapture is the one that the player is currently gaming in, in the present moment by moment of time.