Alternate/Entry-01.001

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Entry 01.001 - The Parsimony Postulate

Alternation events within Blaseball have expanded significantly in scope since the idyllic heyday of the Discipline Era. In modern Blaseball, it seems barely a season goes by without one Team or another experiencing a raft of Alternations at once. While this may force an Alternated individual's loved ones (e.g. friends, family, and most importantly, Fans) to come to terms with feelings like "loss", "grief" and "contemplating the daunting nature of infinite realities", for 95%^{citation needed} of events, there is no cause for alarm.

Extensive research has shown that during an Alternation event, realities "pair up" in a way that prioritises similarity between pairs, allowing for a new arrival with few - if any - differences between their former reality and their new home. As there are functionally-infinite realities, the vast majority (99%) of universes will find a highly similar match.

Any case where an Alternate has expressed distress at major discrepancies between their reality of origin and our reality - while unfortunate for the individual - are statistically insignificant on this wider scale. This can also be applied to any given reality where low-parsimony Alternation events are more common. Jetsam, Jetsam and Jetsam, in their 20REDACTED report suggest that such realities are somehow "slower" in the pairing process and more likely to trade with more divergent realities.

Regardless, as it is understood, for 99.9% of realities, Alternation is an unremarkable happening.