User blog comment:Hatebunny/The DCnU, and why we have not made new pages/@comment-1516372-20120826210949

Actually, every time you change the timeline, you create a New Universe. The Flashpoint Universe, and the original DCU still exist in the multiverse, in some form, but the DCnU also exists. It's just that the DCnU is now the Mainstream DC Continuity. My example: Time Travel is not linear, it is impossible for you to travel into your own future or past, as this would require you crossing your own timeline, which, according to the laws of the Multiverse, is impossible. Every time someone time travels, backwards or forwards, they travel into an Alternate Universe. It may be a Universe that differs so slightly from out own, that it is indistinguishable from our own Universe (such as a Universe where you chose to eat a different snack for lunch yesterday, but everything else is exactly the same), or it many be something as radical as a version of the 1960's where the Nazi's rule America. Nevertheless, any deviation from an established reality is indeed a separate Universe.