#string theory?

i’d get into the nature vs nurture debate, but my momma’s a good person. and so far natural selection has been kind to me, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ♡ xx

~ David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

okay,i only got 55 / 80 voxophones... Here's my schpiel.  It's established that Booker/Zachary dying at the river baptism is the terminal node, but that doesn't necessarily kill all roots. It's established even in the title of the "infinite" possibilities within parallel universes. But in either case, let's assume killing booker here is the terminal node. Anna/Elizabeth as well as both the Male/Female Lucete exist outside of space time...or do they not? Because in that case , why do they die ? and if they had killed him in "the past" isn't it that they shouldn't have existed in the first place? And as for the lucetes, how does this affect them? Additionally, why is Elizabeth so special to open tears and such? it's never fully explained WHY she's special with these powers, but i'm assuming it's because part of her literally doesn't exist in that universe and literally comes from an alternate universe spawned from the future version of the alternate version of a "current" version of booker. There's a brain tease for you.  Also WHAT WAS THE POINT OF TRAVELING TO RAPTURE? maybe it was just a cameo. I don't know. additionally, killing now creates two roots of "alive" and "dead" i'll stop. it's late ate night.