AtD (37) p.1049-1050 "Intolerance", changing the past, bi-location, multiple worlds

[Mark Kohut]

p. 1049-1050
"hallucinatory sets from the movie Intolerance [Or Love's Struggles Through the Ages]....remember bit on the the infinite varieties of love back in the Cyprian section? 

 Sees Jardine go thru an "iron gate"--not good--, Carefree Court [obviously ironic] and sit at a luxurious pool, deciding something.

Then Lew learns the machine can go into the past life of anyone's photo!.....even past events like the Times bombing can be seen  (like surveillance cameras?).......but they have to get it "just right" or the people might choose a different 'future" [at that point in the past].

Does this remind anyone else of what has been said about quantum physics
at the quantam level?....the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in effect?.....

"The uncertainty principle is related to the observer effect, with which it is often conflated. In the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle is a theoretical limitation of how small this observer effect can be. Any measurement of the position with accuracy Δx collapses the quantum state making the standard deviation of the momentum Δp larger than .

While this is true in all interpretations, in many modern interpretations of quantum mechanics (many-worlds and variants), the quantum state itself is the fundamental physical quantity, not the position or momentum. Taking this perspective, while the momentum and position are still uncertain, the uncertainty is an effect caused not just by observation, but by any entanglement with the environment." ----wikipedia

This is always of the present, of course, whereas TRP has set up a similarity that can change the past.....linked to bi-location......as a metaphor, it implies if we do not look correctly at pictures in the past,
the future from that point, therefore the present, can be different...
Is this about, via metaphor, how we perceive our lives ultimately?....
"but thinking makes it so"---Shakespeare

"usually to look back in the past it's got to be a negative value"---is this some kind of overarching generalization of a theme as stated?...
"looking back---nostalgia? like Lot's wife?---is not a good thing?....

Is it a metaphor for we readers looking at History (the past)....if we 
had looked at it rightly, it would have been different?.....Since we have
NOT seen History correctly, it has changed the present?

a different path.....He remembers bi-location........Roswell is almost annoyed when Lew questions him about the subject's possible other lived lives.............Of course that is possible, knows Roswell.  

[‘Multiple Worlds,” blurted Nigel, who had floated in from elsewhere.
‘Precisely!’ cried the Professor. ‘The Ripper’s “Whitechapel” was a sort of momentary antechamber in space-time… one might imagine a giant railway depot, with thousands of gates disposed radially in all dimensions, leading to tracks of departure to all manner of alternative Histories…’ ] earlier in AtD.

Roswell associations: He must be named after the most famous UFO incident (and place), although that did not happen until 1947. : "The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. Many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. "---wikipedia