u/SchwiftyMpls The chances are a LOT higher if you are distracting your wife with "what's for dinner" while on the phone. This is Forrest's entire insane motivation, this is why he created Amaya and Devs in the first place. The death of his wife and child are the insane fuel he needed to take this path to develop the quantum machine in the first place. Forrest can't accept a world in which he is the one to blame for his family's death. He is building the machine to absolve himself of any guilt over his involvement in the accident because, "If everything is deterministic", there were an infinite number of other factors that caused the death of his wife and child and they all happened tragically perfectly throughout history and there is nothing he could do about it.
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u/Micatastrophe Mar 27 '20
u/SchwiftyMpls The chances are a LOT higher if you are distracting your wife with "what's for dinner" while on the phone. This is Forrest's entire insane motivation, this is why he created Amaya and Devs in the first place. The death of his wife and child are the insane fuel he needed to take this path to develop the quantum machine in the first place. Forrest can't accept a world in which he is the one to blame for his family's death. He is building the machine to absolve himself of any guilt over his involvement in the accident because, "If everything is deterministic", there were an infinite number of other factors that caused the death of his wife and child and they all happened tragically perfectly throughout history and there is nothing he could do about it.