After watching both a special on the History Channel on parallel universes and this video by physicist, Brian Greene on Super String Theory, I have reason to believe that this could be the overarching story woven into ABC's Flash Forward.
In detail, some characters try to dodge what they saw in their flash forward while others pursue it. Some fail to achieve their futures while others cling to hope, but the point is that while there is no consistency between the two, everyone is fixated on what they saw. This is precisely what makes the show so addicting is that characters in the show are realizing that they can't control their futures as hard as they try--that have to expect the unexpected, or expect the expected.
For example, we first thought protagonist, Mark Benford could dodge his flash forward of his wife leaving him for another man simply by taking off his daughter's bracelet. But he and we were quick to realize that taking off bracelets, wearing a different pair of shoes, or moving to another country could not prevent or activate a future event from occurring. In Mark's case, we only know if his wife leaves him and is in bed with another man once it happens in real time. Even if all the cards leading up to that event work against it--the affair could still happen or visa versa. The point is, there are many different routes and many different outcomes in life. Some are favorable, some aren't but we won't know until it happens. And when it does or doesn't we take what we have and move forward.
Here's where String Theory ties in. What if in our universe, that fateful day comes and Benford's wife and him are happily married and move to another country? They may not be in the clear even after that window of time has passed. According to string theory, which if proven could be the scientific explanation of everything in existence, there are 10 total dimensions (not 3) that serve as the basis of our cosmos. We only see three. But there are 6 dimensions of space too small to see or too big, and 1 dimension of time that the other 9 dimensions of space depend on.
Based on this theory, we could be living in a multi dimensional universe of infinite universes. And if we are but one universe that coexists with inifinite other universes on the same clock, then theoretically there are other universes out there that have exact replicas of us. Some universes don't even have us. So, even if in Flash Forward's universe, Benford and family are happy together, she might've left him in another universe. Or he might have died in another universe, or she might have died in another universe, or he might not exist at all in another universe. All happening at the same time. There's an infinite number of outcomes that will have happened, and in this earth you experienced only one.
I'm tired, but in the end my theory is that someone like D. Gibbons was able to access these parallel universes where the characters in flash foward passed out for 2 minutes, accessed these parallel universes--all different ones (by some sort of miracle accessed their other replicas on top of that) , woke up, took them and perceived them as their destinies and are trying to fight it or avoid it. When maybe the point in the end is to realize that all outcomes will happen to you in one universe or another--and that instead of going crazy over your destiny, and preventing what may or may not happen, to go with the flow and appreciate for what is currently at hand.
Shit. I'm not sure the ending was a little weak, but that's a start.
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