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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SidusLupus" data-source="post: 2219682" data-attributes="member: 10278">You make good points, but my only contention is this. It hinges on the dating system in the letter. The only valid conclusion  you can make is that either Ed's world shared common occurences with ours (I.e. the death of Christ) or is a splinter from our world, caused by or connected by the gate.It's becoming more and more common to use BCE and CE for the dating system in newer text books than BC and AD. The fact that they thought of AD as an old way to date things just means they use a new system now. (Possibly due to a larger or more important event) At the end of the series when Ed goes to the other world, which is around 1900, and the letter his father wrote is from approximately 1500 (400 years earlier), the conclusion that Eds world is from the future doesn't hold up. Perhaps the creation of the gate, and the strange city is the event which caused Ed's world to use the new date system and splintered it from our world.</blockquote>