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"The executive producers of Fringe have dropped hints about the origin of Walternate&amp;#039;s machine. On the Fox sci-fi drama, Peter (Joshua Jackson) has received a premonition that he will become mysteriously connected to the device. In an official Fox interview, showrunner Jeff Pinkner said: &amp;quot;I think [the First People] created it. It&amp;#039;s clearly a technological creation, made out of technology that we have yet to come to understand.&amp;quot; He also suggested that different versions of the First People may have existed in the show&amp;#039;s two parallel universes. &amp;quot;Certainly there&amp;#039;s an implication that the first people existed on both sides,&amp;quot; he admitted. &amp;quot;Or that at some point both of the universes were actually one and the same. Just like mitosis, [the way] cells split.&amp;quot; Co-producer Joel Wyman refused to confirm the suggestion that the device could be used to combine the two realities into a single universe, but admitted that the idea was &amp;quot;pretty cool&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Identical twins start as one cell that splits, with exact duplicate genetic information in both,&amp;quot; added Pinkner. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s no reason why universes couldn&amp;#039;t be the same.&amp;quot; Fringe will return to Fox on April 15. &amp;gt; The past and future of Fringe "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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