User blog comment:JetGatlingGun00/Incident During The Timeskip/@comment-1595565-20111114172147

That seems a bit extreme. A schism like that would tear the world apart, engulfing it in civil war that Kizaru would be completely indifferent to. We would have come back to a completely different world after the timeskip if that happened. I don't know what to make of it. We'll probably learn something about it next time the Marines are relevant to the plot. Oda said he was eager to incorporate it so I doubt we'll have to wait that long. This just surprised me since he never hints at stuff like this. The last time he did anything like this was when he hinted at Vegapunk when answering a question about Devil Fruits.