Talk:Divergence Meter/@comment-90.215.82.90-20150801143315/@comment-7888499-20150801205129

The way I understand it, like M.A.D.company said, the moment you time leap you are in a different world line, because there is a difference of you having memories from the future in your head. However, this does not show up on the divergence meter, because this change of having extra memories is a change of less that 0.000001% and the divergence meter can only measure fluctuation rates of ±0.000001% and greater. Remember when Okabe does many successive time leaps to save Mayuri when the lab is first attacked? Despite all those different actions he took after each time leap and all the different ways Mayuri died, the meter remained displaying 0.337187%.

Basically, by time leaping you are still caught in the attractor field's convergence, so there is a chance that what you attempt to change will often still occur or will be a change too small for the divergence meter to measure or to cause Okabe's Reading Steiner to activate. If you do succeed in doing something drastic enough to change the world line, then it seems that the world line will change at that moment of doing; such an example is when Okabe had Daru delete the first D-mail from SERN's database. At the moment Daru deleted it, the world line -and the attractor field- changed.

Edit: So, to take your example of the train document. If saving that document is important enough to change the world line by ≥0.000001%, then the world line changed the moment you time leapt and would change again, this time enough to show on the meter, the moment you save the document, I think. There are numerous ways you could save the document. However, those are probably all less than ±0.000001% worth of difference, so following Steins;Gate logic we cannot really measure or observe this, and one runs the risk of being overwhelmed by fatalism if one focuses too much on thinking that even the smallest actions might be predetermined, such as looking to the right or clenching one's hand, for example.

Edit 2 (edited yet again): And what about the choice to not save the document? If the document was important enough to be caught up in the attractor field convergence or elsewise important to that world line and all the world lines with a relative difference of less than ±0.000001% to that world line and you were supposed to save the document in that world line but managed to choose not to, then at the moment you do not save the document the world line would probably change enough to show on the meter, just like how Nakabachi's thesis burning changes the world from the Beta AF to the Steins Gate world line. If the document is not important enough, then your choice to not save it would probably be less than ±0.000001% and unable to be measured or observed when influencing the world line, is what I am thinking right now.