Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7888499-20151022220452/@comment-27087067-20151023233049

What an extensive response! You answered all my questions eloquently; I never considered that there were different levels of convergences and different-sized attractor fields. It's very interesting that if a change in a timeline is minor, everyone can detect it easily. Okabe also doesn't experience any head pain, so this is clear that memory re-writing is only for significant change ( ±0.000001%, as you've mentioned). This also provides some insight into what Reading Steiner (and the head pain he exerpiences every time he switches world lines) actually is: when the world attempts to overwrite memories, Okabe's mind greatly rejects it, causing him great pain as the memories are attempting to be forced into his mind. This is nothing of great consequence, I just found it interesting.

I've read through this twice, and I don't really have anything I disagree with or take issue with in regard to current topics - you're very thorough and clear in your explanations. It's unfortunate, but nothing to discuss really comes to mind at the moment. I do have one last question that I've also been thinking about for some time and it just came back to me after reading about different levels of convergence and different sized attractor fields.

How can the Steins Gate world line exist? Supposedly, it's between the Alpha and Beta AFs and its future does not converge to either, despite it being between 1% and 1.99%. It has its own separate future with massively important events having different outcomes, so I'm just not clear on how this worldline can possibly exist. I'm assuming there is an answer for this in theory (I'd be kind of disappointed if it was just a way to shoehorn in a happy ending :/).

Thank you for all of your responses, they've all been very thorough and I believe I now have a very tight grasp on how time travel works in Steins;Gate. It's been very informative and very interesting reading all about it. I'll be sure to come back to you again once Steins;Gate 0 is out, since I'm sure that it will provide some very interesting additions to the inner workings of time travel in the Steins;Gate universe.