Talk:Steins;Gate (anime)/@comment-26399265-20150514155902/@comment-26377724-20150515064705

The statement that no one travel in time is wrong in the first place, there is in all worldlines (except Steins;Gate) a time traveler, the episode 23 and the first half of episode 1 share the exact same worldlines, all the event are identical. In the VN Okabe said before the travel there is no point to refuse Suzuha's invitation because it's already stated that he travel back in time because he see the time machine in 23th july.

And to confirm that there is a time traveler in the first episode, remember that John Titor from 2000 exist in this worldline too.

After that you said the time travel creates worldlines, it's wrong in a sense, all worldlines and all possibilities already exists, time travel don't modificate the worldlines but allow the time traveler to move to another worldline. We see that in the film Fuka Ryoiki no Déjà vu, (be carefull after it's a spoiler of the film if you don't see this)

Okabe had "hallucinations", in reality he sees, mostly thanks to his Reading Steiner what happened on others worldlines that he don't see himself. (The Suzuha Ending and the Nae time leaps from the VN for exemple) and more of that other protagonists remembers some Okabe's chuunibiyou desillusions after his disparition and the rewriting of their memories. They remember him from other worldlines, that's what Kurisu called the "Déjà vu" effect, a lower level of the Reading Steiner.