Talk:Timeline/@comment-117.254.104.166-20151003112209/@comment-7888499-20151004084012

Ah, in that case, when Alpha Attractor Field Suzuha is explaining things to Okabe in the visual novel, she tells him that the world line she time traveled from being 0.000000% is just a subjective number.


 * Sorry, I forgot to mention the divergence numbers. I have a personal meter that measures them. My original world line in 2036 was calibrated to be 0%. It is, after all, a subjective, relative measurement, not an absolute. In the end, this tool can only indicate the current divergence. (Source: Let's Play archive of the fan translation)

Omega Attractor Field being -0.000000 to -0.999999% is just where Omega happens to be relative to the Alpha 0.000000% world line. No mathematical importance that I know of.

The most curious thing about Omega's divergence meter showing -0.275349% (rendered as .275349) is the fact that Okabe, the most likely creator of the meter in Omega's future, seems to have been able to accurately calculate where Omega was in relation to the Alpha Attractor Field. Either that or it would be a case of Suzuha in a time machine traveling from one attractor field to another, which has never elsewise been shown -Alpha Suzuha only reached Alpha's past. Beta Suzuha only reached Beta's past, etc.-, though D-Mails seem to be able to reach other attractor fields as long as the sending and receiving attractor fields have not yet diverged away from each other at the point in time of receival. It'd be really interesting if the S;G series creators ever decided to explore the Omega Attractor Field further.

EDIT: This is a bit off-topic, but in case anyone finds this cool to look at. One fan made a list showing how all attractor fields from 23% to -23% could possibly be represented by the Greek alphabet with each letter representing both a positive and negatively-numbered field of divergences.

α(Alpha)   0％  -23％ β(Beta)    1％  -22％ γ(Gamma)   2％  -21％ δ(Delta)   3％  -20％ ε(Epsilon) 4％  -19％ ζ(Zeta)    5％  -18％ η(Eta)     6％  -17％ θ(Theta)   7％  -16％ ι(Iota)    8％  -15％ κ(Kappa)   9％  -14％ λ(Lamda)  10％  -13％ μ(Mu)     11％  -12％ ν(Nu)     12％  -11％ ξ(Xi)     13％  -10％ ο(Omicron) 14％  -9％ π(Pi)     15％   -8％ ρ(Rho)    16％   -7％ σ(Sigma)  17％   -6％ τ(Tau)    18％   -5％ υ(Upsilon) 19％　 -4％ φ(Phi)    20％   -3％ χ(Chi)    21％   -2％ ψ(Psi)    22％   -1％ ω(Omega)  23％   -0％ (Source Japanese)