Thread:Zeldakasumi/@comment-27001444-20151014050645/@comment-7888499-20151014234701

Yes, the Steins;Gate concept of "convergence" -which can denote world line convergence within an attractor field and on a larger scale the convergence of attractor fields with other attractor fields- is what causes Mayuri to die in the Alpha Attractor Field. The reason why her death is caught up in convergence is probably because it contributes in impelling Okabe and co. whose actions are important to that attractor field.

Nao Tomori wrote: Okay, so by going back to the day Kurisu dies and creating a false scene in which his past self sees Kurisu in blood what happens? Does the Okabe of the past still send the D-Mail that gets intercepted (wouldn't he have to?)? Or is this entire false death scene made just so that Kurisu doesn't die because of the convergence [...]? Since that scene is not depicted I can't say for 100% certain. However, I do think that the Okabe of July 28 in the Steins Gate world line did send the D-Mail. -Pardon me for some redundancy with the blog post while explaining.- A reason for why he would have to send it is the number of things that saving Kurisu hinged on: 1) Kurisu's death was key to the Beta Attractor Field and thus caught up in convergence. 2) However, Okabe was the material witness of her death. 3) Okabe through his unique identity in August 21 in the Beta Attractor Field as a time and world line traveller was in a position to want to save Kurisu -the effect- 4) and change the world's active world line to one where Kurisu survived as long as he did not erase his own journey to get there -the cause-.

If he had tried not only to save her but also to erase his own journey -the cause that brought him to the effect-, which was triggered by his sending the D-Mail, then the convergence he was caught up in would not let him. That is part of the reason why he failed the first time. By choosing a way that preserved his own journey, such as faking Kurisu's death for him to still witness, he was able to find the one loop-hole that subverted the grip of the Beta Attractor Field's convergence and change to the Steins Gate.

However, it should be noted that the D-Mail about Kurisu's death was only noticed by SERN in the Alpha Attractor Field. In Beta it was not an issue, so too in the Steins Gate world line -and in the Delta and Epsilon Attractor Fields in the spin-off visual novels Steins;Gate - Darling of Loving Vows and Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram-. So even if the D-Mail should manage to arrive in the past of the Steins Gate world line, it should not cause problems for Okabe and co. in the future, I think.

Did that explanation make sense?