Talk:Reading Steiner/@comment-45109652-20200320234118/@comment-16674955-20200321025936

I do not like the word "universes" is semantically incorrect and very misleading. "Universes and multiverse" is a fictional concept that separate one author's fictions from one another (or bind them as one pleases). The universe is all there is. There is not "several universes" and there is no "multiversse". If there is a multiverse, then THIS is the universe.

Also, using this poor concept in Steins;Gate leads to the idea that they are parallel (i.e they are active at the same time). Which is not the case. Okabe does not leave a persistent material world for another one that exists in parallel. When worldline shifts, the old one disappears and stops being active. It becomes a possibility once more. Nothing tangible, just a set of lines of synopsis, a context for the world to use for its "body-text" if that makes sense.

We prefer the word worldline here. Worldlines are mere possibilties and there is only one world. Okabe only keeps his memories in the "present-date" of the shift in the old worldline and overwrites the "new version". Steins;Gate is an iterative process in a way.

If the worldline shifts the 01-01-2010 10:10AM then Okabe's memories will overwrite the new worldline Okabe the 01-01-2010 10:10AM in the new worldline. Because of this, Okabe has the impression that the world around him changes and reconfigures itself but it's a misconception on his part. Because from his point of view, people appear or disappear out of nowhere or thin air. But in reality, the old memories overwrite the new ones and he keeps this in his vision for some moments then it changes to the new reality.

And all worldlines and all attractor fields converge towards the same future ultimately. This is why convergence at attractor field level exists. For exammple, something always happens in the world, in general 2036 is a very important date that keeps happening and repeating, but the context of this date changes depending on the attractor field. Still, it's always catastrophies. So that, when attractor fields will align in a few hundred or thousands of years, they will all share the same cogs.