Talk:Attractor Field/@comment-150.101.121.161-20151015142725/@comment-150.101.121.161-20151015160027

Thank you for the explanation. I haven't actually read the visual novel, beyond a few endings posted on YoutTube, though I have read Linear Bounded Phenogram. I've also read a lot of the other content in regard to S;G's universe, like the manga following Suzuha's perspective. The article was what I was looking for in the first place, thank you.

" So basically, Okabe has to produce a large enough change to change the world to a different attractor field in order to not have Mayuri's death be forced by world line convergence. But changing attractor fields can only be done at important points in history where attractor fields diverge away from each other, such as 2010 the first D-Mail getting noticed by SERN, which was the trigger for the world to change from the Beta attractor field at the start of the story to the Alpha attractor field. "

What I'm about to say may be a bit confusing, but I'll try my best to explain it. In regard to Okabe producing a large enough change, how would he go about it? (I'm assuming that the world-changing event is Okabe inventing a time machine) Is it possible for him to produce this change by time-leaping back to when the microwave was first being installed and destroy the 42-inch TV, ensuring that a time machine is never built? I don't believe this to be the case, because in episode 23 of the anime, Okabe travels back in time and attempts to prevent Kurisu's death, even to the point of killing Nakabachi, but he is unable to kill him because Kurisu pushes him out of the way and gets stabbed instead. You can see this as the world lines converging to ensure that Kurisu dies. So, in that case, how does he go about producing this change? Would a D-Mail work? If he told himself to destroy the microwave and he took it seriously (or even told him not to install it in the first place), would the world line alter? If so, why does the D-Mail work and not time-leaping? If not, how else could you produce this change and why would it work?

Sorry if these are overly-ignorant or dumb questions, but I'm not particularly versed in Time-Travel fiction.

" Also, it should be noted that it is not just Okabe who "jump[s] from one attractor field to the other" the whole world changes to a different world line in a different attractor field. Okabe is, however, aware of this shift when it occurs unlike others due to his  Reading Steiner  ability. "

Does this mean that the idea of one world line being active and the rest inactive is canon, like it is said in the manga that follows Suzuha as she travels from 2036 to 2010? If this is so, why does Okabe say "These next 3 weeks will be very long, prepare yourself" about Native Okabe (Native, as in part of the world line)? Doesn't this mean that he won't experience any of it because there is only one active world line at any given time?

And that's it from me. Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.