Talk:Reading Steiner/@comment-31519682-20170314182449

Okay, here is my theory about the Reading Steiner:

First of all, Reading Steiner is principally a mental ability; it transports memories through timelines. Now, which other stories on the Science Adventure Series involve mind-based abilities? Exactly. Chaos;Head and Chaos;Child. On these, the delusions are transmitted via antiparticles (as far as I remember) and shared in other person´s minds. So here it comes: What if Okabe is actually a Gigalomaniac? Not a totally formed one, but still someone who can use his mind and transmit his thoughts to himself.

Oh, yeah, I was forgetting the facts. Well, Gigalomaniacs appear principally in Shibuya, a zone with a high GE rate. The GE rate can affect the human biorythm, and this could increase the emotional pain felt during certain events (more accurately, the perception of the person during emotional pain). And curiously, the time machines use microsingularities to function, and what makes singularities so special? The high gravity they generate.

Now, let´s get back to the day Okabe got sick. By some reason, he had to be in a room while everyone else was having fun and celebrating the new year. Possibly it could be somewhat irrelevant, but when something like that happens to a child it can become the tragedy of their life. Now, in which worldline happened this? My theory is that Okabe originally came from "our" timeline, or maybe the timeline where the Y2K bug happened (as Suzuha stated in the VN, such timeline actually exists). The John Titor/another time traveler of that time traveled back to the past to fix the Y2K... using a time machine which needed of a microsingularity, and so, for a fraction of a second, the gravity of the world increased sightly... just enough to increase Akihabara´s GE rate, thus altering Okabe´s biorythm and triggering his Gigalomaniac ability; Reading Steiner.

Finally, I would like to add that this theory, on my opinion, could explain why sometimes people with a lower capacity (déjà vu) can remember past timelines (Faris, Ruka, Kurisu, Mayuri): Okabe would transmit the images of the past world on a similar way to real-booting.

P.D.: I speak spanish so feel free to correct me on any gramatic errors/typos that you find.

P.D.2: Welp, that was longer than I expected.