Talk:List of Known World Lines/@comment-88.246.207.183-20150714112303/@comment-26833849-20150730162322

Word play or not, it is important to note that it is in fact Reading Steiner, because otherwise we´d have to admit that Okabe has a supernatural power, something that most certainly is not the case. (sigh) Did I say it was a fact that the fever is the cause? No, I said very likely. And since, you know, this is the most logical hypothesis so far, very likely is just about perfect to describe the situation.

You seem to have missed that I already refuted this argument in my post, since I knew you were gona present it otherwise. Alpha and beta are the same until 2010, true, but afterwards the difference between the two is tremendous, hence the split into two attractor fields. Again, in the Omega wordline, the divergence happened in 2000, and Okabe reached it by merging two Alpha worldlines that were both connected to that year. Until then, Omega and Alpha were the same, but then the split happened. 10 years later, and the difference between Alpha and Omega is easily noticeable. Following that logic, it becomes clear that in 10 years worth of time, the S;G timeline will differ from alpha and beta as much as Omega differs from the two individual alpha worldlines, making them both a gamble. Basically, Steins Gate´s future is just as mysterious as Omega´s, simply because it took two independent attractor fields, and merged them so that IN TIME (the keyword here), the result may differ from the wordlines used to create it to begin with (which is actually what Okabe wanted to begin with). So once again, no, Omega doesn´t bear more risks than S;G, the only difference is that the Omega split happened 10 years earlier, which means that the unknown future would happen earlier, nothing else. The past of both up to their creation is known, what happens afterwards is a mystery. Also, Suzuha may have known the divergence number, but what Point is there to it if the future of the worldline is unknown? Okabe from 2025 did all this knowing that S;G would still be a gamble, the only reason he did it was because it had a chance of being peaceful and to save both Mayuri and Kurisu, all of which applies to Omega too.

Unfounded, eh? How so? Because I mentioned how SERN not playing the same role in Omega is almost necessary? Alpha and Omega are two different attractor fields, and in the latter there is no lab, which is the main reason behind SERN´s dystopia. As such, how is it unfounded to say that a dystopia in Omega must be different than the one in Alpha? If the world led it to the same outcome, we wouldn´t have switched attractor field. Gamma would be the attractor field with the most similar outcome as the one in alpha, since the lab and d-mails still exists, but even in that one there is the big difference that Okabe is a rounder and future dictator of Japan. No attractor field can have the same outcome, and going by how the lab has been necessary for SERN to rise to power, it becomes clear that the source of a dystopia in Omega is once again something else. It is still ultimately speculation, and the word of god may prove me wrong, but to claim it is unfounded is ridiculous.