Talk:Divergence Meter/@comment-2601:19B:4501:54F0:5DB1:576B:E547:56BA-20181011085226

I think the absolute world line defined as 0.000000 Is one of two, maybe three things. Either it's an arbitrary value that represents the beginning of the universes existence before the first quantum event (shown as 0.000001) sparked the chain of causality, or it's a solitary world line that's also free from an attractor field (like Stein's;Gate) and is completely unreachable no matter what because being the original, time travel is not only never invented, it's also physically impossible by the laws of physics in that world line. I'm inclined to believe the former, as divergence itself is defined as "distance from the original world line" and since every single choice no matter how insignificant alters the number, (even if the difference is too small to be represented on the meter) the universe itself continuing to exist and not collapse into nothingness should cause the number to increase by an infinitely small decimal cumulatively as time continues passing, since technically "nothing happening" is still a quantum event in terms of the universe existing. I suppose the absolute world line 0.000000 could also represent nonexistence, if you want to count the universe exploding into existence as the first quantum event that sparked causality. Which also implies that it's unreachable because you would be negating all of existence by traveling there. Similar to Schrodinger's cat, this implies that the "big bang" essentially created 2 parallel universes. 0.000000 where the universe never came into being therefore time travel is impossible because time doesn't exist, and 0.00000(repeating)1 where the universe did come into being, and the possibilities are infinite including time travel. This is supported by okabes initial speech in the first minute of episode 1, when he ponders the universe being infinite.