Mad Scientist's Desktop

The Mad Scientist's Desktop is the place to discuss about the technologies covered in Steins;Gate. This includes theories and speculations about the franchise and deeper insights about time travel and other.

Who is John Titor?
One of the major bases of the main story of Steins;Gate is the existence of a certain John Titor, a mysterious character who has exposed to the world various pieces of information he has gathered from the year 2036. He became famous in the year 2000, where he posted his "experiences" in an online forums.

In Steins;Gate, John Titor works against an organization called SERN which has created a dystopia; he travels into the past to attempt to undo
 * Wikipedia article on John Titor

World Lines
According to physics, a world line is a certain trajectory of an object as it travels through 4-dimensional spacetime. It is also the term used to generally describe the flow of course of events over time.
 * Wikipedia article on world lines

Lifter
"Lifters" - Triangle shape elevation devices - supposedly an ion-drive - seen briefly in episode 3 or 4 - do exist.
 * Wikipedia article on Lifter