1) Whatever happened in the past can’t be changed. Example: You want to go back in time and kill Hitler before the war. Obviously, you will fail, because here in 2012, we have it recorded that the war did happen and Hitler was not killed before. Perhaps you want to go back in time and become King of the World. We know that you will fail, because no where in our History books does it say something like, “In 1894, Glothelegend became King of the World.”

2) Rewinding time. In this case, you’re rewinding time itself, so as you go back in time, you erase everything. For example, if you go back to 1970, you completely erase anything that has happened in the 2000s, 1990s, and 1980s, meaning that history can be changed, since it doesn’t exist anymore. Basically, you make the past the present. In this way, only one person can go back in time, because once he goes back, he erases all technology of the time machine, as well as other people who know of it. This eliminates the possibility of going back in time and seeing a version of you that has already gone back in time.

The craziest thing I think of is going back in time and teaching yourself something. That would mean that you’re teaching yourself something that you learned from yourself. CRAZY.

about the time travel, it was well executed, except perhaps, the end. I liked their approximation very much, coz its multiuniverse plus buttlerfly efect (corupted time line) and also features not one, BUT TREE ways of time travel!! the D-mail, the ‘send your memories back in time to yourself’ and the actual old school ‘get into the machine and go back’. they take analogies with movies ‘back to the future’ , ‘the time machine’ and ‘butterfly efect’.

I particular saw ‘the time machine’ movie clearly when he tried again and again to save her beloved Mayuri, but he cant. in ‘the time machine’ they explain it saying that its a paradox, becoz her dying was the cause for him going back in time, has her be saved and theres no time trivel, hence no one to save her, hence: paradox. the take this idea and twist it saying there such a think as ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’ lines, in the Alpha Mayuri dies, always, in the Beta, she dont, but Kurisu dies… i have never been fan of ‘the time machine’ interpretation of time travel, so im glad the dont just trew that paradox shit on my face and we was able to evitate her dead.

the ‘butterfly efect’ references are obvius, mostly in the D-mail stuff, but also on the ‘time leap’ method. This last with a twist: he doesn’t return to the moment he made the time leap, like in ‘the butterfly effect’, hence the movie parallels the D-mail method much closer.

‘back to the future’ references are clear when they actually have a machine that can go ‘back and forth’ and the multiple time lines take in the show.

my take on time travels is similar. but i only have think of actual ‘time travel inside machine’ case: when you go back lets say 2 years past, the time-space duplicates perfectly, with a twist: you (time traveler) are there in a certain time on past (in a duplicated time-line), and no future is determined and you can change it big or small. 2 cases:

A) you make little to no changes: hence, the world will run exactly as you know by history for the next 2 years. say perhaps you stayed one hour and you ‘back to the future’ to an hour latter you departed to past, nothing have changed.

B) you make changes enough to prevent your DUPLICATE self to engage in time travel ‘ever’ that means if you go ‘back to the future’ to that one-hour-after-travel you will find ‘yourself’, in the world. your duplicate had not engaged in time travel and your TWO share the same time space ever, (provided no more time travels occur to any of you). also there is no paradox, you can talk to your duplicate with no extraordinary universe threatening consequences.

final grade: A (as in 5/5)

I thought that the whole series was awesome all the way through, even with the harem shit. I can deal with harem shit even if it’s shit. I mean, if it’s really really cliche AND unfunny or something than I’m gonna be pissed but if it’s really really cliche and done well then I like it and that’s all I have to say.

Fuck a format.

I actually marathoned the series for the last five episodes too (not before that cause frankly the episodes before that sucked, especially the harem arc, seriously I cannot imagine sitting through all of that for two hours) and it was pretty awesome.

They don’t actually go with the butterfly effect though because of attractor fields and shit and string theory’s got nothing to do with anything son. Also, the second time he went back was in a different timeline from the first time he went back – that’s why when he keeps on going back in time to save Mayuri, he doesn’t see himself again, because he’s in a different timeline. You could also argue that there is also only one timeline, and it’s Rintarou’s timeline – because if you look at the timeline with Steins;Gate episode 1 as the first event and episode 24 as the final event, it’s still a timeline and it still makes sense.

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