Part 110: The nature of Attractor Fields is explained in detail
"I came from the future, 2036. In that era, SERN's ruling dystopia eradicated all strife, but also stole away all personal freedoms."
"Diss-tope-ear?"
"An extremely regulated society. Totalitarianism. Even if Mayuri wants to eat a banana, she isn't allowed to if today isn't a banana eating day. If she does eat one then she's put in jail without a trial. That sort of society."
"That's terrible! Mayushii loves bananas..."Forget about bananas...
"I fight to free the world from SERN's rule as part of the Resistance. The reason I time traveled to this era... is to change that 'present'. It's the future for you guys, I guess. To change the future."To change... the future... She doesn't look like she's joking.
"So then, what about searching for your father? Was that a lie...?Suzuha doesn't answer that. Meaning it was a lie?
"SERN is a research institution, not a governing institution with political power. I complained about that to John Titor online many times.""What...? Online...?"
Kurisu turns away her sour, reddened face.
"Titor named himself, so it wouldn't be fair unless I did it too, right?""In that case, I'll come clean, too. I, using the name of Hououin Kyouma--"
"I know."
"Ah, you harmonized♪"Suzuha puts on a slightly disturbed face. I guess she didn't like harmonizing with Kurisu. She clears her throat and continues speaking.
"SERN's still a research institution in 2036. The one who rules the world is SERN's backing group, the Council of 300.""The Council of 300... is real?"
That name was in SERN's top secret documents.
"When SERN successfully completed their time machine, they became the sole entity who could interfere with the fourth dimension. As a result, they repainted the entire world order in just two years."To a normal person, it was just two years, but SERN most likely used the time machine to multiply that maybe dozens of times in order to obtain the world.
"With that said, Makise Kurisu."Suzuha glares at Kurisu.
"Apotheosized?"
"In Japanese, please."Apotheosized... Like an apothecary? No, I don't think it's the same root word, so...?
"Apotheosized. As in revered, respected."That's so hard to understand. She keeps using difficult vocabulary, but is that normal in 2036?
"Respected? ...Eh?! I-I am?!" "In 2010, you discovered history's first concept of time leaping, and afterwards, you contributed to SERN's time machine development. That's the Makise Kurisu I've heard about."Is that why you made her your sworn enemy?
"Then that means I'm the 'Father of the Time Machine', right?"
"eh..."
Seriously? I'm a terrorist?!
"I participated in SERN's time machine development? I don't believe that. SERN carried out human experimentation, you know? I have no intention of collaborating with such a disgrace to the scientific community." "But that's how it is in the future." "Did the future me say anything?"
"You just said something dreadful... You mean I don't live past 50?" "In my time, there are two types of people: ones who live long, and ones who suspiciously die young. People who act against SERN are quickly erased." "M-Me too...?"Suzuha returns Kurisu's gaze. She doesn't have her usual scowl.
"...Perhaps you were being used by SERN. Maybe they took both of your parents hostage and forced you to research, for example." "...No way. Mama... is in danger?"Kurisu's mother is in America. The scenario where SERN kidnaps her mother while Kurisu is in Japan isn't that unlikely. I don't laugh it off as something impossible. After all, I saw Moeka kill Mayuri.
"Rounders."
"What's that?""SERN's mercenary force, or something like that."
Suzuha nods.
According to Moeka, they have two chief duties. The retrieval of the IBN 5100, the only machine that can hack into SERN's hidden database, and to crush the world's aspiring time machine researchers and force them to cooperate with SERN.
"So they exist in this era too, huh. I've always been fighting against the Rounders." "Villainous roles... d-don't tell me it's things like kidnapping and assassination?"Suzuha looks at me, asking whether she should answer or not. I shake my head.
"They do those things in my era. I don't think they've gone that far currently."Daru's obviously relieved.
"Hey, Amane. Just a while ago, you said that what you posted as John Titor was almost all true, didn't you?" "That's right." "So you mean you understand the structure of the world? You wrote that it can be explained with the Everett-Wheeler model or the many-worlds interpretation."
"That was fake. Camouflage so that SERN wouldn't target me. If I mix one lie into the truth, then the bad apple spoils the barrel." "So you don't understand it, then?" "I do. The world's structure was clarified in 2036. It's not the many-worlds interpretation." "...Really? Tell me the details!"
"Correct. I told Okabe Rintarou directly by mail." "What sort of explanation is that?" "The world is made of world lines and attractor fields."Suzuha takes a red yarn ball out of Mayuri's costume sewing set placed on the table. She holds one end of the yarn and drops the ball on the floor. She stretches out about a meter of the yarn in front of her face to show it to us.
"The world's structure is like twisted yarn."
"The entirety looks like one piece, but at the micro level, the world is organized like thin intertwined threads. And at the end, those fine threads converge into one. The paths are different, but the ends are the same." "Isn't that determinism?" "It might be close, but it's a little more rough. It sort of cherry-picks from the many-worlds interpretation and the Copenhagen interpretation.""So the divergences end the same, meaning there's only one world in the end?"
"Exactly. And so, the bundle of world lines within the range of convergence make up an attractor field. There are also several attractor fields. This twisted yarn is Attractor Field α. In its range are α World Lines."Suzuha indicates the yarn she's holding while cutting meter lengths of blue, yellow, and white yarn. She creates a multicolored string.
"Blue is Attractor Field β, yellow is γ, and white is δ. Each has several of their respective β World Lines, γ World Lines, and δ World Lines. And there are hundreds of millions of these."She bundles them together and stretches them out again. The several multicolored yarns intertwine into one fat twisted yarn.
"Several attractor fields are superpositioned like this. In each attractor field, the converging result of events if different. They don't interfere. Each remains independent. There's only one if you trace it back to the origin. Attractor fields do converge at a very macro level, but that spans hundreds of years. It's best to think of them as large divergences."
"Th-There's no erotic one here.""Nah, it's just like an eroge. Each heroine's route is an attractor field, and the small choices within are the individual world lines. But at the end, they all enter the true route for the grand ending."
"The problem is if the common route is long or short. By the way, I'd choose the little sister character's attractor field.""Whatever."
"...These guys are no good. I need to do something quick." "Umm, I don't really understand those eroge things..." "You don't have to take them seriously."Basically, the reason I can't save Mayuri no matter how much I struggle is because of the attractor field's special trait - absolute convergence to a single result? Crap... That means Mayuri really is being killed by the world...
"But then, isn't it impossible to change the future? It'll converge in the end, right? No matter what you do, the result is the same."That's right. That's why Mayuri gets killed no matter how many times I leap.
