Divergence Meter

World Layer World Line Divergence Meter

Divergence Meter
Effects	Calculate and display the difference in divergence

The Divergence Meter is an electronic device which calculates and displays local gravitational variation. There is a property of gravity that is different on every world line; the Divergence Meter measures that property and compares it to the value measured in the world line where the first meter was built, displaying the difference in %.

Plot

During Chapter 04, on November 29, 2037, Liddie Kumar shows Pollon Takaoka the Divergence Meter M2037 and explains the function it performs. However, the Divergence Meter shows an abnormal reading displaying two sets of divergence values simultaneously active (1.048596 and 1.123581), which is something that shouldn't be. Liddie also mentions that it's necessary to have a special talent to notice a change and remember the previous value.

Display of the Divergence Meter M2037

This meter shows divergence value 27 numbers behind the decimal point (Nixie tube shows only 6) and presumably storages previously registered values. Here is a tab showing clearly everything displayed on it:

Note: Numbers colored in gray are numbers which still weren't manually confirmed to be correct.

DEC	HEX	BIN	GRAPH
DIVERGENCE DIFFERENCE IN WORLD LINE VARIABILITY
F1	0.337187130094820049678218991			NRPM	NOD
	0.337337337833373373378899337				FE
F2	0.409420589874835274938539415
	0.456903475837481277343723536
	0.456914778481848987484740224
	0.456923559384895845623398483
F3	0.523299898847499355439836641				FE
	0.523307668204809921303363144
	0.571015213881350148592442442			NRPM
	0.571046412397456832456195740
F4	1.048596859321045503314851432			FER
	1.097302585940583810233240912
	1.123581321345589144233377610			FIB
	1.129848135495402238415032001
	1.143688248247222384573809324				NOD
	1.818520231473262144321395899

Chiyomaru about the Divergence Meter and Divergence Value in an interview

Chiyomaru: I can't share the particulars, though there's nothing saying that the world lines from Steins;Gate and the world layers from Anonymous;Code can't be synchronized. What I can share is that this game will contain the source of the value on the Divergence Meter (a gadget which displays seven digits signifying world line fluctuation).

Interviewer: What do you mean by...the source of the value?

Chiyomaru: For starters, D-Mails are only capable of containing six full-width characters in a given message. This isn't due solely to the limits of the PhoneWave (name subject to change), but furthermore because you will find that six digits can fit after the decimal on the Divergence Meter's display. When the fluctuation lies at around twenty digits down the line after the decimal, the world line will be convergent to the point of practically no noticeable divergence in the first place.

But... in those six spaces after the decimal, there is certainly room for momentous change. The values of the Divergence Meter in this game in fact were sent in the past through a mechanism akin to D-Mail.

The disparity between the Earth Simulator and events of present-day Earth is displayed in these six digits past the decimal. 2037 itself will be an era belonging to complete surveillance societies, given the existence of Earth Simulators capable of simulating each and every event that will ever occur on Earth. As long as such technology exists, the overseers from the upper layers beyond this world will freely be able to collate all resultant numerical data.

Trivia

• During Anonymous;Code, the Nixie Tube meter from Steins;Gate can be seen during the Prologue 2, also showing the two divergence values 1.048596 and 1.123581, then showing 0.101010, as if it was a binary reference.

Spoilers for Robotics;Notes DaSH:

• The Final Phase “Heliopause Processor” begins by displaying two divergence values overlapping eachother: 1.048596 and 1.123581.

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See also

• Divergence Meter in Steins;Gate Wiki.
• World Line in Steins;Gate Wiki.
• List of Known World Lines in Steins;Gate Wiki.

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