Long story short: the microwave works the same way as the LHC (creation of two micro-singularities, lifters, etc.) The visual novel mentioned the use of lifters to stabilize the immense mass of the singularity and gravitational fields, thus making it possible to travel through black holes without getting crushed. NOTE: “Kurisu: On the other side of the event horizon, moving (your body) freely though space-time becomes impossible, while moving freely through time becomes possible.” When the event horizon disappears (or naked singularity occurs), there’s no more reason for time and space to change places, meaning that you can enter a naked singularity without being trapped (killed even). If you keep injecting electrons into the ring of the Kerr black hole’s singularity, the black hole will rotate faster and faster, and when its angular momentum exceeds a certain threshold the event horizon disappears, generating a naked singularity. If you inject electrons into the micro-singularity to rotate it at an extremely high velocity, the resulting black hole exhibits what’s called Kerr Effect. This process creates a micro-singularity or a mini-black hole. By doing so, they compress a mass into an extremely tiny space. It accelerates protons at 99.99999% the speed of light. The microwave works the same as SERN’s Large Hadron Collider. How the Microwave works (chronological order): If I'm missing something, please point it out.) The black hole's "compression" effect was also what was turning matter that went into the black hole into green goo.Īnyways, that's my recollection, since I was unable to find very good resources on it, and I'm not about to replay the visual novel right now to jog the memory. They excused it by the blackhole physically "compressing" the data, as I recall, which is a very fundamental misunderstanding of how data compression even works. This was even more handwave-y because there's no way all a person's memories could be contained in the small number of bytes being sent by the phone microwave. The time-leap machine was not a separate machine, but an addition to the phone microwave, that converted memories into data that was sent instead of a normal SMS. Also, as to how this combined with the microwave to create mini Kerr blackholes was as I recall unclear. Cathode ray tube televisions function by shooting a beam of electrons at the screen, and thus they handwaved it to be the same as the beams of particles used in the LHC (obviously it's not). Remember one of the key components of their phone microwave was the large CRT television in the downstairs shop, which they referred to as the "lifter" as in ion-propelled aircraft. So basically, the explanation for the phone microwave was that by lucky accident, they created their own particle collider. Sern is able to create them (though very tiny ones) using their large hadron collider (this was theorized as possible in real life with CERN's LHC, though I'm not sure if that theory was ever proven or disproven.) Basically, time travel in Steins Gate universe requires the use of a black hole. I think the original visual novel goes into more detail on this.