Is it explained anything about what turned the cellphone-microphone into a time machine? (not how it is operated)


So they created a time machine with a microwave and a cellphone. As far as
I've seen in the anime series, something it is explained about how to operate
it, but do the characters ever explain something about what makes it work? Do
they give any Physics related explanation about what made the microwave and
cellphone capable of sending things into the past?




I think the original visual novel goes into more detail on this. Basically,
time travel in _Steins;Gate_ universe requires the use of a black hole. 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.)

So basically, the explanation for the phone microwave was that by lucky
accident, they created their own particle collider. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft). 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). Also, as to how this combined with the microwave to
create mini Kerr blackholes was as I recall unclear.

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. 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. 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. The black hole's "compression" effect was also what
was turning matter that went into the black hole into green goo.

Anyways, 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.




I think the original visual novel goes into more detail on this. Basically,
time travel in _Steins;Gate_ universe requires the use of a black hole. 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.)

So basically, the explanation for the phone microwave was that by lucky
accident, they created their own particle collider. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft). 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). Also, as to how this combined with the microwave to
create mini Kerr blackholes was as I recall unclear.

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. 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. 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. The black hole's "compression" effect was also what
was turning matter that went into the black hole into green goo.

Anyways, 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.

