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What is Anti-Annihilation Energy?
Thought:
In Chronopolis, Anti-Annihilation Energy is at the heart of the Counter-Time Experiment and it is, presumably, what in part causes (or allows to happen) the Time Trash and the black gate thingy. However, I haven't really seen a discussion on what is Anti-Annihilation Energy (and how it relates to the Frozen Flame).
On the surface it seems to have a technobabble-y name; "Anti-Annihilation." That might just mean "creationary" energy. Yet, if it were just "annihilation energy," I think most people would take it to mean that it destroys everything. If we switched that, would anti-annihilation energy create everything? Is the Frozen Flame some sort of Genesis Device (and Lavos really just Spock; if so, they went a bit overboard with the pointy ears and eyebrows)?
The Frozen Flame is also responsible for Human Evolution, so might this "Anti-Annihilation energy" be the means of that effect?
From a poetic standpoint, change could be seen as constant annihilation; nothing is ever the same from one moment to the next. Anti-Annihilation Energy might, then, make things permanent ("a fixed point in time and space ... a fact."). Chronopolis certainly seems to be doing quite well over 10,000ish years. Even how it influenced human evolution; it gave humans the power to not adapt but to remain constant while forcing the planet to adapt to them.
What is Anti-Annihilation Energy? That is the question that drives me, Neo.
FaustWolf:
Whoa -- Chrono Trigger II: The Wrath of Kato? Does the pointy-eared Magus stop Crono's starship from going into nuclear meltdown?
If it were just "annihilation energy," I would suspect it had something to do with the collision of matter and antimatter. But since it's anti annihilation, if it were interpreted in the reverse in real physics terms, it would have to involve the creation of matter and antimatter from energy, thus requiring the input of energy and resulting in a matter + antimatter output. However, I'm probably mistakenly conflating the term "energy" with the subatomic particles that carry said energy, so the nature of the annihilation process may simply change one type of subatomic particle into another type, or something.
EDIT: Ah, the term appears to be used in a 1974 scientific abstract here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/t955248225257144/
However, one must pay for access. It might be worth our while to search for a free copy of the article. Oh shoot, it might be in Dutch though. :D
ZeaLitY:
Farfetched and out of line with the Time Crash, but that made me think of anti-annihilation energy somehow stopping the destruction or shunting of past timelines to the Darkness Beyond Time when history is changed. The crazy application is that perhaps this played a role in giving birth to Home World as a separate dimension, when Kid's time-change should have merely shunted Another World's 1010-1020 A.D. history to the DBT with no other effects. So, tenuously, perhaps the Time Crash's anti-annihilation energy was directed towards that point in time for some reason (ah, we're in left field here), or, the Frozen Flame (which seems to be a source or conduit of this energy) was used in 1010 A.D. to create Home World from Kid's change, perhaps activated deep within FATE as part of Project Kid.
To justify that anti-annihilation energy reverses that timeline-shunting effect, well, perhaps the Counter-Time Experiment needed that so Chronopolis wouldn't accidentally overwrite history in the past and negate itself out of existence. Although really, creating a new dimension isn't exactly "controlling time", since they'd be separated from their achievements.
Bah, that's all too speculative.
V_Translanka:
When I hear it I think of some kind of energy/force field? Maybe the heart of experiment involved the control or stabilization of whatever (the FF?) inside such a field and that it fuct up and thus Time Crash...? Does that make sense?
Thought:
Alas, no luck on my part finding a public copy of that Article, Faust.
Zeality, to expand on that, at the time the dimensions split, Serge had already come in contact with the Frozen Flame and, presumably, been subject to this "anti-annihilation" energy. This might provide a conduit through which Anti-Annihilation energy could have effected the dimensional split.
I do agree, this is all quite speculative, but we still might be able to ascertain a vague direction of meaning. And we might accidentally stumble onto something more solid.
--- Quote from: V_Translanka on May 20, 2008, 04:53:51 am ---When I hear it I think of some kind of energy/force field? Maybe the heart of experiment involved the control or stabilization of whatever (the FF?) inside such a field and that it fuct up and thus Time Crash...? Does that make sense?
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Unfortunately, no. Not in the "that is a nonsensical idea" sort of way, mind you, but in the "what is he trying to say?" sort of way.
Are you saying that Anti-Annihilation energy is what was used to control the FF? Or that the FF and AA Energy (it's a 12-step power source) was used to control the time effects that went all wacky and turned the dimensions into a "big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff"?
Considering the matter further, I think that we may actually see several instances of Anti-Annihilation energy (depending on if we identify this as being "Lavos's energy")
1. Lavos' ability to fly through space and land on earth undamaged
2. The FF's effect on human evolution
3. The power of Zeal
4. Lavos' "Destruction rains from the heavens!" like attack that destroys Zeal and the Future
5. The Time Portal in Magus' Castle
6. The Time Crash
7. The splitting of the Dragon God
8. The sealing of the Dragon Gods
9. The Healing of Serge
10. The realization of wishes (per the General Kid ending).
11. Possibly the melding of Lavos and Schala
12. Dragging Chronopolis into the past
13. Destroying Crono
14. Possibly creating spawn
15. Possibly gathering genetic information
16. Changing the R. Knife into the Masamune.
17. Creating the Dreamspecies
18. Maybe the creation of the Pocket Dimension
I am fairly sure I am missing some instances too. All in all, that is a fair number of examples that we might be able to work with to determine what Anti-Annihilation energy is.
Curiously, it seems like an impressively creative force.
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