Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31067473-20170629215035/@comment-13682699-20170701172223

Before responding to any points in this, please be sure to read all of my responses as they will likely answer any questions from a previous response.

'While it would be catastrophic for physical matter to go back in time...'' - but why? ...it wouldn't be the same when using just energy... - energy is property of matter, so sending it through time will have the same catastrophic results as doing it with matter. It is possible to transfer energy from one object to another, but in your theory, destination actually does't exist in the same space. It exists in other time. How you gonna transfer energy through time? Could you define time? It would be usefull if you want to travel through it.'''

Energy is a property of matter but its not literally the same thing as matter. They interact with the universe in different ways. Having matter sent back in time is catastrophic because it would cause a paradox and break the law of conservation. When using LOADing you are not changing the net amount of energy in the system when sending your SOUL back in time to that point. You are using the Determination stored there to bring your SOUL back together. Since your SOUL is energy (magic/determination) and the Determination at the SAVE is rooted at a specific point in timespace but does not interact with the universe at that one point, there would be no paradox.

' using just energy, which is what the SOUL is made of'' - not really. When Soul is being destroyed during fight, it shatters and breaks apart - that is property of matter. '''

When the SOUL breaks, it disappears from existence even though it 'shatters'. There is no physical matter that is capable of doing this, only energy (though it is usually dispersed in some way back into the universe unless it involves quantum energy which is also a possibility here.)

'After all, the SAVE point is simply highly concentrated amounts of raw Determination'' - then why monsters are lust after human souls, instead of pumping Determination from Save Points? There are plenty of them unlike humans =]'''

SAVE points don't exactly interact with the world. Monsters couldn't see SAVE points because it is necessary to have the Determination to see it in the first place. Even other humans likely cant see the exact point unless they are actively involved in creating it as it solely involves the SOUL and its specific determination, but they could probably feel the power in the area as it is rooted to that point. Besides, that much Determination is only created from human SOULs, so you would need a human regardless.

' Determination itself is considered to be pure Energy'' - also not really. Alphys was able to extract and inject Determination so it has physical properties of matter. '''

Alphys is a scientist that works with magic energy. Its highly likely that she had found a way to use magical energy to create the machine to turn Determination into physical matter that could then be collected and injected into other beings.

'Essentially, its not the person who SAVED that goes back, its their SOUL being brought back together by their Determination from that SAVE point'' - actually SOUL is the very culmination of one's being - it means that the Soul is the person, even without body which serves only as container. Besides, if Soul leaves body than where does body go? '''

Apologies for the confusion. By person, I mean the entire person, body included. If the SOUL leaves, the body dies.

'Since that SAVE point is a fixed point in time and space, their SOUL is simply brought back to their body at that one point in time'' - obviously that body waiting in Save Point must be empty, otherwise there will be two Souls - one that exists in present and makes Save, and one that comes from future. It is the same as two Frisks in the same place where one of them was shifted along timeline. Unless that body is really empty so where is their Soul? Does it vanishes when Save is being used? Or does new, empty body is being made and awaits while the orginal one with Soul makes progress through the space? Why I can't see that empty body? Where it is being held? '''

The SOUL is still connected to that SAVE point (which again is rooted at that point in timespace, but does NOT interact with the rest of the world) which is why you can access the Determination from that point. At that SAVE point, energy is lost and essentially you are leaving a part of your SOUL there. When LOADing, the energy is gained back again at that SAVE point since dying causes your SOUL to lose energy.

Its simply a feedback loop where energy is stored at a point in timespace and later used when you die.

'At the end of the breaking animation, your SOUL essence accesses the LOAD function (because your Determination is still present outside timespace) to use your Determination from your SAVE to bring it back together at that one point - oh my... How Determination can be present outside timespace'', which is actually four-dimensional spacetime - three dimensional space with time as fourth dimension. Does it go into fifth dimension?'''

I apologise again for the confusion. I meant it can be accessed from outside of timespace at the LOAD function. SAVEing is essentially rooting your energy to a specific point in timespace, but its potent enough that it can be accessed outside of timespace in general.

Wouldn't it be easier to say that Save takes picture of the World and stores it in Save File, while Load rearranges the World according to that picture?

It can be simplified to that on a very basic level but that would involve a SOUL interacting with the energy state of the entire universe, which is virtually impossible. The most logical theory is that you only affect your own energy in the timespace.