Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10452902-20170507091901/@comment-28517148-20170513170205

''our reports showed a massive anomaly in the timespace continuum. timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting... until suddenly, everything ends. heh heh heh... that's your fault, isn't it?'' I do agree that Sans has some knowledge about Reset, but he neither know how it works nor what causes it. So anything he is saying about it may be partially or fully incorrect.

Sans is using two terms - timespace continuum better known as four-dimensional spacetime or simply the World, and timeline that is series of events that occurred in that World in the past. It is impossible to reset those events because they already belong to the past. Physically they have gone and are existing only in someone's memory or as memories. It is also not possible to stop/start the timeline, because anything you do will be part of single, continuous timeline. Even stopping/starting timelines counts to this. Doing anything will only stack with the current timeline. So, making changes to the timelines is a myth.

However, every event has a result that is existing in the World in the present and these results can be manipulated by Reset, Save and Load. Intended purpose of the RSL technology is to store and manage informations about current states of everything that exists in spacetime. It simply allows to undo all changes that was made to the World caused by interacting with it. RSL restores previously saved states and lets to relive events once again. And obviously this isn't a time travel, which is another misconception. Even if Reset could affect the time, it would be pointless and irrelevant in comparasion to what it can actually do with the space.

Also the RST technology wasn't meant to dump the entire World and create new one from nothing (Save contains informations about states, not the entire World), which is another myth. It isn't even about how to do it, but what for, when you already have entire World that only requires Reset.

So, yes, common misconceptions.