Tear Via Machine

* See also Tears
* See also Comstock_The_Prophet
* See also Infinite BS
* See also How_To_Do_Quantumz
* See also Fink_The_Technological_Caveman 
* See also Wave_of_the_hand story telling 
Practicalities and Difficulties in Working the 'Tears' for "Prophesy" (AND Other Similar Uses) :
==Viewing==
==Crossing Though==
==TimeTravel==
==" Lutece Device "==
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Operation Process :
How much time and effort ( fiddling with this 'Tear' generating machine ) does it take to 'set' a 'Tear' initially for a 'target' using that machine ? 
How do you select a specific CONTEXT (Time/Place) for a Tear ???
HOW do you go BACK to a specific Universe you previously viewed ( after looking at others ) ?
How do you even know you are on one of the SUBSEQUENT universes to your own ? ( Pointless making 'prophesy' for the wrong 'timeline' ... )
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So Controlling a View ? : 
Picking Time and Place (position) and then Orientation of view etc...
You open a Tear - How do you know where/when/what-universe you are looking at ?? ( How can you even target a 'viewing' you would want ????? ) 
Picking a UNIVERSE - The wrong one can be no good (INFINITE targets, and more INFINITE it gets the further in the future the desired event time offset is). (( Random Choice is NOT Your Friend )) How do you EVEN tell you have the right universe when you look at it - INFINITE ones look largely the same??
Controlling a Tear's 'view' ( even when once CONTEXT is established - 'Opened' ) : Can the view be rotated, slide its position, zoomed ??? ( Try to follow a conversation had down a street between two people walking ... ) Can you slide forward and backward in Time ( fast forward/rewind, jump ... ) -- as getting to see exactly what you 'are after' gets very tedious otherwise.
THEN, can the View be Shifted around ( to quickly allow adjustments ) to view the things desired.
How quickly ( can the adjustments be made ) ? ( It does NOT do you much good looking at a blank wall or up at the sky ).
How big/small is the Tear 'hole' ( assume dimensions of the machine for largest possible ). 
IS the Tear INTRUSIVE on the other side ? Real Quantum Effects talk of Observation actually effecting quantum objects, which in this would CHANGE the universes and potentially screw up any outcomes/results.
Can something NASTY come AT YOU through these Tears ?
If you can 'Follow' someone/something ( assuming to make this observation process easier ) : How does that work when the Quantum Universes INSTANTLY start branching out into infinite different futures ( ex- arbitrarily clipping 'which toenail' first can effects all the 'Futurez' ). AND Someone NOT doing something at a particular time can be just as DECIDING as doing something.
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The Contraption ("Lutece Device") :
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The Machine : Difficulties
Breakdown Rate - How much time to maintain and fix to keep it running (downtime) ?
What goes wrong when it does break ? - Hazards ? Damage ( requiring extensive repairs ). Any particular CONTEXTS that cause more problems ? ( Remember that 'Sabotaged' one KILLED the Luteces ... )
Try picking some place somewhere you've never been ... How to do that ? Can you just recognize where you are ? ( Scanning around like Google Maps - Satellite View ? With Zoom ??? )
How long does a 'Tear' last/stay-open ? "SG1" : A Stargate could only be kept open for 38 minutes 
That Machine's Power Bill - Where power from ?? HOW MUCH POWER IS THAT ? WE SEE BIG THICK CABLES CONNECTED TO THE MACHINE With all this Hokem there must be BULLSHIT flowing through those BIG THICK CABLES. And NOW How to arrange to get it ? ( Remember this machine was running BEFORE 1893 ... The Niagra hydroelectric power plant was not working til 1895. ) Getting This Information ( operating the machine ) - NEEDS Power to get into the Machine to run the Machine - maybe day and night ( Magic NO-POWER-TO-BE-SEEN Columbia, no problem, but before that ? It is Required for the Machine's earlier use ... )
Did Comstock need the Luteces to IMPROVE the Machine to do what he needed ? How long did that take ? How much more non-existent equipment/components did they have to buy ? ( How long did he take to raise the money in his Prophesy Roadshow ? )
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Broader Activities Besides "Peeking" :
Does Comstock go thru 'Tears' to discover things better ( If he did then he might not be able come back )
Assume since Robert came thru - This capability was available fairly early ( When exactly ? ).
Can you shove a pole/hook thru a Tear ? ( Snagging/stealing things thru a 'Tear' ... DON'T THOSE change the course of events ? )
Can shit come back AT YOU through a Tear ? 
Near Infinite Space Exists In The Universe - A random hole into a vacuum of infinite Space will be 'very very bad' for you. ( Add poisonous atmosphere, diseases, radiation, various nasty plants/animals/insects/etc ... )
How much time/effort would it take to Learn to use the Machine ( How long take to learn ? Comstock/Fink are 'busy men' ... )
A different 'Tear' type Viewing Task : Searching/looking ( SELECTING CORRECTLY ) for something very specific ( or just interesting ) - For a Prophesy to work you have to see very specific results to then 'report them' before they happen and THEN these results have to 'happen' visible to The Marks Con-man terminology for The Victim of the crime being committed.
Doing whatever the operating process is OVER AND OVER ( fail fail fail ... ) EVEN when setting each viewing is 'Easy' ... ( SO much of the Universe is UNINTERESTING ). If controlling viewing is hard then MUCH MORE EFFORT/TIME is required.
For finding a Prophesy 'result' really do you KNOW what to look for ( very specific context ) - will you recognize it. Will you FIND the view you need to discern a 'result'. Can you EVEN tell what you are seeing ( as a sought result ).
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CONSIDER : There much easier things to do than 'Prophesying' -- Like just Steal Shit through a 'Tear' ( Gold from Fort Knox for example, or Money from the insides of Banks ... )
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Finky Boy's Own Use :
Jeremiah Fink later doing similar Lutece Machine stuff - But now to get 'technology'German "Teknologie" 1775 , meant a system of classification for the practical arts. 1880s add "Tecknic" : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technik - used as a general term for applied science to mechanisms and processes. - WITH ALL THE SAME DIFFICULTIES ( perhaps more if he had to 'snatch' things ). HE possibly Did it more than Comstock did (certainly had a longer span of Time available) - HMMM - WHY isn't Fink AGED also ??? ( His brother too ? )
Delegating ? For Fink, WHO can he really Trust ?? - Fink can't have staff just freely using this machine ? He cannot really trust them - there are liabilities :
* IF they are incompetent and Break the Machine ( Can Fink even fix it ? ) ...
* IF they learn something to overthrow Fink ( Learn how he is swindling/using/abusing THEM and want revenge )
* The Machine can be used to blackmail Fink ( or even maybe assassinate him - allowing seizing use of the Machine by the Perp ).
* Someone with an agenda ( or even decency ) might put an end to "the Horrors of Columbia" - The Machine being a is source of that ... Any Luddite would see it as an abomination. How many people KNEW about the Machine ?
* Light Fingers - changing history ( Practical Joke that just goes Horribly Horribly Wrong ? )
* Careless activities which bring something HORRIFIC back through a Clumsily Created Tear - Doom for Columbia, Maybe the World.
NOTE - FINK IS NOT A DIMENSION GOD LIKE ELIZABETH TO SIMPLY "WILL" THE CORRECT TEAR INTO PLACE
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NOTE - If this whole 'Tear' thing works with any finesse, then it is potentially the ultimate Blackmail device. ( Hmm another source for money and potentially Comstock's rapid rise ... )
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Odd :
Can this Tear activity be seen by other Tear-using things/people in other Universes ? ( There ARE INFINITE of Them ... )
If two 'Tears cross', does it obliterate the whole universe ? "The Streams Crossing" from the movie "Ghostbusters" 
Did the technical genius Nikola Tesla hear about 'The Lutece Machine' and then just cobbled together his own ( or Lutece STOLE the design from him ????????????? ) ... Dueling Tear Machines ... ( A Great 'Name Dropping' opportunity for the INFINITE-BS_REDO )
What kind of mechanical parts ( available around 1890 ) will control interdimentional anything ??? What odd bits might be needed :
* Hearts of Innocent Children"Venture Brothers" Episode — "Eenie, Meenie, Minie... Magic". See also https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PoweredByAForsakenChild
* Yeti Pituitary Glands
* 'Tanis Leaves' ( also works with Undead Mummies )
* Very Large Perfect Gemstones
* Flux Capacitor ( and flux resistors, flux transistors, flux inductors, flux toggle switches ... )
* Heavy Lead shielding for all that Radiation ...
Past a certain point, Fink's Brother is no longer mentioned. Did HE at least 'GO TO PARIS' ???
Changes to 'The Contraption' once the Luteces were 'disposed of'. Fink is supposed to have done that ?? Could he even fix it when it broke ? ( Fink isn't a 'quantum godling' like Elizabeth is - Who can just 'fix' Suchong's Machine. )
Suchong faces similar problems ( MORE - HE actually has to build his own Machine. Somehow. Yes DLC can be even more absurd than the original game ... Tight budget and little time they can be even sloppier with their illogic. THOUGH that's a tough proposition with all of Infinite BS's absurdities. ). He substitutes a some bits like a canister of Air Scrubber Stuff ( Rather retardedly written THAT ... ) and a Cathode Ray Tube ( not likely to exist in Rosalind's Earliest Tear Machine ). 
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Plot Potential ( Unfortunately It Aint "Bio" anything ) :
Consider this Lutece Machine's workings are all so Complicated that You could almost create a game around the whole thing.
They just tell us it works 'cuz' for their story. But All this stuff ( here on this page ) shows it is a bit more Complicated than they cared to handle or even though about.
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Ideas :
* CyclotronHigh Energy particle accelerator/collider to bombard a whatzit particle with high energy protons to form a 'wormhole to another dimension'.
* The Lutece Particle(s) (proto-bits) originally coming-from/extracted-from meteorite rock ( trope of mysterious Space Stuff )
* 'Upsidaisium' ( Anti-gravity substance from the Bullwinkle Cartoon )
* Visit by an alternate 'Lutece' who divulges the secrets of all this wondrous technology ( or better yet is murdered and thus that technology is obtained by THIS Lutece ).
* Blackhole formed - Lutece no longer exists in THIS Universe ...
* Evil Lutece ( Mansonic or Holmesian ) jumps through Tear and KNIFES Luteces and takes their identity.
* Vita Chambers in Rapture, with their alleged Quantum Component, opens Tears which are interdimensional gateways for knowledge Rosalind seized upon.ORIGIN of the Quantumz in Infinite BS : the Quantum thing in the BS1 game story may have been the seminal idea which percolated in various writer/designer minds, to then manifest in the later game.
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Suchong looking through HIS Tear machine, which he had built, did NOT like many of the things he saw. That was of course the BaS Suchong who suddenly was also a Quantum Engineer ( much like Elizabeth somehow was to make repairs to the machine ).
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Other Historiv Events To Attach To :
Titanic 1912
Race Riots
Assisting Nazis (why not?)
Raiding 3rd World
H H Holmes
John Wilkes Booth Rescue
Attempt to Change Course of Civil War
etc
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