Tears

* See also Quantum Hokem
* See also Lutece
* See also Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything ( Game story 'Crutch' )
* See also Tear_Via_Machine
* See also How_To_Do_Quantumz
* See also Merging
Stealing Ideas Through Them : Not quite so Easy to do
Tear ( as in 'torn', and not 'eye water' ) in the Quantum Space Time ContinuumQuantum Tears - something which is wholly Fictional/Fantasy - not part of any actual Science.
==NOTE- VIEWING THROUGH AND TRANSIT BETWEEN DIMENSIONS IS NOT PART OF ACTUAL REAL QUANTUM PHYSICS==
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==Types of Tears:==
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Obstacle Tears Which Elizabeth Attempts To Prevent Booker Following Her
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LizzyOneTearTooFar.jpg|This Also Can Backfire ....
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Random Tears ( Which Just Appear Randomly ) :
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FrenchToSaturn3.jpg|WE COULDA SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS
TalkingTear.jpg|One Tear of a sequence we hear a story.
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Tears which Flip Objects From An Alternate Reality :
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Tears Used To BUGOUT Of Current Crappy Situation :
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Tears Used To Time Travel
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Tears Which Apparently Eat Bullets For The Plot
How exactly does the 'Shield' Work ? Just more Quantum_Particles_Can_Do_Anything ?
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Tears As A Plot Target Prop
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2ndTear222.jpg|Find The Tear Booker and Move the Plot Forward ...
3rdTesr22.jpg|Ohh details how the Luteces were done in by Fink at Comstocks orders.
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DatsAmazin.jpg|This is kinda a Tear, no ?
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== Tears Be Risky ==
TEARS : Bridging between parallel dimensional 'multiverses', and even Time itself ( somehow allowing Time Travel ).
Cause strange effects ( at least when Elizabeth causes them ) of nosebleeds and melting brains and strange attendant twitchings and spasming ( some faux-science about 'quantum realities collapsing', or somesuch ).
ThroughTear.jpg|Uh Oh Dinosaurs WITH Crystal Skulls !!!!
ShouldaGoneToParis.jpg|With all the badness which Elizabeth was supposed to omnipotently be able to see ( and which she caused ) with her supposed god-like interdimensional powers ( Note- NOT part of real Quantum Physics ), and her being dementedly bent on a Revenge which was pointless because of the infinite quantum universes ( THE SAME BAD THING HAPPENED IN INFINITE OF THEM , AND NO END TO COMSTOCKS TO HAVE TO KILL ... ) Why didn't she JUST GO TO PARIS ???
TEARZ_BEWAREZ2.jpg|Remember it was the Luteces who caused 'Tears' to come into existence.
HmmmTearRR2.jpg|Very bad thing can come THROUGH Tears ...
TearRR2cat.jpg|Some 'theories' say that even the laws of physics might be different in those 'other' universes
OhNoooooos.jpg|Infinite Universes means there can be some giant Lincoln who might've heard of some puny 'prophet' bad-mouthing his name ...
ThisIsATear.jpg|Does this mean there are alternate Songbirds too ?
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Nature of "Tears" :
The 'Blue Fin Restaurant' Events Made Me Consider : The weird Sounds and Smells -- and other such things which might come out of those 'Tears' ( The Kinetoscope about them in Infinite BS being of such poor quality barely showed anything, and still caused fear and consternation Public Seeing Tears in Columbia - Reactionary might start shouting "WITCHCRAFT !!!!" and suddenly its Comstock and Elizabeth being 'Burned at the Stake' ... ).
Consider also the 'clean' ones we see are being controlled by Elizabeth or one of the machines, but others which just spontaneously appear may be far more irregular/unstable/dangerous. The story of having Fink looking through them and gaining whole technologies is bad/unlikely enough with stable 'Tears' being involved, and is even more dodgey if he was supposed to do it through the unstable ones. His brother might be able to gain snatches of Music and words sufficiently to create and base his selling some new songs/music ( though exactly worded ones in their entirety would be quite a bit harder ).
SO sound comes through ? What about Smells and Microbes and Vermin and Poisons ??? Columbia might have quickly been turned into a Flying Pesthouse and Mass Grave rather quick -- that ( given the odds ) WOULD be the fate of an infinite number of 'Columbias' ( and "Frumbias" and "Gumbyas", etc ... )
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Those Tears Dey Be Da Whack !!! :
How exactly would Jeremiah Fink obtain so much technology allegedly just by 'looking' at things through Tears ( even utilizing recordings/notes/photographs ) ? Shouldn't it take more than that ? ( Answer - VERILY YES ) The danger of constant Tear exposure wasn't in evidence for Fink to the extent it was for Comstock ( Comstock may have gone through the Tears more ?? While Fink kept his own exposure limited ? Or improvements/adjustments had been made to the machine(s) ? )
Gathering actual objects ? Use those Long Pickup Tongs ? Darts with suction cups ? Lassos ? Minions/Lackeys who only lived so long after their employment, going through Tears to grab things for Fink ? ( Which would be the most effect method. ) Songbird used to steal things like a big magpie ( AFTER he himself was created using such technologies ... ) ? Carry off scientist who now slave in Fink's secret R & D Dungeon ( versus his non-secret dungeon and slave labor camps ... )
Still, it is pretty much Fantasy for Fink to do much at all with just ideas, even after obtaining a working object -- to reverse-engineer something when you don't have all the materials required ( or the tools needed to handle those materials, or even the fundamental understanding of the (many) properties/technologies involved ). That for soooo many of the things he is shown to be producing ( as consumer products, yet ... ). Genetic manipulations for the Vigors would be on the quite-difficult end of difficulty ( when the understanding of genetic mechanisms was early/only starting to be known in Rapture's era, and that for very basic things even THEN ).
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 "And Create Memories Where None Exist" :
A Hypothesis ???
How exactly did Rosalind determine this ? Did Mergey accidents fry HER brain a few times ?
So what might this imply for the Luteces/Comstock/Elizabeth/Booker or anyone else who goes thru one of these 'Tear' things, or even is simply exposed to them ???
Yes, they very likely all become deluded and insane when these fabricated 'memories' overwhelm their brains ... AND YOU passed thru them too, so the same goes for anything and everything you think you see in the game. Partial and accumulative effects can be significant as well.
This logic is from simple application of the BS ( Quantumz or whatever ) they say happens in that story, that's all. Let's at least be consistent. Ditto with the 'aging' damage which Comstock got from use of a tear machine. Booker should be being Splicer-ized as the game goes on ( You can't see yourself, but Elizabeth could comment ). Of course princess god Elizabeth couldn't possibly be affected by the same exposure, even though she was subjected to it more than just about anyone else.
Scrambled Brains -- good with ketchup. It is SO much easier to 'Write' a Game when the details and story need NO Consistency nor Reason nor Logic. "Cuz" and the Players have to Swallow it ... Nonsense Physics are just the start of the lunacy/lazy-bad-writing they throw at the Players ( Players who might not mind IF there are neat things to shoot ( and disembowel ) -- being trotted out to them frequently enough - and the Guns work decently ).
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Who Says There Always is a Good 'Ground Level' Matchup On Either Side Of A 'Tear' ????? :
The nature of "Tear" positionings ... ( We've seen them up walls and floating in the air in some cases. )
More than slight mismatches actually are the normal case, and 'close-enough level/right-match for these Game' inter-Tear events were really the exception. Bring a ladder. Look BEFORE you leap. Wear a safety rope - Cuz you otherwise might be sucked out into outer space.
Seriously, Columbia isn't even near the ground, and any/every 'surface' in it is an artificial construct. That next Tear may face out over an edge - So you might want to poke around with a stick through it before venturing in.
In INFINITE universes, Booker and Elizabeth routinely had mishaps ( like falling to their deaths when "That First Step, Its a Doozy" was literally true ). BTW, In the game, Elizabeth tripping and falling on her face JUST ONCE might have been totally unexpected ( and then see her trying to make believe that she 'meant to do it', in embarrassment ).
Consider with only a few atoms difference in mass, and 4 billion years of accumulated celestial movement, even fairly closely matched universes can be many miles offset ( Resulting in that 'Tear' opening into the Vacuum of Space and sucking you instantly to your doom. )
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Queen Victoria on Hearing That Columbia 'Went Rogue' - "I am NOT Amused" :
Of course she was already dead by 1902 (in the standard dimensions), but such things don't seem to matter much in the Columbia Fantasy Universe --- Remember Queen Victoria would still be alive in INFINITE other multiverse "dimensions", so perhaps that statement was heard through a 'Tear'. Funny how none of those alternate dimensions which Fink looked in on did not have some Virulent Plague or Killer Robots or Jan Michael Vincent in 'Airwolf' come through to wreak havoc upon Columbia... Please ... Just a FEW Spider Splicers to liven things up a bit ... I mean 'Tears' were appearing all over Rapture - weren't they in Burial At Sea ??  And 'Infinite' means that : even the 'Easter Bunny's Hell' ( where a Sander Cohen goes ) HAS to exist !!!
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And Now for a Rapture Public Announcement Message About "Tears" ..
Scene : "Tear" appears on wall at Silver Fin Restaurant* ( More than a while before Fontaine's Death ... )
: Betty:  "Huuuuh ?!?!?"
: Garry: "Betty, we live in Rapture: a place of perpetual scientific breakthrough and wonder.  You need to get used to seeing a few strange sights from time to time."
: Betty: "But why is there that green glowing fluid now flowing out of it, that is now burning its way thru the floor.  And WHAT THE HELL IS THAT !!! .... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!" 
: Announcer: "So next time you see a hulking Big Daddy and ghoul-like Little Sister wandering about, just think to yourself 'That's not REALLY so Strange'...."
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Tear Fun ( Tearing The Infinite BS 'A New One' ... ) :
* Interesting thing for Columbia would have been more permanent 'Tears'. Some identified as a predictable cycle of appearance ... ex- Old Faithful. Maybe with some 'Tears' on display with a frame around them ( or covered in chicken wire or bricked up to keep "more" things from emerging from them ).
* OR THEY cause Terror in the Population - Columbia is haunted/cursed, and huge masses of the population start to leave ( this all accelerated as Elizabeth came into her "full powers" - right when YOU showed up, of course ) - Many were so scared they jump to their deaths. The side effects of all those random 'Tears' drives most of the remaining people insane. It becomes Arkham Horror in the Flying Asylum ...
* The 'Quantum' technicians have to run around trying to close Tears that lead to frightful places ( but new ones keep opening up ). That might have explained why Columbia seemed to be occupied by an army, and why all those weird monstrosities like the 'Fireman' were everywhere. Of course, it wouldn't possibly be the happy 'normal' 1900-era "American" city which they attempted to show in the game.
* Stranger (and More Fun) : It becomes like Half-Life with the Portal Gun, with people (and things) intentionally coming and going constantly through the Tears. We coulda had 'Skyline'/Tear weirdness ( Hmm, well they couldn't really deliver anything decent for that 'Skyline' anyway ... so maybe not. )
* Those dark 'Goth' concept pictures become reality as a spreading darkness engulfs Comstock's little Cultist paradise ( Look out !!! It is gonna descend to Hell all in one piece - AS COMSTOCK FORETOLD, BUT WAS AFRAID TO SAY -- and his attempted escape was foiled ).
Skip the pretentious Faux-Science Faux-History Faux-Religion mess/botch-up which they laid on their game customers, and please deliver something interesting ... ( Bring back the weapon variations -- Now very 'weirder' with more fantastical shit, and Plasmid-ish stuff of the previous games, instead of Dumbed-Down Dreck ( DDD(tm) ), and the overly repetitive Infinite combatz they dumped upon the Player in that game Poor Combat is one of the constant complaints against Infinite BS - When the Players are willing to overlook the non-sensical (but pretty) setting and the ludicrous story.).
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==TEARS COULD HAVE BEEN USED FAR MORE IN COLUMBIA==
Have Imaginative Tear Mechanisms Made Useful In Columbia ...
And with Elizabeth being the SOURCE of this Magic Tear Shit, then there is a REAL Important Reason that the "False Shepherd" should not 'Steal her away' ...
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Obtaining Raw Materials Thru Tears Could Have Explained How The City Was Supplied
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