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So, the shimmer refracted everything, that could explain the facts about radio waves and signals, but how does it explain the compass? sure if you say that the magnetic forces are refracted as well, but why didn't it refract gravitational force and Van der Waals force? why are they still standing on the ground? why is everything still keeping togethre instead of **** into molecules?

there's dead loop in the story. Evan can travel time only if he has his diaries. But the reason he wrote diaries is because he suffered from memory loss when he was a child. And the reason he suffered from memory loss is because the future-him travelled back to the past-him's body. So imagine the original case: he grows up without memory loss, then he has no reason to write diaries, therefore he won't be able to time travel and cause himself a memory loss.