I’m really starting to believe it isn’t related to time travel, at least not directly. Some theories definitely caught my attention despite my skepticism. It’s still likely just delusional ideas of power and control. BUT it could be just as fascinating as a time machine, delusion or not.

I think Whiterose is building a super computer, possibly a quantum computer, to ‘remake’ a person. I think even Angela misunderstood her, she confused bringing someone back with reversing time.

Whiterose’s fascination with time, since we saw 403, seems to come from her deceased partners view on patience. He saw it as a form of surrender, and Whiterose asking for his patience in that moment led to his death. And we see her flustered for a moment when her new assistant asks her to be patient, she has a ‘flashback’ of the memory we saw played out. When she says to Elliot in season 1 “you hack people, I hack time” this doesn’t mean she can time travel or build a machine that can, it means she finds the shortcuts we aren’t supposed to to use to get to her desired goals quicker. Elliot is an ethical hacker (arguably haha) and uses shortcuts to help people, and Whiterose uses her hacks (literally and figuratively) in the most unethical ways to get to her goals as fast as possible, she hacks time in a very loose sense.

Anyways back to the theory.

I recently watched a film called Ex Machina, (** MILD SPOILERS**) it’s fairly good and worth checking out. It’s generally about a person testing an AI to see if it can pass the Turing test, the computer is made up from mass data of real people, farmed in secret.

At this point it’s worth noting that if you add ‘Deus’ (from the Deus Group) to ‘Ex Machina’ you get Deus Ex Machina. This is Latin for “god in the machine”. This phrase is used in the film Donnie Darko, which also features themes of gods, control, time travel and a person who has an ‘imaginary’ friend and suffers a mental condition similar to Elliot’s.

While both Ex Machina & Donnie Darko loosely relate to Mr Robot we’ve seen the show reference or share a lot of influence from other works of art. There’s also an idea in Donnie Darko of a “tangent universe” which is kind of important to my theory.

In episode 402 Price mentioned the internet as we know it was a guinea pig for Whiterose and the Deus Group. What was the test? Well Price alluded to it being sharing almost every part of our life, so we can assume Whiterose is harvesting giant amounts of data on people. No doubt in every legal way and in every illegal and unethical way too.

We know Whiterose has what appears to be a particle accelerator similar to the Large Hadron Collider. Before the Large Hadron Collider was finished being built in our real world there was a lot of over-hyped media attention saying that it could cause mini-black holes (yes it could) that would destroy Earth (no, they’d disappear instantly and are insanely small).

Without getting to deep in to theoretical science I just want to mention that a number of physicists such as Stephen Hawking theorise black holes may be portals, or wormholes, to other dimensions, other universes or multiverses.

If the particle accelerator isn’t being using for accessing a tangent/parallel universe it could arguably be used for using quantum particles, possibly for use in a quantum computer.

This brings us back to the ‘tangent universe’ we see in Donnie Darko * * SPOILERS FOR DONNIE DARKO * * From what I remember (as simply as possible) is Donnie was supposed to die. He survives and is guided by Frank, or at least the appearance of Frank, it was the Deus Ex Machina. Donnie not dying creates the tangent universe we’re seeing. Just as Whiterose says to Dom something like ‘there are alternate times where people are living out the lives that could have been’. In the end of Donnie Darko he manages to transfer to other universe where he was supposed to die, and becomes almost like a martyr. Donnie Darko is also worth seeing, it’s one of my favourites.

Sooo to kind of sum up I think Whiterose is building a supercomputer/quantum computer to recreate the person she loved, and install it in to the body of him from a ‘tangent’ universe. She believes other worlds exists, as she says to Dom in the clock room. It’s still entirely possible that Whiterose is delusional (I’m 50/50 right now) but whether she succeeds I feel like this is close to what her plan is.

A lot of what I’m saying is speculation, and kinda of predictions. But that doesn’t mean I’m right; and I should really go and start looking for more supporting evidence.

I didn’t want to go in to a huge amount of detail because frankly I’ve not spent days on this like I know some of you great Mr Robot theorists out there do. So go easy on me haha! I’m hoping all of you, new or old to the subreddit, can help contribute!

There’s so much more to add to this and you guys out there can no doubt do a killer job dissecting it and stuff. Anyways thanks if you made it this far

Oh and pls ignore any grammar and formatting errors, sorry about that (yes I’m on mobile)! And apologies if you think the title is misleading. I don’t think there’s time travel like we seen in some sci-fi media, but that doesn’t mean time isn’t manipulated in some form.

TL;DR: Whiterose is building a quantum computer with all the data of everyone across the world thanks to the internet. She’ll construct the mind and existence of her former lover, and install it in the body of him from a parallel universe/time. I know, crazy right?

Edit: forgot to mention that I don’t think this is a unique theory in that I’m sure there many like it out there. The feed is flooded since season 4 started so it’s been hard doing the research