What are the younger and aged Unknowns triggering in the Power Plant?

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In the series Dark, we are already shown that in Adam's world, the Apocalypse of 2020 was triggered by Adam in 1920. When Clausen orders for the concrete section to be busted open, he exposes the radioactive material that is then activated by what Adam and his team are doing in 1920. The end results in the Apocalypse of 2020 in Adam's world.
In Eve's world, we are shown The Unknown entering the power plant and rigging it to create the Apocalypse in 2019. The younger and older self of The Unknown land up in an alternate world power plant and rig something.
My question is:
What are the young and old Unknown doing? They have no role to play in Adam world's apocalypse, yet they are there doing something.
EDIT: I'm looking to get answers from the Series and not from the website.

JMac · Answer

From what I've read and saw in the show, they actually do have a role to play in the Apocalypse in both worlds.
For one thing, all of their actions are just to get the cycle to repeat again, so their goal is to basically know their place in the timeline and follow it.
In this case, from what I understand, they are creating the nuclear incident in both worlds which lead to the creation of the "God particle", which allowed for several forms of time travel.  If the nuclear power plant didn't have an incident in 1986, there wouldn't have been buried barrels of waste for Clausen to dig up in 2020 either.  Without them causing that incident, many events in the show could not have occurred.
On the Official Dark Website, this is all explained when you look at the Unknown on the family tree and scroll through events, one is this:

Which explains the same set of events.

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