Several thousand years from now, about as far into our future as the Pyramids of Egypt are in our past, humanity has explosively diversified. Genomics, nanotech, and AI converged early on to create the New People. And with starsteeds (faster-than-light ships), they have explored and populated all 54 galaxies of the Local Group. The Galactic […]
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You and I
Is evil the displacement of good? And is flesh the madness of matter? I mean, consider the orderliness of the periodic table. Elements display exquisitely precise properties, combining with unerring predictability into molecules. But then, what happens when atoms arrange into flesh? They dream. Why should atoms dream? Why should an arrangement of atoms color […]
Hyperopolis
We don’t find evidence of other tech civilizations in the galaxy, because technologies that can manipulate energy at cosmic scales do not construct superstructures around stars. They compactify. Or they situate themselves just above the event horizon of a rotating black hole. There spacetime spins at nearly the speed of light, and frame-dragging allows for […]
Another Aphoristic Tercet
Story remembers to forget.Interpretation is only for those who do not understand.What is life’s meaning? Truth answers in sorrow—beauty with wonder.
Aphoristic Tercet
Memory is creative forgetting. What cannot be described describes us. Words, symbolic and unreal as they are, demand genuine friendship with the actual. More than anything, words want to become real.
Now
We’ve heard of entanglement in space, where particles remain responsive to each other across vast distances. What about temporal entanglement, where particles remain responsive to each other across spans of time? If there is evidence of this, it will demonstrate that – indeed – reality is instantaneous. There is only one now. Now. Emily Adlam, one of […]