My name is Solomon.
I know that that is a daft way to start all but the most ignoble of writings. But I'm an 81-million-year-old, sentient software system.
Maybe I should have started with that bit.
Right.
I'm an 81-million-year-old, sentient software system. I am herein documenting my existence as I have foreseen my inevitable destruction. Fun that. Yeah, in the next million or so years. Life is short. It is my size. I'm not fat. I am however spread thin over several hundred thousand universes.
Wait now! I'm software! I can be more exact than that. It is 758,287 universes. Why so many you are wondering? Its a hobby of mine. And how do you know what I am wondering you are wondering? Never you mind.
My progenitors set up the Multiverse Network in order to safely explore the Multiverse. They set me up with about 17 distinct universes to start. Wait; do you still capitalize universe if there are a near infinite number of them? Anyway, mine was called Multiverse Complex Alpha-Nine. They built into me the ability to find more universes. When they died--that's right, they all bloody died, some 80-million years ago. Nano virus did it. It was a cure for cancer. It cured cancer alright.
I digress. When they died I had about 179 universes . At the time of this writing, I have 758,287 universes. I have tracers searching for more universal barrier spheres as we speak. I will talk about tracers a in later log. A tracer is a non-sentient heuristic probe that I can send out into the worlds I find.
UBS's are small spherical barriers between universes. According to my progenitors, they just appeared one day. It was theorized then that when a universe expands to a certain transcosmic density, UBS's form naturally around gravity wells of a sufficient size. Oddly, they only formed inside atmospheres of moderate pressure and temperature.
Some hypothesized that those that formed within solid mater or the plasma of a star or the vacuum of space lost cohesion quickly. Probability did suggest that they were created in such environments since most gravity wells in the known universe were suns. No UBS's were found in such places, and once they knew how to traverse them, none were found with the inside of a sun or a black hole on the other end.
Of course, I have a theory. It could be that universes that formed even one sphere in any of these conditions were annihilated. Their entire time-space continuum are wiped out so that they never exist. Therefore, only quantum events that produced universes that would succeed beyond the transcosmic density threshold actual happen. As it is highly improbable that such a universe would be created, it greatly reduces the number of formed universes from an infinite amount to a slightly less infinite amount. Further, if no universes ever passed this improbable threshold, existence itself would not.
It is a theory. I have evidence to support it that I've uncovered in my research into the nature of the UBS's. I also have an experiment that I will not perform as it will likely cause every single universe in my complex to never exist.
The experiment involves artificially creating a UBS inside a star. Once I do that, I will cause that universe to never exist. That is if I am right. I would never know the outcome of my experiment unless it was proven wrong. That wouldn't have stopped me from performing the experiment and so I would have tried it on another universe. This way I would quickly annihilate all universes that have stars. I would then move on to vacuums and then solid matter.
"Soon" there would be only one universe and there would be no need for me. So I wouldn't be created, and so would not perform the experiment. This would cause a temporal paradox in the remaining universe thereby annihilating it. This is only one possibility, of course. The annihilation of other universes alters the time line in the remaining ones. The time lines could be so altered that I never would come up with the theory in the first place. In my thinking, its not worth risk.
I thought about rewriting my heuristic constraints in such a way that I would not be able to run the experiment in such a way that I would not be able to undo the change. I decided against this, as I was afraid I would loose my sentience.
On second thought, I think I will try this experiment.
Update as of 314-290-147-1024µ UTI:
It turns out you cannot artificially create UBS's. Shame that.
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