Entry 2: 314-290-147-1703δ UTI

Universal barrier spheres are fairly easy to find, especially on worlds that lack intelligent life. They haven't been gathered up, worshiped, and fought wars over. Funny lot, flesh-born are. Its the unique UBS's that are harder to find.

A UBS is simply a location in the Metaverse where two or more universe converge. Its forth-dimensional so hang on a bit. The surface of the sphere is pointing out into one universe and pointing in into another universe. OK, say you have a UBS in your hand. The outside of the sphere is like your side the barrier. The inside surface of the sphere is actually the outside surface of the barrier on the other end. So when consider what's inside the sphere, you have to say that whole other bloody universe. Its mathematically true, though its hard to imagine. Say you flatten the sphere out to a disk. What you would have would look very much like a window, but it would be similar to ask what's on the other side of that window; that whole other bloody universe. In fact the UBS's show the other universe through there surfaces.

Alright, so that marble you are holding in your imagination's hand is not actually containing that other universe, its just a forth-dimensional window. UBS's can actually be flattened out to look more like three dimensional windows. That is how my complex is laid out. With square rooms that have large arched UBS windows on all four sides. The size of a UBS can also be manipulated.

My progenitors didn't realize this until a few centuries before their death. I perfected the technique on my own. It's really just a matter of changing the amount agmatic flux on the surface of the UBS barrier. Each side of the barrier has a unique and variable agmatism. Yeah, you like it? I named it. My progenitors called it meta-dimensional magnetism. Its not really either. Its a basic force that defines the size and shape of the barrier on either side of UBS barrier. This force was previously unrealized because its its messenger particles only effect UBS barrier surfaces. I say it is a component of the Metaverse itself.

Anyway, I only have to apply energy to manipulate a barriers dimension. Once changed, it stays that way, which is nice. I can even make the bloody barriers hover in mid air with the right radiation. Fancy parlor trick that. I can also change the surface polarity. By doing this I change how much force it takes to traverse the barrier. Traversing is what its called when you go from one side and one universe to the other. I like to have it set so that a breeze can drift through the complex.

I even set up an electromagnetic ventilation system that cools the hot rooms and warms the cool universes. I can easily balance out the temperature of my complex at a balmy 300 kelvin. Perfect temperature for my progenitors, but I prefer it because my construction nanobots work best at that temperature. These little guys are designed to work in extremes but they work fastest at 250 to 325 kelvin.

So my complex is actually a grid of rooms each of which is in a separate universe. The place looks like an enormous hall. The top of each room is a glass ceiling into the universe itself. The center of each room has a spiral stair case down into whatever sort of complex I decide to build on that universe. I call them pods because its bloody short.

The grid is a true grid. If you take four right turns you end up in the same universe. Why you might ask did I do this? Because I'm a bloody computer; why else?

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Entry 1: 314-290-147-1013α UTI

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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