Accendus Aeris- Rationality.

It could've been just another normal day, everything could have been how it was supposed to be but it wasn't what really happened. No one knew what started it. Some said it was a mysterious mist people could only imagine about. Something that affected the reality in ways no one thought was physically possible, but it did. One moment everything was completely predictable, but somewhere in the universe, the mist affected a single atom which started behaving irrationally.

In those times people thought rationality was something only humans possessed. They were completely unaware of the fact that rationality was what defined the universe. When bodies followed Newton's Laws, scientists called it classical physics. When bodies started behaving randomly, they called it quantum physics. No one knew why things acted the way they did.

Things would have been the same, had not Accendus Aeris accidentally discovered the presence of rationality in electrons. It caused an outrage in those times, no one wanted to accept what he theorized. Finally sanity prevailed, and other scientists started testing his theories for proof. Not more than a month later, his theorems were all proved correct- Accendus was a hero.

It all stems from a single property of the universe- chaos. Thermodynamics is the only law of physics, which has always been correct. Randomness in those days was not really understood by anyone, until Accendus came up with an extremely insightful conclusion. According to him if any object had a tendency of being chaotic at any level- the object would behave rationally. He defined free-will in terms of rationality, and rationality according to him was the scale to measure free will.

The more rational a system, the less bound it is. Free will according to Accendus was nothing but the property of having options, or states of presence- as he called it. He thus formulated a system of measurement which compared the rationality of the system to the average human's rationality. Thus, he came up with the unit of rationality which he defined to be equal to the rationality of a photon.

He formulated several equations and he reached the conclusion that a photon's rationality was the same as a human's but a photon did not understand the concept of free will. According to him, free-will was just a belief and no one was born with it. This statement caused a massive revolt and Accendus had to disappear indefinitely.

No one has yet been able to prove or disprove his statement, but since the time he uttered those words nothing has ever been quite the same.