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.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
The Anomaly.
He was never quite like those around him, yet no one suspected. The ground wasn't solid when he stepped over it, neither was it liquid, nor gas. It rippled, but not because it wanted to, it rippled because he had passed over it. It wanted to shout out, wanted to get noticed. Not even the slightest insect noticed the anomaly. The ripple subsided as he walked farther away from it.
Humanity scuttled across the planet unaware of any irregularity, even the planet was unaware because it had stopped paying attention. People had stopped getting irritated, or angry, or jealous, or happy. No one would mind if a mosquito felt like quenching its thirst on their blood, they didn't feel it. He did. Everything around him felt wrong, as if wrong existed to get noticed. Wrong existed to tell him that it was there even when it wasn't supposed to be. He shrugged, he didn't care- no one else did.
He didn't like names, he found them peculiar. He didn't have a name. Maybe he did, but he never had time to inquire, no one did. The ground fluttered, it wanted to say something.
"What is it?", he had no desire to hear the reply.
"They have stopped feeding me. Someone needs to feed me!". It rippled in agony, yet no one felt it.
He passed over. He had heard the planet complain billions of times even when everything continued normally.
"Is that why no one cares?",he thought,"Is that the reason everyone needs to be alive? So that everything keeps being normal."- the planet would have to do with another day of starvation.
People had stopped dying, because no one cared when they did. They liked being cared about, thats why they had used to die. The planet liked it when someone died, it liked to look at their memories- it fed on their memories. That way everyone got to be the part of the world, even after they had died. But now, no one would ever die. The planet was half famished because it had no memories to feed upon.
Plants had stopped being green and the water had stopped flowing. As he passed over a dead leaf, he noticed it had turned green. It fluttered and settled itself on the motionless river. The water noticed the anomaly, it rippled. The ripples carried the leaf as far away as they could take it, but the river resisted. The water was adamant, it wanted to flow.He patiently waited to see what happened. The river coaxed the water into stop flowing. It didn't want to lose it to the seas, for the first time in centuries- it cared.
Humanity scuttled across the planet unaware of any irregularity, even the planet was unaware because it had stopped paying attention. People had stopped getting irritated, or angry, or jealous, or happy. No one would mind if a mosquito felt like quenching its thirst on their blood, they didn't feel it. He did. Everything around him felt wrong, as if wrong existed to get noticed. Wrong existed to tell him that it was there even when it wasn't supposed to be. He shrugged, he didn't care- no one else did.
He didn't like names, he found them peculiar. He didn't have a name. Maybe he did, but he never had time to inquire, no one did. The ground fluttered, it wanted to say something.
"What is it?", he had no desire to hear the reply.
"They have stopped feeding me. Someone needs to feed me!". It rippled in agony, yet no one felt it.
He passed over. He had heard the planet complain billions of times even when everything continued normally.
"Is that why no one cares?",he thought,"Is that the reason everyone needs to be alive? So that everything keeps being normal."- the planet would have to do with another day of starvation.
People had stopped dying, because no one cared when they did. They liked being cared about, thats why they had used to die. The planet liked it when someone died, it liked to look at their memories- it fed on their memories. That way everyone got to be the part of the world, even after they had died. But now, no one would ever die. The planet was half famished because it had no memories to feed upon.
Plants had stopped being green and the water had stopped flowing. As he passed over a dead leaf, he noticed it had turned green. It fluttered and settled itself on the motionless river. The water noticed the anomaly, it rippled. The ripples carried the leaf as far away as they could take it, but the river resisted. The water was adamant, it wanted to flow.He patiently waited to see what happened. The river coaxed the water into stop flowing. It didn't want to lose it to the seas, for the first time in centuries- it cared.
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