remain in the dark. Someone has to break the vicious circle.
She closed her eyes, harboring the hope of seeing me in her dreams. Tears flowed down my cheek, but now they did not turn into burning pieces of ice. I reached out my hand to stroke her hair and enter her sleep. But instead he hit himself on the cheek.
– No! – I was already shouting into the darkness. – She will live. And I will protect her sleep from scoundrels.
Something has changed. Flash of light: I opened my eyes. I’m lying on my own bed. A familiar scar from surgery, an angel tattoo.
– I’m alive! It’s me! I!
From a distance a quiet whisper was heard:
– This is impossible! This is my body!
Tell me, how could I fall in love with a girl whom I once called Mystery? Disheveled black hair is like snakes on the Gorgon’s head, the face is distorted, hatred lurks in the corners of the eyes.
– No, this is my body. You just borrowed it.
– But how did you come back! I performed the ritual, everything according to the rules. You should have left forever. This is my body!
– But I didn’t perform the ritual. I didn’t kill to live.
She screamed something else, but her voice was muffled, then the room became quiet, and after a while the Mystery dissipated like smoke.
On this day I did not go to work: I have the right to my second birthday. I picked up the phone.
– Marina? – the girl I almost deprived of her body was called exactly that. – My name is Alexander.
«I already thought that I just dreamed about you.»
– I promised you another date. Let’s meet today?
– Let’s.
Quantum of reality no destiny for god?
Three dimensions to the elves, singing under the sky,
Five dimensions to magicians, immortals of Istari,
Seven dimensions to the gnomes and cave peace to them,
Nine to humans, six of whom will be reduced to the size of an atom,
And one dimension for time to unite them and rule them all.
– Oh, many years, many sorrows. But ask, ask, don’t be afraid. What worries you? I know the future, I know the past and the present.
The image of a gypsy woman in a red scarf shone on the information wall. She sat next to a ball in which lightning flashed and the fog shimmered with rainbow colors. Science made progress every day, but something remained unchanged: human curiosity, the desire to know the future and prejudices. After the infosphere was populated by AIs, the need to improve computer technology naturally disappeared. A new generation computer made it possible to simulate the entire visible part of the Universe, down to the position of each star. And within the earth, scientists could find out the position of every atom, down to every quark. But despite the development of technology, they preferred to learn the future from a gypsy.
Alexey finished his aromatic coffee and put the glass on the table. A mechanical arm immediately appeared from the wall and moved it into the disposal unit. If it were not for the robots, an atmosphere of disordered chaos would reign not only in the research center, but also in the computer databases.
– If I set the delta-epsilon parameter within the Planck length and time, will I be able to continue the experiment?
– Yes, with large values it will not be possible to obtain sufficient resolution, red fellow.
Alexey grinned smugly, admiring his own development. He swiped his finger over the «Gold Handle» icon, and golden dust flew towards the cyber fortune teller.
– Health and good luck to you!
Alexey directed a beam of quarks to a target made of a hydrogen nucleus and transferred the image from the eyepiece of the ioctoscope («ioctos» = 10 ^ (-24)) to the information wall.
– Tenfold zoom.
Subtle shadows on the screen
– Second tetration of ten.
The image grew as usual, allowing one to see a raging sea of individual atoms.
– Two point one tenth.
The atom grew significantly in size, and now it was possible to look deep into the nucleus and discern a proton.
– Two point five.
Another leap into the miniature universe, and an image of the Milky Way (or another galaxy so similar to ours) appeared before my eyes.
– This can’t be! Where did I go wrong?! Make it bigger! Two point seven tetration!
– Sorry, honest fellow, but I can’t see such small details. Two and a half tetrations of ten is my maximum vision. I can’t set the bar lower than Planck.
Alexey slammed his fist on the table.
– We must repeat the experiment.
He repeated this increase dozens of times with different atoms, at different times of day. It would have been nice to try it on another octoscope, but this was the most powerful magnifying device in the world. He called Nastya from the Second Laboratory, and an image of the galaxy also appeared in front of her.
– Make it bigger!
– You think. I didn’t try? It makes no sense, our instruments do not allow us to see more.
– How romantic it is. Imagine that the collapsed dimensions form an entire universe inside a small atom. If the vibrating superstring is a microgalaxy, then it consists of nanostars, and around them, in turn, miniature planets revolve. Maybe at least one of them has life.
– I’m interested in another question: while there was no observer, this six-dimensional microuniverse existed in a superposition of many probabilities. And then we looked at it, and there was only one option left. And if…
«And if so, then it is possible that our galaxy is just a building brick in the macrocosm,» Lilya continued Alexei’s thought. – We have many options for fate, and if the huge titan, or whoever lives there in those incomprehensible dimensions, had not looked at us at the right moment, then we might not have met you, or we might have been in love and not at the same time. It’s a pity, most titans don’t care about our three dimensions rolled up into a small ball the size of their macroat.
Alexey laughed.
– To listen to us, you might think that the whole world is an endless nesting doll, where worlds are nested one into another. And only time unites them all, like a hoop holds the shape of a barrel.
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