1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,039 Speaker 1: I've never much cared for religion. I mean as interesting 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:16,920 in all that all parabosom philosophic insets from people two 3 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,359 millenniums removed from the prison. I particularly enjoy the books 4 00:00:20,359 --> 00:00:23,039 of the apocryphur in the Bible's Mapromopis of Revelation, if 5 00:00:23,199 --> 00:00:26,359 nothing else than interesting stories. Even some of the tenets, 6 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,719 like an emphasis on strong family bond and moral I 7 00:00:28,719 --> 00:00:31,039 can resonate with, but in terms of a giant on 8 00:00:31,079 --> 00:00:34,039 the prison entity that created everything, yet loves us unconditionally, 9 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:37,320 watching our every move from unseen planes. Yeah, I don't 10 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:39,920 know about that. I still don't describe to a singular 11 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,479 religious doctrine. But knowing what I know, doubt well, let's 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:44,240 just say the title of atheist would be a little 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,600 disingenuous stake in my flagon. That camp we contradict all 14 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,240 my principles of the scientific method and furze hand observation. 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:52,880 Try as I may, I cannot in good faith deny 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,520 or refute what I myself witnessed. Calling whatever we discovered 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,840 God may prove a bit remedial or inaccurate, but there 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,479 is no denying it. We found something. Science has at 19 00:01:02,479 --> 00:01:05,480 times become the sort of monolithic and infallible institution, one 20 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,280 that suffers from the ostracization of fringe concerts that fail 21 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:11,280 to breach the egotistic blockade. It is all too often 22 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,319 wielded as a trump card to negate all that doesn't 23 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:16,920 assimilate to the prevailing narrative. Too often outlandish claims are 24 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,879 torn asunder because no metrics exist to properly digest them. 25 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,239 For all the good has brought, science is still not 26 00:01:22,359 --> 00:01:26,159 and will never be, an absolute. Nothing is absence of 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,200 proof is not proof of absence. And what happened out 28 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:31,280 there in that lab deep below the frozen streets of 29 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:33,799 Stockholm now stands as a testament in my life to 30 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:35,879 all the venture as humanity is yet to embark upon. 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:38,560 It serves as an anchor, and if ever I find 32 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,319 myself drifting away into the blissful seas of cognitive dissonance, 33 00:01:41,439 --> 00:01:44,239 it is there to remind me how small a naive trulium. 34 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:47,439 I graduated from UCLA with the bachelors in physics, and 35 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:50,560 an incredible opportunity landed in my lap. One of my 36 00:01:50,599 --> 00:01:52,560 professors had put in a good word for me, and 37 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,640 I was contacted by a lab out of Stockholm and 38 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:58,319 offered an internship. They were apparently impressed with mathesis, which 39 00:01:58,359 --> 00:02:01,120 delve into the topical string theory and mathematic application to 40 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:04,640 universal process. I of course accepted the offer without a 41 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,120 moment's hesitation. From there, I approuded my Californian lifestyle to 42 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,439 move halfway around the world to the frigid north of Sweden. 43 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:13,400 I was not prepared for the cold. Most of my 44 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:15,960 summers were spent in a bikini, frolicking on the sandy 45 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,960 beaches of Santa Monica and lounging in the sun. Sweden 46 00:02:19,039 --> 00:02:22,080 might as well have been another planet. Temperatures would plummet 47 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,120 to a born chilling negative thirty in the winter. Luckily 48 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,560 for me, though, at a marvelous host family who helped 49 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,719 me a climate myself and integrate into Valhalla. I was 50 00:02:30,759 --> 00:02:32,919 brought on to the team and slowly began the arduous 51 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,960 process of melting into the group. They were all incredibly 52 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:38,599 kind and welcoming, but still the feeling of being woefully 53 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,879 auclassed by my colleagues was thickest har pitch. The project 54 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,520 consisted of over fifteen men and women, all of them 55 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:46,919 among the best of world had to offer. They hail 56 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,800 from Germany, Japan, Poland, Hong Kong, South Korea, and many 57 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,719 other sovereign states. It was a melting pot of some 58 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,439 of the greatest minds the world had to offer. Seeing 59 00:02:56,479 --> 00:02:58,319 them in their element and marveling at the way their 60 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,560 minds hurtled thas nine topics to day l straight to 61 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:03,080 the cortex of reality was altogether incredible and more than 62 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,240 a little intimidating. The express goal of the coalestion was 63 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,719 to study the behaviors of particles in the subatomic realm 64 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:11,479 to further decode the complex world of theoretic energy matrices. 65 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,800 By extension, the group also allotted the sources to develop 66 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,759 tools for observing and decoding quantum entanglement hypotheses in the 67 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,199 aforementioned string theory. These principles were still in their infancy 68 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,759 at the time, and none of us could have ever 69 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,400 imagined the enormous magnitude of the things that were to come. 70 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,360 The lab had its very own particle accelerator, which I 71 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,280 myself pretty much obsessed over from day one. Most of 72 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,000 the concrete data, however, was relied from the lab in Geneva, 73 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:37,039 home of the large Hadron collider. I'd even got to 74 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:39,599 see the magnificent machine in person on a few occasions. 75 00:03:40,199 --> 00:03:42,120 One thing that has always staggered me is the amount 76 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:46,080 of incredible achievements capable in pursuit of knowledge guides the way. However, 77 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:49,080 the complete polar opposite is also true, as curiosity without 78 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,400 empathy or too often yields crimes against humanity. As you 79 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:55,000 may already know, the Large Hadron Collider was the first 80 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,199 machine capable of synthesizing the particle known as the Higgs boson. 81 00:03:58,639 --> 00:04:00,639 The machine is a particle acceler or built in a 82 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,960 twenty seven kilometer loop. It uses a state of perpetual 83 00:04:04,039 --> 00:04:05,960 vacuum and temperature colder than that at a space to 84 00:04:06,039 --> 00:04:08,639 accelerate particles to nineteen nine percent the speed of light. 85 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:12,400 The particles collide with one another, creating spectacular bursts of 86 00:04:12,479 --> 00:04:14,439 radiation and results the rise to be similar to that 87 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:16,920 of the Big Bang on a much smaller scale. It 88 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,279 is also through this process that the infamous Higgs bosson 89 00:04:19,319 --> 00:04:22,920 can be synthesized. Some call it the God particle, but 90 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,439 many physicists are not fond of the omnipotent moniker. It 91 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,519 is in a way suitable, though, as it is ubiquitous 92 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,759 and conspontaneously manifest or to materialize through processes which are 93 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:34,680 not yet entirely understood. It is a sort of bridge 94 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,600 between matter and antimatter, the entity that binds the ethereal 95 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:40,120 with the corpore reel. It is the place between light 96 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,279 and dark, hard to define, as one's light and shadow 97 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,639 begins and vice versa. The exact moment of intersection is 98 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:48,240 difficult to pinpoint, but there is a definitive moment, and 99 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,839 that moment is the Higgs bosson. It was once thought 100 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,279 that matter could only exist in one place at a time. However, 101 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:55,759 the particle slit test of our progenit has proved otherwise. 102 00:04:56,399 --> 00:04:59,120 A particle accelerator is used to eject protons between one 103 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,920 of two microscopics. They naturally assumed the protons would passed 104 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,480 through either slit or slit B, and when directly observed, 105 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:09,360 their premise was corroborated. However, when an imprint background was 106 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:12,399 installed by Past Director Division, they noticed a peculiar detail. 107 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,879 The particles produced what is known as a wave or 108 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:17,319 interference pattern, and the imprint like ripples in a pond. 109 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,360 This meant that the particles were interfering with themselves whilst 110 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,759 simultaneously passing through both and neither of the slits. It 111 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:25,399 was at first thought to be a false negative and 112 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:28,639 an outried impossibility, but thousands of repeated experiments all reached 113 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,480 the same conclusion. There was no denying it any more. 114 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,120 Matter can exist in more than one place at a time, 115 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,199 and reality is also simply by perceiving it. The world 116 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:39,480 of particle physics is a strange one, and one which 117 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,560 we have only just begun to glimpse the majesty of. 118 00:05:42,199 --> 00:05:44,680 At times, it may even require us to spend our 119 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,680 own limited human understanding of things to contemplate things beyond 120 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,480 our mind's comprehension. It was this idea which was the 121 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:52,600 tabernacle of all the group was trying to achieve, to 122 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,639 unravel the mysteries of the subatomic universe and better understand 123 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,199 reality itself. The group was funded exorbitantly and state of 124 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,560 the art equipment was provided from lavish donors from all 125 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,800 around the world. My contemporaries and I began to study 126 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,360 the processes again from square one. This consisted primarily of 127 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:11,160 monitoring the nature of protons and testing the same process 128 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,759 over and over adnossium. Progress was slow, and many failures 129 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:16,959 and errors were soon under our belts, but you can't 130 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:19,639 build a house without chopping down a few trees. It 131 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,199 took years to decode part of the formula, but eventually 132 00:06:22,199 --> 00:06:24,480 we learned that the behavior of these particles could be 133 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:28,199 predicted under certain pretenses. They could also, to a certain extent, 134 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:31,519 be directed programmed to inhabit separate locations at the same time, 135 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,079 giving them the perceived ability to exist in two places 136 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:37,319 at once. In reality, though, it was morkin to a 137 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,839 transfer of localvia microscopic slits in the Higgs balsam. We 138 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:42,839 realized it was not a matter of traveling to but 139 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,800 instead traveling through through the fabric of space itself. With 140 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,000 electrical stimuli and coordinate base geosynchronization, one could manipulate these 141 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,839 particles to transfer locations faster than the blink of an eye. 142 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:57,160 The machine used was permitive compared to later iterations, but 143 00:06:57,199 --> 00:06:59,360 its true potential was not lost on us for a moment. 144 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,399 Time went on and the technique was further refined, most 145 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:06,000 readily in the distance particles were able to be transposed. 146 00:07:06,639 --> 00:07:09,519 It started as only a few nanometers, but eventually we 147 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:12,879 could transfer particle several feet. It was through this process 148 00:07:12,879 --> 00:07:15,759 of blueprints for an entirely new type of machine were firstivised. 149 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,319 It was to be a machine unlike any before. Instead 150 00:07:19,319 --> 00:07:22,040 of electrical stimula sent through circuits and wires, it was 151 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:26,000 transferred directly from one location to another wireless energy transposed 152 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,680 through space. This greatly improved computing capabilities and allowed the 153 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,120 machine to act much cricker than anything ever seen before. 154 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:35,839 Initial ideals for the machine was skeptical at best, but 155 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,480 as time went on the real significance of its potential 156 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,560 became apparent. When combined with a suitable processor and digital interface, 157 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:45,800 it soon began to coding, encryption, and translating mathematical ciphers 158 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,560 in a fraction of the time of anything seen before it. 159 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,680 It didn't stop there, though, With a binary converter, it 160 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,839 wasn't long before human physology itself was deciphered and converted 161 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:58,639 into convenient little anagrams and simplistic formulas. This soon gave 162 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,199 the machine ability to replicate human tissue and organs from 163 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:04,759 fetal stem cells. When given raw biomass, it could manufacture 164 00:08:04,839 --> 00:08:08,000 duplicate heart while long one that was genetically indistinguishable from 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,079 that of the donor's DNA. On one occasion, the machine 166 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,720 even managed to regrow the arm of an ampuity war veteran. 167 00:08:14,279 --> 00:08:16,240 Most of us thought it couldn't possibly work that the 168 00:08:16,279 --> 00:08:18,480 nerve endings in the man's arms would be unable to 169 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:21,879 be resuscitated after so long. But after seventeen I was 170 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,639 in surgery when I saw the vet move as new 171 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,560 fingers for the first time after transplant and cell resuscitation, 172 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,079 and knew we had discovered something special. Disease and deformities 173 00:08:30,079 --> 00:08:32,200 were also unlocked, able to be observed on a molecular 174 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:35,320 level and eradicated before gestation of virus or bacterial strain 175 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:38,200 could be genetically reprogrammed attack and destroy itself rather than 176 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,600 the hostage. B veeds, a black death, the common cold strep, 177 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,799 throat gonnery. None of them stood a snowball's chance in 178 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,679 hell against the unrival power of the machine. It could 179 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:50,759 even program human DNA to desire proportions, eliminating extra chromosomes 180 00:08:50,759 --> 00:08:53,559 and restoring neural pathways to reverse and tropic cordative illnesses 181 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,559 like dementia and Parkinson's. Even pre birth conditions like cerebral 182 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,159 palsy and microcephaly were in the process of being all 183 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:04,320 but eradicated. It was just organic material eater. The machine 184 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:06,519 could take a block of carbon and alter its iceotopes 185 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,320 to create carbonmin is fourteen and illicit radioactivity. This proved 186 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,159 interesting for further power possibilities, as the machine demonstrated the 187 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,120 potential of creating its own fuel source. But there was 188 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:19,879 another more pertinent discovery. By rearranging the number of protons 189 00:09:19,879 --> 00:09:22,240 in the atomic nucleus, the given elements atomic weight was 190 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:25,240 altered that by turning it into another element. Altogether, the 191 00:09:25,279 --> 00:09:27,559 machine held the power to change the very building blocks 192 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,720 of the universe itself. It could turn copper into gold, 193 00:09:30,759 --> 00:09:33,120 bramin into iodine. I think it was then that we 194 00:09:33,159 --> 00:09:34,799 first realized the scope of what it was that we 195 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,679 had created. The applications with the machine seemed endless. It 196 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,519 could write books, clone living organisms, and alter the very 197 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,879 elements beneath our feet. It was the philosopher's stone, the 198 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:47,240 holy Grail, and the all seeing eye. In onet convenient 199 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:50,240 little package, the Dissex Machiner, the world's very first quantum 200 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,320 computer was born. One important distinction I would like to make. 201 00:09:53,399 --> 00:09:55,879 Despite prevailing rumors that the quantum computer was not in 202 00:09:55,919 --> 00:09:59,039 fact an AI, it had computing power which trumped almost 203 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:01,399 everything else on Earth. A thousand times over, and the 204 00:10:01,399 --> 00:10:04,039 ability to perform almost any task given to it provided 205 00:10:04,039 --> 00:10:07,600 the necessary accommodations were implemented. For this reason, it was 206 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:10,320 not allowed to make decisions for itself. Many of my 207 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,679 colleagues were justifiably nervous at the prospect of artificial intelligence, 208 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:15,879 somehow gaining sentience and going rampant with the power of 209 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:19,399 quantum manipulation. We really had no idea where our experimentation 210 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,679 would lead us, and so the decision was made early 211 00:10:21,759 --> 00:10:23,440 on to prevent it from thinking on its own and 212 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,240 going all skyn It on us. The computer was a 213 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:28,639 beast of burden, happily doing any task given to it, 214 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,960 but it was us that held the reins. That was 215 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,840 when the bureaucrat at Troubles first began. A lot of 216 00:10:33,879 --> 00:10:35,679 donors for the project, and even a few of my 217 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:37,879 fellow team members had their own ideas on how to 218 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:41,120 best utilize the machine. Every nation involved wanted it for 219 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:43,080 themselves and had their own vision on how best to 220 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,840 implement its capabilities. Several members of the coalition ended up 221 00:10:46,919 --> 00:10:49,320 leaving the project or being our trait dismissed, promising to 222 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,240 return with the battalion of lawyers at their back. One 223 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:54,320 man was even caught attempting to smuggle data from the 224 00:10:54,399 --> 00:10:57,879 LAP and detain to weight prosecution. The reigning project overseer 225 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,279 was also relieved of duty. In his place, doctor Henrik 226 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:05,039 Lungren assumed the role of director of Operations. Doctor Lundgren 227 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,679 is a dear friend and a brilliant mind. That's what 228 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:10,399 makes his fate lie so heavily on my heart. His 229 00:11:10,399 --> 00:11:12,360 a tragedy were withel him. But I won't act as 230 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,840 though he wasn't responsible for stocking the flames. Lunker managed 231 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:18,080 to settle the group down and united divided faction of 232 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,000 scientists who all held their own agendas. He made the 233 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:23,200 executive decision to keep the computer in the hands of 234 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,519 the international team and continued to study it for optimum 235 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:29,360 replication and continued data analysis. All those who didn't abide 236 00:11:29,399 --> 00:11:32,919 were dismissed or remove physically as the need arose. Lunggren 237 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:34,960 had toiled for years and the development of the machine's 238 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,799 virtual capabilities and decided it best to invest more heavily 239 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:40,639 into it. It took months of development, but soon a 240 00:11:40,639 --> 00:11:44,399 fully functional SIMSUS program was up and running. It was incredible. 241 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,360 The simulation was modeled to be an exact carbon copy 242 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:49,559 of our own world and held all the coordinating pieces 243 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:54,000 within it, all the people, animals, and nations. Augmented control 244 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:56,399 apparatus were then developed to allow us the ability to 245 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,879 view the computer's creation firsthand. The simulation it created was 246 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:01,840 so viscule that none could even perceive that they were 247 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,840 in a simulation at all. Test subjects were exposed to 248 00:12:04,879 --> 00:12:06,879 their own loved ones within the programme and could not 249 00:12:06,919 --> 00:12:10,080 distinguish them from their real life counterparts. I even took 250 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,679 a firstpin a few times. I was hooked up to 251 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:15,240 the monit of our neurocordex interface and had my mind 252 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:17,960 rendered into the simulation. I woke to the sites of 253 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,240 sunlight peeking through my blinds and the sounds of cars 254 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:23,960 outside around me. On the walls were posters of Harry Potter, Jojo, 255 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,559 and the ex Files, among countless others. I recognized immediately 256 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:31,039 where I was. It was my childhood home, an apartment complex, 257 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,320 and Sacramento. My parents were both there, enacted in accordance 258 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:36,919 to how they would behave in real life. My dad 259 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,039 even made new corny jokes in a fashion that suited 260 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:42,440 his personality. It wasn't a memory, though, It was an 261 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,759 entirely newscenario concocted by my mind and the quantum simulation. 262 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,360 My parents are both to cease in the real world, 263 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,159 and getting to spend time with them againa was indescribable. 264 00:12:51,720 --> 00:12:54,679 Even if they were just simulations, the experience was profoundly 265 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,360 cathartic for me. I ended up leaving the simulation in tears, 266 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,679 overwhelmed by the experience and the ability to speak with 267 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,519 my pas errants once again. The event was so enlightening 268 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:05,039 for me. It even made dealing with their absence a 269 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:07,799 little easier. After all, I could now speak to them 270 00:13:07,799 --> 00:13:10,759 any time I wanted. I found myself never wanting to 271 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:14,879 leave the matrix. Doctor Lundgren subsequently questioned me about my experience, 272 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,679 and I was all too happy to relate the things 273 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:20,039 I had seen. He listened intently, with simple occasional nods 274 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:23,159 and one were of responses. His gray face wore smile 275 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,080 and cheeks dimpled in delight, but his eyes were far 276 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,559 from the present m worried. We held a meeting with 277 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:31,039 all staff members some time after. Lundgren stood and paced 278 00:13:31,039 --> 00:13:33,279 in front of the group, silent and lost in thought. 279 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,480 When he did finally speak, he held our undivided attention. 280 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:38,879 He walked through all that our little group had managed 281 00:13:38,879 --> 00:13:40,759 to accomplish, and all the things we had learned on 282 00:13:40,759 --> 00:13:44,559 our journey, all the miracles unraveled and translated into digital coding, 283 00:13:44,639 --> 00:13:49,000 and all the advancements made. It was not a triumphant voice, however, 284 00:13:49,159 --> 00:13:51,200 it was somber, as if none of it truly mattered. 285 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,559 He then first proposed his theory. Here we were with 286 00:13:54,639 --> 00:13:57,159 an entire simulated universe at the tips of our fingers, 287 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:00,440 a digital reality created and maintained by my machine. We 288 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:02,519 had built a simulation that was so authentic that no 289 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:04,559 one could tell it apart from reality itself. And if 290 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:06,000 we had the power to create that, how did we 291 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:07,919 know that our own universe was not the result of 292 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,159 the same process. How did we know our reality was not? 293 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,639 In fact? Just as simulation and a nerving silence befell 294 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,000 the rest of the group as Lungern concluded his epiphany, 295 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:18,159 all an attendant seemed to silently contemplate the idea, but 296 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:21,200 the noticeably nervous or are now lingering. There wasn't much 297 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,840 said after that, but there didn't need to be. We 298 00:14:23,879 --> 00:14:26,759 had an entirely new goal. Upon returning to work. The 299 00:14:26,799 --> 00:14:29,480 following day, I immediately noticed that several of our colleagues 300 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,639 had abandoned the project without so much as good bye. 301 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,919 Only seven of us remained, among which was the prestigious 302 00:14:34,919 --> 00:14:38,639 Henrik Luncerun. He was changed, though, his upbeede optimism and 303 00:14:38,679 --> 00:14:41,759 inquisitive attitude devoted to an impatient, ghibbering wreck of a man. 304 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:44,639 He became hostile to prolong questioning, and I could see 305 00:14:44,639 --> 00:14:46,519 the idea on his mind as he walked the tight 306 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:49,879 tripe between madness and genius. At times he appeared in 307 00:14:49,919 --> 00:14:53,200 the verge of catatonic psychosis. He would ramble and talk 308 00:14:53,279 --> 00:14:56,120 to himself and pretty much stop leaving the laboratory altogether. 309 00:14:56,759 --> 00:14:59,000 We set our sights on a new task to dismantle 310 00:14:59,039 --> 00:15:01,440 and test the hypothesis of Lungern, to develop an ability 311 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,919 to break through the boundaries of our suspected simulation and 312 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,360 pe beyond our own reality to glimpse whatever may lie 313 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,240 on the other side. Nothing else seemed to matter any more. 314 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:13,240 By that point life may be accidental consciousness too, and hell, 315 00:15:13,879 --> 00:15:16,480 even complex organisms like human beings are the result of 316 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,159 genetic evolution and a bit of luck. However, simulation is 317 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,720 not accidental. It requires an immense amount of dedication, programming, logistics, 318 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,240 not to mention power and maintenance. The ability to synthesize 319 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:31,080 digital world is not something learned or accomplished by accident. 320 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,639 It takes time, resources, and brain powery even attempt it, 321 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:38,320 and even then it's no guarantee. The one concept that 322 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:40,519 was off the table immediately was that the theorist simulation 323 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:42,559 was the result of a natural or phenomenon or randon 324 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,519 cosmic alignment of Lunggren's hypothesis was correct in our universe 325 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,519 was indeed an illusion, then some one or something had 326 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:49,320 to be pulled in the strings behind the veil. Powerful 327 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,039 as the quantum computer was, even it did not have 328 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:54,000 the ability to glimpse directly into higher dimensions as stated before, 329 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,159 to commands only from us, and could only perform tasks 330 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:59,360 which we could coherently articulate to it. We realized rather 331 00:15:59,399 --> 00:16:02,559 early that directly viewing outside the boundaries of the universe 332 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:05,639 was likely not possible. The only option was to send 333 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:09,919 a message through imedial experimentation. In dozens of ponderous sleepless nights, 334 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,279 we finally had a breakthrough. Our reality is based on laws, 335 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,679 laws of motion, laws of attraction, laws of physics. These 336 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,799 laws cannot be broken accidentally, but with quantum technology they 337 00:16:21,799 --> 00:16:25,759 can be manipulated. Many believe that intelligent extraterrestrials were first 338 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:28,720 alluded to humanity when the atomic bonds fell on Hiroshima 339 00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:32,480 and Negasaki. iOS was essentially the same idea, demonstrating that 340 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:34,639 we had the capability to toil with the quantum world 341 00:16:34,639 --> 00:16:36,759 in hopes of eliciting a response from a higher being. 342 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,039 If we could break or bend one of these laws 343 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:41,840 of reality, then perhaps the supposed orchestrator would be compelled 344 00:16:41,879 --> 00:16:44,639 to respond. One of the early discoveries we made was 345 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:47,120 that of a concept of reverse time. Time is a 346 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:49,919 measurement of something that occurs, and without anything to observe, 347 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,200 time is meaningless. The concept only makes sense when in 348 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,279 the presence of matter. The two concepts of space and 349 00:16:55,279 --> 00:16:58,039 time are coterminous, like light and dark or hot and cold, 350 00:16:58,759 --> 00:17:01,440 one does not exist without the other. Where there is 351 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:03,799 space is time, and where there is time, there must 352 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:06,599 be space. The opposite of matter is not nothing but 353 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:10,039 anto matter. A true nothing is avoid of anything substantial 354 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:13,039 does not exist. It cannot exist based upon the nature 355 00:17:13,039 --> 00:17:16,519 of existence, itself. Anti matter is the invisible material that 356 00:17:16,559 --> 00:17:19,079 operates unseen and fills all the gaps that matter does not, 357 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:22,359 all of it held together by the Higgs boson. If 358 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,680 an opposite of matter exists, then an opposite of time 359 00:17:24,759 --> 00:17:28,079 must as well. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, 360 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,519 and all reactions must remain proportional to false exerted. By 361 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,119 utilizing the quantum computer, we had the ability to send 362 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:36,839 protons back in time sort of. We could make them 363 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,400 exist where they once had not before by using dark energy, 364 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:42,119 matrice eased and particle superpositioning to make them exist in 365 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,240 two places at once. The discovery had actually been made 366 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:48,680 some time earlier, but never officially tested. It was restricted 367 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:50,799 and marked as unburgable. As many of our patients were 368 00:17:50,839 --> 00:17:53,759 rightfully concerned by the prospect of an intentionally altering the past. 369 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:56,839 Doing so could create a butterfly effect and recavoc upon 370 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,599 the present. We were told vehemently that the reverse time 371 00:17:59,599 --> 00:18:02,119 expert imtation was forbidden, but now we had a legitimate 372 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,279 reason to take interest. It took some convincing on our end, 373 00:18:05,319 --> 00:18:07,680 but eventually we were successful when we promised to unveil 374 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,000 the greatest discovery yet the parameters were set within the 375 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,640 computer and the lab was prepped for the operation. A 376 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,440 single seed of Diantus carrierphulus was placed in a transparent 377 00:18:16,559 --> 00:18:19,599 reinforced container in the center of the room. The specimen 378 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,240 was placed on damp brezen paper, and several little green 379 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:25,319 tendrils had sprouted from mitchell. The idea was to reverse 380 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:27,960 the test subject symbiotic metabolism and cause it to rapidly 381 00:18:28,039 --> 00:18:31,000 revert to a zygote state. Seed would be directed to 382 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,920 perform its life cycle backward at by contradicting the natural 383 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,000 forward flow of life and time. The parameters were finished 384 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,960 and Lungern stood by the machine. He glanced to each 385 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:42,559 of us individually, a sullen demeanor and never strinkle in 386 00:18:42,599 --> 00:18:45,480 his eye. He looked to me less, and I nodded. 387 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,759 Lundgren took a deep breath, adjusted his glasses, and flipped 388 00:18:48,759 --> 00:18:52,440 the switch. Immediately, the tendrils within the sea began to retract. 389 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:55,440 They disappeared within the shells soon after, and the sea 390 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:57,759 trunk until the point in which it was no longer visible. 391 00:18:58,279 --> 00:19:00,680 The computer alerted us that the task came been completed, 392 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,880 and silence descended upon the crew. We stayed that way 393 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:06,240 for several seconds, until a commotion from the computer drew 394 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:09,640 our attention. An array of flickering lights and sirens began 395 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,839 to well like banshees, indicating an arrow of some sort. Suddenly, 396 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,279 the seed reappeared and began to grow at an impossible rate. 397 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,240 A mass of wriggling green tendrils erupted from the shell 398 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,440 and pressed firmy against the case. Within seconds, it swelled 399 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,359 within and the chamber violently ruptured a moment later, sending 400 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:28,319 shods of glass catapulting throughout the room. I managed to 401 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,119 duck away just in time, but others in the group 402 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,680 were not so lucky. One man, Reginald Diabeck, was struck 403 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,920 with a shard in the neck. The piece cut a 404 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,240 gash across his throat, causing a thick crimson to spill 405 00:19:38,279 --> 00:19:40,920 forth from his gullet. He collapsed to the ground as 406 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,640 others began to rush to his aid. Before we could 407 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,200 reach him, the engorged serpentine appendages of the seed and 408 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:49,599 snared him, slithering around his neck an abdomen. Di iabet 409 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:52,000 gurgled and terror filled his eyes as the green bathonic 410 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,799 groups began to constrict him. I watched at a loss 411 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:57,599 for words. As the wind sealed, his gray hair turned 412 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,160 to a dark brown. The wrinkles on his forehead and 413 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,160 bags below his eyes dessolved into his skin in a 414 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,119 matter of seconds. The black heads and liver spots on 415 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,559 his cheeks soon followed suit. All of us watched, stupefied 416 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:11,799 as the process continued onward, and Diabec appeared to age backward. 417 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,720 Dia Beeca to have been nearly sixty years old, but 418 00:20:14,759 --> 00:20:16,759 in a matter of moments he appeared as though he 419 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:19,480 was a young man in his early thirties. He then 420 00:20:19,519 --> 00:20:23,279 went young adult, then juvenile, then teenager. Thabec screamed in 421 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:26,240 terror as his voice cracked from a gruff rasperitone to 422 00:20:26,279 --> 00:20:29,680 a high pitch, propubescent shriek. His body shrunk in his clothes, 423 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,960 and his extremities retracted within his coat. By the time 424 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,519 we had reached him, he was gone. We didn't have 425 00:20:35,559 --> 00:20:38,119 time to gok as our stupor was interrupted by the 426 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,839 computer blaring a warning siren and a flickering pletho of 427 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:44,359 lights designated an external problem of some sort. The display 428 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,240 was a fair safe design to protect the computer from 429 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,359 malicious outside sauces. Most of us thought the firewalls of 430 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,839 the Quantum computer were enough to prevent any attemptied breach, 431 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,119 but apparently we were wrong. One of my colleagues scrambled 432 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:57,519 to the kill switch. He was poised to throw it 433 00:20:57,519 --> 00:20:59,400 when he was halted by a sudden shout from lungern 434 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:02,200 under and stood, eyes wide as dinner plates and mouth 435 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,440 agape as he stared at the main monitor of the computer. 436 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,720 The warning display had ceased and only a single screen 437 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:11,079 remained active. Upon it was displayed a single loading bart 438 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,160 with approximately twenty percent of it being filed in. This 439 00:21:14,279 --> 00:21:18,119 indicated only one thing, something was being downloaded. We immediately 440 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:20,160 surmised that it must be of virus or utter malware 441 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,240 of some sort, a prospect once thought impossible based on 442 00:21:23,279 --> 00:21:26,319 the security measures of the computer, and yet the download persevered. 443 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,160 All attempts made to restrict the download and hauled as 444 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,839 progress proved futile. We exchanged nervous glances with one another, 445 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,640 torn on whether to pull the plug and save our 446 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,400 creation from hostile insurgents or allow it to continue to 447 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,640 whatever ends. The call was eventually made by the investors 448 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,279 outside the room, who had since been notified of the development. 449 00:21:43,799 --> 00:21:46,599 They demanded powerb cat and the machine be saved. A 450 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,519 computer represented a colossal investment, and the cost to repair 451 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:51,400 replace it if any damage were to ensue was not 452 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:55,480 something taken lightly. The grudgingly lungern followed orders and commanded 453 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,599 shutown protocol. It was done straight away, but the machine 454 00:21:58,599 --> 00:22:01,680 did not power down. It continued impossibly and without a 455 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,720 direct power source sustaining it. Panic began to erupt from 456 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,680 the lap and power to the entire facility. It was 457 00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:09,119 ordered to be cut from the mainframe. It was done 458 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,319 within seconds, and the room fell into darkness. The only 459 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,359 light that remained was that of the main monitor. As 460 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,400 the download reached the half remark, the computer crone and 461 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,799 word under enormous dress. As hundreds of fan shot to 462 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:23,000 life to attempt to call the Leviathan machine, we sit back, 463 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:25,839 unable to make heads or tails of the development. There 464 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,440 was simply no possible weight a machine should have remained active, 465 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,759 and yet it was. It continued to fill up the 466 00:22:31,759 --> 00:22:34,519 progress bar powered by the fuel of some unknown outside source. 467 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,160 With no other viable solutions at hand, barring physical destruction 468 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,319 of the computer itself, we could do nothing but await 469 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,640 the combination. The download finished several minutes later, and the 470 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,640 room fell into pitch black. We deliberated for a moment 471 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,880 before deciding our only recourse was to power up the 472 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:51,680 computer once again. The mysterious file weighed in it an 473 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,599 impressive one hundred thousand turbites, enough to fill hundreds of 474 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,000 normal hard drives, but just another drop in the ocean 475 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,240 for the quantum computer. Once formability was a chief, a 476 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:03,240 single never before seen prompt filled the screen a known 477 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:06,559 file type. Do you wish to execute the file? All 478 00:23:06,599 --> 00:23:09,559 attempts made to buy pastor PROMP failed. We quickly used 479 00:23:09,559 --> 00:23:12,200 a separate program on another screen to trace the file's origin, 480 00:23:12,319 --> 00:23:14,880 but to no avail. Now there is no hiding from 481 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,240 a quantum computer behind a proxy or VPN. It uses 482 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:20,960 an algorithm based process combined with a ping response speed 483 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,240 to determine probable origin up to an accuracy of nineteen 484 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:26,880 nine point ninety nine percent, where talking response time measured 485 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,039 in millions of a second. But for a quantum computer, 486 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,680 it's as simple as the A B C. Sure it 487 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,640 gets it wrong once in every million attempts, but the 488 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,759 point is it always has a guess. This time, however, 489 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,559 we received a new message, unable to determine file origin, 490 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,759 Lundgren took a step back and pondered the situation and 491 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:46,480 wiped the beads of glistening swept from his brow. With 492 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:48,880 nothing else at our disposal, he realized there was only 493 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,319 one option left, and so he gave one last command Opene. 494 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,160 The computer began to render the file, the process taking 495 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,640 several minutes to complete. It was entirely in binary code 496 00:23:58,759 --> 00:24:02,640 and eventually translated to a single message upon completion, two 497 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,039 words in whitefaunt sat silently amidst a black background. I 498 00:24:06,079 --> 00:24:08,480 never thought two simple words could have such lasting effects 499 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,599 on MISSIKEI. Those two words have made me question everything 500 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:14,400 I thought I ever knew. The computer fizzled out moments 501 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,920 later and shut down. All this just kind of left. 502 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,279 After that, I returned home, overwhelmed by the events, and 503 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,240 left with a mystic sense of terror still deep in 504 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:25,200 my stomach. The following morning, I was called by one 505 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,880 of the investors. He informed me that some one had 506 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,720 broken into the lab late the previous night and sabotasiti operation. 507 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:33,400 The lab was lt ablaze and soon reduced to a small, 508 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,000 dering pile of ash, and a quantum computer was damaged 509 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,240 beyond repair. Whoever had done it possessed a security corward 510 00:24:39,279 --> 00:24:41,680 and seemed to note the exact process required to dismantle 511 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,559 the automatic sprinkler system. Police held a single suspect in custody, 512 00:24:45,599 --> 00:24:47,440 a man who appeared as an erotic mess in the 513 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,319 center of a moniical nervous breakdown. He was tried and 514 00:24:50,319 --> 00:24:53,759 convicted some time later and declared clinically insane. He was 515 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,240 ordained to a mental health facility in northern Sweden, and 516 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,000 it is there that he remains to disday. That man's 517 00:24:59,079 --> 00:25:02,920 name Henrik Lundgren. I've never been able to properly assess 518 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,079 just what it was that happened that day. The event 519 00:25:05,079 --> 00:25:07,119 has left me shaken and confused in more ways than 520 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,079 I could possibly list. I don't suppose I'll ever be 521 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,920 whole again. I just can't be. I know the truth 522 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,799 the reason for our meager existence. We had reached up 523 00:25:15,839 --> 00:25:18,920 far beyond and something had answered our call. Whether or 524 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,720 not it was truly what we would call God, I 525 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,680 cannot possibly say, but I will say after what I 526 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:25,799 saw happened to Diebeck and what became of Lungerin, I 527 00:25:25,839 --> 00:25:28,079 can't think of a better word for it. I think 528 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,880 God is something we never could have imagined. It holds 529 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:32,559 us all within the palm of its hand, and with 530 00:25:32,599 --> 00:25:34,480 a simple flick of the wrist we would cease to be. 531 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,480 There is no love, there is no salvation. There is 532 00:25:38,519 --> 00:25:41,039 only that which lies beyond the margins of reality, that 533 00:25:41,079 --> 00:25:44,400 which we have no possible hope in understanding, let alone combating. 534 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,200 One thing is also certain. It is watching us, and 535 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:48,960 it does not want as meddling in what we have 536 00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:51,680 no business. E. We are set amidst a notion of 537 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,079 infinite black seas, and it was not meant for us 538 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:57,200 to travel far. That final message could not have been clearer. 539 00:25:57,279 --> 00:25:59,519 And any time I find myself drifting, I remember those 540 00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:02,359 two simple words, relayed by the quantum computer in its 541 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,920 last moments of life, turned back