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[ARTIFACT] Ch. 14 (@Sao Paolo, Brazil)

[Weezel]

Re: [ARTIFACT] Sao Paolo, Brazil

[Elizabeth123]

Ah! A pic of the RUN GRAPH and the yes/no tree. This is gonna give us some answers.

(Who's Soso?)

[Chid12]

OK. Here's what I've got for Chapter 14. Some sentences I just couldn't work out and so they seem garbled, but they're still sort of understandable.

Chapter 14

The limits of the many worlds

However incalculably large the multiverse is in size, it indeed has limits itself. It cannot grow endlessly large.

The number of the many worlds cans grow even further than some imaginable number. But scientists believe that there is a limit as to how many worlds reality can support simultaneously. This is the "upper limit" of reality and nobody knows precisely what would occur, if that upper limit is passed.

The most often accepted theory is that passing the maximum limit of reality would bring about a type of elastic reaction in the wrong direction, maybe perhaps thus dropping everybody from the billions of worlds into a single world, where reality would start again from the beginning. A new multiverse would be born.

For 99.9 x 10 to 8 percent of the mankind (beings) across the many worlds, this would be a somewhat tragic event. Luckily, reality has a natural mechanism for decreasing the number of simultaneous worlds.

The majority of trifling decisions eventually lead to the same result. Whether a leaf falls to the earth or not, or a fish swims up or down, or a proton rotates to the left or to the right - everything out of these trifling differences are precisely the same result through time. As a result, there is no need that multiple worlds should represent both possible results. Reality can reunite the multiple branches which it created in order to cover multiple results into a single branch.

Realness therefore constantly decreases the number of simultaneous worlds, even at the same time that it constantly creates new ones.

This is, nevertheless, a carefully balanced act, and it does not always seem to succeed. In fact, civilised human beings across the multiverse apparently put the multiverse at risk on account of trying to reach the upper limit.

Human history, according to scientists, brought about an extremely quick increase in the number of worlds. Our constant exercising of free will creates an unordinarily large number of worlds whose ends never return to a single track.

When results solve themselves without success, an alternative – and from a human perspective, less desirable – natural synchronising method could occur, the Quick Continental Change. This seems to be a method which is unable frequent elastic reactions (?). Apparently Mother Nature is not necessary to re-start things. At that gives only a little advantage to us. Quick Continental Changes are preferable to the destruction of the entire multiverse, but cataclysmic spontaneous changes to the continental structure of the Earth are still very undesirable events for human beings.

What multiverse-cosmologists* observe, are consistencies to the incalculable number of decisions made across each world in each moment. Each difference which we create in our lives moves the remainder of the worlds closer to that dangerous upper limit.

This, understandably, is why so many worlds take part in co-ordinating and synchronising rites – such as the labyrinth and the Multiverse Olympiad.

* I'm not sure how to translate "tut-kosmologiistoj". "Tut" means 'whole of', 'all' or 'world-wide' as in 'World-Wide Web' ('Tut-Tera Teksajo) or 'All American Esperanto Congress' ('Tut Amerika Kongreso de Esperanto'). I guess it means those who study all cosmoses – ie all the universes of the multiverse.

[Chid12]

OK... having looked at Chapter 12, I think 'tut' is best translated here as 'pan', so the phrase asterisked is "pan-cosmologistis".

[lhall]

[brodie]

[Chid12]

I think I'm beginning to understand.

Say a fish has to decide whether to swim up or down. The world splits into two new ones: one where it goes up, one where it goes down. But then in each world, the fish makes a decision to swim in the opposite direction so in both world the fish is in the same position. If there are no other changes, the two worlds collapse back into one.

Something like that?

[jasper]

cataclysmic spontaneous changes to the continental structure of the Earth are still very undesirable events for human beings. understatement?

This, understandably, is why so many worlds take part in co-ordinating and synchronising rites – such as the labyrinth and the Multiverse Olympiad.
That statement just gave me the creeps. Are synchronizing rites a way of culling a few realities? Or merging them?

[Chid12]

I think it's a way of aligning worlds somehow. If there are six worlds, all unaligned, and somehow, though completing the labyrinth, all six can be synchronised, then the six collapse into one world. I don't think people die or anything! It's just that six people sort of become one person!

[brodie]

Hey, that means I'll be six times smarter come HSC (massive end-of-high-school exams in AUS) in September/October! Score!

[x-posted this to Solve The Waveforms thread]

That would mean, on the graph, that being near the top is bad - too many worlds in the multiverse and an ultimate collapse is near - and near the bottom is good. That would definitely explain 1815, the eruption of Mt. Tambora, in the case of the QCC. But in the long haul, QCCs kill people, and it's easier - or healthier - to synchronise worlds.

Hey! That's what the visions are about! Micha's (and Diego's?) visions about terrible things! If the worlds aren't synchrohnised and kept in balance so that the ultimate collapse isn't reached, then a QCC occurs - Micha's (and Diego's) world disasters!

[jasper]

If you wake up in the morning feeling indecisive, divided, wishywashy, not sure where to turn and have to have a couple of cups of coffee before you can move forward- could you suppose you've been subject to a synchronization and you are feeling that way because your 6 realities merged?

[brodie]

That, and, you know, you suddenly have five other voices in your head. Possibly speaking different languages. Wouldn't that be fun?

[Hilohello]

They wouldn't be speaking different languages because the different realities' differences would be negligible...

[unagi]

Thank you Chid, I made a Japanese version.

By the way, what does the phrase "99.9 x 10^8 percent" mean?