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[RING][MISSIONS] Solve the puzzle of the wave forms
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danteIL
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Well we already know the colors of the strengths, right? but these don't completely sync with the graph colors:

Sofia - purple
Thumos - orange
Chariton - red
Dikaiosune - light blue
Sophrosune - yellow
Mythopoeia - green

So in order for these to match up, we'd need to swap out the yellow with a dark blue.

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thebruce
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Ok so we've got...

Markus - red
Larissa - orange/yellow
Diego - cyan/green
Lucie - purple/beige
Meihui - pink
Noriko - cyan/blue
Ariadne - blueish grey

MeiHui - Sofia(purple)
Markus - Thumos(orange)
Lucie/Larissa - Chariton(red)
Ariadne - Dikaiosune(light blue)
Noriko - Sophrosune(yellow)
Diego - Mythopoeia(green)


hm. so scratch that theory. the blog colours don't match the bloggers' strengths. blah.

or to be more accurate - they don't match the strength colours shown on the avatars.

Basically we've got a few colour sets:
* Blog themes
* Graph lines
* Strength avatars

what's the commonality? Do colours even matter?
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I don't know if they matter or not, but I think the way they cross over each other might matter. Maybe...?
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Counslr200
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...and why is red always substantially higher than the others?

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danteIL
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Counslr200 wrote:
...and why is red always substantially higher than the others?


Well I kind of like the idea that the humans on the other worlds are lost sheep who have little free will, and that the red line is our world, full of decision-making crazy multiverses all over the place.

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Re: [RING][MISSIONS] Solve the puzzle of the wave forms
Re: six colors

thebruce wrote:
Basically we've got a few colour sets:
* Blog themes
* Graph lines
* Strength avatars

what's the commonality? Do colours even matter?

Perhaps each color corresponds to one of the six universes, and one of our six agonothetai is from each of them? (If so, the colors would be less likely to correspond also to ancient strengths, since it seems unlikely that there'd be an alternate Earth populated entirely by a single personality type.)

It might be worth trying to ask Kai how he chose the colors for each blog -- that is, did he choose them, or did each of the six pick a color that resonated with him/her somehow?
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danteIL wrote:
Counslr200 wrote:
...and why is red always substantially higher than the others?


Well I kind of like the idea that the humans on the other worlds are lost sheep who have little free will, and that the red line is our world, full of decision-making crazy multiverses all over the place.


I like this idea...

Im agree with the idea about colors representing each type of pangeography, because of the idea that the worlds that born from this one, will have the same or similiar geographic distribution (and that should happened with the rest of the worlds). Maybe there are 6 big branches in the multiverse tree. Every world in multiverse belong to one of this 6 big branches.
Each one, branches in billons of worlds. So the branching scale of each kind of world could be different to the other kinds.

I still cant imagine what could happend in 2008. There is a strange wave pattern in this point.

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Elizabeth123
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VictorSueiro wrote:
Im agree with the idea about colors representing each type of pangeography, because of the idea that the worlds that born from this one, will have the same or similiar geographic distribution. Maybe there are 6 big branches in the multiverse tree. Each one, branches and branches in billons of worlds. So the branching scale of each kind of world could be different to the other kinds.


Okay...This kind of makes sense. There were continental shifts to form each pangeographical shape...Starting at the point protozoa started moving, there were a certain number of worlds being created and then collapsing. When thinking beings came along, the collapsing stopped happening as frequently and the graph started rising. At some point, after the first major earthquake, the world types branched off and stayed branched off...Since then, each of those branches is making decisions that would tend to raise the number of possible worlds for that world-type on the graph, and those numbers of worlds stay "bunched" together at each of the lines. Doesn't quite make sense, though, because why would the graph keep changing? Unless there's a time travel element as well.

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2) why the number of worlds is represented by lambda, if this also supposed to be wavelength.


Maybe they're using it to denote waveforms instead of wavelengths? Maybe there are a finite number of allowable waveform combinations (which then correspond to the allowable number of worlds created)?

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[SPEC]
Just an idea:
What if the dotted line represents the maximum number of worlds reality could handle (10^11) and 1815 there was a elastic reaction and all worlds collapsed to only one world.
Luckily for us, this one world was the earth. So we we are the rest of the 99.9 x 10^8 percent unhappy people who ended up there existance.

(but I do not know how the two numbers 10^11 and almost 10^9 % are related. I still wonder what 9.900.000.000 percent means. So what is 100 % ? And it also has not dropped to 1)

And now because of the missing synchronizing the number of worlds is increasing again very fast (reaching soon the maximum).

So stop immediately with making decisions Smile

EDIT:
Have read this thread . The figures make some sense.
99.9x10^8 means 99.9 and 8 more 9 = 99.999999999 %.

This means 0.000000001 % survive. % means dived by 100 which leads to 0.00000000001 * 10^11 = 1
So this would be exactly one world.

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Ok I tried to summarize the speculation here... I really like it Smile
I put it on the wiki, but how is this... (terminology may be way out of whack, but the gist is there I think)

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- After uncovering codex chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, the possibility exists that the vertical axis indicates number of co-existing universes in the multiverse, and the coloured lines represent the 6 major parallel world geographies.
- Each line displays total number of parallel universes near its 'limb' - when a sum (or some function) of all 6 worlds' multiverses reaches 1x10^11, the universe as a whole creates a massive 'crunch' and rejoins parallel universes into one (six?) 'neopangaea'.
- The synchronizing sport of the Labyrinth run keeps the multiple-verse count low by keeping them synchronized to their corresponding worlds.
- In our world, Gaea, with the Lost Game being banned long ago, we've reduced our synchronicity, thus the rise in lines indicates the resulting increase of parallel universes.
- In 1815, the multi-verse maximum was hit, causing a big 'crunch'. Since then, a similar pocession has occurred. It seems this year, if we are unsuccessful at re-synchronizing our world to the other 'Rings', we may cause another big 'crunch' for each of the parallel worlds.

- each world is a 'Ring', in which the synchronizing sport is run to keep its multiple paths of existence closely knit.
- the less any one ring remains synchronized, the more unsynchronized the entire 'ring' of 6 worlds becomes.
- Our world, being unsynchronized, is the 'lost ring'

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That's brilliant!

The thing I wish I could understand about this story is how little synchronizations that keep the numbers of worlds down are less tragic than big "crunches." The big crunch obviously sounds bad, but merging of small differences also sounds like a violation of free will at the least. It still seems like it would synchronize people out of existence, just not it a natural disaster sort of way. I wonder if that is what the unseen opposition is working against?

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Elizabeth123
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Great summary, thebruce! Very helpful to see it all in one place.

jasper wrote:
The big crunch obviously sounds bad, but merging of small differences also sounds like a violation of free will. I wonder if that is what the unseen opposition is working against?


Oooh, I like this idea. It's like the rebellion in 1984, against the Thought Police.

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So, some terminology questions . . .

In the third from the last point, it says "each world is a 'Ring.'" Does that mean each individual world, or each of the 6 major parallel world geographies is a ring? (I mean is a ring one set of worlds that belong to one of the the six "kinds" of earths or "types" of worlds? we read about in chp 13)

And what about "external world" from chp 13? It says an external world is created when the universe becomes too dissimilar? And too many of these external worlds is what creates the danger of Rapid Continental change. Would that mean and "external world is a world that cropped up outside the ring or that breaks the ring open (if a ring is the set or worlds within one of the 6 major parallel world geographies)

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The graph changed again this morning

Ok, the graph changed again when I woke up this morning. Note: the right boundary of the graph corresponds with the 2008 hashmark at the bottom. Does that mean the right boundary is the start of 2008 or the middle of 2008?

Anyway, yesterday, the lines went to the right boundary and this crisscrossed back and then down. See this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25353601@N02/2388895595/


However, this morning, the lines backtrack on TOP of themselves before collapsing. See this photo:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/25353601@N02/2388918117/


Clearly, something has changed. Why would they ALL change like that rather than just 1 changing if something happened in 1 particular world? The only thing that appears to have changed is that the Copenhagen Artifact has now been found and interpreted.

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jasper wrote:
In the third from the last point, it says "each world is a 'Ring.'" Does that mean each individual world, or each of the 6 major parallel world geographies is a ring?

The way I understood the theory, each of the 6 worlds is a 'ring' of possible worlds, belonging to our 'ring' of six worlds.. Or by extension, even maybe a form of fractal - each 'world' is a ring in that each possible reality can spawn numerous other realities. At largest scale, we have our 6 major continental worlds; but drilling down, the possibilities are endless (each 'ring'-world is made up of numerous additional 'rings'). The more of these rings that synchronize, the less the multiverse count, the less the chance for a big crunch.


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And what about "external world" from chp 13?

given it's a translation, I'd like to know if "external" is the most accurate. I could see it potentially meaning extra, extraneous, unnecessary. As synchronicity is lost, more "extra worlds" are created, causing a consistent growth in the dissimilarity of the multiple universes. Too much, and the RCC crunch hits.
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