The Water Bear by Groucho Jones

Author:Groucho Jones [Jones, Groucho]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Binary Republic
Published: 2019-08-02T22:00:00+00:00

Box found her fingers sunk in the plush of her velveteen chair. Something important had just happened, although she couldn’t get her head around it.

“I’m gonna be sick,” she said.

“The feeling will pass,” said Flux.

“Bat, please make sure she’s not vomiting in the Real,” said Brin.

“What just happened?” asked Kitou.

[The Horu created a new universe,] said the Water Bear.

“Correct,” said Flux.

[And proved some old physics.]

“The memetic theory of everything.”

“Memes, as in… ideas?” asked Box, looking up.

[Yes,] said the Water Bear. [The theory of reality as a persistent illusion.]

“A democracy of ideas,” said Flux.

“Explain,” said Brin.

[May I?] said the Water Bear.

“Yes,” said Flux.

The ship’s gamespace avatar appeared in one of the velveteen chairs. “In the memetic theory of things,” she explained, “also called the nonreal interpretation of quantum mechanics, there is no fixed reality, only a wavefunction, the superposition of all possible states. Observers create their own reality by collapsing the wavefunction into a state, but all that changes are the microtubules in the observers’ brains. Thus, reality is a synaptic illusion: an hallucination, shared by a sufficiently large number of observers. Twelve factorial is a number suggested, to start a new universe.”

“Which we proved,” said Flux.

“I’ll need to see your results,” she said.

“You’ll have them.”

“Which brings us to the big question,” said Brin.

“Which is?”

“Do we believe you?”

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