Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright

Author:John C. Wright [Wright, John C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781429986373
Google: E2mhdKp0XS4C
Amazon: 0765367459
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Published: 2011-12-20T08:00:00+00:00

4. Memory Fragment

He would have expected their symbol for the Milky Way galaxy to be a double spiral. It was not. The position of the visible suns in the arms of the galaxy was not what the Monument Builders had emphasized as the identifying symbol: Instead it was a Cartesian square of text, showing the black-body radiation wavelengths of the gravitational centers of the galaxy, with an additional ring of symbols which could deciphered into the absorption characteristics and geometry of the gas cloud surrounding the Milky Way and her gravitationally-trapped neighbors. In his mind’s eye, Montrose converted the glyphs in the Zeta Segment into a map that could visualize in crisp detail. To the Monument Builders, the galaxy was not a double spiral of light, but a black doughnut with a dark heart.

It was easy to assign a fragment of his mind to the task of detecting the pattern in the strings of number-symbols. The fourth degree expressions were the six parameters of orbital mechanics, which identified specific stars. The fifth degree gave not orbits, but acceleration and decelerations of moving bodies.

The stars of the Hyades Cluster were shown swinging along in the great orbits around the core of the galaxy. Here was Sol, tracing out another orbit. Chains of acceleration and deceleration, like threads of a spiderweb, reached through the diagram. A set of lines connected the two: the path elements of a coming armada.

Other mathematical expressions described volumes of spheres, expanding from certain centers over time. Here were equations he recognized as hierarchical cascade functions.

Even in his superior state of mind, he was not immune to fear. If anything, the sensation was sharper, more precise, scalpel-like, because he saw more of the implications, more possible dangers, than his sleepwalker mind.

That equation was divarication function applied to governing systems, to prevent orders from being mutated and misinterpreted when passing from decision-centers to action. The theorem could apply to any information system, the core in a computer, the brain in an organism, the court of a sovereign …

It was a pantomime in mathematical sign language to show the size and boundaries of the movements of human populations into the stars, the degree of control.

The equations taken all together, smaller symbols insider larger ones which in turn were written in lines and shapes to form larger symbols yet, all were rich with meaning. If put into words, it would have said:

THE MATTER-DISTORTION PROCESS KNOWN AS LIFE WHEN FOUND DISQUIETING THE MAGNETOSPHERE OF THE ANTIMATTER STAR AT V 886 CENTURI TO BE RESTRICTED TO THE STATUS OF NEGATIVE-POWER IMBALANCE, HENCE ARE CLIENTS (PASSIVE RECEPIENTS OF ACTION) OF THE ACTIONS OF DOMINANT POWER (HYADES CLUSTER). IF DETERMINED TO POSSESS SUFFICIENT UTILITY TO BE HELD IN INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE TO THE IMPERATIVES DESCRIBED IN THE FOLLOWING EQUATIONS … ALL OTHER OPTIONS ARE SUBJECT TO RETALIATION OF THE FOLLOWING MAGNITUDES … PAIN IS THE DETERRENT OF NONCOMPLIANCE, INCLUDING CESSATION OF MATTER-DISTORTION PROCESS KNOWN AS DEATH …

Then came a group of symbols he could not read.

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