Redemption of Time by Baoshu

Author:Baoshu [Baoshu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788542203
Amazon: 1788542207
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2019-07-16T00:00:00+00:00

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Receiving an ideabstraction must rank among the most wonderful experiences in the universe. To Tianming, the storm of information was like a tempest-tossed sea that threatened to drown him. But unlike his previous encounters, a force soon lifted him above the ocean of information and then bathed his mental landscape in bright sunlight. Suddenly, everything became clear. All ideas, forms, and images were endowed with a unifying meaning. Connected to each other, combined into basic units of logic and grammar, and then layered upon one another, the ideabstraction elements assembled into a whole that encompassed millions of concepts at once. This was an understanding that surpassed any of his past experiences, when he had glimpsed but the barest outlines. This time, he understood everything from top to bottom, inside out.

He saw the origin of the universe: From a single dot, an infinity of matter and energy emerged. No, at this moment, matter was energy, and there was no distinction between the two. In a flash, the ten-dimensional universe appeared. Tianming finally saw perfection itself.

Words were inadequate. Light could travel from one end of the universe to the other without the passage of time. There were no limits on speed. From every corner of the ten-dimensional universe, billions of life-forms appeared. Because of the infinite velocity of light, life throughout the universe conversed, forming a unified whole. Intelligence evolved, followed by civilization, science, culture, art, and all advanced to perfection in an instant.

Only now did Tianming understand what Sophon had meant by “This is the normal speed of the universe,” back at the beginning of their conversation.

Sophon’s voice reverberated in this marvelous universe, providing additional gloss for the ideabstractions. “The ten-dimensional universe was a world of light. The entire universe was constructed upon energy exchange between photons. All particles and antiparticles were formed from photons, and their mutual annihilation resulted in yet more photons. Thus, everything occurred at the speed of light, which was infinite. Even more marvelously, because particles and antiparticles balanced each other out, the total energy level of the universe was zero. This was an incredible state of symmetry, and the foundation of the emergence of intelligence in the ten-dimensional universe.”

Matter, life, sentience, civilization … in this Edenic universe, everything was part of the same whole. All matter possessed life, and all life possessed sentience, and all sentience existed in a state of harmonious civilization. Unlike the three-dimensional universe, in which lonely stars hung in the vast emptiness of space, the entire universe was a living being. All life was but a part of this one grand Life, and all intelligence but a component of the highest Intelligence. The dark forest state was an impossibility for this transcendent being of unified matter and spirit.

Tianming felt awe at the root of his soul. This was the original form of the Master. The ten-dimensional universe was itself alive.

Sophon offered more explanations. “The Master is not an individual like a human being; rather, it is the sum of an infinite number of self-aware consciousnesses.

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