5/21/13

The Philosophy of the Universal Widget ©2013GaryCGibson (science fiction excerpt)



"The Universal widget's origin is shrouded in mystery. It is the widget of widgets. Its form changes becoming what it is and not what it was. Simultaneously it is the producer and product and the extemporal quantum shape of actualized potential necessary to provide a solution to the problem."
Sounds like a handy thing to have around Mr. Saulobinsk. If your widget is so wonderful why haven't I seen one for sale around the galaxy?
"You have encountered derivative manufactures of the widget in various forms Dr. Voevoda. The widget itself never leaves Temprova and has never been absent until now. It is the producer of ideas developed into product and sale, not the definite article for sale in-itself."
Yvette asked; "And you are here seeking help from Patrick in finding that special trinket that might be anywhere in the Universe by now, in no particular form?"
"Precisely Dr. Yvette, for reasonable compensation of course."
And what would that be?
"Anything you wish from the Universal widget."
Not three wishes Mr. Saulobinsk?
"Yes, if you insist, three wishes of the Universal widget."
That sounds acceptable. Would you join us with a sandwich for lunch?
"A bowl of sweet grass would be excellent please."
You can eat grass?
"Yes. The survivors of biodiversity collapse on my home planet Usgov had to adapt somehow. We innovated a redesign such that we have four stomachs. Later I exfiltrated to the Higgsmasonic lodge of Temprova. This is not tobacco I am chewing, it is my cud."
I'd wager that's a pain to supply on some missions. Allright. About the widget. With computer aided design and manufacturing how does an individual unit differ in-itself from the potential of any artificial intelligence guided manufacturing system to accrete a new or necessary product Mr. Saulobinsk?
"Pat, I know where I can cut a fresh lawn for a bowl of sweet grass. Back in a jiffy", Yvette said before leaving her chair at the table set at the base of the pyramid and moving off toward the entrance of a lane between temples.
Our wonderful widget is a nexus for a quantum computer harmonic actualizer. It may draw upon unlimited resources of the non-steady state quantum Universe to form steady-state quantum entanglements that are temporal objects of spacetime."
What would happen if there were two of these Universal widgets simultaneously calling upon all of the content of the non-steady-state quantum Universe to become some particular object?
'I hadn't thought of that. There is only one known Universal widget after all. I suppose that each might draw together enough mass to create a giant black hole and terminate the development."
Good point.
Yvette returned with a bowl of grass and a few grass stains on her transparent body diaper-wrap that was then in fashion. It changed its opacity index from clear to transparent along with the mood of the wearer.
I asked our new acquaintance Conspiron a question about the Universal widget,
Conspiron, describe the relation of the Universal widget to the deep structure of quantum cosmology more fully.
He said after swallowing his cud and eying down the bowl of fresh grass,
The Higgs field is an expanding knot of quantum entanglements energized by the pull outward in the entanglement of more massless virtual particles from all possible locations in the non-solid-state Universal. The particle state probabilities of the quantum real are massless and faster-than light except as they are entangled. They are also without force or energy except potentially if entangled. For entanglement in a solid-state is a quantum phenomenality of an emergent and contingent phenomenal character.
A photon is nearly massless as an emergent particle-wave in an electro-magnetic field. It is the smallest basic energy element entangled in the solid state and is the quickest. Any solid-state entangled particle is temporal, while the quantum realm of massless probability states is not subject to spacetime in the Higgs field. The Universal widget was designed with elements of the non-temporal quantum Universe outside the Higgs field."
Yvette said, "That's a remarkable accomplishment. How so?
"Gravity too is a phenomenon of entanglement in the Higgs field. The widget maker discovered how to isolate entanglement probabilities and screen out the effects of gravity. He applied his theory to place Dyson gravity screens around black hole singularities and then erase the singularity of intense mass concentration from spacetime. Safely contained in scalable Dyson gravity screens he collected hundreds of naked black hole singularities and relocated them to a laboratory aboard a spacetime ship for further research. The developments followed.
You should know that Kurt Godel's set of all sets barrier became materially transcended with the actualization of the Universal widget. Every transfinite infinity became bracketed as an element of the infinite."
I asked; 'The invention was then of course pre-determined before time existed in eternity?'
"Yes, we believe so." Grand Master Saulobinsk began to chow down on the fresh grass Yvette had cut I would guess from Abbot Weydon's front lawn. A sudden seismic jolt shook us with something akin to a 6.0 Y'Earthquake, which was quite unusual. Yvette gave me the look.
Without a radioactive core, volcanism or plate tectonic activity Collingswood is seismically stable. It might have been an anomalous passing very large gravity way I thought. It would take some time for gravity wave detectors in distant orbit in the Collingswood star system to report any passing disturbance of spacetime adequate to shake the planet.
In the meanwhile, Yvette and I continued our discussion about the widget.
So Yvette, the Telemon was able to infuse some elements of the nature of non-temporality into it. In some ways techniques to shield out gravity waves and steady state aspects of quantum entanglement were found and the knowledge applied.
I would guess that would have innumerable consequences regarding the spacetime continuum of Universe 1. It would be theoretically possible to detach sections of Universe 1 from the Higgs field and quantum entanglement completely creating a de facto alternate spacetime Universe bubble even if it had nothing in it.
"The difficulty might be to keep anything of the steady state universe coherent inside such a detached sector. The quantum entanglement from the other side, from the quantum probability world would no longer exist and the steady-state entanglement might just disappear though some energy might remain in a high entropy state."
I believe Yvette, a Universal widget of all possible forms pre-existing time might arise to apply retro-causality to all things that are to be or become. In eternity it would always exist once it did exist, and become omniscient as well-especially of all the future Universes that it could create and set into motion in time.
"Well Patrick, that could be taken as a paradigm for the unconditional beingness of God as well-arising into being then always existing because of retro-causality."
Sure, its a good metaphor Yvette. Even though a Universal widget might be taken as an illustrative paradigm for the birth and history of God in eternity, its no more than that logically. Otherwise we might have a new omniscient Universal widget pop into being virtually anywhere or anytime creating problems of dual occupancy of existential null-space and order of any actualized Universes.
`Universe for ourselves, hopefully."

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