THE UNIVERSES CREATING MACHINE

The Universes Creating Machine

““Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.”

The fact that Schrödinger’s cat can be alive or dead if one has not looked inside the box does not mean that two universes exist at the same time. Only the universe resulting from observation necessarily exists. That the other option existed in parallel would unnecessarily violate the principle of Ockham’s Razor.

Each possible alternative or decision does not bifurcate the universe in two. Nor in several (if there are more than two alternatives when deciding). There is only that of the decision actually made.

However, there is a way to force the alternate universe into existence but it involves time travel. Short or long, but necessary.

Let’s go back to Schrödinger’s cat. In one case the objective collapse of the wave function to the observed state causes the cat to die. But suppose that through premeditated time travel, this result sends information to the past (one bit in this case is enough, and to a very near past) which forces the objective collapse to occur leading to save the cat’s life. That creates a new universe because the one in which the cat died does not disappear. This could obviously also be done the other way around: the cat is observed as alive and then this result sends information back to the past to force the cat to die. In both cases, the objective collapse, forced by its opposite already effectively occurring in the future, necessarily creates two universes without contradicting Ockham’s Razor.

Therefore, if we can send information through time to the past and guarantee that this information causes the opposite outcome in the past (or something different, if there are more than two alternatives) to the known result in its future, which includes said feedback information, we already have ‘The Universes Creating Machine‘.

Time travel to the past does not alter the starting universe but can branch it (in fact, all time travel to the past does, with the sole exception of the rare self-reinforcing paracausal loops, rare but not impossible). The mere possibility of various alternatives in facts or decisions, however, by itself, does not do it.

I explain all this, which may be obvious to many, to argue why not all ‘possible’ universes physically exist. In practice, there are not infinite universes with infinite possibilities based on every mere event or decision that has several alternatives. Everett’s «many worlds» will be many, perhaps even infinite, but they are not «infinitely infinite.»

But it is possible to force a specific world to exist. Or to try. Deliberately creating an inverted paracausal loop.

I have time travel available. I have used it more than once (this is the subject of another story, or several). I use it to connect the output with the input of «the box» through the paracausal inverter.

The ferrotropic component that allows the signal to be moved even between alternate realities (alternate in the sense of being independent of timeline variations, or at least not resulting from any recent paracausal bifurcation) is also within my reach (since relatively recently, thanks to my recent collaboration with The Unlikely Club).

The riskiest and most complex part is the meticulous implementation of the paracausal feedback loop, without drifts or leaks that could ruin the arrival of the exact inverted input that manages to close the loop without uncontrolled deviations. But it has already worked for me a few times, with simple cases, I must admit.

In any case, now, having just received the terrible information of the deaths of Lee Scoresby and Hester, unfortunately, I no longer feel able to delay myself executing more tests. I must try to correctly connect the multidimensional information of that event with their past through an inverted paracausal chain that causes them not to die in the past.

I want to create that new universe. (Everything points so far to the fact that the starting universe will not change or be damaged by this creation).

What may happen in the new one, if I manage to create it, will also be the subject of another story, or several.

““Il y a d’autres mondes, mais ils sont en celui-ci.”

[Soundtrack: «The Cloud Atlas Sextet», composed by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil; based in Robert Frobisher´s Cloud Atlas concerto from David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas novel]

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