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The First Love Story
Topic Started: Jul 28 2008, 04:46 PM (543 Views)
Ànraich
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi

This was a story done my by friend Barak (Extra). I thought it was interesting so I'll post it here.


The Big Bang occurs.

Out of the whirling radiation and instantaneous sub-sub-particle creation and destruction, the Universe begins its incredible birth. Patterns begin to form in the coalescence of simple atoms which almost immediately break down. The life expectancy of these constructs rises with each passing picosecond. Quarks become less plentiful, locking themselves away into the cores of bizzare forms of matter. Some quarks, however, remain free, combining into a strange quark-matter. And from this quark-matter emerged the first intelligence.

It was powerful, having the energy of a newborn Universe to draw upon, and it was complex and huge, spanning the primordial realm from non-existent edge to non-existent center. This new intelligence thought great thoughts, gave birth to unimaginable ideas, and examined the whirling energies around it.

It's name was Quira.

Quira looked around with all senses opened, all the Universe visible, and made sense of it. It calculated with perfect precision the path and magnitude and every other characteristic the path and future of every particle, every wave of energy, and the ultimate destiny of each quantam waveform. Using this knowledge, Quira advanced its own intelligence.

Using gravitational manipulations of spacetime, over the next several, eternal milliseconds, Quira arranged its submolecular components to intersect with certain energy impulses and alterations, furthering its own evolution. It began to see all patterns in every mathematical dimension, and still its power grew.

Quira eventually became unable to keep a stable structure. It began collapsing back into its component parts. In a state describable as panic, it gathered its experience and abilities into a pair of new constructs. These two components became the entities Kabir and Yeilan. Quira broke down into the primordial matter from whence the great mind came.

Kabir and Yeilan began examining the Universe around them with great curiosity, born with everything that Quira had been composed of. Possessing unique personalities, diverged from the original by simple differences in composition, they each traversed the Universe and learned.

Over time, as they each progressed on their own path, for a long time (almost ten milliseconds) they forgot about each other. As they grew in intelligence, their personalities diverged further and further from the original, and they became two complete identities. And, because of their respective solitudes, they were lonely.

Then they met each other, as if for the first time.

Initially there was conflict, as they fought over knowledge and debated realities and concepts, and the veracity of these. And, as they battled with their minds, they began to recognize desirable aspects in each other.

They combined forces, and strode through the Universe together, taking advantage of their differences and making discoveries that, sought alone, would have been impossible to attain knowledge of.

They promised each other that they would remain together forever, and, as they finally understood everything about their realm, the entire Universe, they came to a realization:

They were mortal.

The Universe around them was cooling, and the high temperatures of the new Universe were all that maintained their physical structures.

Kabir and Yeilan, eternally companions, watched the Universe expand around them, huddling close to maintain their warmth, but it did not last long. Their bodies began disintegrating, dissolving onto the greater structure of the Universe.

As their minds were being melted into oblivion, they came to a final realization: as long as the Universe existed, their remains would occupy the entire visible realm.

So, in the end, they were, in fact, together, for all eternity.
Edited by Ànraich, Jul 28 2008, 04:46 PM.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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That reminds me of a passage in The Amber Spyglass, in which Mary Malone, when the particles of Dust (a type of particles that gives us consciousness) are leaving, sees the plants and the moon and everything around trying to stop the flow, as matter loves Dust.
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