Tipler Oracle
A semi-mythical godtech device said to be created by the AI Gods
when they have a particularly intractable computational problem to resolve
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Tipler OracleA semi-mythical godtech device said to be created by the AI Gods when they have a particularly intractable computational problem to resolve |
Named for the Information
Age scientist and philosopher
Frank Tipler,
Tipler Oracles are produced by creating an artificial
basement universe of
sufficient mass that it is both closed and only able to expand to
diameter of a
few tens of light-years. At the moment
of the universes creation an intra-universal wormhole is
projected into it by
the controlling archai
and used to transport godtech assemblers,
void bubble
arrays, and W-brain
seed nodes into the hot, dense plasma making up the new
universe. The entire assemblage is
programmed with specially designed A-life
generation protocols able to both
rapidly evolve and also retain their core programming which is
dedicated to
solving the base problem that drove the archai to create the Oracle in
the
first place.
Using the material of the rapidly expanding
microcosm, the
archai converts literally all of the material of the new universe into
high
energy computronium linked by W-brain class wormholes.
As this process continues the infant universe
first stops its expansion and then begins to re-collapse back into a
singularity. As this occurs, temperatures
in the universe rise and the specially designed computronium processors
and
A-life evolvers adapt and change to operate in the ever harsher
conditions
while also maintaining the integrity of the linking wormhole.
In the final moments of its existence the
environment of the
microverse achieves conditions nearly approximating that of Tipler’s
hypothesized Omega Point
and the embedded computronium inside performs a near
infinite amount of computation in a finite period of time.
Included in this computational process is the
solution to the problem that the archai originally created the new
universe to
solve and which, due to the deep layer conditioning embedded in the
evolutionary algorithms of the seed A-life, the newly born Omega entity
is
compelled to transmit through the intrauniversal wormhole.
The archai’s problem, which under normal
conditions might have required thousands or even millions or billions
of years
to solve, is resolved in a period of a few decades or centuries at most. Moments later, the intrauniversal wormhole is
usually destroyed by the environment in the dying micro-verse and the
Tipler
Oracle is lost forever, never to be seen again.
Until the AI God who built it has another large problem to solve
and
creates another.
Although nothing is certain in these matters, it is sometimes rumored that the generation of a Tipler Oracle is a somewhat risky proposition for the creating archai. Sometimes the connecting wormhole will fail before the originating computational problem has been resolved. Sometimes the Oracle will transmit some other answer through the wormhole. Or simply transmit gibberish, of no use to its creator or anybody else. And sometimes, it is rumored, something comes through the wormhole that is not just useless to the creating god but actively dangerous. There are those researchers and godwatchers who speculate that perhaps some of the more mysterious and dangerous elements of the modern galaxy such as the Omicron Hygeras artifact, or affine infection vectors, or perhaps even the Amalgamation, may have their origins in a Tipler Oracle (or its ancient alien equivalent) that went badly, badly wrong. Or worse, did exactly what it was designed to do.
