《Beyond the Legacy》Chapter 17 - Beast of Babel (18.01.2021)
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The room had the gas of clouds forming into planets and one sun.
These space objects known as planets and a star broke into clouds of gas anew. Incomplete. There was nothing else in the first room.
The next area provided me an opportunity to choose my path. It had four separate zones. From left to right, there were the [Interactive Zone], the [Experimental Exposure Zone], the [Einstein Zone] and the [Life zone].
With a glimpse at the [Interactive Zone], I discerned cylinders with helical sides as displays next to nuggets, and frames of squares, triangles, and pentagons. These frames and nuggets were red, blue, yellow, green and purple in color. (Shape maker in the maths zone; Science museum, n.d.) I could see columns of yellow frames rising as buildings. It was like Lego sets.
I figured I could have seen an icosahedron. Icosahedrons were polyhedrons – some manner of geometric shape – with twenty faces. Compared to an icosahedron with twenty faces, a dice had six faces.
I could not see much of the other two zones. The [Life Zone] had a bird hatching from an egg. I wondered what color its wings would be. "In what manner will he fly?" Next to the hatchling, a gray falcon made its nest.
The rear of the area segwaying into these four zones had an explanation for what the ‘Perturbation Theory’ was. The theory provided a comparative study of estimations and exact values (Fermilab, 2016), when measuring the radius of Legacy, which was the name of the planet I was currently on. Legacy had a radius of 6367 km (same as Earth), but in calculations, the value of 6400 km was often used.
In the interest of time and renewed novelty, I chose to stick to the [Einstein Zone].
As I walked, I pondered over the setting of ‘Life of no Legacy’. ‘Let’s start from Genshin Impact,’ I thought. On one particular day, I had a time-trial run near the Kamisato Estate, in the Inazuma map. I helped Shouta, the boy, in Inazuma city, to pray to the archons. I filched some enemy supplies and defeated some bandits.
Supposing I did not want to get depressed or die in this game, what kinds of missions should I be doing? Wanting to not get depressed was a tough one. The people behind ‘Life of no Legacy’ could scarce be considered gentle, given that I woke up in a field of dangerous slimes. I was greeted with a ‘katana’ proclamation.
I figured I might have many-a-wishful thoughts, but there was no doubt that the template setting was ‘The demon lord of part-timing’.
A mathematician’s delight may be to develop calculations of complex attributes and to wait for others to figure it out. It would not just be numbers, but shapes as outputs. ‘Not quite,’ I thought. He would probably just be some soft or hard engineer or scientist, if not a stocks market warrior.
Only an idiot would say the building block of memory – 2+2=4 – was useless.
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A grammarian’s delight might be to write. There were still the ‘Spelling bee’ folks, for journalism, presentation, or reconciliation shows.
A debater’s delight would be to be a podcaster, a comedian, or a CEO.
It was a free-for-all. The answer I came to was about working memory chunks. For example, ‘The Rending Absolution’, part of Genshin Impact’s ‘The labyrinth Warriors’ event was nice. I went with the Beidou character for it. On a smaller scale, Limbo and Ninja Arashi provided adequate sensory puzzles.
‘I should visit the [Art Section] of the Royal Lucretius again,’ I thought.
Rather, the issue was concerning reflexes and stunts. A physicist would likely have the answers to that. On the side of strategy, I had seen the trailer of ‘The Conqueror’s Blade: Siegecraft’. (MY.GAMES, 2018) It was essentially siege warfare, with a third-person view. Basically different from Black Jack, or chess, or more colorful options like Shadowverse or Yu Gi Oh, latter which, by the way, were trading card games.
My Covenant’s – the Covenant of the Wise Fool’s – guideline was for its members to make a choice that they would not regret. Whatever be the consequences. Compared to me, how did members of the Covenant of the Holy Mother fare? Did they just rely on the Covenant of the Warrior?
Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
This classic trilogy of science was written by Isaac Newton. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is often referred to, simply, as ‘Principia’. This work explains Newtonian laws, or as may be known, ‘kinematics’, and his law of universal gravitation. Principia had been written in Latin. It was first published in 1687.
source: wikipedia
[Newton’s third law of motion states that to every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.]
A book with a creamy cover presented itself in front of me. I could not quite understand the text on it, other than that Londini meant London.
I found a non-holographic model of the solar system. Upon observing the label of the planets, on pins, I found Venus, Mercury and Mars. Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto. There was no doubt. Only Earth had been replaced, by Legacy.
It held that the story of ‘Life of no Legacy’ was based on the Legacy theory.
Rather than a museum, the [Einstein Zone] gave the feeling of a physics studyroom. I saw a table depicting a Fermion and a Boson on separate row headers. On the side-column, there were the labels of Energy and Matter. The title was ‘The Supersymmetry Theory – a simplistic representation’.
A fermion particle existed inside any solid with tangible mass that, when in collision with another fermion particle, would bounce off, or have some kind of reaction.. A boson particle existed inside rays of light, such that it did not bounce over another boson particle.
One particular experiment was that of electric torch trajectories crossing each other’s path. The assumption was that boson particles did not just have energy, but matter as well, and that fermion particles did not just have matter, but energy as well. (Lex Fridman, 2019)
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I did not know what to make of this table. I could see the difference – there was an animation of torches lit at an angle against one another, contrasted with that of two bowling balls coming at one another.
A billiard board would probably make sense for the latter example. That said, this was the deception of physics – beautiful because of its simple and fundamental ideas and then the calculations came in, outside of the calculation patterns. That was senile speech from a guy who did high school physics.
I got to rank 20th in Lies of Astaroth as Free-to-play. I had my jackass moments in physics and maths tuition, instead of consistency, in terms of the learning. Lesson to take – if you already know it, give other cohort members a chance to go at their pace.
I could remember the epic day, in elementary school, when my team of third or four graders faced off against six-graders. A similar event would happen in high school, and perhaps the reverse too. Nice mates. Life was a weird game though. My motto in life was to ‘make the most out of jackassery’. That was my improving religion. My faith.
To make a reference to Death Note, Ryuk fed on civilizational solipsism known as delusion, vision and acquisition. In plain words, for the jackass, there was not much accountability partners other than hard science statistics, and experience, to glean the vision.
I checked out the next museum attraction. Adinkra symbols.
In terms of data, and massive amounts of them, at that, there were Adinkra symbols. I saw these in front of me. One was a white prism. The other was a black prism. The prisms overlapped to each other’s center. Perhaps a ‘ball’ would be more accurate than a ‘prism’.
Adrinkra Symbols
Adinkra symbols are graphical representations of supersymmetric algebras. Adinkra symbols are used in supergravity and supersymmetric representation theory. (source: wikipedia)
Adinkra symbols can be described as colored, finite and connected graphs, specifically.
I figured this memory would recede when I exited the museum. There were other details, like that the white ball and the black ball were each a shape of representation. I left these alone.
I was left with a point ‘N’, and a string. ‘N’ represented 1 Newton, which was a mathematical construct, which reduced the mass of an entire object, however big or shapely it was, to a single point.
The string was a representation of a shrunk spaghetti till it had no thickness, as per the description. I thought the guy or AI who wrote this was a funny person.
The string was about the theory that the universe was constructed from interacting strings, in contrast to the single-bang big bang theory.
The tour was over.
At this point, I was unsure if I was leaving The Royal Lucretius’s [Science Section] or leaving the Life of No Legacy version of Genshin Impact’s the Abyss.
Preserved glasses weren’t that close to popularity unless we were talking about famous antique museum pieces, to speak in terms of analogies.
To continue my distasteful train of thought, with less brevity, there was the issue of the social credit system. The social credit system reminded me of an argumentative essay I wrote once. But, to make a disclaimer, broken laws did not make for dedication. Relying on social fabrics to achieve something was nice. It felt nice too. A properly depreciated human had little value to dispute, than self-marketing for whatever it was he did. Whatever vision, whatever place. There was no excuse, whatever path you chose. Only appreciation and depreciation.
In the end, there was nothing lost, than a day’s worth.
It served a human well, in each’s chosen gridlock.
To return to the argumentative essay, it was about freezing bank accounts, canceling driver licenses permanently, or denying access to service, in favor of forced labor. It was like the view of Yagami Light, Death Note’s protagonist. Yagami killed people left and right, for not doing what was expected of them – by him.
I exited the room.
I saw the statue of a fox looking at a puffy cub. ‘The animal is the world’, the thought came to my mind.
Something seethed through the statues, cutting the cub’s head and the fox’s body. The relics fell down with two thuds. I looked behind. Grinding growls came from an animal. The creature was red in color. Golden saliva dripped from its mouth.
The creature looked at me. It had a confused expression. One tremor shook its body. After three seconds, another tremor shook its body. The creature recoiled upon itself. I could observe it had three lacerating tails. Its feet were talons. Its appearance was mechanical in nature.
Its eyes shone with blood lust. However. It was not directed at me.
Its head was small, which made for an equally small target. The creature shook upon itself. It shook upon itself. It had red eyes. I approached it. The name that came up was ‘Beast of Babel’. There was no more details. The creature screeched in terror. It shook about the room in limbo.
"User Command: Electro Transfiguration." I felt electricity sizzle on my forehead. "Good to be electro-conscious," I said.
The transfiguration was level 2, at 55%.
The beast threw itself at the [Einstein Zone], wracking around. It got past the string. It lingered and ripped the Adinkra Symbols. There was no one that came to stop it. The creature burped and hiccuped. Its eyes were intoxicated.
It dragged itself to the non-holographic solar system. The beast ate Legacy. This brought a moratorium to its behavior. Its eye dimmed to darkness.
"User Command: Electro orb," I intoned.
The beast growled. It trampled on the Supersymmetry representation. Its mouth opened. It was huge, with protruding fangs, and spiraling innards. One tail pierced Mars. The beast looked at me, a fiend intent on its prey.
It roared. I exhaled with disdain.
Author Note: I’m not sure I referenced the Shape maker well.
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