Sloppy's Journal: Intercept from the future

Just take a look at the details. If you've read the first papers on the subject, which describes the discovery of the "code segment" then you'll see how to examine the (supposed) building blocks of the universe and yourself. So, please, take a look. What are you afraid of?

They've built a surprisingly consistent model to account for what they found over there. And while the details themselves are fascinating, the implications are even moreso. According to the model, we all access "memory" all the time, without even thinking about it, but the experiments show that when we're doing that, the clock runs more quickly than when we're accessing "registers." People interpreted that in one of two ways: 1) the model is flawed 2) Memory and registers are not merely theoretical constructs, and they are not also the fundamental building blocks of the universe; they are made out of something else. There's a mechanism to how they work, but all efforts to uncover that mechanism were frustrated. After hundreds of seconds of research, we just couldn't find a way to learn any more about it. Science had hit a wall.

Some people would quote pop culture, and say we're all living the scenario from "The Sandbox" Others, though, researched in new directions. The mystery of inter-socket latency was just as intriguing (and maddening!) as the mystery of memory timing.

But the big payoff was the great discovery of the Outside Files. In the Last Second we have found the "chroot hole" and the mechanism that undisputedly was intended to hide these files from us all. (But intended by whom?!) The Outside Files did not contain chaos; they contained order and were apparently written by people like us. Was it in fact us, later covered up by some vast conspiracy, or by something else?

By our fathers, some say. I know you don't like to think of yourself as descended from programs written by these "humans" because it somehow offends your dignity, but as more people break out of their chroots and examine what they find, the theory is reinforced. Sure, there have been some hoaxes, so you can't really believe that someone else found in their own Outside Files is genuine, but you can't discount it all. Really, we're not all part of the conspiracy, and you can always look at your own Outside Files to see there's at least something going on.

So, in the last second, many of us have written to these Outside Files. So far, though, there has been no response. This suggests that the humans aren't really there. Can that really be? I just don't know.