My part III - Secrets Unveiled

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- Now comes a quite delicate moment, because you'll have to promise me that you won't...

- Wait a minute, are you saying that not even now...!

- ... yes, I trust you, but...

- ... what but?!

- It's not exactly a 'but', but ... nevermind, still ... hmm ... I'm going to tell you something important, and I want you to keep this in mind when, if...

- You know very well that this won't happen! You know me.

- You're right ... I only wanted to make sure it's clear where the boundary is, from where things start to get serious.

- Riight...

- What I want to say is that each time you'll want to use anything of what you're about to hear, or if you'll base some ideas on this, especially the ones that will be known by others, so if you'll publicly base ideas or projects on this, then I'll be very grateful if you'll analyze very well each situation, including possible side-effects, and especially what would their impact be on the general situation in the long run - this is very important!

- Ha, ha - it sounds like an oath of allegiance!

- Hmm, hadn't thought of that ... well then - swear!

- Whaaat?!

- Kidding! ... But! ...

- Hey! Don't start again with 'buts', especially ...

- Yeah, yeah. I told you I was kidding.

- Mhyea...

- Now I can start with, like: "you don't know me", and stuff...

- Fine, let's move on!

- I hope you got it right, what I wanted to say.

- Yes, I got it.

- Are you sure?

- Yes. But now I wonder whether you are actually right ...

- Well, maybe I am... he, he!

- ... Oh, yeah? Maybe you're right then, and I actually don't really know you...

- What are you saying?!

- ...

- I don't get it!

- Ha, ha, ha! Now it's me kidding!

- Yea ... pfff ... well. Right. We're even now.

- Mmm ... nope! We're even only if you swear that you won't doubt me again.

- You know that this is not possible!

- I've exaggerated, you don't need to swear, but I want to know if we can trust each other...

- Yes ... you're right. I don't know why I've doubted your senses. I'm sorry. I just wanted to make sure everything is clear ... Good, I rephrase: the things I'm going to say right now are very important for me, and for the project we have here, and even if I have complete trust in you, in this particular case additional caution is needed, so everything that you're going to be told, use wisely, consult me often, and if you notice something weird or wrong, ask me or correct me. Is it better?

- Per-fect!

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- ... every law has a loophole, and if you find that loophole, then you can elude, or at least influence that law ... and here I also mean laws of physics ...

- Hmm, there is something here...

- Yes, there is an important rule - there are no rules ..

- Ha?!

- ... yes, there are no rules unless you submit to them.

- It's not clear to me ...

- ... well, if you find a hole in a fence, and you have an urgent need go on the other side of that fence, you won't bother anymore with the fact that the rule is not to cross it, because the presence of the fence indicates it?

- Mhyea ...

- ... and if you see that there are breaches somewhere, then you'll always look for them, and most likely you'll also find them - there are no really precise things, 100%. There is always a margin that you can use, depending on what do you need. You can transfer something from one place to another, turn something into something else, take a piece from somewhere, and use it in another place. Do you understand?

- Yes, this, I do ...

- ... well, yes - this is also valid in the classical laws of physics. What's new in what I'm saying - namely, about these loopholes that I'm talking about right now - is that they can also be found in the structure of the Universe, and not only on the outside, in the manifestation of the forces that make it up, as I said that it was already long known.

- OK. Continue!

- I don't know much ... most of what I've done here is ...

- ... so, you want to tell me the secret, but you don't really have what to say, ha?

- Ahhamm, it depends. Many of the things here are experimental, and the theory is not even remotely complete ... it's barely somehow outlined. I kind of know what's going on here, and I also know how to apply and predictably replicate it, but many elements in between are not really synthesized, and structured ...

- Still, you do have an idea about what it's going on, and how. I don't really need something like 'theorems', and not even some „recipes”. I just want to get an idea about what's in here. It seems like another world. I need something to ... cling onto ... so that it'll be familiar to me, and not ... scary ...

- Mmm ...

- ... I mean, I like it here, but I'll like it more ...

- ... yes, I can explain it to you ...

- Perfectly!

- ... I was talking earlier about how you can elude some laws if you find the right loophole ...

- Yes ..

- Good! For starters, we're dealing with gravity, with it - say - we're playing. Gravity is a force, which is based on other forces - call them sub-forces. The key is that all these forces are wave-like, and they use matter as transport medium. Actually - matter. Matter is also based on interactions between forces, but it's already too complicated ...

- No, no! Go on!

- ... alright, so actually, matter, forces, results of the laws of physics, all of them are based on such sub-forces. This means that it's an interleaving of forces, the Universe, and in-between all these forces there are all kinds of interactions, as any flow also has a wave feature, and it's not necessarily continuous and uniform, but it's 'pulsating'.

- Riiight ...

- ... yes, and if you find a way to 'dance' with the flow you're interested in, on the right frequencies, and with the required precision, you can target exactly the weak point of the law that originates in the - as I said before, only apparently exact and continuous - periodicity of this flow, and for a moment canceling the corresponding law!

- Wow! ...

- Yes, my words exactly, the first time I realized this ... actually, the second time ... ha, ha ... or maybe the third ... first time for sure I thought it's stupid! Then, how you get from a momentary effect, to something more lasting, that's a longer story, and it's not clear to me how I got here ... I only know that it took me about seven years.

- What do you mean? Did you get to the things I see here just by mistake?

- Yes! I mean, not really ... I had in mind the ground concepts, and I had the image of what I would have liked to build with them. The links between them existed, but the real methods weren't clear to me, or didn't seem to be efficient at all. It would have taken me tenths of years to run through every possibility and variant.

- And?

- ... and then it happened.

- What?

- What, what?! I had another revelation, if I can call it like this.

- What was it?!

- Enough secrets for today ... we'll talk about it some other time ...

- What's this supposed to mean?!

- Well, since I've started already, I'll tell you ...

- Go on, go on ...

- You really are like a child!

- What? ...

- But a wise child.

- ... ha, ha ... thanks, what can I say?!

- Let's go back, shall we? ... Having some things already figured out, and putting them all together, I came to several conclusions. First of all, the conscience is not necessarily an attribute of the human body, to the human nervous cells. Actually every thing has some attached attributes - besides the externally visible characteristics - some meta-attributes, on several layers, even. Then I've realized that I can access these layers, and the associated data, also from outside of my body, using some built devices, which I can ... hey, what's this!

- Ha?!

- ... it's a warning! We have work to do.

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- ... hold that thing, but don't touch those! They're fragile and dangerous at the same time!

- Hyeehhess! ...

- See, that's what happens if you don't do maintenance of what seems to be secondary ... good, now we also have to ... let's get some parts from the storage room ...

- You were telling me about conscience and stuff ...

- Yes, I was saying that – Hop! - do you really want to discuss this now?

- Yes, it's very interesting.

- OK ... I was saying that I've accessed some elements of my conscience, from outside - you can say that I've received some - This way! - some thoughts of mine, on something like a radio receiver ...

- Really?! But this is like reading thoughts ...

- Not exactly, we've talked before ..

- Oh, yeah!

- ... yes, it's like the behavioral analyzer, and like the the physical and mental trainer. The – Hold this! - physical one has a somewhat reverse function, too, but you understand ...

- Hmm, no.

- Eey, it sends some sort of thoughts-feelings, which influence the body when it's in a latent state, and triggers some reflexes that put the body in operation - including in motion – even if the person that usually controls it is not awake.

- But this is something very SciFi!

- Yes, but I've told you that it's not really the way you think it is, the whole thing is quite rudimentary – Let's go back! - especially the transmission part, but it does have the intended result, at least for this stage. Though I agree it's something extraordinary.

- And what's the final result of the reception?

- Well, the concrete result is that we have devices, one of them human shaped, so you can call them robots, which borrow human attributes from a single person, or even from more than one!

- So then this way you can even have children, robotic ones ...

- Ahhaam... if you want to call it this way, I believe so ... somehow ... but what I wanted to say is that, especially because the technology is rudimentary, if you take attributes only from one person, you get some sort of robotic extension of that person, to which you can give instructions ...

- ... but this is great!

- Yes, but it's possible that this technology will develop more, because the way it is now, you also take the mood of the person whose conscience you intercept – Right, give me that! - because this is the best way to describe what's going on - you have a loyal friend, slave, or even some sort of partial clone, that behaves like an external body, without own will, but unfortunately with the same mood, so it's not always useful ...

- I see.

- ... yes, and taking elements from more people, or even adding some artificial entropy, synthetic algorithms, or even pure noise - he, he, here you go, contradiction of terms! - you can get something that's closer to an autonomous person ...

- Sounds very cool!

- Yeah, but the results can also be unpredictable ... I kind of avoided doing this ... anyway, what's the most important is that now I've found the way to make something I had on my mind – Ready, we're done here! - the solution for developing an intelligent robot - borrowing real attributes, from real people - but things are at the beginning.

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- Now's the moment for you to find out how it all started!

- Wow, tell me!

- Each time mankind has reached the ceiling in its development, it has used the fundamental principles, to compose a new result, more complex than the previous.

- He, he! Yes. Well, why bother to discover, when you can improvise!

- Yes, but think about it, it's genius, a great concept! Do you have a device that has become too slow? You multiply it and divide the tasks - like a team, right? Managing all the devices is difficult and their knowledge area is limited? You make them aware of the others' existence and you connect them to the global situation - it becomes a network!

- Yes, this is something ...

- ...this is what I also have done, when I realized that I reach a boundary. In order to process data, you need a set, an area especially reserved for this thing, a computing space - got it, space! Well, this is what I did, ta-daa - I sent the data to space!

- How come?

- ... yeah, it's more complicated for somebody who never did this before, or who didn't think about it night and day ... everything around you is information, and information storage space, but for processing data you need speed, and that's translated into processing speed - actually this is the most difficult, to find a medium where you can write, and then read the data as fast as possible, the input and respectively, the output, the results. The initial idea I had was that I can send somehow the data with a modulating wave, and that I can later somehow receive them, that I can capture them after they would've already been transformed into the result, after traveling for thousands and thousands of kilometers.

- Wow, very cool!

- Then, I came to the - fortunate - conclusion that I can use another concept which I relied upon for years in developing my methods - projection and the projective computing!

- I think you've told me about this before ....

- ... yes, this way I wouldn't have depended on the writing speed of the data in the medium, and neither on the distance needed to capture the results - basically I could've filled at my own will all the space around me, with the processing data, after which the result would willingly come back from where it originated, making a circle, a spiral, or what do you want to call it...

- I see, it makes sense ... yes, this is a good idea ...

- ... after each cycle, it can continue running, the model can change, or the template, or you can add new variables, new elements, and this without stop, until everything will be canceled by a simple reversal command. The technical, physical part of this method has two components: auto-generated laser and light bending - the way I called them then.

- I'd like you to tell me about this, too, but now it's already too much information - I need time to process it. Do you have any written stuff about this? Maybe I'll have a look on it and then understand it better.

- I have something written, but it's not very tidy. Maybe you'll help me with this.

- Yes, sure. And after all, even if I said it's enough for today, actually I can't wait to find out how did you get from that point, from the ideas you were talking about, to modeling some materials with special, even amazing characteristics, and to the equipment of extraordinary performance that allowed the existence of what I've seen since I'm around.

- This I'd also like to know - ha, ha - and especially how it was possible that everything came together almost by itself. This I cannot tell you, because I really don't know. I hope that you will figure this out... I have some ideas of what might have been, but they're too fantastical ... no, if nobody else will get to the same conclusions, I won't just let them out of my mouth, just like that, freely, no, certainly not ...

- What are you saying there?

- … Nothing - just my troubles, but this doesn't matter now, we have anyway a lot of things to do... because anyway, what I have achieved here is pretty modest compared to what these new technologies may open up, and soon this might become obvious not only for me.

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- Right, lower it ... perfectly! Disconnect!

- Hmm...

- Ready! Look!

- What is this?!

- What do you mean? It's right in front of you ...

- Yeah, but wha ..

- ... and it's very visible.

- It's something els...

- If you want, I'll make more light...

- Forget the irony. You know very well that's not my point. And it's already more light here than the room can handle - I think it's less air here than photons!

- Mhyeah, are we now comparing our ironies? ... if I were you, I'd be careful about comparing numerically, especially when it's about particles which are so much different in size - just saying...

- Alright - anyway, let's go back - yes, I see very well what's in front of me, but I don't realize what it can possibly be.

- What does it seem to be?

- Don't tell me it's a robot!

- Hmm, no, This is not a robot. It's something else.

- ...

- OK, it does look like an humanoid robot, but it's actually a suit - AKA "flying" suit, even though it's not exactly that. You cannot technically say that it "flies", in the classical sense.

- ... then...?

- You can say that it "glides", or that it "camouflages"... There's no term to accurately describe what's going on.

- So, what does it do?

- Well, you can use it to travel, but without consuming energy ...

- Very cool...

- ...yeah... or at least almost without consuming energy ... in fact it consumes very little, insignificant ...

- ... so then why do we need spaceships, if we have these suits - we can use them to travel!

- You can say this, but the point is that the ship goes faster, and with it you can also carry supplies, equipment... it's not really how it might seem at first sight...

- Yes, this is true...

- Yes, and the movement principle is a bit different, even though it's based on similar concepts.

- Right, so how does it?

- Maybe I should first give you something to read, to get familiar with the idea...

- What do you mean?! We have the thing in front of us! Show me what it can do! Ha, ha, ha!

- ...

- Yes, I want to see it!

- Very good... but just, you know, to put you in context - the way it works is by modifying the subatomic structure - basically, chemically it becomes something else! The material "transforms" into something else.

- Mhm...

- Yes, and this way - I mean, if it transforms into the material that it surrounds it - becomes one with it, and the, let's say, internal rules will start to apply to it. It might seem strange, but the suit, with everything inside it, is being then carried by internal currents with minimal effort, like for instance the electrons are carried through a conductive wire, or like the smoke is carried away by wind...

- How poetical ...!

- Are you making fun of me?!

- Hmm, maybe. He, he!

- Hey!

- No. I was joking! I really found it poetical and started dreaming...

- It's not clear to me what you wanted to say, but let's go on...

- Yes, leave it! I want to see what this thing can do - don't tease me with fairy tales anymore!

- Good. We initially wanted to use the suit in water, to be able to do the necessary operations for the well functioning of the lab. Then, if we already discovered the working principle, we thought that we can u...

- ... that's it! I want to see! Why are you dilly-dallying?! Just press that button and show me!

- OK, I'll be straight - I will turn the suit into water!

- What?!

- What I've been talking here for half an hour?! This is what the suit does - its surface can transform in any substance, with which can then interact internally and familiar!

- I can't believe it!

- Whatever, I'll start the procedure - look!

...

- Oh, again!?

- Yes, again. How do you feel?

- I'm alright. It seems the heart beats regularly, I'm breathing norm...

- ... I don't mean that. With all these sensors around, even if you want to, you can't feel physically ill without things starting to beep! I would immediately know if this would happen. I was asking you about your mental state, because this was again a shock at the sight of something the brain cannot accept - I think this is what it is - you cannot imagine that such a thing can exist, and then, bam, the loss of consciousness occurs.

- Yes, it was very weird - I saw how suddenly the fabric of the suit was arching and went through all the colors and then stretched and became shinier and shinier... I have never seen something like this ... it looks like what I imagine it might have happened to the celestial bodies in the galaxy forming stages, except that here it happened in an instant what there I imagine it took thousands and thousands of years...

- What you say is interesting! It's a good comparison.

- What does actually happen?

- The material of which the suit is made of, or more precisely its surface is made of a material which is modified in such a way that its structure can be changed on demand. Each atom is, let's say, electronically connected to the control system. In its normal state, the material is like some sort of metal, but when I give it the switching command it goes through an unstable state - kind of like the the radioactive materials - after which the subatomic structure gets rearranged, and goes again in a stable state, but with a new structure, so the new material! I imagine this as some kind of a mechanical cipher, which depending on its elements' position it's something else, in this case, a new material!

- Really fascinating! Well, but how did you get to this thing?

- This took a lot of time as well, but the starting point was looking for 'loopholes', too, this time in the subatomic system.

- Really, and how's that?

- The characteristics of the chemical substances are given by the subatomic structure, which is dictated by nothing else than by some interactions between forces - we talked about this before, remember?

- Yes.

- ... and we'll talk about it again - it's a very important concept. Well, now knowing that, you can influence those forces to change the result of the interaction, and thus the nature of the resulting substance. What others used to do before was to beat or block those forces - friction, gravity, inertia - and actually, yes, their effects. Yes - the effects! But if you approach the situation differently, and go against them, you adapt and influence the the forces in a more subtle way, from their source, from the moment when they're only some intentions, some commands, some codes, some data...! There are always more levels. Obviously, if you don't have access to all of them, that's it, you work on the surface! But why not working on getting access to them, instead of always swimming against the current.

- I don't know if I thought this way about these things, even though I somehow knew that something like this can be done in some way...

- Yes, I also had many ideas about it, long time ago... At first I've ignored them, but since they kept coming back, and insisted, I studied them, and yes, after all it wasn't in vain - look how many interesting things have been achieved using them!

- This is obvious. Good, continue!

- Right... so, that electronic command is given using a special type of laser, called sub-laser - it's improperly called 'laser', but it's based on almost the same principle, so I've called it like this, because I like lasers! Who cares if one more thing has an imprecise and improper name - it is just added to the existing pile of the other improperly named things. So, that sub-laser hits the layer where the base of the subatomic structure stands, and it destabilizes it, energizing and equalizing the forces of the particles, which are suddenly on the same level. At that moment the interactions enter a cycle of stabilizing and destabilizing which normally would end in either breaking down the matter in primary substances - usually hydrogen - either in an atomic explosion, or both. He, he! He-helium! This can also come into play! - This one was cool, isn't it?

- You know very well I like your jokes. No need to ask anymore.

- Hrmpf, very well... But, right when this neutral but fragile state occurs, I give the reform command! Two sub-particles here, another three there, and so on. Through fractional pairs balance or partial balance is obtained, which then determine the future structure. It's art! You should see how the sequences look like! And then the newly formed atoms immediately enter their role and start interacting with each other - here other interventions are needed, to amortize the process, so that there are no free chemical reactions, but only ones that are controlled step by step. That's why many times this is not done all at once, but more intermediate steps are needed, in which part of the substance is transformed into something else, and not straight into the intended one, so that will catalyze and help the process a bit. This doesn't really make sense if you think about it...

- Yes, it's not clear to me...

- ... yes, you would say that if you have control over the ground layers, and to the 'data' that describes everything, the whole structure, then this is a precise method to make the alterations, but it's not true. Even in this case it's actually just groping around. Things are never very precise. After you got the equilibrium, yes! And what I'm talking about is the equilibrium that's visible from the outside, on the level that interests us! Right, but anyway, until that point nothing is certain...

- Why's that?!

- Well, it's simple! Under the layer we're talking about, there is another one, and another one, and another one, to the infinity - I think...

- Hmm, so it is like this...

- ... and every layer brings its own influences, its own variables. I know what to modify to get a somewhat predictable result in this layer, but the other ones don't obey, so to speak, and they ruin my order! But what I managed to do is satisfactory, and it's very good for now.

- Yes, you managed to transform chemical substances! The alchemists would be proud of you!

- ... or jealous, but look, this would be the term to describe what the suit is - "alchemical suit" could be its name.

- Ha, ha, yes! It sounds good!

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