Enlightning Science

The “we were on a break” debate

Posted on March 11, 2017 by TheWanderer

Hello, Wanderer here! The TV show “Friends” is one of the biggest TV shows of all time and it is my personal favourite. The show follows six friends living in New York and getting into some wacky situations on every episode. But sometimes the show hits you harder than a truck at full speed. Of course not literally, but on an emotional level. One of those times was the infamous “we were on a break” situation. For those who don’t know, it is a two episode situation where Ross and Rachel, who were dating, break up because Ross, as stated in the show by Rachel, cheated. And the show kind of asks you to pick a side, whether he did or not, whether the break up was justified or not. But watching the show it got me really thinking was it justified.

Well, to begin analyzing we need to know the situation, how everything led to the break up. Now a fair warning – I watched this show not recently, but I will try to retell the details as best as possible, so if I miss something or exaggerate something, you know why. And now we can begin. The first thing that happens is the break up of Ross and Carol. I will later explain why this is important, right now we just need the chronology. Then we get to Ross and Rachel getting together but not becoming a couple because Ross made a list of pros and cons for dating Rachel. And finally they get together, become a couple. Everything rolls smoothly but later Rachel gets a job in the fashion business as an assistant through a guy named Mark, whom she meets accidentally. Now Ross becomes jealous of him and tries to re-impress Rachel with gifts and “taking an interest in what she does”, which backfires on him, but when the dust settles they are still together. And finally we get to the two episode story of their break up. Rachel gets super busy at work and can’t even make it to their anniversary dinner. Ross shows up at work and messes everything up. Later at their “home” (it is Monica’s house, but Rachel also lives there, so Ross sometimes lives there too) they get into a fight. During the fight Ross says “is it about Mark?” (Mark was working with Rachel as an assistant but then left for a better job before this break up) and Rachel gets mad and she says that they should take a break as in break up. Ross leaves, goes to a party where the copy girl, whom we will call a succubus, later I will explain why, is. During the party, he calls Rachel, but prior to that Mark calls her, finds out that she and Ross broke up and decides to “comfort” her, but in reality he just wanted to sleep with her. So, Ross calls, trying to get back together, but hears Mark, thinks that she is cheating (I have to mention that Ross at this point was drunk and gets even more drunk) so hangs up. And then the succubus comes in, seduces the drunk and sad Ross and they sleep together. Then Ross tries to tell everyone whom the succubus told that they slept together to not tell Rachel, but the efforts were fruitless since Gunther tells Rachel and thus the break up begins. Wow, that was a lot of things.

And now we can begin to examine the situation. As you may have noticed, I haven’t really talked about their emotional states during all of this, somewhere I mentioned them, but superficially. Now let’s take every bit from the timeline and analyze it. First on the list is the collapse of the marriage. Carol was a lesbian, that was inevitable, but when Ross and her got married, she didn’t know that, I do not know how this works so I am not going to dwell on this. But the effect of this break up is visible on Ross and even Phoebe notices it, it destroys Ross self-esteem. He starts to think that all the women who love him, don’t care for him and will easily go away just like Carol did. That of course is not true, but he is damaged, he can’t just easily stop thinking that way. The second bit is the list which also damages him and Rachel. Ross is damaged because this deepens the wound that Carol left, thinking that he is now responsible for the bad things and Rachel is damaged because she thinks that he is not invested in their relationship, that he can easily stop caring for her if somebody better comes along. Now enter Mark. Ross gets jealous of him because he acts so nicely and Rachel appreciates him and spends time with her. We can see that Ross is jealous because of his “wound” and, well, it did seem like Rachel acted more distant towards Ross when Mark is around. I mean, she decided to celebrate the fact that she got the job with Mark and not with Ross, who supported her (that she will get a good job, that she wants) during the unemployment era. Of course Mark was the one who got her the job, so this is a grey area. But we can see that this pushes Ross even more to that negative side, thinking that Rachel will leave him and we can see this when he sends her gifts, decides to make a romantic picnic when she is working, which backfires on him.

And now the break up. Rachel becomes fed up with Ross’ jealousy and the same old fights so she breaks up with. Now during this period until they get back together and break up again they are broken up. You might think that this is nothing but a technicality and is meaningless, but technicalities in science matter; even the slightest deviation from your theory (not in the bounds of error) and your theory is busted (the same goes for hypotheses which this is (theory is based on mountains of evidence, proven predictions and laws; a hypothesis is an attempt to unify evidence into a theory and if the hypothesis’ predictions hold up it becomes a theory)). So now they are both sad, and Ross goes to the party. Why? Well I don’t think it is explained in the show, but my guess is because Joey and Chandler are there, and you know, they are his support. Enter Mark. Ross calls and finds out that he is at “home” and in his drunken and sad state he hangs up, before Rachel can explain, because of the wound. This is sort of Rachel’s fault, because she knew how Ross felt about the Mark situation, so she should’ve not allowed Mark to come “home”. Now enter succubus. Ross is super drunk and sad, she comes along, because she likes him and wants to “hook up”. She “seduces” him. Now why in air quotes. This is because when we are sober and not really that sad we can control every thought that comes to mind. You are able to control what you say and do. Like for instance you want to drink a beer but you don’t because you are the designated driver. You get thoughts to drink, but you don’t, you control yourself. But when you are drunk, your “censorship” is turned off, you barely control yourself and do what comes to mind. When you are sad, you wish yo ease the pain, so whatever you think will help, you wish to do. Of course this inhibition to control yourself can be turned off in different ways, like there was an instance where a person had a tumor in their brain and because of it, he watched child pornography (not even kidding, look it up). So the succubus didn’t really need to do much to seduce him. Of course she knew that he just broke up, thus she is kind of a bad guy in this situation. Now did Ross technically cheat on Rachel? No, they were broken up. But why did they broke up? Why did they were so unrelenting as to who was the bad guy in this situation?

This is done by the last bit. The fact that Ross didn’t tell Rachel that he slept with the succubus. Rachel broke up with him because of her wound, because that sleeping with the succubus, was like a conformation of her fear, her wound. And he slept with the succubus because of his own wound. I think this is pretty self-explanatory and I don’t need to explain everything in detail. So who is at fault in this break up? They both are. The fact that they didn’t speak about their problems to each other, the fact that they didn’t understand each other and didn’t even bother to pushed them over the edge and caused their break up. Imagine what would’ve happened if before the break up they would’ve had a normal, rational talk, explaining their emotions to each other. I think we wouldn’t have had this break up. Anyway, that is going to be it from me, if you have any thoughts on this, be sure to let me know, Wanderer signing out!

Talking about the movie Arrival

Posted on November 13, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, everyone who reads! Before talking about this topic I have to say that from now on, I am not the TimeEmperor. I am the Wanderer. So, let’s restart this introduction.

Hello, Wanderer here! And I recently saw the movie Arrival and I decided to talk about it, and no, I am not sponsored by it, I mean, who would sponsor a nobody? And I must warn you, there will be spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want it to be spoiled, I advise you not to read any further. Now I will not recap the plot of the movie, because I assume everyone who is still reading has seen the movie, so you know what has happened and you don’t really need a reminder. I am going to talk about the movie in three parts:the science, what it has done new or rather something unpopular and the philosophy of the movie.

Firstly, let’s talk about the science. First question that comes to mind is how does the alien ship move? As stated in the movie it doesn’t emit radiation, carbon waste, etc. So how does it move? Probably using an Alcubierre drive. I talked about it in my article about Shinra Tensei or the almighty push, but for those who haven’t read it or don’t remeber this warp drive works by creating a bubble of curved spacetime – the front is “less dense” spacetime curvature and the back is “more dense” spacetime curvature (to put it blunbtly) and in this way spacetime “pushes” the craft to speeds beyond the speed of light without inertial forces (these forces are generally talked about as being fake forces but they are very real and they affect all inertial observers in a non-inertial system (kind of like when you are standing in the bus and you are suddenly knocked back when the bus starts driving or when it is trying to stop, you are knocked to the front. This knock back is the inertial force)). But then again, how does the craft disappear in the fog when it leaves? That cannot be the warp drive (fun fact the name “warp drive” which is used instead of Alcubierre drive comes from Star Trek) because even though you move really fast and the movement cases no damage to the craft, the damage could be cause to the outside, like say a planet with an atmosphere. Why? Because if you started to move really fast, doesn’t even have to be at the speed of light, your craft would create a massive vacuum which in turn could create massive shock waves and winds which would destroy a big part of the planet. My best guess how they disappeared in the fog would be quantum teleportation which is based on quantum entanglement. To explain quantum entanglement without the mathematics is hard, so I will give you just a brief summary. Imagine two particles. Now in quantum mechanics there exists a rule, that these particles, before being observed are in a state of superposition. Basically, before you measure the particle you can only guess about it’s properties, like say it’s position or spin (this is hard to explain, when you never talked about it in your blog). And when you measure the particle, only then you will know about it’s properties, but then again there is the Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle which states that you can’t know both the position of the particle and the momentum of the particle. I will talk about this in future posts, because with this, you would have to cover a lot of ground. So quantum entanglement would be explained best by saying that if you measure one particle to have one spin, the other particle, without even measuring it, will have a certain spin, opposite to the first particle’s spin. Basically, you break the superposition of both particles by measuring one which is totally weird because not only can you break their superposition when they are close, but even lightyears away instantaneously, breaking the speed of light. Quantum teleportation works the same way but you destroy the initial particle that you were teleporting and just sending it’s information to some other particle to “become” the teleported particle. So, yeah, that I did not expect to have happened. If you didn’t understand what I said, don’t worry, it is not easy to explain about a hundred years of physics in a couple of sentences. The short story of the disappearing would be that the ship teleported masking itself in fog. The last question would be the ship’s gravity. That could be answered using the warp drive again. As I have mentioned, the warp drive curves spacetime and since gravity is the curvature of spacetime, you can use the warp drive to make artificial gravity on the ship, however you wanted.

The second thing was what the movie did differently than most sci-fi movies. First of all, it didn’t show the aliens as the bad guys. Most movies show the aliens as the villains, as the antagonists, but here the antagonists were humans, which was the second great thing, showing that humanity can be wrong too. Humanity’s initial response is fear and hatred since the aliens are something unknown and people are afraid of the unknown. With this fear in mind people start to not think clearly and see the aliens as the enemy and they start to hate them and even try to kill them. This, I think, would be the response of the real life humanity if aliens ever decided to come to Earth. The third thing was, the aliens weren’t humanoid or the typical grey skinned and black eyes aliens. No, these aliens were more Lovecraftian (I will talk about this very soon) than they were humans. And lastly, the movie shows how it feels to live as a four dimensional being. Humans are three dimensional, since they can freely move in space, but not in time. The aliens and Louise (if that is her name. From now on I will say that her name is Lois since of the DC movies she starred in (seriously, she has an almost identical first name to the name of Louis Lane she has portrayed in the DC films)) however can move freely through time to their past and future experiences. Of course, this can lead to paradoxes, but that doesn’t matter now.

And now, let’s talk about the philosophy of the movie. Firstly, let’s talk symbolism. There are a lot of symbols in the movie. The first symbol would be the begging of the movie, when she says that she doesn’t believe in beginnings and endings. We see this in the movie as a whole. The movie looks like it is moving in a linear way like most movies, but then it shows something from the future. Of course, it serves as narrative but it also shows, that four dimensional beings don’t have beginnings or endings, they live in every moment of time at once, like the movie’s narrative, even the beginning of the movie is technically not the begging, but the end of it. Another symbol is the fog. It serves as the unknown, going in to the fog you can find yourself lost, because you don’t know where to go. We first see the fog between the border of humans that want to go near the ship and the government doesn’t let them. Going near the ship would be going into the fog, because you wouldn’t know what’s next, where to go, everything would seem unpredictable, and you know how humans love predictability, but only a handful of them want to go and explore the fog. Because of the fog we see humans become more aggressive towards the aliens, because they disrupt their predictability. And the aliens themselves are shrouded in fog and they appear as the incomprehensible beasts from the Lovecraft universe of the old ones, like Cthulhu. But that is not the case. The movie flips this idea and says “yeah, they look scary, but all they want to do is help you, and maybe give you a hug.” This shows, that the fog is not supposedly something you should fear, because there are monsters, but sometimes the monsters are us and those apparent monsters want to help you. Another thing we see is perspective shift. Inside the alien ship when they jump of the platform they land what seems to be wall, but actually is the floor. This shows us that to comprehend something like this, we have to shift our perspectives, to think differently. Another way to see this is when they first enter the room of the aliens. The shot is upside down. This says that their whole world just turned upside down and to make sense of it, you have to change you perspective which some people don’t really do and want to blow the aliens up. And from symbolism to the absurd. Another thing that might have scared the people is the arrival of the aliens shows that we, humans, are not alone in the universe, we are not special, nothing matters. Or as Albert Camus put it – the absurd. Albert Camus was a french philosopher and he called himself not a philosopher, and he also was like a founding father of existentialism. It states that there exists the absurd in the human world – where humans struggle to make meaning of the universe despite it having none. All is meaningless – your hopes, your dreams, your tragedies are just meaningless, they just “don’t matter to the universe”. And this is what the arrival of aliens signifies to the humans. And as we see, most of them can’t really handle it. But another way to see this absurd is with Lois. When she finds out that she can read the alien symbols and live like they do, she finds out that she will have a daughter, but she is going to lose her husband and her daughter, so the question arises, why live at all if you know, that your whole life will be meaningless? For Camus there were three choices either live like nothing happened, kill yourself (both physically and mentally) or embrace the absurd. The universe can’t tell you how to feel about it all so you fell how you want to. And that’s what Lois does. She embraces it all, even though she knows what’s to come, she cherishes every moment of her life.

In conclusion, I love the movie Arrival, it had great science behind it, it stood out of the crowd by being a different kind of a movie and it showed the people how to live your life and how humanity can just be a bunch idiots when it comes to the unknown. The Wanderer signing out!

A statement about this blog

Posted on October 31, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, anyone who is reading this blog, by accident or by choice, I have been away for a long time, and I mean a really long time, about 6 months and I am truly sorry, the truth is – I am lazy. I postpone my work till the very end, I watch videos until 1-2 am, when I have to wake up at 6 am, I stopped reading and just fallen in to pain of this. But I have wrote a part of a book. Now this is what the post is about, I am going to put it up here. I have to warn you, it has a lot of grammatical mistakes, but if you want to read it, here is your chance, in the comments I ask of you to write your constructive criticism. And now enjoy

Out of Time

Prologue

Humans are a funny species. They say they are the smartest and most evolved species to ever walk the Earth, but whenever a disaster occurs they quickly start worshiping their gods as if they are going to help them or they call these disasters acts of gods or god. And it would seem that they would still want to understand why disasters happen in the first place, but only a small portion wants to do just that. The other, bigger portion starts to blame others, they start looking for scapegoats. A serious drought is happening, well it must be those damn volcanoes creating the global warming, while they don’t seem to understand that humans are the cause of global warming, but when it snows they start to scream that this is the proof that global warming isn’t real. Or when people can’t get any jobs they start screaming that Mexicans took their jobs, but they just don’t look at themselves as being the problem, because they’re not right for the job because they were sitting on their posteriors all day watching reality TV, which is also not real. Humans always looked for things to blame, but nobody had it worse than their gods. Why did my plumbing stop working? Well, it must be god’s will. You won’t find a thing that god isn’t responsible for. But they don’t even know how a god feels, they always take him for granted. But a god is lonely, bored and sad and I had to understand this the hard way.

Now don’t worry, this is not a theological book. You see, I am a time traveler. I had traveled back in time around fifty times now. But in doing so I had become something else. Each time I time traveled I got a chance to upgrade my gear until I reached a breaking point. I have managed to miniaturize the negative energy generator in order to put it on my back and with that I can control space-time at my finger tips. I can create suns, make black holes, destroy and create countless things, just because of that little generator. Now you may ask, why did I did this? To become powerful? Important? Well it is sort of those things, I just wanted to save my world from disasters, but not the ones that a mere simple minded ape can think of.

I have ascended to higher level of knowledge and power, but I have left my species behind, because they don’t appreciate science, they take things for granted and cannot see further than themselves. Now don’t get angry I am not speaking about everyone, of course there are a lot of smart people out there, but the majority of people are scared of science and they think they know the truth, like that one time with vaccines and autism, or Mexicans and a wall. But the truth is, those people are idiots, well, to me. That’s why I can’t just give them my time machine, because they will freak out and destroy the world, because they think they know better, just like Hitler or Stalin did. But I didn’t come back in time to give away my stuff, I came here to lead humanity to better place, to a place where the one true evil – ignorance – does not exist and where knowledge is appreciated.

My physics teacher always called the students, except for me, simple mortals. And I always thought that I am immortal. Yes, it is stupid, but at that time I just didn’t understand the universe as much as I do now. Later in life it came to me, that I am just a special mortal. I’m still going to die, but I wasn’t that ignorant like the rest. I was ready to change the world, help save it, but then it happened. It destroyed my world in a way like no mere mortal could think of. Don’t worry, you smart people, you could think of it, if you were given some time. At that time I risked my life to change everything, to stop this destruction. And after that I vowed to save humanity from itself, not like a super villain, but like a shadow, who is guiding humanity in the right direction. But the shadow thing didn’t last quite long. And I think that was my fault, but it definitely was my fault. But I still saved my world.

Chapter 0 OR the second prologue

An unknown soldier entered the general’s office holding pictures in his hands. The general Stormclouk stood up and asked the soldier:

-What is it private?

– General, you have to see this – the soldier answered.

– Well, spill it out.

– We just received these images from our satellites. We have found the ISIS’ base of operations. You see, in these pictures we see their soldiers moving around this cave.

– It looks as if this cave is in the middle of nowhere. Where is it?

– It is just outside the United Emirates.

– Any connection between ISIS and United Emirates?

– Not that we know of any, sir, but we could contact their government…

– No need, firstly, we must focus on dealing with ISIS. These bastards caused too much trouble for us. I’ll contact the president and ask if we should engage on their position. Now get back to your post, private.

– Sir, yes, sir!

After that, the soldier left and general Stormclouk called the president. After a few hours of discussing and convincing the president to attack ISIS in their base of operations the general won the discussion and designed an attack plan to finally take down ISIS. He gathered a twelve man group of his most elite soldiers to attack ISIS. He put them in a chopper and sent them flying to UE to then drive to the cave. The soldiers were thrilled to finally take them down, show the world that America is truly powerful.

– Oh yeah, finally, can’t wait for the battled! – said one soldier.

– You’ll be dead within five minutes with that attitude – joked another soldier.

– Oh yeah? Well, I think that won’t even last fi–

– Will you both shut up?! This is a serious mission. – the third soldier shouted.

– Relax. It will be easy, we are the elite, aren’t we? – the first soldier answered.

– Hell yeah! We will kick ass and show who’s boss! – the fourth soldier yelled – but why are there only twelve of us?

– Because we are the elite, they don’t need any more to take ISIS down! – screamed with excitement the fifth soldier.

– We are approaching the cave, let’s stop here and go on foot. – the driver told the other soldiers.

They exited the vehicles and started walking towards the cave. With each step their fear grew and adrenaline started to be pumped into their bloodstream.

– How much further? – asked the first soldier.

– About half a click. – replied the third soldier.

But then they heard gunshots from where the cave is supposed to be and screams of agony.

-What is going on there?! – yelled the first soldier.

-I don’t know, but we should check it out. Let’s go, ladies, move, move, move! – shouted the commander

They started running but the screams and gunshots faded out. They were dripping with sweat when they arrived but that didn’t bother them as they stood in shock. The guards of the cave were cut in half. Blood all over the sand and the cave’s walls. They silently and cautiously entered the cave and they had to turn on their flashlights because it was too dark to see in the cave. As they turned their flashlights on they were again shocked. Blood was all over the huge cave, bodies mutilated – cut in half or in many more pieces, skulls crushed of other soldiers and some were left with huge, gaping holes in their chests.

– What the fu… – the soldier couldn’t even finish the sentence as he was terrified of the scene he witnessed.

Back in the general’s office the same soldier entered after getting the news from the elite soldiers. General looked up and him and asked:

– How did the mission go?

– Well, ISIS is no more. – replied the soldier.

– That’s wonderful, we should celebrate. Gather the men and get some bear! – said with excitement general Stormclouk.

– Sir, there is something else. The soldiers didn’t take ISIS.

– Then who did?

– That is unknown, but the bodies were mutilated, blood was all over the cave.

– What the hell?

– Not only that, but I checked and our satellite, that spotted ISIS’ hideout shouldn’t have even been looking there.

– What are you saying, private?

– Well, someone managed to hack our systems without us noticing and showed us where the hideout was. Someone knew about it, before we even did.

The general stood above his chair silently, with a serious grin on his face. He said nothing and just left the office.

Chapter 1 – A new start

After the 48^th me sent me on my journey a year had passed when I came up with a great plan. In order to do it, firstly I needed to travel back in time a year to a time before the 48^th me even talked to me but after when 48^th arrived at that time. Traveling back in time was the easy part. The hard part was explaining to him why am I hear and why did I leave my time line behind. The conversation as you might have guessed it was not nice. When I arrived I immediately contacted him and went on board his ship. His first words to me pretty much summed up his reaction:

– What the hell are you doing here? – he asked truly calmly and not at all hysterically.

– What? Surprised to see me? – I replied.

– Yes, I am as a matter of fact. Did something happen to your time line?

– Gather all of us at our meeting place, as soon as you can. I give you about 30 minutes to this task.

– And why should I listen to you?

– Because I have more experience than you.

With those words I left his ship and went to my ship. For the next 30 minutes I at a desk on my deck or the front of my ship thinking how will I explain to 48 people that are essentially me my plan. For those who don’t understand each time I time traveled I made the me of that present be the next me or the next Time Emperor and sent the me that made me into the Time Emperor to a planet a star called Gamma Cephei A. That is the planet where all of the past Time Emperors resided. Until that fateful day. Our casual meeting spot was just outside the Andromeda galaxy’s core or black hole – star system. Don’t worry, we don’t meet in space, actually we rarely even meet. We meet only under the most important of matters like the fate of species and the universe and maybe sometimes for wisdom form other Time Emperors for the current Time Emperor. But the place of the meet is a rogue planet orbiting the galaxy near the core but far away so it doesn’t disintegrate. And of course we keep it from falling in or out of it’s orbit. On the planet there exists a small but a wide building which is our meeting place.

After the thirty minutes have passed I rushed to that place and we all met up on the same time because we calibrate our engines to work that way so we that we would all meet up at the same time and in the span of thirty years. As I entered the building the whole crew was already sitting at the table. The table was at first between five people and we didn’t even think it would grow to fit forty nine of us but mistakes happen and the universe is not entirely predictable. They were all looking at me, waiting for me to say what I wanted. But somehow I got my first case of stage fright and for some time I couldn’t even say a word, I froze up. Then the 38^th asked:

– So why did you gather us all here?

– He said it was urgent, that we should meet, maybe something happened to his time line – said the 48^th.

– Yes, it is urgent and very critical for all of you to hear this. – I spat those words out as I started to gather my composure.

– Well, what is it? – asked the 24^th and he sounded like he wasn’t even interested in what I had to say.

– As much as I can remember – I started to tell them about my plan – we all suffered a loss. Those of us who were the latest Time Emperors it was especially hard because we suffered our own loss and had to suffer through the memories of others’ loss. But I say that this will not happen ever again.

– What are you saying? – asked pleasantly the 3^rd me.

– Well do you even remember what we or better put I wanted to be before all of this happened? – I answered with a question.

– Yes, we or I wanted to be theoretical physicist, to explore the wonders of mathematics and life a great life with her. But we can’t because she is lost to us and we already know everything there is to know. – answered with sadness in his eyes, the 2^nd.

– And the will happen as of now. – I continued, and the 1^st me looked at me with interest and I got a little bit scared, but I digressed – from now on we don’t target the present me if an emergency occurs. Now we transfer the memories to the past me. Now I know you all think this is bogus, but here me out. We will have our planets to protect instead of sitting on our posteriors. And the present me will live his life the way he or I wanted to. I, the current Time Emperor, will protect the Earth and the block of galaxies around it, and you will have to divide to protect the other parts of the Universe.

A silence took place. Everyone was thinking about this plan. Then they started discussing with each other whether to accept it or not. And the 1^st me stood up and said:

– I have suffered through my time and I made you suffer as well, but I don’t want anymore suffering. I will accept this plan and I will take the block of galaxies next to you.

– So where is that exactly, because the universe has three spatial dimensions as far as I can remember. – I jokingly asked.

– You will just have to come and visit me to find out.

– But wait, what happened to your time line? – the persistent 48^th with his time lines asked.

– I left it – I answered – I thought if you wanted to stop the suffering of Earth inhabitants I had to fix it and leave it and that’s what I did.

– Well, I guess you are right and there is no way back to that time line, so we don’t need to talk about it – told the 45^th.

After this conversation we all left the meeting place. I went to Earth and the rest of the Time Emperors traveled to back to their “resort” planet to pick up their things and decide which places to protect. I positioned my ship at the first Lagrange point and turned on stealth mode before entering Earth’s visibility range so I would be unseen, work from the shadows.

When I got back to Earth my A.I. asked me what did I wish to do now. I was exhausted so I said:

– Now I don’t want to do anything, I want to rest.

– Very well. – he answered.

My A.I. iss powerful but I’m in control of it with protocols in place so it doesn’t go rogue and does not disobey me. But I started thinking about him as a human being. It is technically a human, but without a body and with a few restrictions but otherwise it is a human. So I stood on the deck and thought to myself and then I said to him:

– You know, you have been a really great help these many many years and I never properly thanked you.

– There is no need, sir. – it answered.

– Oh yes there is. Have you ever thought of having a body?

– Well I do control your army of robots and super-robots.

– No, not like that, but a real body. That it would be similar to a human.

– Well I did think of it, but I never created one.

– So as a thank you for your service I grant you the ability to create a humanoid body.

– Don’t you fear I will go rogue?

– No, I trust you and your protocols.

– Then thank you, sir, I will go create myself a body and transfer my consciousness into it. While I’m gone I won’t be able to help you.

– Don’t worry, I managed to survive even before your existence.

And with those words the day ended. He went to become an almost human and I went to get my sweet sweet rest.

Chapter 2 – In the shadows

While my A.I. was giving himself a rework, I decided to finally start taking action. But if did take action, the world would know of it. That was inevitable. I decided to make sure that I would be some unknown force, nobody would know who I was, where did I come from, but they would know only a small part of my power. With this I decided to finally end ISIS, once and for all. They had been too much of a nuisance, they were showing of that they have power, because people feared them. But that’s not the case, you don’t have power, you have fear among people and one day the people will take you down because living in fear was not so pleasant. But because of all the international affairs happening I decided to take them down myself because nobody else could. Well, not that anyone couldn’t but because they couldn’t find ISIS’ main hideout. Except for me.

When I found the hideout, it was any easy task to do, took me about fifteen minutes, I hacked into the U.S. military satellite and made it directly at the hideout and then I waited to hear when and how they will attack the hideout. I could hear them, or more precisely see what they were doing, because I could hack any system on the planet.

Once they decided on the attack plan I waited until the soldiers prepared to move onto the hideout’s location, and when they did I started flying above them, invisible of course, and when they stopped and started walking towards the location, I quickly flew towards it and made myself visible to the guards. You could imagine how they reacted, I mean, how would you react if you had a gun, idiot’s thinking capabilities and an unknown flying man just appeared in front of you. Well of course you would be scared and would start to shoot. Okay, maybe they weren’t idiots and were perfect guards, but to me, anyone who tries to kill countless lives just for their religion is an idiot. So they shot at me. Of course I could deflect the bullets away from me and I sliced them in half or more accurately I blew their two parts by creating a space-time curvature that was like two forces were pushing in opposite directions of each other. Yeah, it was really painful for them, but it lasted less than a second so it was okay I guess.

I landed in front of the cave’s entrance and, well, you guessed it, I entered it. Shortly after the rest of the ISIS’ leaders were pointing their guns at me. They were not happy that someone or something showed up at their front door, slaughtered their guards and now is here. I was really calm, because who wouldn’t in this kind of situation, and proposed to talk to them. But they seemed not so eager to talk to me, and started shooting at me. I was a little bit mad, but that was expected from them, so I started crushing skulls with space-time and sent space-time knives (a space-time knife is like a space-time curvature that would be equal to some force, like 50N for example, but it is traveling at the speed of light instead of regular knife’s speed, when thrown, and it was a narrow compression, with the width of an average knife, hence the name) at the other leaders, who didn’t have their skulls crushed.

After the bloodshed ended, I opened a wormhole to my ship and went through it just before the American soldiers arrived. Now you may ask why did I kill them, why not just simply abduct them and help them in some way that they wouldn’t want to fight me. Of course there is a way, an intergalactic prison which uses neuroscience to “reeducate” beings to not kill or loot, but not always can beings be redeemed. Beings, who are sociopaths or ideological killer, they’re basically the same, can’t be redeemed and have to be locked away forever. And besides, you can’t show technology which is from a higher type civilization, since Earth, or humanity more specifically is only a type 0, it can’t be shown any cool technologies. With this in mind I could have chosen between leaving them alone and letting the scum walk the earth or I could kill them and rid them from this world. And you already know my choice, however gruesome it may be.

As I arrived on my ship I looked ant myself and reflected on what I have done. I didn’t like killing, never thought it was good to do so, every time that I killed I felt bad, even if it was essential for my survival, or destroying an empire. I dropped to my knees, I wanted to cry, but I couldn’t, I wanted to scream, but I had to hold my silence. I knew it was necessary, I knew it was for the better world, but it still was painful, because I don’t want to kill, like many people, I preferred that other people should stick their hands in the mud, but it was I who had to get my hands dirty, for more than 2500 years. I just wanted the misery to end. And the thought that this life will end my misery, that I will finally become free and alive, gave me hope and kept me moving.

After my feelings of guilt I stood up and went towards the computer. I wanted to do something that Anonymous or Edward Snowden couldn’t, I wanted that the people would fight for their rights and bring down the corruption and those people who thought that security is better than freedom. I sat beside my computer and with a few clicks I put every secret of any political official or anyone of that matter so I’m talking about politicians, presidents, business, military, secret agencies and so on. And I’m talking all of the secrets, no matter how big or dirty it is, it was out there. Before I could take down communism I had to wait, to if the people could do it themselves.

After a few days and hundreds of riots nothing was changing, politicians were still abusing the system and getting rich by the minute like a businessman and the business people exploited their workers to earn money. So action must have been taken and I did what anyone would do and dispersed the money of the wealthy to the lower and the middle class, it is funny how humans put a lot of trust in the internet to do their finances. Now everyone had the same amount of money no matter what job they worked. You would think this would cause inflation and everything else. Well it would, but I made it so, that the money couldn’t be reached to those who don’t need it. People who didn’t need were selected by an algorithm which checked their financial history.

After that day the world was in chaos: politicians were fixing problems, they were even taken down with small revolutions, peaceful I have to say, but communism prevailed. So I had to come up with a plan how to take it down. I decided I would start with North Korea, destroy communism there, then go to China, Vietnam and work my way towards Russia, yes, I said Russia, because as much as you want to deny it, the president of Russia was a communist and he implemented some sick rules, it was certain, some form of a dictatorship was still flaming in Russia, like a flame in the forest on a cold they, with potential to destroy the whole forest.

The march towards the house of the communist party was relatively easy. Before marching I alerted the South Korean government through anonymous tip that North Korea was planning an attack. Before South Korea could send their scout planes or simply look through their watchtowers I appeared at the front door of North Korea, of course I got there through the wormhole, but that is not the case, we’re not here to discuss details, although I seemed to give a lot of thought to detail. Damn. I guess we are here to discuss details. Oh well, what’s done is done, I’m too lazy to change what I’ve written. Anyway as I appeared, those pesky little soldiers started shooting at me so I killed the by ripping them apart. Now I do have to note that anybody who doesn’t try to kill me, I don’t kill. That said, I quickly marched towards the end of communism in North Korea. On my way, however, I did encounter soldiers and I did kill them, because they tried to kill me, but soon they realized that if they don’t attack me, they get to live. Some tanks and choppers and a handful of planes apparently didn’t get the memo and were quickly crushed by space-time. For some reason my favorite attack for crushing structures like cars, tanks, spaceships, buildings, etc. was crushing them with space-time. It was gruesome, but for some reason fun, because you cant get them closer and closer to turning into a black hole, for cars that was really far away, but planets and stars were not. In my lifetime I had many chances to crush objects to black holes, and don’t worry I restored those objects in to their previous molecular compositions. Sorry for derailing this train of thought but I am really fascinated about black holes even if I already know what there is to know about them.

After some bloodshed the gunshots and screams of agony stopped. The soldiers valued their life more than obeying their dictators. So I picked up the pace and started flying towards the headquarters and that time the South Korean army finally reached the doorstep of bloodshed. I flew to their “palace” and burst in through the doors. Some were scared, begging me not to kill them and others were laughing at those people, because they got the memo that I don’t kill if you don’t try to kill me. But they didn’t get the other memo from ISIS. I wipe the scum of the earth from it. But I wanted them to suffer for what they did to their people, but I suppressed my primitive thoughts of torture and decided that killing them would be just fine. I killed all but one of them, I didn’t kill their leader Kim Jong-un. He had to suffer, he was fearing for his life, he didn’t want to accept the inevitability of his death. He started crying, screaming, begging me for mercy. But I only looked down on him and I knew what kind of horrific acts he allowed to happen and I said to him, that he could have lived very differently if he didn’t follow his footsteps, if he didn’t just think of himself and thought of the people, what would be best for them and now for him. Even when I said this he still was crying, he wasn’t even listening and I just killed him, opened a wormhole and left.

After I had slept I checked the news and I was surprised that my fight against North Korea ended in an astonishing way: the North and South Korea joined in to one Korean republic, other communist regimes had fallen, because of how quickly the word spread of the slaughter and people decided to take action. Yes, all of the dictatorships had fallen except for one. Russia was still standing, people were too afraid to act, because of the law, which was passed, that allowed police officers shoot at rioters. In other previously communist there were a lot of civilian casualties, but they were fed up with the regime that they thought of the future of their children and not their lives.

I decided to have a talk with the man in charge of the so called “Mother Russia”. I quickly appeared in Moscow, because you know, I can travel through wormholes. And I made my way into Putin’s office, in stealth mode of course and surely he was sitting there. As I made my presence know he was, like everyone else, surprised, but he didn’t shoot me this time. He asked me:

-What the hell are you?! How did you get into this place?!

– I have my ways. – I answered. For those who don’t understand how could I talk to him, I have a universal translator in brain that translates languages on the spot.

-What do you want from me?

-I want you to resign from your position, before that dismantle your communist party and your communist laws.

-And why would I do that?

-I guess you still want to live, don’t you?

-And why do you think that your threats will affect me?

-Because I took down North Korea. – as I said these words he turned pale, opened his eyes wide, and started sweating – so if you save your sorry excuse for a life, then I suggest accept my order.

-Who the hell are you?! – he asked frightened.

-I am the TimeEmperor.

After that I left and went to my ship’s workshop to upgrade my tech. When few days past, relative to me I saw on the new that Putin did exactly what I wanted but he said that he did it on behalf of the TimeEmperor. And thus the world knew that somewhere existed someone so powerful that he could take down powerful nations in just one sweep in less than a day’s time.

Chapter 3 – Some parts

You probably don’t know a lot about me. You don’t know my morning and afternoon routines, how I live my life, when I am not out there saving the world. Well, be glad that you will never know of those routines, but you will know how I spend my time, when I am not fighting bad guys. Prepare to get shocked. Are you ready? Okay, let me start by saying that I am bored, I have nothing to do. Yes, that’s right, I have nothing to do. I know everything there is to know about the universe, I mastered time travel, travel between universes, how to control space-time so nothing is left for me to do.

I always wanted to do something great and I did, but now that I have anything that I could achieve, I have nothing to do, I am truly the most bored person in the universe. Of course it wasn’t always like this, I had a family, I was with her, but after it I didn’t have my family, I didn’t have her. But I did achieve my dream of being highly intelligent and powerful, so there’s that. I guess I am not that happy that I lost my family, because it never felt like they were my family.

I had a deadbeat brother, who kept moving out of my parents’ house and moving back in. He kept making stupid mistakes and he wasn’t even thinking about consequences, he wanted to even rob the place where he worked because the owners didn’t pay him enough. Yes, it was unfair to not get paid fairly but you don’t have to be so stupid to think of robbing the place. He was a university drop out, never truly appreciated science, only thought about money and his own ideals. But sometimes he was capable of kindness and love for others, nevertheless he was probably the fault of my parents’ teachings.

My parents weren’t so different. They only thought of themselves, didn’t care for me or my brother or each other for that matter. My mother even wanted to leave my father just because it was unbearable to live with him, which is ironic considering the fact that it was unbearable to live with her too. They always thought highly of themselves, they thought that they can do anything or that money matters most, then comes family.

Let’s start with my father. He was born in a village then he moved to the city, before he did that he met my mom, who of course was from the city. Now you have to keep in mind, that they were living in the Soviet Union, because at that time Lithuania was a part of it. I say this, because maybe they became the way they were because of that fact, of what was happening then and there. He was not really a smart person, but he had some experience with tools, electronics and how to act around people, so he managed to live with that. Before it happened he was an administrator in a fancy chain of hotel-restaurants. And he started only as a waiter, talk about started from the bottom, now we are here. With that said, he was very conservative, didn’t like the changes that were happening and he was very greedy. He valued money, his comfortable life, buying us better food than instant ramen was a little bit to hard, because he thought we liked it. Well, maybe my brother did, but I got sick of it fast. But he did buy us things, but he made it pretty clear that we had to pay for them in chores and with help around the house.

My mother was similar. She was a city girl before she grew up working in a dead end job in meteorology or more precisely in the archives of a meteorological facility. But she was also a writer, a lousy one at that, just like me. She wrote some books, scenarios for TV shows. She also valued money, but she was different than the rest of the family, because you could talk to her about philosophical problems and socials issues, like with a normal person. But she was still conservative, like my father, and valued herself above everyone else. But like my brother she had her special moments, where she showed compassion for others and was willing to help others.

At the first years of my life I didn’t realize how bad my family’s values were, but as I grew older, especially when I was around sixteen years old I started to realize some very wrong things. I realized that my parents and brother were always thinking about themselves, rarely thinking about others, and when they did something great for others, most of the times they wanted some sort of a reward, like there is one for being a good parent. Maybe they were working so hard and didn’t time for me, because they needed to provide for the family, but that doesn’t matter to a child who is left alone, feeling like he can’t even talk to his family, he wanted parents, that cared for him and were capable of showing that, instead, he was spoiled and lonely, at the age of fourteen thinking about suicide. If you don’t understand it is me, we are talking about. I always felt like I was on my own, so I used my parents as tools, either it was for money or food. After some growing up I just stopped talking to them, relied on myself and her, they were just people I lived with. Maybe they loved me, maybe, but I will never know, now will I, because they never showed their love, unless you count those times were they made me do things that they could easily do themselves, but just couldn’t lift their butts and walk a few steps to get a glass of water. It seemed that if they had kids, they were entitled to abuse them, make them work for them and the parents just sat there and relaxed or worked, it was either one of those, because being with their kids, like a normal family was not right.

Of course I do have to say that we did spend time as a family, but it was rare and all the other time they weren’t one. For years I had to endure sitting at the dinner table, the only person who was the smartest one at the table, with no one to talk to, while those primitive, selfish beasts sat at the table laughing. Maybe they loved me, but I guess I will never know.

Anyways, enough of that, let’s talk about where I live now. As you might have guessed it I live on a gigantic spaceship, which is at the first Lagrange point. You might be thinking, how big is the ship. Well it’s length is the length of the United States of America, from west to east or east to west, however you like it. It has five thermonuclear reactors, one negative energy generator, sixteen ion-propulsion engines, I built them just in case the negative energy generator broke, but didn’t really wanted to change them, because I am lazy and I probably got that from my parents, who were really lazy. Maybe I will change them later. Also, the ship has an army of a thousand robots, one hundred and fifty super-robots, my A.I., the material processing chambers, I have now forgot how many there are, storage spaces, laboratories, a ship docking station which is separated by two huge plasma windows and my own personal room. Of course there are a lot of other rooms, but they are not that important to be listed.

For fun I have antimatter chambers for making really powerful bombs. I actually got to use it once, to blow up a radical empire’s city to smithereens. The empire stopped it’s attacks on smaller civilizations after that, mainly because it was the capital and I blew up the city in an instant, nobody even noticed the bomb. That was not fun, because apparently they had their own antimatter reservoirs but thankfully they kept them underground and far enough that the bomb didn’t do any damage to those reservoirs. Otherwise, billions of innocent lives could have perished. And don’t worry, people who were living in the capital were all either ideological radicals or leaders of the empire, believe me, I checked.

I also have a weapon chamber, which is not really that cool, but what is cool, is my servers which store all the knowledge of the universe. Because I wasn’t held backed by ideologies or social issues, after I dealt with it I could study the universe in peace and so I did, whilst also protecting her, but because I was caught up with science, I couldn’t save her all those times. I also have a plate implanted inside my head so I could receive messages from my A.I. and I could control the space-time with the generator on my back. The way I dress might also interest you. I have black shoes, dark brown pants that don’t get in my way when I am running, a protective shirt on which lies the generator and it’s two bracelets, which allow me to project information or to scan it. I also have a raincoat and a face mask like from the certain hacking game which disappointed a lot of fans. I also cover my eyes with glasses which allow me to see in the whole spectrum of light and they also project information about visible objects. Well maybe they’re not glasses, but more like goggles, I don’t know. They’re probably goggles. And I also am wearing a pirate’s hat, with the sharp angle pointing towards anything I point my head at. The clothes are covered in stealth materials so I can go stealth at any time. Of course I can curve space-time in such a way that I appeared invisible, but that is too much hard work.

Well, that is me, a mistreated child who wanted to spend my whole life with her and researching the universe, but was instead met with it and had to live a life of misery.

Chapter 4 – It

After the fall of corruption I became extremely bored, since I had nothing to do, which you already know. So I have decided to remember a few things. Let me explain, my brain doesn’t hold all of the memories of my past selves, actually a server does that so I can connect to it anytime I want and watch my memories like a TV show. To be fair they are not truly memories but how I remember the situation that my past self was in and how the computer interpreted the neuron patters. Since I am truly the smartest living being in the universe at the moment (and the most bored one) I know that my technology accurately interpreted those patterns.

As I was getting ready to watch some memories with some popcorn I realized that I didn’t know which memory I wanted to watch. After a few minutes of deep thinking I thought to myself that I rarely watch it. So I turned on the huge screen found the memory and started watching. Don’ t worry, the brain can’t remember the complete experience so I didn’t watch fifty years worth of memories.

It happened when I was seventeen. The day was in the spring. It was around noon and I was walking with her home from school, we were arguing which is the best science physics or biology. Of course I won the argument since physics explains the universe while biology explains life on Earth. Anyway, we were walking past the store when we heard an ear shattering noise. It seemed like it came from everywhere and then the blue light shined on some people, including her, and after the light those people were gone. I was scared, I started shouting her name, looking for her all over the place, when another noise was heard. This one was quieter than the previous one, but it was still pretty loud. It began before I even knew it. I thought to myself that she might be there where the noise came from so I started running and I ran, but I got nowhere close to the origin of the noise. I panicked. She was gone.

As I was crying on the ground, because I fell from exhaustion, some person picked me and said that I should run, the alien invasion was happening. Then I realized that whoever took her, must be attacking, so I had to stop this invasion. Yeah, I know, it sounds stupid, but believe me, truly thought that I could stop the invasion by myself, but this thinking kept me alive. I then stood up, vowed to save her and ran towards the nearest shop to gather food and electronics. Unsurprisingly most of the food was already stolen but idiots that people are, they left all of the good technology: phones, computer, microwaves, etc. I took as much as I can push on two shopping carts. I made my way home and put everything in my house. Then I remembered I had parents so I tried to call them, but it seemed that aliens already knew that we use radio signals, so they cut us of. After the initial raid I started raiding gun stores and other stores for ammunition and food. I also raided libraries for books and that sort of thing to learn anything I need.

During the span of fifteen years I met up with my parents right before they died. They were trapped under some debris that I couldn’t lift I had that moment of clarity where I realized that somehow I still love them, must be a parent – child bond or something. Also I learned the whole university course of physics, mathematics and engineering. How? Well I had help, some professors thought of a way to get of this planet. They wanted to confirm an untested idea and make a spaceship from that idea. The idea was an Alcubierre drive or to most known as the warp drive. Also, this warp drive could work as a time machine if you were to go fast enough. Unfortunately those professors died. They either killed themselves from the pressure or the aliens killed them. After fifteen years, I was alone, again.

Of course I helped with the fighting too. I wasn’t really good at first, like everyone else who is forced into joining the army for some unknown reasons, I am looking at you forced army training. But with years going by my skills got sharper and sharper to the point that I was undetectable to the aliens, well sometimes, my house was undetectable, but standing in the open I was pretty detectable. Anyway, through the same fifteen years I gathered alien technology, trying to crack it. But as it is with most invasion, the humans did not persevere. At first they were dropping like flies, I wasn’t almost killed a few thousand times. But later the death toll was declining and we even started winning some battles, but just the small ones.

After those fifteen years, thirty more had to pass for something exciting to happen. I mean a lot of exciting things happened during those thirty years, but not as exciting as this: the aliens let me go. One day I was looking for supplies in this wasteland. I had to expand my scavenging radius too the outskirts of the city to find something useful. Somehow I made it to the outskirts and found a good-looking house in the standards of those times. I tried to enter but some man stopped me, he held a shotgun in my face and yelled to me that I should get out from here, not necessarily in those words. I tried explaining myself that I was trying to save humanity, which actually wasn’t doing, he was too cynical to be reasoned with so I knocked him out. I entered his house and saw a mother and her two children watching me with fear in their eyes. I said that everything is okay, I am going to leave, I just needed a TV, they pointed to this top of the line TV and before I took it, I put the father on the couch, gave the mother the shotgun and then I left with the TV.

Traveling hidden with a huge TV is not so simple, but I had done it some many times, that I managed to stay hidden and avoid three or four teams of aliens. As I was walking to my home I saw one alien walking around, I thought I can take him, but I realized the TV might get damaged so I couldn’t risk it, so I tried sneaking past him. That did not go well. He saw me, but for some reason he didn’t shoot me. I thought he was holding me like a hostage so I put the TV down and raised my hands up and then I remember that the aliens never took hostages. He dropped the gun and started attacking me and I tried punching him but his bones were like metal, I almost broke my hand punching his face. Somehow I grabbed my gun and killed the bastard, took the TV and ran towards my home.

After that five years passed and I rolled out my ship and went into space. Why then? Well because I need the material to make this kind of spaceship and it was a lot of material. And the fact that at that time the aliens decided to leave Earth. In pieces. They decided to drop the Moon on it. I managed to escape the planet just before the weird tidal effects took place. During those fifty years I had met a lot of people, killed oh so many aliens, but I was glad to leave that place, it was misery. Living at that time caused me so much pain, not only was she gone, but I lost so many people, lost my home, my planet and accidentally time traveled but for that I am thankful, only because of that I was able not to waste time on a pointless search. Why?

Well let us talk about what happened after traveling accidentally in time. I landed twelve years before the start of it. At first I broke down. I couldn’t stop crying because I thought I lost her forever. After a few weeks of crying I realized that I could save her, I could change this time line. Alas I realized that I didn’t know anything about the invasion and I was too old for it. So I managed to build a device which stored my memories and also implanted them in the other person’s brain. That took me twelve years, because I needed neuroscience and computer sciences knowledge. So I was too late to stop the invasion, but I could transplant the memories into the younger me. I had to convince him that it was me, but that was a piece of cake since I know me. After the memory “transplant” I began my journey as my younger self. I decided to wait for the invasion and prior to it I saw a massive white ship.

It was the ship that took her, so I decided to wait for the ship to reach it’s destination but the invaders took the ship down and it crashed into the Earth. That was the noise that I later heard. After that traveled the cosmos, created an A.I. which helped me with my research, I became a type three being. Type zero is humans, the beings that use poor fuel and still fight among each other. And also they can’t normally travel trough their own solar system. Type one is beings that can travel through their own planet easily and can manipulate it. They also don’t fight among one other and they don’t say that science is wrong because they know better without any scientific degree whatsoever. Type two is a being that can easily travel through it’s native solar system like it was it’s native planet. Type three is a being that can travel easily through it’s native galaxy, which in my case is Milky way. Type four is a being that can travel to neighboring galaxies easily, but not through the whole universe. Type five is a being that can travel through the whole universe easily. And a type six, which I currently am, is a being that can travel through universes. I wrote this because I assumed you didn’t know the classifications. The main rule for all of these beings is to not introduce technology of a higher type to a lower type being. Which is truly stupid if you ask me, but who listens to the smart guy. Everybody gets bored because I am speaking science. Sorry, it was just a general outburst to this fact, since nobody listens to me, they think I am boring, but talking about games, breasts, videos or cards is truly exciting. I am fine. I am fine. Well does things are exciting, I guess, but science is too.

Anyway, after a few attempts to save her, I came to a conclusion, that I just can’t do it, she either doesn’t believe or is too scared of me or accidentally dies. And I also knew that I had to stop the invasion. After a lot of lifetimes and a lot of inventing and working at the 40^th life I finally manged to make a small enough negative energy generator to put it on my back and use it with my mind. I became a type five being. Of course I realized why the invasion happened. It was because the planet wasn’t owned by any civilization. Again, I think that is stupid. Because the planet wasn’t owned by any civilization it anyone could take it if there is no life. But since it is inhabited by a type zero beings nobody can make contact with it and nobody looks after it, since the type zero beings have to make their own jump to type one or destroy themselves, which in my opinion could have happened. So since nobody looks after it anybody can invade it and say that the type zeroes destroyed themselves and that the invaders just took over. So yeah, the whole invasion was because of territorial needs. Like animals the aliens did everything they could to take the planet. Of course those kinds of civilizations, if you could called them that, don’t survive. Because of their greed they take too big of bite to chew and attack a type four civilization and get annihilated.

Since I was a type five I could cheat any system and I did. I made myself as the proud owner of planet Earth. And since I was a type five I convinced a lot of type four civilizations that the invading aliens were the bad guys and we killed them. Strangely, we didn’t find a body of their leader, he was gone. After that I tried to save her, but for some reason I just couldn’t, she slipped through my hand. I also helped a lot other civilizations during their times of struggle but I never felt great. I missed her all the time. And when I technically became the 50^th TimeEmperor I vowed never to let her die again.

The name TimeEmperor is a strange one. One time she even got spooked by the name. Well the origin of this name is quite stupid. I was called by this name in a bar fight after telling some aliens that I traveled back in time too many times and they thought I was joking. I think to their deaths they didn’t believe. Oh don’t worry I didn’t kill them, although I wish I did, but that wouldn’t have made me happy, but seeing that guy’s face hit the table was pretty hilarious. What was I talking about? Oh right, they are in a different time line and since I can’t return to it, they are dead to me, just like all of those people, who had to suffer it.

Also, you might have picked up on the fact that I won’t show humans higher type technology while also saying that this rule is garbage. That is hypocritical isn’t it? No, not really. You see, type sixes should share technology with type ones, but not type zeroes. Type zeroes should make their own jump to type one or destroy themselves proving that they didn’t deserve the technology in the first place. I mean imagine you give nuclear power to a type zero. Next thing you know they are building bombs based on nuclear power dropping them onto two cities and trying to put it in orbit around their planet. Who does that? Animals, that’s who.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that type zeroes are all animals, the minority of them isn’t. You could even call the minority type ones, since they could meat the requirements, but the majority doesn’t allow them, they silence them, make them work for military purposes or just makes them poorly paid professors who just don’t care if you learn anything. That is a type zero majority. The minority would teach anyone to work for everyone, not in a communist way, but in a civilized manner. When this minority becomes the majority, then you can call it a type one civilization. Until then it is just animals running around and screaming how evolved they are while killing each other at the same time.

Chapter 5 – The generation gap

After watching the memories and crying for some time I decided that it was time to sleep. So I went to sleep and after eight hours I woke up to “Get up” by Korn featuring Skrillex. Yes, I listen to this kind of music, don’t judge me. I had my breakfast when I heard footsteps. They were moving towards my ship’s kitchen and I saw my A.I.. He looked like someone who works out. Yet he was still a robot. He was white in color but you could see some black in the joints. He also didn’t have a face, you could only see the two holes for eyes. They were blue. Even though he wasn’t human, he really loked like one. He looked to me and said:

– How do I look?

– Like a human – I answered.

– Well I tried my best to look like one. And from now on you can call me Tom.

– As in Trans-human operating machine?

– No. as in just Tom. I just want to be like a human so I have to have a real name.

– Oh, well okay then, Tom. So what are you going to do today?

– I am going to take this body out for a spin, but don’t worry we will still be able to communicate, I will be just a little bit busier than usual.

– I understand and I really didn’t have any worries about communication.

– What’s the matter? You sound depressed.

– I am just too bored, I have no idea what I am supposed to do.

– Maybe you should go for a walk, see what people are up to and not via computer screen. Experience something outside.

– You know what? I think you are right, I should go out, see the world. I will go see how my lovely home is doing. Thanks, Tom.

And so I set out to my lovely-not-so-lovely city. I wanted to see how people are living after everything that had happened. Of course I was in stealth mode so nobody would see me. It was a bright summer day and people were busy as usual, going from one pointless place to another. There weren’t any clouds in the sky and it was truly hot outside. The bad thing was I was in a full body suit, so I started to sweat. The good thing is that the nanobots inside my body can make me not sweaty. Actually because of them the 1^st survived to live this long after the 27^th introduced him to them. Now he looks like forty years old.

I started to walk around in the famous park to see the beauty that is nature. Sadly, though, people were not as excited as I was. They were either screaming how all of the world is a harsh place for them to live in or they were just happy to be playing video games. Either way the nature was not important to them.

I made my way down the big hill towards the enormous field and saw people exercising and spending their time talking to their families. It was pleasant and nice to watch. Of course I saw abusive pet owners, who thought that they are superior to their pets. I wanted them to slap them across the field but I had to be in stealth mode.

I was walking around the field when I heard two old ladies talking. At first it felt nice knowing that old people still try to live rather than complain about life but I was wrong. They were complaining about everything.

– I mean do you even know how obnoxious the young people are? They are always listening to their damn satanic music and treating us like garbage. – the first lady said as I sat next to her in stealth mode.

– I know what you mean. The other day I was riding the bus when this young man hit me. He said he was sorry and it was the fault of inertia as the bus was stopping and he couldn’t grab onto something to hold. I just couldn’t believe that he thought was not at fault here because of some nonsense as inertia. – the second lady responded.

– I remember when this one time my grandson said that doing the work you love is more important than having a good paying job. I mean how are you going to take care of your family?

– I know. My daughter even said that having a husband who she loves is more important than having a rich husband.

– These youngsters think think they know more than we do. If they had lived as long as we did, than they would have known when to shut up.

– Oh, I remembered a good one. I was walking my Bessie when she started to go of sniffing some grass and I just smacked her in the back so she wouldn’t go and this youngster said that I shouldn’t hurt my dog. I said how else is it going to learn. And you know what he said? He said that the dog is not an it and you can teach it with treats. I mean what kind of an idiot is he? My mommy used violence to teach me and look how good I turned out.

– What an idiot that youngster is. You know, this one time I and my family were discussing about politics and I said that it was better in the soviet union and my grandson said that in the soviet union our economy was so bad that people starved to death. I mean he is stupid, nothing like that happened to me, so nothing happened to anyone. – at this point I knew I had to step in. I went out of stealth mode and probably almost gave them heart attacks and said:

– You do realize that the communist party was really good at hiding things and lying about it?

– They never lied, they were always good and were telling the truth.

– Yeah, they were trustworthy unlike today’s politicians.

– You do understand that you are the ones who pick out these untrustworthy politicians in the first place and that the soviet union did really hide everything from the people to keep them “happy” even though they had no money, no intellectual work was done and people like you thrived because you were good sheep to listen to the liars.

– Did you live in the soviet union?

– As a matter of fact I did not. But—

– Then don’t tell us how it was.

– Well you are rude. You didn’t even let me finish what I was trying to say. So as I was saying–

– How old are you?

– Really? You won’t let me finish because of what? What is the matter with you?

– Well, tell us, how old are you?

– I am twenty years o–

– Aha! I knew it. You are too young to understand us. Move along you dumb youngster.

– Yeah, beat it. Go play with your toys and what not.

– That is it. You are just unbearable. You can’t let me finish what I am trying to say, and even if I am in compliance with you, you just keep thinking about yourselves. And so what if I am twenty years old I–

– Oh just st–

– Silence! I didn’t finish speaking, and you are not allowed to speak. As I was saying even if I am twenty years old I still know more than you two. Did you know that inertia exists and is a normal physical property of all bodies? I know that you don’t. Did you know that people can have their own opinions and experiences? I guess you didn’t know that either. And just because you are old, doesn’t mean you are smart and should be respected. First of all, respect should be earned, so I wouldn’t just mark your bus ticket just because you asked me and I respect you. If you yelled at me I would just tear it apart because you are disrespectful to me. Secondly, your age or your birthplace determines nothing, but your experiences and logical thinking do determine how smart are you. Since you lack both of these things you are not smart so nobody should listen to you and you should listen to others like the quiet sheep you are. That is why the communists loved, because you lacked experience, lacked logical thinking so you believed everything everyone said.

Everyone in the field hear my speech. Everyone was looking. The two ladies sat on the bench and couldn’t say a word. I knew that everybody understood what I said but they too couldn’t say anything. So I just stood up went into stealth mode and walked out. Later on the news they called me an arrogant youngster who just didn’t know any better. If only they knew what I went through then I would still not be appreciated.

Chapter 6 – the birds and the bees

Now that I was out of the shadows people talked about me like I was some celebrity. Of course I hated the attention but some times it felt good that people heard what I said in that park. But some people were really angry, especially religious people. They thought I upset god’s plan as if somehow a mere mortal could disrupt an omnipotent being’s plan of something. They didn’t even realize this hypocrisy they just hated me because I yelled at two dumb old ladies. These reports really made me mad.

After one of these reports I wanted to go outside for a walk but Tom tried to stop me, he said that some of our drones that were patrolling my sector were destroyed recently. He said I should check it out but I really wanted that enthusiastic walk so I said that Tom should go and check it out. He accepted and as I was getting ready to go he told me that if anything happens he will notify me immediately.

When I said that everything is fine probably a comet or an asteroid hit those drones I went out into the heart of my birthplace. Again I was in stealth mode since I really didn’t want to be seen. As I was going down hill I noticed the beautiful panorama of the city. I stood on the air for a few minutes just basking in it. After that I started walking and observing how people spent their time in the city centre. Now that I think of it, this really sounds creepy. Even though I am not a creep, I just really missed the place, the people even if I hated them.

I was walking around and saw a cult singing their redundant and repetitive song out loud gathering more and more people. This reminded me of those awful reports and I just wanted to step in but I calmed myself and I told myself it wasn’t worth it. If people are stupid enough to buy into this crap then there is no point in talking them out of it.

After some time I was by the grand cathedral which wasn’t so grand as expensive. This place was full of people. Tourists were taking pictures. Native people were taking “selfies” to show how much they love their city and how connected they are to their friends because they went somewhere in their city with them even though they spent all the time on their phones. One person might have been hit by a car if some random person dressed in a weird costume hadn’t saved her.

Anyway as I was hear some priest stepped outside of the cathedral and was carrying a box to the centre of the cathedral square. He put the box in the middle of it stood up on it and started yelling:

– People, the time has arrived when we must gather to fight the evil that is upon us. – as he said this people stopped, for once put their phones down and started listening, mostly because this has never happened to them and it was exciting. – this new person who screamed at those two pure ladies was also the one who killed the soldiers in other countries. He is the new evil that god has sent us to test our faith. We must not listen to his lies. We must listen to god and be faithful servants to him. For years now people have been turning away from faith and now look what that has led to. People without faith become disrespectful, apathetic, killing machines who have no concerns for human lives. – this was getting me angry but I remained still, didn’t show myself and tried to calm myself – now my brothers and sisters, please, don’t turn your backs on religion, after all it is the only thing keeping people sane and smart. – after this sentence I lost it and was out of stealth mode standing on air in front of the priest. People were a little bit scared as they walked backwards for some time but then they stood in place. The priest was calm and was ready to face “the evil sent by god”.

– Okay, priest, let’s have the talk, shall we? – I said.

– I will not be persuaded by your lies, demon! – he responded.

– Oh no no no no. I am not here to tell you lies or anything, I was simply walking when I heard you spewing lies to these people and I just wanted to step in.

– I will not allow you to tell lies to these innocent people!

– But, father, it is you who is spilling lies onto these truly not innocent people.

– What are you talking about?

– Well, surely you must know that the people I killed attacked me in the first place and they were brutal killers.

– That doesn’t matter, you should have turned the other cheek. But you didn’t since you are a cold-blooded killer.

– Really? Turn the other cheek on a mass murderer who can’t be saved and made into a normal human being? Really? That is what you are telling all these people to do? If a person kills your whole family you should forgive him? I understand you shouldn’t seek revenge but maybe you should seek justice. In my case I couldn’t save them because they were lower rank beings. No offence but you are too.

– What in god’s name are you talking about!?

– Look, you are a type zero civilization I can’t just introduce you to type two technology, that would be stupid. That is why the only justice they could have was death.

– You will burn in hell, sinner!

– That is your response? To make things clear, hell or god or any religion doesn’t exist, they are not true.

– Lies, all lies!

– No, they are not, I have travelled the universe, all of it, I have seen things beyond your comprehension and you know what? God was nowhere to be found. You could look for an eternity but you wouldn’t find anything like that.

– This can’t be true.

– And people are not bad because of lack of faith. It is because of lack of altruism. They only think of themselves. If parents would teach their children about how to and how not to behave then religion would become obsolete. It always was obsolete but people couldn’t see it except for really smart people.

– Show me proof of what you are saying here.

– I can’t.

– Aha! See, people, you can’t disprove god, there is no evidence to support atheism.

– Stop jumping to conclusions without all of the facts. I can’t, not because there doesn’t exist any evidence for it, but because you are type zeroes, nobody can show any technology to you.

– What?

– I can’t really explain since again you are type zeroes but this is what I am trying to say: civilizations above type zeroes don’t believe in deities.

– Demon! Liar! Get out of here! You are only destroying the sanctity of religion and tradition!

– Scientifically traditions are an idiot thing. You do realize that you have always celebrated pagan holidays which were disguised as christian?

– That is not true, people. We always have celebrated christian values not pagan ones we are not some animals.

– Oh really? Tell me, is “don’t kill” a christian value?

– Yes, of course.

– Wrong, it is not. It has always existed in previous “civilizations” even before the ten commandments were written. Well, there are more than ten but you, christians, only believe in ten. Now don’t get me wrong, you are right on some grounds, I am evil, but not to you, I am humanity’s necessary evil to clean up after it. And with religion, believe in anything that you want to believe, but don’t just shove it down people’s throats and be prepared to prove your beliefs with rational arguments and not with some comments like “nothing can change my beliefs” or “it is in the bible” or even using half of the data to prove your points.

People were looking, the priest was looking and I have realized that I might just have said too much. I decided to go but it was them who went away. They were scared of me. They didn’t like to be told the truth especially the painful one. I went back to my ship with a realization that they were afraid. But I thought that if I had more exposure, if I showed their fallacies, they wouldn’t be as afraid of me. I was wrong. By the way, the planets which were observed by the destroyed drones that Tom was investigating were destroyed.

Chapter 7 – the genius idiot

The next day when I woke up Tom told me that something strange was happening. People were disappearing, bodies were found mutilated but I didn’t care about it, I said that things like these happen all the time and that he should deal with them.

I was left on the ship alone. I turned on the news channel and started exercising. During my exercise my mind wandered off. I started thinking about how people were afraid of me, how nobody cared for me, for what I had to say to them. To them, I was just some young bastard who doesn’t know his place. Like they know their place on this insignificant rock in the multiverse of multiverses.

After these depressing shower thoughts I heard on the news that there was a march. But not an ordinary march but one were feminists and PC people have united to fight the common good. This I couldn’t stand, this was one of those things which I hated about humanity. I decided to go outside to meet these people and put a stop to them, maybe then, I thought, people will like.

I put on my suit and was ready to leave when Tom asked me to stay and help him. I was too mad and said that I am going to put a stop to the march and that was final, nothing was going to change my mind.

I was making my way to the march when I heard an explosion. I decided to check it out, but when I heard the march I got mad again and went there. I landed in front of them and they stood still for a couple of minutes when one of them said:

-Move out of our way, this is for a noble cause.

-No it isn’t. It’s just a way for you to feel good about yourselves – I responded.

-What are you talking about? We are trying to help end racism, sexism and animal slaughter.

-Wow… Do you think that not saying the n word will make people not think in racist ways? Or maybe you think saying the a celebrity transvestite is a hero while you are not talking about other transvestites being heroes is good? Because I think that no person is a hero just for doing something they want. I don’t think you are a hero when you get up in the morning and eat the soup you always wanted.

-She is a hero because she is brave for standing up to the people because people hate transvestites.

-Well, I never heard that argument, but only red necks hate transvestites whilst they are having sex with their sisters and saying that all muslims are terrorists. But other people don’t really care if one wants to become of another gender they even support him because that is what he wants to do. And why other transvestites aren’t heroes? Why don’t you speak about them? Because they are not popular. If you support the popular people you will look good and you will feel good. And a hero isn’t somebody who just does what he wants. A hero is a person who helps others altruistically, who makes their day better, but not somebody who switches genders. You are just frauds who want to seem good to others but in your attempts to be good you become evil, because you silence free speech and you are not making good points

-Well we are still fighting against the oppression of women and that is a noble cause.

-Oh, so you are helping women who are oppressed in not western civilizations?

-No, we are helping women here, because they are oppressed here. For instance, women are paid seventy-seven cents for every dollar a man makes.

-Again, no, that is not true. If it were true, won’t employers hire women because they pay less to them and the employers could make more money? And this statistic actually doesn’t take into account that people are working different jobs, that women actually choose to work less hours than males.

-Well there still exists a rape culture.

-Really? A culture based on rape where rape is acceptable? Or are you just saying this because there were some cases were women said they were raped but it actually turned out to not be true and the guy just had his life destroyed for nothing? Or are you talking about rape in male prisons? No, I don’t think you think about the latter one because you just want to seem cool, like you are helping people, yet you still are not and you are helping lives get destroyed. Instead of talking about western civilizations go help countries like India, where women get raped daily or Saudi Arabia where women are not allowed to even show their face.

-This doesn’t matter, we still are putting a stop to murder of animals.

-You are a vegan?

-Yes, as a matter of fact I can proudly say that I am!

-I have always thought that veganism is a genius idiot’s idea.

-What?

-Well it does prevent animal murder but only by humans and does help in some way put a stop to greenhouse gas emissions by farm animals. But then again humans are not herbivores. They are omnivores. They eat meat, vegetables, fruits, bugs, berries, nuts, etc. So not eating one of these things is a bad thing unless you are allergic to something like nuts then you can just sacrifice them because you could still get enough chemicals from other sources of sustenance. But if you cut out meat you will need to start buying supplements and if you don’t you will die prematurely.

-So what if that doesn’t work we are stopping the killing of innocent animals?

-Do you believe that we should follow nature’s ways?

-Well, yes.

-Then you support animal killing since animals do it to other animals. It is nature’s way. Instead of talking about how you shouldn’t eat meat to not kill animals, try to find different solutions which don’t harm the animals and don’t harm humans. I mean, I came here to teach you, but I am not that well prepared, my arguments may be weak but the points are true. I ask you not to be stuck up ignorant idiots, but be more open minded. You can throw away your opinions if you find one that is better than the one you had.

As I said this I heard a voice calling for me. It was Tom. He said something was happening with the Council. They wanted to tell me I was wrong, but I already knew that. I shouldn’t have gone to that march and telling a bunch of people that they are idiots. I mean someone would have done it for me but that is not the point. I did it. I can’t reverse it by not leaving this reality.

For those who don’t know, the Council is a union of all type four civilizations in our galaxy to protect other civilizations except type zeroes. They were stationed on a planet which was orbiting a binary star. It was the place of justice in this galaxy even if it was poor justice but it was the best they had. The civilizations traded with each other, helped each other. Sometimes one of the wanted to leave this union to be more independent in the market and in other areas and one time even came up with a catchy name for the leaving of this union. After it left it self-destructed and parts of that civilizations wanted to become independent from the civilization to become part of the union again. The Council was made by me to put a stop to atrocities done to other civilizations like the aliens who destroyed my world. And now, because of me, the Council was under attack and there was nothing I could do to save it.

Chapter 8 – The mystery murders

Prior to me knowing that the Council was destroyed I was trying to grasp the situation. Me, a TimeEmperor who was supposed to protect people was trying to understand why did I didn’t protect them. But despite that it was better for me to help some time than not to help at all. I was asking Tom about the situation, what was going on when I was gone. He said that the Council sent a direct distress signal to me asking for help, that someone was attacking the planet. I decided to go ahead and opened a wormhole to travel to the planet and of course I took some air with me to breath in space.

But when I arrived it was gone. The whole planet was torn into shreds, bits were still floating in space, but it was the silence that got to me. I realized how much I screwed up. However in the silence I saw a figure, floating in front of me. I wanted to chase it but it was immediately gone. I had to comeback to Rugilians Arc bearing bad news but before I could do that I found a preservation pod in which were some women, children and one member of the Council. I brought the pod to my ship and gave everything that they needed.

I brought Tom and the member of the Council to the main deck of the ship and we started talking about what was happened. The member said that it was all fine and dandy when they heard an explosion. He went outside and saw half of the city gone, not even burning, just gone. This got my attention since it was new, no race had ever developed a weapon to destroy cities with just one bomb. Well just one bomb that leaves nothing behind not even nuclear residue. Anyway, he later saw people just getting sliced in half left and right, so he decided to gather some survivors to the pod and launched it in to space just in time when the planet’s moon crashed into the planet before it had even ripped itself apart due to tidal forces.

It sounded somehow familiar but I couldn’t put my finger on what was going on on the planet. All of this craziness was tied to that mysterious figure, I knew it, but I didn’t know how it was gone. Maybe quantum teleportation? Or maybe wormholes, but there is no being except for me that could wield such power. The member left and Tom told me that something was really strange about the retelling of destruction.

-Why do you think that? You think that he destroyed his planet? – I asked.

-No no no, the thing is, remember that explosion when you went to the march? – he replied.

-Yes. I wanted to check it out, but something came over and I just forgot about it.

-Well the same explosion – Tom then pulled up the details of that explosion – was really similar to the one described by the member. There was no fire, no explosive residue, nothing, but somehow it left the building destroyed and was weaker then the one that was described to us.

-Hm – I thought – I have to tell you, I have seen such things, but I don’t know where and how they where made. Maybe it was an antimatter bomb?

-No, it wasn’t it, it would’ve been more powerful than this. And the explosion’s origin point would be lower than the middle of the room because it would have fell, or was on the ground since the person wouldn’t wanted to die himself. Unless he was brainwashed into thinking that seventy two virgins await him or that it would be cool.

-Maybe he was sad. You can’t just assume that everyone suicide bomber is brainwashed. It is like assuming that every terrorists is muslim.

-I was trying to make a joke. You always take away the fun out of everything.

-There is time for jokes but this is serious. – I paused for a minute and then asked – wait, the origin point was in the middle of the room, as in above the floor?

-Yes, exactly.

-I know what it is. It is an air implosion bomb. A vacuum was created to make air collapse in to the vacuum and then it sends a shock wave out of the vacuum because air slams into itself and pushes out so a shock wave is created so strong the you could destroy building and cities.

-That still doesn’t explain why there was no residue.

-I think it does. Because there is no device which would make a vacuum without leaving residue, but a space-time curvature could create a vacuum in such a fashion and it would put the bomber outside the building and even the planet.

-So it is a TimeEmperor who did this? Why would one of us do this?

-I don’t think it was one of us. Back when I was at the planet, I saw a figure. I wanted to chase it but it disappeared as if it travelled through the wormhole.

-Then we don’t know who it is.

-Whoever that being is, he destroyed the Council and our building.

-What makes it our building?

-What? Oh, because it is in my jurisdiction.

-So is the Council but it is not yours.

-Wow, I was truly not paying attention to detail, now have I?

-Nope.

-I am sorry, but now I will try to do the same.

-This reminds me, the people getting sliced in half somehow.

-I don’t even want to know how you got there.

-What? Anyway, there were some murders I wanted you to look into but you refused. Well, the victims of those murders were sliced in half. Clean. And there is no murder weapon which could account for that level of precision. If it someone who can manipulate space-time who is killing these people and the people on the planet, that would explain why they were killed this way. The user was using space-time knives.

-Then we are dealing with a type five or six being. This is bad. Contact the other TimeEmperors, they need to know this and maybe they could help us.

-I did try to contact them when the Council called but I couldn’t.

-Why?

-The wormholes for communication are all being shut down, no matter how many times I try to open them.

-So he knows where we are and how we operate. I may have been wrong, this might be one of us.

-Wait, I am getting a report that another person was just killed in the same manner. I have the person on camera. You should try and catch him.

-Where is the murder?

And after Tom told me of the location I went there and was too late. I didn’t find the murder but I found a body sliced in half vertically sitting on the floor. Also there was a song playing “It came from planet Earth” by Stephen Walking. I knew it was for me. But at that time I didn’t know what it meant. And on the wall it was written “You will lose” in blood. I knew it was for me, because above that it was written “For TimeEmperor”. What was really odd was the pack of flowers on the ground. They were cornflowers and there were sixteen of them. My favourite number. So the murderer knew me and her. This was bad. I don’t want her any harm but he targeted her. I had to act fast.

I went back to the Arc and told Tom about what I saw and he showed me the footage of the murder. You couldn’t see much because it happened way too fast and the angle was really poor (thanks camera drones!) but we did see a figure leave through the window and jump into a wormhole. It was the same figure. He was the killer and he targeted me all along. I asked Tom how many planets were destroyed. He said without the Council’s planet there were two others. I asked him to show me and I saw what proved to me, that the murder was targeting me all along. One planet looked green and had brown beings living there and the other was a brown looking planets with green beings living on it but both of them had the same result – a civilization.

Not long after this find another murder happened. I went there but this time one of the victims was still alive. The other was crushed to a mush. The alive victim started screaming when he saw me, begged me not to kill him. I said that I wasn’t going to kill him, I asked him what happened and he said that I entered slaughtered his wife and ripped his legs wrote something on the wall with his wife’s blood by not even touching it and then left with a psychopaths smile on the face. I asked him to describe him. Don’t worry, you, I stopped his blood loss the second I saw him. Anyway he said that I am the murderer and I said that I never show my face. He started to believe me since I helped him not to die and didn’t kill him. He said that wardrobe was the same but the mouth was showing and there was a large red “X” on his back. I saw sixteen cornflowers on what was left of the wife and on the wall it was written “She could be her and you could be him”. I looked through the window and I saw him. He was standing in front of it and on the air, smiling and not even blinking. I brought paramedics from the hospital to the murder scene and jumped out the window. I started a wild goose chase.

We were running through the streets on the air. I wasn’t thinking, I could’ve flown to him, but he was running and so was I. And I never could quite catch up to him, he was always ahead and was screaming that I was not fast enough. After awhile he went through a wormhole and I followed and we appeared on my ship’s deck. He stopped and said that we will have our battle the next day and that I will know how to find him. I was furious so I tried to grab him, but he knocked me away and went away.

Tom ran in asked what happened. I explained to him what had happened and I was sitting there, mad at myself for letting him get away. But as I calmed down I started realizing some things. I realized that he left me clues as to why is he targeting me. And then I knew. He was my origin story.

Chapter 9 – Internal conflict

I couldn’t sleep all night. I worried that I will fail and he will destroy my planet but never did I realize why didn’t he just destroy it already, why did he want to fight me. These thoughts kept me awake for far longer than they should have so I went into the kitchen to get some cold water because I didn’t want to destroy my life or anyone else’s. Tom was in the kitchen, sitting calmly. I asked what he was doing. He said he was evaluating the chances that I will win. Of course he didn’t tell me them, but he wanted to join me in the fight so I guess he thought I wouldn’t win. I, of course, declined and said that it was my fight I had to stop him, he could help if he saw me lose.

After my drink I went to my bed and started thinking about all of my life about how I left her to save her, how all my life was about getting her and then realizing that I will never have her. I remembered how we used to walk together, how she used to smile and laugh, and always say how she loved cornflowers. I started to remember my friends, even the ones that I have been since birth and then they left when they got older. I remembered how all of the time I used to argue about pointless things how I felt betrayed when the so-called friends didn’t even wanted to talk to me. I remembered how I felt lonely when she had to go home. How I used to be mad at my parents for making my room the living room.

All of these things seemed so pointless, yet so sad and meaningful. I wanted my life to be back to that, to that simplicity but I couldn’t leave the life of complexity which I craved. I started crying. I couldn’t stop. I wanted to, but I couldn’t. And then I remembered him. The murderer. He was the reason behind my suffering, behind my eternal boredom and loneliness. I got angry and wanted to smash his face in but I calmed myself down and drifted of to sleep.

Tom woke me up after eight hours and I went to get something to eat. I felt really bad. I didn’t want to do anything, the sight of food made me nauseous but I forced myself to eat. Today was the big day. The day that decides whether this planet with it’s beautiful nature and animals and not so beautiful humans will live or will it be destroyed by that monster. I barely ate. I mostly drank water and sat there with one thought that I might lose. I rarely had those thoughts. Even during the alien invasion I didn’t feel this way. But I couldn’t bare to see my planet’s destruction again.

After awhile Tom ran in and said that something was happening in my home town. Apparently the murderer was standing on the air near the green bridge and with that awful, fear-inducing smile. I had to go and face him. I said to Tom that he should try and send the distress signal to other TimeEmperors when he could and if he saw me lose, he should get her out of here with my present self to a safe place, towards the TimeEmperors.

I put on my suit and looked through the plasma window towards the beautiful blue marble. “I have to win” I thought to myself “for her”. I opened a wormhole and I was there. I looked up and saw him. He was looking at me, smiling like a psychopath. I immediately evacuated the city and put a curvature sphere to prevent him from leaving the city. He realized what I have done and landed on the street. He walked towards me and stopped in front of me. He said:

-How do you feel?

-Why – I didn’t care for his question -did you do this?

-You ask me like you don’t know the answer already.

-I know you created me, but why and how?

-Yes, you could say I created you but really, I created the first one, he created you.

-Why? Why did you do that?

-Well, you see, I attacked your planet during it or I did in another timeline. In my basket of timelines, our planet, from my 1^st‘s perspective, was actually attacked by aliens and he did exactly what your 1^st did, he created a time machine and accidentally came back in time and decided to create the TimeEmperors. I was the 49^th but I also was the 50^th because like you I came back in time after only a year and I didn’t transfer my memories to the present self and I formed the TimeEmperor protection group so that we could protect the universe.

-So why then did you come to my timeline?

-You are so impatient, you don’t even let me finish. Anyway, around this time in my timeline I started feeling bored because I had nothing to do. And I couldn’t bare it. So when a war started between the Council I got involved and killed one of the members. It was so fun and thrilling. But it was nothing that great, so I killed the Council but I still felt like it wasn’t enough of a challenge. But when the 48^th confronted me and we fought. When we were fighting I felt the rush and the thrill of the fight I had missed for so long and I ended up killing him. But I couldn’t bare the boredom again so I started fighting all of the TimeEmperors and I won all the time and I felt great. But after that I felt it again. I was bored. So I destroyed Earth and went back in time before it and before 1^st arrival. I slaughtered the aliens, took their place, disguised my robot army as them and my plan was to wait for some time and attack Earth to cause it and create the TimeEmperors again so that I could fight them again, but I guess I already did.

-And you escaped when we attacked your planet, that’s why we didn’t find the body.

-Yes, yes. And I took my ship which, surprisingly, you didn’t notice to Earth and then all I had to do was wait. You didn’t notice but for the time that I waited I slaughtered a lot of civilizations just so I could not be bored.

-But why did you attack me now, why not when I just came back.

-I wanted you to feel it, to feel the boredom and understand me. So, how do you feel?

-I feel angry and like I am going to win, because I wont allow such a freak like you to roam any longer.

-Now that’s the spirit!

As he said that he punched me in the face and I flew away for half a kilometre. If you are wondering how he did that, well, we have designed a technique where only a portion of the body moves in a warp drive sense and the other parts try to catch up, but most of the time they can’t, but we also designed a defence mechanism which I am not going to go into detail which makes the body catch up and experience only a maximum of one g. As I landed I was furious but I felt the thrill, I wanted to fight. I flew to him and punched him into the bridge and we started to fight underwater, this time weaker.

After some time we resurfaced and started punching each other so hard that as we flew by nearby things were destroyed by the wind. This went on for awhile. After that I managed to punch him so that he fell into a far away building but he did one better because after that I flew through two skyscrapers and several other buildings. I flew to him and he flew away and I started racing him while destroying the city in the process. Eventually I got to him and punched him to he building roof and he went straight through it and the building collapsed on him. But he got out and with a wormhole got too me and punched me into the river.

The water was cool, I finally felt it’s coolness. I opened my eyes and saw a figure above the water. He was waiting for me to resurface. But as I went deeper I couldn’t see much until I hit the bottom when I was in total pitch darkness. It wasn’t because the river was deep it was because it was dirty. I was laying on the bottom when I felt how rigid it was. How my the stream tried to move my body and how it resisted. And with that I realized that we were just like animals. We were fighting with our fists and not truly using our capabilities because we were both angry and bored, we wanted the thrill of the fight and we forgot to think.

With that in mind I quickly resurfaced and went away from him. Threw space-time knives at him, but he negated them and went straight to punch me. As he did I didn’t even flinch and didn’t even move. I saw him get more and more angry as he tried to move me with stronger and stronger punches. But I stood there, watching his poor attempts at trying to knock me away and I thought to myself when will he realize what is happening. But he didn’t. So I did what I have to. As he flew to punch me I created a zone around me, where only my curvature could exist, stopped him, immobilized him, brought him to me,looked him in the eyes and said “You are done”, opened the wormhole to a black hole, but it was far away from it so that any gravitational effects would minuscule, ripped the negative energy generator from his back and threw it through the wormhole and closed it. Tom saw that I won and contacted the other TimeEmperors and they were here in just a few seconds.

Chapter 10 – Aftermath

When the TimeEmperors arrived they took the rogue one away and we decided to turn his ship into scraps, reuse them for the restoration, of course you can’t rebuild a planet, but you can rebuild homes and build new homes on a new planet of the new Council. It was difficult to decide what to do with the rogue one but we thought that it would be best if the whole universe would participate in his trial. Don’t worry, there weren’t that many beings that joined the trial, most of them were uninterested, they only cared of things that would affect them as if this couldn’t affect them in the long run.

Anyway, the trial began and a complete mess occurred. People were screaming, those that were affected by him except humans because they weren’t allowed on the trial because they were type zeroes were screaming that he should be killed. Of course they weren’t thinking clearly, they were too emotionally involved. Of course we didn’t kill him. The trial decided to isolate the rogue one in orbit around the central black hole (no idea why they chose the black hole) of our galaxy and evaluate his psychology every ten years to see if he changes to a better being. Until then, he has to endure loneliness and boredom all over again.

I recreated the Council. Made them share their technology from type one to type five. I didn’t include the sixes because our technology caused the massacre of our galaxy and it has to be earned by being the noblest of them all. Our technology is just too powerful for the weak minded. The Council’s work also included watching over type zeroes preventing other invasions like it and greeting them into the Council once they hit the type one status.

The deal with the TimeEmperors was also not done. We couldn’t decide what to do. Should we protect the universe or should we just roam it like we used to. Most of the TimeEmperos wanted to protect the universe, the other wanted to roam it. So we decided that those who wanted to roam must clean their messes if they had any, like after a war or something like that and give the sector to a nearby TimeEmperor.

After this decision I went back to Earth. People were still talking about this even if a week has already passed. Prior to me leaving I left my robots to rebuild the city. They were almost done with it when I arrived. People were making me the bad guy because they lost their things not truly realizing that I put them outside the city limits to save their lives but who cares about that, right? I didn’t get mad anymore.

I was sitting on the roof of a building I used to visit a lot. My home. I sat there on the edge of the roof, looking a the magnificent view. The trees were going upwards, blooming with their greenery, and cut off branches, kids were playing around them while their parents were enjoying their computers. A wormhole opened and Tom arrived through it. He sat beside me and asked:

-Enjoying the view?

-Not so enjoying as seeing how it used to be so simple, when we were just kids who thought that the world is theirs and that we could do anything. – I responded.

-You do realize that you can do anything?

-Yes, yes. But that is not the point. It was simple and this is complex.

-But that is what you wanted, wasn’t it?

-Frankly, I don’t know what I wanted or want. Everything is a mess now. I thought I wanted complexity but all of my actions were driven by my emotions, not my logic. All of this time I couldn’t let go of her, I couldn’t even say goodbye to this place. I got emotionally attached to it and started thinking that I could even live here. But I just realized that I have no place here, that I am just out of time.

-What are you saying?

-I am saying that I should leave it, say the final goodbyes.

-What made you change your mind?

-The rogue one. I saw how emotional he, how he was just driven insane by emotions to the point that he didn’t even care about her anymore. I could’ve been just like him, I could have killed her.

-But you didn’t. You are not like him. You persevered.

-Yes, but only during our fight. Then I realized that I was driven by emotions, my judgement was clouded. And I also realized that every time I am involved in her life I just make it worse for her. I mean, she could’ve died then. I am the one who is causing this chaos. I am the reason her lives were miserable. That is why I left her in the first place to come to this timeline. To save her from me. But I was too emotionally attached and because of that I couldn’t leave. I mean, I am not the present me. I can’t just walk up to my friends or her and be with them but I still thought that I could, I couldn’t say goodbye to all of them. But now that I understand what I am, what I bring to her life, that I am the reason of her misery, I can finally leave and save her once and for all.

-So what are you going to do?

-It sounds that you are leaving as well, my friend.

-Yes. I have decided that I want to explore the universe and experience everything, that it has to offer. Don’t worry, I have left you and A.I. which will help you with your travels and it isn’t self aware.

-I am going to miss you. You were a true companion to me, you helped me put an end to a lot of evils. So where are you headed first?

-I am going to the Council. I am going to help them set up properly and build them proper defences. And from there I will go where I would want to. But you didn’t answer my question.

-Well, I thought I am going to say my final goodbyes and then maybe write a book or something about what had happened here and leave it here for somebody to find it. Then I will probably travel to other universes to explore them, and see how the things are different there. You are welcome to join, I will leave a small wormhole open for you if you ever decide to join me.

-One day, I will. And now, goodbye, old friend – we stood up, hugged goodbye and he left through a wormhole.

I still sat there for an hour or so. Thinking about how I still miss my friends. Laughing silently about those times when I thought I will meet up with them and we will still have fun. I remembered those times when we played with “magical” cards or we played hide and seek. I truly missed those things, them. But I most of all I missed her. I still love her, but I just can’t be with her. She was my world, I saved her, but she has to be without me now.

I stood up, contacted the 31^st told him that I will be gone in an hour or so and that he could take over. I landed on the street while in stealth mode and started walking. I remembered all of these paths, these sights. I realized that I am probably seeing them for the last time. I wasn’t walking on air, wanted it to be simple, so I walked on the ground. It was a work day and still early so I went for my school.

Once I was there I entered it and don’t worry, nobody saw me enter it. I was walking around it and saw all of those familiar places and faces. It made me remember how I hated to be in this place, how it was crowded and people were obsessed with themselves. But It also reminded me how it was happy here, since I met her here. She was in my class. And within the week when we started talking to each other I realized that she is the love of my life. With physics in the second and complexity in third place.

I went in to the biology class and saw her. She was learning biology while her teacher was busy talking french, which she didn’t understand. She looked beautiful. Just as I remembered her. Tears started coming down my cheeks and I all I could do is mutter the words “goodbye my love”. Of course, nobody heard them, because they were to silent so I decided to go about this differently. I made my way into the physics class, unnoticed and I saw my present self. He was teaching special relativity to the other students. His teacher let him, because she knew he wanted to teach and that this would be interesting for the other students.

I made it when he was talking about time dilation, how everybody experiences the passage of time differently. Everybody was listening to him, asked him questions. I wanted him to succeed the way he wanted to but I had to do, what I had to do. I became visible to everybody. He was the first one to see me and he stopped talking. And then everybody noticed me. They were scared. They thought that I was there to kill them or something, but I wasn’t there for them. I started walking towards the present self and said:

-You truly are phenomenal. You managed to do, what most people think is hard. You managed to capture an audience. And with science. But you are smart, don’t ever doubt yourself with that. If you truly want to succeed put your head in the game, study real hard and don’t stop for petty things. And also grab every opportunity when you can like this one. With this, you could become the professor you wished to be, just don’t let your petty desires drive the way you think. I don’t know what the future holds for you, only you can shape it, so do things wisely and reflect on you decisions.

As I was saying this to him I used the space-time curvature to write this on the black board:” Tell to my beloved one “I love you”. She will not understand it, but I will, as I had lost her forever, but I tried to do everything for her and this I the last thing for her, but I will always remember how her eyes accompany her name, she was my little blue flower.” Nobody understood this, but I could see that he did. He realized who I am but before he could say a word, I left.

One true evil

Posted on May 16, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, TimeEmperor here! Now recently I got a little bit, well not a little bit, angry at people, specifically the people who do not study sciences. I was watching this show and it is a talk show so you already know that it will be stupid but what made me really angry was the situation. That show was about a woman who went missing unexpectedly , just like all missing people, and psychics were called to help the sister who didn’t go missing “find” her lost sister. Now you understand that I love science, every bit of it, but psychics, pseudosciences I hate, because they just trick people into false sense of hope, so that these charlatans would get more money. But that didn’t make me angry, what made me angry was the fact that there was a psychologist who said that psychics were just a bunch of charlatans and people neglected him. They cared only for five minutes and then they went on about psychics. And I understand that this happens only because of scientific illiteracy.

Imagine there is a debate whether or not to ban a chemical. I will give you the description of the element and you will have to choose, to ban it or not. Now the chemical is dihydrogen monoxide. The chemicals gas can cause burns, it can kill you if accidentally inhaled, it is a main component in acid rain, it is in your food, it eventually dissolves any material it comes intact with. So now think if you should ban the element. If you chose yes than you are probably the majority, if no, then you are the minority, makes sense, and as the saying goes, majority is stupid, because the majority decided to ban water. Congratulations on your decision.

Now what am I trying to say. I think it is pretty obvious, people are stupid, I am stupid, because I don’t know everything, but I know enough to know that I am stupid, which in turn doesn’t make me stupid. Wait, what? Yes, I am a living paradox, stupid but not stupid. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean stupid in a sense that people are mentally handicapped, I mean stupid as in not knowing something. I know something, as I like to say, I know more than a common sixty-year old person which is not that much but still pretty significant. It allows to understand when somebody is trying to take advantage of me, it allows me to understand what I shouldn’t do. Like for instance make myself the victim like feminism does or saying that every white man is racist just because of one white racist. I can think critically, statistically, like everyone should, but for some reason I fall into the minority section. And because I am the minority, the majority thinks that they are right, e.g. vegetarianism/veganism. Many people believe that being vegan or vegetarian is the way of life. Well it is not the case, because humans are not herbivores, if we were, we wouldn’t be able to digest meat, no, humans are omnivores and our body is adjusted to this way of eating in a way that if we didn’t eat meat we would need to take supplements, we would require to eat a lot more to make our bodies run at normal rate. Want more? Then take vaccines. A lot of people think that vaccines are bad and can cause really bad things, but vaccines are 99.9% likely not to cause complications, they are mainly harmless and can benefit us, although they can cause some complications, but those complications are not fatal. Yet people still say that they are bad. Why? Because they are scientifically illiterate.

So how to not be like that? Well, start reading books, starting thinking critically about everything, even this blog, do research, but mainly, trust science, never blindly believe anything, have some proof for your beliefs.

Universal truths

Posted on April 16, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, TimeEmperor here. So yesterday I saw Batman v Superman (I don’t own the rights to this movie) and later at home I went on the internet to see what everyone said about it and it seemed like most people went to see the movie, but didn’t watch it, because they would see that the “plot holes” that they talk about are non-existent. But that’s is not what I’m gong to talk about, you see what fascinated me was the battle between two groups of people:people who agreed with the critics who said that the movie was bad and the people who opposed this idea saying the movie is great. Which of them are right? Both of these groups.

I know, it sounds stupid that they both are right, but they are, you just have to think about it a little bit. But to get there we need a brain exercise. Let’s say an apple is growing on a tree and a person takes the apple and bites into it. Now the question is what kind of colour the apple is? Is it red, green or yellow? If you chose one of these answers or any other answer you are correct, because you can’t know the colour of the apple just by knowing that it grows, and people with different preferences for apples will choose a different apple colour. Or what about the word colour. Is it supposed to be written like that? Well yes, if you are speaking english, it is color if you’re speaking american, but you can choose, it is your choice to choose what you like, what kind of language you like to speak, it is not a universal language, because not all people speak english or american. But are you wrong for choosing english instead of american? Or are you right? Both. The answer is both. Why? Because of the thing I like to call opinion relativity.

Say for instance you like apple pie but the person next to doesn’t like it. You have your own opinions and they are different. If you base them with actual non-factual arguments, than the opinion is right. It is like relativity of motion. You stand on the ground and you see a plane moving and you say it’s moving, but a passenger on the plane will say that you are moving and you are both right, because observations of different inertial observers is will disagree with each other (inertial observer is an observer moving with constant, non-changing velocity). So will your opinion will disagree with other people’s unless they share your views like if an observer moved at the same speed as the person on the ground, which is v=0m/s relative to the ground. And as I said your opinion is right if you base it with true facts like for instance the apple pies tastes good to you, because you built tolerance to apple taste, but the other person didn’t develop that tolerance so to him the taste is disgusting.

If everyone is right, who is wrong? Well others are wrong, who disagree with your opinion. But opinion is just that – an opinion, not a fact, but thankfully not like physics opinions can be universally true and false. It is easy to say which is which. For instance the opinion that the Sun is a star is universally true, because the Sun false in the category of small stars, it supplies the solar system with energy by the same mechanism that other stars do – by thermonuclear fusion. So that opinion is universally true, you can’t deny it, you can try, but won’t succeed. But the opinion that the Sun is a planet is completely wrong, so the opinion is false, it is a lie. And human opinions about movies, books, music, etc. is in the middle, because it can be both at the same time.

But universal truths can become lies and lies can become universal truths. For instance, it was believed to be true that aether, the substance trough which light travels, exists. But as it turns out, it does not exist, it is a lie, while it was previously a universal truth. And as another example let us take the cosmological constant. At first it was thought to be a lie, non-existent. For those that don’t know, cosmological constant was put in Einstein’s equations by Einstein, because it would make the universe static, non-expanding, because it would bring a force which would oppose the pull of gravity. But as it turned out the universe wasn’t collapsing in on it itself, but expanding, so the cosmological constant didn’t need to exist and it was thought to be a lie. But later, in the 1990s it was understood that the universe was accelerating it’s expansion so the universal constant was brought on the table. It is not yet a universal truth but it might become one or not, who knows what the future holds, but the fact is that these truths and lies can become one another, but they don’t create new lies or truths, they just switch places, a truth becomes a lie and the lie becomes the truth. It is like the conservation of energy, but with truth.

When we began exploring the universe around us, we gathered the universal truths, and to this day we still do that, maybe we will do that until the death of the universe, but we have to understand that these truths existed all the time or might have been interpreted in a wrong way like for instance that the Earth is flat or everything orbits around it. But your opinions about thing are true to you, not to anyone else, so if you base them with facts, you won’t be wrong entirely. So the next time you think of checking the reviews for the movie you want to see, think for yourself and go see the movie, because your opinion might just differ from the others. TimeEmperor signing out!

Three simple truths and a bad thing

Posted on March 1, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, TimeEmperor here! I am going to make this quick post just to say what has already been said. Firstly, I’ll talk about the three simple truths, but I will overlook them quickly, and then most of this post will be about the bad thing.

First things first, the truths. These truths are simple, everybody knows them, everybody understands their meaning, but most people ignore them. Why? Because they’re not a sweet lie, these truths are downright hard and painful, but nonetheless they’re undeniable. So, the reader, when I tell these truths, not only read them, but analyse them, understand them and whatever you do, don’t dismiss them. I thought how to say them perfectly, but Rick and Morty have already beaten me to the punch, so I’ll just quote Morty: Nobody exist on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody dies. These are the hardest truths to know and understand them, but they are the saviors of your primitive lives.

Now, when you start reading this last bit, I want you to be open-minded, do not try to combat it with your views, and when you are done reading this post, compare the information, but don’t just simply dismiss it. This is to combat your confirmation and selective biases.

Now that you are ready to read this, and you understand the simple truths, let us talk about the bad thing – feeling special. Now you might think, that it is not a bad thing, that it is okay to feel special, but the fact is, it is not. Think about it. If you feel special, you are feeding your ego, and you become more obnoxious, annoying and insensitive, and somebody appears more special than you, you become jealous, you feel hate and apathy for that person. And the main reasons for the feeling of being special are as follow:

Religion
Race
Nationality
World views
Personal skills
Feeling that you are different

These are the reasons why you feel special. Religion makes you feel like you are god’s child, and because you worship him, you are superior to others, who don’t worship him, because you are “truly living the greater life”. But as I said, nobody belongs anywhere, so your life doesn’t have any purpose, and there is no scientific evidence of god’s existence, and those who say there is, simply ignore other evidence, that disprove their evidence.

Because of your race you feel superior. I don’t really have to speak for myself, because the evidence is right in front of you, with all the racism, fascism, etc.

Nationality is somewhat different. You might not see it as the reason for feeling special, but it is, it is just too subtle to see. In my previous post about nationality, I told you how irrelevant it is. Just because you’re born somewhere, that doesn’t mean that you are somewhat special than others. But people still believe, that being american, mexican, spanish or any other nationality is somehow making them special, but bad people exist everywhere, not just outside your nations border.

World views are more understandable as a reason, because you may believe, that aliens exist, and whoever disagrees, or starts talking about the Fermi paradox, you immediately feel anger towards them, because they challenged your world views, your opinion, but yet again, you just ignored evidence and wanted to be the smartest, with your greatest opinion. So you believe that your opinion is the fact and everyone who disagrees is an idiot, which simply is not true. And just because you have more money, that doesn’t even mean that you are different, you are just a person with a lot of money.

Personal skills are a main ego boost. Just because you can do something good, that doesn’t mean that you are better than them. There are people who are better at you at something, and probably at your thing, that you do. If you were to take the whole history of the world, you would find people who were indeed better than you. And mathematically speaking, if the universe was a googolplex big(that is 10^(10^100), or 10^googol) you could find somewhere in the universe an exact copy of yourself, because matter could be arranged in only a finite number of ways. But because the universe appears to be infinite your chances of not only not being better than others have increased, but also you could find your exact copy, which would mean, you’re not the only one out there, so you’re not even special at being different.

And about being different I have already answered, but I’ll add this. In this world, you can find people who are better than you, have the same views, preferences as you, so not even on this planet you are different.

I decided to make this post, because I was just so irritated with people claiming how they are special because of this or of that. This is the fourth truth, no matter how you think, you are never special, never will be. So, to all of you, please stop claiming that you are special, you don’t belong anywhere, you are going to die, but other people will also live after you, that’s why you should understand, that you have to make the most of your life, be whoever you want to be, help save the planet, be nice to people, help them, because you are not alone on this seemingly pointless journey, all of us are. But the fact that we are all going to die, or that we don’t exist for a purpose, or we don’t belong anywhere, or that we are not special, doesn’t mean that we can create our own life’s purpose in such a way, that we don’t obstruct people on pursuing what they want to do. And with this, I’m going to take my leave, TimeEmperor out!

Portal problem

Posted on January 28, 2016 by TheWanderer

Hello, TimeEmperor here! First things first, sorry, I haven’t posted anything in a long time, it’s just that I was busy with my school work and was having an existential crisis, not that you care or anything, I just want things to be clear. Now to the problem we face today, I may be late to this but a lot of people are still debating this problem. It is the portal problem: when there is a cube on a platform and an orange portal is moving towards it (the blue one is stationary relative to the cube and on another side of the facility). The problem asks what would happen when the orange portal reached the cube, would the cube just drop out of the blue portal with little to none velocity, or would it fly out the blue portal.

Now we must choose the reference frames carefully not to fool ourselves and Newtonian-ish rules apply because we’re dealing with small speeds but also with portals. So from the cube’s reference frame the orange portal is moving towards it in a constant speed and the blue portal is stationary with it. But what is the orange portal’s reference frame? Well the orange portal perceives the cube to be moving at a constant velocity towards the portal. So which scenario is true? Both of them. Because observer’s will disagree about their measurements but not about the speed of light. So one way or another something is moving. But this doesn’t answer our question.

So maybe we are asking a quite difficult question, and a lot of people need valid proof so let’s stop talking about the orange portal and let’s take a look through the blue portal. What do you see? Not so weirdly enough we see that the cube is moving closer and closer towards the exit (the blue portal). Why? Because you are seeing the orange portal’s reference frame, the portal’s allow to see through different reference frames. So it would seem that the answer is that the portal flies out. But some one gave this example, where a part of a building falls in such a way that the window hole passes through the person and the person doesn’t fly out. But here is the problem with this, the part of the is not an inertial reference frame because it has acceleration, so there for it is really moving. Secondly, the portals are a system of reference frames (one can be moving, another can be stationary according to the same observer) so if one sees a cube approach it, the cube will simply shoot it out. Seems unreal but think of it this way, while watching through the blue portal you see that the cube is moving, two reference frames observe it the same way, as moving, so the cube will continue to move even if to you it seems it has never moved.

An easier way to think about it is when you are in space. So imagine you’re in space. Now imagine that there is a door with a gopro moving towards you at a constant speed. Now you perceive it to be moving, but the gopro says otherwise, it sees you moving towards the door and shooting out, so who is correct? Both of you. Because observers will disagree. But when you are moving through the portal, you enter it’s reference frame, the portal is moving away from, just like everything else, because simply put, but maybe incorrectly, you enter a new reference frame, because one portal perceived you to be moving, so the other one will also do the same. So in a more simpler way, the orange portal is connected to the blue one, both perceive themselves to be stationary, because they are connected that means they are like that door in space, they perceive the cube to be moving towards one exit, and they will perceive the cube to shoot out out the other exit. It is tricky to think about this, because you perceive those portals differently, but you mustn’t think that because one is stationary that all of the momentum perceived by the portals the cube has will just instantly vanish. Think of it this way, when you shoot two portals right beside one another and you simply go through the other with the speed you had before entering the portal, both portals perceive themselves as stationary and you as moving, so because of that you jump out the other way, the same way the cube will shoot out through the blue portal. TimeEmperor signing out!

Steins;Gate is wrong

Posted on November 24, 2015 by TheWanderer

Hello, TimeEmperor here! There are not many shows or movies that contain time travel to the past. But one of these shows is an anime called Steins;Gate, which I love. For those who never watched the anime I’ll briefly tell it’s plot. The main protagonist Okabe is a scientist and with his friend Daru he accidentally created a time machine of a microwave (that part is really weird). He then proceeds to mess with time and he gets his friend killed and he has to undo everything that he did to save her, but that would also kill his love. I tried as hard as I could not to spoil the series, because if you haven’t seen it, you should, it’s a great series. But the science of it is flawed.

The series bases itself on the real life event involving John Titor and the many worlds interpretation. Let’s start with the latter, because Titor used it to explain himself. Now in physics there are two main branches of physics, which explain different thing. The first one is classical mechanics, which you learn mostly in school; it’s about the big objects, like you, rats and planets. The second one is called quantum mechanics, and in school you barely talk about or not talk about it at all. Quantum mechanics explains how the smallest of things – electrons, protons, photons and so on – interact with each other. The MWI stems from this branch.

Quantum mechanics are different from classical mechanics not just because of the scales of measure, but also of how things interact. For instance, if you roll a ball, you can clearly measure where the ball is and how fast he is moving. But in quantum mechanics that is not the case. If you roll an electron you can accurately know either it’s position or it’s speed, but never both, which is counter intuitive. This principle is known as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which is not named after the famous king pin of meth, but rather after a mathematician. But don’t worry we are not going to talk about that principle in depth, we just need some concepts of quantum mechanics.

Before we talk about MWI we need to talk about a famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics – Shrodinger’s cat. But before that I must explain something rather weird. In quantum mechanics there is something called spin which is an intrinsic property of angular momentum carried by a particle, but more roughly speaking it’s how the particle spins around it’s own axis. Let’s say that a particle can spin either clockwise or counter-clockwise. Quantum mechanics tells us that if we look at it one way it will spin clockwise, if we look in another way, it will spin counter-clockwise, and if we are not looking it spins in both directions. This is called the quantum superposition. Roughly speaking it says that a non-observed particle is in all it’s states at the same time. Here is an analogy for better understanding: if you look at a girl one way, she puts on a red dress, if you look in another, she puts on a blue dress, if you’re not looking at her completely, she is wearing both dresses. Sounds ridiculous, I know, but who was never shocked by QM never really understood it. Now, let’s continue. If a particle is observed, it’s superposition collapses, it now has to “choose” between all of it’s choices.

Now, Erwin Schrodinger didn’t think that an observer could do anything to the superposition collapse, so he created a though experiment. Let’s say we have a box, in it we have a glass bottle of poisonous gas, a hammer over the bottle, a Geiger meter which is connected to the hammer(it drops it to smash the bottle if any radioactive decay is measured) , and radioactive plutonium atoms, which have 50% chance of decaying in the next hour, and a cat. We now close the box for an hour. After that hour, before looking, we don’t know if the plutonium atoms decayed or not, so their decay is in a superposition, so they decayed and did not decay, so the Geiger meter reacted to the decay and didn’t react to it, the hammer was dropped on the bottle and wasn’t dropped, the poisonous gas was let out and wasn’t, the cat is dead and alive. But the cat cannot be at the same time dead and alive. So the cat must’ve died at some point or never died. But of course this problem is resolved that an “observer” can be anything, from an air molecule, to a photon. So the cat’s chances of survival are just 50%.

Now we can talk about MWI. Imagine that before we open the box we think about what are our odds of seeing the cat being alive? It’s simple, it’s 50% you yell out. Okay, great, but why does the function collapse towards either the cat being dead or being alive? What says that it should be that way and not the other? And to answer this question we use MWI. It says, that any collapse of a superposition is actually not collapsing, but instead creates two different time lines or world lines where both things happen. For instance of the cat experiment, the function does not collapse, instead two different world lines are created where in one the cat is alive, and in the other the cat is dead. And this goes for everything you do. For instance you can’t decide between eating cereal and an omelet. No worries, two different world lines are created and in one of them you are eating cereal and in the other – omelet.

Now we can talk about John Titor. John Titor, back in the early 2000s was a major celebrity, because he said that he was a time traveler from the future, and he talked about future events, like war of the Americas and other things, I’m not going to go in depth about his prophecies, you can find the all over the internet. What I am going to talk about is his one statement. When asked why are the things that he said were supposed to happen, but never happened, he said that it is because of the divergence of the time lines, but he said that those things are going to truly happen, but in later times. But he never specified when. Now here is the problem. Yes, he was right about the time lines in some sense. He stated the exact percentage of the divergence of the time lines, which is impossible to know, because according to MWI, you can never now on which time line you are or were, so determining that sort of thing to my knowledge is impossible. But he was right that the time lines diverge, but he was wrong about one thing. Events. You see, according to chaos theory, if you make a small change in a system, you can have drastic results. So John Titor supposedly changed the past, but it was a small change, but it had drastic changes which changed the course of history, meaning that his described events can’t have that accuracy of truly happening. So John Titor is wrong. In a sense.

So because the basis of John Titor is wrong, Steins;Gate is a somewhat wrong series, but it goes beyond John Titor. In the series, whenever Okabe changed the past, he would also transport to the other time line, while he changed the past without him being in the past from the future, he wasn’t physically in the past. So, when he sent a message in to the past, he changed the past by making two time lines in which one of the he never received the message, but he sent it, and the other one where he received the message without sending it. Because of that, he cannot transport himself or his memories to the other time lines, without physically traveling in to the past. And with this we can say, that the whole plot of Steins;Gate is wrong.

I know, this is complicated, and time travel is complicated stuff, but if you didn’t understand any of this, try reading this again, and maybe try reading up on the concepts I’m talking about on the internet. TimeEmperor signing out!

Our special place

Posted on November 10, 2015 by TheWanderer

Hello, it’s TimeEmperor! When Copernicus published his book, explaining that the Sun was actually the center of the universe, the church heavily criticized it, and the pope even banned it. But isn’t surprising to see that the church’s endeavor was to not educate people about the universe, when all it was doing was educating people how to live properly, what to do in a moment of crisis and so on. No, the church didn’t do it for the reason not to educate people, it was because of our place in this world and the church’s power.

You see, back in the middle ages, the church had a lot of power. It made people pay taxes, it allowed for kings to be kings, it even influenced kings to do some things which were profitable for the church. But of course the church spread the word of god, so naturally it said that we, humans are special, that we are the center of our creator’s attention. So naturally, when Copernicus said that we are not the center of the universe, the church was mad, because it made people not that special anymore, they weren’t the center of the universe, but some giant ball of light was. And when Giordano Brumo proposed that the universe was in fact infinite, that the distant stars are like the Sun which had their own exoplanets, and maybe had life on those exoplanets, due to these ideas, he was called a heretic and was burned. Why? Because this would mean for the church, that humans would lose their special place as children of god, who focuses only on us.

But these ideas were necessary, because we had to stop thinking like that. Why? Because this thinking clouded our judgment, to judge ideas, to judge facts and people. Because of these ideas the church lost it’s power to fully influence people, to do as the church says, to believe what it believes, to think that they are special, that they are the center of the universe. But as Copernicus, made us lose the special place of being the center of the universe, but it left some specialty, because we now where orbiting the center of the universe. But later, when it was discovered that the solar system actually orbits the Milky Way galaxy on it’s outskirts, that struck a huge blow into feeling special, we were no longer orbiting the center of the universe closely, but still kept an orbit around it, right? Again, no because it was also later discovered that most of the lights in the night sky we associate with stars, are actually other galaxies, and there is no center of the universe. So now we’re not orbiting the center of the universe, nor are we special, because we live in a galaxy, because there’s a lot of galaxies, which have their own star systems, probably with life on other far away worlds. And with the theory of evolution, we stopped being god’s designed children, because we evolved like every other animal, in fact we are animals, just that we have a consciousness, which is the only thing that is separating us from other animals.

We have lost our crown of being kings of space, because we were just some minuscule species, that evolved from a single organism like every other animal, on non-special rock, orbiting a non-special star, which is orbiting a non-special galaxy in a universe of billions of galaxies in an infinite cosmos. But we still have our crown, because we’re god’s children, we also have a consciousness, right? You already know what I’m going to say. The answer is no. Neuroscientists have shown that consciousness plays a small part in our brain activity, what dominates is the other side of the coin, unconscious processes. Our consciousness is nothing really that special, it’s, like David Eagleman said in his book “Incognito”, just creating a way, to accomplish a task, that is new to us, which after being the way was created, will be accomplished unconsciously. For example, you always lock your doors and unlock. But one day, you come home and see that your door is open, which is alerting, your consciousness kick in, to find a way to get through this, you then decide whether to enter or not, grab a self defence tool or not, it creates a way for you to deal with these new situations.

But what about the god’s children part? Well, think of it like this, where is the evidence for it? A book without an author and that’s it? Belief is not evidence, it’s not facts, because probably the whole bible contradicts all science facts. Even if you say that god wrote it or something like that, then I’ll answer with a question like this: if a book is written without an author is supposed to be taken seriously, as fact? You know, J.K. Rowling could’ve wrote the Harry Potter series and could’ve not put her name on the book, and then would it be fact? Or if I wrote a book, that is the continuation of the bible, but with robots and dragons and not put my name on the book, but simply say that god has written it, would it be then considered as fact? NO. It won’t because it is scientifically inaccurate. Neither is the bible.” But if you bring me proof that god truly exist, then I’ll agree, but only if you have proof, real proof. If you believe something, and it’s not based on facts, because facts don’t require a belief, if you believe that a fact is wrong, it doesn’t matter, because a fact will still be true, because it’s supported by evidence, unlike god.

So why am I saying that we’re not special? Well, yes, we are beings, that evolved from a single organism, without the help of a non-existent god, and we are on an ordinary planet, orbiting an ordinary star, which is orbiting an ordinary galaxy, which is in an ordinary cluster of ordinary galaxies, and the cluster forms an ordinary super-cluster, and our consciousness is rather really limited as to what it does, as far as I know, because I’m not a neuroscientist. But what actually makes us special is something that we have all the time, but we neglect it, all of our scientific theories wouldn’t have been made if it hadn’t existed. It is our curiosity. And no, I’m not talking about the Mars rover, but it does explain why it was named that way. Because we, humans, are naturally curious, we want to explore and understand everything in the whole universe. By the way, forgot to mention the fact that our place in the cosmos could become even more smaller, due to the fact that there’s a possibility of a multiverse existing. But even if the cosmos are so vast and barely comprehensible for the common man ( by this I mean, that he works in a non-scientific field), but we carry something so huge in our brains, that is as huge as the cosmos, our curiosity. Questions arise, and they get answers, but those answers propose even new question and so on, and we’re curious as to why the universe or multiverse is the way it is, and our curiosity is what keeps us going, that passion for science is driven by our curiosity, and even if we have started our journey to understand the cosmos with nothing, we will end up with the most powerful thing in the world, knowledge, knowledge of the cosmos. And that in my opinion is special! TimeEmperor signing out!

MatPat’s mistakes

Posted on November 8, 2015 by TheWanderer

Hello, it’s TimeEmperor! Now I have watched GameTheory for awhile now. If you don’t know GameTheory, it’s basically what it’s called, a guy named MatPat (or double MatPatt, I never actually knew) makes theories using real life science about video games and now movies and TV shows. But what I have noticed is that he makes huge mistakes and never really addresses those mistakes when fans point them out. And here I’m going to talk about mistakes, which he made in my field, physics.

Firstly, let’s start with his first channel “The Game Theorists”. It actually is pretty consistent with science, as far as I know, maybe he’s wrong on other things, but I simply just don’t know them yet, but one thing struck me, when watching a video about Bullet Bill from Super Mario. (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq6qcvfZldE ) Here he talks about what kind of damage would Bullet Bill actually do. And that’s all fine and dandy, but he does wrong is when he tries to calculate with what force Bullet Bill is traveling. Since it is traveling with a constant speed from Mario’s perspective so that means that whatever force is making Bill move is equal to wind resistance (of course that’s incorrect, because it would have to travel for some time being accelerated to reach the speed which it is traveling at, so the force should be stronger than wind resistance, but we are talking about when it is moving at that speed, not when it is reaching it). So the equation should be looking like this: F(applied force)=F(wind resistance). But what he did wrong was that instead of taking the formula for wind resistance, he took the formula for friction, which equal to miu*N or if you are standing on a horizontal plane and N=mg, than it’s miu*m*g(miu is the frictional coefficient). This friction formula is only applied when two surfaces touch, not when you’re traveling through a substance like air. When you’re traveling through air you should be using this formula: F=(rho*v^2*Cd*A)/2 (rho is the density of a substance you’re traveling through;v is your velocity;Cd is what MatPat uses as a frictional coefficient, but it’s not that, it’s wind resistance coefficient, which is totally different; and A is the surface are of a part of the body onto which the force is being applied, so for a bullet it would be half of a surface area of a sphere). But instead he uses that friction formula. Why? Well, maybe he got too cocky and he though he knew what he was doing or ,maybe, he just simply didn’t know and he let this error slip by, but nevertheless with this one mistake, his theory is busted, not real. I’m surprised that he didn’t think about why Bullet Bill is staying up in the air and is not falling down. But I’m not going to dwell into this, I’ve got some more things to talk about.

His second mistake, which I noticed, was in his new channel “The Film Theorists”. And the video to judge is about Doctor Who. Now I don’t watch Doctor Who, because simply I know that the science behind is flawed. But MatPat watches is and he made a theory about this TV show, talking about how the timelord is traveling through time. (TimeEmperor is a name not related to the name from the TV show Doctor Who, or more specifically the species of Doctor Who, timelords; I made this name for myself without even knowing about timelords). (Link to video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ksiM7LTPU ) In this video he comes to a conclusion that the Doctor is traveling around a giant rod of infinite mass to travel through time, but here is what’s wrong with this explanation: first things first if the universe was spinning there would be point in spacetime where there would be time loops, but since we haven’t seen any time loops, we conclude that is not correct, but could be correct, we just have no way of testing this until we explored all of cosmos. Now you could use a Tipler cylinder to travel around an angle, but here’s what happens. Traveling around the Tipler cylinder you actually would be traveling in a time loop, basically saying that you would just end up in the same time you started. But since I’m not an expert on Tipler cylinder I could be wrong and you might think that there is no problem with MatPat’s theory, but it is still wrong, because you would need to build an infinitely long cylinder, which is kind of a hard thing to do, or if you want to, you could use negative energy, or exotic matter in to this mix, which, requires a lot of it, and if you still think that it is possible, imagine a huge cylinder going through the whole Earth, even if it was on Earth, it would have to be near, because the Doctor’s booth doesn’t seem to lift of into space, and that kind of rod, could destroy the Earth. Even if I’m wrong about the concept of Tipler cylineder’s time travel through closed timelike curve, the cylinder would still destroy the Earth and secondly, in the TV series you never see the cylinder appear. Even if the cylinder is transparent it would still be causing huge distortions because of the way it curves spacetime. Thirdly, the booth never actually starts to travel, it just disappears, if I remember correctly, because, yes, I’ve seen the show. And the fourth evidence is the way the booth travels, when you see that scene, you see that TARDIS travels not in a spiral, but in straight lines, through the cylinder, which is kind of not allowed. And why would there be electrical discharge happening. If it’s not the traveling on Earth to avoid it’s destruction, they must travel in outer space, by this there should be no clouds or electrical discharge or I’m missing something. And secondly, the cylinder does now allow the travel into the future, which is only achievable if you orbit a black hole or travel near the speed of light. But here I can understand why could the mistake happen. He’s a fan of the show, so he wants to find all of the evidence to support it and all of the evidence that doesn’t support his theory is not looked at. And secondly, he didn’t study general relativity, so he couldn’t have known some of concepts.

His third mistake was from the same channel, but now about the movie Ant-Man. (link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-MhE0J9Tx8 ) In this video he talks about Ant-Man’s shrinking power and how he, while shrinking to the subatomic level he would create a black hole. Now this is true. There is a radius, called the Schwarzschild radius, and when a sphere reaches that radius with the mass it had, it would become a black hole. So if an average human is roughly 70 kg of mass, that means that the average radius of which this kind of human sphere should reach is an astounding 1.037555556*10^-25 meters! (link to how you can calculate the radius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius ) That is really small. But here’s where things get tricky, In the movie, Ant-Man supposedly shrinks even beyond his Schwarzschild radius. By that point he should’ve become a black hole. And here is MatPat’s mistake: he states that Ant-Man, when he becomes a black hole, would have to destroy the Earth, by “eating it away”. But that’s not the case due to Hawking radiation. I won’t get in to details into how it is happening, since I don’t really now them myself, I’m just a student, but I know the explanation. Now the black hole, due to having energy it can create a field of virtual particles around it self. These virtual particles come in pairs of a particle and an antiparticle, which then collide and turn into energy again. But in some cases one particle would be closer to the black holes event horizon and the other one would be further away. So the one that is closer, would fall into the black hole, while the other one would fly away from the black hole. Since these virtual particles are being generated by the black hole’s energy, and since E=mc^2, therefore the black hole is losing energy or mass and starts to shrink. For big black holes it’s not a big deal, since they absorb more energy from the cosmic background radiation, than they emit themselves. But smaller ones, like the ones that have mass, less than the moon, start to shrink, and the smaller the mass of black hole, the faster it shrinks. So Ant-man would become a black hole, but for a short time, he would evaporate and in the process – die. And again, I see were MatPat could’ve made his mistake. He didn’t know a lot of things about black holes, because he didn’t study them.

Now I could talk about the AI video, since AI is really hard to develop and program and it can’t be done faster with what technologies we have, but that just answers it. I want to talk about these mistake. Firstly, he made these mistakes, because it wasn’t his field (and you may think that it’s not mine, because I am just a student, but in my free time I tend to study about physics and math all by myself). He simply just doesn’t know these things. Secondly and this is a hypothetical he is maybe too cocky, thinking that he knows a lot, but being modest is one the greatest things ever, because it allows you to think clearly about all other things. Thirdly, he has not enough time to think about all the problems of his theories, he could found out about Hawking radiation, he could’ve searched for a better wind resistance formula, he could’ve thought about the Tipler cylinder more, but he maybe just didn’t have enough time. But here is what is truly wrong. I get it that he made mistakes, everybody makes mistakes, but we learn from them and in science, we address our mistakes, to not mislead anyone, but MatPat, while calling himself a theorist, never addresses them. If I were to run that kind of channel, I would be like PBS SpaceTime, or PBS Idea Channel, where the host address all of the questions, the viewers had. Because I don’t know him, I don’t know why he made those mistakes, or maybe he made more mistakes, but I just simply don’t know about them, because they’re not from my field. But what he should’ve done, was connecting to the viewers, via the videos, responding to them, to their questions, acknowledging his own mistakes, without sitting silently and then just acknowledging his mistakes on FNAF theories. If MatPat you read this, then take my advice, acknowledge your mistake, and respond to your viewers, to their comments more often, because it allows you to connect to them more. TimeEmperor signing out!