Xyrin Empire

Chapter 440: Chapter 440 Prelude to Disaster

We can imagine a situation:

There is a point, which we’ll call the Information Zero Point, or the Hourglass Vortex, whichever name you prefer, this point has no physical form, it is simply an inconspicuous node of information in the universe, containing even less information than an atom, unobservable by any conventional means.

And this insignificant little point has a terrifying attribute: it absorbs all information around it, like how an empty bottle will suck in the air outside when suddenly opened, but unlike a vacuum bottle, this informational vacuum cannot be filled with an equal amount of information (the amount needed to fill it is unimaginably huge), the only information contained in the Information Zero Point is “zero,” an absolute informational vacuum, no matter how much information floods in, it will all be devoured by this zero point, it is a mad formatting program, mercilessly zeroing out anything it touches, to the zero point, “galaxies” and “time” are the same, “water” and “shape” are the same, “birth” and “somewhat large” are the same, anything in the universe that exists, that can be searched by the world’s tree of information, is just data, completely equal data, in the eyes of the Information Zero Point, even a star has less data than a planet, because the star’s composition is simpler, it can be described with a much simpler and straightforward mathematical model, that massive mass and energy are nothing more than a few more zeros tacked on to the few attributes.

Once the Information Zero Point is released, it forms a huge vortex, this vortex’s coverage can easily envelop the entire universe: because any world is an informational whole, just like no matter how many hard drives a computer has installed, it can create a resource manager that encompasses everything, in the same way, the Information Zero Point can expand its devouring range to the entire world, the vortex it forms will plunder any information within its power range just like a black hole, mass, volume, strength, location, space, history, concepts, memories… all the information you can think of, no matter which dimension they belong to, whether they are tangible or intangible, will be ground into dust and then tossed into the center of the Taotie’s feast vortex, all things in the world gradually becoming elusive phantoms under the mighty formatting storm, even the sturdiest neutron star will turn to nothingness within a millisecond, in fact, faced with such a formatting storm, a structurally simple neutron star is more vulnerable than a planet, it really doesn’t have much data to be deleted, in front of the Information Zero Point, a “hardness of 1” and a hardness of “one zettapascal” just require one delete.

What will become of all this in the end?

The universe will be reborn.

Information Zero Point is theoretically impossible to fill, but it’s not beyond control by external information, with outside force, this greedy zero point can still be set with a limit, once the information flowing into it reaches this limit, the Information Zero Point will shift from closed to open, the cruel and rigid “zero” will first turn into a meaningful “negative one,” then in an instant that doesn’t exist in time, “negative one” will become “positive one,” all information will reverse, a great information explosion will occur.

All previously absorbed information will be returned, and the formatted universe will be reassigned; this is a process of re-creation, something from nothing—indeed, a Singularity.