actor_au wrote:
Wandering Idiot and Onion began making out right there and then. [etc.]
My dearest actor,
I will kill you. I will kill you where you stand. Or rather, since you're probably at the computer at the moment, where you sit. Not one quanta of matter that formerly made up the complex web of condensed energy-states you called "you" will remain in a coherent state. I will find a way to split your quarks into their component preons, find a way to split
them, and then find a way to split the as-yet unknown particles that will result. The splittings will continue for some time. This will occur in all possible sub-universes of the Everett-DeWitt model of quantum mechanics, even those which don't yet exist. When it is finished, the probabilistic base-level energy waves in the structure of the universe that are left of you which make up the simplest possible form of existence will be scattered to outside the light cone of both Earth and any existing and possible future sentient species, thus ensuring they will never be seen again. They will then be deleted from the massively-parallel computer simulation running in the heart of an ancient dying universe that is the true form of ours, and all records of their existence expunged retroactively by the godlike beings who created it, with whom I will have made contact by that time. This may require me extending my lifetime indefinitely through artificial means until after humanity undergoes a technological Singularity and become beings of pure thought able to manipulate the structure of matter, time, and space at will before traveling back to this time period, but
it will happen.
Yours wrathfully,
The Wandering Idiot, Esq.
P.S.- Other than that, nice story :)