The Architects

We, as humans - as four-dimensional creatures - are not able to imagine existing outside of time. The way we think is innately time-based. Events happen in succession. And yet, if we’re to believe the latest findings, published mere days ago, such a thing as existing beyond time may indeed be possible.

Throughout all known human cultures there have been various tales, stories, folklore about the creation of our world and the possibility of there being a Creator behind it. I’ve always liked thinking about such a Creator as being an Architect. One who creates the plan for a new building and overlooks the construction process; one who makes sure the foundation and the structure of the building is sound - but then takes their hands off and lets the building be used and evolve as the tenants see fit.

Well, it turns out, we might have just been visited by our Architect. Two weeks ago, large structures began erupting throughout the world, mainly in the middle of deserts and vast forests - away from society. Even though these structures were previously unknown to us, they don’t look new - they look ancient. Initial results of carbon dating have shown that they’ve existed for at least 20.000-50.000 years. They take the shape of large obelisks surrounded on one side by an outer wall made out of a mirror-like material, and have some kind of writing all over their bases. Scientists are still currently trying to untangle the language but it looks like a very early type of cuneiform. It doesn’t help that each one seems to use slightly different syntax, which could mean that they weren’t all created at the same time.

The first ones that scientists were able to study were the four structures which erupted in the Kalahari desert. Their outer mirrors are arranged in such a way that, at a certain time of day, the shadows cast by the obelisks meet in the middle. The notations found on their bases speak of our Creator as being one of many. Entities beyond time. Beyond dimensions. Able to morph into any shape, inside any number of dimensions. Beings which longed for knowledge. And this very longing is what brought them to create our universe - and a infinite array of others like it. Their thirst for knowledge led them to create enclosed physical models of the dimensions they could inhabit. Finite spaces where they could tweak and study the fundamental laws and interactions between entities - some call these spaces “bounds”. When all such combinations had been exhausted they created infinite spaces of finite dimensions - universes much like ours.

Each iterations is given a slightly different set of rules in order for Them to study the outcomes. After an iteration is done, when all is entropy, it resets, getting ready for a new ruleset. Once all possible rulesets have been exhausted these spaces are forsaken, left to play over and over again like a broken record.

Creation, expansion, silence, death; Creation, expansion, silence, death. From entroy unto entropy. Always. Beyond time. So we were born, and so we must end - of stillness.

Notes of a Traveler, 2267 Anno Domini.