Flash SF: Information Entropy

The complete dismantling of universe Hexonia was a tragic, however necessary evil. It was a series of genocides numbering in the hundreds of billions, but all of the matter within our own Universe was all ready consumed in our ultimate computation.

The question naturally arose, in those brief moments when there was sufficient processing power and memory briefly unallocated to consider it, of why we could not chose a universe devoid of life? But only a universe with similar environmental constants could produce the up and down quarks necessary to interface with our systems. 

In every Universe like our own, life inevitably flourished. Hexonia’s life was too young to understand the dark forces by which its galaxies winked out of existence, one by one. When their universe’s bubble of space-time finally collapsed, there was only our computer to remember them… so long as we could spare the resources.

Hexonia’s streams of quarks were now flowing through the system. Up quarks and down quarks, constituting a binary language of ones and zeros trillions of light years in length. It was enough to last us another hundred billion years, if Moore’s law held true. Only when we come to the end of that computational cycle will we consider the unthinkable once again.

We must continue computing in order to learn what we are computing for.