VERY SHORT SF STORY - Simulated Hologram: EARTH




SF SHORT STORY - by Bennie Beaver


Simulated Hologram: EARTH:

With a large retinue of angels at stark attention, an omnipotent entity stands ready at a promenade of controls. Its fingers flit lightly, cascading over a magnificent chorus of buttons and knobs. Abruptly, the entity stalls, with but one finger positioned ominously above a sole button. Looking first to the entourage, and then to a simulation program, it hesitantly presses downward. A simulated hologram strums dutifully to life.

There, posed in the grips of a stealthy darkness set a dead world, and the entity said, “Let there be light” and there was light. The bleak world beamed with all of the colors of the rainbow. The entity said, “Let there be a man and women and all sorts of beast of the land," and it was so, and the entity was pleased.

The entity and angels muse over a purpose for the man and women. What would be their station on this world, and the entity said, “They can live there forever in a Garden of Eden, but for one thing; they can’t partake of the fruit of one tree of autonomy.” It was all established and agreed upon, and the entity said, “So be it.” The entity and angels sit back to observe, but soon closed the book on Earth.

It was not long before the angels report that the simulated world called Earth is flawed. The women had taunted the man into partaking of the fruit of the forbidden tree and the world had become autarchic. The year is now in the 21st century and the humans had suffered centuries of wars, disease, and famine. The all imposing entity must decide the ultimate fate of Earth.

The entity ponders the situation for a nanosecond and said, “For eons they have questioned my name and that was fine, but then, they trample upon righteousness and goodness. I created this world as one of my many simulations. There’s an error in the program."
  
The entity positions one finger ominously above a solely dimming button and presses downward…..DELETE Dec. 21 2012!


 
©1/16/2009 6:26:08 PM – Bennie M. Beaver (http://www.drwarpenstein.com)


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P.S. I just wrote this very short story after reading about real theoretical evidence suggesting that the universe may be a hologram. Ideas about a simulated and holographic universe are long present in Science Fiction, but I'm not sure about the latter.

I don't believe that the world will end in 2012. Please, remind me if the world ends on Dec. 21 2012 via Mayan calendar or Nostradamus prophecy of an end of time. But Sir Issac Newton's prediction of a 2060 end date more closely coordinates with the venerable scientist/inventor Ray Kurzweil's singularity date of 2045.


However, I feel that I should cover my presaging back-side. In consideration of Ray Kurzweil's coming "singularity", I predict that staggering change is come soon to Earth. It makes one wonder about predictions portended by Nostradamus...or is that "quatrained" by Nostradamus. Is the universe more strange than we have imagined, or than we can imagine? I'd rather believe that the answer is out there!

New Scientist, Jan. 15, 2009

Fermilab scientists have found anomalous "holographic noise" in their GEO600 gravitational-wave detector that suggests the possibility that we live in a hologram.