Friday, July 13, 2012

What are the Odds?

She worked hard at closing the space-time curvature into a small ball. That would help her escape this universe. Her work here was done. She concentrated at 'bending' the very fabric of 'reality' and watched as her efforts started to have an effect. The black hole she used had so much potential! Reality ceased to exist as time and space lost all meaning. Lhoh watched the space disintegrate into fractals - mathematical functions spun crazily in her head as an explosion of color burst forth from the region which surrounded the erstwhile black hole.

Lhoh was everywhere for an instant and then she was no more. She was in another universe, and it resolved  slowly as she watched it glimmer like an apparition. It was ephemeral. She released her pressure on the bending and it slowly solidified. She let go gently of the tenuous bending. Space was normal again.

Lhoh did not know from where she came, she just always was. She looked at herself and realized that she had been depleted, just like last time. She was always less, not more and this bothered her. She created universes.... or did they create her? It was immaterial. All she knew was that at one time she had been created from the very stuff she was creating. It had been a 'birthing' of spectacular proportions. She was pure mathematics, every part of her being understood and empathized with the grandeur of the function; the geometry of the solution. It was what she existed for.

Lhoh concentrated on the work she had to do. She began working out the solutions to this universe; the probability equations; the rules she made were as logical to her as existing. They flowed forth and bent the universe to her will. Nothing was superfluous, it was beautiful and she felt pleasure in the way it ebbed and flowed from her. Time meant nothing; it was a construct and she had loads and loads of time.

The stars twinkled in response to her efforts as she manipulated the gravity to create a three-dimensional map in her mind. It was wonderful. She wanted to do this endlessly. Every new creation was wonderful and unexpected. She reveled in it. 

What Lhoh did not know was who her creators were. And that Lhoh stood for 'Last Hope of Humankind'.

9 comments:

  1. Lhoh sounds like she is much better at math than I am. Nice work-- I love the diction. Your use your vocabulary very well.

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    1. Glad you enjoyed reading it Jonathan. Take a look at the other flashfiction stories here as well :)

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    2. @Jonathon, not only is Lhoh good at math, in a very real sense, she is math; presumably a tensor, a set of field equations.

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  2. You* Lord... I need to go to bed.

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  3. Intriguing! My imagination of what Lhoh is visualizing is working overtime.

    Just out of curiosity, is there any deliberate reason why you published this story so shortly after the announcement that evidence of something very close to the Higgs Boson, if not actually the Higgs Boson, has been discovered. (Some coincidences are just a little too hard to believe by default.)

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    1. To answer you question, I actually did not consider the discovery of the Higgs Boson, though it may have crept in subconsciously.

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  4. "all is well,indeed, one must imagine lhoh happy." a. camus

    ( ok, a paraphrase, I admit )

    :)

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  5. Very interesting piece, powerful choice of words.

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