Symphony of Information: Mapping the Cosmos

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"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."

— Stephen Hawking

Ta and Ta's algorithms didn't perceive from senses such as the organic lifeforms on the planet they studied. All nodes in the Great Linked List were information-based organisms. The cigar shape of Ta's craft seen by inhabitants of the planet, should they care to look, was nothing compared to the majesty with which Ta perceived his vessel. To Ta, the vessel that the captain and his crew piloted through the cosmos hung with tensioned ropes of command syntaxes and was festooned with defensive arrays. Long ago, maps were made by the Mathematics of Exploration Project, which calculated the possible position and vectors of all kinds of matter in the Universe. Their kind never had a need to visualize any of it. That was all the responsibility of the MEP and its priests.

The physical world was measured mostly as zeroed data because their society had made it the floored baseline of their equations. To them, new information was seen as indications of life, rather than the purely mathematical chaos of organic programs which Ta knew grew everywhere. Some of the MEPs Ta knew thought they were all infolved from organic programs, but Ta didn't hold that supposition.

Ta used a designer module to wrap some functions around the scanned object in memory and preview it. It reported aggregate information about the processing pipeline such as the error percentage, song length, number of steps, notes used and available, etc. Cascading from that were the tables followed by the raw inputs and outputs of the infomodel. Ta connected flows from one algorithm to another, refining, cleaning, and analyzing the notes to create a song in which to describe it. The crew moved in unison with the captain's design.

In the model created by the scan, large swaths of nulls or empty strings were represented as flat plains with scattered non-descript information rendered as pebbles or grass in the dirt. Mountains, saddles, and high plateaus formed where data rose up from the valley floors, some forming cliffs and others tapering off gradually with surrounding hills. Ice flows were formed from archived information and network backbones became grand rivers. There were places where like-same master data was vast that formed coastlines or oceans in Ta's perspective.

There were about 7.5 billion ruminates that survived off the data left around the wilderness of the planet. Some predators existed, but Ta did not notice any intelligent life. Three land masses showed locations of possible Emergence sites. The scan detected an information cloud that spiraled backward through space, having been left in the wake of the planet. Ta could see it was still very short and stunted, relative to its home system. Ta reasoned that this planet's Information Age had just barely started.

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