Chapter 4905: The Information Paradox I

Noah frankly had far too many things happening all at once across multiple bodies.

He was monitoring the terrifying process that THE Infiniverse had just started while also having another body in THE Interstices writing Inscriptions. Another body in THE Wastes was stabilizing THE Great Usurper alongside Ains and Skoll.

An illusory consciousness floated with Ul’moreth and THE Primordial Chaos in Alfheimr. And another body now stared at Bazuman, THE Undivided One, in THE Agora of Primordial Judgment as four Strategoi and THE Primordial Paradox stood beside him.

Truly, it was a lot on his plate, and lesser multitaskers would have crumbled under the weight of simultaneous existential crises unfolding across Observable Existence.

But in the midst of all of this...

|Master.|

THE Infiniverse sent him information as her mixing of the corrupted proto-matter with his Infinite Seals of Absolute Tongue made the two intertwine. They now flowed across different parts of existence as a hybrid substance that held both undifferentiation and Infinity within its depths.

In this mixing, there was a pulsing signal that was now being sent. A signal for communication between the Infinities of Noah and the corrupted proto-matter!

It was a unique thing as Noah could feel this signal for communication was paradoxical, with it existing in an undefined state as it had no power or capacity for action. Only communication in the span of an instant. If he accepted this signal, he would likely converse with whatever consciousness sent it within the span of an instant as no time would pass externally.

And this paradoxical signal caused Noah to be immensely curious as he already knew what its origins were.

So even though he was already multitasking on so many things, he designated this as an action that fell in line with what THE Infiniverse was already doing by jumping aboard a terrifying process. She had opened the floodgates, and now he would see what lay on the other side.

So...

He accepted the signal of communication as it was like neuronal signals coming together, as if existential synapses were communicating across the vast distances of Observable Existence!

And...

HUUM!

A part of his consciousness found itself drawn into a flash of singularities, eventually finding itself in a space between spaces that existed outside of normal reality.

Around him flickered seas of corrupted proto-matter and his Infinite Seals of Absolute Tongue swirling amidst each other as they reflected an endless multicolored sky above and a blue-gold sea below. The two substances wove through each other in patterns that spoke of forced coexistence, neither fully merging nor fully separating.

He had an illusory consciousness form here.

And a few meters away was the illusory consciousness of... THE Living Paradox.

Noah looked at the visage of this being that looked exactly like Schrodinger. He remained in that grand beggar-like attire as if he wanted to remember his origins even while wielding power that could reshape Observable Existence. He was looking toward Noah with surprise that seemed genuine.

It felt like such a long time had passed since Noah last talked to this being. He had gone back eons in time and come back, had witnessed THE Prima Indifferentia, had met THE Primordial Paradox in his prime. But in relative time, these events were still approximately within the span of a day since THE Fallout began!

THE Living Paradox definitely seemed surprised as he spoke with a voice that held calm authority.

"Out of all things I accounted for across Observable Existence, I didn’t expect it to be you."

His eyes, which held the weight of accumulated eons, studied Noah with intensity.

"I’ve just come to learn you are somehow involved in the resurgence of my old Master. And now, you’ve managed to jump aboard something I’ve worked eons to make happen."

He shook his head slowly.

"I can’t even be mad. You seem to be doing your best across existence and having much better luck than others."

His smile was thin and knowing.

"Tell me, Osmont... what do you know about THE Information Paradox?"

...!

Noah looked at this being with raised brows.

Were they really doing this? He was a sucker for knowledge and information, and he loved letting these ancient beings talk and talk as they revealed their power and the different weavings of existence out there. He simply didn’t expect such a thing from THE Living Paradox, and now of all times.

But he replied calmly as endless Seals spun around his illusory form.

"No. Enlighten me."

HUUM!

THE Living Paradox folded his hands behind his back as waves of definition and undefinition surrounded him, the corrupted proto-matter and Infinite Seals reflecting off his form in patterns that spoke of someone who existed at the center of what was currently unfolding.

"THE Information Paradox...is one of the oldest contradictions in existence. It is, perhaps, the most fundamental paradox there is."

His voice held profound calmness that seemed at odds with the chaos currently flooding across all realms.

"Consider the nature of information itself. Every being that exists, every Civilization that is built, every action that is taken... all of these generate information. Weavings of cause and effect. Records of what was and what will be. The very fabric of existence is threaded with information that cannot be destroyed, because destroying information would be equivalent to making something that happened... unhappen."

He began to pace slowly through the space between spaces.

"This is the first principle. Information is conserved. What exists must continue to exist in some form. What is known must remain knowable. What has occurred must remain recoverable, even if that recovery requires power beyond what most beings possess. The Vakochev Scales themselves manifest this principle. They record. They remember. They whisper the names of those who have done grand things because that information cannot simply vanish."

His smile grew thinner.

"But here is where the paradox emerges. There exist phenomena across existence that consume without releasing. Voids of definition and undefinition of authority that draw in everything around them, including the information that defines what they consume. When existence enters these voids, these black holes of undifferentiation and differentiation, it is crushed beyond recognition. When Civilizations fall into them, they are compressed into states that should not be able to contain what they once were."

He turned to face Noah directly.

"And when these voids eventually dissolve, when they release their accumulated weight back into existence through emanations that carry none of the original information... what happens to everything that fell in? Where does the information go?"

His eyes held something that might have been melancholy.

"The answer, according to conventional understanding, is that the information is lost forever. Destroyed. Unmade in a way that violates the most fundamental principle of existence. And yet it happens. The voids consume. The voids of undifferentiation and differentiation dissolve. And what emerges carries no trace of what went in."

He spread his hands.

"This is THE Information Paradox. Information cannot be destroyed, and yet these phenomena destroy it. Information must be conserved, and yet these phenomena do not conserve it. The contradiction has driven greater minds than mine to madness, because it suggests that existence itself operates on rules that contradict each other at the most fundamental level."

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