Fractured Continuity: A Timeline Erased And Redone
"Magic, science. Is there really a difference?" ~ Unknown
There lies the hope and desires of a dying universe where entropy progresses, leaving nothing behind but dilute photon-lepton gas. Unrealized potential and repetition may start up again, in the quantum resonance of the old times.
As there is a beginning to an end, Quantum fluctuations will reignite the universe back to its original beginning point. Giving the universe to have a chance repeating its pointless continuity. Essentially with no higher purpose beyond Azathoth's delusions.
Today marks the day of the Nth existential plane already 13.8 billion years in progress. A fraction of a second to anyone observing outside the universe. The nothing nothing without dimensions or comprehension. Today is the day of the biggest ripple in repeated patterns within this senseless universe. Time, motion and paradox converging, bringing change, slaughtering old gods, reviving newborn gods and ending it. All of this was happening in a instant.
He who escaped the contingency with the power of the Shining Trapezohedron bestowed upon his alternates from a multitude of universes, an artifact not interacting with the standard model of physics and mathematical laws, capable of defying fate. He is, the first of many who will raise above calculated motion and thoughts in universal dimensions and space.
~Introduction to Science~
Earth - 2009 - 2011
11 year old Shirou was an avid sci-fi fan.
It began when he was reading novels about heroes that saved countless of lives. Legends that knew no boundaries and gifted with great a many powers. But further along the line he also began reading some darker stories. Until he came along a few peculiar stories that caught his interest, the likes of Blame!, Biomega, Gantz and more science oriented graphic novels.
He knew that they used science to achieve their goals, so Shirou thought he also could be a hero if he studied a more elaborate branch of science. Of course in his haste he didn't realize that the science applied in his novels were far away from realized. Being theoretical fiction at best. But even after this realisation, he didn't stop trying to look for answers. The answers and solutions that could mitigate his weak affinity to magecraft.
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After a months of studying obscure arcane books he found around his father's study and the Apocryphal internet forums, he formulated a theoretical concept.
'Magecraft is always rejected by Gaia, but what if I molded the natural world using Structural analysis and Projection based on existing laws of physics? The cause will disappear, but the effects always stay. Otherwise it should be a paradox.'
With the idea that you could project a sword and cut a bamboo pole in half. And the knowledge that the pole will stay cut even if the sword is dispelled. He started a revolution beyond magic and science. The work of long and arduous studies bearing fruit. It would be some time before Shirou could find the tools needed to test this theory, but Fortūna was favoring his side.
The first spark a few months later after that was when he used structural analysis on a Multi-Phase Hermetic detector and a Electron microscope on a trip to a laboratory. And using those blueprints he got from understanding the general principles, figured out to do an analysis on an atomic scale. And after some testing with advanced knowledge of how Quantum forces work, gained the ability to transmute things on a quasi-molecular scale by shaping the materials using projection particles.
He needed rare materials and metals to progress some of his later ideas. So he experimented with some combinations or made new materials like Trinium, Orichalcum, Vizorium, Chorizite and Emiyarulestheworldium, but they were not what he was looking for.
After researching how diamonds are made and how they can store prana the most efficiently, he tried transmuting pure carbon into a diamantine structure. But even that was not what he wanted. After researching some more into it, he discovered black diamonds could be made using zero pressure and only heat.
After that, Shirou tried once again to create a material able to conduct mana or energy without resistance. An accident in the progress of making the new material resulted in a carbon nanotubular structure that was tested to be 100 times stronger than steel and has medium superconductivity.
He named the strange new material Scarletite or Hihiirokane, the mythical metal rumored to be stronger than steel and has superconducting capabilities as opposed to the names he had to choose from like Carbon-Neutronium, a rather more scientific name but didn't hold the same legendary name which he could use in sympathetic magic.
The other obstacle that held him back was limitations of prana, so after Shirou looked at the oscillation, spin, behavior and mass of Mana in the out of phase non-interactive density field permeating the earth through Ley-lines.
He discovered that Mana only reacts only to a Particle-Wave matrix that makes up magic circuits, the system that converts Mana into Od to be stored into our manaforious nucleus, moving it about into a non-palpable spin next to the Hadron particles. So making more of these exotic Particle-Wave circuitry was necessary to begin transmuting energy en masse.
Some time after that debacle, Shirou acquired sensitive data from the DAFAK Digital Archives For Accumulated Knowledge from someone called the Kaleidoscope in the apocryphal forums. The most interesting pieces of information was the designs of the Large Hadron-Collider that would replace the Tevatron accelerator next year and the experimental Quantum Vacuum Zero Point Energy module system called the Nullpunktsenergie Unschärferelation Kraftverstärker des Todes Projekt.
He used the designs of the LHC to make a miniature replica with a solid supercooled niobium-titanium electron force ring able to recreate the particle accelerator. Shirou found out that the energy requirements was a problem because the power needed to propel a proton at the speed of light is calculated to be almost 200 megawatts per minute.
With some research and experimentation he learned that zero point energy was the lowest energy state a particle could get. Any lower and the particle would have no energy and would cease to exist. Which was a violation of conservation of mass and energy.
After some more experimentation he learned that while the energy you pulled out from a low energy state particle is infinite. The energy production was like pulling power from a frozen object in a vacuum without introducing new energy into it like the Earth's magnetic field. It could be done. But some cheating was required.
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Fortuitously, Shirou was the only that could make the ZPM because he had to use numerous amounts of Magecraft alongside his artificial materials. Subsequently the eloquently named finished Hermes Relativistic Linear Particle Collider was a success. It took more than 100 attempts however for him to subtly rearrange Quarks, Gluons, Leptons and Bosons to the requirement specification with Sub-Quantum mana strings using the data collected from the collider because he doesn't have the right equipment and processing power necessary to calculate the different amount of vectors and sheer mathematical sum.
After Shirou consulted the Kaleidoscope and researched some of his sci-fi novels deeper into the lines. He decided to do something so stupid even the craziest of Magi would hesitate before doing what Shirou did. He transmuted extra neural connections and synapses made from Serotonin infused Scarletite to accelerate his mind and amplify memory data processing and storaging. Essentially turning his brain in a literal grey metallic mass. The properties of the artificial neural network will eventually play a role later to enhance communications between machines.
He installed the neural network into his head by various means like transmutation and primitive magecraft augmented nano-machines, although Shirou had to test his cerebral functions, to make sure they worked as they supposed to do, making sure there was no issues. The adjustments made his processing power boosted by a factor of seven hundred, and data exchange between neurons was accelerated to near light speeds. but even after what he did, it was not enough to power his potential systems.
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After that he found a solution in the book, Transcendance. He programmed a wireless relay to create a two way connection from his cerebral processing frame to a binary computer system which in turn is connected to the World Wide Web. With the extra processing power available to him, he was able hack the computers and servers all over the world to increase his reach and processing power. He couldn't connect too long to the internet however, because the brain was not made to handle binary systems. In the future he would be able to build a far more superior Quantum computer for that.
It was obvious because of his infringement on government computers and military networks that they would try to track him. After he had a few precarious encounters, he learned and gained enough knowledge to evade them all. Although not after he had covered his mistakes he made at the beginning, being lucky that he used proxy servers to mask his location and identity.
Digital projects were assimilated and theorized at an astonishing rate. More than he could keep up on them, so many were scrapped but a few were kept as they are ingenious feats of science that he couldn't ignore. After one month, he assembled some new projects together that will incorporate abandoned ideas or ones that were not feasible because they had not the necessary materials. This will be used to create new medicine and life altering changes to the world at whole. He wasn't very sorry for the stolen information because they wouldn't be used anyways or couldn't be created without a lot of funds.
He realized that he couldn't do everything with only his unlimited manufacturing abilities. So Shirou seized criminal monetary assets to fund things he couldn't do on his own. After seeing how much crime went through the internet throughout the world, he also created a system to track down criminals and send information to a local police station while still able to hide his tracks and route the criminals money to his depository.
He bought a facility just outside the city, but close to his home to research his scientific programs more efficiently and keep his secret from anyone's knowledge until he had a sufficient power base. It proved to be a good idea if Taiga's curiosity is to go by, and is not helped by his constant school skipping.
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After some hacking and bribing he'd done. All his education were finished and Shirou gained a master's degree on all scientific related branches and a Ph.D on Quantum Physics. Making him the youngest Doctor in the world to date.
A few more months of fumbling around legal matters and setting up his workshop, he finally could make a particle assembler to make more magic circuits after all that trouble. He bought all the necessary equipment to progress his research, but personnel was an issue.
He studied nanotechnology more in-depth and realized nanites made of Scarletite was the greatest theoretical assembler and disassembler. And if he could figure to make them self replicating, all his problems would be solved. He transmuted his primitive makeshift nanites he used to inject the neural network into his brain to a more elaborate design, but the problem lies in the propulsion system on the nanites.
They were pretty fast on some issues, but its far more efficient to just transmute a material to the desired form. He kept the nanites in his body and containers with the command to not replicate after a issue that managed to destroy most of his bones, organs and a eye. He was able to fix most injuries with Scarletite, acetylcholine and Chorizite, replacing his organs and eye with cybernetics and runic arrays.
