12 - Inequation of the Future
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aprilmarchItem 93299987 - The Foresight Curve
Object is an inequation designed by Dr. [REDACTED], a mathematician at the Pontífica Universidade de Campinas who is also a student of occultism.
Dr. [REDACTED] created the inequation deliberately as an oracular tool. The oracle consists of a fractal created when the equation's results are solved for each X/Y pair on the cartesian plane, with two different colours used depending on whether the right side of the equation is greater than the left. A second equation is used to derive the X and Y values to be used, based on the question asked and information about the person asking the question and the time in which it is asked.
While artifacts based on traditional occultism are usually not handled by the DPA, this object can return answers much more precise than usual, far exceeding the consensus on its applicability. As such, all references to it have been erased, and Dr. [REDACTED] remains under vigilance.
Some uses of the object so far recorded by the DPA:
- A question made in late 2019 about priorities for the upcoming year. Result was a graph of COVID-19 contagions and deaths in Brazil. All data has proven to be accurate so far.
- A question on the whereabouts of an escaped object. Result was a map identified of Ilhabela, on São Paulo's north coast, with an X marking a location. Object was found at the location marked.
- A question about the best containment practices for object [NUMBER REDACTED]. Location showed the word ZOOM. After some consideration, the graph area was observed with finer granularity. It was discovered the within the word a complete containment protocol was written. The protocol has been enacted and has succeeded in containing the object since then.
The regular use of this object for aiding in DPA business has come up often. On the one hand, since the object is a mathematical construct, it technicallly already contains all anomalous answers, so asking more questions does not increase its anomalous potential. On the other hand, since anyone in possession of the inequation can plot the fractal, this means they too can read the answers to any question asked. Due to this, all questions are the be passed to DPA directors first, who will decide whether it can be asked. A random employee will also be used to make the actual question, to prevent their answers from being easily found from data on DPA directors.
Since this means that all questions that will ever be asked already have their answers on the fractal, AI analysis is ongoing to detect shapes that can be answers to yet unasked questions. So far, a few candidates have been found.
- A set of five faces. Four of them are young people, two men and two women. The last one is a deformed head with a single, large eye, no nose, and a droopy upper lip.
- The street grid of New York, with seven areas marked with X's. Only the streets are visible; the shape of the landmass can only be seen because the grid mostly conforms to it. There are several small differences to the current grid, and although the entire island of Manhattan should be visible on the map, no streets south of Central Park are shown.
- A complex organic molecule. Biologists examining it said some parts of the figure must be using a different method to represent the atoms, or it makes no sense.
- A five-hundred block of text in an unknown script. Examination revealed 53% of characters also appear on the Voynich manuscript.
- Two numbers. If they are taken as X and Y coordinates for the inequation, they would be asked by a person named [REDACTED], who was born on April 20th 2017, and who on September 29th 2038 will ask the question "How can I amass the most power?" Using those numbers as X and Y values reveals [DATA EXPUNGED]. The person in question, presently a three-year-old toddler, has been identified and is under observation. While his actions will be considered anomalous if taken, it is possible that preventing him from asking the question will create a time paradox. As such, he is to be allowed to operate freely until the question is asked.
Object is an inequation designed by Dr. [REDACTED], a mathematician at the Pontífica Universidade de Campinas who is also a student of occultism.
Dr. [REDACTED] created the inequation deliberately as an oracular tool. The oracle consists of a fractal created when the equation's results are solved for each X/Y pair on the cartesian plane, with two different colours used depending on whether the right side of the equation is greater than the left. A second equation is used to derive the X and Y values to be used, based on the question asked and information about the person asking the question and the time in which it is asked.
While artifacts based on traditional occultism are usually not handled by the DPA, this object can return answers much more precise than usual, far exceeding the consensus on its applicability. As such, all references to it have been erased, and Dr. [REDACTED] remains under vigilance.
Some uses of the object so far recorded by the DPA:
- A question made in late 2019 about priorities for the upcoming year. Result was a graph of COVID-19 contagions and deaths in Brazil. All data has proven to be accurate so far.
- A question on the whereabouts of an escaped object. Result was a map identified of Ilhabela, on São Paulo's north coast, with an X marking a location. Object was found at the location marked.
- A question about the best containment practices for object [NUMBER REDACTED]. Location showed the word ZOOM. After some consideration, the graph area was observed with finer granularity. It was discovered the within the word a complete containment protocol was written. The protocol has been enacted and has succeeded in containing the object since then.
The regular use of this object for aiding in DPA business has come up often. On the one hand, since the object is a mathematical construct, it technicallly already contains all anomalous answers, so asking more questions does not increase its anomalous potential. On the other hand, since anyone in possession of the inequation can plot the fractal, this means they too can read the answers to any question asked. Due to this, all questions are the be passed to DPA directors first, who will decide whether it can be asked. A random employee will also be used to make the actual question, to prevent their answers from being easily found from data on DPA directors.
Since this means that all questions that will ever be asked already have their answers on the fractal, AI analysis is ongoing to detect shapes that can be answers to yet unasked questions. So far, a few candidates have been found.
- A set of five faces. Four of them are young people, two men and two women. The last one is a deformed head with a single, large eye, no nose, and a droopy upper lip.
- The street grid of New York, with seven areas marked with X's. Only the streets are visible; the shape of the landmass can only be seen because the grid mostly conforms to it. There are several small differences to the current grid, and although the entire island of Manhattan should be visible on the map, no streets south of Central Park are shown.
- A complex organic molecule. Biologists examining it said some parts of the figure must be using a different method to represent the atoms, or it makes no sense.
- A five-hundred block of text in an unknown script. Examination revealed 53% of characters also appear on the Voynich manuscript.
- Two numbers. If they are taken as X and Y coordinates for the inequation, they would be asked by a person named [REDACTED], who was born on April 20th 2017, and who on September 29th 2038 will ask the question "How can I amass the most power?" Using those numbers as X and Y values reveals [DATA EXPUNGED]. The person in question, presently a three-year-old toddler, has been identified and is under observation. While his actions will be considered anomalous if taken, it is possible that preventing him from asking the question will create a time paradox. As such, he is to be allowed to operate freely until the question is asked.
