We live in an artificial multiverse. Information is the only thing that’s real. What we call “reality” is the illusion. What you see and hear is the interpretation of data, math made comprehensible to the eyes and ears.

Every elemental particle is a piece of data, a unique object with set metaproperties and qualities that describes it.

If a hadron and a gluon collide, those numbers are going to predict how they interact. You just plug them into the proper equation.

Those equations scale as the number of particles you’re describing increases, which is why marijuana addicts are always blathering on about the solar system and its resemblance to an atom in the toe of a giant all the time.

A nuclear sphinx is just one of the possible mathematical outcomes of a fusion event. Usually they’re really tiny and no one notices them. Big ones are rare. — One Death