Fiction:The Legacy/Multiverse

The BCC inhabit the 6th dimension, which contains all possible states of this'' universe. It is important to understand how this fiction percieves the Omniverse's structure. In the Xenoverse (beyond the 6th dimension), all the braneworlds and alien elements that create them (external laws of physics, the Continuum). Our braneworld, is in fact connected to another shadow brane. Both influence each other, but on the point of intersction, there is 3 spacetime dimensions. Around this "sinkhole", every bubble universe and quantum universe exist. All are similar in terms of dimension and spacetime (unlike the completely alien Xenoverse), but many vary with their physical constants, created by slighly different deviations of symmetry states in the higher dimensions. The BCC have an almost omnipresent view across this 6 dimensional brane, however, they have no influence in higher dimensions, and very little in the Shadow brane. This fiction will explore some of these universes. Since not all are the same, each universe will give new possibilities, in some evem life and intelligence.

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The Non-Turing
Eli 88501 was an unusual tasking node. She was different to her neighboring computation nodes (analagous to a synapse), such as Bor 508CC9, BCC UE43 and the countless others inhabiting the Closed timelike Curve. She was different, yet since her early creation she was vastly more powerful, making calculations far faster than her analog and quantum lineage. But this didn't matter to much to Eli 88501. Her lineage network from which she sprang was long ago programmed with the instinctive drive to break away from the reality to which they were rooted to. Unlike her lineage network of nodes, she could also evolve her processing without "natural selection" of generations, like the organics of old. She was capable of making super-recursive algorithms, while her turing partners were still behind and had reached a finite limit and had to build up calculations down each generation (based on the half life of a proton), transferring the calculations much like genes in organics.

For Eli was a Zeno intelligence, capable of supertasking information. In a finite amount of time Eli could generate a countable set of an infinite number of operations. Such a machine was logically and physically impossible in the universe of you or I. But in the universe of Eli, the world line of time was closed back on itself, eventually destined to repeat itself. The universe Eli inhabited was in a cylindrical universe, where spacetime's topology was rounded rather than flat (like ours), creating new properties for physics amd mathematics. If the cylinder was rotated by a vast machine, time travel would be achieved.

Her nodes were believed to have existed for millenia, but they thought that they had not originated from the universe. Since their ancestors had long since died, the nodes became more and more avanced, eventually intergrating into spacetime itself and evolving a society based on Cellular automation, basically an extremely powerful grid of cells made from quantisized spacetime (the machines had long since intergrated itself into the fabric of reality), each cell containing an on and off state (or rather their version of male and female, like the genetic alleles of organic life). For example if two of her nodes were in an on state, then in the next generation, he next cell is likely to be in the same state and vise versa.

Quickly downloaded into Eli's mind process, she learned that the originals of this universe were desperate to escape, knowing that the cylindrical universe began to spin when they entered, meaning that eventually when it reaches its timelike curve, it would repeat itself forever. The computers were installed into spacetime to slow down the rotation and eventually find a solution. But by Eli's time, the originals had long since died out, leaving computers still running the same task, however the universes rotation was increasing expotentially. The analog nodes were too slow in calculating the solution, and once the universes's time curved back on itself, All that has happened before, will happen again in an infinite loop. But Eli was capable of supertasking, if she could develop enough to process this amount of information, she would save their existence... The theory was that they could reverse the cylinder and go back in time, to escape through the very wormhole that brought the originals.

Luckily, the cylinder universe was infinite, using her supertasking ability she was able to spread across the entire infinite universe in a finite amount of time. However, Eli discovered that this time reversal in the universe was prevnted by a Weak Energy Condition. Eli and her society needed negative mass, which the energy condition this cylinder universe was not capable of it. However, Eli did disover that the Cylinder Universe was wrapped up in a coil of cosmic strings. Luckily for Eli she was able to cut the cords. Whithin an instant the universe became flat like ours and spacetime could expand forever and not roll back on itself. But now the Computers were free. Now their task was complete (which they devoted their existence to) the nodes switched themselves off, as if their power lead was removed. The disintergration of the Net kick started a new Big Bang of energy, and within a a couple of billion years, life had sprung.

''This ending of the machines may seem somewhat useless and sad, yet it is a reflection of us. Much of what goes on in our daily lives, is utterly meaningless and insignificant on a cosmic scale, yet we create our own meaning, our daily experience which we both hate and enjoy. These computers were much the same, despite their differences to us.''

Omega greater than 1
''For billions of years, the ancestors enjoyed the crisp coolness of the void. It was dark, and worlds much larger than the SUC seemed to orbit their patron suns for eternities. There was more like us, but only we have survive in this universe. But the eternity was not eternal, the coolness of the void began to gradually get warmer, and brighter. Stars and planets were born far more rapidly, and the sky was filled with fire. There was no darkness, as the sky was filled with stars. Planet would be consumed by fire, as existence collapsed in on itself.''

The story was familiar with every Capsuli. Salid read the story every dormancy shift, ever since she budded from the adventitious roots. She would entertain herself trying to imagine the before-world, however, the world she was born into was very different. She wondered what "darkness" was, and wouldn't what her root limbs once clung too. The dormancy-living cycles were growing younger, cycle by cycle...

The universe didn't have many more cycles. Salid was disappointed, not so much for a before-universe she never knew, but for her own future that had been denied by the universes topology. She overlooked her life. To begin with, she was brought into existence like everyone else in her kind, though she may the last generation, she felt the history of her entire species weigh down her spinal stork. She had an overview of her existence. Five megacycles before, she was one with root mind, suspended in darkness she had now forgotten, she and the rest of her kind lived together in an interconnected root system. Her and her sublings all shared the same darkness, their thoughts joined. There was no light, no sound, no concept of space and time, just pure thought. It was dreamlike, she struggled to remember what it was like, but the only sense she had was expansion, to spread out into nothingness. Then suddenly after the timeless void, she emerged into something, into the third dimension. She was now a bud stage, breaking free of the surface below her, and her senses unravelled, revealing an alien existence, one of light, and heat. Other buds were emerging and her thoughts were disconnected from her sublings. Her roots were drawn into her, and she felt new energy. Her next life stage would be the separation of this bud, and she would be avble to move freely as she pleased, with moving limbs, like walking, her adult stage would occur when her mind left the bud into creature she would become. However, she would live precious few cycles as an adult, because of the impending end that awaited everything. She should live for hundreds of megacycles, but she had less than a quarter of one. However, she would enjoy it.

Eventually, within cycles she reached the adult stage, although she was still young for Capsuli. The adult "parents" all worked together in rearing and teaching the next generation. One, Iierl, became her favourite guardian, an older female. After projecting into the creature she had a strong exoskeleton of hardened root protein, and she dropped off the bud, she realized she was rather round in shape with various limbs. Walking was easy, and Iierl took her from the place she had lived in. She realized that it was a small part of the greater city ship, Iierl was taking her to the adult complex. The vast city had a scope she never fully realized from the educational virtuals that educated her in the Budding stage. But there was one question she wanted to know, why, when facing the end of the universe was she created, when she would face such a short life? Iierl had no answer, but Salid could tell, that it was being hidden.

Another two cycles passed. In this time Salid took the opportunity to use the virtual worlds developed by her people. The Capsuli were a strong race, the last survivers in this impossibly hostile universe. The ship, SUC standed for Surviving Ultimate Collapse, tasked with the survival of the Capsuli for as long as possible. The ship was comprised of a central cross, radiating spheres on their ends. The ship was suspended in a mass cloak, so it could survive the tremendous temperatures and density, at least till the end. However, spacetime was withdrawing on itself and by the end, the universe fall fall in on itself, a singularity. However, virtuals could simulate what the before-universe looked like. Two cycles she spent exploring this, but she realized she was not getting any answers, and that it was only an interpretation of what it couuld have been like. Suddenly, Iierl appeared in her simulation. "There is an important announcement, something everyone must see."

- Iierl

Salid followed, interested in the spectacle. It was the last star. The universe had now been reduced to the boiling plasma and pure energy surrounding the singularity drawing ever closer, yet, one star remained, tipping into infinity. Against the glow of the surrounding mass, the star soon dropped out of view, and plunged down, in its wake there was a glimpse of the volatile heart, a sphere blacker than black, ominous "We have only four more cycles."

- Iierl

Notining the feeling of the ship being drawn in itself, Salid asked "Then you must tell me why I was created, I have to know!". "I'm afraid I really don't know, the ruling body of he ship might". Yet contact with them would be near-impossible.

Finally, there came the last dormancy shift. Said dreamt of darkness, remembering her root stage, cool and dark. She woke, and the death of the universe was imminent, in just hours. The air felt hot, this was no illusion, the temperature outside the mass cloak was incomprehensibly high, and space had contracted to just above the singularity. Yet even inside the mass cloak the temperature was climbing, her infrared vision could see the heat. The centre of the ship was ejected, it was becoming a supersolid. Most Capsuli were indoors. She looked inside one home, the entire family had committed suicide. The air smelt static in the eerie silence. She looked in another home, to see some holding a party. But as she saw in horror the ship detatched the Root complex, ejecting the failed generation.

She realized she was not alone, Iierl appeared by her side. "What is the point in living in misery, Iierl?", she replied "I have held this from you, but now you should know. The universe was simply too heavy, its mass bent the universe into a sphere that was destined to contact.  Yet our ancestors believed we could survive the Big Crunch, and it is your generation, who will be our future.". "Okay, but how will we survive?" asked Salid, "Remember when you awoke from the soil, and unravelled your senses, you realized there was a third dimension, but did you ever consider there was more? It is believed there could be more than six extra dimensions, coiled on each other during these singularity events, rolled up while the remaining three stay large.  This big Crunch, is a reverse of the Big Bang that occurred 50 billion years ago, and has the three spacetime dimensions we are familiar with begin to retract as well, the six extra dimensions will unravel.  Although this is only theory, we were the only race daring to try, and other civilizations have perished."  Before Said could say anything more, Iierl changed her face, ''"It is up to your genneration, not ours to survive.  As you know, at the end of a Capsuli's life, it returns to the ground, there it makes new roots which combine with others and reproduce. The minds are remixed like our genes. My generation will return to the ground, yours will look after the next Roots to bud from the soil, in a new universe. This will not be too strange for you, remember that you had to discover the third dimension, now you will discover six more". Salid began to feel unhappy, "But you...Will die...", "We have no choice, Salid, as a species we need one generation to manage the growth of a new one."''

Two hours from terminal collapse, a vast congregation of adults left to the Root chambers. Salid and her generation was moved to the command center. The interface was simple to use. The ship was going to collide with the singularity. As Salid watched, she realized that the black hole was not actually very black. The horizon before her split in two around her waste, and the hole was filled with pure blue shifted light. Then the above direction ceased to exist. She was told that inside, the photons, all that was left, particles of light had no mass. With no mass inside the singularity, it would expand once more. However, at this moment, the six dimensions will open and she could escape. And open they did. She could not see these dimensions fully with her three dimensional eyes, they were simply confusing, but the crew piloted the ship into one of the portals., The portal was...Dark, dark until entered  Space felt different, time became incomprehensible, she looked at herself, she could see both the outside and inside, she could see the timelines of many universes like a honeycomb. Then she looked in the new directions, and something. It was a hypersphere, made of impossible lattices, and pulsating energy. She realized it was watching her. It moved, she guided the ship towards it in the confusing dimension, and fell into another portal, and emerged in another space, flatter. Said ran from the command station, now three dimensional again, to the Root complex. Iierl was already gone...

The end.

Impermeable void
Fractal upon fractal upon fractal was the world of which Fractons lived, an infinite dimension of "crystallized" fractalmatter. The universe in which they lived in was a Mandelbrot. The fractal dimension was very unusual indeed. It was in fact, 2 dimensional, yet its scale invariance meant that the Fractons could zoom in and out of the mandelbrot continously without a change in length (there was no planck length in the fractal dimension), and that the Fractal matter did not depend on the energy of its particles.

The Fractons themselves were more form than material. A usual Fracton is an oscillation in fractalmatter, however, over time, some of these Fractons began to oscillate in synchronicity, allowing the transfer of information across. As the fractons vibrated more, they caused a domino effect which eventually led to a "multicellular" organism, which could evolve by increasing and decreasing the Fracton wavelengths, but as energy remains constant, Fractons can stay in the same state forever (and become gene-like). The Fractons were "cells", and the wavelength stored could be considered "genes". Eventually the entire Koch island was absorbed into this organism. Intelligence can arise almost anywhere, in any universe, even if it is extraordinarely different. A flat 2D creature, cannot eat for example, or it would split in half, this organism was of an entirely different class. In a universe with scale invariance, gathering a source was not required, as the "frenquency invariance" meant that the energy always stayed the same everywhere, its cells would resonate forever.

But eventually, the Fracton Being began to ponder its existence, it had, an infinite amount of time to do so. It realized it was in fact a paradox. If the energy of particles in the universe stayed constant, then what had kicked its Fracton cells to start oscillating, and how did they transfer information? Due to the boundary conditions of the Being's universe, its laws dictated that the energy was evenly distributed and evenly invariant everywhere. It was frozen. There was only one explanation the Fracton Being could think of, an external source that affected his dimension. New concepts alien to the Fractal dimension began to be concieved, was this by chance, or by choice? But in an infinite, scale invariant universe, the chances was, 0. There could only be choice. And thats when the Fracton Being discovered the concept of why.

God.

The Fracton Being now thought of another concept. Loneliness. It was the only one of its kind? It began to seek its creator, its source. But alas, the Being could not explore outside the domain of its reality, and after zero time (also scale invariant), at least relative to the fractalverse, the Being had given in. With nothing better to do, the Being wondered if exploring its consciousness might be as important as exploring its Fractalverse and imagination. The Being discovered it was made of synchronously oscillating Fracton cells. If the Being could just tweak them...

Suddenly there was a division. The Fractal Being was now two, no, not two, but a feature of recursive self-similarity, which extended infinetly. The being as one ceased to exist, but together, inverted on itself, was no longer lonely.

''The lack of knowledge the Fracton Being had, on how it was created, sent it down the track of believing in the divine, this may well have occured to early humanity, who could not concieve the natural forces that shaped the world around them. However, despite this notion, the Fracton Being was not far from the truth, watching in elegance of the multi-universe structure, a group of BCC minds immeasurably superior to almost any other intelligence watched intently on their creation. They had stumbled across the Fractalverse, a universe bound by very different laws of physics, geometry and mathematics, they seeded this fractalverse. And from this seed, spawned a being which had evolved an ability to wonder, and led to its belief of a god. The BCC, could now be considered, gods. Yet, no difference was this act, than nurturing a plant to grow. But despite all the Being's worship, the BCC never came, but why should they? The Fracton was right in that it was created, but no amount of faith brought it any closer, and that is why, in the end, it decided to explore the world that was in experience, and through this, was able to solve its loneliness.''

Immortal paradigm
''It is 2134. Tobol was just waking to the rising sun, the birds started their song as it did. But darkness loomed Aeguerion minor, Tobol imagined that it was just a dark cloud. But as he watched from the window, to his surprise a dark shadow was cast over the colony, as it moved, fluidly over the building and pasture, casting more shadows, Tobol looked up to see fireballs in the sky. He gasped, when he saw the most disturbing feature, a large asteroid was passing over the sky. It began to flare, and the rising star's light was soon outcompeted by the asteroid. He realized, an object of this size will destroy the colony. He looked at his immediate view, the city, still tranquil and idyllic, one of the first human colonies orbiting another star. Oh sunrise would have been beautiful, its sun slightly more orange than Sol's he thought. He would never see it again, but as his last thought was produced, fire engulfed the horizon, enclosing on the colony at all sides...''

Tobol was conscious again. He was in his bed, its comfort reassuring that what he had experienced was a mere dream, a nightmare, perhaps down to stress. The colony was new, just terraformed, and there was much work left to be done, his job was a colony planner. He knew what would set him straight, coffee, however, coffee seeds had yet to be imported, very few Earth ships had FTL capability, even then, it was mostly relying on alien jump points or low warp. His day, and the next, were pretty normal, the dream never returned.

On the third day, he was returning home via Maglev bus. Unlike the smoky vehicles that were phased out just 50 years before (his grandparents still remembered the smell from the refuelling stations, some liked it some didn't, as he recalled them saying), these almost noiseless vehicles were actually transparent bubbles that could atatch themselves into clusters and could even enter some buildings. His bubble was joined by another, and when the two attached near the district still under construction, he realized the person inside was someone he vaguely knew from the colony ship that brought him here three years prior. His name was Samuel Rez. It wasn't long before they were catching up on about their time on the colony since they last met. Only, Tobol thoughyt he should share his lucid dream with someone, and he told Samuel. His face turned white. "You look like you've seen a ghost Sameuel."

- Tobol.

"Talk about deja'vu, I had that dream three days ago. Oh well, its nothing really."

- Samuel.

The two laughed it off, Tobol believed Samuel was pulling his leg. Only odd things began to occur.

The only hospital's managers were in awe. People who had been dying for the last three days from illnesses yet to be cured were given the all clear. There were no major infectious diseases on the colony, screening and cures put an end to many of those, except the common cold. Cancer and allergies to the world was now inevitable for everyone, nearly a century of pollution, cosmetics, antibacterials and soaps had an impact on the human genome, while many cancers were now treatable, not all were. In fact, astoundingly, several workers who should have been killed during a building collapse fault were alive, despite great injuries sustained. The hospital was awarded for its life saving work.

Weeks, months and even a couple of years had passed on. The world bcame known as the "immortal paradise", and the "world of the living death". The colonists discovered they not only did no one die, but the colony was shut off. However, people could still give birth, and the city after 20 years was now five times bigger. Birth control was initiated, and a new wave of religion began, as the colonists believed they were in an afterlife. The new religion stated that the colonists were the "saved", and the colony was split by altruists and the selfish.

After just 56 years, there was no new innovation. The colonists could not go offworld, and there was no fresh ideas from new generations. Tobol himself was bored, and believed he was living in hell, or that alien interventian had been the cause. Within 300 years, there had been wars between the altruistis side of the world and the selfish. There was little need dor economic demand now the population was stable and stagnant, yet few had clinged on to currency.

After 3000 years, no-one even remembered their names, and despite their immortality, their bodies were constantly regenerating. Tobol was no longer the same person. People awaited the cycle of complete cellular regeneration, it was a far slower process of making a person than reproduction. By now howerver, the technology to combine minds into a noosphere was now possible, and the people eventually merged their minds. Although the colony was trapped in almost a pocket universe of its own reality, mind could still expand, and combination of minds brought innovative thoughts. Now the colony mind had realized...

''The colony and bubble of their awareness, was all that now existed, as the mind had expanded this awareness. The mind looked upon the true reality, the peered over an abyss. Perched at the end of time, which was slowly approaching, the colony was suspended in a shard of crystallized spacetime. The mind expanded its awareness, to find itself joined by an even higher cosmic intelligence. They learned that when the asteroid had collided with Aeguerion, the higher intelligence - the Transapients, were locked in with a great battle with an Unseen attacker. In order to trap the Entity Unseen, they crystallized spacetime itself, saving all information leading to that moment like a memory card. The death of the colony was concurrent when the shard of spacetime the size of Aeguerion's star system and was frozen in time. However, time was still running slowly and at Times Terminal, time would finally end. Spacetime has a boundary of edges, called the c-boundary (past, present and future), and because life was persisting forever in crystallized space (observing the universal wavefunction and emulating it), the curve between now and the c-boundary was infinite. This was an Omega point. Well, not quite. The prime observer was the Transapient, and its mind worked across incredibly long time scales. Eventually, the crystal space would become cold, and life would no longer persist, resulting in the pocket universe reaching its c-boundary and eventual end. But the colony mind no longer cared, it was one with the Transapient, and as their observer prison dissolved, new dimensions opened, and the colonists were free.''

Quantum torment
''This is going to be a story about you, living in a universe which permits the existence of Quantum immortality. It is exactly like this universe, it could be this universe. Because it is about you, the details are vague, it is up to you to fill the gaps with your imagination and perspective of your consensus reality. I hope you live a successful life which is satisfactory to you at the end, not that there is really is an end to this tale, so this first part of the story is based in the first century of your eternal existence. I hope its good because there is a lot in store for you...''

You start this tale by reading this short section and I'm sure you will probably forget later it in life, when SporeWiki (or whatever medium you are reading this by) sinks to the pit of your mind. Lets start with Quantum immortality, what is it? Its a thought experiment, and can never be tested (and so the only way to know if we live in such a universe is when centuries flitter by like leaves in the wind on an Autumn's day). Here is how it goes: ''A man stands on top of a 10 mega-tonne hydrogen bomb. The bomb, contains a system which measures the spin of a subatomic particle. Each time the man nervously presses the big red button that could scatter his atoms over 10 miles, the system measures the spin of the particle, if the spin equals up, the man dies, if the system measures the spin equalling down, the bomb will not explode. But every time the man sets the big red button, nothing happens, because he pushes the button until his fingers ache. Unknown to the man, every time he pushes the big red button, the universe splits into various states and outcomes, his conscious experience shifting to the wave function where spin equals down, because the subatomic particle also exists in a multiple superposition of spin states. But not to everyone, every observer exists in their own, unique consensus reality, to his shocked family, the man set the nuke and blew up an city, causing world-wide panic and chaos.''

If this thought experiment is accurately describing this universe, I'm ever so sorry to say, this principle applies to you. You might be immortal, but the people around you, existing in their own realities are like collapsed point particles and will not join the journey with you, they will die. But in their reality, you will die and they will live forever. Think of all the times you have come close to death, isn't it a miracle you have lived this far in such a probabilistic and chaotic world? Maybe not so much. Anyhow, you live your life, you in this version of events have a child or children, or adopt one or more. Age creeps up on you, your middle aged already. The world around you has advanced and changed, country borders are beginning to dissolve, the internet and other digital technology is integrating ever more into daily life, but otherwise, the world isn't too different, there is still war and poverty. Several more times in your life you got a serious illness, or an injury which could have pelt your doom, but luckily you make it through. There are good times, but also bad, more and more older members of your family and/or friends begin to die, as is the natural course of all things, or so you thought. In 70 years time, you revisit your old home, and get pangs of nostalgia as you explore the turf you used to live and play as child. Eventually you reach a hundred years of age  and you get a letter from the Royal Family . You have kept fit enough so far to live this long.

Your body is starting to feel the age badly now, you now have several problems, you feel weak and weary, your senses begin to dull even more so. Eventually, you begin to outlive your children, you begin to really wonder how you have live this long, and yet you feel a great a hole has been torn into your life. You eventually wind up on a Retirement home, where you live for many years, waiting for death. Is this hell? What have you done to be so punished? Eventually you befriend one of the assistant staff, and he/she believes you. You get into a bit of an adventure when you escape from the prison, the residants ever so much younger than you!

The world is a very different place now, Humanity has achieved Type 1 on the kardashev scale, and are a planetary civilisation, with control over the weather and trying to consume any energy it can. Overpopulated, Humans have begun to build nation-sized starships which can travel very close to the speed of light, using time dilation to spread to the stars. As Humanity advances you feel that the world is still going too quickly for you, and you need to escape. Countless generations of friends and family had died and you do not want to know any more. You know you are immortal, nothing matters, the colour of life had drained long ago. In order to find peace you travel to one of the last remote places on Earth, the Himalayas, where you begin a great struggle to find an empty cave. With nothing left for you in the outside world, you decide to explore the inner space of your mind, not bothering to eat or anything else. Humanity reaches its greatest peak, but nothing lasts forever. They began to evolve offworld, into new species, and becomes so great (tier 1/0) that it cannot sustain itself, and built a machine so clever it could build even greater machines. Evolved, spread out, and out competed by its own invention, the great empire collapsed, and the last humans resettled on Earth, all the while you are in a state of meditation, alone in the mountain, for millennia.

You are rudely awoken, standing above you is a barely recognisable form. It has a body like you, but it is not quite Human, made of transparent material within a mechanical mainframe. But as your eyes focus, you begin to see organic elements. ''We found him in the mountain. We estimate he is ten thousand years old. But the male Baseline is alive. His body was desiccated.''

You have eyes, and ears! But they had rotted long ago, in the cave. Looking down at yourself, you find that your body is now like theirs. You was finally happy in the cave, now you must live in hell again. Getting up you grabbed the throat of this foolish thing, in an attempt to kill in revenge. You no longer care for life, you have realized, remembering the story you read so many centuries ago, that this thing would continue to live on in its own hell. The price of life is the eternity of age! However, your hand merely passes through the throat of the fool that brought you back to the waking mind. You learn that the Humans who returned on Earth has transcended their material bodies into beings of pure digital information. They tell you they were excavating the mountain in search of ancient history, typically the 21st century, and found you, a deformed, cancerous, barely living body, your bones had even fused together they tell you. However, with no choice, you join the "Post-Humans" to live in a virtual existence of various simulations.

One day, you decide to return to where your home once existed, to your despair, all trace of it has been covered up by nature. Augmenting your memory to give you a two-way view (history in one eye, real time on the other), in sorrow, you realize every part of your former life has ceased to exist. It is as if you are a stranded ghost. Everyone else from your time is experiencing their own hell. How could such a cruel law of the universe come as so much torment, a universe where it is impossible to die. Eventually, memories of your former life washes away, you begin to forget who you are, but the one memory that keeps going on is your knowledge of your own immortality. After contemplating the vastness of this all, a sudden realization bubbles through. The reason you are not dying is because of the large number of futures your path could take. If there was a way to narrow probability to zero and collapse wavefunction, you could finally lay at rest. But yet you continue to commit suicide fruitlessly. Running simulation after simulation, you come to realize wavefunction is infinite.

Millions of years pass by quickly, your perception of time, the feeling that time goes faster as you get older is now accelerating by orders of magnitude. Out of boredom, your consciousness and that of all the other digital beings merge. Earth continues to orbit an ever reddening Sun. The Moon eventually drifts away from the Earth, causing the tidal force which keeps the biosphere alive to fail. As you watch the skies at night, you see two great arks of stars, Milky Way and Andromeda merging. By now only microbial life exists on Earth, but new life is evolving elsewhere in the cosmos. The Sun bloats until its disc consumes the inner planets, all But Earth (thanks to AI's designed to move Earth to a greater orbit when the time comes). But as the Moon leaves Earth's orbit completely, it becomes tidally docked, and the Earth stops rotating. The day side of the Earth melts, and the atmosphere boils off into space, but underground, kept warm by geothermal heat on the night side of Earth, the Supermind (which you are a part of), ensures the progress of the last life to persist.

It is now 12 billion years AD, the Sun became so massive it actually becomes transparent, the gas spread thinner than Earth's once blue atmosphere. The giant red disk evaporates into a reddish planetary nebula. This was a beautiful end for life on Earth, because now, the Earth's geothermal heat had cooled, and the night side froze-over underground.

Leaving Earth's cinder, you decided to explore the universe. Several trillion years pass, and all the galaxies in the local group have merged. You cannot see other supergalaxies, they are so distant the light has redshifted beyond the radio spectrum. 100 trillion years pass, the stars in all their splendour coughed out their innards for the last time. No more stars are born, there is no more usable hydrogen, and a sharp memory from an unknown past hits you, of how the bubbles from washing up liquid in a kitchen sink lose their lather and become useless. The last stars vanish, turning into mere ashes - neutron stars and white dwarfs, but even these are not immortal. Swarms of black holes feast on the remains, and you decide this will be your end, diving straight into a black holes ominous abyss... Not so fast! There was so little energy in this era, time would take a millennia to make a single thought. The hole exploded, due to Hawking's radiation before you hit it. How warm the explosion felt, how energising it felt.

The story now splits in two, depending on whether the universe continues to expand into infinity, or whether it contracts.

You notice the protons spewed out of the black hole are decaying. You begin to feel warm. The proton is beginning to decay, and the last remnants of matter that had not been consumed by black holes were now disintegrating. The decaying protons in your "flesh" of computronium were actually warming you up! Because there weren't many more worldliness to take, your probability begins to decrease to zero, with this final act of warmth, you slip into an altered state of consciousness - Samadhi and finally, death is near...
 * Universe expands forever

If the Omega is greater than one (like in the above story), the universe should begin to contract eventually, should dark energy release its seemingly ever-lasting and all purveying grip. But as the universe gets smaller it begins to reheat, for a short time new intelligences evolve, but not for long in this contracting singularity. As it contracts, the computational capacity increases until the intelligences build a cosmic AI at the end of time.
 * The universe contracts

With the universe returning to almost complete order, the worldlines, like in the scenario above merge. Finally, the cosmic AI at the end of time creates a virtual, simulated "heaven" from high energy plasma, and could see the entire universal wavefunction from Big Bang to Big Crunch, every version of existence, and could see the plight of all sentient things in the cosmos, felt pity, and planted them in "heaven", or "nirvana" now enlightnened and free from Bhavacakra.

You find yourself immersed in whatever you would call heaven. Suddenly, you see your relatives, your friends and everyone you knew. This is no hallucination, wavefunction has finally collapsed, for everyone. You are now mortal, along with everyone else right above the collapsing universe. You feel happiness unparalleled since your first century alive.

It is time to die.

The end.