{"id":491,"date":"2008-02-26T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/tesseract-outtake\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:55:08","slug":"tesseract-outtake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/tesseract-outtake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesseract Outtake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still working on the second draft of <em>Hylozoic<\/em>, without much time to think or write anything fresh for the blog.  I do have a few new pictures, so to have something to weave among them, here\u2019s an unused bit I cut from <em>Hylozoic<\/em> for being too arcane.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/22ndststa.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chu felt confident.  His dreams had unearthed a powerful quantum-mechanical metashape, a hyperdimensional operator resembling a tesseract pattern with a tiny cube set into the center of a large cube, and slanting lines connecting the two cubes&#8217; corners.  The lines sketched out six skewed cube-like shapes connecting the inner and outer cubes.<\/p>\n<p>The little cube was the size of an atom, and the big cube was ten centimeters on an edge, the size of a large man\u2019s fist.  The vibby thing was that the pattern was undergoing a four-dimensional rotation that continually had the center cube sliding over to become one of the skewed in-between cubes and then somehow jiggling out to be the outer cube, then skewing in from the opposite side and eventually ending up in the center again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/circus8.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a painfully strong flash of inspiration amid the lucid dreams, Chu had deduced that his tesseract-shaped operator could transform an atomic-level rune into a rune to be cast onto a quantum-computation to be carried out by a fist-sized region of space.  Instead of having to program ten tridecillion atoms with the original rune, it would be enough to program a quintillion cubic decimeters\u2014in exponential notation, 10^18 cubic decimeter chunks instead of 10^43 atoms.  A quintillion was just on the border of the current abilities of a kiqqie human who didn\u2019t happen to be a zenohead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTesseract?\u201d\u009d said Kakar, shadowing the motions of his mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGaia dug up the name,\u201d\u009d said Chu. \u201cBut I thought of the math.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/pillargray.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Feeling a little shaky with excitement, he squeezed the conch-like rune into the tiny central cube of his tesseract, and watched as the shape spun around, producing an warped, inside-out seashell with most of the extra spikiness smoothed away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait, wait,\u201d\u009d clucked Kakar.  \u201cI don\u2019t get it.  Show me again how you did that.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou put the atomic rune into the middle of the tesseract and it turns into a puffed rune that you map onto fist-sized chunks of space,\u201d\u009d said Chu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh,\u201d\u009d said Kakar, trying to keep his cool.  \u201cI see.  It\u2019s simple.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/hillfeb'08.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Now <\/em>it is. And we\u2019re going to name the trick after me.  Chu\u2019s Kludge.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKludge&#8230;\u201d\u009d said Kakar, searching Gaia\u2019s database.  \u201cAh.  A clumsy and inelegant workaround.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m brilliant but humble,\u201d\u009d said Chu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m still working on the second draft of Hylozoic, without much time to think or write anything fresh for the blog. I do have a few new pictures, so to have something to weave among them, here\u2019s an unused bit I cut from Hylozoic for being too arcane. Chu felt confident. 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