Idea Engine

Idea Engine - Concept Pitch

(Speech Delivered by Dr Tony Rosenbaum in undisclosed location of Seoul to Yoshida Group, a think tank that serves as a face for Dragon interests in the private sector.)

Greetings ladies and gentlemen of the Yoshida Group. Thank you all for being with me today. You all are here in front of me just as I am before you. I stand on this stage and am waving my arms in the air around me. I pound on my podium and my fist is stopped by it, the displaced air and vibration of the podium creating a slamming noise. It all seems very real and solid doesn't it? However as our familiarity with mathematics and physics grows, we learn that the opposite is true. That nothing is real. The chairs you sit in, the air between us, our bodies, our minds, even perhaps our souls are merely the collective result of rules and probabilities that exist at the most fundamental level of our reality. In ancient greece, Plato had a theory, we call it the Theory of Forms, that nothing physical was real. Only the idea... the idea of these things was real. Now Plato thought these ideal forms existed somewhere in the ether, in heaven if you will. We know today that this ether is the field of mathematics. The chair you are sitting on is not in fact a chair. It is a manifestation of the rules that define our reality in combination to uncountable numbers of partacles which exist in a "foam" of probability that come together into a form that we interpret as a chair.

Reality has two distinct levels. There is the day to day reality that we perceive around us. You all sit before me on solid ground as I stand before you on a stage. I am talking to you now and my lungs are producing sound waves that reach your ears, which your brain then codifies into the speech I am giving. That all seems simple and real enough. However beneath all of this there is a second reality, the quantum reality. Quantum reality defies all expectations of the real. In quantum reality, the real becomes abstract. Only the probability exists. At these lowest levels, mathematics are the only reality. If this quantum reality represents the fundamental basis for the reality we perceive, then it stands to reason that knowing how to alter and manipulate this reality would represent an ultimate mastery of our universe. This is why I stand before you today. As I speak to you steps are already being taken in the field of quantum computing, using entangled particles to trasmit data instantly in a way that twenty years ago would have been considered mathematic sorcery. Well my team and I are performing mathematic miracles.

Over a long enough period of time, it is common knowledge that anything is possible, as improbable as it may seem. A million monkeys typing on a million typewriters for an infinite amount of time will one day produce the complete works of Shakespeare. A snowflake you find on one snowy winter day will eventually be replicated on an exact atomic level some winter day in the future. In the primordial ooze of our planet’s distant past, nucleotides in a chemical bath created the molecules that define life as we know it today. All of these infinitely improbable things are a mathematic certainty given enough time. All that dictates whether these phenomenon happen sooner or later is their probability. A probability that is determined at the quantum level and then is extrapolated to a higher level.

The Idea Engine is a project that seeks to further control the quantum world, though this time in the manipulation of probabilities at a quantum level. By manipulating probabilities at the quantum level, we can change reality as we know it at the perceived level causing mathematically improbable events to become imminently probable. How do we do this? Through the generous donation of an anima energy infusement chamber that you, the Yoshida Group has allowed us to make use of, we are able to alter pockets of probability at a quantum level within localized spaces or objects.

In my pocket I hold an American quarter. Common Sense tells us that that if I flip this quarter it has a 50% chance of landing heads up and a 50% chance of landing tails up. However this quarter is different than other coins. This quarter does not have a 50% chance of landing heads up. It has a 90% chance of landing heads up.

-flips coin-

Heh, well folks, that’s 10% for you. But this is only a concept. Eventually we will be able to further alter these probabilities so that this coin will have a 99% chance of landing heads up. And then a 99.999% chance. We think that we can get the chance of the coin falling tails up to be less than a .1 to the negative 53rd chance.

What benefit does this have? Think beyond coins. Imagine bullets that always hit their target even if a gun was misaimed. Imagine a crack that could instantly guess the passwords to any system by pure chance. Imagine ensuring that a rare genetic disorder has a virtual impossibility to form within a developing fetus. Imagine if we could give the wing flaps of a butterfly the certain reaction of forming a storm on the other side of the world. All throughout existence, we have drowned in a sea of chance, victims to the whims of chaos. Today we build a boat to start on our journey, taming the oceans and riding upon them into a brand new world, a brand new existence.

Thank you again ladies and gentlemen. I eagerly await your decision to bring the Idea Engine to the next phase of research.