OBSERVATION 005
Press the picture and the points thin out. There are four rungs —
forty thousand, six hundred, forty, one. The equation running underneath does not change.
Only the shape goes.
“Listen” is the same bundle of relations, thrown to the ear instead of the eye.
No sound was added; the same equation is put out through another sense.
Two drops have fallen.
Each spreads as a circle, and where they overlap, rings of light and dark stand up.
It looks like a surface rising and falling, but this observation does not measure height.
It measures only where the water is gathering.
Bright is where water has crowded together.
Dark is where water has drawn away.
Real water glitters for the same reason. What you see is not light but density.
Both sources lie inside the circle you can see.
Placed outside, the wavefronts came out almost parallel and it stopped looking like water.
Too near or too far, and the rings do not stand.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:65fe21339c417f4500805b01cb39a2076e7191fe05ec21c0e3fbd89e1f8aed5c
Run at any time, by anyone, it appears in the same form.
No randomness, no clock, nothing from the environment.
The button above takes the equation out as it is. To count it again yourself:
pbpaste > f.txt && printf %s "$(cat f.txt)" | shasum -a 256
Take it and run it. No randomness and no clock are used, so the same creature appears on your screen too. The equation belongs to no one.