OBSERVATION 014
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.
The sun is not standing still.
As it goes, the planets leave spirals along the road it has travelled.
What remains in this picture is not how things are now.
The right edge is the present; the further left, the further back.
So what you see is not orbits but the track left behind.
The inner planets are wound tighter.
What is close to the sun goes round faster, so it winds many times over the same distance.
The innermost has wound more than seven times; the outermost has not managed half a turn.
Both are moving forward at the same speed, and this is how differently they are left.
The thin line running through the middle is the sun's road.
The spirals alone would suggest where the road is,
but that would leave it to the imagination, so it is drawn as one line.
Fingerprint of this equation
sha256:1666cea1a44daa0ff55fcd40242ca7c10f6f576f9de103d72df6ad9451f5c0a8
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.