Archiver

On the occasion of Friday a new short story. Feel free to scold in the comments, criticism is very welcome.

They always tried to get to the bottom. From the very dawn of its civilization. From the beginnings. This was the quality that allowed them to rise among other species. Examine, understand, reproduce, describe. And to study again, and the whole process is repeated. They began with the simplest patterns. Then they went deep into the essence of matter, dealt with particles and their interactions. They opened their eyes to the world and explored other worlds. First, neighboring, then distant. We dug into the very essence of our space and learned to travel to any place in our infinite universe. They thoroughly understood all the interactions. Their theories were impeccably complete and credible. They finally described the whole universe, in all its diversity and infinity, and put it into the beautiful language of mathematics. They measured all states and were able to travel in their theories not only in space, but also in time. They were able to predict any past or future state of the universe. They described it entirely. And their surprise was no limit. Indeed, in their flawless model there was no future at all. It does not seem to exist ...

He saved the archive, attached the algorithm and sent it to his teacher. Finally, you could relax and have fun with friends. The task was not easy. It was necessary to write an archiver for a very complex infinite data set that needs to be saved in the final volume. Fortunately, the level of entropy was not exorbitant and he eventually managed to embed such a script directly into the data set, which seemed to study this data from the inside and convert some of their data into their own archive. Sly, no? I wonder who else decided the same way.

Zhenya Belik