Entangled Convoluted Perspective
On the top floor of the University science building, in his state-of-the-art laboratory, the scientist, a mathematical genius, achieved a breakthrough working on, for lack of a new word, an advanced type of electron microscope - an instrument with limitless magnification.
For a moment, he leaned back in his chair, thrilled. He looked through the skylight in his laboratory, observing the sky and the sun with a nascent profound understanding of all things. Then he hurried back to work.
The instrument's design adhered to new theorems and mathematical approaches developed from a thought process, much like Einstein did when he created the general theory of relativity.
His discovery went beyond anything published, beyond quantum physics and math, beyond a unified theory, to an all-encompassing holistic mathematical physics model explaining all matters and all things. The revelation had come to him in a dream at three o'clock in the morning. He relished the discovery he would soon present to the world, his mind playing with different titles for his most meaningful scientific paper to date.
Day after day, barely eating or sleeping, he tweaked the sophisticated instrument. He marveled at the astonishing results, like a blind man seeing for the first time. He didn't go home after work but continued nonstop like an obsessed maniac on the brink of something indescribable.
His wife came visiting, bringing him nutritious meals, only to find the food from her last visit barely touched. She begged him to eat and rest but to no avail.
On day seven, he placed the instrument inside a glass box filled with pure hydrogen. Then he switched it on.
A nondescript greyish image appeared on the eighty-five-inch Q-Led screen. In awe, the scientist keyed in a magnification factor never imagined and watched the images on the screen zoom through a greyish haze until he recognized the single Proton in a Hydrogen Nucleus. He keyed another outrageous magnification factor using the quantum computer's interface.
The image on the screen took him on a wild ride through a constantly shifting web, zipping through the entire color spectrum until it suddenly turned pitch black. Then, tiny bright dots from what appeared to be moving particles emanated through the haze. The scientist continued magnifying, and it became evident that what he saw looked like a universe with galaxies, voids, and strings of matter.
Overwhelmed, he went home at noon for a needed rest and a siesta, but his mind raced through theories, hypotheses, and consequences. He couldn't stop his mind from spinning through endless thoughts of math and matter interlaced with philosophy.
But then, the scientist's panicky apprehension suddenly evaporated, and a heartfelt peace descended on him like the eye of a hurricane suddenly appearing, the storm gone in a blitz. It's just a matter of perspective, he concluded. With purpose, he headed back to his laboratory.
The instrument was still focused on the dark matter with millions of bright spots, provoking absolute bewilderment. The scientist mustered the courage and hesitated. Then he introduced another wild magnification range.
A large cluster of bright spots moving in an elliptical sphere appeared out of the darkness. The scientist shook his head and hit the keyboard again.
The only too-familiar solar system came into view. The scientist shook his head and typed again, recognizing the blue planet. Further magnification took him to the city where he lived, and with much anxiety, his fingers pushed the keys again.
The scientist found himself looking through the skylight into his lab. Astonished, with a million competing thoughts, he lifted his arm and waved over his head, realizing his shirt was different. He didn't dare to turn around and look up.
Later in the afternoon, a colleague entered the lab and saw the scientist packing his instrument in a wooden box. With a broad smile, he asked, "What happened to your big discovery?"
The scientist shook his head. "Entangled Convoluted Perspective! I am afraid humanity is not ready," he sighed as he signed the incineration order.
Alone again in the night, with the instrument gone, the scientist looked through the skylight at the dark sky, imagining the vast infinite. He pondered about the James Webb space telescope and more sophisticated future iterations. Will we ever be able to see from the inside out what I have seen from the outside in?
He slowly shook his head, voicing the question out loud. "Will we ever comprehend the Entangled Convoluted Perspective - coming full circle?"
Jon Erii, 2023