Genetic Ascension Chapter 1772: Barrier of Coordination

"The first Omni Barrier is known as the Barrier of Complexity. The second is known as the Barrier of Coordination. The third is known as the Barrier of Noise. The fourth is known as the Barrier of Causality. The fifth is known as the Barrier of Identity. The sixth is known as the Barrier of aning. The final is known as the Barrier of Existence.

"The first is as you know: Moore's Law, transistor density, heat dissipation, problems of quantum tunneling. But it is, most importantly and functionally, a problem that better engineering and energy can fix.

"The second barrier is the sa. It requires larger scales, but the fix is identical. This touches onto concepts you know as Distributed Systems Theory, the problem of coordinating large-scale projects across many nodes and distances.

"Fundantally, this is a problem of the speed of light, and the issue of latency.

"The third barrier is when the problems truly beco more complex. Systems operate on such a small scale that quantum noise, thermal randomness, and even the most minor of asurent uncertainties on the level of the smallest unit in existence beco issues.

"The fourth problem arises when issues with the speed of light are resolved and quantum noise takes a back seat. You begin to deal with issues in your Relativity theory. Causality becos an issue, and breaking the laws of the speed of light creates contradictions and can destroy a technology before it is even fully fledged.

"The fifth problem cos when the fourth Barrier is overco. It is mainly a problem with the philosophical thod you've thought of not long ago... the Ship of Theseus."

Sylas' eyes narrowed. The Omnimous reading his thoughts in real ti was one thing. It reading thoughts he had already had was another.

The Ship of Theseus referred to the repaired ship contemplated paradox he had thought of when Germaine was practically losing her mind. How much of a ship could you repair until it was considered an entirely new ship?

On the quantum level, things were always changing. Even if you stood in the sa spot, you weren't always breathing in the sa oxygen molecules. They were morphing, changing, becoming sothing new.

When you were crafting sothing that relied on the smallest segnts of the universe to remain constant and true, but the laws of the universe itself required constant change and constant chaos, how could you ensure consistency?

This was the essence of the Barrier of Identity.

What would you do as photons constantly crashed into your system? What if a particle wanted to randomly tunnel or swap places with its partner of opposite spin? How could you account for all of these things?

"The sixth Barrier, the Barrier of aning... this is already approaching the limits of the Omnimous before you must make a decision. This is no longer a raw limitation of technology itself, but rather the universe and the creator. When you are creating things on this scale, they are so close to becoming their own ecosystems that you must try to define things that cannot be properly designed.

"Your people know this as the Gödel-like incompleteness, a theorem that states that any consistent, formal axiomatic system powerful enough to describe basic arithtic will always contain true statents that cannot be proven within the system, and conversely, false statents likewise cannot be disproven.

"Systems on this level are so large that they can only rely on themselves, but because of that, they require definitions that only the universe has-truths so real and basic that they can only be understood by crafting entire worlds.

"And once you've reached that level, only the seventh barrier remains... the Barrier of Existence.

"At this level, your system has grown so large that it must face what all levels of existence must: entropy. Chaos. The end of all things and their tendency toward destruction."

Sylas stood in silence for a long while. When the Omnimous used the word system, it wasn't referring to systems as he knew them. Rather, it was using the word in a general sense, much the sa way a company might have a proprietary software known as a system as well... But that subtle difference, as small and insignificant as it was...

Sylas felt ant the absolute world to the Omnimous. In fact, he felt that it would be quite offended if he thought of the two as one and the sa.

One worked with the universe... while the Omnimous was insistent on creating sothing independent from the world.

"How do these Omni Barriers overlap with the Tiers and Classes?"

"The third Barrier, the Barrier of Noise, is the highest Omni Barrier that can be crossed up to the C-tier. At the B- tier, you can potentially cross the fourth. At the A-tier, you can potentially cross the fifth. Touching the sixth is not possible until the S-tier. As for the seventh... it will require making a choice.

"However, for Classes, it is more complex, as there is so overlap. From Class 1 to 5, you will receive so concepts of Omni Barriers one through three, but not a full scope. Only at Class 6 will you be assured to learn of everything, and you will learn about so of the fourth Omni Barrier. The details here are probably unimportant to you, as since you are of Class 10, you will receive the full scope of everything.

"Though, since you only have F-tier clearance right now, you will only be learning the proper foundation for what can be allowed in future Tiers. This will also help your F-tier creations to be upgradeable."

"Androda." Sylas looked toward Old Brama's magnum opus. "What level of technology is it?"

"This is the creation of soone who was not a full Omni Disciple. But it has successfully touched onto the second Barrier at the C-tier. It seems to have been tweaked so that it can be used by any Tier, though, and that has weakened many of its aspects. There are so faint concepts of the third Barrier incorporated as well."

Sylas nodded. Technology wasn't straightforward, nor was progress. Though the Barriers felt like hard lines, there was bound to be so variation.

"I need to create sothing at the F-tier that is at least two orders of magnitude more effective than it-ideally three. What do I need?"

The Omnimous was silent for a while before it spoke.

"This is possible with a perfect grasp of the second Omni Barrier, the Barrier of Coordination. But it will take ti even to grasp the first, even with your shortcut thod."

"Let worry about that."

Now that Sylas had a goal, he lost himself in learning these so-called Omni thods. But as he did so...

His thoughts constantly flickered toward Rune Mastery.

Using Will and Charisma to force the world into obedience, crafting chanical parts so that they fused and functioned well together... everything he learned, he constantly felt the need to incorporate so Rune Mastery, but the Omnimous never asked him such a thing.

Instead, he learned circuit building and software programming, he learned how to weld and how to craft smaller systems to automate the creation of larger ones.

And every building block he stacked, the stronger the itch beca.