Cloudscape

A personality is made of its own choices; it is a set of inclinations and preferences.

Sorrow can make a man passionate about beauty, and passion for beaut can make a man sorrowful.

One should not be ashamed of what one used to be, but pride oneself on what one has since become. Shame itself can only be at something past, for as soon as there is shame it changes one: shame is the pain of changing. It is the soul that sees the wounds it brought to itself by lowering itself to a lower level and painfully tries to heal the wounds. Only when shame lapses can one relapse to whatever deed or habit one is ashamed of.

If you don't know, let go. It is no use, if you cannot find the answers, to torment yourself with uncertainty: seek less, and you will find in time. If you yearn for knowledge, you must learn, then, to embrace mystery in your quest for it, just as one must enjoy the path itself towards one's goals even when one is standing still. Your curiosity, then, will not be a curse as well as a blessing, for even when the answer is lacking there is the question, which in itself is already beautiful in its mystery. And whatever the answers may be, in the end they can only be beautiful.

You can't know what you can achieve until you have. And all it takes to achieve something is time, whatever it may be. There is no failure, therefore; only delay. It is no use, then, to wonder if you can do something. Set about doing it, hold on, and you'll get there someday. The only restriction to what you can achieve is your lifespan.

The mind is like a lamp in the dark. If there were no-one to see the world, there would be no sight, there would be no light.

In the silence you can hear things you otherwise cannot. Remember this when you feel alone, that you would listen to the silence. Only when you are alone, you can fully connect to yourself, and discover what you feel, and what you want. This may be a hard lesson, which is why loneliness can be so painful, but know that the lesson does not last forever, and you will become a wiser person from this lesson if only you learn from it. When you are alone, you are alone with God.

The more memory capacity any computer has (be it a human or a machine), the less processing speed it needs: this is so because it can then simply remember a calculation, rather than repeat it.
An example is factorials. If a computer needs to calculate very large factorials over and over, it will take longer for it than to simply recall them. This is so because recalling what 12 x 11 x 10 x 9 x 8 x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 is (that is, what 12 x 11 is, 132, what 132 x 10 is, 1320, what 1320 x 9 is, 11880, and so on), is considerably more demanding than recalling the cipher 479001600.
Therefore, memory capacity can reduce the need for processing speed, so that even when the latter would reach a limit, the speed of computation could still grow as the former does. As many computations are repeated, making use of otherwise unused memory space to store their results increases computational speed. If all unused memory space were used, computational speed could be furthered enormously. Almost all calculations could then be based on more basic calculations which could then be remembered rather than reiterated.

Unlike nanorobots, which used atoms in their environment as building blocks, picorobots would produce particles as their building blocks. One way to do this is hadronization - a process in which hadrons duplicate. This process arises when the quarks which constitute hadrons (such as protons and neutrons) are taken at a sufficient distance from one another. Because the strong force is proportional to distance (unlike other forces), the farther quarks are taken from one another, the more energy it takes to keep them apart. At some point, this energy will create new quarks between the other quarks. So if one tries to separate the quarks in a meson (which has two quarks, one quark and one antiquark), all one manages to do as one splits them in two is to create two new mesons. In this way, with enough energy input, one can create new quarks indefinitely: the energy is materialized.
Picorobots could also concentrate light by adding up the energies of their photons. In this way, two photons could be combined to one photon with double energy, and therefore double frequency. In this way, the photons could eventually be made so energetic that upon colliding with each other they would create matter, which the picorobots could use to create atoms. In this way, light could, in essence, be converted into matter. We’d long learned to convert mass into energy, but it wasn’t too long ago we’d learned to do just the opposite.

To travel back in time is to travel back in space. What appears to be the most esoteric of technologies, then, actually happens daily. Step backward in the selfsame way you stepped forward, and your body has traveled through time.
The same applies to a molecular, atomic or subatomic level: if two classical particles collide on a straight line, both will travel back in time as they rebound. If every quantum in the universe could move in exactly the opposite direction, it would regress to what it was earlier. Doing so in any closed system would cause the same for that system.
However, doing so would require to surmount the obstacle of Heisenberg uncertainty - at least, it likely would. If the movement of every particle in an isolated system would be reversed at the same moment, however, it’s possible that they’d move in exactly the same way, but in the other direction. This could be so if Heisenberg uncertainty is caused by the system itself. If it is not, Heisenberg uncertainty would violate causality, as it would mean that it is purely stochastic, independent of the state of the system.
It’s possible that one wouldn’t need to know the position and momentum of every the quanta in order to revert their motion, however: doing so would, in principle, require only one very simple alteration: changing the sign of their mass.
As kinetic energy is proportional to mass, if the mass will change sign, so will the kinetic energy. Therefore, its vector will change sign, which means that it will move in the opposite direction. If the mass of every particle in an object would change sign, then, the object would regress to its former state. This makes the manipulation of mass extremely important, as it may allow any lost information to be retrieved. Most notably, this technology could be used to revive people upon information-theoretic death. If this method would be applied on a large enough area, it could save anyone or anything from the worst cataclysm long after it has happened.
If we could also control the absolute value of mass, we could also control time in any way at all: that is, we could really manipulate time like we do in motion pictures, pausing, rewinding, going forward - even though we’d not need to know the past or future to do so: we could; we could slow it down or speed it up, raise it to infinity or stop it. And this all would in no way entail the absurdly high energies of ultrarelativistic speeds.
Another way of manipulating time without needing to reach the speed of light, however, is manipulating the speed of light itself, as lowering the speed of light could make it easier to travel through time: right now, we’d have to speed up to a speed of three hundred million meters per second, so that it would take a mass of two thousand tons an energy of 10^22 joules to slow down time thousandfold. But suppose that we’d have to speed to only three hundred millionths of a meter per second, then this would take only 10^–10 joules, 10^–32 times less.
Aside from time travel, changing mass would have many more applications. For instance, as E=mc^2, in accordance with the law of conservation of energy the speed of light should change if the mass of an object would change, which could make the applications in time travel said above possible.
Also, changing the mass of an object would automatically change its speed. In this way, though we cannot undo energy, we can undo its effects: for mass is what impedes energy it in its expression in movement. And if forces are mediated through exchange of momentum, then controlling mass, which will change momentum, could allow us to control the mediation of forces. If we could control mass, then, we could control the universe. The Higgs boson, supposed to be responsible for mass, fully justifies its apellation “God particle.”