In a world racing toward technological supremacy, the U.S. builds a godlike computer named John that begins producing cryptic, divine messages. As global tensions rise, the machine’s revelations stir both awe and dread—until humanity, terrified of its own creation, silences the voice that might have saved it.
Stories for 'Divinity'
Sorted by date of original publication
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A story about a statistician who believes in the second coming of Christ, and looks for proof in various correlations.
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A story of the out-of-body experiences of a mathematician working on the Continuum Hypothesis. -
A Flatland-inspired story of a mathematical professor obsessed with metaphysics and geometric tessellations.
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A short story where people receive religious spam messages. Contains ideas of the universe being a universal quantum Turing machine.
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A scientist discovers the "Theory of Everything", an equation that explains all of Creation. She uses numerical simulation to compute an approximate version of the equation, only to realize that this "perturbation" created the Universe as we know it. -
Genesis from the Bible and the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda are cleverly rewritten to describe a mathematical God and the origin of mathematics.
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An exquisitely crafted epic poem that marries mathematical concepts with literary and mythological references to explain the emergence of incompleteness in modern mathematics.