God's Algorithm

Mar 01, 2023

Written by Jingxuan Zhang from Shanghai Pinghe School - Shanghai, China

Millions of years ago

the first human stepped out of a cave as

God programmed the light above him.

Streams, peaks, waves, forests –

let them sing with humanity.


Countless people began to meet and collide.

Many lives entangled in a vortex

more and more complex as

God's code developed.


He looked at those summer greens withered in winter,

wrote a fate to reforge the broken mirror.

He wrote laws in our minds,

let all complexity have commonality,

wrote the fatalistic program

that kept his PC from overloading.

He believed life should have a rhythm,

and gave space for evolution.


All Gods' business begins with people's thinking:

Galileo invented the telescope.

Quickly change the 2D star mapping to a 3D solar system.

No! My planet is broken.

Kepler said there should be a planet between Jupiter and Mars.

Sprinkle a circle on the track, say it is fragments of a tidal pulling.


Telescopes look farther and farther away.

The scene needs to be rendered bigger and bigger.


God talks out loud to himself:

It's over! The speed of the computer has reached its limit,

and the frame rate cannot increase.

What if our device updates can outpace the speed of light?

Then tell them that the space can be folded

like a wormhole.


The space for human activities is not enough.

What if they're going to run out of the earth?

Change the plane to a curved surface -

a sphere is the best.


God looked at his magnificent programs,

a satisfied smile appeared.


He opened his diary,

hurriedly wrote in the annals of the Earth:

Worms grow out of the spine.

Fish climb onto land.

Apes retrieve fire.

Humans dare to explore.

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