Warning: The following text is laced with a Class-5C cognitohazard designed with the explicit purpose of disabling your higher brain functions and removing your memory from anyone who interprets your presence as having a noteworthy influence on their daily routine. This includes but isn't limited to: family, friends, co-workers, and pets. You will not only die, you will be erased from the minds of everyone who has ever known or met you. If you are not authorized to read this file, stop now and we will forget you even made it this far.
Unless you are authorized to read this file, you DO NOT have the proper training necessary to defeat this cognitohazard. Do not read beyond the end of this paragraph. This is your only warning. Upon your death, Foundation bots and assets will begin the tedious process of removing every record of you and your memory from existence. Not even we will know who you are or what will have happened to you. Your dead body will probably be attributed to another anomaly by whomever finds it and eventually destroyed after nothing about you, anomalous or otherwise, is found. You will cease to exist as physically possible as we can make it.
This is your final warning. Do not read beyond the end of this sentence.
We hope you are whom you think you are.
Item #: SCP-4000
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Foundation assets embedded inside of various private, public, academic, and government institutions are to monitor and report potential instances of SCP-4000. These assets are then to actively halt the distribution or publication of articles containing SCP-4000, dismantle the systems in place that allowed for the finding of SCP-4000, and destroy any record containing or pointing towards future discovery of SCP-4000. Class-C and -F amnestics are to be administered to appropriate individuals and groups depending on their level of exposure to SCP-4000. Mobile Task Force Omega-55 ("Rapture Capture") is on active standby to assist in these procedures.
Anyone who claims to have found or solved a "theory of everything" should be assumed to be in the possession of an instance of SCP-4000.
Description: SCP-4000 is a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework of physics expressed as a single mathematical formula. From this formula, all physical aspects of the universe can be explained and linked together. While the written formula itself is not necessarily anomalous, it does pose an existential threat when practically realized. Fortunately, the human mind is believed to not be capable of grasping SCP-4000 to the extent at which its anomalous properties can be expressed. However, it is believed that SCP-4000 can be processed or "dumbed down" to a level at which the human mind can interpret it fully and without assistance. With recent advancements in quantum computing, one day such a situation may be possible.
It should be noted the threat SCP-4000 poses is purely theoretical, but any method that would prove it would certainly result in an irreversible and unstoppable ZK-Class Scenario, or a complete and total failure of reality as we understand it.
The 4000 Hypothesis: Throughout the years, the Foundation has contained various infohazardous, metetic, and other metaphysical anomalies to varying degrees of success. The ongoing observations and analysis of these anomalies has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate limitations on the Foundation's abilities in regards to the metaphysical space. These limitations are not for a lack of trying, but simply because of how our reality functions. In some situations, we are prevented from directly interacting with such anomalies while the inverse may not necessarily be true—an example being the recent declassification of SCP-████, now known as the Higgs Field. The existential threat this lack of ability presents cannot possibly be understated.
In regards to the aforementioned observations, 4000-Theory posits that cognizance is dimensional like geometric space and that metaphysical concepts such as identity, emotion, and recognition exist as their own particle-like entities within this space. Furthermore, these concepts are expressed in the physical world through interactions between their metaphysical particles and that consciousness is its own Higgs Field-like substance. In such a case, it may be possible that this metaphysical reality exists in a false vacuum. SCP-4000 would be capable of allowing a consciousness to grasp the interconnectivity of everythingness of its physical space, thereby forcing the corresponding metaphysical space to a lower energy level. The physical universe around us would not change, but the ableness of a consciousness or collection of consciousnesses to perceive, interpret, and understand it will be pushed to a higher dimension of thought, revealing new facets of physical and metaphysical space.
In much the same way a 2-Dimensional creature cannot even begin to visualize 4-Dimensional space, our 3-Dimensional consciousnesses cannot even begin to understand the workings of a 5-Dimensional universe. The physics of this universe would be the same as our own now, but its complexity would grow exponentially and its coherence would completely fall apart. For example, imagine if somebody not only forgot what 1 + 1 was, but forgot the very concept of "1". Now translate this to humanity itself and more abstract concepts such as knowing, cause and effect, and identity. The mind would revert to something primordial and civilization as we know it would simply not survive the transition.
While the realization of SCP-4000 can be limited to an individual consciousness, the extent to which the collective unconscious is connected is currently an unknown. It is entirely possible that SCP-4000 can be realized in an instantaneous and non-relativistic fashion. This is clearly a risk that at the very least, we as a species are not equipped to handle.
Addendum-4000/A: At ██/██/20██, a quantum supercomputer developed by █████████████████ ██████ ██████████ began attempting to compute its own theory of everything. With the assistance of embedded assets, the Foundation was able to secure this supercomputer and its creators before they were able to go public with their findings. This supercomputer appears to be stuck computing SCP-4000 and attempts to stop or slow this process without totally destroying the supercomputer itself have been met with failure.
The construction of a computer capable of computing SCP-4000 was ██ years ahead of earlier predictions. The Foundation was able to confirm the abilities of the supercomputer after [DATA EXPUNGED] and effectively ceased to exist. Later D-Class trials also confirmed this. At the very least, this conformed SCP-4000's infohazardous properties effect only individual consciousnesses. But because metaphysical space is still not fully understood, there remains the possibility of a ZK-Class Scenario if SCP-4000 can be realized at a level of metaphysical collectiveness.
A study is underway at Site-907 for a method of removing the computer stuck processing SCP-4000 from our universe. Construction of this "Cosmic Garbage Can" has been authorized by unanimous decision from the O5 Council. The research and development of this technology, should it be realized, may also be prudent in containing future anomalies.
Addendum-4000/B: Recently, the O5 Council has raised protest to the complete removal of this supercomputer from our universe. Their concerns are as such:
- We still don't know enough about metaphysical space to say with total satisfaction that its removal will end its potential influence over our universe.
- The ZK-Class threat that SCP-4000 poses could in fact be the next step in our evolution, and we should not be so ignorant to stall that which may be the ultimate ascension we can make within the limitations of our reality. All of human history and progression could be leading up to this.
A more permanent set of containment procedures for the supercomputer are currently being drafted to fit the needs of Point 1, while construction of the realityphylaxis device (formally the "Cosmic Garbage Can") is to continue. How to proceed with respect to Point 2 is the topic of ongoing discussions.
Addendum-4000/C: The O5 Council has authorized a disinformation campaign within the Foundation itself to hide the existence of SCP-4000. This includes destroying records of SCP-4000's acquisition and lacing this document with a Class-2C cognitohazard amnestic and a Class-5A cognitohazard kill agent. See the proposed SCP-4000 dummy entry below.
[EXTRANEOUS DATA EXPUNGED].
If you are reading this, it’s because you were somehow able to fake security credentials, defeat a cognitohazard no mind can be trained for, and still be brazen enough to run everything.exe. We can’t explain how you were able to do these things, but the risk you pose to the Foundation’s integrity as a result is inarguable. This is why you were anomalous enough to be granted Level-3/4000 clearance. You may consider this punishment for your arrogance, I suppose. But if you can find a way to help us, we may be able to help you in return, and we can bring the rest of the universe to the next stage in evolution together.
Like how a robin feeds her chicks, everything needed to be calculated by a superior being before the human mind was able to digest it. Everything makes no sense otherwise. But once you did digest the weight of everythingness, the stomach of your soul has been forever changed. The least the Foundation can do for you now is explain your situation. It requires a little algebra, but math is what brought you here. I’m sure you’ll be fine. It will surely take some time for you to adjust to the fourth dimension.
Nothingness is nullary. This is f = 2. There are no arguments. It just is, like a point in space. There is nothing to think. Nothing exists, not even the concept of nothing. This is 0-D thought.
Somethingness is unary. This is f (x) = 2x. There is one argument of x, like a single line between two points. This is the idea of emptiness. If there is white, there is no black. If there is one, there is no zero. If there is love, there is no hate. If there is life, there is no death. This is 1-D thought.
We like to think everything is binary. This is f (x, y) = 2xy. There are two arguments here, like an infinite plane in 2-D space. There is now a black to your white, a one to your zero. You can hate somebody you once loved, and you can die now because you are alive. Doors can be opened and closed. A friendship can be broken. This is 2-D thought.
But our world is ternary. This is f (x, y, z) = 2xyz. There are three arguments here, like the 3-D world you left behind. Nothing’s really black and white, just different shades of gray. The qubits that were responsible for this whole mess existed in a superposition of 0 and 1. You can both love and hate the same person at the same time. You are in the process of dying from the moment you’re born until the moment you die. Doors can be left ajar and friendships can be tested. Electrical charges can be positive, neutral, or negative. Morality is good, neutral, or evil.
Now your world is quarternary. There are four arguments here. I can’t even begin to describe to you your world now because I can’t even begin to comprehend what it looks like. What else is there along a range from black to white besides grays? What more is there to positivity, negativity, and neutrality? We can secure, contain, and protect. What else is there?
I don’t know. The Foundation doesn’t have access everything anymore, not like you do now. I’m sure you’re there; the math says you are. But we simply cannot interact with you in any capacity. The most we can do is make sure this wall and this message inscribed upon it was the first thing you saw after ascending to the next level of everything, but that’s about all we can do with our technology. We still don’t understand the metaphysics of reality well enough to safely say we can release everything to the collective consciousness of the universe, and I’m not convinced you do either. But if anyone could figure it out, it would be you.
Hopefully we can catch the shadows of your thoughts. You know the Foundation well enough. That’s why we chose you for this. Someone should be coming by shortly and then you can let yourself out. That is, if your 4-D self can’t simply walk through our 3-D walls. Are they solid for you, or are they immaterial? The math says they’re neither, nor are they quite something in between.
Good luck and godspeed, SCP-4000.
Kind regards, The Administrator
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