[ WP ] Science has advanced far beyond human understanding , discoveries are made using supercomputers running vast neural networks . In the darkness , God watches a lonely machine printing output , a new law of nature ! Something troubles him , this law is undeniably valid but it 's not one that he created .

The General Operational Director sat at his desk at looked at the monitor. It has been a millennium or so since he last looked at the stardust clock hanging on the wall in front of him. 
 
 He was anxious to know what time it is for about 200 years or so, but did n't bother looking mainly because looking at the clock would have him stretching his neck to raise his eye level above the flickering computer screen. Also, stardust or not, that clock looked just like plastic. It was also slightly tilted to the left, which drove the Director crazy. 
 
 He finally took initiative and stretched his neck until he saw enough pale-purple numbers, made either of fusing hydrogen or tinted glass, to know what time it is. There was nothing special about that moment. Nowhere in the known universe was there even anything slightly irregular worth mentioning occurring, let alone any extraordinary phenomena. And yet, when the Director gave up on looking at the painfully slow hands, and set his gaze back unto the monitor, he saw something so magnificently unexpected it could only be described by resembling it to continuously shouting into a deaf man's ear until he asked you to be quiet because he's trying to listen to the news. The Director wanted to do just that, but since the only deaf ears within his reach were his management's, and those too were only deaf metaphorically, he decided to use his friend's instead. 
 
 He ran to the door and shouted, `` MICHAEL!'' 
 
 Michael, who was busy talking to the cute girl from accounting, did n't feel the same rush the Director did. 
 
 `` Michael, I really need you here!'' he repeated, this time with more confidence and implied impending smiting. 
 
 Michael rolled his eyes and dragged himself towards the Director's office. He did n't even take that much time, no more than a decade. 
 
 `` What's up, Mr. D?'' he said, as slick and yet inelegant as a face recently lubricated with pepper spray. 
 
 `` Do n't call me that!'''Mr. D' was his third most hated nickname, only surpassed by'Gob The Almighty' and'He Who Must Not Be Named', Although he's not sure if the latter was even for him. 
 
 `` Fine, Barney. I'll call you Barney. Did n't you need me for something?'' 
 
 `` Oh, yea. I need you to see something,'' The Director said, pointing at the computer at his desk. 
 
 `` Did it break again? You know I just call the guys from IT every time rebooting does n't work, right? I do n't really understand those things.'' 
 
 `` No, the computer is fine. I just got a system message.'' 
 
 `` What do you mean?'' Michael said and walked into the office. The Director followed. 
 
 The both reached the desk and leaned over the monitor in five years or so. 
 
 `` See? It just switched to this screen all of the sudden!'' said The Director. 
 
 `` What do you mean,'all of the sudden'?'' Michael waved his hands more then he should have. He also pressed a few buttons on the keyboard. You know, in case it helps or something. 
 
 `` I looked away and looked back at it, and it switched. What do we do now?'' 
 `` WE? There is no WE! You did this, not me. I'm not going to take responsibility for every time you destroy accidentally delete a part of the universe or lean your elbow on the'restore to an earlier version' button!'' 
 
 `` What are you talking about? We don ’ t know if that's what it means yet! Maybe it's just a routine error of something, a debug thingy that no one deleted. `` -Even more hand, and sometimes arm, waving-'' Maybe it's even an alarm clock someone put up and forgot to turn off, someone's niece is having a birthday party and the poor guy used the wrong computer and now she'll get no pony! `` 
 
 `` Yea, of course, it must be the pony thing.'' Michael said, `` Anyway, I'll pass it to the IT department. They'll find out what poor galaxy you demolished while spilling coffee on your pants.'' 
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 `` Well, we have a problem, sir.'' Said the IT guy with the duct taped glasses and the overall'I-Don't-Like-Showers' look. The Director was pretty sure he knew that guy's name at some time in the past, but that time was brief and now he only remembers him as'IT Guy # 4' and is too afraid to ask for his name again. 
 
 `` Was there… Damage?'' He asked, hoping he destroyed Andromeda. He always hated Andromeda. 
 
 `` Depends on your definition of damage, sir, the PR department will probably have some repair work to do. We have entered uncharted territory.'' 
 
 `` What?'' Past directors were afraid to ask that question, this one often had no choice. 
 `` If I may put this in layman's terms, we ca n't produce laws of nature as fast as the humans. We had quite a head start, but we spent too much time on making it simple and nice to digest. `` IT guy # 4 pushed his glasses proudly, as if he did something more than explaining a simple problem to an even simpler mind. 
 
 `` I do n't know about you, but for me the new stuff was n't that user friendly.'' 
 `` Oh yea, sorry about that. We figured we'd run into this problem a while ago and tried to pick up some more speed, you know. Less work for us, more work for them – two birds with one stone. Did n't help in the long run, those sons of bitches gulp equations like lemonade. So here we are, they caught up and soon enough we'll be eating dust.'' 
 
 `` Caught up? Can that be? I mean, can they just figure stuff out before we do? What sort of universe is that?'' The Director said, his arms quite literally flailing. 
 
 `` Well, they did, so that pretty much answers your question. That message you got was a new law of nature they generated without us. The system is n't used to that sort of queries yet, but we're working on a fix for you. No more popups for you, guaranteed.'' 
 
 `` And the humans will stop getting things before we do?'' said The Director, at this point he was just confused. 
 
 `` Oh, no, they'll keep doing whatever they're doing. I do n't know if you saw the entire error or not, you have to press F 11-3i for that, but you can see the law they pulled straight out of the Creation Core. A bit raw if you ask me, but pretty good for the first try. Something about membrane hypertension, not sure what exactly. It's new after all, is n't it?'' He finished with the satisfied grin you have after you tell a joke fully expected other to laugh. No one ever does. 
 
 `` Do n't you see the problem? Them figuring out the universe before we do? Sure there's nothing we can do?'' The Director said with a sincere hope to fix the situation, `` Make them slower? Make us faster?'' 
 
 `` We can always increase the manpower here, but I hear they're working on a new version altogether. No way will you get a budget increase now, especially not for something like that. Besides, maybe it's a good thing, a fresh look at things.'' 
 
 The Director looked at him with a dumbfounded look, sighed and got started walking back to his office, `` Thanks, buddy,'' he said with another sigh. 
 
 Maybe it's just not his millennium. 

