This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Alexander Suvorov
If you're interested in how this magic is implemented in practice as a Python CLI tool, you'll find all the details in the first article in the series.
🌌 Everything is already written
What if I told you that every message you could possibly send already exists? Not somewhere in the cloud, not on a server, but here and now, in the very fabric of the universe?
You don't send messages. You discover them.
Imagine the entire universe as a giant, unchanging library. It contains every possible book, every phrase, every thought that could possibly come to mind. Everything is already written. Everything is already on the shelves.
Your correspondence is not an exchange of data. It is synchronous reading of the same book in two different corners of the world.
🧙‍♂️ How does it work? Magic without technical spells
You have a shared secret with your interlocutor. Not a password, but rather a key to a certain wing of the Library. This key opens access to your common room with books.
You choose a label - a unique pointer. For example: "look at the book 'Our_secrets' on page 1736854567".
You "manifest" the message: You take a string of random characters that has been on this page for billions of years and overlay your thought on it. The result is something like a cipher.
You publish this "cipher" and the mark. That's all.
Your interlocutor does the same: He follows your mark, finds the same line in his copy of the Library, performs the same ritual - and your thought appears before his eyes.
The message was not transmitted. It appeared in two places at once because two people simultaneously looked at the same point of eternal, unchanging reality.
✨ Why is it magical
- You can't intercept the message — because it's not in the transmission. There's only a hint where to look for it.
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You can't prove the fact of communication — publishing the tag
{"book": "Our_secrets", "page": 1736854567}can be anything: an order ID, an application setting, just a random set of data. - You don't need the Internet — you can "transmit" the tag in any way: write it on a piece of paper, show a QR code, say it over the phone.
- Messages are eternal — if you have the key and the tag, you will be able to read the "message" in a hundred years. It will never disappear from the Library.
đź”® What does this mean for us?
This technology is not just a new messenger. It is a proof of concept:
All possible messages already exist. They have always existed and will always exist. We do not create information - we only discover it in a predetermined structure of the world.
We are not senders or receivers. We are readers in the gigantic Library of the universe, who have learned to find the same lines synchronously.
*Want to touch the magic? The gates to this Eternal Library are open. You can explore the implementation, contribute, or simply marvel at the code that brings this concept to life. Perhaps you, too, will become a reader of its endless shelves.
Step into the Library (GitHub)
What do you think? Is this crazy? Or brilliant?
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Suvorov | Sciencx (2025-09-15T09:09:25+00:00) The magic of messages that have always been with us. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/09/15/the-magic-of-messages-that-have-always-been-with-us/
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