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Cody T. Dianopoulos (561)252-0803 merlincody@gmail.com Inspired by Quinn Foerch May 31, 2012
Abstract The universe could very well be a program written in a very complex programming language by a being in one of the upper dimensions. These ideas constitute Protellism, which was founded by Cody Dianopoulos and Quinn Foerch.

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1 Introduction 2 What is Protellism? 3 Connections 3.1 Object-Oriented . . . . . 3.2 Functions . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Variables and Interaction 3.4 Coding . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 Other . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Application 3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5

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Introduction

When you hear the words programming language, you immediately think C++ or Java. Or if youre old enough, Fortran or Assembly Language. Ah, doesnt that bring back the nostalgic memories of punchcards? Good times. So, as I was saying, you think of the big programming language names. But do you ever speculate that programming languages could literally surround you? Well, they do. All evidence, as shown through this paper, supports that the universe and everyday life could very well be a program itself written by an extremely complex programming language on a fth-dimensional computer. Note that this paper may oend those extremely dedicated to their religion, and I advise you to stop reading if you are one of those people. But, if you would like to enlighten yourself, Id suggest continue reading and opening your mind to new ideas. DISCLAIMER: This paper can, at some points, seem rather opinionated. None of what is written in this paper is fact, just theoretical.

What is Protellism?

Protellism is one of the many experimental scientic approches to religion. Protellists believe that the universe is just a giant program created by a fth-orabove-dimensional group of beings. This group, labelled X, coded the universe for an unknown reason and has no further interaction with the universe. This means that not only does X not want anything from the program besides successful execution, but after considering Xs role in creation, X is completely irrelevant to anything Protellistic. Therefore, Protellism has no god(s). Protellism is more of just a theory of how the universe runs, which is essentially what all religions are. Protellisms logo is the letter P written in the Castellar font, as shown below.

Connections

As I said before, Protellism is a scientic approach to religion. Many connections can be made between everyday observations of the world and programming languages. A few of these connections are listed here. Protellists tend to use universe.exe as the name of the program that is speculated to be the universe.

3.1

Object-Oriented

If you really though about it, the universe is all about objects and classes. I am a person, an object. Many things class ify me as a person - I have arms, legs, a brain, etc. The main two classes of universe.exe are living and nonliving, which 3

each have their own specications. Each of these can be classied with increasing specicness. When the specicness of the classication reaches a certain point, you can classify an object as me. This entails biological classication with dichotomous keys et al. and means the programming language for the universe is object-oriented.

3.2

Functions

After each object is initialized in a program, functions are assigned to it; otherwise, the object would be useless and irrelevant to the program, and the object might as well not have been initialized. There are no known objects without functions in this universe; maybe dark matter. But no facts can be stated about dark matter until we learn more about it. So, in theory, dark matter could be a pointlessly-initiated object. Back to the point, objects are given functions. And by functions, I dont mean destinies, per se, but physical and chemical functions, down to the cellular level. Every action of human impetus is caused by chemical reactions in the brain telling the rest of the body what to do physically. So the chemical function is to determine what to do, and the physical function is to respond physically to the chemical signals. Even nonliving objects have functions. Every particle in the universe is programmed to respond to forces such as gravity and magnetism. Does this remind you much of functions in the programming environment?

3.3

Variables and Interaction

In a fashion, all programs can be reduced to variables and if statements. When variables interact with one another, they produce an output, which is the entire purpose of a program: to produce an output. For example, this program (C++) constitues making two variables and having them interact: #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int a; int b; cout << "a = "; cout << "b = "; cin >> a; cin >> b; cout << "a + b = " << a + b << endl; return 0; }

A sample build, with a user input of 5,7 would look like such: a = 5 b = 7 a + b = 12 So this demonstrates how variables interact to form outputs. This is much like how any object in the universe reacts to any stimulus, i.e., atoms to the forces of gravity or magnetism.

3.4

Coding

As it is clearly known, genetic coding is possible and has occurred. Back in the days of binary coding, programmers used two very simple integers to code the most complex and precise of software. Cells utilize a base-4 coding system to encrypt all of the data about the cell and to perform the tasks of the cell. The base-4 coding system is DNA/RNA, and the bases are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine/uracil. Using this system, cells can store tons of storage in their membranes. When proteins are made, these four bases are grouped in sets of 3 used in a system to produce a total number of 43 = 64 dierent codons. With this, small items can be coded within large items.

3.5

Other

It has been speculated that the universe was created from the Big Bang. Protellists believe in this theory because the Big Bang would be similar to doubleclicking on a program to run it. Before you click on it, the program is nothing. Only when you activate the program does the program start to do something. The primordial atom could symbolize the compressed le that decompressed when the program was started, initializing the program universe.exe.

Application

Protellism could be viewed as a constructive religion. If we could develop a programming language as complex as the language used to write universe.exe, we could develop articial intelligence. This topic always comes up in Protellistic discussions. If humans had the capability to program recursive universes, anything computational would be possible. So Protellistic beliefs could be used to advance computer science by modelling computer programming languages after that which surrounds us constantly. A major advancement necessary for this to happen would be the development of purely random numbers rather than the more common pseudo-random numbers. A plan that I have thought of that would be through using paths of electronic impulses. If you were to develop a circuit in which one path branches in to ten paths at one conjunction and re electrons one at a time, the electrons would take a purely random path, i.e., there would be no algorithm to predict which path a given electron would end 5

up at. This could be used to generate purely random numbers by recording each individual path taken, in order, xing decimal digits for each path, and combining a given number of paths into one single number after a decimal point. Unfortunately, the Dianopoulos Rule of Pseudo-Random Numbers still applies for most programming languages: 1 x x lim
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i=1

1 2

Another possible application would be to create programs within programs, like how codons are basic programs within the program of cells. If classes and objects had their own separate codes, it would be easier to control the function of the object based on the inner code. Therefore, code within code can be retrieved from this knowledge and observation of the program of the universe.