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With those "true language" based magic systems like in Eragon, I wonder: How has nobody ever asked the universe a nonterminating question?

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Or is that just where timelines go to die, replaced by a hot loop, and the universe very actively winnows out those knowing such a language?

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An enterprising magician hacker could very well bootstrap a new universe with the right spell and become a god in that.

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clearly in such a universe Chaitin’s constant = God

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It would have to be a modified version, computing omega alone makes gods very unlikely since they add length.

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