"Be careful running the code above, it can bring you into very strange realms!" Reminds me of Charlie Stross's new novel, "A brief recap: magic is the name gi

"Be careful running the code above, it can bring you into very strange realms!" Reminds me of Charlie Stross's new novel, "A brief recap: magic is the name given to the practice of manipulating the ultrastructure of reality by carrying out mathematical operations. We live in a multiverse, and certain operators trigger echoes in the Platonic realm of mathematical truth, echoes which can be amplified and fed back into our (and other) realities. Computers, being machines for executing mathematical operations at very high speed, are useful to us as occult engines. Likewise, some of us have the ability to carry out magical operations in our own heads, albeit at terrible cost." http://www.tor.com/2015/06/30/excerpt-the-annihilation-score-charles-stross/ http://www.tor.com/2015/06/30/excerpt-the-annihilation-score...