{"id":1256,"date":"2017-12-01T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.closelycoded.site\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:07:55","slug":"acceptable-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/entry\/acceptable-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Acceptable Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"submit-data\">Submitted by <strong>Przemyslaw Zanko<\/strong><br>on December 01, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/quantum.closelycoded.site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Acceptable-Loss.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1389\" style=\"width:841px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/Acceptable-Loss.png 600w, https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/Acceptable-Loss-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/events.cqt.sg\/shorts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/Acceptable-Loss-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QUANTUM SHORTS 2017: FIRST PRIZE, OPEN CATEGORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/backstory-acceptable-loss\">>>Read an interview with the author<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut this will destroy them\u201d, the General said, slowly. &#8220;All of them. All the universes except ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIsn\u2019t that what you wanted?\u201d, I retorted. \u201cTo put an end to this multiverse nonsense?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pondered that for a moment, puffing his cigar, his stare lost somewhere between the Rembrandts and the Vermeers adorning the walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIndeed. But I would be happy with just closing the portals. Destruction seems\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGeneral.\u201d I pushed my shaking hands deeper into the labcoat\u2019s pockets. \u201cAlternate universes. If I came up with this idea, some of my alter egos already did too. They\u2019re talking to your alter egos right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The old man blinked. Then he blinked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd if I say no to destroying all the other worlds\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026 then some of your alter egos will say yes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He puffed the cigar again and opened the folder I brought him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWell then, Mr. Beckett. You better explain this Decoherence Wave again. And fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards I just sat there in the empty half-lit lab, gin in hand, waiting for the guilt that wouldn\u2019t come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest genocide in history. And yet all I could think about was whether smoking right by the \u201cNo smoking\u201d sign would get me into trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I bet Oppenheimer never lost sleep over that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The portals to other worlds didn\u2019t solve anything. They just allowed people to run away from their problems. Don\u2019t like who won the election? Go live in a world where the losers won. Don\u2019t like your job? Find a parallel Earth where an unskilled lazy brat like you can live like a king. Don\u2019t like your life? Find your alter ego with the life you want and ask if they\u2019d like to swap places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It needs to end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s like when a country opens its borders too much. The immigrants. The brain drain. People stop appreciating what they have and start chasing cheap imported thrills. They start getting ideas. And once you start getting ideas\u2026 How did that old poem go? If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out. If we don\u2019t\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou need to stop this, John.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sat there, frozen, unable to speak, unable to face that all-too-familiar voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donna stepped into the light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know about the Decoherence Wave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I downed my gin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHi, honey. Long time no see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wife\u2019s face was pale but her eyes were pure steel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re going to destroy all quantum information. Collapse the multiverse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I smiled, leaning back in my chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExactly. No more doppelg\u00e4ngers. No more uncertainty. One world, fully explainable by classical physics. Back the way it was. The way it should have been. There are only two possibilities: yes or no. Black or white. Whoever wants to have it otherwise\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are people there\u201d, she said quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProbability ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople from our world. My friends. Your colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI guess they should\u2019ve stayed where they belonged then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She didn\u2019t even try to conceal her contempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo you\u2019re best pals with the General now. You even sound like him. My God, John. You used to hate these guys, remember?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just laughed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPerhaps I have come to understand them. Perhaps you have helped me realize that the world was much better before we\u2019ve started letting all those strangers in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow very white of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, the sweet, familiar, teeth-clenching rage. I have missed you, buddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou know, things used to be so simple. So precise. The cat, either alive or dead. People, either apart or together. We used to know what to expect from life, and now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s what this is about? You\u2019re destroying the multiverse because of me?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou left me!\u201d I was standing now, fists clenched, and she took a tentative step back. \u201cFor him! Do you have any idea how humiliated I felt when you proposed the swap? Our marriage wasn\u2019t perfect \u2013 I wasn\u2019t perfect \u2013 but\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot perfect?\u201d, Donna hissed. \u201cNot perfect? By the time I proposed the swap we had no marriage! You wouldn\u2019t hear about couples therapy, you wouldn\u2019t even talk to me! Day after day locked up in your stupid lab, trying to find a way to close the portals and bring back the good old days\u2026 You think I\u2019m proud of what I did? I know I was wrong. But you sure as hell didn\u2019t leave me with a lot of right choices.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo you left me for my alter ego\u201d, I spat. \u201cThat was your brilliant solution?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One tear glistened in her eye, just one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just wanted my husband back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned away, fighting the urge to smash something. I didn\u2019t fight it for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou don\u2019t have to do this\u201d, Donna said softly, as I finally stopped kicking the broken glass and just stood there, breathing heavily. \u201cYour alter egos won\u2019t destroy the multiverse just because they figured out how. People aren\u2019t like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople are exactly like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo, John. That\u2019s just you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I shrugged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s too late anyway. The General would have pressed the button by now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot if you lied and told him you were wrong. That the Wave will destroy his world too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I smiled at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd why would I do that, exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She smiled back, sadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know you wouldn\u2019t. But fortunately my John would.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stared at her for ten very long seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I ran like hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The General exhaled a cloud of smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHow do I know you\u2019re not an impostor as well?\u201d, he asked calmly. \u201cHow do I know you\u2019re not lying?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I slammed my hand on his desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s no time! Don\u2019t you see? The longer we hesitate \u2013 you must use the Wave now! Make us the universe that wins, otherwise we\u2019re just as dead as\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I noticed it. Staring me in the face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I swallowed hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI thought you preferred cigars?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The General gave me a warm smile, putting out his cigarette in the cut glass ashtray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat can I say, John. People change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1\" style=\"color:#df6523\">About the Author:&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Przemys\u0142aw Za\u0144ko \u2013 Polish SF\/Fantasy writer. He published several short stories in various fantasy anthology books and in &#8220;Nowa Fantastyka&#8221; magazine. Nominated for Janusz A. Zajdel Award in 2015. 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