I recall a conversation where I told that in the comics HelpDex, the protagonist has wondered whether God was a programmer and in what programming language he wrote the universe. Then she had a dream where she heard God saying "I will tell you in which language I wrote the universe: Object-Oriented COBOL!" at which point the protagonist wakes up scared.
Then, a different participant who had immigrated from the former Soviet Union said that he was reminded of a story he read in a Soviet science magazine, where God and his angels were technicians who kept changing the universe based on how humans perceived it. Then during the 20th century, they had to implement subatomic particles, black holes and more, and fondly recalled how they once took a giant world turtle, put four elephants on top, and called it a day
Author | Soviet magazine |
Work | Conversation |
Published | 2020-06-21 |