7: The Mechanification of Theory: A Plausible Methodology for Retrocausal Informatics

Episode Description
A string of words that proves that its author went to college if I’ve ever seen one. What even is “retrocausal informatics”? More like “retro-pretentious infoSNOBics” if you ask me.

Plot
Mike receives a cryptic email back from Aliza Schultz. It describes a poisonous potted plant and a pole reaching many lightyears away from Proxima B. When Mike sends a second email, being more direct in his questions about WOE.BEGONE, Aliza sends back another cryptic message, this time about a ghost who sits on her chest, worrying about someone who has "good days" and "bad days."

Mike reads The Mechanification of Theory: A Plausible Methodology for Retrocausal Informatics. While very dense, Mike gleans that it is about applying theoretical physics to send particles back in time. Aliza also writes that by sending something back in time, anything that could happen, happens, and that one must switch to the desired universe in order to achieve the original goal. Mike is suspicious of CANNONBALL; he wonders why CANNONBALL didn't bring up Aliza Schultz earlier, and why he only dropped her name as a breadcrumb.

Meeting at the café again CANNONBALL explains his relationship with Aliza Schultz And how He's narrowed down the second place player's city. After returning home might gets the fourth challenge.

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