But the PDF anticipated his objection. The next paragraph began:
And in doing so, they create a paradox. The universe, edited, no longer leads to the conditions that produced the intelligent observers. So the observers never exist to make the edit. Reality frays. The Bounce becomes not a rebirth, but a shudder. A cosmic feedback loop. encyclopedia of cosmology pdf
Aris Thorne, a man who had spent his life searching for the first cause, realized he had just found the last one. The deepest law of cosmology wasn't gravity or entropy. It was regret. And the universe was an encyclopedia written by ghosts, desperately trying to delete themselves from the footnotes. But the PDF anticipated his objection
He closed the PDF.
It now read: Encyclopedia of Cosmology, Volume I: The Self-Destruct Sequence of Sentience. So the observers never exist to make the edit