Glossary

311—See ‘PSI311.’

367—See ‘PSI367.’

496—See ‘PSI496.’

Accord—It was a deal made with the PSI496 androids when they started to act as if they had feelings and will of their own. They gained all people’s rights but had to give up their human voice and appearance.

AI—Artificial Intelligence.

Alice Rings—Ring-shaped monopolar quantum structures that invert the properties of other quantum objects that pass through them. See also Quantum Phase Reactor. See also ‘Quantum Phase Reactor and article in Nature Magazine.

Argibots—Are microscopic robots that can attach and move with each other. A large number of interconnected argibots can freely change the shape and function of the assembly. See Appendix II.

AVI—Acronym for the Portuguese ‘Assistente Virtual Interativo’ (Interactive Virtual Assistant). They are artificial intelligence modules installed in homes, vehicles, and other places being used to activate and control devices integrated into them. They respond to voice commands and can perform autonomous actions without direct human intervention. They are also connected to each other.

Brane—See ‘P-branes.’

CDT/CCT—Acronyms from the Portuguese ‘Câmara de Distensão Temporal’ (Temporal Distension Chamber) and ‘Câmara de Compressão Temporal’ (Temporal Compression Chamber). CDT stretches time, making it pass more slowly inside the chamber, and CCT compresses time, making it pass faster inside. They are widely used in hospitals, where CCT serves, for example, to accelerate the growth of organs for transplantation and bodies for STC procedures, and CDT is used to slow down the time spent in ambulances and hospitals waiting for specialists in critical cases. See also STC.

Cepesq—Contraction of the Portuguese ‘Centro de Pesquisas Avançadas’ (Advanced Research Center). The research center, where several travelers went to work, is Cepesq II, while the missing accelerator was Cepesq I. The general director of Cepesq is Jamiro Gutierrez Waiãpi.

Cequan—Contraction of the Portuguese ‘Comunicador por Emaranhamento Quântico,’ which means ‘Communication by Quantum Entanglement.’ See Appendix III.

Claytronics —Technology for building tiny robots that can connect to each other, forming a kind of mass with the ability to metamorphose. See Appendix II and article on Scispace and Studocu.

CRP—Acronym for the Portuguese ‘Centro de Reabilitação Psicosocial’ (Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center), which is a place made up of three wings (A, B, and C). Wing ‘A’ is where people who have committed minor infractions or have mild psychiatric or psychological problems stay. Wing ‘B’ is the intermediate one, and wing ‘C’ is reserved for criminals considered dangerous to society. There is a large hospital attached to the CRP.

Diebranatic Connection—Type of connection that occurs when an open p-brane has its ends connected to two or more branes, not necessarily following the Dirichlet boundary condition. The connecting p-brane can even be of a higher dimension, like a sheet of paper connecting two lines.

DNA—Acronym for ‘deoxyribonucleic acid.’

Dog-dominium—Construction made up of small houses for dogs and other animals (Dog Condominium). It also has small trees with bird feeders. It serves as a shelter for animals that decided to live in the city, mainly dogs.

Drauser—Contraction of the Portuguese ‘Dispositivo Robótico Automatizado para Serviços Repetitivos,’ which stands for ‘Automated Robotic Device for Repetitive Services.’ It comprises a wide range of non-humanoid robots, which serve to keep houses, buildings, and streets tidy and clean. They can also carry out small repairs, such as restoring damaged paintwork.

Electrino—Particle with minimal mass, negative electrical charge, and strong nuclear interaction, resulting from the manipulation of the neutrino with the insertion of the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force. See also: tetron.

G—See ‘G Force.’

G-Force—Is the acceleration due to gravity. Thus, a person who weighs 60 kg in 1G (normal Earth gravity) will weigh 300 kg in 5G (5 times 60).

Informative—See Informative Branch.

Informative Branch—One of the seven branches of government, responsible for whether or not information is disclosed. In the world of Ybymarã, branches are seven-partitioned, as follows: Executive, with the function of governing; Legislative, with the function of enacting laws; Judiciary, with the function of guaranteeing rights; Moderator, with the power to annul any acts of any other powers; Participatory, with the function of proposing, altering, or restraining any acts with the aim of guaranteeing the collective good; Continuing, with the power to ensure and compel the continuity of acts of any other powers and the already described Informative.

Jasuká—In Tupi-Guarani mythology, it is the essence or primordial substance that gives rise to everything that exists.

LDI Camera—Camera that uses a property of light, where some modes have invariant dispersion, to observe the interior of normally opaque objects. LDI is the acronym for the Portuguese ‘Luz de Dispersão Invariante’ (Invariant Dispersion Light). By manipulating these invariant modes in the right way, it is possible to see the inside of practically anything as if it were exposed to ordinary light. See article in Nature Magazine.

Mediumcosm—Intermediate space between the macrocosm, where relativistic effects are pronounced, and the microcosm, where quantum effects dominate. In the mediumcosm, neither quantum nor relativistic effects are relevant.

Metamorphic Code—Programming language whose code is contained in its own variables and, therefore, can change its own commands.

N1, N2, N3, N4, N5—Are levels that people can reach in the Ybymarã economy, which does not work with money. Each level increases the equivalent of ‘purchasing power’ in cash savings. The model is called PANC, from the Portuguese ‘Ponto-Avaliação-Nível-Cota’ (Point-Evaluation-Level-Quota) where people can move up in level as they earn points for work or other activities. The quota limits the number of items of a certain type that a citizen can purchase. It is also known as Qualitivism, in contrast to economies that use money, which are called Monetarists.

Negentropic Force—Is a force that has no direct connection with the fundamental forces of nature (electromagnetic, gravitational, etc.). It only acts in the so-called ‘mediumcosm,’ where neither quantum nor relativistic effects are so pronounced. It works as a kind of organizer of the environment and is directly linked to living beings and their consciousness.

Neurotronic Brain—Artificial brain made up of neurotrons, which are digital processors of metamorphic code. There are usually 64 billion neurotrons in a common brain, which can communicate in groups with any other groups through a digital bus. If it is 8 bits, for example, it can simulate up to 256 analog levels.

Nucleotrino—Particle with minimal mass and strong nuclear interaction, resulting from the manipulation of the neutrino with the insertion of the strong nuclear force. See also: tetron.

Orunafê—First permanent human colony to be established on another planet, in this case, Mars. It is a large dome where up to 1000 people can live.

P-branes—Objects extended from superstring theory, which are like small vibrating filaments of energy that constitute the basis of all reality. A superstring has only length, like a vibrating guitar string, where p=1 (1-brane). A two-dimensional brane can be understood by observing a flag fluttering in the wind (2-brane), and we can make an analogy of a three-dimensional brane with a waving block of gelatin (3-brane). Branes have no internal structure, being just variations in the density of the void. M-theory tells us that branes vibrate up to dimension 11.

Pentachromat—Referring to vision with five primary colors. Many fish are pentachromats. The natives of the Third Transgenic can perceive wavelengths of 370 nm (ultraviolet), 445 nm (blue), 495 nm (turquoise), 545 nm (green), and 575 nm (red), which allows them to distinguish up to 10 billion shades of colors.

PID—Protocol of Identification. Is the name of the chip implanted in each person serves as personal identification. The PID is also present in almost everything that is manufactured, obviously with the appropriate coding for each case.

Positrino—A particle with minimal mass, positive electrical charge, and strong nuclear interaction, resulting from the manipulation of the neutrino with the insertion of the electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force. See also: tetron.

PSI311—Human-looking android that is often used in repetitive and boring tasks. Its behavior is clearly that of a machine.

PSI367—Android with a human appearance, of intermediate sophistication between the 311 and the 496. At first contact, it appears to have human behavior, but, after some time, it becomes clear that it is a machine.

PSI496—Highly advanced android, with behavior indistinguishable from humans. They are believed to think and feel like living people. Due to an Accord, they gained all the rights of human beings but had to give up their human voice and appearance.

Quantum Phase Reactor—Reactor that takes advantage of the inverting properties of Alice’s Rings to convert matter into antimatter, extracting the resulting energy when the antimatter reacts with surrounding matter. To do this, it has a ‘monopolar magnetic cannon,’ which shoots the rings into a block of matter.

Remtrad—Acronym from the Portuguese ‘Rede Mundial para Tráfego de Dados’ that means ‘Worldwide Network for Data Traffic.’ It is what connects all the machines on the planet, except the PSI496 androids.

Resequencer—Highly sophisticated equipment, which can assemble organic molecules in any sequence, hence the name of the device. It works with water, various types of organic powders, and catalyzing enzymes. It is used by the Ybymarians to produce food of all types, solid and liquid.

RRT—Acronym for the Portuguese ‘Rádio-Relógio-Telefone’ (Radio-Clock-Telephone). An RRT has the same functions as a cell phone but evolved from the wristwatch, to which a radio was added and, soon after, a mobile phone. It is usually worn in the form of a wide bracelet on one of the forearms, but it can also be ‘unrolled’ to take a flat shape.

Sphere—Virtual reality simulator that occupies the upper floor of the Ybymarã library. It is much more sophisticated than the simulators at Guajupiá Park, where visitors can literally experience the history of the planet or research any topic.

STC—Acronym for the Portuguese ‘Substituição Total de Corpo’ (Total Body Replacement). It is a procedure in which a new body is grown from a donor, where DNA is re-engineered so that it is stronger, longer-lived, and has more acute senses. This new body is brainless, and the donor’s brain is transplanted into it at the end of the procedure.

Tetrachromat—Referring to vision with four primary colors. There are few natural cases of tetrachromats people, but many birds are naturally tetrachromats. The natives of the Second Transgenic are tetrachromats, whose cones have peaks at wavelengths of 445 nm (blue), 495 nm (turquoise), 545 nm (green), and 575 nm (red), making it possible to distinguish up to 100 million shades of colors in the same visible spectrum as trichromats.

Tetraelectronic Matter—Matter where electrons are replaced by tetrons, which have an electrical charge equivalent to 4. It is about 16 times more resistant than its monoelectronic counterpart, with a melting and boiling temperature about 4 times higher. It can become unstable at very high pressures and temperatures, since tetrons carry strong force and can react with the nucleus if they come too close. A stable tetra-atom can contain up to 21 tetrons, which reflect in 82 protons in the nuclei. Up to this, the atoms became radioactive. See also: tetron.

Tetron—Set of four electrinos held together by the action of strong force in the presence of nucleotrinos. It has a mass similar to that of an individual electron and can form chemical bonds in the same way as common atoms.

Transgenics—These are milestones in the genetic manipulation of human beings. The First Transgenic refers only to corrections in DNA, so people with this transgenic rarely get sick and have a perfect body and metabolism, being able to live up to around 150 years. Second Transgenic brought improvements, such as greater physical strength, more accurate hearing, and tetrachromatic vision. People with this Transgenic can live up to 300 years. And the Third Transgenic, currently in Ybymarã, brought pentachromatic vision, thermal papillae for orientation through heat, magnetic guides that function as compasses, and echolocation capacity, in addition to increases in physical strength and life expectancy of up to 400 years.

Travelers—Are the people who were transported to Ybymarã in the incident that became known as the ‘bubble event’ or simply ‘The Bubble.’

Trichromat—Referring to vision with three primary colors. We are naturally trichromats, seeing the colors red (peaking at 575 nm), green (535 nm), and blue (445 nm), making it possible to distinguish up to 1 million color tones.

Uiraitás—Large robotic birds that sit on the edge around Ybytyara. They serve as guardians to catch people and objects that may fall from the island and bring them back. They also serve as lifeboats. Their name comes from the fact that they are camou­flaged as stone birds when they are perched.

Ybymarian—Person who lives in Ybymarã.

Ysajá—Apparatus built entirely with programmable matter, whose argibots are made of tetraelectronic matter. Ysajá does not have a predetermined shape but is generally cylindrical, and the tetraelectronic matter makes it much more resistant than titanium. See Appendix II.