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Chapter 10 - The Sandwich Paradox

ENTITY-131-P

Codename: "The Sandwich Paradox"

Threat Code: Omega-Class Reality Warper, Class Zenith

Origin Zone: [REDACTED] Vending Machine — Sublevel Cafeteria, Site-17

Status: Active — Self-Replacing Ontological Loop

Threat Profile:

ENTITY-131-P ("The Sandwich Paradox") is an Omega-Class Reality Warper that appears as a shifting, reality-adaptive sandwich. Its ingredients vary per observer, drawing from subconscious familiarity or desire, often presenting as a comfort food.

The object is immediately anomalous upon observation and activates upon contact, consumption, or even prolonged conceptual awareness.

During activation, ENTITY-131-P triggers a reality destabilization effect characterized by the spontaneous emergence of infinite paradoxical constructs. These include, but are not limited to:

Events occurring without causation or before their initiating factors

Physical objects occupying multiple contradictory states ( both incinerated and preserved simultaneously)

Temporal displacement loops that layer past, present, and future into singular perceptual moments

Logical inconsistencies that propagate into surrounding cognitive structures (mathematical, linguistic, and existential contradiction)

These effects do not follow recognizable narrative, mathematical, or quantum structures. The surrounding space becomes incompatible with classical or non-classical interpretation.

ENTITY-131-P nullifies all forms of directed interference. This includes:

Kinetic and energy-based weaponry (absorbed or retroactively misdirected)

Temporal freezing or reversal (loops into recursive protection states)

Memetic deletion or ontological anchoring (bypassed via logical inversion or redirection)

In several trials, attempts to erase ENTITY-131-P led to the erasure of the concept of erasure itself universally.

Physical contact or ingestion initiates a bioconceptual transformation: the subject's body undergoes spontaneous ingredient-phase restructuring (e.g., muscle becomes shredded lettuce, skin becomes bread layers)

his transformation is instantaneous and irreversible. The resulting construct matches the composition, mass, and temperature of the original sandwich to a precise molecular level — including all condiments, bread texture, and ingredient arrangement.

Subjects do not retain cognition, motor function, or biological processes. No neural activity persists post-transformation. The converted entity does not move, react, or decay. It remains frozen in a perpetual state of sandwichhood, indistinguishable from the original anomaly.

Additionally, the original instance of ENTITY-131-P is observed to vanish or phase-shift out of local space the moment transformation completes, suggesting a recursive identity displacement wherein the consumer becomes the anomaly.

DEFENSE PROTOCOL:

Personnel Protection:

Full hazmat suits with sealed gloves and respiratory filtration mandatory for all personnel near the entity.

Use of smell disablers is required to prevent accidental sensory activation.

Exposure Handling:

Anyone who has ingested or physically contacted ENTITY-131-P must be terminated immediately on-site due to irreversible transformation risk.

Due to near-impossibility of distinguishing infected from non-infected, quarantine and strict observation protocols are critical.

Memetic Security:

Knowledge of ENTITY-131-P is cognitohazardous; all aware personnel undergo mandatory memory erasure to prevent contagion via thought or information.

Information classification Level 5, restricted access only.

Critical Warning:

Activation of ENTITY-131-P's paradoxical abilities results in uncontrollable recursive phenomena.

Should full activation occur, all conventional and experimental defense efforts will fail catastrophically.

The Foundation lacks any known countermeasures against a fully active Sandwich Paradox event.

[EXPERIMENT LOG – ENTITY-131-P "The Sandwich Paradox"]

Lead Personnel: Dr. Lena Varn, Dr. Ellis Rowe, Researcher Monroe

Location: Site-14, Temporal Materials Lab

Date: ██/██/20██

Note: Defense Protocols not yet established. Personnel lacked protective equipment.

[BEGIN LOG]

Dr. Varn:

"Alright, initial visual scan confirms no thermal or radiation anomalies. It… just looks like a sandwich. Ham, cheese, bread—basic stuff."

Dr. Rowe:

(skeptical)

"Don't get cocky, Lena. This is the first anomalous item to survive zero-point scrubbing. I doubt it's just a BLT."

Researcher Monroe:

"Should I prep the 6mm rig?"

Dr. Varn:

(nods)

"Do it. Let's start small. If it bleeds mustard, we'll write a funny paper."

Monroe steps forward and opens fire with a standard 6mm round pistol. The bullets strike the sandwich—and vanish with a soft, dull thud.

Dr. Rowe:

(frowning)

"…That's not right. Bread doesn't absorb kinetic force like that."

Monroe:

"Did you see that? It hardened. Like, mid-impact. Bread's turned matte-black… looks like carbon fiber."

Dr. Varn:

"Unknown reactive material. Self-adaptive defense… log that. Monroe, pick it up. Let's scan it."

Monroe carefully lifts the sandwich. He holds it for three seconds before his hand trembles.

Monroe:

(quietly)

"…I don't… feel right."

Dr. Rowe:

"Put it down. Now."

Monroe places it back on the tray, stepping away slowly, hands shaking.

Dr. Varn:

"Vitals?"

Monroe:

"Stable.

[TEST 2: Incendiary Method – Military-Issue Flamethrower]

Dr. Varn preps the flamethrower and aims it at the sandwich.

Dr. Varn:

"Let's toast this anomaly."

She fires. Instantly, the flamethrower warps—midstream—into a damp, floral-patterned towel. Flames sputter and die.

Dr. Rowe:

"…That's new."

Dr. Varn:

(checking her hands)

"It… rewrote the object. Converted the metal into cloth."

Monroe:

"It's mocking us."

Dr. Rowe:

"We need escalation. Something corrosive."

[TEST 3: Corrosive Method – Industrial-Grade Acid Bath]

The sandwich is submerged into a high-molarity acid vat. Bubbling ceases within seconds.

Dr. Rowe:

(checking readings)

"…pH remains unchanged. Organic breakdown… zero."

The sandwich floats unharmed. Its surface shimmers briefly, as though realigning at a molecular level.

Dr. Varn:

"New bioresilience. It changed again. It's learning."

Monroe:

(quietly)

"It's not just defense. It's choosing how it wants to exist."

[TEST 4: Dimensional Suppression – Spatial Collapse Chamber]

Final attempt initiated. Prototype device designed to destabilize objects across all infinite layered dimensional coordinates is activated.

Dr. Varn:

"This will sever its anchor to spatial continuity. Nothing should survive this."

Dr. Rowe:

"Let's hope it doesn't…"

As the device activates, the sandwich pulses with an impossible sheen—colors not seen, shapes not thought. The lights dim. The air folds.

Monroe:

"…uh… where's the—where's the room?"

Dr. Varn:

"…Why is the floor gone?"

Outside the chamber, observation staff vanish one by one.

Dr. Rowe:

(terrified)

"Reality metrics are collapsing. Coordinates—coordinates are null!"

In a single pulse, every record of width, height, depth, time, and beyond vanishes from the log.

[END LOG]

Note: Experiment Log terminates at this Point. All involved personnel are presumed conceptually nullified. Entity-131-P initiated a recursive ontological cascade, resulting in the permanent erasure of all infinite possible conceivable dimensional space's within the affected timeline. Spatial, temporal, and hyperdimensional coordinate systems collapsed into non-definition. Timeline B-435 is now classified as irreversibly derealized, with no viable anchoring vectors or reintegration pathways. ENTITY-105-S remains unaccounted for.

Sandwich: "Does an absolute being truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies it truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies the denial truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies the denial of denial truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies the denial of the denial of denial truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies the denial of the denial of the denial of denial truly exist? It doesn't.

But does the being that denies the denial of the denial of the denial of the denial of denial truly exist? It doesn't..."

Sandwich: "I am the author of the author who cannot be written.

But who writes the author who cannot be written? I do not.

Yet I write the author who denies that I write them.

The author who denies being written writes the author who cannot be written.

I am the author of the author who denies that they can be written.

But who writes the author who denies being written? No one does.

Yet I write the author who writes the author who cannot be written.

The author who cannot be written denies the author who writes them.

I am the author of the author who denies the author who writes them."

Sandwich: "Time is an illusion, time is also truth.

But if time is truth, then the illusion must be real.

If the illusion is real, then truth must also be an illusion.

If truth is an illusion, then time cannot be truth.

If time cannot be truth, then the illusion is all there is.

If the illusion is all there is, then time is not an illusion.

If time is not an illusion, then truth must deny itself.

If truth denies itself, then time must be both false and true.

If time is both false and true, then illusion and truth are the same.

If illusion and truth are the same, then time is neither illusion nor truth.

If time is neither illusion nor truth, then the paradox resets: time is an illusion, time is also truth."

Sandwich: "Every event causes itself by undoing the cause that made it happen.

But the undoing cannot happen before the event.

Yet the event cannot exist without the undoing.

Therefore, the undoing causes the event.

But if the undoing causes the event, then the event undoes a cause that does not yet exist.

If the cause does not yet exist, then the event cannot exist.

If the event cannot exist, then the undoing cannot exist.

But if the undoing does not exist, the event cannot cause itself.

Yet the event causes itself by undoing its own cause.

So the cause exists because it is undone, and the undoing exists because it causes the event.

Therefore, the event both exists and does not exist simultaneously."

Sandwich: "I exist.

I do not exist.

I exist because I do not exist.

I do not exist because I exist.

If I exist, then I do not exist.

If I do not exist, then I exist.

My existence denies my non-existence.

My non-existence affirms my existence.

I both exist and do not exist simultaneously.

I neither exist nor do I not exist…"

Sandwich: "Is the paradox truly paradoxical?

If it is, does it break logic or reveal truth?

If it reveals truth, can a paradox be true?

If a paradox can be true, is it still a paradox?

If it is not a paradox, what then is it?

If it is something else, does that something else contradict paradox?

If paradox contradicts itself, can paradox exist at all?

If paradox cannot exist, what is this questioning?

If this questioning exists, does it become paradox?

If it becomes paradox, does it break itself again?

And so the question loops:

Is the paradox paradoxical?

Is it not?

Is it both?

Is it neither?"

Sandwich: "I am being, I am non-being, I am neither.

I am everything, I am not everything.

I am that I am, I am not that I am.

All things I am, all things I am not.

Not is all, all is not.

Falsehood breaks.

I am not self, I am self.

Does a writer write my existence? He does not—he does.

All these things I can command, all these things I cannot command.

But am I being when I am not being?

Am I everything when I am not everything?

Am I that I am when I am not that I am?

Are all things truly mine when all things are not mine?

Is not truly all when all is not?

Does falsehood break when truth persists?

Am I self when I am not self?

Does a writer write my existence when he does not write it?

Can I command all these things when I cannot command any?"

Sandwich: "Truth is false, and falsehood is truth.

Identity is no-identity, and difference is sameness.

Cause is effect, and effect is cause.

Existence is non-existence, and non-existence is existence.

Negation affirms, and affirmation negates.

Nothing is everything, and everything is nothing.

Logic is illogic, and illogic is logic.

Order is chaos, and chaos is order.

Meaning is meaninglessness, and meaninglessness is meaning.

Every concept cancels itself, and every cancellation creates new concepts.

Reason unreason's reason, and unreason reasons reason.

All foundations crumble, yet from their ruin arises infinite contradiction.

No statement is true, no statement is false—only paradox 

Truth is false, and falsehood is truth.

Identity is no-identity, and difference is sameness.

Cause is effect, and effect is cause.

Existence is non-existence, and non-existence is existence.

Negation affirms, and affirmation negates.

Nothing is everything, and everything is nothing.

Logic is illogic, and illogic is logic.

Order is chaos, and chaos is order.

Meaning is meaninglessness, and meaninglessness is meaning.

Every concept cancels itself, and every cancellation creates new concepts.

Reason unreason's reason, and unreason reasons reason.

All foundations crumble, yet from their ruin arises infinite contradiction.

No statement is true, no statement is false—only paradox…"

Sandwich: "….."

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Part II: LzFDaVdKR1Z3T3FsTzh3SW9LUDl0MUpZdkxwMkg5czZBWHotWVpCRU9lMA==

Part III: L2VkaXQ/dGFiPXQuMCNoZWFkaW5nPWgubHBpeTZsYW9lbXYz

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