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[Alexandr Korol]

of light in this matrix. If you exist at specific coordinates — say, 2, 4, 7 — then those coordinates determine how your apartment is lit, how I appear to you, how the world appears to you, how you see yourself in the mirror, and everything around you starts to seem a certain way. But this is just one in a million possible versions of you — can you imagine? This is the first thing to take note of. Of course, in this volume, I won’t be able to reveal all of this with just a brief analysis. To fully grasp it, one must read the third volume of “Alternative History” carefully and thoroughly. It is crucial not to skip any recommendations — what movie to watch, what series to see — because only this can somehow shift the reader’s mindset, allowing them to perceive everything from a different angle once again. And these angles of perception — there are so many of them. It’s incredibly fascinating. And as I continue analyzing this simulation, I begin to correlate it with time.

I correlate this with time in such a way that by making a certain choice, it truly feels as if I am shifting into different versions of our world. And as if what I believe in is exactly how I perceive reality. Let’s take a key moment, a crossroads, as an example. Suppose it’s April 2023. Now, picture this crossroads where I have to make a decision. And here’s the most interesting part — whatever choice I make, that’s how everything unfolds. And if I had made a different choice then, my friends and acquaintances, including you, my readers, would also be different — you just don’t realize it. Seriously. There is another version of you. And in that version, perhaps we would have all become close friends, and together we would have opened an acting school if I had made a different decision at that moment. Or, on the contrary, maybe we would have all been disappointed in each other, and different people would have entered my life while you would have drifted away. The thing is, this shift is imperceptible, but in reality, it is through such choices that we enter different multiverses. There is a multiverse where you, for instance, are always sick or constantly arguing with people. And in that version, you will always encounter people who argue — or perhaps it’s the same people, but you don’t realize it. In another multiverse, for some reason, they appear hostile to you, and you to them. But the moment you switch to another multiverse, those same people — your same friends and relatives — and even you yourself seem unchanged, yet suddenly, for some reason, you no longer argue.