Round Table at the Edge of Reality: Will, Emptiness, and the Mathematics of Contact

Science Fiction Author D. Colin Palmer here. Tonight I broke the seal on a new round poker table for training—a circle of equal angles where chance, will, and attention meet. The felt is fresh, the chips sound like rain, the hot dog machine ticks like a metronome. From this little laboratory, I lay out a disciplined, theory-first attempt to “text” adjacent realities without violating physics: pre-declared codebooks, prime-number beacons, palindromic hellos, error-correcting codes, Bayes factors, and raw entropy streams treated as paper rather than ink. We bring Nietzsche’s will to power (as methodological stamina), Buddhist emptiness (to cut apophenia), and modern physics (many-worlds, information theory, decoherence) into a single beacon protocol—beautiful, simple, and reproducible. No superstition. No shortcuts. If the cosmos is silent, we love the null; if it whispers, we will hear the first faint letter. This is a monologue about rigor, courage, and the ethics of curiosity—tuning a signal any world could guess.