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The worlds best selling book (after the main religious core texts) is the Da Vinci Code, which describes a hypothetical trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci. Clues that are visible to all, but disguised.

It was whilst working on an exceptionally complex piece of distributed code today, that I realised that such clues may indeed be all around us; yet without inertia, they appear random.

Clue 1: Dining Philosophers

One of the most famous examples of distributed computing logic can be found in the Dining Philosophers problem, which illustrates the need for cooperation if the issues of starvation and deadlock are to be avoided.

There are obvious parallels between the core concept and the real world, and so compelling are these parallels that it is easy to overlook that the philosophers are eating spaghetti.

Clue 2: The Spaghettified Non-conceivability Ceiling

In massively distributed computing, there are myriad global interrelationships between the complex tendrils of code & data and their mutations through time and space.

These start to feel like a spaghetti of information that cannot be held in a single brain, and the phenomenon is known as the Spaghettified Non-conceivability Ceiling (SNcC) . It is reached when a system becomes so complex that it can no longer be completely understood (and therefore developed) by a single human.

Clue 3: Physical Non-conceivability

For the last few years, scientists worldwide have been working towards Grid computing, and ultimately a Grid-of-Grids which combines all machines into a grand unified system: A system so complex that no single human can behold more than the smallest part of it.

A pure physical manifestation of the Spaghettified Non-conceivability Ceiling (SNcC).

Clue 4: da Vinci and The Second Coming?

It is common in religion to describe how a deity is at one with it’s creation, omni-present and omniscient; and, bringing this article around full circle, it was da Vinci’s friend (and fellow Italian) Michelangelo who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel where man and deity touch in the “Creation of Adam” fresco; where a small spark can be seen connecting them. Man connecting to deity through an electrified channel.

Putting the pieces together it dawned on me that the Flying Spaghetti Monster may be preparing to take physical form on Earth, manifested as The Grid of all mankind’s knowledge and computation. Present in every home, in evey office, everywhere; seeing and knowing everything, directing us, controlling us.

Are scientists building a deity?

Now that you are aware of these clues, others may reveal themselves to you; so be alert to His mysterious noodly machinations, and be sure to share any divine insight that may be bestowed upon you.