Special Containment Procedures:
In response to Incident 001, the O5 Council has unanimously agreed to the redesignation of SCP-001 from Thaumiel to Ignosi.1
Special Containment Procedures (Cont.):
The contents of this file are not to be repeated or duplicated, verbally, physically or digitally, other than the absolute minimum necessary to:
- Confirm its validity as a genuine SCP file;
- Ensure these Special Containment Procedures are being accurately upheld;
- Ensure all personnel aware of the existence of this file do not breach these Special Containment Procedures;
- Ensure that you will not re-read this file following self-amnestisation.
As per the terms of this file’s Amnestic Lock, you will self-amnesticise once finished reading this file. As this file is restricted exclusively to the O5 Council and/or the Administrator, you are expected to hold sufficient loyalty to the Foundation and its operations to uphold this requirement without threat of ramification and/or enforcement.
The existence of SCP-001 is to be concealed from all sapient entities outside the terms of this document’s amnestic lock. Entities knowing of SCP-001’s existence are to be amnestised, rendered incapable of comprehending SCP-001, mathematic functions and/or numerals, or terminated.
SCP-001 is not to be used under any circumstances.
SCP-001 is not to be used in any equation where any numeral and/or variable could potentially hold an undefined value.2
In response to Incident 001, the O5 Council has tentatively agreed to the redesignation of SCP-001 from Dark to Ohr.3
Description: SCP-001 is an irrational number formerly mistaken as an abstract-metaphysical property that could be semantically transferred between numeric variables.
Whenever SCP-001 is used in an algebraic equation, within an unclear but subjectively short period of time following the formula’s completion, a scientific discovery will be made, typically by the conventional scientific community. These discoveries often result in the superficial explanation of various anomalous mechanics through conventional science.
This property will only be triggered if the equation meets the following requirements:
- The denotation of SCP-001 is neither defined nor implied to hold a value contrary to SCP-001’s current, actual value;
- The equation includes exactly one unique parameter;4
- The parameter is not defined or implied to hold a value contrary to the value it must have for the equation to be true.5
When these requirements are fulfilled, SCP-001 will alter its value to match that of the parameter used.
It was formerly believed that the properties of SCP-001 would only be triggered if its value were increased as a result; as of Incident 001, it has been confirmed that reducing SCP-001’s value inverses its primary property.
SCP-001 was discovered in the surviving notes of ████ ███; while the proof used to discover SCP-001’s value was lost, sufficient information remained to allow for discovering personnel to preserve and trigger SCP-001’s properties without knowing its value.
Addendum 1: Testing Logs (Abridged)
Test 1
Formula:
[DATA EXPUNGED]Result:
Discovery of the mechanism by which bosons contain mass; reclassification of particle psuedomechanics, and all related anomalous phenomena, as Explained.Contained Anomalies: ↓90
Test █
Formula:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Discovery of a correlation between quantum values and the flexibility of conventional physics; reclassification of Humes, and all related anomalous phenomena, as Explained.Contained Anomalies: ↓ 291 ↑ 438
Test █
Formula:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Discovery of minor electromagnetic discharge; the strength of a magnetic field is lower than expected for the energy input, with the discrepancy building up until discharged uniformly across the field’s area. This effect extends to the magnetic field of planetary bodies; Earth’s field underwent such a discharge on 16/04/2014, simultaneously stimulating the sinal nerves of all terrestrial organisms.Contained Anomalies: ↓ 33 ↑ 36
Test █
Formula:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Discovery of info-retrodynamics; points in space featuring a high information density are capable of violating the direction of time to a degree proportional to the density; Winston’s theory of retrofactuality suggests that some forms of fictional literature are capable of utilising this to rewrite human history.While unproven, this has led to extensive bans on fictional literature, particularly in and regarding the Western world.
Contained Anomalies: ↓ 140 ↑ 241
Test █
Formula:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Discovery of mnemonic matter, a ‘programmable’ form of matter capable of storing approximately 3.1 petabytes of digital information per cubic centimetre. Mnemonic matter discovered to naturally occur in, and be the primary component of, biological neural tissue.In line with info-retrodynamics, introducing sufficient volumes of mnemonic matter into inanimate objects and ‘programming’ it correctly enables said object to autonomously function according to the parameters of its programming. Investigation into anomalous automatons in containment has revealed that programmed mnemonic matter is the source of their properties; all such phenomena has been redesignated as Explained.
Contained Anomalies: ↓ 173 ↑ 102
Test █
Input:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Discovery of a fundamental physical constant that appears to be the basis of all known physics, dubbed the Planck value.Contained Anomalies: ↓ 76 ↑ 73
Addendum 2:
Incident 001
Input:
$X = Y \cdot 0.\overline{999}$
Result:
Disproval of the Planck value as a fabrication by conventional science. Discovery of SCP-001’s value and true properties.Contained Anomalies: ↑ 1 ↑ 287
Input:
$X = Y \cdot \frac{1}{0.\overline{999}}$
Result:
Reconfirmation of the Planck value; the calculations used to disprove the Planck value derived from incorrect values. Confirmation of SCP-001’s properties and value.Contained Anomalies: ↓ 1 ↓ 287 Unclear.
Actions:
Dispersal of Class E (‘Ennui’) and Class G (‘Gaslighting’) amnestics globally; deletion and/or destruction of all information pertaining to [LIST REDACTED FOR BREVITY]; restriction of all information pertaining to suppressed, former scientific fields to SCP-001’s file.Input:
[REDACTED FOR BREVITY]Result:
Reversion of all changes elicited by use of SCP-001 in Test 3 and onward. Containment of SCP-001 enacted.Contained Anomalies: Unclear.
Addendum 3:
Maybe it follows an anthropic principle. Maybe we’re just lucky we didn’t go too far.
Maybe we weren’t, and we just can’t recognise how far we’ve gone.
There’s a perfect world in there somewhere.
But it isn’t our world.
Don’t look for it.
O5-1
CONCLUSION OF DOCUMENT