nd our species to one of them he was locking us away from virtually infinite options The second subset of ancient physics, con nected with 'uncertainty," does not permit even accurate knowledge of the Absolute that the Kwisatz Haderach appears to have believed he encountered Yet concepts from uncertainty physics, rather loosely applied, do help us understand the youthful Paul's difficulty m seeing himself in his visions of the future As is well known, it is impossible to know both the position and momentum of a subatomic particle The more confident one becomes about knowing one condition, the less one knows about the other When Paul attempted to see his own position on the rippling landscape of his prescience, the energy deflections of his information-gathering effort prevented his feeding through to a fixed picture of* a future situation The um verse remained contingent, he could see surroundings but, because his knowing what was to become of himself permitted a choice that could change that outcome, he could not know As Systemics has taught, but Paul did not realize there is an information analogue to quantum-level uncertainty physics The uncertainty paradigm also helps us understand what happened as Paul matured and became addicted to prescience In our random universe, anything can happen In fact, as the infinity calculus shows every thing does happen It was unlikely that Paul would be able to see himself in the future, but he did It was more unlikely that he could "shorten the way according to relativ istic physics, but he did It was impossible for him to narrow the spread of optional futures to two (let alone to think of options within the concept future), but the Kwisatz Haderach did that too He went even further he rejected one of the alternatives he saw and determined the other one Such a nar rowing of probabilities to one certainty is incredibly unlikely, but the nature of the Accidental Universe requires that certitude be one possibility Finally, the infinity calculus helps us grasp quickly the magnitude of the Kwisatz Had-erach's boldness and the essence of his error The familiar idea of temporal matrices con tarns n-aggregates of n points in n-dimensions At every instant it is possible for the matrix to change n1 ways All possibilities do occur, a new temporal matrix evolves instantaneously Again, all possibilities happen The Kwisatz Haderach possessed a different, severely limited, notion It was conditioned by the concepts cause and effect and inevitability Within this conception his prescience saw one sequence of possibilities, picturing it as branches m two (or perhaps three) dimensions The branching sequence included several highly probable paths The Kwisatz Haderach nar rowed his prescient focus to two alternatives, and actually selected one that appeared preferable' By willing the restriction of probability he cut himself off from seeing the rest of the entire temporal matrix His conviction that there would be a sing