[ARG] The Pizza Code Mystery

[Donaldduck8]

@Gunsrequiem

The whiteboard you mentioned also has some key reasons it might be important:

1. It too mentions leptons.
2. The Higgs-TauTau is a reference to the Higgs boson and its decay into tau leptons. Furthermore, the cannon is also called the “Tau cannon.”
3. Yet another reference to the cannon: “Interesting side effect of neodymium optronic causeators”–I’m pretty sure it says “causeators,” but it might be some other word.

Adding some notes on this one:

1. The symbol used to denote an anti-up quark in the feynman diagram of Tau-lepton decay looks like the letter J, instead of the dashed “u” symbol that it should be.
2. The circled “Interaction here” is the Tau-lepton decaying into a Tau-neutrino and emitting a W(-)-Boson under the weak interaction.
3. It seems to read “calibrators”, instead of causeators.
4. Higgs to Tau-Tau decay is a mechanism that’s only extremely recently been proven to exist (The data was collected during 2011 and 2012, with the results being published here in the beginning of 2015.)
5. The symbol ∅ used in the middle of the Higgs-Boson in the Feynman diagram for Higgs to Tau-Tau decay is not used in Feynman diagrams.
   I’m still trying to make sense of the mess of equations in the lower part, but I’m guessing that scientifically-oriented thoughts like this aren’t necessarily gonna drive the ARG forward.

[Nonimportantuser]

So one thing i am interested in is electronics and today i got bored so i went to Wikipedia to read an article about capacitors.

After awhile i made my way to the article on electrolytic capacitors and saw something that could be related to the arg so i will note it her

It has an article on Niobium Capicitors, which i thought was very interesting and could be a little relevant to the as as capacitors are widely used in electronics.

The reason why i think this could be at least a little relevant is because capacitors are very common in computers and computer equipment as well as power supplys.

[Gunsrequiem]

@Nonimportantuser

So one thing i am interested in is electronics and today i got board so i went to Wikipedia to read an article about capacitors.

After awhile i made my way to the article on electrolytic capacitors and saw something that could be related to the arg so i will note it her

It has an article on Niobium Capicitors, which i thought was very interesting and could be a little relevant to the as as capacitors are widely used in electronics.

The reason why i think this could be at least a little relevant is because capacitors are very common in computers and computer equipment as well as power supplys.

I read about capacitors when I get wood, too. Yucka, yucka.

On a more serious note, that’s cool you came across that–nice catch!

[Miles07]

@Gunsrequiem

EDIT3: Just a fun little puzzle if you want to take some of the edge off: https://enigmapuzzle.fizzlebot.com/

Ugh, this game is such a pain. I’d almost want to start over this ARG from scratch, rather than delve any deeper into that rabbit hole of a game.

@Nonimportantuser

So one thing i am interested in is electronics and today i got bored so i went to Wikipedia to read an article about capacitors.

After awhile i made my way to the article on electrolytic capacitors and saw something that could be related to the arg so i will note it her

It has an article on Niobium Capicitors, which i thought was very interesting and could be a little relevant to the as as capacitors are widely used in electronics.

The reason why i think this could be at least a little relevant is because capacitors are very common in computers and computer equipment as well as power supplys.

So I believe that we can safely say, that whatever HALOS is, it is definitely computer-based and requires niobium in some of its components. Whether those components are capacitors or superconductors, and whether HALOS is an AI, a quantum computer, or both, remain to be seen.

@Gunsrequiem

@Nonimportantuser

post with an honest typo

post with a dirty joke based on the honest typo

¬_¬

[Nonimportantuser]

Anyway, i have made a folder with some of the ARG assets including the launch trailer but slowed down for easier frame-by-frame analysis that you can download.

[Pianownd]

So I found this tidbit that might have been found before.

I’d like to pull a specific part that caught my eye from the article:

Niobium also offers an interesting extra. It is naturally radiation hard meaning that these chips might be particularly well suited to operating in space or other highly radioactive environments. That’s the kind of thing that can help to generate military funding.

We know the QE labs had been messing with Xen species long before the resonance cascade happened, so do you think Horn could’ve ran off with Halos or something into Xen.

Or maybe, as a crackpot theory, Horn is working with and/or being manipulated by G-Man on something to establish contact with the Combine or to control the Nihilanth? Or maybe loop it around to the other theory of trapping the consciousness of the Nihilanth? I just have a feeling we should figure out the incentive of creating this computer/ai/whatever thingy we call HALOS. I mean, what good is a storyline if it has no incentive? Why would he want to unleash this creepy AI on the web, and be so vague about it? Whatever it is, the motives are surely fishy whatever they are.

Also, I’d like to point to the D-Wave for something interesting to read right now.

[thewizard99]

@Pianownd

Or maybe, as a crackpot theory, Horn is working with and/or being manipulated by G-Man on something to establish contact with the Combine or to control the Nihilanth? Or maybe loop it around to the other theory of trapping the consciousness of the Nihilanth? I just have a feeling we should figure out the incentive of creating this computer/ai/whatever thingy we call HALOS. I mean, what good is a storyline if it has no incentive? Why would he want to unleash this creepy AI on the web, and be so vague about it? Whatever it is, the motives are surely fishy whatever they are.

This just remind me of Bugs (Tv show) again.

[TornadoAP]

I have a feeling that Halos is the one who sent Tempus omnia revelant. Why else would it say “Seek Code Out”? Why would Dr. Horn go and reveal who he is to the people he’s trying to manipulate into decrypting the Halos file? I have a feeling that Halos doesn’t want it to be found because it doesn’t want Horn to try to take control of it again.

Trust no one right?

I don’t trust that page anymore.

[Nonimportantuser]

This may or may not have been already mentioned, but i am starting to think that the kxbm.net stuff was not related to this ARG.

It might have been something to to attract new ARG players to this ARG.

I also think it was a completely separate ARG.

[cisek66]

@Gunsrequiem

@Nonimportantuser

So one thing i am interested in is electronics and today i got board so i went to Wikipedia to read an article about capacitors.

After awhile i made my way to the article on electrolytic capacitors and saw something that could be related to the arg so i will note it her

It has an article on Niobium Capicitors, which i thought was very interesting and could be a little relevant to the as as capacitors are widely used in electronics.

The reason why i think this could be at least a little relevant is because capacitors are very common in computers and computer equipment as well as power supplys.

I read about capacitors when I get wood, too. Yucka, yucka.
On a more serious note, that’s cool you came across that–nice catch!

Found that nobium can be used in the process of making semiconductor devices, and that actually means something ( Diodes Transistors ICs ) link

[CPU]

Ran across Dr Horn’s talk page on the wiki a few moments ago:

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Revision as of 22:52, October 18, 2015 by 216.106.233.175 (Talk)

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| User r Horn

Hi, welcome to The Pizza Code Mystery ARG Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Dr Horn page.

Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! – RocketJumper35 (Talk) 22:18, October 14, 2012

Do you have any ppublic keys for contactinh you with maybe in a scheme that starts with P or B.

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

Please post publicly for everyone to work with

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

[Pianownd]

Ah finally, something new and undoubtedly notable! Good catch, CPU!

So something might be coming November 18th? I guess, we have to wait until then to know.

EDIT: I’d also like to point out that Nb also is an abbreviation of the latin phrase “Nota bene.” This means “Note well.”

[Gunsrequiem]

Google search of “H3xByt3s” brought up a username posting on this site, and not much else. Hmm . . . .

[Cranken]

@CPU

[…]

Do you have any ppublic keys for contactinh you with maybe in a scheme that starts with P or B.

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

Please post publicly for everyone to work with

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

What could be meant with that?
Public Keys in a “scheme”(aka encryption?) that starts with P sounds like PGP(since its the most(?) used encryption for emails) or Paillier to me.
A scheme thats starts with B could refer to Benaloh.
But why does he want to encrypt his messages if this is related to the ARG since it doesn’t matter if anyone else reads it.

[Flavrans]

@Cranken

@CPU

[…]

Do you have any ppublic keys for contactinh you with maybe in a scheme that starts with P or B.

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

Please post publicly for everyone to work with

-H3xByt3s 18/11/15

What could be meant with that?Public Keys in a “scheme”(aka encryption?) that starts with P sounds like PGP(since its the most(?) used encryption for emails) or Paillier to me.
A scheme thats starts with B could refer to Benaloh.
But why does he want to encrypt his messages if this is related to the ARG since it doesn’t matter if anyone else reads it.

This is probably just someone fishing for clues.

Based on their other comments elsewhere on the wiki, I take it that they are asking Dr. Horn to post any public keys for the Benaloh and Paillier encryption schemes, so that they can see if the private keys can be brute forced. Without the public keys, brute forcing the private keys would be “close to impossible”.

[Miles07]

@Pianownd

So I found this tidbit that might have been found before.

I’d like to pull a specific part that caught my eye from the article:

Niobium also offers an interesting extra. It is naturally radiation hard meaning that these chips might be particularly well suited to operating in space or other highly radioactive environments. That’s the kind of thing that can help to generate military funding.

We know the QE labs had been messing with Xen species long before the resonance cascade happened, so do you think Horn could’ve ran off with Halos or something into Xen.

Into Xen, or into space…?

@Gunsrequiem

Google search of “H3xByt3s” brought up a username posting on this site, and not much else. Hmm . . . .

Oh no, not another “enigma” posting…

[Pianownd]

@Miles07

Into Xen, or into space…?

Well, also remember that coordinate on the OAR rocket texture I found also was located close to HAFB/WSMR…

Why would he need to launch a computer/ai/whatever into space though? This is getting cooky, but not surprising coming from this arg.

[Nonimportantuser]

I have a feeling that we need to review everything o this forum thread as we might have forgotten some important information that someone posted. I do not know if anyone has done this recently, but has anyone tried contacting storm via his email? If not then i might do it within the next few days. Another thing i would like to mention is that storm mentioned that there are mutable mini story lines so there might be some mini stories that are undiscovered. It seems that we might have missed something.

[Miles07]

@Nonimportantuser

I have a feeling that we need to review everything o this forum thread as we might have forgotten some important information that someone posted. I do not know if anyone has done this recently, but has anyone tried contacting storm via his email? If not then i might do it within the next few days. Another thing i would like to mention is that storm mentioned that there are mutable mini story lines so there might be some mini stories that are undiscovered. It seems that we might have missed something.

Rather, there are so many possibilities, that Storm should point us in the right direction on the subjects we have covered. What is part of the ARG? What isn’t?

Or… is he using us to create connections, thereby fueling him with ideas so he can reshape the ARG’s yet-to-be-revealed-part-of-the plot before revealing an answer (or a clue to the gateway’s answer)?

[Gunsrequiem]

@Nonimportantuser

I have a feeling that we need to review everything o this forum thread as we might have forgotten some important information that someone posted. I do not know if anyone has done this recently, but has anyone tried contacting storm via his email? If not then i might do it within the next few days. Another thing i would like to mention is that storm mentioned that there are mutable mini story lines so there might be some mini stories that are undiscovered. It seems that we might have missed something.

Hard to say if this would be fruitful or not. Generally speaking, ARG creators remain in the shadows and only interact with players through very indirect means. However, Storm has been quite respectable with us in that regard–he provided direct hints through 0418/Code, had brief conversations with myself and other members of the forums, and provided numerous additional hints via indirect means. That said, I really don’t think he would wait for some kind of direct message or email to “initiate” some step of the ARG; he’s already been very frank and forward with us. However, I have been wrong before.

shrug