Watch This Clever Sci-Fi Short on Infinite Parallel Realities

Suppose someone built an infinite computer, with infinite processing power and infinite storage capacity. What could you do with it?

In the short animated film The Infinite Computer, such a system has been created by a man named Timothy Adams, with the intention of using it to revolutionize mathematics.

But an enterprising programmer at his company uses it to build a simulation of the Big Bang and fast-forward it to the present day. She's run this program an infinite number of times, making minute changes each time, and has managed to create a perfectly identical parallel universe—a real-time simulation of everyone and everything on Earth. She and Timothy can watch themselves act in real-time on her screen, and she can alter their environment at will.

This turns out to have some disturbing implications, to say the least, but you'll have to watch the film to learn what those are.

The Infinite Computer was based on the short story "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility" and animated by YouTube user Spumwack, real name Sean Musely.