[5] Dońda catastrophically succeeded in his quest to prove mass-information equivalence, analogous to mass–energy equivalence:[6][2] by accumulating a huge amount of useless information in a supercomputer, Donda made the total amount of information accumulated by humanity to cross a certain threshold, after which it all converted into a new universe, leaving humanity without any knowledge.
[1] Professor Farragus from Lem's early novelette Koniec świata o ósmej (End of the World at Eight O'Clock) irritated by a non-recognition of his fundamental discovery decides to prove he is right by destructing the Universe.
It served as a base of a TV short film Profesor Zazul directed by Marek Nowicki and Jerzy Stawicki (shot in 1962, produced in 1965, premiered on August 27, 1968).
[15][16][3] An encounter of Tichy with professor Corcoran was made into a TV show Przypadek Ijona Tichego (1999) by Lech Raczak.
Decantor gave immortality to his wife by writing the contents of her mind on a crystal, but this involved termination of her physical existence.