Chapter 17 The Institute of Time and Space

It was another pleasant spring morning, and as usual, I stood on the balcony of my dormitory on Shunhe Street to exercise. The crab claw orchid next to it is still hanging with flowers, waiting for close contact with the soil with its head down. The two red-capped tiger heads I raised, one named Xiao Mi and the other named Xiao Xu, are shaking their heads and tails in a small fish tank.

Miao Min came to me and sat down, looking at me with her hands on her cheeks, but she didn't speak.

I put down the dumbbells, sat down next to her, and looked out.

Yes, after more than twenty years of separation, Miao Min has finally returned to me. During this period, she and I have experienced many unbelievable things that are difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Through the coordination of Liu Guoping and Xiao Xu, Miao Min easily obtained his ID card and household registration, moved his family to Shunhe Street, and lived a life of stretching out his hands for food and mouth.

Chen Cuihua is still in the Hila Valley as her goddess of immortal flowers. Tina would accompany her after work, and in Tina's words, Chen Cuihua was not only her teacher, but also her mother.

Wang Keke left me a letter, closed the Lancoco Bar, and disappeared. In the letter, she expressed her noble sentiments of adult beauty, and did not forget to remind me that women are fickle, and if they can run once, they will run a second time.

I put her letter in the box containing my diary, but Miao Min still couldn't get rid of the bad habit of reading my diary.

After reading Wang Keke's letter, Miao Min said that he had the opportunity to meet this little Wang. I said to him, how did you open the lock without a key?

She frowned and thought about it, but still told me that this old-fashioned lock was three yuan and five one, and she bought ten. Each time, just change the key in the vase.

Xiao Xu is still busy, but he brings Xiao Ling to eat with us every week.

At the weekly gatherings, Lao Fan would sigh at the appearance of Miao Min and I that had barely changed for more than ten years, and Xiao Xu and her mother were still discussing the theory of time and space that none of us understood.

Xiao Ling and Lao Fan have a good conversation, and it is said that when Xiao Xu was in college, she often went to Shunhe Street to play during the holidays. This caused her to regard Lao Fan and his family as Xiao Xu's parents for a while, because they always tried their best to let her and Xiao Xu stay here.

My thoughts drifted back from the memories, like pebbles floating on the water, swirling back into my hands.

Miao Min looked at me and smiled silently, and the morning glow outside the balcony was imprinted on the small dimples on her cheeks, red as if blooming with beautiful flowers.

"What do you think?" I said.

"You're like a piledriver driven by a perpetual motion device. She said.

I put my hand on my forehead and laughed speechlessly.

"I'd like to go to the Temporal Authority. She said quietly.

Liu Guoping once strongly invited her to work in the Science and Technology Bureau, but she refused, saying that she was not suitable there, and now she is more willing to accompany me, cooking and washing for me every day, to make up for the debt to me for more than 20 years.

However, the day after saying this, she went to find a part-time job, and was responsible for cleaning and housework when I went to work every day, and cooking before I went home.

According to the information that Tina revealed to me, Chen Cuihua deposited an unknown amount of money in a European bank in the name of a servant of God when Miao Min left the Valley of Sheila, which was supposed to be given to Miao Min.

And Xiao Xu was excited when she heard that her mother was willing to visit the place where he worked, and said that Lao Xu must go too, because Lao Xu had always been indifferent to his work except for boasting to Lao Fan triumphantly when he drank that he had a son who was a great scientist.

Xiao Xu took us to the Institute of Time and Space, because he knew what Mi Min wanted to see.

Following Xiao Xu through the layers of sentry posts, we came to the space-time research institute located deep in the mountains.

Walking into a pure white room with a huge dome, I looked at the empty room except for Xiao Ling, and I was a little stunned.

Mi Min held my hand as usual and said to Xiao Xu, "Where's the elevator?"

Xiao Ling smiled at us and said, "Uncle and aunt, this is your son's bad taste. Then he shouted into the air: "Lao Xu open the door." ”

I saw a white door suddenly appear in the air.

I shrugged my shoulders and was speechless.

Mi Min looked at her son with admiration and said, "You have the style of your mother back then." ”

Xiao Xu picked his head and said with a smile: "I originally wanted to ask Sesame to open the door, but the researchers said that this is too easy to guess and is not burglar-proof." ”

Xiao Ling explained to me: "Xiao Xu's team is all young and very active. ”

I smiled and said, "He didn't set the password to Xu San-year-old to open the door, I'm already very satisfied." ”

Xiao Ling looked at me in amazement and said, "That's the password to open the door of Xiao Xu's laboratory." ”

Mi Min laughed loudly, I raised my hand at Xiao Xu, and he said while hiding: "Dad, Dad, this is not to prevent theft." ”

Xiao Ling said to me with a smile while leading the way in front: "Uncle Xu, this is the curved light technology of the Institute of Physics, the main building of the Institute is underground, and the main control computer here is called a meditator, you can ask him any questions." ”

At this time, Mi Min said: "What can be wrong with him? All the techniques here have appeared in his novels, Xiao Xu must have read all his father's works, just as I thought about the relationship between soul and consciousness from his reading notes." ”

Xiao Xu stretched out his hand to start the elevator and said with a smile: "Although Dad's novel is a bit stinky, I did get a lot of inspiration from it. ”

I laughed and said proudly, "I have 1,500 followers online." ”

Mi Min held my hand tightly, and whispered to me: "Reserved, reserved, don't give you a pole to climb up, Xiaoling is not your daughter-in-law yet." ”

I hurriedly said: "Of course, excluding Xiao Xu, Xiao Xu's mother and Lao Fan, there are only more than 1,490 of them." ”

Feeling the strength of my fingers, I was grinning when the elevator arrived.

When the door opened, I didn't see the busy scene I expected.

A few dumbfounded robots weaved in front of us, and the researchers ignored us, sitting in front of several huge screens and pointing at them.

followed Xiao Xu to his laboratory, and the password was "Xu opened the door at the age of three", with Miao Min here, I only shook my head with a wry smile.

The laboratory is clear at a glance, and the layout is as simple and clear as the outside.

A large screen occupies the position of a wall, which is divided into many small compartments, as if there are countless small windows on the computer that are playing movies.

Xiao Xu explained: "Our main job now is to find and monitor more parallel universes. ”

Miao Min said expressionlessly, "You want to build an index?"

Xiao Xu looked embarrassed and said, "Mom, this is the national interest. ”

I said: "It's not that monitoring can't be done, but now this technology is not in our country's hands, things that change history happen from time to time, and parallel universes are not separated one by one, but intertwined, how do you monitor?"

Xiao Xu looked at Xiao Ling standing beside me, Xiao Ling nodded, he put his mind at ease and said, "We have a backup, and the backup library is in the turbulence of time and space." ”

Miao Min looked at the screen and explained to me, "It's the interweaving point of parallel universes, or the void near the gravitational source. ”

She paused to think about it, and then said, "I didn't expect you to have mastered the method of jumping out of the existing universe. ”

Xiao Xu said: "In fact, we don't know whether we have jumped out of the existing universe, and we don't even know whether the records kept in the turbulence of time and space are the original records. However, the existing parallel space-time travel technology is indeed based on the orientation of space-time in the space-time turbulence. ”

I was listening in a daze, Miao Min turned his face and said to me with a smile: "What I experienced in the high-dimensional space has confirmed the existence of parallel universes, and the different paths are the same. ”

I nodded and said, "I think we can move on to what we discussed in Sheila Valley, which is whether aliens can reach our gravitational field through space-time turbulence. ”

Xiao Xu smiled and said, "Impossible. ”

Xiao Ling interjected at this time: "Why is it impossible? Although it is said that the gravitational field also affects the turbulence of space-time, as long as there is space-time turbulence orientation technology, isn't it also possible to weaken the effect of the gravitational field to reach us?"

Miao Min only then turned around and said, "It's really impossible. Because space-time turbulence cannot be oriented. ”

Xiao Xu said in surprise: "But we did orient ourselves." ”

Miao Min said: "If you look outside the high-dimensional space or the existing universe, you may not have traveled in a directional manner, but also crossed the singularity of time and space to reach the reverse space-time. I've been wondering if the so-called parallel universe is the mirror of our universe. ”

I said, "You mean there are only two universes, mirrored by each other?"

Xiao Xu came back to his senses from thinking and said to Miao Min: "If it is a multi-prism, then there will be multiple parallel universes with mirrors that form mirrors with each other. ”

I held my head and said, "Can I say that?"

Miao Min glanced at me, but Xiao Ling asked strangely, "Which sentence?"

I gleefully said, "The end of science is theology." ”

Xiao Xu smiled and said, "It should be said that the end of science is philosophy. ”

I then asked, "If multiple parallel universes are mirrored and intertwined, doesn't that mean that space-time cannot be changed, or that if something happens in one space-time, other space-times will follow this new event?"

Xiao Xu said: "Yes, but it is possible that this branch of events will change again in another time and space, which in turn will cause historical changes in other time and space. So my guess is that what happens on the different mirrors of this prism is not synchronous, but mutually influencing, and the changes caused by this influence are not simultaneous in different planes, but relatively time-apart, so we encounter different branches of events as we travel through time and space. ”

I said, "Zeno's paradox?"

Miao Min nodded and said, "There is a basis for this paradox in the quantum universe. So to solve this speculation, we still have to find evidence to prove whether the space-time turbulence is directional. This could only have been achieved in a high-dimensional space. ”

Xiao Xu said, "You mean that our research direction should turn to high-dimensional space?"

I said, "In my unfounded imagination, you can only open the box and see what's inside the box if you stand on the outside of it." ”

Xiao Ling smiled and said, "You mean SchrΓΆdinger's cat?"

I nodded and said, "It's going around quantum mechanics again." ”

At this time, Miao Min said: "I want to see how Wang Keke's ten years have passed." ”

Xiao Xu rubbed his hands in embarrassment and said, "Mom, I really don't have the authority to this." ”

I asked curiously, "Didn't you say you designed that record?"

Before Miao Min could answer, Xiao Xu smiled and said to me: "Dad, design and implementation are two different things, I think you and Mom should see what the fat man that Coco's mother killed after crossing back did it, which will make her have so much hatred for that fat man." ”

I turned my head to look at Miaomin, who nodded silently.

Xiao Xu took out a USB flash drive and plugged it into the interface under the screen.

This is in the hall of an empty teahouse, a big-bellied man with a small flat head, wearing a big gold chain, and a big gold watch, you can tell at a glance that it is a fat man who has become rich and is drinking tea on the seat in the center of the teahouse.

A silver-haired elderly woman walked into the teahouse, sat down with her back to the fat man, and the two talked, the old woman was very emotional, waving her hands and arguing with the fat man.

Suddenly, the fat man picked up the ashtray on the table and threw it at the old woman, and after a few strokes, the old woman lay on the ground and did not move.

Several people came in from outside the picture and carried the elderly woman inside.

As soon as the screen turned, the street of Shunhe Street appeared, which was the video I saw, where the fat man hit me to death and then fled.

In another scene, a group of people burst into the empty Lancoco bar and began to smash it. This concludes the video.

Miao Min raised his head and looked at Xiao Xu, and said, "Because of the bloody case caused by the demolition?"

Xiao Xu nodded and said, "I also guessed so, but because Coco's mother's record is confidential, I don't have permission to view it, and the middle section was found from my father." ”

I didn't speak, but my heart was mixed, it seems that Wang Keke's ten years were not as easy as she said.