Chapter 11: A Drop of Water
"I see. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lu Ze nodded clearly, "What about the virtual world of the 'Pioneer House'?" ”
In fact, as early as after knowing that the computing resources occupied by a virtual world were so large, Lu Ze felt very puzzled.
How did the countless virtual game worlds of the "Dream Tower" community come about?
According to the calculation of the computing resources required by the virtual world mentioned by the singularity just now, these virtual game worlds were simply more luxurious than equipping everyone in the world with the world's most powerful supercomputer to play games 100 years ago.
After hearing the explanation of the singularity, Lu Ze instantly figured it out.
Obviously, these virtual games are actually using the public resources of the "Dream Tower" community.
Considering that the "Dream Tower" is one of only two communities with more than 1 billion people, the number of "Dream Towers" accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire human civilization. It is conceivable that the computing resources occupied by these virtual game worlds cannot be a small amount even in this era, if not one-third of the total computing resources of all mankind, at least more than 20%.
As a community with a dream of playing, in this era of supreme dreams, it is normal to spend so many resources on fun. After all, the Tower of Dreams has also proposed to transform the entire earth into a playground.
Thinking about it this way, Lu Ze became more curious about the virtual world of the "Pioneer House", because the dream of the "Pioneer House" is to pursue the ultimate mystery of the universe, and they use so many computing resources to build a virtual world, obviously it is impossible to play it.
He didn't believe that the people at the "Pioneer House" would waste so much computing resources.
He Ruiyin couldn't help but say: "How big does this virtual world have to be?" Could it be that they simulated a galaxy in the virtual world? ”
Singularity said: "No, the virtual world built by the 'Pioneer House' is not big, on the contrary, it is actually very small, the diameter of the entire virtual world is only 1 millimeter. ”
"What can a virtual world be used for a millimeter in size?" He Ruiyin asked curiously.
"Only a millimeter in diameter? Could it be ......" Lu Ze suddenly thought of a possibility.
At first, Lu Ze's idea was that the "Pioneer House" would use these computing resources to simulate the Big Bang.
But since Singularity says that the diameter of this virtual world is one millimeter, it obviously means that this guess is wrong.
With the same computing resources, the "Dream Tower" has built tens of thousands of virtual game worlds, while the virtual world built by the "Pioneer House" is only one millimeter in diameter.
The answer is obvious.
Lu Ze said his new guess: "Do they want to use computers to simulate a real universe?" ”
"That's right." The singularity confirmed Lu Ze's guess, "The 'Pioneer House' simulates all the laws of physics that humans have discovered in the real world in this virtual world, and in this virtual world, every elementary particle, and the interaction between the particles, is no different from what we observe in reality. ”
Lu Ze said: "There is no difference? How can it be? How do they solve the randomness and uncertainty principle in quantum physics? ”
Singularity said: "You should know that randomness in quantum physics is regular randomness, and you can use the wave function to calculate probability, right?" ”
Lu Ze nodded, as a science fiction writer, he was very familiar with these basic concepts: "But even if the probability is calculated with the wave function, it is impossible to be truly random at the moment when we need to determine the state of the particle in the virtual world, right?" ”
Singularity said: "That's a good question, maybe that's the only difference between this virtual world and the real world we live in, but is this really the difference?" ”
"Okay." Lu Ze said helplessly. He knew that there would be no results from any further discussions.
In reality, quantum physical particles are truly random, and their state is determined only at the moment when a person makes an observation. In this virtual world, this randomness still exists, but at the moment when it is really necessary to determine the state, it becomes artificial, or rather, by the computer, according to the probability calculated by the wave function to determine the state of the particle. This seems to be a violation of randomness, but for the virtual world itself, it is still random.
Lu Ze then asked, "Then what are the things in this virtual world?" ”
"A drop of water." Singularity Road.
"A drop of water?" Lu Ze asked suspiciously.
If you were to simulate the motion of every water molecule, a supercomputer a hundred years ago would have been able to simulate millions of water molecules.
Assuming that the memory of a supercomputer is calculated at 1 million gigabytes, and the computing resources used by the "Pioneer House" are 1 billion petabytes, which is 15 times that of supercomputers in the past, even if the algorithmic progress is not considered, it can simulate water molecules of the 21st power of 10.
And the order of magnitude of a mole of water molecule is 10 to the 23rd power, and the weight is 18 grams, according to the standard of 1 gram of 50 drops of water, such a huge computing resource is indeed enough to simulate the movement of every water molecule and even every atom in a drop of water.
Relying on astronomical computing resources to complete the transition from micro to macro is of course an extremely remarkable, even incredible.
However, this practice does not make any sense at all!
Singularity explained: "This is certainly not ordinary water, but water of life. ”
"The water of life?" He Ruiyin asked curiously. When Lu Ze and Singularity talked about quantum mechanics just now, she heard it in a fog, and although she still doesn't understand it now, she has finally returned to the category of normal language.
Singularity: "The water of life is actually the primordial soup, that is, the complex environment in which organic molecules exist in the ocean when the earth was just born and life has not yet appeared. In this way, they want to give birth to life in the virtual world of 'nature'. ”
Lu Ze couldn't help but take a deep breath, and it took a long time to recover from the shock.
It's not just a virtual world, it's a human being!
Although only a millimeter of the universe of God.
"That'...... Did they succeed? Lu Ze asked. (To be continued.) )