Chapter Twenty-Seven: Sucking Life
Liang Jing stood in the laboratory, wrapped tightly.
In the face of this strange sphere, he had to be the most vigilant, Liang Jing has always been a cautious person, in the face of unknown objects, his caution is always greater than excitement.
It may be the seed of theoretical change like two dark clouds above the edifice of classical physics, or it may be an atomic bomb, Liang Jing is well aware of the risks involved, any unknown new thing may be a double-edged sword, and in front of this sharp double-edged sword, human beings are only five-year-old children.
Liang Jing did not want to be a victim in the discovery of a new theory, and the Nobel Prize was never awarded to the dead.
"Mr. Liang Jing, please do not come within one meter of the black ball." Great white reminder.
"Dabai, if this thing has any ability to affect the human brain, then what is the most likely path?" Liang Jing asked.
"The human brain is a delicate and fragile tissue, and the simplest way to influence it is undoubtedly a 5.8-millimeter metal projectile flying at a speed of four hundred and fifty meters per second." "It can turn brain tissue into a mess of unrecognizable scum." ”
"To live."
"Brain activity depends on the action of neurotransmitters, including aminobutaline, acetylcholine, dopamine, histamine and some amino acids, which are released by nerve cells to act on receptors in specific parts of the body to transmit nerve signals, which is fundamentally a biochemical reaction." "The same effect can be achieved with artificially created transmitter-like drugs, as long as it can bind to receptors instead of neurotransmitters, and produce the same stimulus, such as ergodiethylamide." ”
Liang Jing was stunned for a moment.
“LSD?”
"Yes, hallucinogens can cause intense hallucinations in humans and cause mental confusion." "In addition, other psychotropic drugs can cause similar consequences, such as methamphetamine." ”
Liang Jing frowned.
"You mean the director is on drugs?"
"I didn't say that."
"But drugs can't affect humans in the air." Liang Jing circled around the black ball, "It has to enter the body and be absorbed by people in order to exert its effectiveness." ”
"LSD can be absorbed through the skin." Dabai reminded, "The director once touched the black ball with his bare hands. ”
"What about other than drugs?"
"From a deeper perspective, the basis of human brain activity is the electric current on nerve cells, which is a bioelectric phenomenon, and if there is a change in the electric current, the magnetic field will change, and then in turn the electric field and magnetic field can also affect the brain." "For example, when a 220V current passes through the brain, it can cause brain tissue to die. ”
"The example you gave has nothing to do with your speculation." Liang Jing said, "We have confirmed that this ball does not produce any radiation and energy to the outside world, is there anything lower?" ”
"At the lowest level, brain activity is fundamentally quantized and quantum-coherent, but due to the stagnation of theoretical physics and brain science, and the lack of relevant information, I can't speculate further, and so far, the question of human consciousness is still a topic of debate in the academic community." Dabai said.
"Quantum teleportation." Liang Jing said suddenly.
"Excuse me?" Dabai didn't hear what he was talking about.
"Quantum teleportation, a quantum communication method, one of the steps is spaced." Liang Jing muttered to himself.
"Does it have anything to do with this?"
"No, it doesn't matter." Liang Jing groaned and shook his head, "Quantum teleportation cannot transmit any meaningful information through the air, nor can it interfere with the thinking activities of the human brain through the air, this is not right, it is not right at all. ”
After thinking about it all the way, Liang Jing could only come to one conclusion.
Hu Donghai's death was really a sudden death.
He may have been too fascinated and afraid of the ball, and the mental pressure was too much to cause the sudden death, no different from the programmers who died suddenly in front of the computer screen, and the ball itself did not actively kill people.
"Teacher Liang?" Suddenly someone called him at the door.
It's tacit giving.
Mo Yu didn't wear protective clothing, and walked straight in, "Are you still watching this ball?" ”
Liang Jing nodded.
"Teacher Liang, do you think this thing is really a four-dimensional hole?" Mo Yu was curious.
Liang Jing smiled dumbly.
He first put forward this idea, but he also said it casually at the time, it was a hypothesis, and he didn't take it seriously.
"Maybe."
"Is it possible that some kind of monster escaped from this hole, killed someone, and then got back in?" Although Mo Yu doesn't know much physics, he has seen a lot of movies, "We don't know where the other end of this hole is, maybe it's an alien monster's lair?" Do you think it's possible that they hide in a corner of the universe and scatter these balls everywhere as a means of prey, and they come out of this ball when they want to hunt? ”
"Then why is the director's body still here?"
"Hmm...... Most of the time it's because the director's meat is too old and they don't want to eat it. ”
Silent to a cannibal tone.
"Then you have to be careful, if they are such picky eaters, then aren't you the most dangerous?" Liang Jing said leisurely, "I, Jiang Zi, and Lou Qi are all big men with rough skin and thick meat, not to the taste of these monsters, in the middle of the night they will come out of this ball, quietly touch your room, eat you, tomorrow morning when we knock on the door, we can only see a pile of ......"
"Wow, don't say it, don't say it!" Mo Yu hurriedly interrupted him, she scared herself.
"Don't think about it, what's the monster." Liang Jing shook his head, "In this universe, life is a miracle, think about it, a predator that feeds on carbon-based organisms, its organizational form, body structure, and lifestyle must be extremely close to the earth's creatures, which means that its living environment is extremely close to the earth, how small is this probability?" ”
"What if they suck life?"
"Sucking life?" Liang Jing was stunned.
"On a whim, I sucked human life away from the body, and the person who was sucked out of life would die silently." Mo Yu described it as a bit like a fox demon and a ghost in classical mythology, sucking men's yang energy, and the man's yang energy withered and died after being sucked dry, but Mo Yu herself also knew that this statement was very nonsense, it was difficult for her to define what life was, let alone how to suck this thing dry, this word is the same as the soul, it is matter? Is it energy? Or is it a metaphysical philosophical concept?
If you go deeper, you will be involved in the fundamental proposition of what life is, what is the difference between a person's life and death?
She couldn't figure out these questions, she couldn't think about them to torture her hair.
"In my opinion, life is a concept of existence, and like being alive, you can't take it out and put it in a cage." Liang Jing said, "It can't be stripped of biological entities and exist alone, so it's better to suck blood directly than to suck life, and if a vampire sucks up people's blood, people die, isn't this also sucking life?" ”
In the end, he is a science and engineering man, and his thinking is thick and straight.
"I'm still not at ease and don't think it's safe to keep it in the glove box." Mo Yu pointed to the black ball, "It's better to lock it in a safe, the bulletproof kind, so that even if something escapes, it won't threaten us." ”