Chapter 13: Dreams: Is This an Energy Block?

On the Blue Star, the full name of the computer at this stage is called electronic computer.

Because in the early days, there were still mechanical computers, but they have long been obsolete.

The reason why the word "electronic" is added to the computer is not only because it is powered by electricity, but also because at the bottom of the computer, it is actually the so-called 0 and 1 world.

Essentially, it's not 0 and 1 either, but the circuit on and off.

The electronic signals generated by the opening and closing of the circuit allow the machine to operate accordingly.

The development of computers is the growth of the number of switches, as well as the increase in switching speed.

In fact, the same is true of the human brain, where every nerve touch produces a weak bioelectric signal, which is very similar to the electrical signal of a computer.

Therefore, in the current artificial intelligence research on Blue Star, there are also so-called neuron algorithms that imitate the brain.

So the problem is, the chip in the electronic computer is the brain, and those countless electrical signals are generated by the countless transistor switches in the chip.

The computer chips on the blue star are made of integrated circuits engraved with silicon chips as the carrier, but now Du Qiu sees what these stars are?

Why did Du Qiu think that these stars should be similar to the chips of the blue star, because the instructions of the program were transmitted to these stars in the form of signals after passing through the converter.

Well, think of these stars as the computer chips of the Blue Star.

Du Qiu didn't get any more information at the moment, so he could only apply the concept and logic of Blue Star first, otherwise he wouldn't be able to continue his research.

Du Qiu figured it out, so he didn't continue to stare at this egg-sized star.

Now he also understood that as long as he focused his attention on those stars, the corresponding functions and information would be received by him.

Obviously, the entire tens of thousands of square meters of stars are all equivalent to the computer chips of Blue Star, and the super machine is really extraordinary.

The total area of all the current supercomputing chips on Blue Star does not seem to be tens of thousands of square meters, not to mention that the response speed of these stars far exceeds that of Blue Star's chips.

Although Du Qiu is very keen on this chip technology, now Du Qiu doesn't even know what Xingchen is, let alone how to make it.

Du Qiu, who was a little shocked, was about to start looking at the stars in other parts when a ray of light rose from a certain egg-sized star and instantly crashed into Du Qiu's field of vision.

Almost at the same time, a message was received by Du Qiu.

"Lord, are all procedures going on as usual?"

Du Qiu only hesitated for a hundredth of a second, and immediately replied "yes".

At this moment, Du Qiu stared closely at the egg star that had just emitted a glowing message, just after he answered.

From Du Qiu's field of vision, he saw a flash of light that had disappeared into the big star, and he didn't see where the light came from.

However, it is also confirmed that he can exchange information with the stars, and this communication seems to be carried out through light.

Du Qiu suddenly thought of a possibility, could it be that the computing core of this super machine turned out to be a photonic computer?

Bluestar already had the concept and idea of a photonic computer, and as early as 1990, the first prototype of a photonic computer was produced.

This kind of computer uses photons as the carrier to transmit information, optical interconnection instead of wire interconnection, optical hardware instead of electronic hardware, and optical computing instead of electrical computing.

It uses a laser to transmit signals, and is composed of optical fibers and various optical components to form an integrated optical path for data computing, transmission and storage.

In photonic computers, light with different wavelengths, frequencies, polarization states, and phases represents different data, which is far better than binary operations performed by electron "0" and "1" state changes in electronic computers, and can achieve fast parallel processing for tasks with high complexity and large computational volume.

It's just that no matter how Du Qiu looks at these stars, he doesn't see the slightest similarity with the integrated optical path of the blue star, except for the information and data exchange just now, which seems to be similar to a laser transmission signal.

In fact, Du Qiu couldn't confirm whether the glowing stars he saw now were illusory or real, and he always had a sense of both reality and illusion throughout the dream.

Du Qiu didn't continue to dwell on the situation, but continued to look at the stars everywhere, he wanted to see what kind of information these stars contained.

At this time, he found that the entire star was constantly flashing with light, and these lights were like meteors, which disappeared out of Du Qiu's perspective in an instant.

For the first time, Du Qiu looked away from the direction of the stars and projected it in another direction.

What he saw at this time made him even more surprised.

In the darkness, dozens of white vortices appeared in front of me, and these vortices continued to rotate.

Du Qiu noticed that from the side of the stars, the light that constantly emitted would merge into a certain vortex.

There will also be light in the vortex and disappear to the side of the stars.

Could it be that this is the photonic computer of an alien civilization? Is there a light signal interacting in front of you?

But why is there a white vortex on that side?

Wait, it seems that after traveling through the vast cosmic starry sky, I fell into a white vortex, and then I arrived in this brilliant star.

Could it be that through the dream realm, I directly traveled into the intelligent core of this super machine?

Du Qiu felt that he should not be wrong, although he couldn't understand what the white vortex was.

He continued to observe the world in all directions, and found that everything around him was pitch black except for the stars and the white swirl, and there seemed to be nothing.

After discovering nothing new about his surroundings, Du Qiu refocused on the stars, after all, he could get information from them, which would help him understand the place further.

As he perceived the stars piece by piece, the information and some images he received further proved that he was in a super machine.

This machine integrates resource collection, material separation and purification, and material combination reconstruction, and can be used for the production of basic materials.

Obviously, the list of tasks you saw at the beginning was controlled and executed by different stars.

In this way, these stars may really be similar to the existence of chips.

No, maybe it's a combination of the chip, the hard drive, and the memory, because it seems that this information is stored in the stars.

It can be seen that the power of the stars can store such a large amount of data.

Yes, Du Qiu only looked at a small part of it, and he felt that the amount of data was surprisingly huge.

In the process of perceiving and seeing, Du Qiu also discovered something that excited him.

A star represents a functional module, and when he perceives it, he can understand the specific process of this function.

Although he only looked at a little bit, and after roughly what this star did, he would move on to the next star, but the information he had seen was completely memorized by him.

Du Qiu didn't know if he would be able to recall what he had written down now after leaving the dream, but even if he only recalled a part, it might bring him a huge gain.

That's right, Du Qiu regarded everything he saw now as a huge treasure trove of knowledge.

As long as he can gain a little bit of knowledge from the treasure trove and can realize it in reality, then the world of Blue Star will be changed.

For example, Du Qiu is now perceiving the function of viewing, and the information given to him here seems to be the energy management module, and the image he sees later surprises Du Qiu.

That piece of cuboid like a solid battery, glowing with a faint golden light, is it not the energy block in science fiction?