If the mysterious disappearance of a research ship at sea is shocking, the news is now enough to shake the entire scientific community.

Evans Lester is widely regarded as the greatest scientist in the world today, having won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice and the Fields Medal once, and if he had not later voluntarily declared that he would not receive any more prizes, the Nobel Committee would probably have argued over whether a person should be awarded three Nobel Prizes.

Many of his discoveries have breathed new energy into the theoretical science community, which had been dormant since the second half of the twentieth century, and has revitalized this stagnant water. It is widely believed that the unified field theory will be perfected in Lester's hands, and that the giants of science will take the most important and solid step after the theory of relativity and quantum theory.

Although Professor Lester is almost 80 years old, he is in good health and enjoys the highest level of medical care and safety in the world. If he is sick, the scientists here will be the first to get the news, and they will be more nervous than if they are sick.

Mei Yiqiu was no less shocked than anyone in the room. He and Leicester are also old friends, having had the privilege of working with and being influenced by him when he was teaching at Princeton.

At that time, Mei Yiqiu was still very young, and as a Chinese genius, he often compared himself to Westerners, and felt proud that he had never lost to them. But ever since he met Lester, his pride had been shattered, shattered, and erased from his bones. Looking at the entire scientific community, there is no more well-rounded and omniscient person than Lester.

"What the hell is going on? How did he die? Someone asked.

Frederick said: "According to information from the Hopkins Medical Center, Mr. Lester died last night in his own apartment due to acute encephalitis. ”

"I don't believe it!" Mei Yiqiu jumped up from her seat in a rage, "No acute encephalitis can cause brain death in such a short period of time, if you have been infected with the encephalitis virus a long time ago, why don't you send it to the hospital in advance?" Why don't we all know? ”

"Yes, Mr. Lester doesn't belong to a certain country, he belongs to the whole world! What right do they have to hide his physical condition? Someone chimed in.

"Please calm down." Frederick stretched out his palm and pressed it against the crowd, "There are scientists at Hopkins Hospital who deserve our respect, and we should trust their diagnosis." ”

Mei Yiqiu sat down.

He knew that Frederick was right, that the death of a figure of Lester's level was enough to cause an earthquake in the scientific community, and no one dared to hide anything, unless Lester himself didn't want to tell the world.

"Is there any connection between these two things?" It's a bit strange that Frederick, who is always looking for a sense of self-sufficiency, is here to announce both things at the same time.

"I wish there was no connection between them, but I can't be wishful thinking. In fact, I don't know. Frederick said.

"What do you mean by that? As far as I know, Mr. Lester was not involved in the expedition to the underwater pyramids. Professor Hans from the University of Copenhagen said.

Frederick nodded: "It's true that he wasn't directly involved in this expedition and has never been to the Tubuai Islands, but that doesn't mean he doesn't care about how things go." In fact, he specifically mentioned it in his last words. ”

"Does he have a last word?" A lot of people asked together.

"Yes." Frederick said, "His last words, written in the Mind Matrix code, were given to his trusted friend, Dr. Daldoba, on his deathbed. Through the Dardovia doctors, this last word has reached us again, and even his family has not had time to see it. ”

Mei Yiqiu knows the mind matrix password.

This is a complex brainwave code that does not rely on the memory of symbols or words, but recognizes the thoughts at that time based on the signals emitted by the brainwaves under the pure consciousness of self-hypnosis.

This kind of signal is extremely difficult to decipher, and it is necessary to study the thinking characteristics of the life of the codewriter and find his consciousness coordinates in the matrix in order to interpret the radio wave information.

Mei Yiqiu remembers that when he was in Princeton, Lester said that he had invented the cipher in an attempt to prove that consciousness interfered with quanta, and that quanta had no effect on consciousness itself.

Later, it seems that the experiment failed, but this matrix cipher proved to be feasible, and became one of the most difficult to decipher in the world.

There are two characteristics of this kind of password, one is that if you don't know the thinking characteristics of the person who wrote the password, even if you know his life well, you can't get his consciousness coordinates. Without conscious coordinates, it is almost impossible to find information from a matrix any more than it is to find a floating sesame seed in the Pacific Ocean without coordinates.

The second characteristic is that it can only be done by the subconscious mind in a state of self-hypnosis, and cannot be coerced and faked. Therefore, the Mind Matrix cipher is also known as the "Leicester Signature".

Of course, because the conversion of conscious thinking into language is inevitably vague and inaccurate, its signature authentication role is more significant than encryption.

"What did his last words say?" Mei Yiqiu asked.

"Mr. Lester said that other consciousness had invaded and attacked his brain." Frederick had a strange expression on his face when he said this.

"What does that mean?" Even if all of you are scientists, it is difficult to understand such a statement.

Frederick said: "According to Mr. Leicester, he had a long fight with this invader. He suspects that the invaders are extraterrestrial beings, what we often call aliens. ”

"Aliens?"

"Yes, aliens." Professor Frank, President of the International Association for Quantum Applications, who sat next to Frederick and the convener of the meeting, took over Frederick's microphone.

"In our novels and movies, aliens always have a body similar to that of an earthly creature, either like a human or a bug, with facial features, a digestive tract, and the need to eat and excrete. At best, it can be a little disgusting, such as a few long tentacles and acidic saliva that is highly corrosive. ”

"But we are scientists, and we should not be limited to understanding and mere imagination of carbon-based life. Why does life have to grow up like us? Why can't it be a stone or a nebula? We shouldn't even be confined to the hypothetical idea of silicon-based life, that's too narrow! ”

Professor Frank said this in one breath, pausing slightly, and his eyes looked out the window of the conference center as if he were looking at a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away.

"Why does life have to be material? In addition to matter, there are also vast and unknown existences in the universe. In those seemingly empty places, there may be some life forms that we don't understand, just as we still can't understand what makes up of ourselves, our consciousness. ”

"Mr. Lester has a superhuman brain that none of us can match, and it is he who gives us new hope in theoretical physics. I believe that even in the dying moments of his life, he will not talk nonsense. ”

Professor Frank withdrew his gaze and looked at the scientists present.

Whispers rang out again in the room.

Independent consciousness exists in different dimensions of the universe and has long been proposed as a scientific hypothesis. It's just that this hypothesis has no meaning from an experimental point of view, from the point of view of mathematics and logic, so scientists rarely talk about it, and few people do real research.

But once it comes out of the mouth of an academic giant, it's different.

"And what does this have to do with our meeting, and with those missing islands in the Pacific?"

Frank glanced at the questioner, nodded slightly, and said, "Mr. Lester believes that in a certain area of the earth, there is a wormhole that leads to an unknown place in the universe. ”

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