Mei Yiqiu held the enhanced version of the second-generation space box that had just arrived in her hand, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

He gently taps the alloy surface of his helmet with his pipe, making a crisp sound, like a wind chime in the wind.

"It might sound like it's vulnerable, but it's actually strong enough!" The professor excitedly said, "If you throw it off the roof of the lab, you won't be able to smash it!" ”

"Professor, why do you use such advanced materials?" Mei Ziqing was very puzzled, "I saw the cost list, and the most expensive thing in the entire helmet is actually this shell and its supporting material!" If we had used a common alloy material, we could have saved at least $30,000 per helmet. ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "Child, don't worry about money, we have a lot of money, and it is still increasing. ”

Mei Ziqing said stubbornly: "But we need to move forward with the game project as soon as possible, if each helmet is 50,000 dollars, we need to invest 500 million dollars to develop 10,000 players, and our goal is one billion users!" ”

The professor laughed, his stiff, fluffy hair bursting and trembling with his laughter: "Poor honest boy, who told you that we were going to give the helmet to the player for free?" ”

Mei Ziqingqi said: "Didn't you occupy the market for free when you first started promoting? ”

"No, no, only garbage will be free, and the real good stuff will not be free!" Bian Ziyuan on the side said, "Many products are free in order to squeeze the living space of opponents, and once the market is occupied and a monopoly is formed, higher fees will be charged to earn back the losses in the early stage." Our helmets are unparalleled in the world and have no competitors; Our games are unparalleled in the world and have no competitors. Why should something that has no competitors be free? ”

"But it's not a necessity! If it's not a necessity, you have to spend money to cultivate the market, and even if you are unique, users can choose not to use it. Mei Ziqing argued.

"Well, opium is not a necessity, it has never been free, users can choose not to use it, and all governments do not encourage people to use it, but the sales of opium have never worried traffickers." Bian Ziyuan said.

"Opium is addictive, it doesn't count!"

"Games are also addictive."

"You mean yourself, game maniac!"

Bian Ziyuan admits this, so he doesn't want to fight anymore. In fact, he also wanted to know why the professor used such expensive materials to make helmets, 50,000 dollars a pair, which is not something that ordinary people can afford, and such an expensive price does turn away most ordinary people.

Mei Yiqiu said happily: "Do you know how complicated the structure of the space box is? Our first-generation products were counterfeited for more than $20 million. To the current second generation, the volume has been reduced so much, but the functions are not many at all, and even some have been added. This places high demands on the material. You know, the space box is not just a VR headset, and it is not just as simple as installing a few sensors in it. It is to carry a person's consciousness and all their memories to create a new world. The consciousness of the gamer is the master of this world, and they create the world first in this box, not on our server. So the box carries an incredible amount of information, just like our human brain. ”

The professor pointed to his head with shaggy gray hair, "Do you know how much information the human brain can store?" ”

Bian Ziyuan is not very familiar with biology, but because he studies artificial intelligence, he has a certain understanding of the brain and nerve centers. He said: "The information storage mechanism of the human brain is not very clear at present, and it should be different from the storage mechanism of computers. Whether it's multiplying the information that a single neuron can store by the number of neurons in the brain, or characterizing the information by the connection patterns of neurons in the human brain, we can't estimate the information reserves of the human brain. So far, at least, there hasn't been a single case where anyone has said his brain is full and he can't remember. ”

Mei Yiqiu nodded: "You're right, this is just long-term memory information." There is also genetic information and genetic information, although now science cannot confirm it, but we never deny their existence, and even believe that they are more informative than our lifetime memory. Although there has been controversy about where this information is stored, when our consciousness wants to access it, it is always extracted by the brain, and eventually converted into long-term memories of the brain. ”

"So, is the storage space of the human brain unlimited?" Mei Ziqing asked curiously.

"So to speak." The professor replied affirmatively, "Because of this, our space box must match the human brain, and for consciousness to create the world here, it must be able to carry everything that the human brain can carry." ”

"Could it be that the capacity of the space box is also unlimited? But how does this work? ”

Bian Ziyuan is also very curious, if there is any gap between his Kronos and humans in terms of intelligence, it is the way of information storage and the expansion of thinking.

If an AI cannot be separated from the information processing mode of a computer, its limitations are obvious - no matter how advanced the storage device is or how small the hard disk becomes, there will always be a day when it will be full, and then it will have to delete old information or add new hardware.

Mei Yiqiu smiled and said, "Do you know the Mobius belt?" ”

"Of course I do!" Bian Ziyuan said, "A strip of paper is twisted 180 degrees, and then the two ends are glued together to form a closed loop. When I was a child, the teacher gave us interesting experiments. ”

Mei Yiqiu said: "The secret of the infinite storage of information is on this belt. The Möbius strip has only one side, and a bug doesn't have to climb over the edge of the strip of paper to crawl all over the original two sides of the strip. ”

"What does this have to do with information storage?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"I see!" Bian Ziyuan snapped his fingers, "Originally, our information was recorded on one side of the note, but after being connected into a Möbius strip, the two sides of the note became one side, so that the amount of information stored was doubled." ”

Mei Ziqing was still puzzled: "That's just double!" ”

Bian Ziyuan said excitedly: "No, you forgot, the Mobius belt can be cut!" When we were kids, we used to play by twisting the strip of paper and connecting the two ends and cutting it along the middle line of the loop, so that instead of becoming two loops, it would become a larger Möbius strip. Then cut it along the midline, and it becomes a larger Möbius strip......"

After all, Mei Ziqing has followed Mei Yiqiu for many years, and when Bian Ziyuan said this, how could there be anything he didn't understand: "Ah, I know, the binary information of the computer is linear in space and does not occupy the width, so as long as the Möbius belt is infinitely divided, it can become infinitely long, and it can store infinite information!" ”

Mei Yiqiu was very happy and looked at his two students with encouraging eyes: "It is not easy to think of such a step, Professor Hans surprised everyone when he proposed this!" Don't underestimate such a simple idea, because to implement it, there are countless problems that need to be overcome, especially in materials science. ”

"That's why you need to use such valuable materials?"

"Yes! Imagine how long it would be to divide a centimeter-wide Möbius strip infinitely down to the nanometer level? ”

"The difference between centimeters and nanometers is 10 million times, even if 1 centimeter is divided to the level of tens of nanometers, it will be divided at least 100,000 times, and with each split, the length of the Möbius belt will be doubled, and it will be divided 100,000 times, which means that the belt is a full 2 times longer than the original 100,000 times. This ......"

Bian Ziyuan was taken aback by this number, and silently calculated in his heart for a long time, but he didn't count how much.

Mei Yiqiu smiled: "Don't count, this length can circle the entire galaxy twice." ”