"No, don't use the bit of a computer to understand Planck's constant. Planck time is not equal to the smallest unit of time in our universe, and the same is true of Planck space. Many computer science students have thought so, and they want to use Planck's constant to build a virtual universe theory, including Kobayashi, but this is wrong. ”

"You should understand it this way, according to the scientific theories we know so far, the smallest time and space scale that can be detected is Planck time and Planck space. Time and space smaller than this scale, we can't touch. ”

"What are the limits of the means of detection? If we want to observe a particle, we can only emit another particle to touch it. Does that mean that as soon as we discover particles on smaller scales, Planck space is overthrown? Of course not. ”

"According to a series of derivations from the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity, when the detected particle is smaller than a certain scale, the detected particle will turn the space occupied by the detected particle into a black hole, and the black hole cannot read any information."

Of course, a few years ago, Hawking also believed that we could get some information from the radiation of black holes, and astronomical practice has proved this. If this information really escapes from the black hole event horizon, it means that there is a theoretical possibility that Planck's constant will be overturned. ”

"But until a whole new model of time and space is established, Planck's constant is an insurmountable barrier, and on this barrier, the average person can recognize the barrier of the speed of light."

"New model? It's all conjecture, including unified field and superstring theory, all trying to break through this barrier. What do I think? Hehe......"

Listening to some of the words that Professor Xu said in his spare time, Xia Ming's mind came back to him.

At that time, Professor Xu also nodded Xia Ming's forehead: "The answer may be here, the operation of the brain is extremely magical." If the neural quantum effect can be confirmed in its natural state, then thinking is another ordered movement at the microscopic level. ”

"It's interesting to see whether self-consciousness is just one of these movements, or is it the other side that is beyond this movement and can observe and even control it? If it's the latter, wouldn't it be able to break through Planck's constant? Or it should not be called a breakthrough, but a conversion, or a compatibility. ”

"Hmm...... It's still too hard for you to understand, and it's just my guess. That's why I'm hated by a lot of people, and it sounds like pseudoscience, right? ”

No, it's not pseudoscience......

In this shocking world, the once fragmented memories are put together little by little.

"This kind of information transmission between us and Qianyan transcends the barrier of the speed of light, which is unscientific!"

"I have this conjecture that this neural quantum effect is not actually a quantum effect, but the motion of some kind of Higgs boson. Its interaction with the Higgs field is a phenomenon that cannot be described by the Planck system, which requires the introduction of more dimensions. ”

"Yes, the existing two-Higgs doublet model is not enough to explain this phenomenon, you mean, there should be a triplet model? Do you think there is high-dimensional movement in our brains? ”

"It's not ridiculous, we haven't figured out the full quantum effect of water yet."

After the launch of the "Fuze" probe, He Xinghui and Hu Jun discussed the faster-than-light communication phenomenon between them and Qianyan MINI.

"When it comes to high dimensions, many people think of fantasy existences such as Heaven Mountain, Bato Hell, etc., which are actually not so magical. If human beings enter the high-dimensional universe, sensory-speaking, what they see and feel is no different from what they are now. After all, human beings are not high-dimensional beings, and what they can understand and perceive is based on their original dimensions. The lower dimension is a subset of the higher dimension, and it is impossible for a person to decompose into elementary particles after entering the higher dimension. ”

The person in charge of the power group of the "Springboard" project, the little fat man Dongfang Sheng is more often in the role of a science fiction fan, so even Xia Ming often ignores the fact that he is an electromagnetic physicist, and the basic theory of electromagnetic physics also refers directly to the physics of the universe.

"I think the bubble universe is the most suitable model to explain the concept of higher dimensions, and everyone is familiar with a little fable where one side of the puzzle is a map of the world and the other side is a person. If you put people right, the world map will be right. ”

This parable can also be applied to the problem we are discussing, the higher dimensions do not exist alone, and without the support of the lower dimensions, how can there be higher dimensions? So, both sides of the puzzle are low-dimensional, but the whole of them is high-dimensional. From this point of view, high dimensions are everywhere, it's just that we have to discover the other side of the puzzle. ”

"If it is a single universe theory, it is difficult to establish a high-dimensional universe, and it must be built with the help of a model such as a mirror universe, but it is difficult to make sense from the core logic. So I chose to believe in bubble cosmology, so that the higher dimensions are not only universally true, but can also accommodate more dimensions. ”

"Yes, where two or more cosmic bubbles overlap, it must be a high-dimensional space-time, but I can't imagine how this model can exist stably......"

Dongfang Sheng often talks about the bubble cosmology, although this inference is not pseudoscience, but the various plays made by the little fat man on this basis are listened to by everyone as a delusional song of science.

Xia Ming had a strong urge to return to Earth, wake up Professor Xu, and say to him, "You are right! ”

I also want to say to He Xinghui: "You are right! ”

He also wanted to say to Dongfang Sheng: "You are also right!" ”

The space where Xia Ming is located is unpredictable, if it weren't for the unusually clear sense of separation between consciousness, thinking and senses and the body, he really thought that this self wearing a full spacesuit was not his real self, just a mass of consciousness, and the space he was in was his consciousness space.

The ground beneath his feet was still the same silver-white metal as the passage, stretching out for hundreds of meters in all directions. The field of view is not flat in the distance, and there are several tall pillars.

The pillars stood like guards on the edge of the silver-white square, beyond which there were no plains, wildernesses, or cities, and no sky overhead.

With the silver-white floor as the center of the circle, beyond it is a messy and broken space. Visually, it looks like a three-dimensional abstract painting, but the sense of space attached to the vision is a little nauseous physiologically because it can't find an accurate base point, coupled with an invisible oppression that can cause claustrophobia, which is the result of Xia Ming's brain processing power has been greatly improved.

This is high-dimensional space-time......

The environmental data in the AR field of view shows that there is exactly the same gravity and air as the earth, which is an adjustment made by R3AI to meet the main body. By the way, it shouldn't be called R3AI, this name is just a long-range vest she sent to Earth, so what should it be called?

"Do you already understand, Subject?"

The avatar of the "interactive interface" appeared in the AR field of vision, whether it was the "subject" or the "interactive interface", which made him feel that it was more necessary to choose a name.

"Can you define a new ID?"

"At the moment you have the highest and only administrative authority, the subject."

"Call ......"

Looking at the avatar that was exactly the same as Lin Qianyan, Xia Ming said: "Qianyi, it's called Qianyi." ”

"It's set, subject."

"Just call me by name."

"It's set, Xia Ming."

After solving this problem, Xia Ming replied to her: "I have understood, your ontology and interaction interface are in the buffer, and you cannot directly exist in this high-dimensional space-time, the reason is ...... That's my mission. ”

This is a high-dimensional space-time that is about to collapse, as the extended intelligence of this space-time, Qianyi huddles in the buffer zone, looking for a new master in the cosmic bubble attached to the buffer, that is, the universe where Xia Ming is located.

Things are roughly like this, Xia Ming only understands macroscopically at this time, and he doesn't have time to interpret it in detail.

High-dimensional space-time exists, and the bubble universe exists, and at this moment he is standing in a high-dimensional space-time formed by the superposition of an unknown number of cosmic bubbles.

However, this high-dimensional space-time is not simply "space-time".

Although Xia Ming could find the answer in his brain, he didn't know where to start to interpret it, so he chose the most inefficient way: asking Qianyi.

"Is it really dead?"

"I am its absolute rationality, stripped out as an independent intelligence, and this is the proof that it is dead."

"Absolute rationality...... Can't you hold up life? ”

"Reason has no source of power, like the ubiquitous Higgs field, with the sensibility of free will, which is the source of power to observe the Higgs boson and then make it move. Life has lost its absolute rationality, but it is difficult to continue, and if it loses its sensibility under free will, it will be reduced to an existence like me. ”

"Is free will the same thing as my self-consciousness?"

"The essence of self-consciousness is the ultimate string under the Higgs boson, and the self-consciousness that can fully present the essence is free will."

"The nature of the world is not deterministic......

"In human cognition, free will is only the closest concept to the answer, and if you think it's confusing, I can replace it with a concept like 'thinking strings' or 'strings'."

"That's weirder, don't be there."

This dialogue, which is full of fantasy and philosophical flavor, reveals a "truth" that Xia Ming was originally difficult to accept.

High-dimensional space-time is unstable, and the mutual movement of the bubble universe makes it constantly changing. Compared with the "no sea" outside the cosmic bubble (let's understand it as a chaotic void), the high-dimensional space-time in it is an intelligent life.

This is not an incomprehensible existence, in a single cosmic bubble, a stone has the dimensions of space, mass, and motion. When superimposed with another cosmic bubble, it has one more dimension.

The extra dimension is obviously not like cutting a diamond, just an extra face, but there is a new change at the elementary particle level, and the physical constants are like a univariate equation becoming a binary equation. These changes add up layer by layer, enough for it to expand into a Boltzmann-like being.

Of course, such "life" does not need to breathe, metabolize, and reproduce like humans or animals and plants. Rather, it is a microscopic movement in the two directions of reason and sensibility, and then it is presented as the existence of wisdom on a macroscopic level.

That's right, the mysterious life described in some science fiction novels with nebulae as the brain is probably a bit like this kind of "high-dimensional wisdom".

It's just that compared with human beings, high-dimensional wisdom is an existence that completely transcends the entire macroscopic scale. In the cognition of high-dimensional wisdom, human beings, intelligent creatures, are completely a point on a pencil on paper, and there is no basis for communication and dialogue.

Among the countless logic clouds in Xia Ming's brain, the logic clouds that explain high-dimensional wisdom are the largest.

"For it, the way to sustain life is to anchor the cosmic bubbles, right? And to anchor a cosmic bubble, you need to grasp the particle with free will, that is, me, bring me into a high-dimensional space-time and space, and stabilize this cosmic bubble. Not...... I also need to understand what exactly this stabilization process looks like. ”

"There is another way, to destroy the free will in a cosmic bubble, and to engrave the will of high-dimensional wisdom into this cosmic bubble."

Qianyi's explanation made Xia Ming frightened, and he immediately found a branch that extended in a logical cloud, and fully understood the meaning of this sentence.

"Then I'll ...... here"

"The higher dimensional wisdom above me has died, it is over, and you are not here to be its puppet or food to bring it back to life. Rather, it is to simulate it with me, to delay or even save the world it left behind, and then to create a new life. ”

Xia Mingleng paused for a moment, he knew that this was his mission here, but before he only understood it literally, and now, he understood what this mission meant.

"Speaking of which, in my cosmic bubble, human beings are really the only intelligent existence."

"The third way to anchor the cosmic bubble is to create a new cosmic bubble, and that's how the universe you are in comes about. Yes, here you are the observer of the universe. ”

Xia Ming was stunned again, and after absorbing a large amount of information from his mind, he smiled faintly: "Safe deposit box ......"

The information contained in this logic cloud is also quite huge, but after all, it is only the background, and there are many imminent things, and he has not gone deeper.

Xia Ming confirmed to Qianyi: "What I want to do is to regain your true essence first, and then enter other universe bubbles to ...... Burn and loot? ”

The avatar in the field of vision shook slowly: "This is a matter for the future, what you have to do now is to stabilize this exit." If this outlet is swallowed, the buffer will cease to exist. ”

"The destruction of the buffer will form a dark matter black hole, and in the cosmic bubble you are in, the dark matter will be quickly absorbed, the universe will change from expansion to contraction, and the cosmological constant will also change, which will lead to a series of changes, such as the speed of light will slow down, as for the human ...... on the earth where you are located."

Xia Ming only felt that his scalp was exploding, such a disaster, the galaxy might collapse in an instant, not to mention the fate of mankind.

Since Qianyi mentioned stabilizing this place, it means......

Xia Ming was about to go deep into another cloud of logic, when a light curtain suddenly appeared between the two pillars of light in the distance, exactly like the light curtain in the passage.

However, the fluctuations on the light curtain were very violent, and even a clear outline was highlighted, and there were more than one.

Xia Ming hadn't found out what was behind the light curtain from the logic cloud, but the weird and hideous silhouettes could still tell him that it was some kind of ferocious creature.

"Those are the product of another self that failed, and she took biological samples from other cosmic bubbles, where she wanted to directly nurture and sift free will, and then merge with her. She failed, and of all the losers, she caused the most damage. ”

"All the creatures she has cultivated are creatures that can only carry survival instincts, and these creatures have not only destroyed her, but also occupied all the layers of space that can still maintain a high dimension, except here."

Xia Ming frowned: "It sounds like you've failed more than once." ”

It seems that this thousand memories are not the original legacy of high-dimensional wisdom, but only a part of it.

"Yes, there are many exits, and each one of them is an attempt by me. But without exception, they all failed. At this time, I was responsible for the implementation of the last plan in the plan, anchoring the cosmic bubble that was created, borrowing the free will born in it, and not fusing it, but just simulating. ”

Xia Ming let out a long breath, the mission he carried, I don't know if it was a lingering breath or a last fight, it felt like there was no difference.

"So, that countdown is the time when the light curtain is breached?"

Qian Yi shook his head again: "It's the deadline to cut off the connection between the cosmic bubble and the buffer." ”

Although her speed of speech had not changed, in Xia Ming's ears, every word was separated by a long distance, because the words behind him made his heart extremely heavy.

"After severing the connection, the cosmic bubble you are in will disengage and become a separate cosmic bubble. Cosmic bubbles change a lot, but much less than if the buffer had become a dark matter black hole. In the projection, human beings will not become extinct, but the evolutionary curve will ......"

A picture appeared in the field of vision, which was Qianyi's calculation. After severing the connection, there will also be an extremely small change in the cosmological constant, but enough to make the Earth a wasteland. However, unlike the previous complete disintegration, humans will spawn on the wasteland, and human civilization will continue in another form.

It is a road that can no longer see the future, because without contact with other cosmic bubbles, without the influence of high-dimensional space-time, even if the quantum and cosmic physics knowledge before the wasteland era can be passed on, there is no way to confirm with reality, and technology will be locked at a very low level.

"You have a choice, and that's within your purview."

After being silent for a while, Xia Ming shrugged: "I don't need to hand this matter over to the UN Security Council." ”

No matter how you choose, it's a disaster, and for individual human beings, the result is the same on both sides.

Even if the connection is cut off, the human can still survive, but that human being, it has nothing to do with Xia Ming himself, and the other people he cares about.

On the contrary, if we move forward, human civilization will inevitably move forward...... Not a big step, but a decisive step in the evolution from apes to modern Homo sapiens.

From the perspective of humanity as a whole, this is also a gamble.

"There's still time anyway, isn't there? I've got to try. ”

Xia Ming made a choice, and this should be the choice that everyone on the planet would make. Despite the gamble on the entire human race, or even the entire universe, no one wants to end it now.

The light curtain was still twisting and tearing, but it hadn't been broken through after all.

Xia Ming looked into the distance, the messy space layers were the projection of countless cosmic bubbles, the eternal theme of civilization and evolution, and it was really blood and fire. (To be continued.) )