Chapter 13: The Traveler Hypothesis
If you want to make your predictions more accurate, you need to be fully aware of these variables. At this point, the forbidden zone of the laws of physics is touched – the microscopic world is full of randomness, and it is impossible for any observer to determine these variables in advance.
In this way, it is impossible to predict the precise time when the cup will fall to the ground. Subsequently, it is even more impossible to predict how many pieces this cup will be broken into, and the precise coordinates of each piece of fragments. After all, these things are also closely related to air resistance and the Earth's gravity.
This is a true manifestation of the fact that the increase in accuracy will lead to a great increase in the difficulty of prediction.
Of course, the accuracy required to predict the precise meteorological changes in a certain limited space, and the progress of the dissolution of the Antarctic permafrost, as well as the propagation path of the archaea, the occurrence of earthquakes, and the intensity of sunspot eruptions, etc., may not touch the physical forbidden area, so there may still be some theoretical feasibility, but to what extent will the civilization that can complete the prediction of this level of accuracy be advanced?
This is probably unimaginable in the current human world.
It's better to think that this is a manipulation than a prophecy. After all, it's easier to manipulate these incredible things than it is to predict them.
But even if these things were to be manipulated, they would be daunting to humans.
Manipulating sunspots?
A human spaceship can't connect to the sun, let alone maneuver.
It is certain that the one who can do this must be a super-advanced civilization that surpasses much beyond the human race.
Then the problem arises again. Since it is such an advanced super civilization, why do they go to such great lengths to absorb human intellectuals? And, even if you want to absorb it, why be so sneaky and hide your head and tail?
What's more, he didn't even hide his head and tail completely, and he even found so many clues by his own side.
This is unconscionable.
Lu Ming pondered silently, and found that there were logical loopholes in these two speculations that could not be filled at present, so he had to sigh and give up his plan to continue thinking.
At the same time, he became more and more curious about the hidden organization hidden in the shadows. There was a feeling like scratching his ears and scratching his heart, which made him extremely eager to know the truth.
But he also knows that he may never know the truth of this matter. After all, here in the Operations Department, there are many cases that cannot be identified.
"Go one step at a time, and go wherever you go."
He thought to himself.
Seeing that Lu Ming didn't come up with anything to add, this regular meeting was about to come to an end. Zhang Dingshan was about to announce, but seeing that He Wei seemed to have just remembered something, he suddenly raised his hand: "I thought of a little!" ”
"Oh?"
The three of them looked at He Wei's figure on the screen in front of them at the same time.
"I noticed one thing that these prophecies had in common."
He Wei said quickly: "The events in these prophecies, when they occurred, all had extremely high popularity, and they became hot spots of public opinion in a very short period of time, and they occupied the first position in the hot search among major software!"
I wonder why the secret organization chose these events as prophecies instead of the rest, events that are less hot, but closer to the work and life of high-level intellectuals. Is this a coincidence? Or is there another reason? ”
He Wei seems to be trying to deduce something from this common denominator.
Lu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this was indeed the case.
Needless to say, the crash of flight EU7655 attracted the attention of almost everyone in the world at the time, and the rest of the events, such as soybean mutation wilt and a series of subsequent events caused by it, were also extremely hot.
After all, soybeans are closely related to people's livelihood. It is not surprising that the prices of oilseeds, feed, various delicacies made from soybeans such as tofu and yuba, and meat of various livestock that use soybean meal as the main feed, have skyrocketed due to the outbreak of soybean mutation and blight.
The earthquake caused a chemical leak, which led to the emergency evacuation of tens of thousands of people, and the sunspot outbreak that caused a power outage in Sanyuanhe City, which is not in the spotlight?
"So, is it the secret organization that can only predict such hot events, or do they deliberately choose such hot events, or ...... They actually predicted some non-hot events, but we don't know? ”
There seem to be only three possibilities.
"I'm leaning towards the first two."
He Wei said: "Most of the final targets we screened out are related to these four hot events. ”
If that covert organization also creates "fake death" by predicting non-hot events, then the number of people who have nothing to do with these four hot events, but have also been heavily screened by their own side, should be more numerous.
Of course, this kind of thing is not absolute. After all, your own screening is not very perfect and accurate. But it's okay to use it as a reference.
"I agree with the first two, too."
Lu Ming nodded: "Either that secret organization can only predict this kind of hot event, or they deliberately choose to only predict these hot events." ”
"Of the two possibilities, I prefer the first one."
Zhang Dingshan finally spoke: "The reason is very simple, I can't think of what their motives are for predicting the rest of the events, but they only predict hot events." It's contradictory. ”
That is, if there is such an ability, then why not? Since they don't use it, it proves that they don't have the ability. Then, there is a basis for thinking that this covert organization can only predict hot events.
"I agree."
He Wei said: "So, why can this hidden organization only predict hot events? Is this kind of predictive ability still divided into big and small? If people don't pay attention, they can't predict it, but if they pay attention, they can't predict it? ”
Lu Qingliang's brows furrowed, and he suddenly raised his head.
"I thought of a possibility."
He pondered the language: "I, I remembered a routine that is used in the Internet. ”
Lu Ming and He Wei looked at each other.
How can this kind of thing be related to the Internet again?
"There's a type of network called traversal, you know? A person who, by chance, travels to a previous era for some reason. Then, because of the future, the person can grasp the future development course. At the same time, because of the limited memory of a person, this person's prediction of the future can only predict those hot events and major events, and the details of things that are not paid attention to cannot be predicted. Because he only remembers those big events and hot events, and can't remember those events that are not followed. ”
Zhang Dingshan's eyes narrowed slightly. Lu Ming's expression also became serious.
The "traverser hypothesis" can indeed explain why the covert organization predicts major events.
But...... That's weird, isn't it?
"Wear ...... Traverser? Is there a time-traveler who travels from the future to our time, and then, he uses the events he remembers as prophecy and as a proof of his ability, so as to attract the high-level intellectuals of our time? At the same time, because he is a traverser, he does not need to have the ability to truly predict the future, nor does he need to have the ability to manipulate those things to accurately predict these major events? ”
Although it is ridiculous, Lu Ming has to admit that this at least logically makes sense.
"Is our enemy a traverser?"
He Wei's face was full of disbelief.
"Is it possible to go through this kind of thing?"
She looked at Lu Ming.
Lu Ming thought for a moment, and finally shook his head.
"No way. This kind of thing is impossible. This has nothing to do with the level of technology, it only needs to be denied by logic.
Suppose there is a traverser who travels back to the present from an hour later. So may I ask, after he crossed over and left that future world, does that future world still exist? ”
"Absolutely. It's impossible to cross alone, and the whole world will be gone, right? ”
Lu Ming nodded: "He has traveled to our world, and there is no doubt that our world exists. So, our world exists, the future world also exists, does both worlds exist? ”
"This ...... Of course. ”
"Good. So by extension, since the world exists in an hour in the future, the world in an hour and a minute later? The world of zero minute and millisecond, one microsecond, one nanosecond, and one Planck time, of course, will also exist, right? ”
Lu Qingliang was silent for a moment, but still nodded. Because according to this logic, only such a conclusion can be drawn.
"Leaving aside the Grandmother's paradox and the like, let's just say that if there is a universe at every tiniest point in time, that is, at every point in Planck's time, and the two are only different in time, all the way to the end of cosmic time, then it clearly means that everything in the future is predestined. This is fatalism, and fatalism contradicts existing theories. So, I don't think it exists. ”
Lu Qingliang was slightly unconvinced: "Maybe each universe has its own independent evolution?" ”
Lu Ming shrugged: "Even if each universe has its own independent evolution, then, is there any need for us to assume that there are so many universes?" Just to make the small assumption of 'existence traverser' plausible, it is necessary to make such a subversive adjustment to the theoretical framework of physics? ”
People don't open a refrigerator factory for a refrigerator. In the same way, human beings would not make such subversive adjustments to the theoretical framework in order to make a small assumption reasonable. People just think that little assumption is not reasonable.
He Wei interjected: "What about parallel universes? Doesn't it mean that there are infinite parallel universes? ”
Lu Ming shook his head again: "The parallel universe is a false proposition. The parallel universe hypothesis was proposed to explain the randomness of the underlying universe.
Because some people do not recognize the existence of entangled states, and because one of the two outcomes will appear after the quantum collapse, in order to explain the other result, the parallel universe hypothesis holds that after the quantum collapse, both outcomes actually appeared, but with the quantum collapse, the universe split into a 'parallel universe', so that in our universe it is result a, and in the split parallel universe it is result b, so that both outcomes are there, and then there is the parallel universe hypothesis.
However, Bell's inequality has shown that the entangled state is a real state of affairs, and there are no hidden variables. Before the quantum collapse, it didn't know what state it would be. Therefore, the parallel universe hypothesis is not necessary at all. ”
He Wei thought for a moment and found that she had no way to fully understand Lu Ming's words. But she already knew that the "traverser hypothesis" had been denied by Lu Ming.
Lu Qingliang was a little stupid: "Okay, it seems that our enemy is not a traverser. ”
"Why this secret organization only predicts hot events, this matter is doubtful for the time being." Lu Ming said solemnly: "However, I was inspired and had some ideas. Qingliang, check out, among all the hot events in the recent past, in addition to these four, what other hot spots are related to the field of science? ”
"Okay."
Lu Qingliang quickly operated for a while, and soon drew up a list. Then several people worked together to eliminate the hot events that did not meet the requirements one by one.
"XX actress cheating real hammer? If it does not meet the requirements, delete it. ”
"The wife of the xx actor cheated on the actor's agent, and the joint agent intended to hollow out the actor's family property? Hey, contemporary Pan Jinlian, this is, tsk, but it doesn't meet either, delete it. ”
"What, you haven't heard of such a fuss at the time? Don't have internet access at your house? ”
"Well, I don't pay much attention to entertainment news......"
"XX kindergarten cafeteria uses expired ingredients to cook for young children, resulting in a large number of young children food poisoning? Damn it! This kind of person should be pulled and shot! ”
Stripped out of all entertainment news, the list of hot events has shrunk by more than two-thirds. After that, and then remove some other irrelevant ones, and only the hot events related to science and technology remain.
"If there is a human factor, delete it as well."
"Well, the Luna Six probe successfully returned to Earth, delete ......"
"Confirming the existence of an underground ocean in Enceladus, well, whether there is an underground ocean in Enceladus, no human factor can interfere with this. But this kind of thing was foreseen before, and it didn't conform to it, so delete ......"
When the final result appeared, several people found that only they already knew about the four hot events: the plane crash, soybean mutation wilt, the chemical leak caused by the earthquake, and the sunspot explosion.
"It seems that this secret organization has a very high utilization rate for this kind of hot event that meets the requirements......
Lu Ming muttered to himself.
Zhang Dingshan raised his head suddenly.
He realized what Lu Ming meant.
At least during this time, the covert organization has a 100 percent utilization rate of hot events that meet the requirements. In other words, every hot event was prophesied by them.
In that case......
When the next hot event that meets the requirements appears, will they also use it as a prophecy?