Chapter 43: Schrödinger's Pig
He Wei looked at Lu Ming fixedly.
At this moment, she also clearly felt that the change in the situation had pushed her to the edge of the cliff.
There is a high probability that the resurrection process of the god of fate is accelerating. And after the god of fate is truly resurrected, no one knows. But one thing is certain, this is most likely not a good thing, and no one hopes that the god of fate will actually be resurrected.
We must respond immediately, immediately to change this unfavorable situation.
However, the most important problem came to the two of them again.
Exactly what to do, how to do it? What can you do?
So far, all the results of our own investigation are only transactional. They have found out a series of events caused by this sarcophagus, but they still don't know anything about the "origin" of the sarcophagus.
At least, He Wei couldn't think of anything she could do.
"Lu Ming, what are you going to do? How? ”
She looked at Lu Ming with eagerness and eagerness. Like, no matter what Lu Ming says in the next moment, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, He Wei will immediately and without hesitation to complete this matter.
And that's exactly what happened. This feeling of having no strength but not being able to do anything has already made her feel a monstrous anger in her heart.
All her hopes are pinned on Lu Ming at this moment.
Lu Ming looked at He Wei: "I want to know what the god of fate means to change the fate of the fetus in the womb of a pregnant woman or a pregnant beast." ”
He Wei was stunned.
"How do you know?"
What Lu Ming wants to know is also what Zhang Dingshan, Lu Qingliang, He Wei, Li Wenhua and so on everyone wants to know.
Lu Ming did not answer this question directly, but said: "I think there may be some deviations in our previous investigation ideas. Well, it's not that it was wrong in the first place, but, after confirming the existence of the sarcophagus, and confirming that the sarcophagus really has this special ability. ”
He Wei didn't quite understand.
Lu Ming muttered: "After confirming the previous things, according to the inertia of the previous investigation, we still pinned our hopes for finding out this eucalyptus on the 'transactional' investigation. We hope that by finding out the origin of the sarcophagus, the relationship between the sarcophagus and the fate organization, and the Dali culture, we hope to find out the mystery through interrogation and information. ”
"Is that wrong?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. And, as a rule, this level of investigation is sufficient. But this time...... This is not enough. Investigating only these superficial things does not touch the root of things. ”
"The root of things?"
"Why does the sarcophagus have this ability, how is this ability realized, what is the process of realizing it, and what kind of principles are it based on...... That's the fundamental. Compared to this fundamentality, its origins, its relationship to our human world, are only superficial. ”
"Okay, you're right. Just say what to do. ”
Lu Ming hesitated for a moment, pondered for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Transfer another thousand pregnant sows and start the sacrifice again." ”
"What?!"
He Wei was taken aback.
What's the situation?
Although the previous large-scale experiments of your own side have allowed you to verify many things, it is also very likely to provide enough "energy" for the god of fate who has not yet been resurrected, and indirectly give it the ability to start the process of independent resurrection.
Now, another thousand heads will be sacrificed?
Is this for fear that the god of fate will not be resurrected fast enough? Do you want to add more fire and strength to its resurrection process?
"I didn't want to do that."
Lu Ming muttered, "But now, we have to do this. Ho Wei, rather than doing nothing and waiting for the god of fate to resurrect, I think it is better to keep the hope of ending this matter, even if it may lead to an early resurrection of the god of fate. ”
He Wei noticed that in Lu Ming's words, there was an expression of "retaining the hope of ending this matter".
So......
Do you want to take the risk?
What if the sacrifice of a thousand sows once again accelerates the resurrection process of the god of fate, but you still have no harvest?
It's just a hope, after all.
But if you don't do this, you can only do what Lu Ming said, "do nothing, sit back and wait for the god of fate to resurrect."
He Wei gritted her teeth: "I believe in you." ”
This is the matter that is decided. He Wei contacted Lu Qingliang, and Lu Qingliang contacted the pig farm, and the next day, the first batch of hundreds of pregnant sows was transported to the manor. So this manor, which was regarded as a nest and a holy place by the Destiny Organization, was once again filled with the snorting of sows and the stench of pig manure.
The difference is that, compared to the last mass sacrifice, this time, in addition to the pregnant sows, another group of people arrived.
They brought some special equipment. The device consists of two parts, one of which is an opaque box about half a meter in length, width and height, and some control buttons and the like.
The second is an unknown device with a length of more than ten centimeters and a thickness of five or six centimeters, like a thick book. There are also some button-button displays on top of this device.
A large number of workers were busy connecting the two parts of this special equipment and commissioning it.
The total number of such devices is a thousand. In total, it took less than a day to install and commission the equipment.
After that, the mass sacrifice began again.
In the sanctuary, in front of the sarcophagus, which was always making its own noises even if it was no longer sacrificed, a pregnant sow was once again placed less than five meters from the sarcophagus after bathing in the moonlight, depicting a six-pointed star, and being anesthetized into a coma. At the same time, members of the original Destiny Organization began to kick the ground again.
The sacrificial process proceeded as usual. After each batch of sows after sacrifice, they are immediately removed and placed in temporary pig houses. There are dedicated veterinarians there who take care of them until they give birth.
In three days, half of the 1,000 pregnant sows, or 500 sows, were sacrificed. The other half of the 500 pregnant sows were used as the control group and did not participate in the sacrifice.
After that, from the fourth day, the pregnant sows start to give birth one after another. Among them, there were those who participated in the sacrifice and those who did not.
In total, more than 100 sows of both sows have produced offspring, resulting in a total of about 960 piglets. On average, 9.6 piglets are born per sow. Among them, 430 piglets participated in the sacrifice, and more than 530 piglets did not participate in the sacrifice.
Under Lu Ming's order, the total of 960 piglets were numbered separately, and after each clarified their blood relationship, they were placed in the opaque boxes of the previous special equipment.
In a room that was used as the general control room, He Wei and Lu Ming had a computer in front of them, and a special device like a thick book was connected to the computer.
After receiving the report that all the preparations had been made, Lu Ming took a deep breath and looked at He Wei: "Come on." ”
He Wei nodded: "Okay." ”
She stepped forward and pressed the button on the device, which looked like a thick book. The next moment, a line of numbers appears on the computer screen.
659。
"Wait."
Lu Ming said.
He Wei knew that in front of her, this device, which was like a thick book, was a quantum random number generator. At the moment it's set up so that as soon as the button is pressed, it will immediately generate a random number in the range of 0 to 3600. And this number is regarded as a delay by oneself.
At this point, a random number has been generated, which is 659. What this means is that after a delay of 659 seconds, the start command will be sent.
At this moment, He Wei was still a little worried.
"This ...... Is the number 659 really randomly generated? I remember reading an article that said that the so-called random numbers generated by computer systems are actually fake random, not real. ”
Lu Ming said: "The so-called random numbers generated solely by algorithms are, of course, fake, and their essence is not random. Just like the shuffle of a music player, just like the so-called probability in an online game, it is all pseudo-random. ”
The essence of pseudo-randomness is to rely on a fixed algorithm to generate a fixed string of numbers. Because their presuppositions are fixed, it is possible to predict in advance what kind of numbers the random algorithms will generate before they generate them.
This random number is certainly not really random, but pseudo-random.
There are also algorithms that try to rely on the chaotic nature of the human world to generate random numbers. For example, a device can be set up, installed at a high-traffic entrance and exit, by measuring the precise speed of each person passing through the entrance, such as to the tenth decimal place, and then using that digit as a random number generated by itself.
No one can control the precise speed at which everyone passes through this entrance and exit. Even if someone wanted to control it, he couldn't do it. Because there are so many factors that determine exactly how much that number is.
Maybe someone is in a happy mood today and walks a little faster, someone is in a heavy mood and walks a little slower, someone has slipped a little on their feet, and someone has been bumped......
There are so many factors that determine how much this number is, and no one can control it. This is the chaotic nature of the human world.
Are the numbers generated based on this mechanism truly random?
This level of randomness is sufficient for most applications, but from a physical point of view, even if no one can control it, no one can influence it, and no one can predict it, it is still not a true random number.
The concept of chaos is the large deviation caused by the linear evolution of a system based on initial small variables. For example, the three-body problem is a typical chaotic system.
But this is only based on the enormity of the system, which is unpredictable for limited computing power. If there are theoretical, powerful devices that are powerful enough to take into account every detail and initial factor, then chaos is still predictable.
Of course, it is not possible to achieve such a high computing power in the real world, but it at least has a theoretical solution. However, as long as there is a theoretical solution, a random number generated based on chaos cannot be counted as a true random number.
So, how do you generate true random numbers?
It may seem difficult, but it's not. For example, in the modern world, there is basically a true random number generator in the CPU of every computer.
Atoms with temperatures above absolute zero have thermal motion. Absolute zero is unreachable, and the combination of the two can be said that all atoms in the universe have thermal motion.
Of course, the atoms in the integrated circuits that make CPU chips also have this thermal motion. These thermal movements generate noise in the circuit, which causes small fluctuations in the voltage in the circuit.
Since the thermal motion of atoms is physically random, the random number generated by measuring the small fluctuations of this voltage can be regarded as a true random number.
However, because classical physical processes still have the possibility of being simulated when all variables are taken into account, the random numbers generated by this mechanism are still not "true", although they are truly random.
At this moment, the quantum random number generator placed in front of Lu Ming and He Wei is more basic in the physical laws it uses.
It is based on the randomness generated by quantum physical processes. And this randomness is completely and completely random.
There is a great deal of this randomness in the world of quantum physics. Their randomness has been demonstrated by many basic physical theories and proven by a large number of rigorous scientific experiments. They are completely unpredictable.
In each of these quantum random number generators, there are trace amounts of radioactive decay elements. For each atom of this element, when it decays is completely unpredictable and truly random. Then its principle is very simple, by counting the random decay of this element, you can get a true random number.
At this moment, based on the lowest characteristics of the universe and based on the basic physical theory, such a quantum random number generator was generated under the press of He Wei, a number that was completely unpredictable and impossible to simulate before the appearance of this number.
659。
After 659 seconds, the launch command was sent to each black box also equipped with a quantum random number generator.
Upon receiving the start command, these quantum random number generators randomly generate one of 0 and 1. Also, the probability of generating 0 and 1 is strictly limited to 50%.
If the final number generated by the quantum random number generator is 0, then the black chest connected to it will release poison gas that kills the piglets placed in it. If the generated number is 1, the gas will not be released and the piglets will still be alive.
And until the black box is actually opened, it is impossible for people to know whether the pig is dead or alive.
Because quantum random processes cannot be simulated and cannot be predicted.