458 Thinkers

"Kill...... Primordial power? Gray Wind's expression became playful.

The existence of the primordial power itself is a top secret among the top secrets in the archives of the Human Federation, and basically only the top administrators of several departments are qualified to look through its files, and the president of the Falla Astronomical Society, Faraday is obviously one of them.

"Yes, kill the 'primordial power'." Faraday's tone was humble and he bowed shallowly to the gray wind.

"Do you really understand what the primordial motive is, and you say you're going to kill Him? It's not as simple as shouting slogans, it's ......"

"I know, Your Excellency, I know." Faraday said: "The primordial power, the independent consciousness born from the 'first impulse' that drove the Big Bang, the source of the four supreme fundamental forces, the supreme star god, the primordial power. ”

Gray Wind spread his hands helplessly: "You know that you still said that you wanted to kill him?" It's not me who strikes you, if the primordial power exists in consciousness, then his body is the entire universe, he existed before the big bang, the infinite time and space is the placenta that feeds him, and the sea of stars is the womb that gives birth to him, and the gestation process of this conscious individual begins with the birth of the universe, and it is not until the heat death of the universe that he is truly born. ”

In other words, the star god named 'Primordial Power' has not yet been born.

This thing doesn't even have a blood bar, how are you going to fight?

"No, there is." Faraday raised his head and looked up at the colorful sky above Falla: "He has long been bleeding, He is everywhere." ”

Gray Wind was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean......"

Faraday took a deep breath of the thin air in low Earth orbit with his modified lungs, which no longer needed oxygen, and whispered, "Have you ever wondered why the stars twinkle? ”

In order to better explain his plan, Faraday called in Joshua, the administrator of the Biological Department of the Order of Truth, who was one of the most qualified to speak on this issue.

Grey Wind retrieved the information from the depths of his memory and returned to Faraday's question:

"The twinkle of stars in the narrow sense refers to the light shift phenomenon observed by ancient humans looking up at the sky on the ancient earth due to atmospheric disturbances, and the earth's atmosphere is like a layer of translucent blurred lenses, separated between human eyes and stars, and every rotation of the lens will bring about changes in the position of the stars, resulting in a visual twinkle and a sparkle."

"Star twinkle in astronomy refers to the peak fluctuation of the total output energy level of a star in its life cycle, due to various factors such as sunspot flares and electric charge movements, a star will burn more violently at certain times, appear to be extraordinarily 'brighter' than usual, and eject a large amount of matter and radiation outward, and after a short period of activity, it will quickly return to the usual normal energy level - this phenomenon is called 'stellar flickering'."

Grey Wind briefly explained the principle of the two types of star shining, and then asked Faraday, "Which one do you mean?" ”

Faraday and Joshua nodded in succession, "The latter." ”

Joshua stepped forward and projected a diorama in front of Grey Wind, a mass of irregularly moving particles that looked like a sandstorm gathered in the palm of his hand.

"In the primitive mechanics system of Guterra, it was believed that it was possible for all atoms to be assembled into a 'brain' with normal thinking ability by accident in the process of random movement and combination, just like countless monkeys randomly typing out the complete works of Shakespeare...... This mechanics is named after the human sage Newton and is known as Newtonian mechanics. ”

"On the basis of Newtonian mechanics, an ancient scholar named Boltzmann proposed the theory that in the process of random fluctuations in entropy, it is possible to give birth to some extremely rare self-consciousness that exists randomly out of thermodynamic equilibrium, which is named after him 'Boltzmann's brain'."

"On this theory, it has been further suggested that the high degree of disequilibrium exhibited by the observable universe is evidence of the widespread existence of the 'Boltzmann brain' in the universe......"

Joshua said, the randomly moving particles in his palm slowly gathered in front of the gray wind to form a standard model of the human brain:

"On the basis of Newtonian mechanics and Boltzmann's brain conjecture, we began to observe the widespread phenomenon of 'stellar twinkle' in the universe, trying to find out whether there is a pattern in these seemingly irregular phenomena...... This may help us to inquire about the crucial question of whether there is consciousness in the universe itself. ”

"It's not that simple." Gray Wind shook his head: "A celestial body of this level of a star has a very long flickering period, and it takes an extremely long time to observe this astronomical phenomenon. The Human Federation is a young government, and even if you start observing it since the Church of Truth was proclaimed three hundred years ago, it would have been only three hundred years. ”

Three hundred years, only a short moment on the scale of the universe, they are destined to observe nothing.

"Indeed, our lives are too short to see the twinkle of the stars." Faraday whispered, "But 'humans' can." ”

Gray Wind suddenly thought of something: "What do you mean ......"

Joshua nodded: "You know, Secretary-General, it is not humans who are responsible for the day-to-day operations and resource coordination of the Order, but an ancient AI captured and overwritten by the leader hundreds of years ago, a powerful artificial intelligence from the golden age of mankind - inverse entropy AI. ”

"We are not the first anthropologists to observe the universe based on Boltzmann's brain conjecture, as humans have been looking up at the stars tens of thousands of years ago."

Joshua raised his palm, and a string of emerald green numbers flew through his palm, a refresh speed that was impossible to see with the naked eye, but just right for Grey Wind.

"It's ......"

"Over the past 30,000 years, the stellar scintillation observations of the observable universe by a general observatory in a remote human colony have been extracted from the core database of inverse entropy AI." Joshua said, "In the past, human scientists were only observing, and before they could produce results, the Iron Man Rebellion broke out, destroying 30,000 years of accumulation...... It's hard to see the light of day again. ”

"But we managed to touch the starry sky on the shoulders of giants, and from these 30,000 years of old data, we found the pattern of star twinkle, and summed it up to build the Boltzmann brain model that is now unfolding in front of you."

In Joshua's palm, a transparent human brain is quietly suspended, and countless tiny electrical charges shuttle back and forth in dense clusters of neurons, forming a life consciousness called 'human'.

"Just as the exchange of electrical charges between different neurons constitutes human self-consciousness, the countless stars in the universe are huge macroscopic 'neurons', and the phenomenon of periodic stellar flickering constitutes a complex communication between different stars, from which the so-called 'consciousness' is born."

By this point, Grey Wind had figured out why Joshua, a biologist, had come to explain it for himself.

"The whole universe is the brain of the 'primordial power' to think, and the thousands of galaxies are his flickering brain neurons, and in the name of one of the works of art of Guterra, we have given a name to this supreme star god born from the first impulse."

"It's called: The Thinker."

Faraday exhaled slowly, and finally said, "The reason why we want to develop a gravitational slingshot that can launch black holes is for one purpose. ”

- Let the 'thinker' stop thinking.

In order to kill the primordial power, they decided to extinguish all the stars in the observable universe, leaving the thinker without the neurons that could think, so that the 'primordial power' could be killed.

"Oh my God, you must be crazy......" Gray Wind covered her face with her hands, the plan was so crazy that even she felt it was a little too extreme.

(End of chapter)