APTnovel Chapter 188: They're all talented people
Chapter 188: They're all talented people
On Thursday the 26th, Zhou Yuan attended the Millennium Conference of the Earth Empire Academy of Sciences, which was attended by all academicians. When Zhou Yuan entered the Academy's auditorium, all the academicians stood up and applauded enthusiastically. Scientists, after all, admire those who are more capable than themselves, and these academicians were no exception. If it weren't for Zhou Yuan's nearly 40,000 years of wandering on the five planets of Tiancan, during which he meticulously described all the advanced technologies of the Origin World, these academicians knew that without the detailed information and data provided by Zhou Yuan, even if they all worked hard for another 10,000 years, they probably wouldn't have reached the current level of technology of the Earth Empire.
President Kofi of the Academy of Sciences presided over the conference. On behalf of all academicians of the Academy and all scientists, Kofi expressed his gratitude for Zhou Yuan's outstanding contributions and hoped that scientists, under Zhou Yuan's leadership and guidance, would continue to move forward without forgetting their original aspirations and dedicate their strength to the science and technology of the Empire.
After Kofi confirmed that the Earth Empire had already achieved hyperspace travel and communication, galaxy drive, galaxy light speed barrier, sniper arrow, and celestial bowl, Zhou Yuan pondered for more than ten minutes about what the Empire's next technological development plan would be, based on Kofi's consultation.
"Kofi, fellow academicians, I am very satisfied with the technological achievements the Empire has made so far. As for where the Empire's technology should go next, I have thought about it for a long time in the days since I was awakened from deep hibernation. If we want to break through the small world, the middle world, the great world, and even break through the universe, I personally believe that the Empire's technological development should focus on two points. The first point is the 'Giant Gravity Source' weapon. Let's discuss this weapon first. The 'Giant Gravity Source' can clean up or even destroy dozens or hundreds of star systems or even superclusters at once. Of course, I have already explained the principle and method of this 'Giant Gravity Source' weapon during my wandering on the five planets of Tian Shen, but I still do not know how to manufacture such a powerful weapon. Kofi, how is your research on the 'Giant Gravity Source' going?"
"Sage, according to your earlier description, we began our research after migrating to the new Earth. Thanks to the revelation of the sudden extinction of all the stars in the Milky Way last time, our civilization's academicians proposed the concept of the 'Cascaded Prosperous Heavenly Bowl Formatted Galaxy' weapon. Academicians of Civilization, please explain it to everyone."
Civilization? Upon hearing this name, Zhou Yuan couldn't help but feel a surge of joy. In the Origin World, Civilization was his prized student; he was the one who proposed the law of the speed of light. He wondered what kind of person this Civilization was in this mother world. "Cascaded Shengtianbo Formatted Galaxy"? That name sounded incredibly powerful.
Among the more than 60,000 academicians, a relatively young academician moved slightly in the suspended chair and waved to acknowledge his presence.
"Sage, Dean, colleagues, the principle of the Heavenly Bowl is to provide an initial gravitational force, and then use the energy and gravity of the absorbed galaxy itself to shrink and solidify the galaxy through space folding. Based on the Sage's description of the 'Giant Gravitational Source,' and inspired by the nested Three Thousand Worlds, with the assistance of many colleagues, we conducted experiments on the 'Cascaded Heavenly Bowl Formatted Galaxy' weapon. The principle is that we manufacture a large number of large Heavenly Bowls, and through technology, we shrink these large Heavenly Bowls into medium and small sizes. One large Heavenly Bowl holds many medium Heavenly Bowls, and one medium Heavenly Bowl holds many small Heavenly Bowls. This is somewhat similar to the nested or cascaded Three Thousand Worlds. When combat is needed, the outermost large Heavenly Bowl is the window of the cascaded Heavenly Bowls, absorbing galaxies from galaxy clusters and superclusters. Each absorbed galaxy corresponds to a Heavenly Bowl inside. Of course, this cascaded Heavenly Bowl can have multiple levels; the more levels and the larger the number of galaxies it holds, the more galaxies it absorbs will grow exponentially."
Zhou Yuan was taken aback by this idea of civilization; it was indeed extraordinary. The humans on Earth in the Origin World had never thought of using the Sheng Tian Bowl in this way.
"Currently, regarding the progress made on the 'Cascaded Sky Bowl Formatting Galaxy' weapon, we can achieve three levels. However, the base number within each level, that is, the number of galaxies absorbed by each Sky Bowl level, is currently barely two. In other words, our current three-level Sky Bowl can absorb four galaxies. If the base number of the three levels can reach 45, then the number of absorbed galaxies would be 2025, which is basically enough to format a supercluster. Of course, what I just mentioned is increasing the base number of each Sky Bowl level. Another aspect is increasing the number of Sky Bowl levels, which we are also testing. Technically speaking, increasing the number of levels is more difficult than increasing the base number, but each additional level significantly increases the number of absorbed galaxies. For example, if a supercluster has 2025 galaxies, and the number of levels is 3, then the base number is 45. If the number of levels is 4, then the base number is much less than 45, around 12 or 13."
Zhou Yuan was overjoyed and nodded in approval; the others also admired him.
"Everyone, the technical difficulty of increasing the level lies in the complexity of the folded space of the Shengtianbo itself. If the folded space reaches its limit, then this space is likely to be unstable, and spatial explosion (space explosion, decomposition) or spatial fusion (space merging, merging) will occur. The boundary between space explosion and space fusion lies in the ratio of spatial energy density to spatial matter density. For an isolated system, if this ratio is greater than the square of the speed of light in space, space explosion is likely to occur. If it is less than the square of the speed of light in space, space fusion is likely to occur."
"Academician Wenming, I have a suggestion."
"Ah? Your Majesty, please speak."
"If you develop the Klein force field generator I mentioned, then I suggest that for this level of technology, you can refer to the lossless flow of energy and matter in flipped space."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and Wenming was the first to react, "Sage, do you mean that by placing a Klein force field generating module inside the Shengtian Bowl, the energy and matter of the Shengtian Bowl's folded space will be undamaged, and the Shengtian Bowl will become stable?"
"Yes, that's what I meant."
"Sage, you are truly amazing. Theoretically, this can indeed increase the level. Dean Kofi, I think we should test this as soon as possible."
"Alright. Sage, that's your first point. What's the second point about focusing on technology?"
Like Dean Kofi, the academicians listened to Zhou Yuan's second point.
Zhou Yuan lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought or remembering something, before looking up.
"Coffee, everyone, the second point I'm focusing on regarding technological development is the digitization or even photonicization of consciousness."
"Sage, you also proposed the electronification and photonicization of consciousness during the journey of the five planets in the heavens. However, our research on consciousness is still very backward. We have only copied the consciousness scanning, storage and transplantation technology you mentioned. But how exactly to achieve the electronification or even photonicization of consciousness that you just mentioned is still not very clear to us."
Zhou Yuan knew that compared to his own source world, this mother world had very little research into consciousness. As for the various mythical figures in this minor world, Zhou Yuan knew they were all people with extremely strong consciousness, only that their consciousness had been weakened and degenerated with the rapid development of technology. The humans on Earth in this mother world were not as invested in both technology and consciousness as the humans on Earth in his source world.
"Yes, that's because we have very little research on consciousness and only emphasize technology. I personally think that the Imperial Academy of Sciences should establish a special institution to study consciousness, to study whether consciousness can exist independently, that is, whether it can exist for a long time after being separated from the human body or 'hardware' such as computers."
"Could the sage please provide guidance on how to implement this method?"
"Our technology is developing rapidly, and various new technologies have brought us unprecedented benefits and experiences. However, no matter how fast technology develops, it still cannot explain or explore the mysteries of ourselves or what our universe really is."
The future direction of humankind lies in a choice: will we rely on the evolution of human material things to move towards the future, or will we rely on the evolution of human spirit to integrate into the universe?
Our consciousness is quantum; brainwaves are tiny conduits, and quantum consciousness exists within these conduits. Now that we have achieved the quark-photon engine, we can combine quantum consciousness with the quark-photon engine. Whether it's storage and being stored, mutual coupling, or any other relationship, I believe that combining the two is what I call the second point of focus.
Ladies and gentlemen, we must be clearly aware that the universe we inhabit is a simulation, everything we experience is virtual, and the space, time, and matter of this world are illusions created by our perception.
Zhou Yuan could explain the evolution of human consciousness in this virtual universe very clearly, but he didn't insist whether humans on Earth could achieve the same. These scientists were also considering Zhou Yuan's proposal of photonizing consciousness.
On Friday the 27th, Thomas convened a meeting of the Empire's top leadership.
"Dean Kofi, what is the Academy of Sciences' view on the phenomenon of the Milky Way's sudden disappearance?"
"Commander-in-Chief, this question will be answered by our great computing experts."
Many years later, the operations engineer married a human woman and gave birth to a child named computation.
Zhou Yuan looked at the calculation carefully. Apart from resembling his father's appearance, he had more of that sunny and confident quality.
"Commander-in-Chief, Sage, everyone, because I work in computing, my father and I often discuss the purpose of this virtual universe. My father and I believe that this virtual universe, the Three Thousand Worlds, is likely similar to a bunch of virtual machines. These one billion virtual machines, I personally speculate, are simulated and evolved by our mother world, perhaps representing the evolution of civilization. Because the mother world's resources are limited, the virtual machine calculations must have a certain degree of convergence, so this virtual universe has three major mechanisms: the speed of light limit, causality, and resource recycling. The sudden disappearance of the Milky Way is because we destroyed stars and broke the rules set by the virtual universe. We became a bug in this virtual universe. The disappearance of the Milky Way is the resource recycling mechanism at work, trying to eliminate this bug. However, the Sage is an abnormal bug in this virtual universe. The existence of the Sage is why the Five Heavenly Trigrams did not disappear with the disappearance of the Milky Way."
Zhou Yuan looked at the computation with admiration. Although the computation was all hypothetical, Zhou Yuan believed that its thinking had already surpassed that of humans by a considerable margin. Virtual machines, limited resources and the speed of light, causality, and resource recycling—these three mechanisms—were this the high-level summary of this virtual universe? Zhou Yuan pondered this question carefully.
"In this universe, how can we prevent things like the Milky Way suddenly disappearing?"
"Commander-in-Chief, none of the powerful weapons proposed by the Sage, such as the Sky-Sniping Arrow, the Sky-Suppressing Bowl, and the Galaxy Drive, have been put into practice yet, have they?"
"Yes, we are preparing to conduct the experiment after the sage has awakened this time."
"If we test even one weapon, we might be subject to the recycling mechanism. To avoid events like the sudden disappearance of the Milky Way, we can deceive the mother world to prevent the recycling mechanism from working."
Deception is a method of concealing the truth through appearances. It is unknown what kind of deception the computation will use to evade the mother world's elimination of the bug that is the human in the virtual world.