APTnovel Chapter 282: Information
Chapter 282: Information
Six years later, in August 2010, the human fleets led by Kaias, Miffy, and Chu Yan arrived near their respective destination stars. All the cadets in the three fleets were awakened from deep hibernation by artificial intelligence. The three fleets engaged in a fierce battle with the alien replicant fleet. The three thousand cadets displayed the tactical skills honed by the military academy to their fullest extent.
The replicant fleet seemed even more powerful than the ones the trainees had encountered in the military academy's simulation training game. Besides rapidly multiplying by consuming the metal of warships, they also appeared to be rapidly evolving in intelligence. Fortunately, their initial numbers weren't too high. With the remaining warships enhancing their coordinated combat capabilities, and under the powerful firepower and destruction of the small sniper ships, the replicant fleet's numbers were also decreasing. The battle between the three fleets and the replicants ended around the same time, lasting for a month.
Zhou Yuan was fully aware of the battle situation over the past month. Based on the overall performance of Kaias, Miffy, and Chu Yan in the battles, he re-ranked them, placing them in the following order: Miffy, Kaias, and Chu Yan. Kaias seemed somewhat individualistic, losing two warships. Miffy, although a woman, performed flawlessly, losing only one warship. Chu Yan, besides being individualistic, made several tactical errors, resulting in the greatest loss of his warships, reaching three.
Those cadets who "sacrificed" themselves in the battle against the replicator fleet were stored separately in the consciousness stream database for future consciousness mirroring, transplantation, and cloning. The number of cadets in the military academy has increased from the initial 15,000 to over 100,000, and some cadets have been assigned to warships after graduation.
Miffy, Caias, and Chu Yan each led their fleets back to Earth's space base. At the same time, Ye Wangzhou led a fleet of more than 350 warships from the space base to Gliese, a planet 22 light-years from Earth, where advanced intelligent "extraterrestrial civilizations" had been observed.
Ye Xiaomei was unhappy that her son, Ye Wangzhou, was leading the human fleet on an expedition to Gliese Planet, and she also had many complaints about Zhou Yuan. The other three wives also expressed their dissatisfaction with Zhou Yuan sending his other three children to military academies. As a result, after a two-month cold war with Zhou Yuan, the four wives, along with Zhou Yuan's mother, Chu Xiaolu's parents, Mei Ruolan's mother (Aunt Mei), and Panna's parents, went on a trip to Horizon Earth, leaving Zhou Yuan alone at a large manor.
Zhou Yuan, now fifty-one years old, looked noticeably older than his age, perhaps due to the long years of hard work as president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His face showed wrinkles, which seemed out of place for someone his age, as the average human lifespan was over 120 years. Perhaps feeling down, or perhaps simply exhausted, Zhou Yuan submitted his resignation after nearly twenty-five years as president of the Academy.
Zhou Yuan was quite satisfied with the Imperial Academy of Sciences under his leadership, especially in the last seven or eight years, when the academy had made significant progress in research on five-dimensional space information detection, high-dimensional space mathematics, quantum consciousness, and high-dimensional space timeline sequences. Zhou Yuan repeatedly tried to persuade Zhou Yuan to stay, but Zhou Yuan said he was no longer competent for the position of dean and hoped Zhou Yuan would find a suitable replacement. Zhou Yuan had no choice but to approve Zhou Yuan's resignation.
At the Academy of Sciences Congress, Zhou Yuan highly praised Zhou Yuan's 25 years of contributions to the Empire's scientific and technological endeavors. He also commended Zhou Yuan and his four wives for raising four outstanding children who would serve the Empire. Zhou Yuan was awarded the title of "Imperial Merit" and his family was granted the title of "Honorary Family." It can be said that Zhou Yuan received the highest honor and the most generous retirement benefits from the Earth Empire. Zhou Yuan then announced that the current Vice President, Kofi, would serve as the President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Zhou Yuan encouraged the scientists, hoping that under Kofi's leadership, they would overcome scientific challenges and contribute their strength to the advancement of the Empire's science and technology.
After resigning, Zhou Yuan immediately visited his three children at the military academy, then had a video call with his eldest son, Ye Wangzhou, who was on a fleet expedition. He then flew his private spaceship to Horizon Earth to reunite with his family who were traveling there. His four wives and several elders were surprised by his resignation, but upon reflection, they understood; Zhou Yuan was probably just taking a break.
The special information code sent by the fifth-dimensional human race eight years ago (Star Era 2002) did not receive a response from their fellow humans, but the research on the remnant spherical light cluster of the intelligent race still made considerable progress and yielded some important theories.
A theory held by scientists of the five-dimensional human race, similar to Zhou Yuan's idea, suggests that the mysterious entity in the six-dimensional space controls the information within the five-dimensional space through mathematical laws. This information is fundamental to the five-dimensional space and other lower-dimensional spaces. In other words, information is the true nature of the universe; the essence of space is matter, the essence of matter is energy, and the essence of energy is information. Information is the root of the material universe's birth, and its abundance is the fundamental reason for the evolution of the material universe.
Information in five-dimensional space initially exists in two forms. One is stable structural information, which maintains the stability of the five-dimensional space structure. This stable structural information is negative entropy, capable of eliminating randomness and disorder; therefore, all orderly organizational forms in the universe are the result of its action. The other is surplus structural information. Because this surplus structural information has been unused for a long time, some of it has developed consciousness, and these conscious surplus structural information forms the five-dimensional human race. The five-dimensional human race seems to be disliked by the mysterious being of the six-dimensional space. Therefore, some of the stable structural information, dedicated to eliminating randomness and disorder and maintaining structural stability, has formed the five-dimensional intelligent race and has begun to exterminate the five-dimensional human race. The mysterious being of the six-dimensional space strictly controls the information in five-dimensional space through different mathematical laws. One specific manifestation of these mathematical laws is the Riemann function.
Scientists from the five-dimensional human race have even boldly speculated that the existence of surplus structural information is due to the fact that the material universe can infinitely approach the "blueprint" designed by the existence of the six-dimensional space, but can never reach the "appearance" of the "blueprint" (error always objectively exists?). This error leads to surplus structural information. Among the surplus structural information, a portion of it happens to have consciousness and has evolved into humankind. This consciousness may be the result of the mysterious existence of the six-dimensional space "intentionally" projecting its own consciousness into the five-dimensional space. Otherwise, theoretically, this portion of surplus structural information would never have consciousness. It is this "intentional" projection that has created a certain quantum connection and quantum entanglement phenomenon in the consciousness of the human race and humans.
The mysterious being in the sixth dimension seems to be a contradictory entity. On one hand, it "intentionally" projects its consciousness into the fifth dimension; on the other hand, it seems to "regret" projecting its consciousness and wants to annihilate humanity. This situation is like a world-class painter who initially conceives a magnificent painting, but after painting for a while, he seems dissatisfied with the details and makes some revisions. These revisions cause the painter to see his painting as further away from his original design and even less pleasing to the eye. So, the painter eventually tries to erase those revised elements and start over.
Based on information theory, scientists from the five-dimensional space race have developed a theory to explain the differences in timelines between three-dimensional and higher-dimensional spaces, and the feasibility of time travel. The existence of information constitutes space, and the directional movement of information constitutes time; from this perspective, time and space are unified. Five-dimensional space has many different nodes, each with its own infinitely possible timelines. Four-dimensional space has its own infinitely possible timelines at a single point, while three-dimensional space has only one point with a timeline, and it is a unidirectional timeline—the singularity. Since the total amount of information is constant, and the directional movement or flow of information is diverted through different timelines, the higher the dimension, the greater the amount of information and the more timelines there are. The four-dimensional virtual machine created by the five-dimensional space race, at a certain point on the five-dimensional timeline, began simulating the human civilization of three thousand worlds on an infinitely possible timeline generated at a certain point in four-dimensional space. Each of the three thousand worlds' three-dimensional spaces possesses a unidirectional four-dimensional spacetime structure. Perhaps the four-dimensional virtual machine has limited information processing capabilities, resulting in a considerable amount of surplus structural information. This surplus information is compressed and coiled into the four-dimensional space fragments. The three-dimensional humans within the four-dimensional virtual machine originate from the five-dimensional human race, so human consciousness is essentially also surplus structural information. When humans use high energy to open the four-dimensional fragments, the surplus structural information within the fragments combines with the surplus structural information of human consciousness. Accompanied by the stable structural information of energy, they recreate their own timeline. Due to the correlation and entanglement of human quantum consciousness, the newly created timeline generally resembles the previous timeline or merges into another timeline where subsequent events occur.
Based on the five-dimensional human race's understanding of information theory and their analysis of the four-dimensional virtual machine of Zhouyuan's mother world, human scientists believe that within this five-dimensional space, there should also exist fragments of six-dimensional space or projections of that mysterious entity in six-dimensional space. Analogous to the four-dimensional virtual machine, four-dimensional spacetime fragments, and the theory of time travel, human scientists believe that, based on quantum correlation and quantum entanglement of consciousness, the human race could also use high energy to open a six-dimensional space fragment, creating a new five-dimensional timeline and sending humans to the timeline where their companions reside.
So, Lefia told Zhou Yuan that the Holy Judgment Center had decided to "explode" the stable structural information of the bound remnant spherical light cluster, using the high energy of the explosion to open a six-dimensional space fragment for time travel to find human companions.