Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 203 Poincaré Returns

After the interrogation of Tang Yun was over, the four of them finally gathered again at the headquarters of the Planetary Security Bureau.

But this is not the time to really close the case.There is one last procedure to be done.

Go to the planetary security research room, and tell the researchers all the incidents in detail from beginning to end, so that the researchers can archive this case and use it for follow-up research.

Same as last time, this time, the four were still separated, each accepted the questioning, and each told the whole process of the case from his own perspective.

This time, it was still Professor Ning who received Lu Ming.

"Hello, Lu Ming, congratulations to your second team for solving another trouble."

Not seen for a while, Professor Ning is still in good spirits.Although his hair was a little gray, it was not messy.

Seeing Professor Ning, Lu Ming felt slightly ashamed.

"It's probably not our solution to this case. In fact, we can do very little in this case."

And it is.Whether Reaper will hit Earth or not depends entirely on luck.The entire human world is powerless to interfere in this matter, let alone the Second Action Team.

"You can't say that."

Professor Ning shook his head: "Through your own analysis, you have made the decision to suggest a smaller-scale mobilization. As far as I know, your suggestion has a lot of weight in the final decision. You have prevented our human world from Lots of losses."

"Frankly, I wasn't sure at the time either."

Professor Ning smiled and didn't dwell on this topic any more.

"let us start?"

"it is good."

Lu Ming sorted out his thoughts, from the very beginning when he got the file, started the investigation of the crash of EU7655 flight, to the follow-up soybean mutation blight, the leakage of chemical substances caused by the earthquake, etc., one by one, one by one, and here During the process, one's own response, one's own thinking, judgment, choice, and reasons, etc., have all been described in the original. Until now, the possible impact point of the Death Star has been inferred from the error in the orbit of the Grim Reaper, and from this Reversely deduce the location of the Ark base, its occupation, and the arrest of Tang Yun in the final stage, as well as the interrogation.

It took Lu Ming two days to tell the whole story.At this moment, beside Professor Ning, the researcher in charge of recording has already recorded hundreds of pages of documents.

"I'm done."

"it is good."

Professor Ning carefully flipped through the document, while Lu Ming remained silent.Gradually, a thoughtful look appeared on Professor Ning's face.

"So, the two most crucial mysteries are, first, how did time travel happen, and second, since it is time travel, why there is an error, and you don't have an answer to these two questions?"

Lu Ming nodded: "Yes. And, I think, there is a high probability that we will never find the answer. But... I have some conjectures."

"Guess? Tell me."

Lu Ming was silent for a moment, then said: "I always believe that time travel in the conventional sense cannot exist."

Professor Ning thought for a moment and said: "Indeed. Your speculation is reasonable. I also think that there is only one timeline. Since it is the future, it has not happened yet, and it does not exist at all. Since there is no future timeline , why talk about traveling back from the future?"

Lu Ming always believes that neither the past nor the future exists, only the present exists.

You cannot travel back to the past from the present, and you cannot travel back to the present from the future.

"However, your interrogation also showed that Tang Yun's 'traversal' did indeed occur, or at least something similar to 'traveling' occurred."

"I have two conjectures. The first conjecture is that the so-called time travel is just an illusion.

There is some kind of existence that we don’t know—it may be gods, it may be aliens, in short, it is an existence that has mastered some kind of power beyond our imagination. They, decades ago, on the night when Tang Yun was 16 years old, Based on Tang Yun at that time, a future simulation was carried out.

Because of their extremely strong technical strength, they can complete extremely high-precision information collection that we can't imagine.Based on these data, they simulated Tang Yun's future life.

In this simulation, they foresee almost all of Tang Yun's life history, including the future disaster caused by the death star hitting the earth, and Tang Yun's final death.After the simulation was completed, they transplanted this 'memory' into Tang Yun's head.Thus, an effect similar to 'crossing' is created.

However, since it is a simulation, it is obvious that such a rule will be followed: the closer the simulation is to the time, the higher the accuracy.The farther in time, the less accurate.Thus, the existence of 'error' can be explained. "

There is no crossing.Just simulate.Since it is a simulation, there must be errors.

Therefore, there is a 2 minute difference between the predicted earthquake time and the actual earthquake time.Therefore, the predicted orbit of the Reaper star deviated from the real orbit of the Reaper star by more than 1000 kilometers, which led to two very different endings.

Professor Ning nodded: "This is indeed a conjecture that can explain the two core issues. However, I remember that you denied this conjecture early on."

Lu Ming said: "Indeed. I don't think it is possible to make such precise predictions over such a long time span, but still not touch the randomness at the bottom of the universe."

"The randomness at the bottom of the universe will make this kind of prediction completely unfeasible."

Lu Ming said: "Maybe there really is some kind of physical law that we don't know, which makes this prediction actually feasible?"

At the current stage, the human world still knows too little about the universe.Although the physical knowledge that has been obtained so far is not wrong with a very high probability, it is just not perfect, but this possibility cannot be said to be completely non-existent.

Professor Ning said, "Lu Ming, you seem to be trying your best to convince yourself of this conjecture?"

Lu Ming frowned slightly, and then he was relieved for a moment: "Yes, Professor Ning. I am actually very conflicted. I know this conjecture is not reliable, but... I prefer this conjecture to another conjecture. That's the truth."

Professor Ning was very interested: "Do you have another conjecture? That conjecture is terrible?"

Lu Ming shook his head: "It can't be said to be scary."

"What is it?"

Lu Ming sighed: "Poincaré is back."

"Oh?"

Professor Ning's expression became serious unconsciously.

For a certain type of system, as long as a sufficiently long but finite time passes, it will definitely reach a state arbitrarily close to the initial state, or must return to the initial state itself.

This is the Poincaré regression theorem.Its relatively simple and popular description is that in a closed system, any particle must be able to return to its position infinitely close to its initial position after a long time.

For the entire universe, at this moment, the distribution state of all the particles in the universe, after a long enough time, at a certain moment in the future, all the particles in the universe will inevitably return to their position at this moment (Infinitely close).

Fundamentally speaking, all phenomena in the universe are just different distributions of particles.

Volcanoes, earthquakes, avalanches, the sun burning, black holes swallowing stars, asteroids hitting the earth, supernova explosions...

Everything is just a different distribution of elementary particles.The distribution state of these numerous microcosmic particles determines what the universe will look like.

The Poincaré regression theorem states that at some point in the future, the universe must be in a state almost exactly like it is at this moment.

Of course, this time is very long, so long that it is completely meaningless to ordinary people.But no matter how long it is, it is limited.Since it is limited, it will definitely appear.

At this moment, a bird caught a bug.At this moment, the girl abandoned the boy, and the boy was crying sadly.At this moment, someone won the lottery and was extremely happy.At this moment, deep in the universe, two neutron stars collided and released a strong gravitational wave.At this moment, the black hole roared and swallowed a star...

At this moment, countless things are happening in the universe at the same time.

But in the long enough future, after a Poincaré return time, it will all happen again.

What has happened will happen again.

Professor Ning weighed his words: "Lu Ming, you mean that Tang Yun's memory about the future actually comes from the past—from a past before Poincaré returned to time? In that world, Has everything we've been through already happened?"

Lu Ming nodded.

"It's really crazy speculation."

Professor Ning sighed: "Then, how do you explain the existence of errors?"

Lu Ming took the paper and pen, and drew two intersecting straight lines on the paper.

"There is a principle that different causes may lead to the same effect, and the same cause may lead to different effects. Cause and effect do not correspond."

Like flipping a switch, the light doesn't always come on.

Professor Ning nodded: "From the perspective of the randomness at the bottom of the universe, this is indeed the case."

Lu Ming pointed to the piece of paper in front of him: "These two lines represent the progress of our world, and the progress of the world before Poincaré returned to time."

Professor Ning looked down.

Lu Ming continued: "The return of Poincaré happened at the intersection. At this moment, the two worlds are extremely similar. But it's just this moment."

"The 'causes' of the two worlds are different, but lead to the same result, that is, the intersection point. At the same time, after that, the same 'cause' of the intersection point leads to different subsequent 'effects'. So , the two straight lines intersect only once, and since then they have moved away from each other, and there is no possibility of intersection.”

Lu Ming nodded: "This is the source of the error."

Professor Ning said: "I understand. However, do you have any evidence to support this conjecture?"

"There are some things, I don't know if they can be regarded as evidence."

Lu Ming said: "We interrogated Tang Yun. We found that Tang Yun's 'last life' was different from his current life, and some historical details were different. For example, the names of several famous historical figures deviated by one word, and some historical events , and the time varies from a few hours to a few days.

After statistics, we found that the more distant the historical events, the greater the deviation.The closer the distance, the smaller the deviation.Until the moment of the 'meeting point', the two worlds basically coincided.But after the point of intersection, the course of the world goes awry again, those errors that we observe. "

All of this is just like the two straight lines drawn by Lu Ming.They were originally far apart, but slowly approached and finally intersected.After intersecting, they distanced themselves from each other, getting farther and farther away.

"This should be regarded as a support."

Professor Ning gave a conclusion.

Lu Ming nodded.

"Okay. Assuming Poincaré returns, how did the memory of Tang Yun in the previous life come to Tang Yun's head in this life?"

"I do not know."

Lu Ming shook his head: "Even, our theoretical system doesn't cover this possibility at all."

Professor Ning thought for a moment in silence, and finally found that under the existing theoretical system, such a thing could not happen.

When Poincaré returned, all matter was reorganized and all information was lost. How could such transmission happen?
"Maybe... the high-dimensional world? The high-dimensional world obtained information from the observations at that time, and will return the information today?"

"Not feasible."

Lu Ming shook his head and denied this conjecture: "If the high-dimensional world can observe our universe, then it either means that the high-dimensional world is a part of our universe, and the Poincaré regression also involves the high-dimensional world, or it means that our The universe is not in a closed state, so there is no way to talk about Poincaré's return."

Poincaré regression is only suitable for isolated closed systems.

Professor Ning frowned and thought hard for a long time, finally smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Well, it seems that both of our conjectures have fatal loopholes. The first conjecture will be hindered by randomness at the bottom of the universe. The second conjecture will be hindered by particle reorganization and information loss."

"Yes."

Lu Ming sighed: "So, I still can't figure out how those prophecies about the future come from."

"Okay, don't think about it any more."

Professor Ning said: "You have done a good enough job. There are too many unknowns in this universe. With our current capabilities, it is really impossible to make everything clear. Maybe we don't know what to do now. I don’t understand, but the truth is actually very simple? Maybe there are some deviations in our understanding of the universe. For some unknown beings, the universe may be very simple?

Maybe...is this just a prank by some boring alien passing by Earth? "

Lu Ming also laughed: "Indeed. If you can't figure it out, don't think about it for now."

"So, do you have anything to add?"

"Nothing."

"Okay. That's it for now."

Professor Ning got up and shook hands with Lu Ming: "I hope to see you next time and tell me how you dealt with another trouble."

"There will be. Then, goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Lu Ming left the Planetary Security Research Office and came to the office area of ​​the Second Action Team.Zhang Dingshan, He Wei, and Lu Qingliang were already waiting there.

"So, have you thought about how to go on vacation?"

The third volume "Prophecy" of "Notes on the Investigation of Paranormal Events" ends.

Please look forward to the fourth volume of "Bad Luck".

Introduction to the fourth volume "Bad Luck": 21 years of unlucky consecutive years, is there really such an unlucky person in this world?

(End of this chapter)