Paranormal Investigation Notes

Chapter 248 Beneficial Insects and Pests

At this moment, facing the real data, Lu Ming also had to admit that the little pigs who had gone through this batch of sacrifices, who should theoretically have worse luck, had... indeed better luck.

At the same time, there is another point that is basically certain, that is, there is a high probability that the God of Destiny really has the ability to affect the underlying laws of the universe.

The reason why it is said to be a high probability rather than a complete certainty is still that the experimental samples are too small.After all, in terms of probability, there is still a certain possibility that the results of a single test deviate from the normal value in a large range.

This ability has exceeded the limit of human technological strength at this stage.At this stage, human beings are still exploring even the underlying laws of the universe, let alone influencing and changing them.

This is something that can only be done by super alien civilizations whose technology surpasses that of humans.Even, in Lu Ming's comparison, the alien civilization in the "Mountain God" incident that led him to join the second team of the Planetary Security Bureau and almost killed himself is unlikely to have this ability .

That alien civilization currently only has the ability to travel faster than the speed of light.And if it's just the technology of faster-than-light navigation, its technical content is undoubtedly much lower than "changing the underlying laws of the universe".

But this didn't make Lu Ming feel fear, on the contrary, it aroused his fighting spirit even more.

"Even if it is a super alien civilization, it can also be analyzed and understood by us humans. What's more, this sarcophagus basically cannot represent the entire super alien civilization. At most, it is just the super alien civilization. A tool, an artifact left over from the star civilization."

"The experiment continues."

Lu Ming gave the order.

The result of a single experiment may have a large deviation, but repeated experiments can level this deviation as much as possible, making it close to the real probability.

So, under Lu Ming's order, the experiment continued.

During this time, another 150 sows gave birth to a total of 1269 piglets.630 of them were sent to the sanctuary and participated in the sacrifice.The remaining 639 heads were not treated in any way.

The second "Schrödinger pig" experiment officially started.

Lu Ming still adopted the method of first taking a random number as a delay, and then automatically triggering the start command.The reason for doing this is to eliminate human factors as much as possible, and leave everything in the experimental process to "God's will" and leave it to random decisions.

This time, Lu Ming personally participated in the statistical work.With his own eyes, he watched piglets being taken out of the black box, dead or alive, and the two groups of piglets that had been sacrificed and piglets that had not been sacrificed continued to grow, and finally got the statistics. data.

“639头01型小猪，死亡314头，存活325头。死亡率比存活率，为49.17%：50.83%。”

This time the statistical data is closer to the statistical probability of 50%.

After that, there are relevant statistics of the sacrificed piglets.

“630头02型小猪，死亡271头，存活359头。死亡率比存活率，为43.02%：56.98%。”

The same as the first statistical result, the mortality rate of the second batch of piglets that participated in the sacrifice still deviated from the survival rate by 50% to a large extent.

If the first result was only due to coincidence and deviation, then the same is true for the second result, which undoubtedly minimized the possibility of "coincidence and deviation".

It's impossible for both experiments to be coincidences, right?This is too much of a coincidence.

"Continue to experiment."

Under Lu Ming's order, the third, fourth, and subsequent experiments were carried out one after another.Batches of piglets were sent to the sanctuary, participated in the sacrifice, and then sent into the black box together with the piglets that did not participate in the sacrifice, to accept the judgment of "fate".

When all the 8925 pregnant sows had given birth, the experiment came to an end.Throughout the experiment, a total of 4480 piglets participated in the experiment, among which 4445 piglets accepted sacrifices, and [-] piglets did not accept sacrifices.

Among these two piglets, the overall mortality and survival rates were 49.26%: 50.74%, and 36.55%: 63.45%.

From these two figures, many things can already be seen.

The first is the piglets that did not receive the sacrifice. After expanding the number of experimental samples, it can be clearly noticed that the final proportion is closer to 50%.This undoubtedly verifies the impact of the randomness at the bottom of the universe in the real world.

However, the comparison between the death rate and the survival rate of the piglets that participated in the sacrifice did not approach 50%, but instead tended to further widen the gap.

If all the piglets in the test field participated in the sacrifice and finally got this value, then it can be doubted whether it is caused by some other off-site factors.But now, the two types of piglets receive a unified feed supply, a unified living environment and place, a unified drinking water, and unified care by personnel. They were even mixed together before. Those who are responsible for taking care of the piglets Personnel, simply do not know the difference between the two piglets.

The black box used in the Schrödinger pig experiment is also completely random.It is not a black box that is fixed for piglets that have participated in sacrifices or that have not been sacrificed.Maybe the person who entered the black box this time participated in the sacrifice, and the next time it will be replaced by someone who did not participate in the sacrifice.

It can be said that apart from whether or not he participated in the sacrifice, any other factors that might lead to deviations in the results were ruled out by Lu Ming in advance.

In this case, it can only be considered that the sacrifice to the God of Destiny led to deviations in the results, and it can be concluded that the God of Destiny does have the ability to affect the randomness at the bottom of the universe.

Based on this result and speculating again, the next conclusion can be drawn: the God of Destiny has a high probability of affecting the luck of the target life—whether the life is a human or a livestock—by affecting the randomness at the bottom of the universe.

After all, at this moment, it has been confirmed that Destiny has this ability.However, since it possesses this ability, it ends up letting this ability go unused, instead using the method of affecting chaos to affect luck, which is obviously unreasonable.

However, after proving this point and drawing this conclusion, a new question was posed in front of Lu Ming.

Why do piglets that should be unlucky in theory have better luck and a higher survival rate in experiments?
What went wrong?Or... the real ability of this sarcophagus is actually to improve the luck of people or livestock, and then because of a mistake in a certain link, the final result is reversed?

Lu Ming realized that if the truth of the matter turned out to be the case, then his own strategy might have to be changed.After all, a sarcophagus that can make people bad luck should be treated differently than one that can make people good luck.

If its real ability is the latter, then maybe what our side wants to think about is not to "end" this incident, but to find a way to maximize its use.

Think about it, if you can find a way to improve the luck of a core scientist who participated in a major scientific research, does this mean that your side is more likely to produce a technological breakthrough?
If a soldier who is going to perform a dangerous mission can receive the "blessing" of the sarcophagus in advance, can many casualties be avoided and many lives saved?

If all this is true, the benefits are simply endless.

After thinking about it, Lu Ming made a decision.

"This batch of sows and piglets should not be transported back to the pig farm for the time being. Just stay here and raise them."

Breeding here is more conducive to monitoring the follow-up luck of this batch of piglets.

"Yes."

Lu Ming's order was immediately conveyed to the relevant breeders.

It should be pointed out that from the very beginning, these front-line personnel did not know the inside story of this experiment at all, nor did they know the difference between the two piglets.In reality, these two kinds of piglets are also completely mixed together and raised uniformly.

Only core personnel know the difference between the two piglets.

In this way, it is equivalent to doing a double-blind experiment, which can ensure the accuracy of the experimental data to the greatest extent.

As a result, these thousands of piglets who survived the "fate" trial lived in this luxuriously built manor with beautiful scenery, and were constantly monitored by ubiquitous cameras.

These data were once again brought together by the data analysts and entered into the luck value statistical model.

Every milk snatching, every frolic, every wrestling, every eating and drinking, every sickness, every vaccination between piglets...

All data has been collected.

Seven days later, Lu Ming got the final statistics.

"Based on the real-life environment of piglets, the average luck value of Type 01 piglets is 4.96, which is slightly lower than the average value. But the deviation is very small, and it can basically be considered normal. The average luck value of Type 02 piglets is 4.26, which is relatively low. A large deviation from the average value can basically be regarded as bad luck."

The final statistics once again exceeded Lu Ming's expectations.

In the Schrödinger pig experiment, the piglets who were obviously lucky performed poorly now?

How is this going?

In the video conference room, Lu Qingliang and He Wei watched the final result and were silent for a long time.

They don't know how to evaluate the result.

Obviously luck is worse, but the survival rate is higher.Obviously the survival rate is high, but in reality the luck is even worse.

Lu Ming pondered for a moment, then finally shook his head.

"Perhaps, we thought wrong at the beginning. Perhaps... the god of destiny, um, the ability of this sarcophagus does not actually affect the luck of living organisms such as humans or animals. It simply affects the randomness at the bottom of the universe. That's all."

Lu Qingliang and He Wei looked at each other in blank dismay.They didn't understand the meaning of Lu Ming's words.

"Good or bad luck is not the essence of things. They are just a concept defined by us. The essence should be similar to..."

Lu Ming thought for a moment, and said a word: "Probiotics. Or, beneficial insects, pests, beneficial animals, harmful animals, etc."

A hint of understanding appeared in He Wei's eyes.

"I probably understand."

She said: "The so-called probiotics or germs, beneficial insects or pests, beneficial animals or harmful animals are actually just a concept defined by us. We call bacteria, insects, and beasts that are beneficial to us probiotics, beneficial insects, and beneficial animals." Beasts refer to those that are harmful to us as germs, vermin, and vermin. But in essence...do bacteria, insects, and beasts care about this classification? Or, this classification, in essence, changes them Are you in survival mode?"

The answer is obvious, no.

Insects are defined as beneficial insects, which are eating and reproducing in order to maintain their survival.Insects are defined as pests, they are also eating and multiplying.The difference is only that one behavior is beneficial to humans and the other is harmful to humans.

That's it.

No matter how they are defined, they are always what they are.

As far as the so-called good luck and bad luck are concerned, the god of fate, or the sarcophagus, all it does is affect the randomness at the bottom of the universe.It just so happened that this kind of influence showed unlucky characteristics in the macrocosm, so it was considered bad luck.

For this reason, in the Schrödinger pig experiment, it seems plausible that piglets with less luck would have a higher survival rate.Because the god of fate did not affect their luck at all.All it affects is randomness, nothing more.

With He Wei's explanation, Lu Qingliang gradually understood.

"That's how it should be."

This experiment not only allowed Lu Ming to understand the way the God of Destiny affects the fate of life, but also let him know the essence of this influence.

Then, another new question was posed to Lu Ming, and to the entire Second Action Team.

"Next, what should we do?"

That's right... Even if you know these things, how should you arrange your next actions?
Knowing the way and knowing the essence, there is still no obvious instruction for the arrangement of subsequent specific things.

Find out more specifically why the God of Destiny, or the sarcophagus, can affect the probability, and by which method—fantasy or scientific—to affect the probability, or randomness?
Clearly, at least at this stage, this is not possible.

This is beyond the limits of human technology.

Lu Ming didn't think about this question at the moment.What he was thinking about was another matter.

Lu Ming remained silent, and Lu Qingliang and He Wei also remained silent.

At this stage, under the circumstances that Zhang Dingshan had to remain in a coma, and the things he was facing were so unpredictable, Lu Ming's brain was the only thing he could rely on.

After a long time, Lu Ming sighed silently.

"What I'm thinking is...the so-called probability, the so-called randomness, what is its essence?"

Lu Qingliang and He Wei looked at each other again.

What is essence?Random is random, probability is probability, this thing... also has essence?
Lu Ming shook his head: "I know, this question is too profound, even a little close to the field of philosophy, but... oh."

He sighed again.

(End of this chapter)