Genius club

Lin Xian and VV looked at each other with twinkling eyes, but neither of them spoke.

VV is the trash can robot of this era. Of course it will not be forced to avoid it. No one can control its mouth and it can speak freely.

But even in this case...

VV is still unwilling, and Zhao Yingjun does not allow it to tell the matter, which means——

[What they conceal together is very important time and space information. Once exposed in advance, it will definitely cause changes in the world line...or it may be counterproductive to your future plans. 】

Therefore, he decided to hide it from himself along with "Yu Xi's Letter".

"I see."

Lin Xian nodded:

"Is it the same as the letter Yu Xi wrote to me? In other words, these two things are actually the same thing, both written in "Yu Xi's Letter"."

"However, you also hinted to me before that Yingjun didn't intend to hide the letter that Yu Xi wrote to me. So when will you let me read it?"

VV turned his head and looked at the moonlight passing in front of the fighter jet at high speed, his eyes flashed twice:

"When it's time to show it to you, I will naturally show it to you."

…

Returning to the Rhine University, the roundtable started again.

As the big daddy of combat power, VV naturally has a place.

It's just that its weight is so heavy that no one can lift it onto a chair; what's more, a wooden chair can't support its hafnium alloy tonnage.

so.

have no choice.

VV can still only stand on the ground for meetings, and the stubborn trash can is only a Tianling lid higher than the conference table, proving its existence.

"Where's Gao Yang?"

Lin Xian looked left and right, but didn't see the familiar fat man:

"This is the first formal meeting after waking up from hibernation. Why don't you call him? I suddenly discovered that Gao Yang doesn't seem to be involved in every confidential meeting."

Although Gao Yang's IQ is limited, he is still his companion across 500 years of time and space, so he cannot be isolated.

"He didn't come on his own."

Liu Feng spread his hands:

"Gao Yang said that what we discussed was too profound. I could keep up with my thinking before, but now I can't understand it, so I simply stopped coming and focused on taking over the position of security director of Rhine University."

"Actually, the people in Gaoyang are quite nice."

VV raised the hafnium alloy clip and spoke:

"I have seen more things than you. Gao Yang has actually been trying his best to help you, but he found that he can only add trouble and cannot really help."

"But there is one thing to say. Gao Yang has nothing to say about his loyalty to Lin Xian. He does think about Lin Xian all the time. At first he planned to quit his favorite job and go into space with Lin Xian, but later he gave up everything to hibernate with Lin Xian until future."

"He is different from you. He has no ability, no responsibility and mission; but he is still willing to fight for the future of mankind... Well, although rescuing Chu Anqing is his first driving force, the results are all It’s the same.”

Lin Xian waved his hand:

"Let him be, he can do whatever he wants."

He and Gao Yang grew up in the same family home and knew each other very well.

Just as Qin Xi said not long ago.

People who came from hibernation in the old days always had a sense of emptiness and loneliness in their eyes.

Now this new and prosperous world is almost nothing to hibernators like them, like a ghost that should not appear here.

What exactly can Gao Yang do?

Lin Xian didn't know.

No one knows.

Gao Yang doesn't have the wild imagination of Liu Feng, the IQ that stands at the top of mankind like Gao Wen, is not as knowledgeable as Du Yao Jask, and is not as omnipotent as VV.

He is an ordinary person through and through.

An ordinary person who should have been working as a salesperson in a 4S store, getting married and having children, living in the 21st century and dying in the 21st century.

The current burden of saving the world and the future is entirely imposed on the little fat man because of himself.

So, let it be.

"A man born fat must be useful. Every magnificent story in history is inseparable from a fat man."

Lin Xian concluded:

"Maybe Gao Yang will also have such a highlight moment."

"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. Let's continue the interrupted meeting and report on the situation of this era."

…

Liu Feng and Gao Wen gave a long report until dawn.

Overall, there was nothing surprising or surprising to Lin Xian.

Technology has indeed developed, but it has not been revolutionary.

In cutting-edge frontier fields, human beings have suffered many losses because huge amounts of resources and time were wasted in the wrong direction.

Controllable nuclear fusion and spacecraft that can sail out of the solar system have been realized.

However, the planets suitable for human habitation outside the solar system are too far away. Counting the long time for the spacecraft to accelerate and decelerate, it will take at least a thousand years to start.

The universe is too vast and human beings are too small.

After a thousand-year journey, even if there is a hibernation chamber for hibernation, who can guarantee that there will be no problems with the spacecraft itself, including the various internal circulation equipment and electronic equipment?

Interstellar voyage is a complex subject, and boundless investment often fails to yield even an inch of results.

not to mention.

For ordinary people around the world, they prefer life on earth and are satisfied with everything they have now. Interstellar voyage itself is a false and empty proposition without demand.

Regarding the cosmological constant, Liu Feng and Gao Wen have also found a way to calculate the final result of 42.

but.

That's it for now, there's no way to go deeper.

Because I have no idea why it is 42, what 42 means, and what is the significance of 42... The research on the cosmological constant 42 has completely reached a dead end.

Newton and Galileo were still hiding deeply, maybe they were even hibernating, and no clues were found at all.

The only thing that is more exciting is that——

[Jask has made a major research breakthrough in space-time particles! 】

"You are going to the United States anyway, so why not let Jask tell you directly."

Gawain explained:

"The last time Jask and I met was 60 years ago. I was awake for two years and was the rotating principal, and I had contact with him once."

"In the past 60 years, I don't know if there have been any new breakthroughs in his research. As far as I know, he has just woken up from hibernation... We are always like this, hibernating intermittently. After all, technology may change everything, but it can never prolong our mere hibernation. A lifespan of more than a hundred years.”

"Limited life span is the biggest enemy that hinders the development of human civilization."

Gawain said in a deep voice:

"I heard from Teacher Liu Feng that in the era when you were born, the average top scholar only needed to be nearly 30 years old to learn all the knowledge in the current cutting-edge fields and then start innovative and breakthrough research."

"In the 23rd century when I was in college, if you want to complete the knowledge in the current field, you have to be at least 40 years old to be eligible to enter the Academy of Sciences to study new fields."

"By the year 2504... even now, elementary school textbooks have begun to arrange physics and chemistry students, junior high schools have begun to study calculus, and high schools have begun to choose a single major for further study..."

"Do you know, Lin Xian? How old do current scholars need to be to master the existing technologies?"

Lin Xian turned his pen and thought for a while:

"You shouldn't be over 50 years old."

Gawain looked sad and nodded:

"The average academic graduation age is 55."

55 years old.

When Lin Xian heard this number on the verge of retirement, he really felt the upper limit of human beings.

perhaps.

The biggest drawback of the development of human civilization is that——

[The memory and knowledge of the previous generation cannot be passed on. No matter how great a genius is, he must start from 1+1. 】

In the era when Lin Xian's parents lived, technical secondary school students could find good jobs after graduating from technical secondary schools, and junior college students were the best among the best students.

Because technology was not that developed at that time, radio was considered high-tech, and you did not need to learn too much if you wanted to contribute to society.

By the time Lin Xian graduated from university, master's degree students were already everywhere. No matter how hard you studied for 20 years, you would still be rejected with a resume.

You can imagine.

In the 500 years of development of human society, many subdivisions and cutting-edge knowledge have been accumulated. But after a baby is born, it is impossible for him to skip the simple parts and go directly to learn the most cutting-edge knowledge. He will definitely not be able to learn it.

There are only two ways to solve this problem:

1. Memories can be continued or inherited.

2. The life span is greatly extended.

If memory can be inherited and continued, although it is not conducive to social development and will lead to the solidification of classes, it is definitely a great blessing for the overall development of human civilization.

For example, a great genius like Gawain could directly pass on his full head of academic knowledge to his son.

Then Gawain's son does not need to study all the way from elementary school, junior high school, and high school. After he is weaned, he can take over Gawain's research topic and continue to devote his youth to another group of "successors" wearing diapers.

Either.

That is, we can find ways to significantly extend human lifespan.

If human lifespan can be extended to 500 years, then let the scholars study for 100 years and absorb all the knowledge, and they will still be young people.

"But these are all delusions."

Lin Xian stopped turning his pen and opened his eyes:

"Actually, this theory has been mentioned in science fiction in the early years. It is said that the potential and upper limit of human beings have long been locked by human lifespan."

"It's just that in that era, everything was booming and prosperous, and Moore's Law could not be seen to the end, so this disadvantage could not be reflected; but now with the development of science and technology, knowledge accumulation... It is indeed a sea of ​​​​books and hard work, and it is really impossible to learn. over."

"But even so, isn't there still a young and promising genius like Cheng Qian with an unconventional writing style? We still have to believe in miracles. After all, humans can evolve from a single cell and an amino acid to the current form. In itself, It’s a miracle.”

After that, he stood up:

"I'm going to take a rest. Help me prepare for a flight tomorrow. I'm going to the United States to meet Jask."

…

the next day.

America, the west side of old Brooklyn, dilapidated farms, underground shelters.

"Suffer death, you bastard!"

Hafnium Alloy VV thrust forward and clamped Jask's ankle hard with a clamp.

"Oh, please be gentle."

Jask, who had completely gray hair, was thin, and a little rickety, laughed and said:

"I almost forgot about you. You still remember it so clearly when you hold a grudge."

"nonsense!"

VV shouted:

"I am the one who has been pretending to be artificially retarded for 500 years! It's not you!"

"Then you have to respect the elderly...how can you do anything when you meet them?" Jask said weakly.

Lin Xian was a little surprised.

Looking at the old Jask in front of him.

this……

This was a scene he had never imagined.

The energetic playboy and the world's richest man with a strong body in his mind are now... also aged into a crumpled old newspaper with the passage of time.

"How are you?"

Lin Xian was about to speak but stopped:

"Why are you so old?"

"hehe."

Jask smiled slightly:

"This is the price of learning... So much new knowledge and new fields are born every year. If you don't spend time learning, how can you stay at the forefront?"

"What's more, you assigned me the task of studying space-time particles and world-destroying white light. I don't trust others to hand it over. I have always done it secretly by myself."

"Including the secret base here... ah no, it's the same as the underground shelter. I bought the entire land in Brooklyn. I have the final say in the planning here. The purpose is to better protect this underground shelter. Discovered by others."

"So, now this place is called Old Brooklyn, and it belongs to me; to the north, they established a new Brooklyn, which is a formal administrative district."

See the aged Jask.

Lin Xian increasingly realized that perhaps Gawain's concerns were not groundless.

If one day.

Human technology has just reached a critical point——

It takes a scholar more than 100 years, a whole lifetime, to learn all the knowledge of a certain subject and every branch, and then he can continue to study backwards...

That human being.

Is there a future?

Lin Xian stopped thinking about such distant things for the time being and looked at Jask:

"I heard that you have made a breakthrough in the study of space-time particles. What is it specifically?"

Jask nodded:

"Do you still remember the question you asked me before hibernation? You said that on the one hand, we need to verify whether the world-destroying white light really exists; on the other hand, we must find a way to uncover the truth about the world-destroying white light."

"The biggest problem at that time was that the fastest speed in the universe was the speed of light. No speed could exceed the speed of light, including observation speed and information transmission speed. The fastest speed was also the speed of light, so this was an impossible proposition."

"Unless...[our observation speed and information transmission speed can exceed the speed of light.]"

Beyond the speed of light?

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.

I just said that the speed of light cannot be exceeded, and now I say that it can be exceeded.

Isn't this contradictory?

But since Jask dared to say this, it meant that he had found a way.

"Can it be realized?" Lin Xian asked.

"It was the entangled space-time particle that inspired me."

Jask pointed at Lin Xian:

"Think about it, Lin Xian, you traveled to 1952 and then returned to 2234. Is the information observation and information transmission you brought considered an act that exceeds the speed of light?"

Lin Xian felt that it did make some sense:

"Theoretically, this is true. It would have taken nearly 300 years for the light from 1952 to reach 2234, but I did it in an instant, bringing the information from 1952 hundreds of years later."

"However, now entangled space-time particles no longer exist, and observing the world-destroying white light and traveling through time and space should be two different things, right? Is there any connection between these?"

Jask chuckled and shook his finger:

"It's really not the same thing, but it means the same thing when understood. What really inspires me is... [entanglement]."

"You must have heard of the ancient concept of quantum entanglement, right? This is the first hypothetical experiment of super-light communication, or even communication across the universe."

"The entangled space-time particle you used did allow us to see the possibility of instantaneous simultaneous transmission of information. Now that the only entangled space-time particle has disappeared... but can we artificially make two ordinary space-time particles What about particles achieving entanglement?”

Jask stretched out his left and right fists.

Opening together and clenching together, looking at Lin Xian with eyes like torches:

"I did it."

Lin Xian took a deep breath:

"You created an entangled space-time particle!?"

What kind of creator technology is this!

"No no no."

Jask said rigorously:

"I am entangling two ordinary space-time particles, not creating an entangled space-time particle. There is still a big gap between the two sentences."

"Entangled space-time particles are entangled together and form a whole in themselves, which cannot be taken apart; while two ordinary particles that achieve an entangled state can be separated at will, which provides the possibility of super-light communication over long distances."

"The most valuable thing is that this kind of entanglement can be in one-to-many mode! A space-time particle can be entangled with many other space-time particles, and can receive several pieces of information simultaneously!"

Lin Xian understood.

This is similar to the mechanism of a walkie-talkie. After entanglement is completed, a space-time particle becomes a walkie-talkie.

but.

This kind of walkie-talkie communication is instantaneous and far faster than the speed of light.

Even if the two walkie-talkies are at opposite ends of the universe, they can still make calls without any delay.

"I understand your plan."

Lin Xian guessed what Jask was thinking:

"You think that the world-destroying white light does not originate from the interior of the earth, but... comes from the outer space of the universe."

"So, [instead of waiting for the white light that will destroy the world in 2624, you are going to launch a detector towards the white light and contact the white light in advance in order to verify and study it.]"

Snap!

Jask is old but not old at heart. He snapped his fingers and made a naughty pose like in an old movie:

"Yes, you still understand me! It's such a crazy plan! I want to observe the white light of destruction in advance from several light years or tens of light years away!"

"Although I'm not sure whether the white light of destruction comes from outer space, as long as this experiment is carried out, it can be verified."

"The rockets carrying space-time particle observers are unmanned, so there is no need to consider deceleration and safety issues at all. Just accelerate at full speed! Infinite acceleration! At least 50% of the speed of light can be achieved!"

"In this way, we only need to wait for these rockets to be launched for 10 years, and then we can use the entanglement of space-time particles to communicate instantly and observe the universe 5 light years away in real time. Similarly, 40 years later, we can observe the universe 20 light years away; 100 years later, we can observe the universe 50 light years away!"

Jask became more and more excited as he spoke, and he wanted to make his old body jump up.

This is indeed a crazy plan.

It is indeed his style.

But...

The idea is good, but is it reliable to implement?

Lin Xian raised the most concerned question:

"The universe is very large. We don't know whether the white light of destruction comes from the universe or from which direction. So which direction should your rocket be launched?"

"All!"

Jask's eyes were firm and he answered without hesitation:

"Since we need to check and verify, we must launch in all directions! Over the years, I have been detecting and capturing space-time particles. Thanks to the development of aerospace technology, including the one in Einstein's oven... I have a total of 23 space-time particles."

"Except for leaving one on Earth as a receiver, the remaining 22 will all be entangled with this receiver, and then loaded into the rocket as a detector."

He raised his hands high.

Looking at the bright ceiling of the underground shelter, it was like looking at the brilliant Milky Way:

"[22 detectors carrying space-time particles will rush to the deep space of the universe from 22 directions!]"

"[If that white light of destruction is really an attack from outer space... we will definitely see it in advance!]"