Great Power Technology

On December 6, there are five days left until the final test of computer No. 003 of the Six-Base Project.

Ye Zhou walked alone in the long corridor, followed closely by Wu Ping, with a calm expression on his face.

This is Ye Zhou's third day at the underground base of the Konggeerfeng Liubi Project, but he has already fully adapted to life in this base.

What was different from what he expected was that due to the blessing of a huge life-support system, this base had been adjusted to the most suitable environment for the human body in terms of air pressure, temperature, and humidity. You could not even feel that you were in it. Under a snow-capped mountain thousands of meters high, it feels like this is just a relatively closed research building.

A central garden is also arranged in this underground base, but Ye Zhou has never been there even once. The reason is simple: the personnel in this base are relatively complex. In addition to the core members of the project team, there are also a large number of Marginal researchers and logistical support staff.

Although the living and working areas of these personnel are separated from the core personnel, they still share a public leisure area, which includes a canteen, leisure area, fitness area and central garden.

In order to protect Ye Zhou to the greatest extent, on the first day he arrived at the base, he was declared not to have too much contact with other people other than the core members of the project team unless necessary, in order to avoid being recognized by some people. out, causing a chain of identity leaks.

Although Ye Zhou already had no less than ten false identities at this time, his face was still the same face after all. Before the official completed the overall "memory modification" of the previous series of events, if it aroused some people's suspicion, There will indeed be a lot of trouble in subsequent processing.

Ye Zhou was very aware of this risk, so in the first two days, he strictly implemented this rule. Apart from discussing technical details with the core group led by Xiao Ping every day, he almost did not participate in any other group activities and did not appear in public. In any public area, life is so simple that there are only two points and one line between the bedroom and the laboratory, and even three meals a day are delivered to the room.

However, what he didn't expect was that before he was tired of this kind of life, Xiao Ping expressed his concerns first, especially after learning that Ye Zhou could almost be said to be living a life even when he was outside. After living the life of an ascetic and not having more than a week of leisure time in a year, he directly called Chen Hao and cursed.

The innocent Chen Hao was scolded inexplicably, but he didn't argue too much about it. However, that night, Ye Zhou received a notice that for a period of time in the future, he would be free in the base. After the event, the Intelligence Division will be responsible for all subsequent aftermath matters.

However, even so, he still didn't really let himself go. On this night when he couldn't sleep, he quietly got up from his room and walked alone to the central garden of the base.

As he had seen from the video material before, this central garden is still the layout of a greenhouse, with a variety of oxygen-generating plants planted inside. These plants with various shapes from all over the world are placed under the same ceiling. down, giving people a strange look and feel.

Ye Zhou walked to a huge aloe vera tree and broke off a small piece of aloe vera with some rudeness. Just when he was thinking about taking it back to try to make a clean and hygienic aloe vera drink, a crisp sound suddenly came from behind him. sound.

"Hey, hey! Why did you break the aloe vera?"

Ye Zhou looked back and saw that Wu Ping behind him had put his right hand on his waist. He coughed quickly, and the latter relaxed his posture slightly and moved a few steps to the left, standing between Ye Zhou and the visitor.

Seeing this posture, the young girl who was originally walking towards Ye Zhou froze on the spot.

In this base with the highest level of confidentiality in history, there are always security personnel to protect him. Needless to say, she is also a big shot that a newbie cannot have contact with. This is obvious even to her, no matter how ignorant she is of the world.

For a moment, her mind almost went blank. She could not help but speak, and she didn't know what to say if she wanted to speak.

Fortunately, Ye Zhou quickly broke this awkward situation. He quietly took a step to the left and stood in the shadow of the leaves, and then answered:

"I'm sorry, I just want to try to see if this thing can be eaten. It shouldn't have much impact, right? I heard that aloe vera has good self-healing properties."

After hearing his words, the girl, who was almost extremely nervous, finally relaxed a little. After hesitating for a moment, she said:

"It's best not to break aloe vera. It's actually very delicate. If a part of it is broken, if it's not dealt with in time, the whole plant will slowly rot away."

"so serious?"

Ye Zhou asked in surprise. This knowledge had indeed touched his blind spot.

"Yeah, that's why I was so anxious when I saw you taking it off. I'm sorry."

The girl secretly glanced at Wu Ping, and after confirming that he was not hostile, she carefully moved to the chair next to her, but Ye Zhou was still standing opposite, and she did not dare to sit down.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhou felt vaguely funny. He coughed, sat on the ground in the shadows, and then continued to ask:

“Are you the landscaper here?”

The girl opposite was obviously stunned by Ye Zhou's question. After a moment of silence, she sat down carefully and then answered:

"No, I just like to raise plants. I am engaged in high-energy physics, which is about particle collisions. The main directions are the smallest unit and the Extra dimension direction. Uh, I can't remember how to translate this at once, high dimension. Space? You can probably understand it this way, right?"

"Extra dimensions, right? I remember seeing that too."

Hearing Ye Zhou's answer, the girl opposite her eyes lit up and she said with a little surprise:

"Yes, yes! Do you also do high-energy work?"

".I am not. In fact, I know almost nothing about these lowest basic sciences. I am engaged in applied technology."

"Application technology? Which aspect? Oh, you are here. It should be about quantum computing. Can I talk about this?"

The girl looked at Wu Ping on the side with some anxiety. The latter moved away calmly and stood in front of Ye Zhou on the right again, making way for the two of them to communicate directly.

"It can be said that those who can enter this base are probably related to quantum computing, but I am a little curious. The connection between high-energy physics and quantum physics does not seem to be very strong. How were you selected to join this project team?"

Hearing this question, an awkward smile appeared on the face of the girl opposite. After thinking for a long time, she answered:

"In fact, there are many connections between quantum physics and high-energy physics. The simplest application connection is the high-energy quantum simulation of quantum computers. In pure theory, there are also theories such as the SKY model and the fraction model. These theories are trying to condense the Unify state, high energy physics and quantum physics.”

"We are currently doing high-energy physics experiments that verify quantum nonlocality. We mainly study the decay and entangled spin singlet states of particles composed of positive and anti-charm quark pairs. These experiments have important implications for the stability of quantum pairs and quantum stability. Self-correcting codes are theoretically helpful, and that’s what I’m here to do.”

"To put it simply, my job is to help our current quantum computers reduce random noise through certain conclusions in high-energy physics."

Sitting in the shadows, Ye Zhou's expression was a little distorted. It wasn't that he couldn't understand what the girl said, but it was really difficult for him to connect what she said with the ongoing quantum computing project. .

Fortunately, he doesn't need to do such a thing - as long as he can understand the girl's last words, that's basically it.

After a pause, he said:

"So, are you busy with work recently? The project has reached the final stage. Most of the theoretical support work should have been completed, right?"

The girl opposite nodded. The spotlight above her head shone on her face, making her skin appear an almost transparent white color. However, she did not seem to find the light dazzling at all. Instead, she raised her head and looked at the source of the light. There was a confused and lost look on his face.

"I haven't been very busy recently. In fact, I have never been very busy. The cycle of this project is too short. I have only been here for less than half a year. It is too difficult to digest the previous theoretical results and provide them to the project team. .”

"I originally wrote some suggestions before, but they were too theoretical and not very practical, so I didn't use them in the end."

"So, for me, coming here to support the project is actually just a different place to write my thesis - but it's also good. I can still receive the data results from the collider, and there are no messy things to disturb me. The paper was written very quickly.”

Ye Zhou heard the disappointment in the other person's tone, so he comforted him:

"That's right. This kind of large-scale project requires a lot of technology and personnel redundancy, so it's normal for someone to be unable to help occasionally. Don't feel disappointed."

Ye Zhou's tone was always gentle, and the nervousness of the girl opposite her gradually relaxed. She sighed softly, retracted her legs on the chair, then lowered her head and said listlessly:

"Actually, that's not the case. It's not that the personnel in this project are redundant. It's that my research direction is inherently redundant."

"High-energy physics is a field that requires a lot of talent. I thought I was talented enough at first, so I chose this major, but I didn't expect that after I barely managed to get a Ph.D., I realized that a Ph.D. is just the beginning."

"Compared to those real experts, I am still far behind, and I have no idea where I can go in the future. It is very likely that everything I have made in this life will be useless scraps. , the kind that doesn’t bring any value.”

Looking at the girl's expression, Ye Zhou also felt inexplicably sad.

Yes, the goal that I have worked hard for all my life may not be able to leave even the simplest record when the coffin is finalized. It is quite uncomfortable to think about such a future.

However, knowing that there is a high probability of such an outcome, yet still embarking on this path without hesitation, is probably a kind of heroism, right?

After all, Romain Rolland really said that there is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after seeing the truth of life.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhou suddenly had a question in his heart.

"So, why did you choose high-energy physics in the first place? Don't you know that this path is difficult?"

"I know!"

"However, high-energy physics is probably the subject closest to the truth of the world."

"The universe, the starry sky, time, space, the future, time, in fact, these illusory concepts can almost all be explained by the theory of high-energy physics."

"The simplest thing is that there is a branch of high-energy physics called high-energy astrophysics, which studies pulsars, rays, plasmas, etc."

"Did you know? Many of the stars we see in the sky now actually did not exist hundreds of thousands of years ago. The reason why we can still see them is just because they are too far away from us. The light has not yet traveled all the way."

"Those stars may disappear in the next second, or they may disappear after decades, because we don't know whether those lights are produced by a supernova explosion or the last remaining light before the star's nuclear fusion reaches its end and is about to be extinguished. .”

"In short, what we see now is just the last shadow they left behind."

"It's romantic, isn't it?"

"I was attracted by this kind of romance. But looking at it now, it seems like a big trap."

The girl's face had an expression of fascination and a little helplessness. The bangs on her forehead were constantly trembling in the breeze of the central air conditioner, which seemed to make her a little impatient.

She smoothed up the bunch of hair with her hands, took off the hair tie from her wrist and tied it up, revealing her smooth forehead. Then she sighed softly and said:

"Anyway, the choice has been made, and there is no other way. I can only keep going. What about you? What major do you study? - I'm sorry, I don't think I should ask this."

Ye Zhou smiled and shook his head, seemingly forgetting that the other party couldn't see his expression in the shadows.

"It's okay, you can ask, but anyway I can't tell you."

"I know, I know you are probably the most mysterious person I have ever seen in this base. Don't worry, I didn't see your face, so you don't need to silence me, right?"

".When have we ever done such inhumane things?"

Ye Zhou replied helplessly.

"Hey, I'm just joking. But by the sound of your voice, you should be very young, right? You sound younger than me."

After pondering for a moment, Ye Zhou answered:

"25 is not too young, right? How old are you? A talented player like you, even if you finish your Ph.D., should only be in your early twenties, right?"

"It's not that exaggerated! But I am indeed a little younger than you. 24. Hey, it's a good thing you didn't ask. I'm already 24 and I don't even have a boyfriend. Leader, can you help me tell my boss For a moment, will you ask them to arrange a boyfriend for me?"

Ye Zhou laughed softly and replied:

"I can help you keep an eye on it - by the way, how do you know I'm the leader?"

"It's too obvious. You're not very good at asking this question. Forget it, I can't count on you, so I'd better go find it myself."

"I'm going back to sleep. I'll see you again in the future. Maybe one day, I can sit in a conference room with you openly and look at your face."

There was a hint of expectant curiosity in the girl's words. Ye Zhou keenly captured this emotion. After hesitating for a moment, he stood up, walked out of the shadow, and then said:

"You can watch it now - but it's best to forget it, otherwise it may cause some unnecessary trouble."

The girl chuckled, her eyes quickly glanced at Ye Zhou's face, then immediately turned around and replied:

"Then I'll wait and see when I become the number one person in high-energy physics in China. By the way, my name is Lin Ling. If you have any questions about particles, remember to contact me. I can help!"

Ye Zhou nodded and replied:

"Lin Ling. Is this Lin Lin from Yu Linling?"

"No, it's Lin Ling who's been wandering around a lot in this life. Hmm, this statement seems unlucky. It's Zero's Zero!"

"Okay, I remember it. Lin Ling. My name is Hei. I can't tell you what my name is, so I'll call you No. 1."

"Hey, your name is really crazy. Okay, I'm leaving. Goodbye, number one."

"Goodbye, Zero."

Ye Zhou watched the other party gradually walk away with brisk steps. At this time, he still thought that this was just a simple ordinary conversation, like a breeze blowing across the water, leaving ripples but not causing any waves.

But little did he know that this conversation that took place on the night of December 6 would, to some extent, completely change the fate of the world.

Positive answer:

This is the heroine.

But in the subsequent plot, there is no routine of slapstick and small love.

She is the key fulcrum of the plot of the second volume.

As for how it will unfold, it is expected to be announced in three days.