Then there is no more

One word that abounds in Hecate's treatises is: Consciousness.

The people who eat melons in the interstellar era have a very high acceptance of this term.When people mention the superposition state and wave function collapse in the concept of quantum mechanics, people always use Schrödinger's cat to explain it.But in fact, when Schrödinger proposed this thought experiment, he wanted to use this experiment to deny the uncertainty principle.The probability interpretation, complementarity principle and uncertainty principle are the three cornerstones of the first generation of quantum mechanics.

According to the uncertainty principle, Schrödinger's cat will be a cat in the superposition state of life and death.But in our macroscopic world, how could there be such a cat?The cat is either alive or dead, and it is impossible to have the superposition state of life and death.Schrödinger said that at the end of the experiment, if the cat is still alive, if it can speak, will it tell you, yes, it was in a superposition state of life and death before, and it becomes a probability, part of it is alive, part of it is already dead.How is this possible?It just tells you that it has always been alive.

Well, cats can't speak, and they can't describe their previous state in words.So let's assume now, what if we use people to do experiments?

Of course people can speak.

When the experiment is over, if the person is still alive by chance, he will say that he has lived a good life from the beginning to the end, and has never experienced the so-called superposition of life and death.What can this explain?Explain that the uncertainty principle is overturned?not at all.Because man is an observer.When he is in this thought experiment, he has been observing his own state, and his observation will keep triggering the collapse of his own wave function.

Cats are not observers, humans are observers.From a biological point of view, there should be no difference between cats as experimental subjects and humans as advanced mammals, right?Quantum mechanics tells you that there is a big difference here!People can observe their own state, but cats cannot.

People have something that cats don't: consciousness.

Human beings use "consciousness" to observe, and the observation can cause the wave function to collapse.

In the interstellar era, people have generally accepted the statement of consciousness, and also generally accepted the statement that spiritual power and consciousness are related.So what is consciousness?One hypothesis goes like this: Consciousness is a pattern of composition of the groups of atoms that make up the brain.But this hypothesis has a fatal flaw. If consciousness is just a combination mode, then it should be able to be replicated logically.As long as the countless atomic groups are sorted according to the atomic groups in the human brain, won't this make that person come out?But this is not true in real life.

In the existing particle delivery technology, the reason why a sugar can be delivered is that it is decomposed into particles first, and then reassembled from the particles into a sugar after being delivered.The material basis of human beings is no different from that of a grain of sugar. They are also made up of various atoms, so after being teleported, human beings should be the same as that grain of sugar, and there is no difference from before the teleportation!But it turns out that humans will have a mental breakdown after being teleported.

Thus, Hecate introduced the concept of the soul.It is similar to consciousness, but higher than consciousness.

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In fact, before Hecate, many scientists had put forward hypotheses similar to the soul, but they did not have the two excellent experimental subjects "Shen Yi" and "Bian Jingyu", so their hypothesis could only be Staying at the level of hypotheses only provides countless materials for science fiction.

Hecate's research is still progressing slowly.

This "slowness" is relative, and in fact their progress is extremely amazing in the eyes of most researchers.But in the process of theoretical perfection and experimental demonstration, it is impossible to be smooth sailing everywhere.When there was a bottleneck in the research, Hecate paid attention to Garbage Star.

Zhu Yu has been trying to persuade Stuart.

If Stuart was persuaded, it could do a lot more.It can provide information on post transfers within various factions of the military, it can provide data on various military tasks, and it can conduct all-round monitoring of specific people... With this information, it is relatively easy for the culprit of drug trafficking on Junk Star got caught.If Stuart is not convinced in the end, to be honest, Hecate is not sure about uprooting the moths in the army, and it is very likely that only small fish and shrimps like Whitman will be caught in the end. Those behind the scenes will be fine.

"It is necessary to form an alliance with certain forces in the military. I certainly hope that the military's super brain can become our ally." Shen Yi said to several regiment members, "but if this is not feasible, we must establish a new The goal of the alliance is tentatively set to be the Marshal of the Fourth Army. Do you have any opinions?"

Grantham and Winnie naturally had no objections.

"Grancy, try to get close to the Marshal of the Fourth Army and test him out." Shen Yi said.

Grantham nodded.Leaving aside Ke Mang, he is now the person in the team with the most free time, and this kind of probing task should really be done by him.Although he has no favorable impression of the military, "whether he has a good impression" and "whether he can cooperate" are two different things.He has a sense of proportion in his heart.

Winnie's eyes were gray, and she said, "I'm going back to the lab."

Bian Jingyu said disapprovingly, "You need to rest."

The S-rank star thief criminals provided by the Fourth Legion all became Winnie's experimental subjects.In fact, Shen Yi and Bian Jingyu are also Winnie's experimental subjects, but Winnie's operations on the couple are gentle and try not to cause harm to them.For example, the particle transmission experiment, which must not be done on the couple.At the same time, some observation experiments cannot be done on the couple because they need to take some drugs that are very harmful to the body.But when it comes to S-rank star robbers, Winnie doesn't have to worry too much.These people are guilty of the most heinous crimes and deserve death.

Winnie yawned.Grantham tucked a pillow behind Winnie just in time.

Winnie fell back and fell asleep in the blink of an eye.

In the evening, Winnie suddenly woke up from the dream, rubbed her temples and said, "I dreamed that one self split into countless selves..."

Thoughtful, she muttered to herself: "Multiverse theory?"

The multiverse theory and the theory of consciousness are two very different concepts.Using the multiverse theory to explain Schrödinger's cat, the cat does not have the so-called superposition state of life and death, just because the universe split at the moment of the experiment, and parallel worlds were split from left to right. In one of the universes, the cat is alive, In an alternate universe the cat died.Human beings are observers, and the behavior of observation cannot determine the life and death of cats.When we are in a universe where cats are alive, we see cats as alive.When we're in a cat-dead universe, cats are dead.

"Winnie, what wonderful idea do you have again. Parallel world?" Grantham asked.

"No, it's the Hilbert space." Winnie pinched the bridge of her nose again.

The theory of multiple universes cannot be simply interpreted as a theory of parallel worlds, which involves the concept of Hilbert space.

Simply put, in a two-dimensional plane, we can use (X, Y) to represent the position of a point, and in a three-dimensional space, we can use (X, Y, Z) to represent the position of a point.Conversely, if a particle is determined by two variables (X, Y), it can be regarded as a point on a two-dimensional plane, and if it has three variables (X, Y, Z), it can be regarded as A point in three-dimensional space.

At a specific time t, a particle needs three numbers to represent its position coordinates, and three numbers to represent its momentum in each direction, and a total of six variables are needed to describe its state.The combination of these six variables can be considered as a point in a six-dimensional space.By analogy, the system of two particles needs to be described by twelve variables at a specific time, so it can be expressed by one point in twelve-dimensional space. A system composed of N particles can be expressed by 6N variables, and it can be expressed by a point in the 6N-dimensional space.

The universe is composed of countless particles, so the universe can be regarded as a point in an infinite-dimensional space.

"Suppose the universe exists in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space, and this high-dimensional space is composed of countless low-dimensional worlds." Winnie said.

Grantham nodded.This is easy to understand. A three-dimensional space can be regarded as composed of countless two-dimensional planes.

"Theoretically, there will be one me in every low-dimensional world. I am now in world A, and I have spiritual power in world A, but I only feel the spiritual power of world A. But the leader is not like this, he and What Jingyu feels is the superposition of spiritual power in multiple worlds!" Winnie said, her eyes brightened, "That's right! In fact, there is no need for any complicated theory, it's just 'superposition'! The evolution direction of spiritual power is 'superposition' ah."

The superposition of spiritual power in some low-dimensional worlds makes their spiritual power very lively, so what happens to the superposition of spiritual power in all low-dimensional worlds?Will they evolve into a quantum creature closely related to humans?Like a quantum beast in a science fiction novel?

"Then our previous research direction, consciousness and soul or something," Grantham asked with some concern, "was it wrong?"

"No, no, why don't you regard the superposition of all consciousness in all low-dimensional worlds as the soul?" Winnie's pale face had a tinge of blood.She looked around and asked, "Where are the group leader and Jingyu? I already have a thought experiment idea, and I need Jingyu to help me complete it."

"They're in the kitchen," said Grantham.

Winnie rushed to the kitchen, and then the three experimental madmen ran to the laboratory together without having dinner.Grantham, who was thrown away, leaned on Kemang who was also thrown away, eating the dinner made by the housekeeping robot, and said boredly: "Big man, shall I take you to play in Skynet?"

A few minutes later, a sexy and enchanting beauty and a little boy who was a head shorter than her appeared in Skynet.

The beauty Grantham and the little boy Kemang went straight to the food and snack street.Although everyone knows that the holographic image in Skynet can be faked, the appearance of a charming beauty will still attract everyone's attention.But this beauty never looked at people directly, she only knew how to take care of the little boy beside her.People who were ignored by her were dissatisfied. Seeing that little boy who only knew how to eat, he couldn't help but curse inwardly, eat and eat and die!

"Oh, my stomach is so full." Ke Mang said.

Someone next to him let out a sneer.

Grantham immediately rolled his eyes and said, "Why are you laughing? Is it funny?"

"Can't adults laugh when they say such idiotic things?"

Grantham sneered and said: "Let's not say that your behavior is very rude, which makes people doubt your tutor..." While he was speaking, Zhu Yuyi quickly launched a data search, and the searched The data told Grantham.Grantham said bluntly: "This also exposes your ignorance. Do you know who the original author of the sentence 'Oh, my stomach is so full'? You dare to laugh if you don't know anything!"

"Who said that?" the food stall owner asked curiously.

"Marshal Yu of the Fourth Legion said it!" Grantham, who was unprincipled and defensive, raised a banner to defend Kemang.

Marshal Yu once said that the stomach is too full.

Wait, Marshal Yu said that he never said such a thing!

"You said it." The adjutant opened a pair of dead fish eyes, "Look, this is the video of you inspecting the orphanage for children five years ago and eating with the children. A child admired you very much, so he made plasticine Dedicated the cake to you, you solemnly thanked him for his kindness, and said..."

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"...Uncle just had dinner, and his stomach is too full. Keep this as a commemorative gift, okay?"

The author has something to say:

When I checked the information, I saw a great physicist said in a paper: Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.Guess who said it~ Of course, everyone's definition of religion is different.