Paintings of Terror

Chapter 268: Schrödinger's cat 17 ┃ quantum immortality

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Ke Xun told Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen what he thought, even with his eyes closed, he could feel that the two were suddenly silent for a while.

"You know," Zhu Haowen finally spoke first, with a strange tone in his tone, "In order to satirize the orthodox 'uncertainty theory', Schrödinger proposed the 'Schrödinger's cat' theory, which at the time really blocked the orthodoxy. Not light, because they really can't explain the superposition of life and death in cats.

"This problem became a puzzle that countless physicists wanted to solve. Until a physicist named Everett came along, he proposed the multiverse hypothesis, which is what we usually call parallel worlds.

"Still taking the electron double slit experiment as an example, when an electron is emitted alone, how does it pass through two slits at the same time? Multicosmology believes that when the electron passes through the double slit, two superimposed worlds appear. In one of the worlds, the electrons pass through the slit on the left, and in the other world, the electrons pass through the slit on the right.

"In this way, the wave function does not need to collapse, to randomly choose to pass through the left or through the right, because there are multiple universes. In the world where the person in universe A lives, electrons pass through the slit on the left, while in universe B, people observe The electrons that arrive pass through the slit on the right.

"Then, this theory can be used to explain Schrödinger's cat. According to Everett, the two cats in the box, alive and dead, both exist in the real world, but they are in two Parallel and different worlds, so it shows a superposition state.

"It is very easy to understand Cheng Cheng's suicidal behavior in this way. Cheng regarded himself as Schrödinger's cat, and while he was alive, he lost his son, so he put himself in a superposition state, this time A parallel universe was created, he who died was in this universe, and he who was alive went to another universe to find his son who lived in another universe."

"Wait," Ke Xun said, "The program died in the way of Schrödinger's cat, but his son didn't. He jumped directly from the upstairs. How does it stack up?"

"The reason is the same," Zhu Haowen said, "replace Schrödinger's cat with a human, a hammer with a gun, and a person commits suicide by raising a gun. Since the bullet is composed of a bunch of particles with wave function properties, then there will always be A very, very small possibility that all the particles collapsed to a certain possibility - that they all circumvented the head of the person, leaving the person alive unharmed.

"—Although the possibility of this is extremely unlikely, but due to the existence of the multiverse theory, each universe exhibits one of the superposition states, so in billions of parallel universes, there will always be such a universe that exhibits It's a state of 'all the particles that make up the bullet have bypassed the human head'.

"And it's the same with other suicide methods. Whether it's jumping off a building, cutting a vein, taking poison, getting electrocuted, or committing suicide, there will always be some parallel universes where he is still alive, and there will always be a certain universe where the person who commits suicide will never die. .

"This situation is called 'quantum immortality'.

"What the program wants to find is his son who lives in the quantum immortal universe."

Ke Xun was stunned for a moment, then said, "Then, if the autograph can be found only by finding the program or his son, does that mean... we have to commit suicide too?"

Zhu Haowen was also stunned when he heard the words. He hadn't even started to think about it, but Ke Xun's mind had already turned to this.

"No, we don't have to commit suicide," Mu Yiran, who had been quietly listening to the two of them, said at this time, "Even if parallel universes exist in the real world, the program has already died in the universe we live in, and is alive. He is already in another universe. And even if we want to learn from him and split a parallel universe with death, we who are alive will go to another universe like him. In the universe we are in right now, we die. It would be pointless to look for a signature."

"That's right," Ke Xun patted his forehead, "I was stunned by everything I learned today, and I couldn't help but think of the real world as the world in the painting—in this way, do you think, 'painting' '' malice has been getting bigger and bigger. In the painting "The Scarlet Beast", it bewitched us to regard the world in the painting as the real world. In this painting, it even tempted us to regard the real world as the real world. The world, let us begin to doubt and despair about the real world. If the scarlet beast only made us want to stay in the painting, when this painting has arrived, we have already lost the belief in life!"

"You made me shiver." Wei Dong's voice came from the side.

"As you said," Shao Ling's voice followed, "the genius of this painting is that what it uses to 'induce' us are all scientific theories and hypotheses that really exist in the real world. It's like, a person uses all the truth to deceive you, so how about this kind of scam, is it a scam or the truth?"

"Brother Shao, stop talking, if you ask this, why do I think this is the truth." Luo Meng said in shock.

"I'll let you guys figure out the clues. If you've come up with all of them, then join in?" Ke Xun asked.

"I was thinking about it, and I was attracted by the things you said." Wei Dong said, "Since the boss means that we can't die, but the program father and son are not in the same universe as us, how can we do this? Found the signature?"

"Actually, I have some thoughts on what Ke Xun said about consciousness just now." Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun. He couldn't see with his eyes closed, which made him feel distressed for some reason, so he couldn't help but stretch out his hand. Holding his hand, he immediately got a warm response from him as always, but his hand was clenched tightly by his fingers crossed.

"Since Cheng Cheng believes that consciousness determines matter," Mu Yiran continued, "then his body has died as matter, so what about his consciousness? Does it still exist in this world, but we can't see him? Since consciousness determines matter , can we get the signature by finding his consciousness?"

"I feel like this is more difficult than finding his body," Luo said. "At least the body still has form and quality. How do you find something like consciousness, which is invisible, colorless, and quality? It's just in the air. Drifting around casually? Where is the drift, and when the wind blows, it blows two miles away?"

"When it comes to the relationship between consciousness and matter," Shao Ling said, "Materialists believe that matter determines or derives consciousness, while idealists believe that consciousness determines or derives matter, both of which are called 'monism' in philosophy. '. Yet there is also a 'dualism' whereby matter and consciousness do not exist in a determinative or derivative relationship, they exist side by side."

"This statement has some fans even in the physical world," Zhu Haowen continued Shao Ling's words, "Some people think that the human body and consciousness belong to different dimensions, the body is a three-dimensional creature that exists in four-dimensional space, and consciousness exists in Multidimensional space, in the sense that they exist side by side, also makes sense."

"What is four-dimensional space?" Wu You's voice came over.

It sounds like she's calmer now.

"The four dimensions in physics, in simple terms, refer to length, quantity, temperature, and time." Zhu Haowen said, "The body exists in the four-dimensional space, limited by time, it can only advance and develop according to the time line, and cannot Jump at will between past, present and future.

"However, consciousness is not limited by time, it can instantly go to a certain period of time in the past, or it can switch back and forth between cause and effect.

"To use the simplest analogy, we want to go from point A to point B, the body can only move from A to B over time, but our consciousness can imagine that we have reached point B in an instant, even You can instantly imagine all the appearances of point B, but the physical body cannot tie the consciousness to 'fly' to point B.

"So it is not unfounded to say that the two exist side by side."

"That is to say, since all the well-founded assumptions in this painting can be true, then we can use this law to make it true, and then leave the program's consciousness in this universe," Ke Xun said. "As long as you find his consciousness, you can find the signature!"

"Isn't the problem here now," Wei Dong spread his hands, "the key is that this consciousness can't be seen or touched, how to find it?"

Ke Xun stretched out a finger: "Honey, don't we have a law book and a prop box? What if consciousness could also be used as a prop?"

When the words fell, Ke Xun heard the voices of several people shaking their bodies.

"This idea is very imaginative," Qin Ci said, "I think we can try it."

"I'm coming." It was Zhu Haowen who spoke, and he quickly opened the law book on his interface.

"The Dualism of Matter and Consciousness."

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"What do you mean?" Wei Dong asked hurriedly.

Mu Yi thought for a moment: "Maybe because the dice controlled by Ke Xun has not stopped, it is equivalent to a document on the computer being opened and used. If you click to open the document again, it will be displayed as locked or write-protected. Or only read-only operations are allowed. An open document cannot be edited on the first page and modified on the fourth page at the same time."

"But can't we use these functions at the same time when we are in different levels?" Luo Meng asked.

"At that time, 'document' became a shared document on the network, and we could modify it on different networks at the same time." Mu Yiran said, "The most intuitive example is the QQ document function of our chat software. Now we It is considered to be in the same room, which is equivalent to sharing a computer and the document resources in it.”

"So this means that I have to stop the dice and release the resources it occupies before other people can use it?" Ke Xun said, "No wonder the process of rolling the dice has to take turns and not everyone rolls together."

"But if Ke Xun stops the dice, it means that he has already rolled the points and started another round of entry procedures, and the second person only has 60 seconds of interval time, and we have to use this 60 seconds of time. Use the rules and props to find the consciousness of the program, if not, the second person will continue to roll the dice," Zhu Haowen said, "and if we all have finished rolling the dice and still can't find the consciousness of the program, we must You have to enter the level again and go through the level again, then you can come back here again and continue to use the laws and props to find the consciousness of the program."

"No need!" Deng Lin suddenly said, "Didn't the surnamed Mu just say that after entering the level, we can all use the laws and props at the same time. At that time, we will try to find the program together in the level. Is it alright?"

"Then if one group of people finds the consciousness of the program, and because of that, they get the signature, what about the others?" Weidong asked him.

Deng Lin opened his mouth, but in the end he was speechless.