Zhang Zian was pushed from behind, staggered, and plunged headlong into the dangerous and weird-looking vortex. He instinctively covered his head and face, closed his eyes tightly, and the hairs all over his body stood up, welcoming the coming vortex. shock.
Countless possibilities flashed through his mind in an instant—whether the vortex was cold or scorching hot, hard or soft, even if it looked as weak as water but was actually as sharp as a blade, and would crush him like an airplane engine, he would I got it.
However, he came across nothing.
He passed through the vortex with ease, as if it were just a formless phantom.
After a false alarm, he just stood firm and opened his eyes again, but saw an even more incredible scene.
It is difficult to accurately describe what he saw in any language. Everything around him was distorted, and it was all gray. He was clearly in the pet shop, but he could see the inside and outside of the pet shop at the same time.
It's not that the wall doesn't exist anymore, or that the wall has become transparent, the wall is still the wall, but he can see everything outside the store through the wall, and he can also see the inside of the wall, the inside of each brick, the glued The cement interior of the wall tiles…
All the details of the pet shop are clearly in front of his eyes, and there are no secrets to hide. It is as if he has countless pairs of eyes and can observe the pet shop from all possible angles at the same time. He even saw a silver coin lost by his mother before. The ring was actually stuck in the gap in the drawer of the closet. He also saw an envelope taped to the bottom of the drawer. Through the envelope, he saw several banknotes of different amounts in the envelope. It may be that his father hid it to buy Private money for wine.
Not only the pet store, but also everything on the street outside. He can observe everything from the inside to the outside of everything he can see.
This is roughly equivalent to that a person can observe the whole picture of an A4 paper at a glance.
I don't know why, the edges of these fixed objects are very blurry... It's not considered blurry, and I can see clearly, but it's like a hummingbird flapping its wings at high speed, the afterimage left by its wings.
People, of course there are people on the street, although there are only a few early-rising pedestrians here and there.
The appearance of people is even weirder, everyone is like Avalokitesvara with thousands of hands and eyes... no, it's even more than that, it should be thousands of hands, thousand eyes, thousand feet, thousand legs, thousand heads, thousand mouths... use the quantifier "thousand" It is far from enough to describe its quantity.
If someone who is not strong enough sees this weird world, he may faint from fright on the spot.
He stared blankly at the strange things around him, and murmured an English word: "tesseract..."
"That's right, it's Tesseract."
He turned his head and saw the girl standing quietly behind him, and said with a smile: "The first time I came into contact with this word was when I watched "Interstellar" with my dad. The enlightenment of the movie—by the way, I rewatched it three times before I could barely understand the content of the movie, while other children of the same age were still watching the remake of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"."
Zhang Zian was stunned for a moment. Is there a remake of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"? He really doesn't know.
In the surrounding gray background, only he and she kept their original colors.
The word tesseract is a key factor in understanding the movie "Interstellar Crossing". There is no accurate Chinese translation, and it is generally translated into "hypercube", but this is not very accurate. If it is forced to be translated, it should be translated into "cube in three-dimensional space". In the expansion of four-dimensional space", if the axis of "time" is counted, then add another dimension.
Why is he in the pet shop and at the same time in the deck chair of the pet shop and at the same time in every fiber of the wood of the deck chair and can see everything inside and out at the same time
Just like Schrödinger's cat is in the quantum superposition state of life and death in the black box, what he sees now is the superposition state of infinite space, the space is superimposed, wood fibers, deck chairs, pet shops, streets... superimposed together , has lost the inherent boundary, so it can be seen through at a glance.
She breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, you already understood, otherwise it would be really troublesome to explain."
He suddenly realized that when he looked at everything around him, he no longer felt weird, but was full of curiosity, excitement, and infinite admiration, because this is definitely not something that ordinary people can see in their lifetime.
The state of thousands of hands and thousands of eyes shown by people in this five-dimensional space-time is actually the trajectory map of a person's life. Everyone's long life is reflected in this long trajectory, while in the normal four-dimensional space-time The people who come here are just the projection of this trajectory at a certain moment.
Expressed in mathematical language, the five-dimensional is the set of all four-dimensional, and the fourth-dimensional is just an element in the five-dimensional.
As for the blurred shadows of those fixed objects, it is because no objects will last forever. The deck chair will fall apart one day, and the pet store will be demolished one day. Those shadows are their entire evolution process from existence to nothingness.
Most people who have watched "Interstellar Crossing" will be puzzled by the story of the male protagonist entering the bookshelf after going through the wormhole, and being able to see the story of his daughter's life from childhood to adulthood. The audience who doesn't understand it only regards this as a montage technique for filming. and the like, but did not appreciate its inherent subtle design.
Of course, this is indeed the expression method of the movie. On the premise of not losing the hard core science, it takes both artistry and beauty into account. Otherwise, the audience will probably pee in the theater on the spot when they see the daughter with thousands of hands and eyes. The movie is much more terrifying.
He stared at the worm in her palm, "Are we... entering a wormhole?"
"Yes." She nodded.
He looked around again, remembering the question about free will and determinism that Zhuang Xiaodie asked him to ask, but there was no need to ask this question anymore, everyone's life was displayed on each trajectory map, From birth to death, from cradle to grave, what more is there to ask
Of course, because he has entered the fifth-dimensional space-time, he cannot see himself in the fourth-dimensional space-time, and cannot see his own destiny, just like a fortune-teller never counts his own fate, and he is not sure about his own fate.
If it was a wormhole, he had vaguely guessed how she would help him.
"bring it on."
She took one of his hands and took a step towards the angle where the worm raised its head.
In just one step, he walked from the first floor of the pet shop to the corridor on the second floor of the pet shop.
He stared at the worm intently. Humans can only perceive three-dimensional space, and there is no organ that can perceive four-dimensional space. Due to the infinite superposition of space, ordinary people will definitely get lost even if they accidentally enter the four-dimensional space by chance. She is no exception. And this bug is obviously her guide, it can find the right direction in the chaotic four-dimensional space.
"You should know what to do next, right?" she said.
In the corridor on the second floor, there is also a translucent vortex suspended.
"If I go there, wouldn't there be two me at the same time?" he asked.
She smiled, "Who said no?"
"The conservation of energy and the like..."
Somebody seemed to snort coldly, "Idiot with an elm head!"
He felt cold... Why does it sound like Zhuang Xiaodie's voice
She squeezed her eyes quietly, and said: "Theorems such as energy conservation and quantum mechanics inaccuracy will not be overturned in the future, but they are only limited to the scope of application, that is, the three-dimensional space, which is not applicable in the four-dimensional space." , just like the scope of application of Newtonian mechanics is limited to the macro scale, so you don't have to worry about it."
Zhang Zian didn't have time to think about it for the time being, so he could only accept this explanation first, pointed at the whirlpool and said, "Are you going too?"
"No, I can't go." She smiled, "I'll wait for you here, go quickly."
"All right… "
He closed his eyes, and bravely walked towards the whirlpool.
boom.
A thunderclap made him instinctively open his eyes.
The surroundings were very dark, the thunder was almost exploding overhead, the strong wind was howling outside, and the closed windows were rattled and rattled.
"Master, do you have mahjong here? I'm just bored, how many should we play?"
Li Kun's voice came from downstairs, mixed with the thunder, it seemed very indistinct.
Zhang Zian turned his head to look, and the translucent vortex was right behind him.
There was faint light from the half-closed bedroom door, and the only source of light on the second floor came from the desk in the bedroom, where a half-lit candle stood, dimmed by the wind blowing in through the crack of the window.
With his back to the bedroom door, he was sitting at the desk, holding the mouse and clicking on the laptop screen, busy saving unfinished documents on the hard disk.
This laptop has been around for some years, and its operation is not as smooth as that of the new computer. In addition, it automatically switches to the power-saving frequency reduction mode after power failure, and the response is even more sluggish.
Next to the laptop is his cell phone.
Since the game "Pet Hunter" is running on the mobile phone, he knows the importance of the mobile phone. He never leaves the mobile phone when he is outside, and even puts the mobile phone in several layers of waterproof bags and takes it into the bathroom when he takes a shower.
He's careful even when he's at home, but isn't that what Pi needs to share hotspots briefly
That's right, the Internet was disconnected at the time, so he turned on his mobile phone to share it with his laptop, left his mobile phone on the second floor, and went downstairs by himself.
So, now there is another one who is on the first floor, being pestered by Wang Qian and Li Kun to ask for mahjong tiles, and Xiao Celery is lying on the cash register doing homework.
This is what happened yesterday, he still remembers it vividly.
He already understood what he was going to do, so he opened the door and walked into the bedroom.
π didn't look back, he knew it was him from the sound of footsteps, and he knew that he was busy to deal with the typhoon.
Looking at π's back, his eyes were sore, and he wanted to rush over to hug it several times, but held back again.
Shihua's chattering noise came from the bathroom. She claimed to open the eyes of netizens and show them the typhoon live broadcast, but it seemed that she had encountered network problems, and the sound and picture of the live broadcast began to be intermittent, which made her very annoyed.
Vladimir has left the pet shop to help stray cats, and the other elves are downstairs waiting for the coming typhoon.
Everything that was so familiar made him almost burst into tears.
He really wanted to rush downstairs immediately and tell the elves what was about to happen, but he couldn't do that, because history didn't happen that way, history was unique, and tampering with history would lead to a paradox of time and space, with disastrous consequences.
He forcibly calmed down and breathed steadily.
There was no time to waste, the other one would go up to the second floor to search for Vladimir soon after he found out that Vladimir was not there, so he had to finish what he had to do as soon as possible and then leave.
He walked to the desk and picked up his phone—the old one.
Pi turned his head and glanced at him, then continued to stare at the laptop screen.
The room was dim, and the only emergency light was placed on the cashier downstairs for Xiao Celery to do her homework. The sound of the storm outside was as loud as a helicopter landing. He has the same voice, the same smell, the same clothes, and the same appearance. The only difference may be his expression, but it is perfectly covered by the darkness.
On the screen of the original phone, there was an icon of the "Pet Hunter" app.
He suppressed his excitement and took out the mobile phone he brought with him. This mobile phone was charged for a while, and under the effect of fast charging, it was charged to 63% of the power, which happened to be exactly the same as the current power of the original mobile phone. The two mobile phones Both are 63%.
He turned off the hotspot of the original mobile phone, held it in his hand, turned on the hotspot of the portable mobile phone, and put it back next to the laptop.
π didn't even turn his head this time, it had its own business to do, and he picked up his phone to look at it, what's the fuss about this? This was originally his cell phone.
The other one downstairs seemed to find something was missing in the store, and he was looking around, ignoring Wang Qian and Li Kun's invitation to play mahjong, and soon realized that Vladimir was missing, and he would find the two in a while. Come upstairs.
Zhang Zian listened to Shihua's noise, looked at π's back, moved his lips, and said silently: "I will find you back, I promise."
He exited the bedroom the same way, holding the vital mobile phone in his hand.
After he finished reading the notification given by the game, he never crossed it out, as long as he pulled down the notification bar, he could see it.
Tomorrow morning, after the other one discovers that the elves have disappeared collectively, he will dig out his phone from under his pillow, see the notification, tremble with anger, fall into unimaginable despair, and be brought a glimmer of hope by the lost star sea, and then Xiaobai will visit the pet shop, then Wang Qian and Li Kun will come to work and comfort him, and finally he will meet a mysterious girl with worms, leading him on a wonderful journey back to the past.
And he will return to the future with this mobile phone that is still running the "Pet Hunter" game.
A closed loop.
Whether he is today or tomorrow, it is the same him.
He hasn't changed anything, just like the hero in "Interstellar" hasn't changed anything, history is destined to run like this, he and he are just pulled by the will from the future to realize their own destiny.