Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

In fact, magic fertilizer is not the only project that is stuck with magic energy.

In addition to magic metal, which is indispensable to the entire magic industry, other magic material projects, magic plant cultivation projects, large-scale magic potion projects, etc., have restricted the rationing of magic energy.

There was too little magic power—too few magic stones.

The magic detection satellite has dug out the most conspicuous elements in the world, but so far, there are only a dozen or so that can reach the size of Flamel's magic stone. Most of the rest can only do It is a small micro-magic stone. Its magic output efficiency is okay for supporting small things such as satellites, but it is far from enough for use as a magic power plant.

Next, Murphy went to see the Astronomical Magic Institute.

The research object here is celestial magic, as well as some magical phenomena or creatures that can cause celestial changes - such as Murphy's familiar old friend, the Thunderbird.

"The principles behind celestial magic are still confusing, but it is not that difficult to apply it." said Molchanov Rossby, director of the Astronomical Research Institute.

"The spells are ready-made. After converting them into runes through a universal conversion formula, they can be enchanted on weather radars or satellites, and then the magic fluctuations can be enhanced to guide the spells to reach the clouds. This can basically complete the artificial changes to the weather."

"It is easiest to guide rain and sunny days. We have also tried to guide extreme weather such as thunderstorms and hail, but the success rate is lower."

"In addition, we discovered that celestial magic can also be used to guide ocean currents! Although its magic power consumption is much greater than affecting the weather, we can indeed guide the direction of ocean currents to a certain extent... Of course, the scope is very small, and the impact The time is also very short and it will have almost no substantive effect.”

"What about the Arctic Ocean research?" Murphy asked.

"Our research has found that the Arctic Ocean is accelerating melting, and its heating rate is much higher than the rate of global average temperature increase, and this is likely to be a continuous cycle process."

"Rising temperatures cause the Arctic Ocean glaciers to melt, exposing dark land or oceans with lower light reflectivity than the ice, which is more conducive to absorbing heat from the sun. At the same time, the melting of glaciers will also cause the carbon dioxide stored under the glaciers to be released. This creates an area of ​​high concentration over the Arctic Ocean, heating it up."

"This also has the effect of the Atlantic Warm Current. As the Arctic glaciers melt, there is no ice barrier. After the Atlantic Warm Current flows into the Arctic Ocean, the depth becomes shallower. This also allows more of its heat to be used to melt the glaciers. Likewise, It’s also a positive cycle effect.”

"Under natural circumstances, we estimate that by around 2020, the Arctic Ocean should be able to open a route that can be sailed for most of the year."

"Can we help speed up this process?" Murphy asked.

“It’s difficult,” Molchanov said. “Theoretically, if we can guide more Atlantic warm currents, we can speed up this process, and we can even guide the route of the warm currents after entering the Arctic Ocean and open up a route for us. "

"But we have calculated that to achieve this kind of celestial control, we need an extremely large amount of magic energy... Specifically, it is equivalent to two thousand times the energy output of the current global magic energy factory."

Well, this plan is useless for the time being.

Later, Murphy came to the unlocking spell laboratory.

The research topic of this interesting laboratory is: studying the use of unlocking spells to solve all problems that can be described mathematically.

Speaking of its origin, it was an idea that Murphy had mentioned to Haldane back then: Could it be possible to try to expand the use of spells so that the lock-picking spell could be used to unlock passwords?

Following this line of research, scientists realized that the lock-picking spell did not change the shape and properties of the lock, and its action process did not destroy the rules of the lock.

In other words, whether the lock-opening spell creates an ethereal key or activates the lock core, it gives the "wizard and lock" a piece of information that does not originally exist in the system: this The information determines the movement rules of the lock cylinder so that the lock can be opened.

In fact, magic spells usually have the side effect of completing information. For example, the transformation spell turns a cup into a mouse. The information that determines the coat color, body shape, and specific appearance of each part of the mouse is completed by the magic spell.

But the difference between the unlocking spell is that it is more "simple", and the information it gives is only the specific information needed to unlock.

This is very conducive to human control.

The Unlocking Spell Laboratory brings together almost all the top mathematicians and cryptographers from the Soviet Union and the UK. They have developed an algorithm that can transform any mathematically described problem into an electronic lock, the key of which is the key to the problem. untie.

They managed to create a situation where, when using a lockpicking spell on an electronic lock, the electronic lock would not open unless the computer connected to the electronic lock could display the solution to the problem.

Then this group of mathematicians started a carnival. They discovered that the unlocking spell can actually obtain accurate solutions to many complex calculations. If these solutions were calculated using ordinary computers, it would probably take decades of calculations to obtain them.

But then, they discovered the bottleneck of the Unlocking Spell: given the level of magic energy, there is an upper limit on the complexity of the mathematical problems that the Unlocking Spell can solve. If the upper limit is exceeded, the Unlocking Spell will become ineffective.

It seems that the unlocking spell consumes magic energy instead of computing power.

Yes, it’s the magic issue again.

There are many interesting laboratories in the institute. Murphy later went to the Portrait AI Research Institute, which is studying how to transform the simple logical intelligence of portraits into computers.

They also have a branch that is studying how to transfer the "consciousness" of the portrait to the "robot", thereby giving the humanoid machine a "soul".

Next to the Portrait AI Research Institute is the "Activated Object Research Institute". They are not obsessed with making machines have "souls", but they hope to make machines show the characteristics of activation.

The core of their research is "item activation magic", which is similar to the one Arthur used on his car in the original book.

Finally, Murphy went to the Anti-Gravity Research Institute, where he had previously worked on the levitation spell enchantment on the elevator.

Unlike the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, their research on anti-gravity magic focuses on the field of people's livelihood. For example, their most popular project is the "flying car". According to them, people are expected to see people traveling in flying cars in the next ten years. .

After visiting various research institutes in the institute, Murphy saw many inventions and discoveries that have not yet been discussed.

But almost everyone asked him that question.

Insufficient magic power.

Magic energy limits the final implementation of almost all industries.

It is urgent to solve the problem of magic energy.

So Murphy came to the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which has the largest magic detection satellite launch center in the Soviet Union, and its satellite data will eventually be gathered here.

"Has the amount of protoplasm discovered increased?" Murphy asked the person in charge of the Satellite Launch Center.

The latter shook his head, "It is almost no longer growing. We have improved the detection accuracy to the microwave level, which allows us to discover almost all the original matter on the surface. However, this level of magic waves is easily blocked, and the original matter is hidden. A little deeper and we can’t detect it.”

"Moreover, the magic power output efficiency of the original substances that have been found with this kind of precision is too small, and some can barely even drive a satellite."

"Is it possible that there is matter hidden deeper beneath the surface?" Murphy asked.

"Of course it is theoretically possible, but if the theory of divine blood is true, the source of these substances is some gods from not too long ago. It is difficult to imagine that they will appear deep in the strata."

"But we are studying the method of spectral analysis," the person in charge said. "Magic power affects light and will naturally bring about changes in the spectrum. We are currently studying methods to find the source of magic power through spectral analysis. It may be helpful for the discovery of the original substance. Some help.”

"In addition, we are also developing passive sensitive detection equipment, which is extremely sensitive to magic radiation. In theory, it can detect a wizard using magic from hundreds of kilometers away."

"As long as some debugging and neutralization of this detection equipment are done, the meaningless interference signals can be removed and only the original signal can be detected."

Murphy nodded. These methods all have broad application scenarios, but he already lacks confidence in the discovery of the original substance. The scarcity of the original substance seems to be more serious than he imagined.

There are also many technical difficulties in improving the magic output of a single magic stone for a while.

It seems that we have to prepare to find alternative energy sources.

But when he was about to go to the Magic Energy Research Institute to take a look, a thin researcher wearing thick black-rimmed glasses stopped him, "I heard that you are investigating the issue of magic energy rationing?"

Murphy glanced at him. This guy probably thought he was an official allocating magic energy. "Are you here to ask for quotas?"

"Yes," the other party nodded immediately, then shook his head, "No, I'm here to provide a plan."

"Although I can't help you solve the energy problem, I can help you optimize the magic energy distribution plan so that the existing magic energy can play its maximum role."

"Oh?" Murphy became a little interested, "Tell me, what do you do?"

"I study magic computers and am also responsible for algorithm optimization of central supercomputers," the researcher said. "But my research direction is cybernetics. I have a set of algorithms... Well, actually it's not mine, it's our algorithm, which can be effective Solve your problem."

"However, if it works, I hope you can increase your quota on the development of magic computers."

"Central supercomputer?" Murphy almost forgot the original purpose of coming here, "I happen to be going there, let's talk as we go."

I have a lot of ideas about the application of magic, but due to space reasons, I will not discuss them here. I may come back to them later when they are used. Regarding the unlocking spell, I was too hasty to explain it in detail before. I just added an explanation. Thanks to the book friend for reminding me.