The Wheel of Chronos

"This situation... I'm afraid it really is as you have guessed..." One sentence broke the long silence.

On January 1st, at 1:8 in the morning, Lan Ni, Xue Lun and Tian Yang held an online video conference with several chief researchers of the time-space anomaly investigation team. Xue Lun and Tian Yang shared what Xue Lun experienced last night to everyone Described in detail.Everyone in the meeting looked at each other, not knowing how to react.Only academician Zheng Feng said such a sentence after thinking about it.

It’s no wonder that other scientific researchers, human beings’ understanding of time and space is too one-sided and limited, especially subject to the five senses that are not well developed. What we hear, see, and feel can only be based on what the brain can process, and what the brain can’t handle Part of it is simply impossible to recognize and feel.Even if there are theoretical conjectures, it is difficult to be convincing.Seeing is believing, hearing is believing. Over the millions of years of human evolution and development, human beings have always experienced the outside world through their own bodies, and have formed an instinct engraved into the bone marrow.In the field of philosophy, the thousands-year-long dispute between materialism and idealism is enough to illustrate this problem.Therefore, the researchers would rather believe that Sharon's brain went wrong than believe that there really are parallel universes in this world.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the emergence and development of quantum mechanics, the classical physics system collapsed, and all the old-school people who regarded classical physics as their standard almost experienced an unbearable process of collapse of belief.Nietzsche said: God is dead.At that time, such nihilism became a giant net that dominated thought in the minds of many people.Now it is the middle of the 23rd century, and quantum mechanics is still so incomprehensible, dismembering the way people understand the world.

"However, I think there is one thing that can be corrected." Zheng Feng pointed out, "Rather than jumping from a parallel world, it is easier to understand it by changing the term, that is, the change of the world line."

"World line?" Sharon asked puzzled.

"Yes. Suppose, Ms. Spencer, the world line you were in before was a, then the world line you are in now should be b. You jumped from world line a to world line b. World lines are countless parallel lines. You You can imagine the countless threads arranged on the loom, Ms. Spencer, you cannot see all the world lines at the same time, because all the world lines are in the state of quantum superposition, and you can only perceive the current world you observe .Only when you actually observe one of the world lines, does this world line exist. Although I don’t know why you have this ability to jump the world line, it is theoretically established.”

"So, I went back in time twice before, did I jump the world line?"

"As long as you do something that changes the established facts of the original world after going back in time, the world line jump will inevitably occur. But I think that there is also a distance between the world lines, and the difference between the world lines is reflected in the difference in the law of causality. In layman’s terms, if the established facts you change are very different from the original world, then even if you jump the world line, the difference in what happens next will still not be great, because the law of causality will repair itself. But if you change The established fact of the law of causality makes a huge deviation in the law of causality that cannot be repaired by itself, then you will jump to a quite far world line, and the law of causality on this line can be guaranteed to be consistent with the facts you changed, so you can’t do what happens next Anticipate it, because it's something you haven't experienced."

Sharon fell into deep thought. She went back in time for the first time and the second time at the Deer Hunter Bar. She spent two time rewinding to save the National Security Agency agent Bob who was killed in the men's bathroom, but the final result was that Bob Bob is still dead, the hard drive is still lost, and the facts have not changed, so the jump in the world line this time is almost negligible.If the world line before she reversed time for the first time is a, then let’s name the world line she jumped to after the two time regressions as a-1.

The third time was at the Williams home, this time back an hour, changing an established fact - Bishop Charles was assassinated.Bishop Charles survived and is under investigation and should be jailed shortly.This time it should jump a little farther, but the impact is still not too great. This world line is named a-2.

And the fourth regress time is 5 seconds in the laboratory, which can basically be ignored.Then there was the fifth backward time last night. This time, a huge established fact was changed, causing Sharon's understanding of the world to directly diverge from the facts.Based on this as a standard, the code name of the world line must be changed to b.

In other words, Sharon jumped from the a-2 world line to the b world line last night.

"I have done some research on the law of causality, and I have independently designed a set of algorithms to calculate the changes in the law of causality. Give me some time, and I should be able to give the specific value of the world line that Ms. Spencer jumped."

"I have a question I want to confirm." Tianyang asked suddenly, "Is the observer of the time jump and the observer of the world line not the same person?"

"Ah, that's right, this question is on point." Academician Zheng Feng clapped his hands, "The person who perceives the changes in the world line is the observer of the world line. From this point of view, you are not the world line, princess. observers."

"However, I haven't actually observed the process of time going backwards, and I can't be regarded as an observer of time going backwards." Tian Yang frowned.

"That's right, you only feel a white mist in the process of going backward in time, and you really can't be regarded as an observer. Or, to change the pronoun, how about a perceiver?"

"The perceiver...well, that's right, it's more accurate." Tianyang nodded in agreement, and then she looked at Sharon and said, "Then, isn't Sharon both an observer and an executor of time backwards, or a change in the world line?" observer?"

"Yes." Zheng Feng nodded, "Therefore, there should be quite a lot of special factors gathered in her body, which is worth investigating again."

Because of Zheng Feng's words, Xuelun had no choice but to undergo the physical examination again, this time the conclusion was the same, and her weight did not decrease.

After the physical examination, Sharon voluntarily asked for an additional experiment, which was about her as an intermediary, consuming energy substances to reverse time.

After complicated attempts, a rough table of empirical values ​​was obtained.The energy substance she mainly consumes is charcoal. Going back for a second, she needs to consume 250 kilograms of charcoal (during this process, her body must touch the energy substance). One minute is not a simple arithmetic of multiplying 1 by 250 Instead, use twice the number of second-level units for calculations.By analogy, Academician Zheng Feng, through complex calculations, believes that when the retrogression time exceeds the levels of minutes, hours, days, months, and years, the number of second-level units will increase by multiples; Before, the amount of energy material she had to consume was an astronomical figure, even if the entire earth was consumed, it might not be able to supply her with energy.

This result was expected by Sharon, but it still made her depressed.Six years ago was the most difficult shore to reach, even if she had the super power to go back in time, it would not help.

"Then the question is, half of my body weight, how can there be so much energy that can provide Sharon with an hour, three minutes and two seconds?" Tian Yang asked.

yeah, why?Everyone has a common doubt in their hearts, but academician Zheng Feng can't answer this doubt.

"Perhaps this only shows that you are a very special existence, princess." Academician Zheng Feng said such a sentence that was almost flattering.

When everyone heard the words, they could only laugh it off.

However, Sharon is interested in a very special existence?Could this be the reason why Tianyang was assassinated?Maybe some people sensed the special nature of Tianyang, so they acted first to get rid of Tianyang.She didn't expect things to come to this point, and she hasn't thought about finding out the identity of the murderer who assassinated Tianyang, and it's time to think about it now.In such a fully enclosed environment, how can the outside world know about their experiments?In any case, spies must have been mixed into the Academy of Sciences, which would lead to Tianyang's assassination.Moreover, the assassins are top-notch experts, and even the people specially sent by the Armed Security Office to protect them are not aware of it. You must know that these people from the Armed Security Office live in all the rooms above, below, left, and right of them. They are equivalent to biscuits. The sandwich is protected layer by layer.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the armed security department itself is tricky.After thinking about it, Sharon decided to find time to check the situation of the armed security department.

The ability of this world to repair its own cause and effect is beyond human imagination.As an example, Sharon is holding her pocket watch when she jumps into line b.In the a-2 world line, her pocket watch has been stored in the Institute of High Energy Physics, and although she has ownership, she has no right to use it.In order to save Tianyang, Xue Lun broke into the Gaowu Research Institute and forcibly took away the pocket watch, so the facts were contrary.In order to explain such a paradoxical result that Sharon held a pocket watch, the world directly corrected the reason, that is, the Institute of High Energy Physics did not prohibit Sharon from carrying a pocket watch, but only prohibited Sharon from going back in time at will.And because Sharon needs to consume a lot of material mass to go back in time, even if she wants to go back, she can't do it easily, so the Institute of High Energy Physics allows her to hold a pocket watch, which does not violate objective logic.

There are reasons and evidence, there are causes and effects, and it is really seamless and perfect.

At the end of the meeting, Queen Lani's bracelet just rang, and she got up first and left the meeting room provided by the guest house to answer the phone.Xue Lun and Tian Yang temporarily stayed in the conference room.They looked at each other and saw the helplessness and confusion in each other's eyes.Tianyang was confused about whether what Sharon described was true, and if it was true, how she should deal with it best; Sharon was confused about her own situation and her confusion about the future.

In fact, the help and guidance given to them by modern science has basically come to an end so far. How to proceed next depends on the wishes of the top government.Xue Lun dare not and can't easily turn back time now. Although it seems that going back in time will no longer directly endanger Tianyang's life, the restraint has not been lifted.What she is more afraid of is if she goes back in time again and changes some facts, will it cause the world line to jump again and lead to a worse situation.The current world line may be in a more ideal state, at least she will go back in time and not feel so heavy a sense of guilt.

"I said, do you still want to go back to six years ago?" Tian Yang observed Xue Lun's expression, and suddenly asked as if he had read her mind.

Xue Lun was taken aback, then smiled wryly: "If you ask me if I want to, I definitely do. I really want to change the tragedy of six years ago. Now I have the ability to go back in time, but because of one or another reason, I can't." Wouldn't it be too sad to go back six years ago? It would be better not to give me such a chance in the first place, and I wouldn't have extravagant hopes."

"What frustrating words are you talking about? Fortunately, you are still a genius of the highest military science and a future general." Tian Yang said unhappy.

Sharon looked at her helplessly, and said, "You really don't know how to comfort people."

"What I mean is, don't give up so quickly. If there is really nothing I can do, I can only comfort you. But now I won't comfort you, because there is still hope."

"What do you mean?"

"Isn't it the lack of energy to supply time backwards? If the imperial government doesn't approve or grant it, can't we borrow it from the enemy? Just think about it, pushing the continent of 60 square kilometers to resist gravity, rotation and revolution, and make it levitate The energy to move, what a huge amount of energy, I think, enough to take you back to six years ago."

Xue Lun's eyes gradually brightened, and Tian Yang quickly struck while the iron was hot:

"Hey, you're in trouble anyway, why don't you try this way? Maybe it will work. And you can find Latia by going this way. Maybe you can figure out what the so-called space collapse of the church collapse is. What's going on."

Before Sharon answered, Lanny pushed the door and walked in after answering the phone:

"I have to get out of here, something happened on the front line."

What?Xue Lun and Tian Yang were surprised at the same time.

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