Paintings of Terror

Ke Xun told Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen his thoughts, and even though he closed his eyes, he could feel the momentary silence of the two people as if suddenly enlightened.

"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 really blocked the orthodox at the time." Not lightly, because they really can't account for the cat's superimposed state of life and death.

"This problem has become a difficult problem that countless physicists want to solve. Until a physicist named Everett appeared, he proposed the hypothesis of multi-universe, which is what we usually call parallel worlds.

"Still using 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? The multiverse theory believes that when an electron passes through the double slit, two superimposed worlds appear. In one of the worlds, electrons pass through the left slit, while in the other world, electrons pass through the right slit.

"In this way, the wave function does not need to collapse to randomly choose whether to pass through the left or the right, because there are multiple universes. In the world where people in universe A live, electrons pass through the left slit, while in universe B, people observe Arriving electrons 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, one alive and the other dead, exist in the real world, but they are in two cats. Parallel and different worlds, so they show a superposition state.

"It is very easy to understand the suicide behavior of the program in this way. The program regards itself as Schrödinger's cat. When he was alive, he lost his son, so he put himself in a superposition state. At 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, so how to add it?"

"The reason is the same," Zhu Haowen said, "if Schrödinger's cat is replaced by a human, and the hammer is replaced by a gun, and the person commits suicide with the 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 toward a certain possibility—that is, they all bypassed the person's head, allowing the person to survive safely and unharmed.

"—Although the possibility of this situation is very small, due to the existence of the multiverse theory, each universe exhibits one of the superposition states, so among hundreds of millions of parallel universes, there will always be such a universe exhibiting What is more is the state of 'all the particles that make up the bullet have all bypassed the human head'.

"And it's the same for other suicide methods, whether it's jumping off a building, cutting the pulse, taking poison, electrocution, or hanging himself, there will always be some parallel universe where he is still alive, and there will always be a universe where the suicide can never die .

"This situation is known as 'quantum immortality'.

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

Ke Xun was stunned for a moment, then said: "Then, if you can only find the signature if you find 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 here.

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

"That's right," Ke Xun patted himself on the forehead, "I was so frightened by everything I learned today, and I can't help but regard the real world as the world in the painting—in this way, do you think,' The maliciousness of painting has become more and more serious. In the painting "The Scarlet Beast", it tricked us to regard the world in the painting as the real world, but in this painting, it even tempted us to regard the real world as the painting In the middle world, let us start to doubt and despair about the real world. If we say that Scarlet Beast just made us want to stay in the painting, when it comes to this painting, it already wants us to lose our belief in living!"

"What you said made me shiver." Wei Dong's voice came from the side.

"As you said," Shao Ling's voice followed, "the brilliance of this painting is that the things it uses to 'induce' us are all scientific theories and hypotheses that really exist in the real world. It's like, a person deceives you with all the truth, so how can this kind of deception be a deception or the truth?"

"Brother Shao, please stop talking. When you ask me this, how do I feel that this is the truth?" Luo Wei said in shock.

"I asked you to think about the clues. If you have figured it out, then follow along?" Ke Xun asked.

"I was thinking about it, and I was attracted by what you said." Wei Dongdao, "Since the boss means that we cannot die, but Cheng Shi and his son are not in the same universe as us, how can this be done?" Where did you find the signature?"

"Actually, I have some thoughts on the issue of consciousness that Ke Xun just said." Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun. He closed his eyes and couldn't see. For some reason, it made people feel distressed, so he couldn't help stretching out his hand. After holding his hand, he immediately received an enthusiastic response from him as always, but instead his own hand was tightly held by him with fingers interlaced.

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

"It feels more difficult than finding his body," Luo Kuo said, "At least the body is tangible and qualitative. How do we find consciousness, which is invisible, colorless, and qualityless? Is it possible? It's in the air." Floating randomly? Wherever it floats, it will blow two miles away when the wind blows?"

"Speaking of the relationship between consciousness and matter," Shao Ling said, "Materialism believes that matter determines or derives consciousness, and idealism believes that consciousness determines or derives matter. Both of these are called 'monism' in philosophy. ’. Yet there is also a ‘dualism’, that is, there is no determining or deriving relationship between matter and consciousness, and the two exist side by side.”

"There are some fans of this theory even in the physics 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 the four-dimensional space, while consciousness exists in the Multi-dimensional space, in a sense, they exist side by side, which also makes sense."

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

It sounds like she's calmed down now.

"The four-dimensional in physics simply refers to length, quantity, temperature, and time." Zhu Haowen said, "The physical body exists in the four-dimensional space, limited by time, it can only advance and develop according to the timeline, and cannot Jump freely between past, present and future.

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

"To make the simplest analogy, we want to go from point A to point B. The physical body can only move from A to B over time, but our consciousness can imagine that we have reached point B in an instant, and even You can imagine all the appearances of point B in an instant, but the body cannot restrain 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 hypotheses in this painting can be true, then we can use this law to make it true, and then leave the consciousness of the program in this universe," Ke Xun said, "As long as you find his consciousness, you can find the signature!"

"Isn't the problem here right now?" Wei Dong spread his hands, "The key is that this consciousness cannot be seen or touched. How can we find it?"

Ke Xun stretched out a finger: "Honey, don't we have a rule book and an item box, what if consciousness can also be used as an item?"

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

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

"I'll do it." 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 hurriedly asked.

Mu Yiran thought for a while: "Maybe it's because the dice controlled by Ke Xun has not stopped, which 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 allow read-only operations. It is impossible for an open document to be edited on the first page and edited on the fourth page at the same time."

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

"At that time, the 'document' became a network shared document, and we could modify it on different networks at the same time." Mu Yiran said, "The most intuitive example is the Q-news document function of our chat software. Now we It can be regarded as being 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, release the resources it occupies, and then other people can continue to use it?" Ke Xun said, "No wonder the process of rolling the dice has to be done in turns instead of everyone rolling together."

"But if Ke Xun stops the dice, it means that he has rolled the point and started another round of entry procedure. Then there is only 60 seconds for the second person. 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 fail to find the consciousness of the program after rolling the dice, we must You have to enter the checkpoint again, go through the checkpoint again, and then you can come back here and continue to use the rules and props to find the consciousness of the program."

"No need!" Deng Lin said suddenly, "Didn't the surname Mu just say that after entering the level, we can all use the rules and props at the same time, and then we will try to find the program in the level. OK?"

"Then if one of the group finds the consciousness of the program and thus gets the signature, what about the others?" Wei Dong asked him.

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