As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 233: Probing and Discussion

For America, the threat from China is real and imminent.

Even in the interstellar age, resources are still not unlimited, and China is the only country that can directly pose a strategic threat to Mars.

The Europa League and Russia have either fallen behind in the field of aerospace for too long or have serious imbalances.

Russia's economy can no longer sustain its previous all-round competitive posture; it has been shrinking for more than thirty years.

The Europa League, on the other hand, is biased, cooperating with America in a large number of areas. Now that cooperation is no longer possible and it has to start all over again, it finds that there is too much to add.

Another very important point is that the Europa League is well planned, but its implementation is problematic.

Take the Galileo system as an example. The Galileo satellite navigation system was announced as early as 1999. At that time, it was clearly stated that it was intended to get rid of America's dependence on GPS and break its monopoly.

In 2003, China signed a cooperation agreement with the Europa Union and invested 2.3 million euros to participate in the Galileo project.

However, because the Europa League did not allow China to participate in the core technology layer, and the political trend changed later, China officially withdrew from the project and determined to build its own satellite navigation system.

This is the origin of Beidou navigation. If China and the European Union had cooperated happily, there would be no Beidou today.

Beidou obviously started six years later than Galileo. As a result, by the end of 2012, Galileo had only launched six satellites, while China's Beidou had launched a total of 16 satellites.

At that time, the only golden frequency band left for the satellite navigation system was 1260-1300MHz. Beidou came from behind and occupied the satellite frequency band originally planned by Europa.

From this incident, we can see that the Europa Alliance often has plans in the field of aerospace early on, but execution is problematic and the budget is discounted from time to time.

After learning that China and the European Union had started cooperation on life-extending drugs, America immediately planned to do something bad to sabotage the cooperation between the two parties.

As the eldest, I can't stand seeing the second and third oldest hanging out together.

What's more, China and the European Alliance can achieve almost perfect complementarity in many areas.

If this cooperation between the two parties could have a happy start and lay the foundation for more subsequent cooperation, this would undoubtedly be bad news for America.

A very simple example is that China's Zhurong Mars rover only landed on Mars in July 2020.

The Europa Consortium's Mars Express probe was launched into Mars orbit as early as 2003 and has orbited Mars more than times.

Among them, evidence that parts of Mars were once covered by oceans, including the remains of large rivers on Mars, were captured by Mars Express.

At that time, the Europa Alliance also launched a lander called Beagle 2 on Mars.

If the data accumulated by the Europa Alliance in Mars exploration is given to China, it will be of great help to China's landing on Mars.

The lunar observation data Russia provided to China saved China at least two years.

However, compared with the Europa Union, Russia is not a concern.

Of course, America has nothing to offer to impress Russia, so don't get involved with China.

In order to prevent cooperation between the two sides, the American side sent a special envoy to the Europa Union to pave the way for subsequent substantive visits at a higher level.

Among them, Witten, who had previously been to Stockholm, was the mysterious guest for this visit to the Europa League.

The people responsible for receiving Witten were Jean-Pierre and Wiles from France.

Witten's achievements in mathematics allow him to have many common topics with the two top mathematicians.

"I never thought that seven years have passed since we last met. Seven years have passed and we have both become magicians."

The last time the three met was at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.

"Who would have thought that magic existed in the world? Although I am a theist, I have always believed that God is high above and would not interfere in anything in the world."

"Merlin is not a god. He is a pioneer in the field of magic, and is far from being an omniscient and omnipotent god."

"Of course he is not a god, but magic has appeared, so how far can the appearance of gods be? The more I study magic, the more pessimistic I feel about the future of mankind."

"Unlike the two of you, I am very optimistic. The help that Magic Brain has provided to scientific research is obvious to all. In recent years, breakthroughs in cutting-edge technology have become more and more common. A technological boom similar to that of the 1980s and 1990s is about to come again.

This time we will enter the interstellar era. Even if we can only colonize within the solar system, it is still the interstellar era.

The future of humanity has never been better.”

"This is an ideal state. No one knows where Merlin wants to take humanity yet."

"Isn't the bounty mission in the magic forum very direct? Starry sky, Merlin needs humans to enter the interstellar age.

In his view, Mars is just the starting point.”

"What he said on the surface may not be his true thoughts. The unknown substance scattered throughout the ocean has not yet been identified. Merlin's true purpose is shrouded in mystery.

I hope the future of mankind will really be as you said."

Compared with Witten and Wiles, French mathematicians are clearly more aware of socialism.

Jean-Pierre, who was born in 1926, still remembers the Algerian incident in 1971 vividly even today.

There are important historical reasons why the level of white leftism in France is more serious than in the other two countries present here.

Jean-Pierre said: "The best times for mankind may be only the best times for a few.

The wider third world population may not necessarily be able to enjoy the dividends of the interstellar age.

The advancement of artificial intelligence is faster than we expected, and industrial intelligent automation is getting closer and closer.

Once so many workers are no longer needed, manufacturing will return to China, and the world will become more polarized, with peaceful and prosperous developed countries and turbulent third world countries that cannot even guarantee food and clothing. "

"Pierre, I think you worry too much. Technological progress can bring benefits to all mankind, and technological progress will have spillover effects.

The wave of Internet revolution we initiated and the spillover technologies have brought benefits to the world. People all over the world are enjoying the richer entertainment and cultural prosperity brought by the Internet era.

The technology spillover from developed countries has brought about China's rapid development in this century.

Future technological advances will also bring about similar changes, and technological progress will benefit all mankind.”

Pierre did not want to argue too much about Witten's sophistry: "Maybe you are right, I hope you are right."

Witten stretched out a finger, and a flame appeared millimeters away from his finger.

"Alas, I thought that mastering the magic of fireball, light, and magic hand were basic operations, and space teleportation was the real step into the door of magic.

As a result, I have only just begun to master the fireball technique that is not even a flame."

What Witten said depends on who he said it to. Saying it in front of the mages of the European Alliance is pure Versailles.

You have to know that the development of magic by the mages of the European Alliance is still at the level of moving objects, which is no different from telekinesis.

People outside may think that becoming a wizard is omnipotent, but the wizards on Blue Star know that a wizard is nothing but a high-level worker.

He was just a high-level worker whose brain was fully optimized. The mages had watched Merlin's public spellcasting in Stockholm countless times, and they didn't even understand how Merlin appeared at the scene, let alone reproducing it.

Looking at the flame on Witten's fingers, Wiles and Jean-Pierre looked at each other and noticed the hint of envy in each other's eyes.

Wiles asked, "You exchanged the basic spells?"

Wiles wanted to say what that was, but he couldn't.

All Witten had to do was ask, "What can you do?" and he and Pierre would immediately show their weakness.

Witten: “It’s a secret, I think we can cooperate with you in many areas.

America's research results in magic are definitely beyond your imagination.

Including biological storage technology can also be shared with the Europa Union."

Pierre was much more cautious: “Conditions?
What are your conditions? "

Wei Teng said without hesitation: “Ownership of five magic coins, right to use one magic coin.

The exchange of biological storage technology requires 10 magic coins, and we also give you the detailed casting instructions of Fireball."

American was very cunning. He paid an extra magic coin for the right to use it, in exchange for the casting details of Fireball.

But what they had was at best the Fire Technique, and after acquiring the biological storage technology, it would take no more than a month to develop the Fire Technique.

This business is very profitable for America.

Jean-Pierre: "We need to discuss before we can decide."

The European Alliance is definitely not in a hurry. America and China are both trying to win me over. If I don’t take the opportunity to make an offer, when will I wait?
America's offer was directly transferred to China to see what China said.

Not to mention that both China and America have sold biological storage servers to them.

Witten continued: “And I think that American can better cooperate with the Europa League on life extension potions.

Our achievements in the field of biomedicine are much stronger than those of China.”

What American covets most is the life-extending potion.

Life-extending drugs are not just used by big shots; the market here is ten times larger than that of sildenafil, and the profits can be even a hundred times higher than that of sildenafil.

"I can make suggestions, but we don't have the power to decide."

In fact, the idea of ​​the Europa League is very simple. To cooperate with China, the interests that need to be given up are small, but to cooperate with America, the interests that need to be given up are much greater.

In the cooperation agreement reached with China, China has the right to use the research and development results of life-extending drugs within China, and the European Union has the right to use them in other regions.

If we cooperate with America, global benefits will be shared equally.

“The more I research, the more I realize the gap between humans and magical civilization in the biological field.

The amount of life-extending potion that Merlin provided us is too small, and it is difficult to reverse engineer its synthesis route from the limited amount of life-extending potion."

Wiles said this to test how much American knew about the life-extending potion.

As early as 2013, when the Prism program was exposed, the Europa League knew that America must have tampered with the communication equipment.

This includes the fact that they have been strongly resisting Huawei's communication equipment from expanding its market share because if Huawei replaces Cisco, it will increase the difficulty for American to collect intelligence.

This time, American was even more blatant, making it clear that he knew the life-extending potion was in the hands of the Europa League, and that he also knew that you were cooperating.

Even without any disguise, the intention is stated directly.

The Europa League is not sure through what channel the news was leaked, or whether it was an insider or was eavesdropped.

For Wiles, the assignment began before he even met Witten.

He needed to find out how much the American side knew about the life-extending potion.

Wei Teng: "There are already quite a few life-extending potions. If you cooperate with us, we will definitely be able to reverse engineer them to a certain extent."

"Maybe we can't achieve the same effect as the potion Merlin provided, but we can make a weaker version first."

After Witten finished speaking, Wiles made a judgment in his heart, that is, the American side did not know the specific amount of the life-extending potion.

After the three of them exchanged a few words about the life-extending potion, Pierre changed the subject:

“As I delve deeper into my research on magic and discover new particles, I feel more and more that your string theory is correct.

It just needs to be improved.”

The previous largest quantum accelerator was in the Europa Union, and they accumulated a large amount of data on soul particle collisions.

New quantum accelerators built in China and Russia will not be completed until this year.

As for the large-scale quantum accelerator that Japan, England and Kangaroo Country originally planned to build in 2026, due to England’s “rebellion”, it is now a long way off.

Speaking of professional issues, Wiles also seemed very interested: "Merlin's appearance caused chaos in the physics community.

In particular, the emergence of souls and new particles makes physicists question life.

Looking back, I feel more and more that string theory can include all of this.”

String theory believes that the most basic matter is not particles, but strings.

弦论中的弦一共包含5种类型：1型、2A型、2B型、杂化O（32）型、杂化E8×E8型。

These strings are unified in a framework called "M-theory".

M theory believes that the world has eleven dimensions, ten of which are space and one is time.

It must be in 11 dimensions to be applicable to our universe, but the universe we live in has only 4 dimensions.

Witten nodded and said, “I have doubts too. After the emergence of magic, I have more confidence in string theory.

Michio Kaku's wild idea may be correct.

Humans live in a four-dimensional universe, and there is also a six-dimensional universe.

Magic allows humans to communicate with the six-dimensional universe and realize the exchange of matter between the six-dimensional universe and the four-dimensional universe to achieve the purpose of casting spells. "

Michio Kaku is an avid supporter of string theory and has created a series of popular science works for the general public, including "Conceiving the Future", "Beyond Einstein and Hyperspace", and "Parallel Universes".

"I guess the soul exists in the six-dimensional universe. When humans think, it will briefly move from the six-dimensional universe to the four-dimensional universe, and then quickly return to the six-dimensional universe."

I've procrastinated again... My procrastination is really too serious
I was going to add an update today, but I will postpone it and try to finish it before next Wednesday.

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