The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 112: Star-Chasing Journey (Thirty-Two)

Dip the brush in ink and lightly poke it on the paper. A full ink dot will fall in the center of the paper.

"This is an apple," Professor Tang said. "Don't be surprised. In a one-dimensional world, it is just like this."

Then, Professor Tang waved his brush a few times and drew a crooked circle next to the dot, with a stroke on it.

[It’s an apple. This is a picture of an apple! ]

[Hmm... I can see that.]

[My second aunt's niece draws better than this. ]

"Ahem, anyway, this is a two-dimensional apple." Professor Tang's face turned visibly red.

Then, she waved her hand, and a bright red, round apple appeared in her hand.

She placed the apple next to the "apple" in the painting: "Now, we put this apple into the three-dimensional world. Here, it not only has length and width, but also height and volume. We can see its overall shape, touch its surface, and even feel its weight."

“This is the three-dimensional world you exist in.”

“It’s also the dimension I once lived in.”

Professor Tang gazed deeply at the three-dimensional apple, as if he was missing something through it.

"As for the four-dimensional apple, I have no way to really show you. This is beyond the scope of your direct observation."

"I can only say that for the fourth dimension, time is also a dimension that can be moved."

Professor Tang said this while casually fiddling with the apple on the table.

With a poke and a touch, the shape of the apple changed and slowly twisted into an extremely chaotic existence.

From Liu Sheng's perspective, this existence is both real and illusory.

She could see the flesh and core inside, and the smooth, bright red skin.

Moreover, this apple, if it can still be called an "apple", is sometimes as fresh as if it had just been picked from a tree, still covered with dew, and sometimes rots into a black and green lump, with countless maggots crawling in and out.

Liu Sheng realized very intuitively that this was indeed not something she could understand at the moment.

"So, these," Liu Sheng pointed to the endless squares outside the pavilion, "are all the unified 'boxes' you see in your world? Just like when you see me, all of me is me."

Liu Sheng tried to understand.

"Yes, for you, every choice you make from childhood to adulthood will split into a different world." Professor Tang nodded with satisfaction, as if he had seen a good student.

"For example, whether you kick the marbles on the ground after getting up, whether you choose vegetables or meat for your first bite of dinner, whether you listen carefully to the first class in school, and even whether you choose to stay out and work hard or return to your hometown to live a peaceful life when you grow up, all these will eventually lead to different lives."

“For you, maybe you are unique, and your experience determines your existence.”

"But to me in a higher dimension, all of you are just you."

"However, this can only be realized by those who can touch the edge of higher dimensions. Most people in the three-dimensional world will never be able to discover it even if they spend their entire lives trying."

"Maybe you haven't figured it out yet, but for some reason, you have indeed touched the edge of a higher dimension. You may even be a 3.5-dimensional particle, so you can move between the boxes without even realizing it."

"That's why you subconsciously named your friend 'Wen Weilan', right? This ability also guides her awakening. Once she realizes that all of her selves are herself, the so-called multiple worlds in her will shrink into one, and she can experience everything that happens to herself at the same time." "Of course, this is also because the environment I created is very special. Once she leaves here, she won't be able to..."

Liu Sheng took over the conversation: "It's because you created a four-dimensional 'rotten apple' world, right?"

Professor Tang was surprised and smiled and said again: "You are indeed very smart."

"You attract evil creatures to invade by developing believers. Once evil creatures invade, they will leave holes for bugs to pass through, just like an apple bitten by a worm," Liu Sheng said firmly.

"When this four-dimensional 'apple' unfolds in the three-dimensional world, it will become countless 'apples' based on repeated choices. That's why I can travel through those 'worm-eaten' passages to different boxes or 'apples', because it's the same apple in the first place."

"Okay, now let's use the concept of the box again, so that it will be easier to understand this matter from the perspective of 'Schrödinger's cat'."

"Every time you open the box in four dimensions to observe, the box expands further because of something called quantum decoherence, and more worlds appear in your observation."

Liu Sheng spoke more and more fluently, and many of her thoughts that were tangled like a tangled mess were sorted out bit by bit.

[But do multiple worlds really exist? Maybe it's just an illusion in the weird world. ]

[The experiences of the "us" now are all slightly different. It is unknown whether this is a confusion of memory or if there really are multiple worlds. ]

[Maybe, but for Professor Tang, this is what she believes, so it has become the rule of this world. It can be said that at this moment, multiple worlds exist.]

But these concepts were still too transcendent for Liu Sheng, so she was still in a state of half-belief and half-doubt, and self-entanglement.

Professor Tang smiled noncommittally at what Liu Sheng said, neither admitting nor disagreeing.

"You don't need to think too clearly, or you'll go crazy." She just reminded him.

"But I'm curious, why do you do this?" Liu Sheng raised his head, looked straight into Professor Tang's eyes, and asked, "Or is this your nature as a weird creature, to destroy and torture?"

Professor Tang was not angry or annoyed at all because of Liu Sheng's words. Perhaps he had already accepted the fact that he had turned into a monster.

"Don't you think you're smart?" Professor Tang smiled faintly, "Why don't you guess it?"

Liu Sheng has become somewhat accustomed to this kind of reverse guessing thing. After thinking for a while, he said: "Why not start with how did you become like this?"

Professor Tang's eyes suddenly lit up with interest and he made a "please" gesture.

"You were very unwilling to accept the fact that your theories were not recognized in the academic community, so you turned to seek recognition among the public."

"Well, you already knew this from the science museum," said Professor Tang.

"Yes, and then you used the Space Exploration Travel Agency to specifically attract those people who are mentally unstable, dissatisfied with their current lives, and eager to be different. They are easily swayed, and you arranged layers of psychological hints and persuasion throughout the entire journey. In the end, you even added a plot in which you pretended to be the federal government and killed innocent people, making them further disappointed in the outside world. In the end, you absorbed them into the Space Village and used them as sacrifices to attract strange creatures."

"Except for you, no one else has ever seen the so-called 'aliens', because everyone who has seen them is dead or has been assimilated."

Liu Sheng said in one breath, with a determined look on his face.

They are all at the level of amateur scientists, and everything is possible in this weird world!
About the multiverse (from Wikipedia):

In 1957, the original relative state concept was published by American quantum physicist Hugh Everett III. Later in the 1960s and 1970s, the theory became popular and was renamed the Many Worlds Theory by Bryce DeWitt. In the Many Worlds Interpretation, the subjective phenomenon of wave function collapse can be explained by the quantum decoherence mechanism. Since the 1970s, the decoherence method has been further explored and developed in interpreting quantum theory, and is therefore quite popular. The Many Worlds Interpretation is one of the many parallel universe hypotheses in physics and philosophy. In addition to the Many Worlds Interpretation, the current mainstream interpretations of quantum mechanics include other decoherence interpretations, collapse interpretations (which are divided into objective collapse theory and traditional Copenhagen interpretation), hidden variable theories (mainly non-local hidden variable theories such as de Broglie-Bohm theory), etc. This interpretation aims to explain the measurement problem, thereby solving some paradoxes in quantum theory, such as the EPR paradox and the Schrödinger cat paradox.

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