MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 203 The Infinite Wave Function Universe

"Hello, Tanaka Yu, I am Tanaka Yu, your guide..."

Tanaka Yu struggled to turn his head and stared at the face behind him, a face that looked exactly like his own but appeared somewhat weathered, as if it had endured countless years. He was immediately stunned.

"I'm sorry, old Tanaka Yu, I haven't been in a good mood lately, and my attitude has been a little rough." The weathered version of Tanaka Yu extended his hand to him. "You shouldn't mind, right?"

Faced with a face that was extremely similar to his own, and an aura that was ethereal yet incredibly powerful, a thousand times stronger than his own, the young Tanaka Yu's expression tightened.

As a traveler of the heavens, he understood the common sense that one must always maintain awe towards those stronger than oneself in any world; this was the way to survive.

However, feeling the aura that was so similar to his own, he really didn't know how to respond, and was just stunned as the other person pulled him up.

"Come and have a taste, this is a cigar tree from the world of Gourmet Captives, a top-quality product that I personally grew." The weathered Tanaka Yu flicked his finger, and a dry branch flew out of thin air into the young Tanaka Yu's hand. He then waved his hand and turned to walk away.

Tanaka Yu examined the branch in his hand, and a faint, mellow fragrance wafted up to him.

Following the example of his own experience, he snapped his fingers, using the heat from his fingertips to light the twig, put it in his mouth and took a puff; it was indeed the finest cigar.

“Come on, let’s talk.” The weathered Tanaka Yu said as they walked. “I haven’t been in a good mood lately and I’ve been wanting to see my younger self, so I signed up for the guide mission. If you have any questions, come along with me.”

Waaaaah...

Blah blah blah...

On a sweltering summer day, the sounds of cicadas and flowing river intertwine on a country road, creating a melodious pastoral symphony that brings a sense of peace.

Tanaka Yu was full of questions, but he didn't ask them immediately. Instead, he stared at the scenery around him in a daze.

The familiar and nostalgic scene reminded him of his childhood.

There used to be a similar path around his maternal grandmother's house in the countryside.

Back then, every summer vacation, he would come to his grandmother's house to play with his friends in the countryside, catch beetles and wild fruits on the mountain, and catch small fish and shrimp in the river.

My maternal grandmother's family were farmers who specialized in growing watermelons. Every summer vacation, they would eat their fill of watermelons and often go to the river with their friends to catch fish and shrimp. Afterward, the watermelons would be chilled in the stream, and then everyone would share them. They would then go home when the sun went down. Looking back, those carefree childhood days were truly wonderful.

Looking at the weathered figure ahead and the surrounding scenery, Tanaka Yu pondered, "Could this be some kind of illusion based on my memories? This guy in front of me can't be some kind of inner demon, can he?"

"Hahaha, hurry up and chase me!"

Suddenly, several children came chasing and playing from behind.

Thump! A child tripped over a stone and fell, his head hitting the ground with a thud. His mouth twitched, snot streamed down his face, and he started crying, "Waaah..."

"Hahaha, Tanaka, you're so clumsy! You're so slow you're going to fall down." The child friend who had already run far away turned around and laughed at him.

"Are you alright...?" Tanaka Yu picked up the child from the ground and brushed the dust off him, but when he saw the tearful, snotty face, he froze.

I turned to look at my own weathered face beside me, then back at the child I was holding hands with. Sure enough, they looked so alike.

"Tanaka, are you alright? Hey? Are these two uncles your relatives? They look just like you." Several children had already run over from not far away.

"I don't know," the child named Tanaka shook his head, wiped his tears and snot, smeared them haphazardly on his pants, and bowed to Tanaka Yu. "Thank you, Uncle. We'll be going now."

After saying that, the children continued chasing and playing happily as they left.

Tanaka Yu watched this scene with a somewhat dazed expression, as his vague childhood memories gradually became clearer.

That child was clearly me when I was a child, and the other children were my childhood friends from my grandmother's house in the countryside.

"What exactly is going on? Is this child a product of my soul being split apart?" Tanaka Yu asked.

"Oh, so you've finally started asking questions," said the weathered Tanaka Yu calmly.

He found a large rock by the roadside, plopped down, and gazed at the children playing in the distant river with his weathered eyes. A hint of nostalgia flashed in his eyes, and he said softly, "Those children are us, only they are us from the past in our memories..."

"Tanaka, do you think that if a person's entire brain structure and complete memories are completely copied onto a machine, and he is running in the machine, can he still be considered himself?" The weathered Tanaka Yu looked blankly at the leaves shimmering in the setting sun, his voice tinged with confusion.

"What?" Tanaka Yu frowned, not reacting for a moment.

Memory replication, consciousness uploading, the temptation of soul splitting... these kinds of operations are not uncommon in the "space" and among the countless travelers of the heavens.

Many tech leaders will inevitably, at some point, replicate their consciousness onto machines, becoming a form of super artificial intelligence. Only in this way can they break free from the constraints of the physical body and achieve a completely new existence.

Although Tanaka Yu himself had never seen such a being, he had heard of it to some extent.

Many Skywalkers who believe in the power to belong to themselves scoff at the actions of those on the technology side, believing that by replicating themselves in that way, they would no longer be themselves.

They have always believed only in their own strength and their own fists, thinking that only by constantly developing the potential of their bodies and souls can they truly reach the heavens.

However, although Tanaka Yu mainly cultivates domineering aura and martial arts, he is not interested in the so-called debates on the technological or fantasy sides.

He has always been a pragmatist. When he was weak, he still used firearms and explosives. Now that he is strong enough to smash a skyscraper with a single punch, he still does not reject the use of technology.

However, ordinary firearms and explosives are of no use to him now, and he did not choose to buy those more expensive things because of their cost-effectiveness. Instead, he bought more items to improve his strength.

At that moment, upon hearing the question posed by the person in front of him who resembled himself, Tanaka Yu immediately made a guess.

He glanced at the child in the stream not far away, and asked hesitantly, "You mean..." "Are the current me, the current you, and that child all replicas of the real 'Tanaka Yu'?"

If that's the case, it's not surprising that he couldn't open his personal panel. If the Skywalker's personal panel is a copy, he certainly wouldn't have it.

“Perhaps,” the weathered Tanaka Yu shook his head, “if, really, some kind of ‘original body’ exists…”

"Tanaka, do you know what Laplace's demon is?"

Tanaka Yu nodded. Of course he knew that although he was now a Skywalker and a martial artist who cultivated domineering qi, before becoming a Skywalker, he was at least a college student who graduated with excellent grades.

He was certainly no stranger to Laplace's demon, the physics monster killed by the quantum uncertainty theory of microscopic particles.

The Laplace's demon hypothesis was proposed by the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace.

Laplace's demon, also known as Laplace's demon, is a hypothetical being that possesses an essence beyond the universe, capable of knowing the position and velocity of every particle in the universe at any given moment, and able to use this information to predict the future or reconstruct the past.

Before the uncertainty of microscopic particles was discovered, scientists believed that the development of everything was determined at the beginning of the universe.

Whether it's the scientific community's discovery of the so-called atom, their proposal of Laplace's demon, or their despair over it, all of these are fates predetermined since the birth of the universe.

Tanaka Yu quietly continued, "You know, if there exists a supreme 'god' who truly possesses the abilities of Laplace's demon, has near-infinite computational power, and in his eyes, there is no uncertainty regarding microscopic particles, then what exactly is the universe to him..."

“But,” Tanaka Yu frowned, “in physics, there is uncertainty regarding microscopic particles. Due to the existence of wave functions, microscopic particles cannot be completely calculated!”

"Heh..." Hearing his younger self's answer, the weathered Tanaka Yu suddenly sneered and said in a calm and indifferent voice, "What if all the states of the wave function were exhaustively enumerated?"

"This?" Tanaka Yu's brows furrowed even deeper. "How is this possible!"

"Hey! You bastard, if you really do have my memories, you should at least have some basic physics knowledge, right?"

"The entirety of the wave function's states is like the number between 1 and 2, or how many there are."

"Just as you can only approximate a continuous function with a list of numbers, but never exhaust all the details, quantum superposition states are inexhaustible!"

“That’s right,” Tanaka Yu nodded in admiration, but then added, “The wave function space is continuous and infinite-dimensional.”

"But the material world is discrete."

"The universe has a Bekenstein limit. Mathematically, the wave function does have infinite possibilities, but the upper limit of information in the universe is only 10^{123} bits."

"The physical world itself is like dividing a continuous space into finite small squares, dividing continuous values ​​into finite levels, and piecing together a delicate oil painting with mosaic tiles. Although it can capture the main features, it loses infinitely many details."

"Our world has the Planck scale, which is like a mosaic; it's impossible to truly exhaust the mathematical possibilities."

"Just like the quantum many-worlds theory, our real world, as long as it is discrete, is not impossible to completely exhaustively enumerate."

“But…” Tanaka Yu paused for a moment, then said somewhat absentmindedly, “What if infinite computing power really exists?”

"What if the infinite number of possible wave functions could be 'exhaustively enumerated'...?"

What if we really lived in a mathematical universe?

……

Shortly after arriving in this world, Fang Zheng indirectly deduced the state of all rendering areas by using the atomic concerto he had just come up with. He also learned that as each "character" was controlled by the "player" and made different choices, the original rendering state would be "completed" to a certain extent.

Originally extremely simple, with no real memories whatsoever, Kurosaki Ichigo, Aizen Sousuke, and others, as time passed, after Fang Zheng witnessed Aizen become the second Soul King, the original rendered world stopped at that moment, and then resumed rendering a moment later.

The rendered world has far exceeded the original scope of just Karakura Town.

Let's consider this world after the second rendering as a kind of cycle.

In this second cycle, the area that Fang Zheng could explore with the Atomic Concerto had already encompassed the entire Earth.

Furthermore, the rendering area encompassing the entire Earth is no longer as blurry as before, where only the area around the character's field of vision became clear. Instead, every region of the Earth, from gas particles escaping into space above the atmosphere to the semi-solid iron core constantly moving within the Earth's crust, is in constant motion.

It is so precise that down to every single particle and every state, there is no longer any ambiguity.

Therefore, once the atomic concerto was played, after multiple rounds of feedback, Fangzheng had already grasped the motion states of all the microscopic particles on Earth.

Similarly, the precision of the position and momentum of each particle also means that in this second cycle of Earth, the previously vague and uncertain backgrounds of the characters have all been filled in.

By reverse-engineering every microscopic particle on Earth, Fang Zheng obtained all the memories of the entire Earth, including more than 60 billion humans, as well as all the memories of trillions of other life forms.

They obtained all the information about the entire Earth over the past 45.5 billion years.

Similarly, in the background completion, all the knowledge that humankind has developed on Earth is also completely mastered by Fang Zheng.

After this step, Fang Zheng suddenly became a little curious.

Because he learned about the so-called Laplace's demon.

On this completed Earth, the theory of Laplace's demon exists, as does the so-called quantum uncertainty theory.

(End of this chapter)