MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 248 The Essence of Emotional Energy

“What a pity,” Kyubey shook his head. “You clearly don’t have a need to survive, so why do you always refuse? In the human worldview, isn’t saving the world a noble dream?”

“Who knows?” Fang Zheng laughed. “Incubators, what you consider saving the world might be something more advanced and broader than the human concept of saving the world, like general and special relativity. But what does that have to do with me? I’m just a human being.”

"By the way, speaking of which, I haven't asked you yet." Fang Zheng pointed at Madoka Kaname and said, "When magical girls ask you questions, you always take into account their level of education and give them very limited and one-sided answers."

"And what about me?" Fang Zheng asked, pointing to himself. "In terms of technology, I probably haven't truly reached the level of your civilization yet, but at least, having exhausted the entire mathematical structure of the universe, I have mastered all the knowledge in these universes."

"Of course, this knowledge is meaningless to me. All knowledge exists simultaneously, and there is no distinction between right and wrong."

"But you can do it, right? You can provide enough search information for me to filter out the correct answer."

To give an analogy, if an intelligent being from the outside world were asking a question, it would be like entering a keyword into this infinite database of information.

If you enter the words 'nuclear fusion', Founder can provide all the information about nuclear fusion.

But this is meaningless, because such information is infinite. In the entire mathematical universe, all information related to the three words "nuclear fusion" in human cognition will be directly locked and included in the set of "nuclear fusion".

This collection encompasses everything, from novels and comics simply related to the term "nuclear fusion" to various technological information and even simple textual arrangements. It provides information on the structure of countless universes containing nuclear fusion, the principles of nuclear fusion, correct and incorrect formulas and technologies related to nuclear fusion.

For example, in the mathematical universe of wave functions, in that infinite set of universes, in the universe that exhausts all possible arrangements, to achieve nuclear fusion, it might be necessary to confine and compress the nuclear fuel with a massive electromagnetic field, and then bombard it with a powerful neutron beam to ignite the fusion reaction.

In one universe, nuclear fusion can be created simply by punching a pile of dung. Although it seems absurd, it is inevitable in an infinite universe with all possible permutations and combinations, and at least in that universe, it is correct.

Therefore, in order to find information that is meaningful under external constraints from infinite information, it is necessary to provide absolutely detailed search conditions and filter out specific combinations from infinite information.

For example, we need to provide a unified formula for the universe, or information about the creation of the universe, in such detail, before we can search for information that is meaningful to this universe from the infinite information database of Fangzheng.

However, if we have already mastered the universal unification formula and the information about the creation of the universe, all the technologies allowed to exist in the universe can be gradually deduced as long as we have enough computing power.

Even if you ask Fangzheng, it's just like using unlimited computing power to give you the relevant results one step ahead.

"Do you want to know?" Cupid tilted his head and said, "Indeed, if it were you, you could understand our technology to some extent. But even if you can understand it, 'Founder' still could not do it."

“That’s true,” Fang Zheng nodded. “Until now, before I’ve completely taken the final step, the only information I’m allowed to share is information that has been filtered through Fang Zheng’s personality.”

"But even so, please tell me."

At first glance, what Fang Zheng said seems contradictory, but it is actually quite simple.

A baby and an adult, both human beings, the baby will gradually grow into an adult.
Can babies understand everything that adults do?
This is of course impossible.

A baby is just one part of human development.

No matter how hard an adult tries to think and teach, as long as the baby is still a baby, it is impossible for an adult to teach a wave function formula.

"In that case, alright then," said Cupid, stretching and then placing his furry paws on Fang Zheng.

Some kind of information, beyond human comprehension and perception, began to be input into Fangzheng's 'internal' space.

It was something similar to a creation formula, but completely detached from the mathematical structure of human Fangzheng's cognition. It could only be matched one by one within Fangzheng's 'inside,' within the infinite mathematical universe set that he had calculated.

Only after traversing an infinite set can a matching structure be found, calculated according to it, and decompressed into an unsolvable set.

Of course, that is only an unsolvable set for the upright personality of human beings. Within the upright 'inside', this set and the mathematical universe set do have a certain boundary point, forming a larger and more complete set.

“I see…” Fang Zheng exclaimed, “Although even I, as a human, don’t quite understand, at least I do now.”

"By the way, Madoka Kaname, you probably want to know, right?" Fang Zheng looked at Madoka beside him. "To the incubators, magical girls are an unknowable black box under their technology."

"If you can't provide enough details about the question, you won't be able to get the corresponding answer at all. But after being filtered by the human personality, you can barely give a relatively approximate answer."

Xiao Yuan nodded and said, "Mr. Fang Zheng, it would be great if you were willing to tell me."

"So, what do you want to know?" Fang Zheng asked. Xiao Yuan thought for a moment and replied, "If possible, please tell me, what exactly is energy in the eyes of the Incubator civilization?"

"They always say that the emotional energy that magical girls generate after falling from hope to despair is very useful to them, but what exactly is emotional energy?"

What is the meaning of our hopes and despair to the incubators?

"I see," Fang Zheng said, tapping his hand on the table, a troubled expression on his square head. "Well, how should I put it? In terms of human understanding, there isn't a direct equivalent. If I had to find a word that's similar, it would probably be 'difference' or 'key'."

“Yes, that’s right,” Fang Zheng nodded. “It can be explained using differences and keys.”

Fang Zheng grabbed the teapot on the table, held it high, and poured a stream of water into the cup below. "You see," he said, "energy in the eyes of humans, in a sense, refers to difference."

In human cognition, entropy increases over time, and everything gradually shifts from order to disorder, or in other words, differences gradually tend to become more even.

From a human physics perspective, energy is often expressed as differences and gradients.

Like a rock on a high mountain, if nothing obstructs it, it will fall down the mountain under the influence of gravity. This tendency to fall is gravitational potential energy.

A red-hot iron block thrown into water will heat the water because of the potential energy of temperature.

If a system is completely homogeneous, with no differences in temperature, density, pressure, or other physical quantities, then from a thermodynamic point of view, the system does not possess any usable energy and cannot perform work.

This complete averaging of differences is one of humanity's conjectures about the end of the universe: heat death.

However, even if heat death occurs, energy itself still exists. But whether energy exists or not is not important. What is important is the available energy, or free energy. This state itself, composed of differences and gradients, determines whether the system can carry out orderly energy conversion.

"Oh?" Xiaoyuan asked with some doubt after listening to Fang Zheng's explanation, "So, emotional energy is the potential energy gained from the difference between hope and despair?"

"The Incubator civilization can utilize something so abstract?"

Fang Zheng shook his head: "No, the term 'emotional energy' is just a term coined by the Incubator Civilization to make it understandable for magical girls who generally have low levels of education."

“Emotional energy is not physical energy in the human sense, but more like a metaphysical information disturbance, an information disturbance based on differences.”

With a wave of his hand, Fang Zheng took the longbow that Xiao Yuan had just given him from her hands, stroked the weapon that seemed to be made of pixels, and gently flicked it.

As several rectangular fingers flicked across it, the pixels on the surface of this longbow, which resembled a cherry blossom branch, began to tremble violently and shrink to a single point, revealing a writhing surface. Then, Fang Zheng reached out and tossed it.

A colossal cherry blossom tree began to pierce the ground and grew endlessly, standing on the square earth almost like a world tree.

Fang Zheng, Kaname Madoka, and Kyubey were also lifted by this enormous tree to an unknown distance in the sky. The square sun still existed at an infinite height, and pixelated snowflakes continued to dance in the high sky, leaving a thin layer of snow on the tree that was indescribably large and still growing endlessly.

Fang Zheng and Madoka Kaname strolled together on a leaf that was growing rapidly. Looking at the leaf beneath her feet, Madoka could see something wriggling within the endlessly growing details, like a fractal. No matter how many times it grew, the details and the whole had similar shapes, but in the endless magnification, the details were also endlessly adding new forms.

Fang Zheng pointed to the big tree below and said, "As you know, the witch's barrier is actually a collection of unsolvable elements."

"They do not follow logic, they do not follow mathematics, they only follow their own chaotic and ineffable rules."

"And familiars, as a subset of witches, are the same. They don't actually have a distinction of size. Just like in the set of 1 and 10, even between 1 and 2, the number of real numbers is infinite. If you insist on calculating the true size of familiars and witch barriers, they are all infinite."

"Theoretically speaking, such unsolvable sets are beyond the comprehension of humans. However, when humans enter the witch's barrier, they can still gain some understanding of the various scenes within it."

"Although those things seem absurd and chaotic to humans, and all sorts of things and familiars that are somewhat upside down in terms of space, time, and logic actually exist, despite their apparent chaos, certain rules can still be summarized. However, these seemingly regular rules are actually wrong, or rather, one-sided."

"Oh," Xiaoyuan understood a little. She said, "I know what you mean. Just like what the magical warrior Fang Zheng told me, the same thing is a witch in the eyes of a magical girl, but a monster in the eyes of a Kamen Rider."

"Although the two seem the same, they have very different styles in terms of specific forms and related rules. If that boy continues to fall into a world that is more in line with his understanding, perhaps the unsolvable set of forms will undergo even more earth-shattering changes in that world."

"No matter what their form is, their essence remains unchanged. In other words, the witch's barrier only appears that way under our observation."

“Like this…” She crouched down, reached out and stroked the leaves below, then closed her eyes and reached out to grab the tree that had been endlessly pushing the two of them up and growing ever larger. In the next moment, the tree instantly condensed back into the shape of a longbow in her palm, and the two of them and Kyubey slowly fell down from the endless sky.

(End of this chapter)