Did the world end today?

Chapter 312 Elizabeth Widman Bomb Test

Chapter 312 Illyzer-Wiedman Bomb Test

Yaohu Lake.

It was already 11 p.m., but Lin Xu was still sitting in the makeshift office.

He had read all the reports from the physics expert group. Most of these reports were purely technical discussions, but at Lin Xu's request, all the voters who participated in the preliminary review also gave their specific reasons for making their judgments from a "subjective" perspective.

Now, Lin Xu is presented with a summary of these reasons.

As Lin Xu read through the list, he realized that those physicists, whom he had mostly regarded as "detached" and "independent," were actually living, breathing people.

They have their own humanity, and they also have their own selfish desires.

They will feel fear and worry.

All these fears and anxieties are directly reflected in the reasons they give.

"I do not agree with launching this experiment. The reason is simple: there is no evidence that the risks of the experiment can be completely eliminated, and if an accident occurs, the world I love could very well be destroyed."

"I disagree. We may have other ways. There is still a long time before the end of the world. We may be able to try different things and start exploring from other areas."

"Experiences from another world are not necessarily correct. We don't need to completely replicate their course of action. After all, the reason that world succeeded on this path was due to some kind of 'luck,' but does our world really have such luck?"

“We should transfer such risks to another world, which is also a form of risk isolation.”

They can start over, but we can't.

After reading all the reasons, Lin Xu slowly put down the materials in his hand.

In fact, each of these reasons and judgments is quite reasonable. In fact, if it weren't for the premise that "the end of the world is coming," their suggestions could be considered a model of "academic rigor."

The problem is, humanity in this world really doesn't have time.

Is 19 years really that long?
Stop it.

To this day, humanity has not yet uncovered the truth behind the apocalypse; it can only vaguely determine that this catastrophe is related to time storms and higher-dimensional channels.

No one knows how to survive this disaster. The solutions explored so far, namely the "dimensional ascension" solutions, are only the first step towards the ultimate goal of solving the apocalypse.

Who knows how many more difficulties await after ascending to a higher dimension?

Or to put it more extremely, who knows how far it will take to go from a limiter to "upgrading to a higher dimension"?
If progress truly stalls due to potential risks.
Who will make up for the lost time?

Lin Xu frowned, pondered for a moment, and then asked Jiang Xingye, who was standing beside him:
"What do you think?"

What do I think?
Jiang Xingye pondered for a moment, then replied:

"I haven't received any information related to this experiment. It seems this issue isn't important?"

"The world that has already crossed this barrier has no memory of the problems we faced."

"Can we infer from this that the experiment is not actually as dangerous as we thought?"

"Obviously not."

Lin Xu slowly shook his head and began to explain:

"The information you receive, including the information I receive, actually comes from a world that has already overcome obstacles and survived successfully."

"It is very possible that these worlds themselves do not understand the danger of this experiment, and it is even possible that they discovered the so-called 'singularity-containing' material before they realized the danger of this experiment."

"Therefore, they had no opportunity to be afraid."

"And those worlds that haven't overcome obstacles due to bad luck have even less chance to be afraid."

"Overall, this is a survivor bias."

"The experiment itself is indeed dangerous, but in other worlds, such experiments would not be hindered in the process."

"Only in our world, because of the complete information brought back by butterflies and pollen, has humanity achieved a relatively advanced level in the development of basic theories in higher dimensions, which is why this world has developed a fear of experimentation."

"understood."

Jiang Xingye nodded thoughtfully.

"So this matter is essentially the same as the process by which mankind developed the nuclear bomb."

"If humanity had realized the horror of nuclear weapons earlier, their development wouldn't have gone so smoothly, right?"

"That's probably what it means."

Lin Xu sighed, rubbed his eyes, and said:

"So this really is a dead end."

"Can you say they did something wrong? Impossible."

"Put yourself in my shoes, even I would vote against it immediately."

"After all, in the foreseeable future, this experiment is the one most likely to destroy humanity."

"really."

Jiang Xingye leaned back in his chair, his bangs hanging down from his forehead to the tip of his nose.

She pouted, blew on the stray strands of hair that had fallen, blinked hard, and said:

"I really hope this thing can be linked to some kind of high-dimensional information so that I can see the outcome of the experiment."

"But even now, I haven't felt any information popping up in my head."

"Even if it existed, it wouldn't make any difference."

"Because this is a probabilistic event."

"The experience of any other world cannot serve as a reference."

"Is such that."

Lin Xu answered casually, and was about to continue speaking, but at the same time, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind.

Probabilistic events.
Probability
In the quantum realm, probability is the most unreliable thing.

He vaguely sensed that he had touched something.

This thing is the answer to this question.

However, he couldn't figure out what this thing was no matter what he tried.

Jiang Xingye had already stood up from the chair.

"Go back and rest first."

"It's too late, and this isn't something that can be easily resolved." "Right now, we're like grenade quality inspectors in a factory. To check if a grenade will explode, we have to pull the pin."

"The tricky part is that even if we actually pull the pin on the grenade, we can't throw it; we'll just have to take the hit with our own bodies."

"and many more!"

Lin Xu's expression suddenly changed drastically.

He realized what he had just touched.

You can only know if a grenade will explode by pulling the pin.

Yes, in the macroscopic world, this is indeed the only, irrefutable truth.

It means that in the macroscopic physical world, you can never judge the state of an object and its future state without any contact or interaction with it.

but.
In the quantum world, this is not the truth!
Lin Xu looked at Jiang Xingye and a smile appeared on his face.

He opened his mouth and said:
"You did receive the information, you just didn't perceive it."

"You just presented the solution."

"Grenade."

"Grenade?"

Jiang Xingye, puzzled, asked:
"What do you mean? You've figured out how to throw the grenade?"

"No."

Lin Xu shook his head, then asked in return:

"In the quantum world, do you know how to determine whether a grenade will explode without any physical contact?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Xingye was startled.

In an instant, a massive amount of information flowed into her brain from the void.

The next second, her hands and feet were ice-cold and her body was trembling slightly as she said:

"I see."

"Illizar Widman bomb test!"

Two days later.

Lanzhou, HIRFL.

This aging laboratory was revitalized in just two days.

A large amount of heavy equipment has arrived on site. Workers in standard uniforms are moving equipment piece by piece to their positions with high efficiency and quickly disassembling or assembling them, awaiting further instructions from on-site experts.

The roar of heavy machinery and the complex but orderly commands on site intertwined, creating a spectacular scene that even made Zhang Liming, who was watching from the sidelines, feel that this site was not building an Ilizer-Wiedeman bomb test device, but a planetary engine.

Beside him, Joanne, who had never truly witnessed the terrifying infrastructure power of a major Eastern power, was completely dumbfounded.

He clicked his tongue and shook his head, saying in admiration:

"Such a project, if it were in our country, would require at least a month to prepare, two months to start, and a year or even longer to complete."

"But you only spent two days getting started—what's the estimated completion time?"

"One week."

Zhang Liming replied:

"This testing equipment will be fully completed within a week."

"After completing the first experiment, we can officially move on to operational testing."

"Terrifying efficiency."

Joanne sighed again, and then said:

"However, what shocked me even more was the butterfly's keen reaction."

“You know what? After the preliminary review results came out, I even thought that our plan would come to a standstill.”

"Even if it can eventually proceed, it will inevitably involve a long period of confrontation, negotiation, and even fierce conflict."

"But to my surprise, he gave the answer in just 4 hours."

"Correction."

Zhang Liming interrupted:

"Butterfly spent 4 hours providing a complete solution for the testing system, and he proposed using this solution for testing, which only took him 30 minutes."

After she finished speaking, Joanne paused for a moment, then said:

"Indeed."

"I used to think that transferring the risk to another world was our only solution."

"But judging from the current results, I have to admit that this butterfly is much more powerful than I expected."

"In short, he has truly proven his abilities time and time again."

"I really want to see him. When will I finally have the right to do so?"

"I have no idea."

Zhang Liming shrugged.

"Perhaps there will be an opportunity in the future."

"But for now, let's focus on doing the things at hand well."

"He's already laid out the answers in front of us; if we still don't know how to copy them..."

"Then really, I might as well just smash my head against a wall and die."