Did the world end today?

Chapter 342 The Ultimate Complexity

A person who shouldn't exist?
Jiang Xingye said "should not exist," which means that this person actually exists?

But since it exists, how can we say it "shouldn't"?
Lin Xu looked at Jiang Xingye and asked:
"What does 'someone who shouldn't exist' mean? Does it mean his existence is illogical, or that he has disappeared due to some force?"

Lin Xu felt that the logic was a bit confusing as soon as he asked the question.

In fact, from a four-dimensional perspective, when time is no longer "linear," the existence of nothing is limited by causal laws.

As long as this concept exists, the entity exists.

It's just that it might have some unique characteristics in its form of existence.

Therefore, one's own problem is actually an "unsolvable" problem.

However, Jiang Xingye did not seem surprised by this.

She paused for a moment, then replied:

"It means 'should not exist' in the literal sense."

"Thanks to this 2.6% increase in civilization integrity, we have gained a certain ability to 'search for world debris'."

“We searched some world remnants scattered on the edge of the center of civilization and successfully found the ‘personality’ you mentioned.”

"But what we are seeing is not the same personality."

"Most of his information matches your description, and he is indeed in a world where he has 'completed his dimensional ascension'."

"Theoretically, there could be countless worlds that he originally lived in, but obviously only one can complete the dimensional ascension."

"And we can confirm that his personality traits do not conform to the characteristics of a higher dimension, which means that he has not completed the higher dimension."

"But at the same time, he did not leave any remains in the next lower level of the three-dimensional world."

"This means that he is neither in the fourth dimension nor in the third dimension."

"That's why I say he's someone who shouldn't exist."

It is neither in four dimensions nor in three dimensions.
Lin Xu nodded thoughtfully.

This is indeed very strong evidence.

The only problem is.
Jiang Xingye's own information was also incomplete.

The "four-dimensional civilization" she belongs to has only just begun its journey from zero to "completeness".

Their capabilities are limited, and the accuracy of their information is not very high.

Can you fully guarantee the accuracy of the current information?

"No."

Jiang Xingye shook his head as expected, and then replied:
"It's about 80% accurate, but there are many unforeseen circumstances that cannot be ruled out."

"For example, he might be in two-dimensional or five-dimensional dimensions."

"For example, he did not leave a 'body' in the three dimensions due to some special reasons."

"For example, he might be stuck at a certain boundary."

"These are all possible reasons why we might not be able to find him. We cannot completely rule out other possibilities because we have limited information."

"But if we can further enhance the integrity of our civilization, perhaps next time, after we gain more powerful abilities, we will find the answer."

"clear."

Lin Xu nodded again.

Ultimately, we still have to come back to the topic of "civilizational integrity".

The "Leap Forward Era" world I'm in right now on the bracelet is like an incredibly powerful cheat code, but it's not activated.

The only way to activate this cheat is through repeated attempts.

But after activating this cheat, can it really solve all my problems?

Or rather, is it really possible for this cheat to be fully activated?

Lin Xu himself did not know the answer to this question.

But he could only give it a try.

Thinking of this, he spoke again:
Let's get back to the original topic.

"What went wrong with this spell?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Xingye gently swung his arm.

The next second, a giant screen appeared in front of Lin Xu.

On December 14, 1900, Planck, who was no longer young, stood on the podium of the Berlin Physical Society and put forward his hypothesis on the quantization of energy.

He was filled with an almost "blind" confidence in his theory, but at the same time, he was also deeply troubled by self-doubt due to his awe of classical physics.

This contradictory state of mind had brought him to the brink of mental collapse. He was manic, gloomy, neurotic, and irritable, and even his family members had distanced themselves from him because of it. He had almost lost everything, and this meeting was his last stand.

He needs to use this meeting to garner more support for himself.

It's not just about financial and academic support.

Even the simplest form of "acceptance" would be a lifeline for him, a chance to pull him out of the abyss. But clearly, he didn't get that opportunity at the moment.

The audience below the stage still looked on with skepticism. Most scholars believed that his "pure mathematics" statement was likely just a "self-consistent but unreal" accident caused by a numbers game.

No one can truly accept the hypothesis of energy quantization. Even though the theory seems so reasonable, people still maintain the highest level of vigilance when dealing with this behavior that "shakes the foundation of the edifice of physics".

Looking at the expressions on the faces of the audience, Planck could almost foresee the failure of this speech.

His voice grew softer and softer, and his attention began to wander.

His soul seemed to have left his body, drifting further and further away from the room.
But just as his soul drifted to the farthest reaches, almost no longer connected with his body, something strange happened.

Suddenly, a line of text appeared in his mind.

"The discretization of the energy levels of the harmonic oscillator can solve the problem of low-temperature specific heat."

In an instant, Planck's spirit was crushed to pieces as if it had been run over by a freight train.

But the next second, these shattered particles immediately reformed and became indestructible.

His expression changed instantly.

He seemed to have grasped the truth of the world and intended to use this "divine inspiration" to refute everyone who was still questioning his theories.

But just as he was about to speak, he suddenly noticed that the expressions of the people in front of him were also changing.

Shock, confusion, bewilderment
Planck immediately realized who had heard the voice.
I'm not the only one.

"You heard that sentence too?"

In the silent meeting room, someone nodded slowly.

Then, the man spoke:
"Yes."

"The discretization of the energy levels of the harmonic oscillator can solve the problem of low-temperature specific heat."

"We heard that too."

The year after the "inspiration" appeared, the development of physics around the world began to move in an unprecedented direction.

In 1900, Planck abandoned his view of quantum mechanics as a "mathematical trick" and instead collaborated with experimental physicist Nernst to verify the specific heat of solids in the low-temperature laboratory at the University of Berlin.
In 1903, experimental data from the liquid helium temperature range clearly showed that the specific heat decreased sharply with decreasing temperature, the classical equipartition law completely collapsed, and quantization became an indisputable physical reality.

In 1905, Einstein, then 26 and working at the Swiss Patent Office, read Planck's experimental report and was struck by inspiration. He realized: "If energy is quantized in radiation, then light itself must also be quantized."

In the same year, he published "Heuristic Views on the Production and Transformation of Light," proposing the concept of "light quantum" and using it to explain the photoelectric effect—the particle nature of light was revealed for the first time.

Thus, the era of quantum isolation was broken by Planck and Einstein. The experimental and theoretical papers published in the Annals of Physics made the entire academic community realize that the essence of nature may be discrete.

In 1913, Bohr witnessed alpha particle scattering in Rutherford's laboratory. Subsequently, he published "On the Fabric of the Atom and the Fabric of the Molecular," which precisely correlated the electron transitions of the hydrogen atom with spectral lines, and quantum mechanics theory extended its reach into the microscopic world for the first time.

In 1915, Emmy Noether, a young mathematician from the University of Göttingen, was invited to participate in the Bohr Symposium and proposed the conjecture that "the essence of quantum conditions is symmetry breaking".

In the same year, she published "Conservation Laws and Differential Invariants in Quantum Systems," laying the algebraic foundation for Heisenberg's matrix mechanics.

In 1917, Atanasov, overwhelmed by the sheer volume of computation required to solve quantum equations, designed the prototype of the first electronic computer, ABC, which used binary logic and regenerative memory.

At the Solvay Conference in 1925, the debate between Einstein and Bohr about whether God plays dice reached a fever pitch.

In 1926, Schrödinger derived the wave equation.

In 1928, 25-year-old John von Neumann attended the Berlin Quantum Symposium and realized that quantum gates could also be used to construct universal computational logic.

In 1939, 21-year-old Feynman directly provided the natural framework for quantum parallel computing.

In 1940, Turing completed his handwritten work, "On Quantum Computable Functions," in which he proposed that "quantum superposition states can process exponential information simultaneously, and their essence is probability amplitude interference."

The following year, the first model of a quantum Turing machine was officially created.

With this, humanity has truly entered the "quantum age".

One familiar name after another brought a strong shock to Lin Xu. Those who had shone brightly in history, driven by new "inspiration," burst forth with an even more intense brilliance.

The on-screen presentation has basically ended; what follows is a plot that Lin Xu is already familiar with.

Based on quantum theory, we will continue to develop new technologies.

At the same time, they discover the "limiter," uncover the secrets of "higher dimensions," and then, step by step, move towards dimensional ascension.

However, slightly differently, this world brings new clues.

Clues about high-dimensional adaptability.

Lin Xu turned to Jiang Xingye and asked:
"Have you obtained a solution to the problem of 'high-dimensional adaptability'?"

"This is not a perfect solution."

Jiang Xingye replied:

"If we previously believed that combating information disturbances in higher-dimensional spaces required relying on the rule of extreme 'low entropy,' then their proposed solution takes the exact opposite approach."

"They pursue high complexity and try to use extremely high fault tolerance to combat information disturbances."

"Clearly, to some extent, they have indeed been successful."

However, such success is not representative.

(End of this chapter)