Did the world end today?

Chapter 378 Boundary Theory
Two hours later, Lin Xu and his group arrived in Jinling and returned to the coordination group's office area.

Zhang Ziyi, who followed, still insisted on seeing Qin Shizhong, but at this moment, Lin Xu began to hesitate.

Indeed, if she were to meet with Qin Shizhong, it could potentially bring new and more clues.

But can the value of such clues outweigh the risk of Qin Shizhong ultimately losing control?

The "out of control" here does not mean that he can continue to influence the world in some way and eventually destroy it.

Rather, given that a relatively stable relationship of mutual benefit has already been established with him, is it necessary to disrupt this balance?
If Zhang Ziyi is used as a hindrance, our side may still be able to use Qin Shizhong as a "probe" to obtain more intuitive clues about the boundary.

Once relations are strained, this source of information will be completely blocked.

Therefore, before completing the final assessment, Lin Xu decided to postpone the meeting between the two for the time being.

He handed Zhang Ziyi over to the administrative staff, and then immediately convened an emergency meeting of the physics team upon returning to the conference room.

Upon receiving the notification, Zhang Liming was the first to enter the meeting room.

Upon seeing Lin Xu, he immediately asked:
"What's the situation now?"

"Any new developments?"

"Advances in high-dimensional adaptation."

Lin Xu answered casually, then immediately asked in return:
"Why are you still in Nanjing? Didn't you go to the project site?"

"No."

Zhang Liming spread his hands and said:

"The technology for limiters is already quite mature, so I don't need to keep an eye on them all the time."

"Other technical personnel are responsible for the engineering and manufacturing aspects."

"I'd rather come back to Nanjing than stay at the scene."

"Who knows, maybe something big will happen sometime—look, we've happened to be in the spotlight now!"

"So what exactly is the progress?"

Lin Xu looked at Zhang Liming and shook his head with amusement.

"You really do have a unique way of thinking."

"However, you did make it this time."

"It's about progress on the border."

"boundary?"

Zhang Liming was stunned for a moment.

"Have you found that ghost?"

"No."

Lin Xu replied:
"But we now know exactly what the boundary is."

"It is not some unknown space, but from beginning to end, it is an 'abstract' description of things we already know."

"In fact, its name already reveals its characteristics."

"and many more!"

Upon hearing Lin Xu's words, Zhang Liming was startled.

Is it something that is already known?
And the name even reveals its characteristics?
"You're not saying that this so-called boundary is the same as the boundary in holographic duality theory, are you?"

"Yes."

Lin Xu nodded in reply:
"To be precise, this boundary is the boundary CFT, which is the quantum state between four-dimensional and three-dimensional."

“We have been misled all along. We have been misled by the descriptions of humans in the ‘War World’ who supposedly ‘hide in the border’ to avoid dimensional warfare.”

"As a result, we have always believed that the boundary is another 'body spacetime' that actually exists, another world that can be entered through dimensional ascension."

"But that's not actually the case at all."

“Those people in the war world did not enter the ‘boundary,’ but rather changed the boundary.” “They created topological defects and altered the quantum state of the boundary, so that after the war, they could restore their existence in the lower-dimensional world by means of the remapping of the boundary.”

"This is their incomplete ascension."

"They did not actually reach higher dimensions, but in some way, they gained the ability to influence lower dimensions."

"Understood"

Zhang Liming let out a heavy sigh.

But then he asked:
"But that can't be right, can it? If the boundary is neither affected by the four-dimensional nor the three-dimensional world, how exactly do they achieve their 'modification' of the boundary?"

"Unaffected means that you cannot send information to the border through normal operations."

Lin Xu explained:
"Information from the three-dimensional world and the four-dimensional world will not directly affect the boundary or change the boundary itself when it passes through the boundary."

"Because in reality, the so-called boundary is like a negative, right?"

"When light, that is, information from the four-dimensional world, is projected onto the film, the light is distorted by the film to form an image, and these images are our three-dimensional world."

"Therefore, light emitted from either the three-dimensional world or the four-dimensional world cannot change the quantum state of the film itself."

"But if it's a specialized modification for the negative, then it's a different story."

"If I poke a needle into the film, it's like I'm creating a topological defect at the boundary."

"And this topological defect will ultimately change the state of our world."

"Depend on!"

Zhang Liming clapped his hands sharply.

"We should have thought of this sooner!"

"It's strange, why didn't we think in this direction from the beginning?"

"Aren't you just asking a question you already know the answer to?"

Lin Xu rolled his eyes at Zhang Liming.

In fact, the boundary problem should be considered the ultimate problem in holographic duality theory.

How exactly was this "negative" encoded, and what exactly was the encoding?
Once this problem is solved, humanity will essentially have truly grasped all the secrets of the entire higher-dimensional space.

Given the limited progress in high-dimensional technology, people are unlikely to prioritize this "ultimate problem," and instead invest more resources in the seemingly simpler "high-dimensional adaptability problem."

After all, if the problem of adaptability to higher dimensions can be solved, humans could easily ascend to higher dimensions.

At that time, studying the boundaries from the "light source" of the film, that is, from four-dimensional space, will be much less technically difficult.

But it's a pity.

High-dimensional technology is not traditional three-dimensional technology after all; its roadmap is a network, not a tree.

To solve the problem of high-dimensional adaptability, it seems necessary to first clarify the boundary issues.
Seeing Lin Xu's reaction, Zhang Liming was slightly taken aback, but quickly came to his senses.

He coughed and began to speak:
"So what clues do we have now? How do we solve the problem of high-dimensional adaptability by addressing the boundary problem?"

"This is what we will discuss in the next meeting."

"It is very likely that the real problem we need to solve is how to use boundaries to stably output information to a higher-dimensional world."

Lin Xu glanced at the time. By this time, almost all the people who had been notified to attend the meeting had arrived in the conference room.

In the distance, Wang Yifan nodded to Lin Xu, indicating that they could begin.

Lin Xu took a deep breath and walked to his seat.

Then, he spoke:
"Everyone."

"The meeting is now in session."

"Today, we'll start by talking about movies."

(End of this chapter)