Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 158 Martyrs

The faint sounds of conversation drifted from the altar of truth, filled with exclamations and hesitation. Although the voices were indistinct, those below could clearly sense the "happiness" of the people on the altar.

Unlike the first group of scientists who died because of the three-body problem, this group of scientists truly satisfied the fleeting brilliance of a moth drawn to a flame with eleven unsolved mysteries in mathematics.

They died a worthy death.

Luo Qing was already very skilled at analyzing the information composed of those electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic waves are oscillating particle waves generated and emitted in space by electric and magnetic fields that are in phase and perpendicular to each other. They are electromagnetic fields that propagate in the form of waves and have wave-particle duality.

The generation of electromagnetic waves is extremely simple. Any accelerating electric charge can generate electromagnetic waves. For example, the transition of electrons in atoms and the oscillation of current in antennas all generate electromagnetic waves. Therefore, among the many means of transmitting information using the properties of 'waves', electromagnetic waves are the simplest.

It also consumes the least energy.

The disadvantage of electromagnetic waves in transmitting information is that they are easily distorted due to distance, thus losing their ability to transmit information.

This is also why electromagnetic wave information from Earth becomes ineffective when it is transmitted out of the Oort cloud; it is distorted and mixed with the cosmic background radiation, and can never be transmitted out of the macroscopic solar system.

This is a "natural soundproof room" for babies to cry in, and it also protects the babies.

To extend the effective propagation distance of electromagnetic waves, the power must be increased. Ye Wenjie's use of the sun to broadcast stellar-level electromagnetic waves is based on this principle.

However, in the eyes of risk mitigaters, electromagnetic waves are merely 'short-membrane communication,' a very low-energy, resource-saving method.

Humans are quite skilled at analyzing electromagnetic waves. Generally, the process involves five steps: receiving electromagnetic waves, filtering and amplifying, demodulating, signal processing and analysis, and displaying and outputting.

However, under the control of the Risk Remover, these 'short membranes' containing cosmic truths will not spread beyond the area of ​​the Altar of Truth.

Those who mitigate risks understand this principle.

But why is that person facing the wall looking up the whole time?

To parse information, you must first receive the information.

Without receiving the message, it is impossible to parse the information.

This has nothing to do with technical skill level; it's a cause-and-effect relationship.

It is because it receives data that it can be parsed.

These electromagnetic waves, which travel at the speed of light, are distorted and dissipated the instant they touch the area of ​​the Altar of Truth. In other words, it is impossible for the human eye to see these electromagnetic waves, because they never travel out of the altar.

This is absolutely confidential and absolutely safe.

So why are you always looking up?
Those who mitigated the risks did not understand.

Luo Qing didn't understand either.

He suspects the risk-taker made an empirical error, but that's not its fault; it's just a sensor and probably doesn't think that much.

After all, even he himself did not expect that he could analyze electromagnetic waves.

Although those electromagnetic waves merely lingered above the altar of truth and did not actually travel outwards, but...

A glance was sent upwards.

This is unreasonable because, from a scientific perspective, there is no concept of 'eyesight'. Eyesight is just a general term for the information received by the human eye. The human eye is merely a carrier of visible light electromagnetic waves and does not emit light itself.

However, Luo Qing's "gaze," filled with curiosity and enthusiasm, did indeed reach out.

Let's call it observation for now. In short, in Luo Qing's eyes, these information-carrying electromagnetic waves are gradually revealing their original information. By acquiring information such as the frequency components and power spectrum of the electromagnetic wave signals, Luo Qing is gradually understanding the content carried by the electromagnetic waves.

Finally, the information processed by Luo Qing was displayed in the sky in the form of text and images for Luo Qing to observe and interpret.

"My divine sense couldn't perceive electromagnetic waves before, but now it seems I can. Is this because my cultivation has improved again?"

"Could it be true that, as described in sect texts, one can question the Great Dao once their divine sense reaches a certain intensity? Is electromagnetic wave information also a form of feedback from the Great Dao?"

Luo Qing tried to explain all this from the perspective of cultivating immortality, and he found a plausible excuse for himself.

The nascent soul placed on the dantian has transformed into a copyist, frantically recording all the information that the main body sees.

Of the 11 ultimate mathematical problems posed by Seiichi Matsuda, Luo Qing could hardly understand any of them, but that did not prevent him from memorizing all the mathematical symbols with his superb memory.

What are you babbling about? Copy it all down!
When the 11 plasma spheres had burned out, the hazard remover shouted, "Next batch!"

The third group was also a group of mathematicians.

"What do you want to ask?" Luo Qing stopped them and questioned them carefully. "Goldbach's Conjecture, Riemann Hypothesis, these..." the mathematicians said hesitantly.

Without the slightest hesitation, Luo Qing waved his hand and scattered them onto the grass.

"Those questions have already been asked; you can go back now."

“But we don’t know yet,” the mathematicians said in astonishment.

"I don't care, someone has already asked the question. Repeated questions are not allowed on the altar of truth."

“There’s no such rule for risk avoiders!” one of the mathematicians shouted.

“But there are those who are facing the wall!” After Luo Qing finished speaking, he pointed a finger and directly cast a silencing spell on these mathematicians.

Although the Risk Remover didn't understand why Luo Qing was doing this, it didn't stop him. For it, completing the Altar of Truth sooner meant it could "go home" sooner, as it was already quite tired.

"Next batch," Luo Qing called out.

More than a dozen scientists came to Luo Qing's side. This group was quite diverse, including biologists, historians, physicists, and even astronomers and philosophers.

"The question," Luo Qing asked expressionlessly.

"I'd like to hear risk-takers talk about the history of the universe; it's much more interesting than those universal truths," the historian said.

"My question is about the origin of the universe; I want to ask if the Big Bang theory is correct," the astronomer said.

The philosopher's question is much simpler: "My question is: What is the relationship between life and the universe?"

The philosopher was flicked away by Luo Qing's finger: "I can answer that question for you. The answer is: it doesn't matter."

The biologist said, "I was the one who asked about the cause of the dinosaurs' extinction. The risk-taker said the question was invalid. I'm curious why the question is invalid. Is it because birds evolved from dinosaurs, so the extinction of dinosaurs is invalid? I need to ask him."

Luo Qing flicked the biologist away with another finger: "Go into hibernation, wake up in 120 years, and the answer will be there."

The physicist said, "My question is: Does our universe allow for the construction of a super-Turing machine?"

Luo Qing asked doubtfully, "Didn't you ever suspect that the Risk Remover sensor is essentially a super Turing machine?"

The physicist suddenly realized what was happening and voluntarily withdrew.

The Risk Remover glared at Luo Qing. How could it not know that it was a Super Turing Machine?

Luo Qing stopped one-third of this batch of martyrs.

Before leaving, Luo Qing had a small golden flag in his hand. He patted each of the martyrs on the shoulder with the small flag, as if to say goodbye.

Looking at the various questions displayed by the electromagnetic waves in the sky, especially the one about the history of the universe, although it was only a super brief history, as brief as the table of Earth's geological history on the back page of the Xinhua Dictionary, it was enough for Luo Qing.

He gained a wealth of essential information about the world, such as the singularity explosion, the beginning of matter, and the formation of galaxies. Interestingly, the brief history of the universe displayed by the Risk Taker was remarkably similar to human speculation about the history of the universe.

Next came the fourth group of martyrs. Among this group of martyrs was a strange fellow, a writer.

“You are an anomaly,” Luo Qing said.

"There's no rule that liberal arts majors can't go up, is there?" The literary scholar shrugged.

"What's your question?"

"What is the ultimate goal of literature?"

"The answers to these philosophical questions are usually quite boring and simplistic. Are you sure you want to pay for them with your life?"

The man nodded.

Luo Qing waved the small flag in his hand helplessly, brushing it across their foreheads one by one, as if seeing them off. He was sending these people on their way again.

In Luo Qing's eyes, electromagnetic waves self-analyzed into rows of Chinese characters, and the answer to the writer's question was ultimately just one word.

【poetry】

Is poetry the ultimate goal of literature?

Luo Qing didn't understand, but it was indeed the simplest answer he had ever seen.

(End of this chapter)