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

Chapter 159 Stephen William Hawking

The sixth batch had a rather large number of people, about seventy, and the problems were quite varied.

Someone asked about parallel universes.

Someone asked how to reverse the entropy of the universe.

The question is whether we have a well-ordered structure for the set of real numbers R.

Someone asked about the most powerful civilization in the universe (the question Luo Qing was most interested in).

Some people even inquired about where Luo Qing was from (this person was kicked out by Luo Qing).
Some even went so far as to present logical paradoxes to the risk-taker (for example, could an omniscient and omnipotent god create a stone that he couldn't lift?).

Some people also asked about time travel, spatial theories, and so on.

Amidst these chaotic questions, Luo Qing realized one thing: the vast majority of people were asking about ultimate truths, and these answers, aside from satisfying curiosity, had no effect on the development of civilization.

Moreover, due to human limitations, the average level of these problems is actually not high; none of them can stump the risk-taker.

That won't work.

We need to find a way to get these science-religious fanatics to ask some useful questions.

Luo Qing frowned.

In the questions above, most of them, such as parallel universes and entropy reversal, were answered "no," while some were answered "yes." As for the question about the strongest civilization, Luo Qing also received an answer.

Nebula Civilization.

The ultimate civilization from the previous universe revealed the ultimate beauty and the formula for a unified universe. The Risk Takers civilization is the only one to have inherited the legacy of the Nebula civilization.

Luo Qing encouraged the martyrs with her small flag, like a lone cheerleader guarding the entrance.

More martyrs began to appear.

In order to avoid falling into an existential crisis due to knowing too much.

Luo Qing began to actively screen philosophers, eliminating them from all discussions and forbidding them from asking ultimate philosophical questions.

The risk-taker also clearly stated that philosophical questions do not have fixed answers and should be based on individual feelings.

Besides philosophers, some logicians who play with logic have also been blacklisted.

Among these martyrs, there were even some who weren't quite right in the head who asked, "Which poem is the best? Which painting is the best?"

The risk-taker politely saw them out, stating bluntly, "This kind of problem doesn't involve the [knowledge sealing principle], and it doesn't require risking one's life."

In the subsequent stages, especially with Luo Qing's deliberate screening, more practical issues arose.

For example, a materials scientist asked: How strong are the best materials in the universe? How are they made?
The materials scientist was met with terrifying formulas that filled the sky. Luo Qing's vision went black after just one glance. These were things that humans could not understand or create at this stage. He almost had a Cthulhu phobia.

A step-by-step guide on how humans can create an ideal blackbody? Involving high-dimensional hyperspace bodies?

It makes no sense to have kindergarten children copy advanced mathematics.

Sure enough, even after an hour, the materials scientist hadn't understood even a fraction of it. With a bitter laugh, he vanished into the sky as a ball of plasma. In this activity where lives were exchanged for truth, ultimate questions still accounted for a high proportion; few were willing to waste their lives on problems in applied physics.

Luo Qing was disappointed that some key technological breakthroughs that were within reach were being ignored.

"If the universe eventually reaches heat death, what is the meaning of life and civilization? How can we escape our fate?"

Is the density of a singularity infinite?

"Among all possible worlds, are there any worlds where mass-energy is not conserved?"

Is macroscopic faster-than-light travel feasible, and how advanced is the technology required?

More problems began to emerge.

In the answers to these questions, the "yes" and "no" answers each accounted for almost half.

Another martyr attempted to deceive the Wallfacers and asked, "How do I contact the world where the cultivators reside?"

Unfortunately, Luo Qing's golden flag swept lightly over him, and the latter already knew his true purpose, so he was kicked away.

During this long process of "learning the Way in the morning," humanity has raised many excellent questions.

1. Is spacetime inherently discrete? (Is time continuous?)

2. Does life possess non-physical essential attributes? (Is life purely material?)
3. Can the physical basis of consciousness be completely deconstructed? (Can consciousness be predicted?)

4. Are mathematical truths independent of human cognition? (Is mathematics completely self-consistent?)

5. Does truth exist that transcends the scope of human cognition? (The boundaries of human cognition)
These five questions touch upon the ultimate questions in fields such as philosophy, physics, mathematics, and cognitive science, and each question points to humanity's fundamental confusion about the nature of the universe, life, and thought.

These five questions earned the praise of the risk-taker, who gave the scientists who posed them an extra hour to savor the truth.

Luo Qing didn't sit idle either; he wrote down all five questions.

The answer to the first question given by the risk-taker was "no": time cannot be infinitely subdivided; time has a minimum unit; time is discontinuous. (Luo Qing had already guessed this; he discovered that the risk-taker's answer to any question about whether the universe is infinite was always "no.")
The answer to the second question is yes. Life is purely material. Although life operates at a very high microscopic level, it is still within the realm of physics. Compared to a rock, life is nothing special. (Upon learning this answer, the scientist who asked the question immediately attempted suicide but was saved by risk-takers and was not killed until two hours later.)
The answer to the third question is no. Consciousness cannot be completely deconstructed. This is not because of anything like a 'soul,' but purely due to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Even a powerful risk mitigater cannot predict what a person will think next, because it doesn't know what will emerge from the brain in the next moment in the quantum realm.

The answer to the fourth question is "yes". Mathematics is self-consistent, which is the most wonderful answer in the world.

The answer to the fifth question is "yes": there are truths that humans cannot comprehend, and the boundaries of human cognition are limited. But this has nothing to do with humans, because the cognition of all intelligent life is limited.

But almost all the martyrs had disappeared behind the altar of truth. A trembling scientist, sitting in a wheelchair, struggled to move toward the altar of truth.

Stephen William Hawking.

Luo Qing's eyes clearly showed some confusion. Someone reminded the Wall-Climber, "Because of ALS, Hawking went into hibernation in the third year of the Crisis Era. Three days ago, after the Risk Takers came to Earth, some busybodies woke him up and told him about the Altar of Truth."

"I see," Luo Qing nodded.

The risk remover did not show much respect to the astronomer paralyzed in a wheelchair. It was only when Hawking arrived at the center of the altar of truth that the risk remover spoke.

"Doctor, what is your question?"

(End of this chapter)