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

Chapter 438 'Microworld' Organization

The number of Earth's sophons is large. As of the end of March in Crisis Era 212, according to the "Sophon Real-Time Dynamics Official Website", the Earth world has produced a total of about 60 pairs of sophons, which is about 120 sophons, with an annual output of more than 80.

The annual production of Earth's sophons has already caught up with the total number of Trisolaran sophons to date, while the total number of sophons produced by the Trisolaran world is only about forty pairs.

Most of them were destroyed by Luo Qing.

As the number one research project of the "Reverse Three-Body Technology Project", the Sophon Technology has received attention from research forces around the world. Amidst the changes in the world's political situation, major countries and planetary governments have successively taken on a portion of the research tasks.

The US government is responsible for overcoming the challenges of proton circuitry.
The Chinese government is responsible for overcoming the challenges of proton dimensional reduction.

The European Union is responsible for research on the extraction of vacuum zero-point energy from protons.

Russia is responsible for developing a stable and reliable quantum entanglement manipulation system for protons.

The Martian government is responsible for research simulating the resistance of 'protons' to high-energy particle bombardment.

The Jupiter government was responsible for the militarization of the 'proton'.

The Neptune government is responsible for acting as the 'proton' production line.

Almost simultaneously with the establishment of the Solar System Federation government, the 'proton' technology, which had been under research for many years, also achieved a breakthrough across the board.

Humans who obtained sophon technology were like children who had finally received a long-desired toy, and they couldn't wait to produce a large number of sophons.

The first low-dimensional expansion of the protons was the most energy-intensive, and the circuit carving stage was equally resource-intensive. It was these two stages that consumed the Trisolaran world's remaining material reserves. However, the Earth world was obviously not troubled by energy. Not to mention the vast Pacific Ocean, the major planets were almost undeveloped. Just using them for heavy nuclear fusion was enough to devour the Empire and travel for tens of millions of years.

The nuclear fusion resources of gaseous Jupiter alone are almost inexhaustible.

It is taken from us like mud and sand, but used like a tiny bit of precious metal.

Following the popularization of sophon technology, the "Sophon Information Security and Privacy Protection Law" was enacted.

The trajectories of these more than one hundred Earth-based sophons are displayed in real time on the official website, accessible to anyone, and subject to widespread monitoring by governments of various countries and planets.

However, the widespread adoption of sophon technology has spurred the growth of anti-sophonic technology. Some multi-planetary giants, as well as special venues such as national parliaments and congresses, have built independent anti-sophonic electromagnetic shielding rooms to prevent potential leaks.

After all, given humanity's current level of productivity, the future world may very well see sophons flying everywhere, and even civilian sophons.

At this moment, on Neptune, far from the interference of the solar wind, in addition to the deep blue beam of light that Luo Ji stimulated on Neptune, which is millions of kilometers in diameter, you can also see the arc-shaped transparent membrane with an area of ​​hundreds of millions of kilometers in Neptune's orbit.

This is the two-dimensional proton that humanity has unfolded. Near this huge membrane, about a thousand spaceships are working on intricate operations, carving "circuits" for this new sophon.

Due to the Bekenstein limit on information storage, the volume of a proton means that the amount of information it can carry is extremely limited. Therefore, the Trisolarans creatively introduced a high-order quantum information storage mode, which greatly improved the computing power of the "Sophon" and gave it the computing power of an early quantum computer model—close to 550A.

This is precisely why the intelligence of the Sophon cannot compare to that of MOSS, which is why the Trisolaran Sophon repeatedly suffered setbacks in its network battles against the true quantum god MOSS. Even highly computationally powerful digital life forms can quickly contend with the external computing power carried by the Sophon.

But if such a sophon were placed in the past, it would have been more than enough to bully Earth in the early 21st century.

The reverse engineering of [Sophon technology] has yielded far more results than these. If we were to merely imitate it, the Earth would never be able to surpass the Trisolaran world with the advancement of technology.

Therefore, the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology took the lead in proclaiming the slogan of "crossing the river by feeling the Three-Body problem," which received support from research forces of governments of various countries and planets.

Humans, with their unique divergent thinking far surpassing that of the Trisolarans, quickly developed numerous applications through [Sophon technology].

According to the membrane (M) theory, as one of the basic units of matter, protons, neutrons, electrons and other microscopic particles can be regarded as curled-up eleven-dimensional structures. Therefore, in addition to the theoretical possibility that protons can be unfolded, neutrons can also be theoretically unfolded into some kind of small strong interaction force micro-aircraft, and even electrons can be unfolded into more efficient energy bodies.

Although microscopic particles are high-dimensional structures that are curled up internally, the atomic nuclei, atoms, and even molecules that are composed of microscopic particles are real three-dimensional material structures with three dimensions (length, width, height, and volume).

Manipulating the microscopic dimensions of protons, neutrons, and electrons means that humanity has mastered the ability to 'shrink' the dimensions of macroscopic matter.

This also means that all matter composed of atoms can be miniaturized.

Therefore, some scientists have proposed to "shrink" the macroscopic atomic structure that makes up humans to a higher dimension, thereby realizing the "miniaturization" of "humans" and even all things in the world.

The scientist believes that the harsh and dangerous environment of space would allow for the effective hiding of humans in interstellar environments by "shrinking" them to the size of millimeters or micrometers. In this way, a small spaceship with a diameter of one meter could achieve interstellar migration of all mankind with extremely low resource consumption.

This may be beneficial to the continuation of human civilization.

The scientist's idea attracted a small number of interested human scientists, dinosaur scientists, and Puji scientists to join him, and together they formed a non-governmental scientific research organization called "Micro Civilization".

Although many countries consider the idea of ​​a 'micro-civilization' organization to be highly 'impractical,' it is indeed a manifestation of human divergent thinking and has vast technological potential.

However, compared to unfolding sophons, unfolding neutrons requires microscopic manipulation of the strong nuclear force, which is beyond the current technological capabilities of Earth. The Trisolarans cannot unfold neutrons, let alone smaller units like electrons.

To realize our vision of a "micro-world" for humanity, we need the ability to reconstruct all microscopic particles, even atoms and molecules, in high dimensions. For humanity, this requires a very long time to prepare.

The path of science is vast and boundless, and humanity has only just begun.

Thanks to the vast number of sophons controlled by the federal government, Luo Ji's live broadcast was broadcast throughout the entire solar system. The broadcast was relayed across all nine planets, both in the heavens and on the earth, via a celestial canopy of sophons.

Even people who are sleeping will be forcibly woken up.

Even in the virtual world, forced windows pop up, whether you're fighting world bosses in a game world, adventuring as a hero in another world, or completely immersed in an R26 game, or even playing an open-world game, it makes no difference.

Once the forced offline countdown begins, even if you were Ye Xiu alive, you'd have to log off to check the news first.

These government coercive measures resulted in a record-breaking 10 billion simultaneous viewers for the live stream, representing 97.6% of the total human population.

This domineering law was naturally enacted by the federal government.

During the two major international periods, the social class divisions became increasingly severe, but not in terms of economics or productivity, but rather in terms of ideological level.

The Solar System Federal Government has just been established, marking the first time in human history that a macro-level political unity has been formed. Naturally, the Federal Government is full of ambition and intends to instill the concept of "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the nation" into everyone's mind.

Of course, other factors are also at play. In the past five years, the 'Century Revolutionary Party' that emerged in New York has intensified, like a butterfly spreading a huge storm around the world.

That American man named Thomas Wade transformed himself into a wicked catfish and plunged into this stagnant pool called "human society".

It bites anyone it sees.

Moreover, this party seems to have the influence of the Wallfacers, which puts the federal government in a dilemma: banning it or letting it develop unchecked. This situation has left them stuck in a rut and unable to find a solution.

The federal government could only send people to infiltrate this civilian party.

At least half of the current 'Revolutionary Party of the Common Era' members are intelligence agents from various countries, but Vede seems indifferent to this. All his actions are aboveboard schemes, and once they are put forward, they will inevitably hit the pain points of the current society, stirring up a storm of public opinion and even large-scale social riots.

The undercover agents had no choice but to carefully study the party's platform, in case that devil named Wade put forward any outrageous 'rebellious slogans' or 'political demands'.

The federal government would then assess the demands internally at lightning speed and announce reforms to the public before the Communist Party could cause trouble, forcing Wade to punch a cotton ball.

After each "round" between the two sides, Wade would reassess the federal government's "response." If he sensed that the federal government was merely "appeasing" or "maintaining stability," Wade would not hesitate to accelerate society and start anew.

Some enthusiasts have dubbed this party the "Accelerator Party".

Under the influence of Wade's "catfish effect," the newly established Solar System Federal Government abandoned the weak and ineffective intervention of the Earth United Government in society in the past, and became tougher, daring to risk the backlash of public opinion to forcibly promote the new policy of "crimes in the present, merits for future generations."

The idiotic political selection system of direct democratic elections, which has been in place for hundreds of years, has been completely abandoned and replaced with a political selection system based on multiple complex standards, including digital republic, federal government, artificial intelligence, and social support.

The era of celebrity politics and amateur politics is passing, and the era of professional politicians is returning.

One of the clearest signs is that the world is becoming increasingly strict in its regulation of the virtual world. Due to the Three-Body Crisis, the "anti-addiction system," which was more than two hundred years late, has finally been launched—minors under the age of 26 are not allowed to play in the virtual world for more than six hours a day.

Two extra hours can be allocated during holidays.

This law naturally sparked massive protests, with one instance of a massive demonstration involving over a million people. However, the federal government withstood the pressure and pushed the law through.

The Solar System Federation government was very cunning. In order to prevent the official who proposed this restriction order from being assassinated by a fanatical minor, it claimed that it was a bill proposed by MOSS and passed it in a secret ballot in the Solar System Parliament.

This also means that the public's anger over the restrictions on the virtual world cannot be vented on specific government officials—even the officials themselves are 'indignant'.

At 21, the young and vibrant Moss tearfully admitted her mistake on stage.

It has to be said that the federal government's move was ruthless.

No one dared to bear the backlash from public opinion, so they simply spread the blame evenly among all public figures.

Once a restrictive constitution is enacted, it is very difficult to change. Some small countries, unable to withstand social pressure, attempted to oppose the enactment of the restrictive virtual law and proposed amendments, but these were tacitly blocked by the governments of major countries and planets using their annual veto power.

The same restrictions apply to adults. The federal government has legally mandated that humans must maintain at least 90 days of real-world activity per year.

If someone spends more than 270 days in the virtual world within a year, they will be forcibly disconnected from the internet for the remaining 90 days, and will not be able to enter any virtual worlds—of course, if you can find an antique computer from 200 years ago to play games, then the government can't do anything about it.

Similarly, due to the shutdown of the virtual world, the world's crime rate rose sharply in a short period of time, but fortunately the government had anticipated this and managed to get through this period of chaos by strengthening security.

For some reason, some Chinese people feel that the federal government's methods seem familiar, and they wonder where they learned them from.

Such a major reform of social systems would obviously have been impossible in the past electoral politics.

The federal government's attitude is clear: it is impossible to "ignore everything else and only play virtual games". In fact, during major holidays such as Chinese New Year, New Year's Day and Christmas, the federal government will order game companies to shut down their servers and carry out large-scale publicity campaigns and official celebrations in an attempt to regain "cultural significance".

The Olympic Games, which were interrupted during a period of great decline, have been "recalled" after more than a century. However, compared to the past, the Games have now almost entirely become "superhuman events."

A classic example is that the 40-kilometer marathon has been modified into a "circumnavigation of the Earth's equator" long-distance run. For a martial artist with superhuman speed, a 1,000-kilometer run is not difficult, but a 40,000-kilometer long march is the real challenge.

Similarly, "swimming across the Mediterranean" has become part of the triathlon.

Various boxing and fighting competitions have also awakened people's latent pursuit of 'martial arts', and more and more diverse 'martial arts schools' have gradually emerged.

As for sports like strong-particle table tennis, hypersonic badminton, and ballistic low-altitude ballistic soccer, there are even more…

Thanks to the efforts and antics of the Solar System Government, the world's focus has been forced back to reality.

I don't know who brought this evil wind.

It might be related to the spirit stone that was buried in the ground back then.

Major news events like Luo Ji's speech have been forcibly communicated to everyone more than once. The last time was on the day the chairman of the Solar System Federal Government took office, he held an entertainment-style 'coronation ceremony', announcing the birth of the first 'king' in human history at the summit of Mount Everest, and even broadcasting it globally, forcing at least 80 billion people to watch.

The comments section was filled with insults.

However, Luo Ji's actions this time were indeed much more significant than before.

There was almost no criticism.

In any case, these regulations on virtual worlds have had an effect. At least after a year of implementation, most people have gradually been able to distinguish between the virtual and the real.

Haha, you can actually sit on chairs in the real world!
Being able to distinguish between virtual and reality is a great step forward.

Under the illumination of the nine colorful pillars of light intertwined in the sky above the earth, the vast human society awoke from its daze and began to re-examine the future of humanity.

However, compared to humanity's sudden awakening, the Second Fleet at this time...

A little numb.

(End of this chapter)