94: From Technological Warfare to Space Empire

Chapter 133 They're all thousand-year-old foxes, how can we not play with Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio?

Lin Yu looked at the reply and laughed so hard he slapped his thigh.

Professor Wieman, the person standing before you from Beijing is Lin Yu himself!

But he couldn't say that.

He thought about it and decided to continue acting:

(Dr. Wieman, Lin Yu is currently busy with follow-up experiments. But he knows about this discussion. He asked me to tell you: "The key is to see entanglement as a tool, not a resource. Once you change your perspective, everything will become clear.")

After posting this, Lin Yu could barely hold back his laughter.

This sounds very philosophical, like something a master would say.

But the problem is that he himself doesn't fully understand this thing!

Forget about tools, this is just made-up motivational fluff!

However, this reply had a surprisingly good effect.

Three minutes later, another ID appeared: MIT—Physicist.

(That's brilliant. Using entanglement as a tool, rather than a resource, represents a paradigm shift.)

(This explains why we've been struggling: we're trying to preserve the entanglement, while the Chinese team is actively exploiting it.)

Lin Yu almost slid off his chair laughing when he saw the reply.

MIT? A professor from MIT?!

Can you guys please stop praising me so seriously?!

So this makes me a China sympathizer? I just made that up on the spot!

Another ID has appeared: "Stanford—Quantum".

(Dr. Wieman, I think we need to rethink our approach. If the Chinese team has developed a theoretical framework for actively utilizing entanglement, that would change everything. We should request their paper through official channels.)

Lin Yu covered his face, laughing so hard his shoulders shook.

Stanford's quantum mechanics department has also joined.

These experts are all incredibly serious.

You think you can just get something for nothing?

I bother!

They're all incredibly good at filling in the blanks with their own imaginations.

He decided to add one last push:

(Dr. Wieman, Professor Lin also asked me to share a little tip: think about the relationship between entanglement entropy and cooling efficiency.)

(We discovered a scaling law that is not linear, but quadratic. That's why we can achieve 170 nanoK with half the number of atoms you have.)

After posting this, Lin Yu immediately closed the forum page.

He laughed so hard he was doubled over.

I can't make this up anymore.

If we continue making things up, it will be easy to expose flaws.

He has had free time to go online these past two days.

But I have several speeches to give next.

Moreover, it's hard to predict which foreign experts will come to discuss this.

If we can't smooth things over by then, we'll be in big trouble!

Thinking of this, Lin Yu laughed even harder.

This computer is equipped with a system that connects to the future and features artificial intelligence, making it impossible for others to crack its IP address.

If the true essence fails to arrive, the blame can be shifted to this ID, and it will have nothing to do with him personally.

Thinking about this, Lin Yu began to imagine that these experts would actually all switch their focus to studying quantum entanglement-assisted cooling.

If dozens of top laboratories around the world were to focus all their efforts on this vague and uncertain direction, and after several years they still couldn't produce anything, that would be a huge mess.

Lin Yu leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling and grinning foolishly.

It's so funny to see these experts thinking so seriously.

The internet is awesome!

Professor Wieman, in particular, actually got involved himself.

He thought for a moment, then opened the forum again and glanced at the last reply.

It's from Wiemann:

(Quadratic scaling...that explains everything. Thank you, FromBeijing. Please tell Professor Lin that we will be closely following his work. If there is an opportunity for collaboration...)

Lin Yu smiled and shook his head.

Cooperation?

When you discover that quantum entanglement-assisted cooling doesn't exist at all, you'll probably be so angry you'll curse them out.

But that's a matter for later.

Now...

He reopened the forum and told himself that he really couldn't keep posting nonsense; it was almost six o'clock.

Finally, I replied with one message:

(Dr. Wieman, I will pass on your message. Best of luck with your experiment. Remember, entanglement is your friend, not your enemy.)

After posting this, Lin Yu closed the forum with satisfaction.

May in Beijing already has the feel of summer.

It was already bright at six o'clock in the morning.

The internet is only available from 2 AM to 6 AM now.

The dedicated line set up for him hasn't been completed yet; he'll have to wait a while.

Besides... he can't stay in the basement of Beihang University forever.

I've been thinking about moving for a while now, but I still haven't moved.

Lin Yu stretched after staying up all night to surf the internet, and suddenly remembered something.

According to the literature found in 2026.

Calviman's partner was Cornell, right?

Will these people hold a meeting tonight to discuss this suddenly emerging quantum entanglement-assisted cooling theory?

Then they will check the literature and find that this theory does not exist at all.

But they might doubt that their literature search was complete.

Then they would ask each other, "Have you heard of this direction?"

"No, what about you?"

"No, not at all."

"But FromBeijing made such a confident statement, and even provided supporting data..."

"Could it be a newly published finding? We haven't seen it yet?"

"That's possible. I'll have my assistant check again..."

As Lin Yu thought about it, he laughed again.

This is enough to keep these experts busy for half a month.

Two weeks later, they will find that there is indeed no such theory.

But by then, they had already been led astray.

They would think, "If the Chinese can do it, it means this path is viable. We just haven't found the right method yet..."

Then continue wasting time and money on this vague and uncertain direction.

They might find themselves unable to solve the problem halfway through the research and eventually seek help from a Chinese team.

But they only think about using international power to get something for nothing and exert pressure.

Lin Yu thought about it and felt that it was perfectly reasonable to fool him like this.

We're all old foxes, so we should just play the ghost story.

Next time he changes his ID, he'll be a hero again.

Lin Yu laughed so hard he broke out in a sweat, and even felt a bit cold in the basement.

Then Lin Yu stood up, went out of the basement to sunbathe on the ground.

Outside, several sparrows hopped around on the locust tree, chirping away.

He wanted to include a sentence in his autobiography if he ever had the chance to write it:

On the path of science, sometimes leading your opponents astray is more important than leading them.

Especially when the opponent is the world's top laboratory.

Let them run on the wrong path for a few years. By the time they realize they've gone astray, we'll already be far ahead on the right path.

This is the highest level of strategic deception.

What is said is not false in theory, but if the cause and effect are wrongly attributed, it will directly lead people astray!

After waiting outside for a while, Lin Yu checked his watch; there were still three minutes until six o'clock.

Lin Yu couldn't resist taking another look at the forum.

He just got internet access and he's already addicted.

Lin Yu returned to the computer in the basement and took one last look at the forum.

The post has already reached over a hundred replies.

Professor Wiemann posted a final message:

(Team members, I'm calling an emergency meeting tomorrow morning. We need to re-evaluate our entire methodology. If the Chinese team has indeed developed this technology...)

Lin Yu smiled and closed the webpage.

Let the meeting begin, Professor.

Drive slowly.

Anyway, you won't be able to get anything out of it.

He stepped out of the basement again, the warm May sun shining on him.

This time, after Lin Yu was seen leaving the basement and the news spread, Zhang Guoqiang, who had heard the news, came to the door to wait. When he saw Lin Yu come out, he handed him a bottle of Beibingyang soda.

"Comrade Lin, why are you smiling so happily? What good news is it?"

Lin Yu took the soda and gulped down two mouthfuls.

"Nothing much, just played with a few cats."

"cat?"

"Yeah, a foreign cat. The really serious kind."

Zhang Guoqiang looked bewildered, but didn't ask any further questions.

Lin Yu leaned against the wall, looking at the white clouds in the sky.

January 1994, BJ.

The Internet has just been connected to China, and the BEC has just been developed.

Meanwhile, Professor Wieman in the United States is holding an emergency meeting to discuss quantum entanglement-assisted cooling.

The person who started all this was drinking a bottle of Arctic Ocean soda that cost two cents a bottle, laughing like a child.

After gulping down a mouthful of soda, Lin Yu felt that being alive was truly wonderful.

The sun is shining brightly.

Life is wonderful.

It's so satisfying to fool people.

Life with the internet is so comfortable.

The internet, a high-speed communication tool, entered China...

Oops! The good days for foreigners are coming to an end!