Son of the Stars

Chapter 184 Decompensation

In 1054 AD, when the Tianguan guest star shone in the sky of the Northern Song Dynasty, a powerful electron jet and radio burst gushed out. But people at that time did not have the means and methods to observe radio bursts. They could only see that the aurora, which originally appeared only in high-latitude areas, began to move toward the equator. The red and green lights that fluttered like a veil became a beautiful scene at night.

Perhaps it was because the scenery was so magnificent that human poets had lost the ability to describe the magnificent curtain of light that spread from the poles to the equator and even across the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.

Apart from some historical records, only a few obscure oil paintings have survived - cracked oil paint outlining the appearance of the aurora.

The electrons that arrived at the Earth along with the supernova explosion broke through the obstruction of the Earth's magnetic field and passed through the earth in large groups, passing through the humans and other creatures living on the Earth.

Then, washed by the "thick" electron soup, the outer electrons of the lithium atom became quantum entangled with three unknown lithium atoms.

It can only be that they are quantum entangled with the three lithium atoms, otherwise it is impossible to explain why the three electrons are all spinning downwards - in theory, the motion state of the electrons outside the nucleus of ordinary lithium atoms can be regarded as a collection of "two consistent and one abnormal". The direction of rotation of each electron must be "upward or downward", and the electrons in the same orbital layer rotate in opposite directions.

When the electrons of the three lithium atoms rotate downward, it means that the electrons of at least three lithium atoms are entangled with them. The entangled state makes the lithium atoms in the human body and the electrons of the lithium atoms far away become a "whole". Their states are locked in opposite directions, thus creating the illusion that the Pauli exclusion principle is invalidated.

An atomic structure with two electrons in the inner layer and one electron in the outer layer would of course be considered as a whole. However, under the strong and "rich" electron impact, these electrons, which should have maintained the quantized rotation direction in a fixed orbit, suddenly became entangled with three lithium atom electrons that were nowhere to be found. In the entangled state, they and their three distant companions form a whole. As for the original electron layer... it is just a superficial structural organization.

In other words, each "spin-down" lithium atom in the human body can be considered to be "electron-free." Three ghost electrons are spinning around the nucleus, but there is no direct interaction or relationship between them.

However, the three electrons do exist outside the nucleus, which means that the lithium atom still has normal macroscopic chemical characteristics, but has extremely abnormal "commonality" at the electronic level.

In the brain tissue samples of patients with the Big Collapse, all the electrons outside the lithium nuclei were spinning downward, and lithium atoms play a decisive role in human thinking activities - so it can be considered that the Big Collapse is a reaction in which all electrons in the human brain are in an "entangled state" under a macroscopic state.

With 1054 as the dividing point, the human world is divided into two parts: before and after. Before 1054, when the lithium atoms in the human brain went from a completely normal state to a partially entangled state, human society underwent earth-shaking changes: the concept of nation and ethnicity began to stabilize, and more and more countries turned from a single geographical type to a national system dominated by ethnic identity. Humans began to unite further through common values ​​and launched larger-scale struggles.

The relatively consistent electronic activity pattern of lithium atoms has in fact become the core driving force behind this wonderful behavior of "I don't know you, but I identify with you."

During this period, there was almost no large-scale collapse of mankind - according to Director Li Xiaohui's previous investigation, there were three credible similar records in historical records before the Great Collapse of London. But these three times were concentrated in specific groups: such as collective suicide organized by cult groups.

Lu Chen has his own explanation for this.

"Just like the human body tends to be dynamically stable, not all the electrons outside the lithium atoms will become entangled when irradiated by the electromagnetic burst of the Crab pulsar." Lu Chen was shivering in a reflective plastic blanket, but he still insisted, "The electron jet maintains the entangled state of some electrons, but the other part of the lithium atoms will naturally return to the deentangled state - just like the excited electrons naturally tend to return to the ground state. Under dynamic equilibrium, increasing the intake of natural lithium can suppress the development of the Great Collapse. But over time, the proportion of lithium entanglement in the human body is gradually increasing - until the first outbreak during the London Collapse."

Yang Weimin, who received the notice to pick up Lu Chen, was not sure what Lu Chen's current situation was. He knew that Tang Qinglong's office was spiraling upwards and that a cyber demolition team had arrived underground at the Institute of Physics. He also knew that Lu Chen had a major breakdown after landing.

But after watching the documentary about the Great Collapse, didn't everyone feel so exhausted that they fell asleep right away? He kept talking to me about the historical relationship of quantum mechanics and the pathogenesis of the Great Collapse... This doesn't seem like a typical symptom of the Great Collapse!

Is this an atypical collapse? Oh my goodness, isn’t that even more serious?
Yang Weimin looked at Lu Chen. Although he felt that his student was a little emotional, he should still be conscious. Could this really be an atypical symptom of a major collapse?

At this time, Yang Weimin began to miss Li Xiaohui - he used to have a professional who he could directly ask for consultation on relevant issues. But then he turned around and found that person - no one could find him alive or dead, and he didn't know which department to go to if he wanted to find someone to ask.

"Hey, Xiao Lu, wake up." Relying on his many years of experience in immunology, Yang Weimin snapped his fingers at Lu Chen, attracting Lu Chen's attention to himself, "Look at me! Follow my hand..."

"My sight can follow, and I can understand what you mean. My cognitive function is fine, and my peripheral nerve function is normal..." Lu Chen waved his hand, "I think I have completely gotten rid of the influence of the Great Collapse - no, I should say I have gotten rid of most of the influence."

It is indeed correct to say "mostly". After all, Lu Chen is still in the "afterglow" of the 99,990,000 voices persuading him to commit suicide and cannot completely extricate himself - or it can be said to be a normal reaction after his brain is boiling. Lu Chen is not only extremely sensitive and angry now, but also feels that his thinking speed is obviously much faster than the previous "normal" period.

It doesn’t mean that Lu Chen suddenly became a super genius with 100% brain development (there is no such thing as brain development). Under normal circumstances, when people think about a problem, they always have to sort out a "beginning" and then solve the problem bit by bit based on the existing "tools".

But Lu Chen, whose brain was burned to the point that his soul was nearly dissolved, was obviously not a normal person. One of the main manifestations of the pain of his twisted soul was his thoughts, which completely skipped the normal thinking sequence and were abnormally accelerated to an incomprehensible level.

Lu Chen was not quite aware that his current state was not right. After all, he had long lost the ability to objectively judge his own situation. Compared with his own abnormality, he was more anxious that Yang Weimin, who was as slow as a pig in front of him, could not understand what he meant.

Lu Chen was very anxious. He felt that he would probably pass out like everyone else. After he passed out, he was not sure if he could still remember this set of reasoning that obviously had some jumps and "shortcuts".

Although he was 100% sure that his inference was correct.

"Okay, it doesn't matter if you don't understand. Just memorize it - memorize it, write down everything I say!"

Lu Chen threw off the aluminum foil emergency blanket he was wearing, then grabbed Yang Weimin's hand and started yelling, "Time is the main cause of the Great Collapse. Before the Great Collapse occurs, human thinking patterns and behaviors will become more and more similar. One of the side effects of the Crab Pulsar's radio burst is empathy, and the feeling of being in the same situation... but the consequence is the Great Collapse!"

Lu Chen tried to skip the reasoning process and only picked out the most important conclusions. "The key to the Great Collapse is the entanglement state. Historical documentaries only make sense when two people watch them together. Caregivers and patients watch the documentary together and then create a new entanglement state."

Lu Chen felt his head getting heavier and his eyelids getting heavier. He quickly quickened his pace and said, "The Big Collapse is a prerequisite for quantum potential syndrome. After the Big Collapse occurs, the outer electrons of lithium atoms are mostly in a de-entangled state, with a small number of them maintaining an entangled state. We are leaving the electron jet coverage area, and there is a lack of sufficient electron jets to recharge and create the Big Collapse... so these electrons ask for energy from the outer electrons of hydrogen atoms. The normal emission-dump cycle is intercepted by the outer electrons of lithium atoms, and the human body will gradually 'decompensate', and finally the quantum energy release syndrome will break out."

Lu Chen grabbed Yang Weimin, stared at his mentor with his bloodshot eyes, and said word by word, "You must write down what I said. Don't forget a single word!"

Then he fell face down to the ground like a robot whose power had been unplugged.

Only Yang Weimin, who looked panicked, and the medical staff who were ready and waiting for him to fall into coma were left.

(End of this chapter)