Son of the Stars

Chapter 189 Hope and Future

Lu Chen's "plan" actually took advantage of a loophole - if you must say it, you could also say it was a BUG.

Mars is extremely far away from Earth—2.34 million kilometers, to be exact.

At such a great distance, even light would need thirteen minutes to reach it. This is the source of the thirteen-minute delay in the live broadcast. It is not because the United Government is worried that the live broadcast of the Mars landing mission will go wrong and cause social unrest. It is simply due to the influence of physical limitations that the Mars landing mission must be a "live" event with at least thirteen minutes of delay.

And what Lu Chen wanted to take advantage of was this thirteen-minute BUG.

In this world where humans live, the upper limit of the speed of matter movement is the speed of light - about 299792458 meters per second in a vacuum. No matter can move faster than this level.

But just like the joke that Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran had told about the physics paper, there are always exceptions to such rules: even if the speed of a medium that does not contain any information exceeds the speed of light, it does not violate the rules of the special theory of relativity.

The astronauts in orbit around Mars are all fine, with no signs of a major collapse. This means that the electrons outside the lithium atoms in their brains have not collectively fallen into an abnormal "entangled state". They may be the last group of people with healthy "lithium atoms" in the entire known range of mankind. Of course, the other staff members who are manually switching signals are probably also healthy - but this is hard to say.

For example, Lu Chen himself, he had just recovered from a major collapse. But he didn't think that all the lithium atoms in his brain had returned to normal, at least not yet - when a major collapse occurs, the electrons outside the lithium atoms in the patient's brain all rotate downward, and in the state where the disease has just ended, there are probably still many lithium atoms with all electrons rotating downward.

If he continues to watch the documentary with the sick patients in this state, who knows whether Lu Chen can cure the patient or the sick patients will succeed in making him sick.

No one can say for sure.

There is no problem in entanglement between Lu Chen and the astronauts in the orbit of Mars. The worst result is that some of the lithium atoms in the nerves of the astronauts in the orbit of Mars will be entangled with Lu Chen. Even if they are entangled, it is unlikely to cause illness - I have never heard of a few ordinary people who have not had a disease watching a historical documentary together, which led to a major collapse.

After Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran met, they quickly came up with an idea - could they use the astronauts in the orbit of Mars and use their normal nervous system as a standard or "reference" to perform a "reset" for everyone on the entire Earth?
This idea soon became a realistic idea under the "collision" of Tang Qinglong and others who rushed to the scene - they needed to design a system that could ensure that astronauts in the orbit of Mars would not be affected, but at the same time allow all human beings in the world to be free from the impact of the collapse.

Lu Chen came up with an idea.

When Lu Chen and all other team members and astronauts in orbit around Mars watched the same documentary at the same time stamp, the electrons between them entered an entangled state - but such an entangled state is meaningless, it cannot be observed or proven, so the entangled state of electrons in orbit around Mars and on Earth does not violate the special theory of relativity. It does not transmit any information.

Then the emergency broadcast signals of some areas were also connected to the documentary with the same progress, and those patients who were restrained and unable to commit suicide became part of this system.

At the same time, the disease status of these patients and the physical condition of the astronauts in the orbit of Mars were synchronously recorded and sent to Lu Chen. Admittedly, the data in the orbit of Mars was delayed by about thirteen minutes, but this did not affect the functioning of the special theory of relativity.

The status of patients on Earth cannot be transmitted to astronauts in Mars orbit through this system, because the transmission of information requires at least one round trip - that is, 26 minutes to meet the speed of light. But the delay of the health data in Mars orbit back to Earth is only 13 minutes. The change in the rotation direction of lithium electrons causes the Great Collapse to occur, so this is an observable information transmission. Quantum entanglement can transcend time, but it cannot transmit information. If the entanglement in this system carries information, the return signal from Mars orbit will occur before the entanglement begins - that is, the cause and effect are reversed.

Through this time difference, the system designed by Lu Chen successfully blocked the bug in this world. The special theory of relativity can ensure that the impact of the entire system is unidirectional. No matter what happens on Earth, the astronauts in the orbit of Mars will not be affected.

As for how other patients return to normal... Lu Chen and others are still in this system, and their entanglement impact on patients in other areas cannot be specifically measured either, as entanglement does not carry information.

But it fits the experience that "watching historical documentaries together can heal the great collapse."

The design of this system was still very simple and even crude, but Lu Chen and others felt it was worth a try - the loss of failure would be just that, but if it succeeded... it would save all of humanity.

Without even a second thought, they began to put it into practice.

"The incidence rates in both districts have dropped!" In the silence, Yang Weimin was the first to exclaim. After he shouted this sentence with his eyes wide open in surprise, he collapsed on his seat as if a cramp had been pulled.

The trick that Lu Chen and Mu Zhiran came up with actually worked!

Shuangqu, Lakeside, Beilu, Chenglin... The emergency broadcasts of the dormitory areas of Central University were "connected to the system" one by one, and the incidence of major collapses calculated by AI dropped rapidly like snow meeting charcoal. Ten minutes after the incidence of more than 95% was connected to the system, it dropped rapidly to less than 1%.

Manual switching was a bit slow, so Tang Qinglong began to use his authority to increase the switching speed. The incidence rate in the six districts and eight counties under the jurisdiction of Dongyang Special City dropped all the way, followed by rapid access in cities, provinces, and even regions. Seven hours and fifty-two minutes after Lu Chen started watching the documentary, the documentary finally entered the ending part.

Because he was afraid that going to the toilet would affect the future of all mankind, Lu Chen couldn't hold it in any longer and had already wet his pants.

The situation was similar for the rest of the group—the Mars landing group fared much better, as they all wore adult diapers.

"After suffering an unprecedented blow, human society has united again. But this time, the situation is a little different," the documentary said in a declarative tone. "The new coalition government is the first time our species has united for the future rather than for the immediate interests. This is our declaration as the only advanced intelligent creatures on Earth: humans who survive the disaster will not be trapped in the disaster. No matter what kind of blow we have suffered, we are always full of hope."

“Hope is the only reason why human beings can always start again.”

(End of this chapter)