Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1485 String-Based Computers

This reminder finally brought it to mind, and Tong Feng, the engineer known as Tong Da, said, "Oh, you mean this? I remember the Divine Curve Civilization proposed it a long time ago, but even after we separated, they still hadn't figured it out. If they couldn't do it, why should we? That's a unique technological field of the Divine Curve Civilization. What makes us think we can?"

It wasn't hard to see Tong Feng's disappointment in his words. He had thought it was some exciting news, but it turned out to be something about gravity computers.

He knew about that thing, but he just couldn't remember it for the moment.

The Divine Ju civilization once had a set of gravitational computer theories based on its own unique technology. They said they would twist gravitons into knots, which they called gravitational knots, to replace the PN knots of traditional computer technology and create a supercomputer based on gravity.

The Divine Ju civilization spoke of it casually, but the scientists who heard them make such claims back then knew the difficulty involved. Take the so-called gravitational knot, for example; that was something no normal civilization could accomplish.

The idea of ​​twisting gravitons into knots to enable or disable gravitational signals sounds simple, but to achieve this, one would need to reach the pinnacle of research in the field of gravity. With that capability, one could likely master the ultimate applications of gravity.

Perhaps a divine civilization that has reached a cosmic level can be realized, but it is definitely beyond the capabilities of humanity at present.

"Hey, what's wrong with your brain?" Old Luo knew that Tong Feng had misunderstood, and said helplessly, "Specialized technology, specialized technology, I mean, in terms of computers, if the Divine Ju civilization can propose such a development path based on their specialized technological fields, we can also start from our own specialized technological fields. Anyway, Chief Long has spoken, so just listen to him."

As soon as he finished speaking, Long Xinglu raised his hands and pressed them down to signal everyone to be quiet. Then he took a deep breath and said, "Therefore, our comrades in the computer field have taken a different approach and proposed the String-Based Computer Project. Let the relevant comrades explain the specific details!"

After speaking, Long Xinglv quickly returned to his seat and handed the speaking rights to another scientist specializing in computer science.

A handsome figure then appeared out of nowhere on the podium in the hall; he was clearly the professional that Longxing Travel had mentioned.

His name is Zhang Yaowang, a scientist at the Academy of Human Civilization, specializing in new string theory and information computing. He is one of the genius scientists of human civilization, and it was he who led the team to prove the feasibility of string-based computers.

Zhang Yaowang appeared in the form of a holographic projection, materializing himself on the podium. He first analyzed the reasons for the delay in the construction of the Dream Lyra, and then discussed the various bottlenecks that mankind has encountered in the field of super quantum computers.

After everyone had a basic understanding of the situation, Zhang Yaowang got to the point: "As Chief Long said, we have encountered a bottleneck in the field of general-purpose quantum computers, and existing supercomputers can no longer meet our development needs."

"But there is always a way out. In fact, we realized this problem a long time ago and were inspired by the gravity computer proposed by the Divine Ju civilization. We began to study applications based on our own unique technological fields, and computer applications were naturally one of them."

"As everyone knows, in the new string theory, the string is the most basic unit of the universe, and there are two basic forms of string existence: open string and closed string. A string can self-close to form a closed string, or it can be another topological structure, which we call an open string."

“We know that strings vibrate on membranes, and membranes are cosmic membranes. The reason why our dream lyre was able to be built is because microscopic six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifolds can be unfolded on membranes. In the process of building the dream lyre, we discovered that we would use many operations based on string vibrations.”

"When we delved deeper into those string combinations, we discovered that their composition, or basic topology, is still open and closed strings. The properties of a string combination, including its intrinsic amplitude, vibrational chromaticity, etc., are all related to the interlocking patterns of its internal open and closed strings." "At that time, we wondered if we could treat open and closed strings as zeros and ones in a computer, and then create a computer based on the fundamental nature of string vibrations. After years of research and experimentation, we discovered: Yes!"

"As everyone knows, to achieve computation, you first need information; otherwise, computation is out of the question. So, what does a string-based computer rely on to transmit information? The answer is obvious: string vibration."

“We have known for a long time that vibrating a string in the same way will generate a string vibration information that spreads across all spatial dimensions. However, plucking a string in this way obviously cannot meet the basic requirements for building a string-based computer, because what we need is directional vibration information, not comprehensive one.”

"But as the project of the Dream Lyra progressed, we discovered that string vibration actually has a direction, which is from high dimension to low dimension, and from micro to macro. Moreover, a vibrating string with the same parameters will produce different 'afters' when it passes through open and closed string structures."

"This will solve the problem of information computing. We can use open and closed strings as the zero-to-one circuit of the string vibration signal, and the vibration 'aftersound' is the receiver for us to distinguish the propagation of the string vibration signal. In this way, we can build a completely new computer system."

"Of course, building such a computer is not easy, because it is not a computer that simply exists on a macroscopic scale, but a computer that exists in a tiered manner from six microscopic dimensions to three macroscopic spatial dimensions, because the direction of string vibration propagation is like this."

"Then we have a construction idea. We can take the six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold as the highest microscopic dimension and start building the basic components of the 'string-based computer' from there. That is, the 'circuits' composed of various open and closed strings. Then, through string duality, we can build the next level 'circuits' in the five-dimensional microscopic space using the dual strings."

"By utilizing the properties of dual strings, we can realize an information pathway from the microscopic six-dimensional to the microscopic five-dimensional. Similarly, we can build it layer by layer in this way, and then connect them all together using dual strings to create a super string-based computer. This is a three-dimensional computer from the microscopic to the macroscopic dimension, which we call the String-Based Computer Project."

As they listened to Zhang Yaowang's description, everyone present was lost in a kind of daydreaming.

Clearly, string-based computer technology, which is based on the principle of opening and closing strings, is a byproduct of the construction project of the Dream Lyra and is also one of the distinctive technological products of human civilization.

As a unique technology, it obviously has a threshold. First, it requires a third-person observation mode. Second, it requires the ability to construct in the microscopic dimension, which is equivalent to the ability to build the dream celestial lyre. Finally, it requires the ability to manipulate cosmic strings, otherwise it is impossible to process them into the desired string structure.

These few points alone are beyond the capabilities of ordinary civilizations.

From this perspective, this so-called string-based computer seems to be a supercomputer tailor-made for the Tianqin spacecraft.

Such computer engineering is no less difficult than that of the dreamlike Lyra spacecraft.

Human civilization seems determined to take the string-plucking journey to the extreme. With string-based computers paired with the dreamlike Lyre, it seems the title of "string-plucker" is inevitable.

(End of this chapter)