The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 1089 Essence
Many people had already turned to him for help, and Gao Yang knew that he couldn't refuse the translation job.

He thought for a moment and tried to explain: "Let's take apples as an example. Before an apple falls from the tree, it is either a good apple or a rotten apple."

"Good apples have nutritional value, and these nutritional values ​​are all living things, including humans. On the contrary, rotten apples have no nutritional value, and there are no living creatures in the first place."

"Is this okay?" Gao Yang asked.

Zhang Wei nodded, "I understand!"

"Okay, continue." Gao Yang nodded: "Wave-particle duality means that light is both a wave form and a particle form."

"Magic Chalk" appeared in Bailiyi's hand again. He waved his hand, and circles of diffuse waves appeared over the campfire, and on the other side, there were beams of small particles, making it easier for everyone to understand intuitively.

Gao Yang stood up and pointed to the two forms of light above his head: "Before people observe light, according to different observation methods, they will conclude that light is a wave and that light is a particle. Then, when people do not observe light, light will It’s a superposition of waves and particles.”

"In human terms, light has a certain probability of being a wave and a certain probability of being a particle, so light is both a wave and a particle."

“Going back to the apple on the tree, it’s similar to the situation with light, it’s both a good apple and a bad apple, if it’s a good apple, nutrition (human beings) are present, if it’s a bad apple, nutrition (human beings) are not present. "

"Not bad." Dr. Jia nodded in approval.

Zhang Wei: "A good apple is good, and a bad apple is bad. How can it be both good and bad at the same time? I understand everything before, but I don't understand this point."

"Haha, you are now in a superposition state of both understanding and not understanding." Douhu joked.

"Uncle Tiger, do you understand?" Zhang Wei was unconvinced.

"Nonsense, isn't it just a matter of having some brains?" Douhu said proudly.

Zhang Wei stopped talking.

"Zhang Wei, please accept this setting first." Gao Yang continued: "In short, the current apple is in a superposition state of both good and bad, so the nutrition on the apple, that is, we humans, are also in a state of both existence and non-existence. in a superposition of existence.”

Gao Yang looked at Bailiyi: "Am I understanding correctly?"

"Basically correct, but there are discrepancies in the details."

Bailiyi nodded and waved his hand, and the two apples on the "blackboard" reappeared and merged into one. Their lines vibrated at high frequencies. The lines alternated between white and gray, constantly switching and becoming extremely unstable.

"Everyone, our world was originally a good apple on a branch. Its flesh was delicious and had nutritional value. This state is certain."

"But one day, something happened that we can't understand. This apple fell from the branch. During the long process of it falling to the ground, it entered a superposition state of both good and bad. The nutrients in the apple naturally It also enters a superposition state of both existence and non-existence.”

"When human beings enter a superposition world and gradually realize that something is wrong, they find that the world has been changed by some incomprehensible powerful force. Who and what the master behind this force is, human beings have no way of knowing. Human beings have given He has one name—Snake.”

"Oh, that's very appropriate." Dr. Jia was the first to follow the train of thought.

"You can think of the greedy snake as a worm that burrows into a good apple. He is eating the good apple bit by bit."

"Note that the greedy snake is not eating the apple itself. He does not eat the apple one bite at a time. Instead, he eats the probability of 'the apple is a good apple' bite by bite and converts it into 'the apple is a bad apple'. This probability. This apple is not missing at all, it’s just that the healthy pulp is rotting.”

"Mist." Suzaku said coldly this word that everyone was familiar with, but now it was extremely unfamiliar.

Everyone gasped, even the warm firelight could not stop the cold that spread from the heels to the bones of the body.

"That's right." Baili nodded: "The embodiment of rotten apples is the fog. The meat of rotten apples is also meat, but it has no nutritional value, that is, there is no human being. But rotten apples are also apples. Apples will not disappear, and the world will not disappear. It won’t disappear, it’s humanity that will disappear.”

"Wait, let me stroke..."

Douhu was a little unable to keep up. He rubbed his temples with the hand holding the cigarette:
"You mean, this thing called a greedy snake first turns a good apple into a superposition state of 'both a good apple and a rotten apple', and then it gradually reduces the probability of 'the apple is a good apple'. Increasing the probability of 'a bad apple' little by little until the probability of the former becomes zero and the probability of the latter becomes a hundred."

Suzaku added with a trembling voice: "The moment the apple falls to the ground, it is the moment the superposition state disappears. The good apple turns into a bad apple, and this time limit is 2020 in the foggy world." Bailiyi nodded. , he waved his hand, and a mural outlined with lines appeared above the bonfire. The content of the mural slowly changed, like a stop-motion animation.

There is a good apple hanging on the apple tree.

A gust of wind blows, and the apple falls from the heavy branch. As it falls to the ground, the apple switches states at high speed, becoming both a good apple and a rotten apple.

A few seconds later, the apple fell to the ground, already a rotten apple.

For a time, everyone had a more intuitive understanding, and felt that this scene was both magical and weird.

Dr. Jia became more and more excited, and jumped up with a slap on his thigh: "This makes sense. Green Snake and Nana went for a walk in the fog, and what they saw was our original world. We only recovered briefly in those few minutes. The probability of "good apples" in that place..."

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Zhang Wei hurriedly interrupted: "Dr. Jia, why don't you take a rest and let Brother Yang come over? It's hard for me to keep up with the train of thought. As soon as you tell me, I have to become smarter again."

"agree!"

"Let Captain Gao translate."

"Yes, easy to understand."

Many people agreed.

Gao Yang explained: "What Dr. Jia means is that the desert behind the fog has always existed and never disappeared. It just became a 'bad apple', that is, it became a world without humans."

"It is impossible for humans to enter the fog, because if humans enter the fog, then humans will exist here, but the fog is a place where humans do not exist, which is contradictory."

Gao Yang continued: "We know that only good apples have nutrients (human beings), and rotten apples have no nutrients (human beings). When a good apple switches to a bad apple, the nutrients are not lost or deteriorated, but are directly removed from existence. become non-existent.”

"Everyone, this world has not been swallowed up by the fog, nor has it really disappeared. It has just changed from a world with humans to a world without humans, from a given that humans exist to a given that humans do not exist."

"Human beings cannot enter the fog, because human beings can never reach the givenness of 'human beings do not exist'."

"But human beings have nowhere to escape, because sooner or later the entire world will enter the given state of 'human beings do not exist'. There is no nutrition in rotten apples, and there are no human beings in a foggy world."

Bailiyi nodded and declared the final conclusion in a desolate voice:
"Humanity is not being eliminated, it is disappearing."

"The end of mankind is not death, but never existing."

silence.

Pale and dead silence.

Some people understand it, some people understand it but not understand it, and some people understand it more and more.

But everyone felt an extreme despair.

It turns out that the enemy humans face is not existence, but non-existence.

"Snake's attack on us may be the most essential blow in the universe. My teacher calls it..."

Bailiyi raised his head and looked up at the beautiful Milky Way. His eyes were pessimistic, but not desperate:

"The probability is cleared."

(End of this chapter)