Abnormal crossing

Chapter 104 A Horrifying Possibility

"Gu Wei!"

Gu Wei, who had returned to his human form, had no time to digest the information he had received from the mecha.

Milo, who was standing by, came over with Jin and asked with concern, "How are you? Are you okay?"

Gu Wei came back to his senses after hearing this. He fiddled with his palms twice, regained control of his physical perception, and nodded: "Captain, I'm fine."

"That's good," Milo breathed a sigh of relief, pointing to the spot where the water ball had been hovering and asked, "By the way, did you find anything? I saw that the water ball was sucked into the muzzle like the Fisherman's Wrath."

"Yes, there is a major discovery." Gu Wei nodded vigorously: "I know why Qiao Kewen and the others disappeared - the Eraser did it."

"Eraser?" Jin, who was beside Milo, frowned slightly. "Are you referring to the name of that ball of water or that pool of liquid?"

"That's right." Gu Wei took a deep breath and repeated the information his left hand had given him:
"The Eraser is an unknown life form that can erase life and then digest information to gain energy and evolve. According to the information given to me, the principle is to decouple the superconducting relationship between the quantum state of the life form and the environment."

The more Milo listened, the clearer his eyes became, and the more Jin listened, the more solemn his expression became.

A few minutes later.

After saying the last word, Gu Wei stopped talking and stood up. Mi Luo looked at Jin with eyes full of circles: "Have you heard of this thing?"

"Never," Jin shook his head with great certainty. Although his face remained calm, his tone still showed a lot of emotional fluctuations:

"And putting aside the life form of the Eraser, the principle of its so-called 'erasure' alone is almost impossible to achieve from a technical perspective."

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand and waved it in the air. After a few seconds, she found that there was no light screen in front of her. Then she realized that she was not on the Flutter Flutter. So she simply held up her fingers and said:

"In the current physics community, there are many theories needed to simply manipulate Planck-scale vacuum fluctuations. Whether it is loop quantum gravity, Guardado potential gravity, or Huang Pei recursive mapping, a framework that meets the requirements can be designed."

"But the physicalization of the imaginary timeline and the stability of closed timelike curves are very difficult. In addition, maintaining the stability of the logical vortex requires fighting against thermodynamic entropy increase and information decoherence. Well, redeveloping a new type of information carrier may be feasible, but just thinking about it will show that it will be fundamentally contradictory to the causal order of the space-time model."

"In short, this technology is completely different from simply extracting consciousness and simulating an environment for hypnosis, let alone a living being with this ability."

Just as Jin said.

If Gu Wei's description is fine.

In terms of the principles of the Eraser, the life form can be roughly divided into three paths or levels for discussion: basic theory level, technical implementation level, and energy and information level.

The basic theory is simple. After all, the Planck scale is only 1.6×10 meters, and Jin can easily think of several suitable theoretical frameworks.

But the remaining two are quite difficult, because this is not a simple consciousness hypnosis, but the re-creation of a world, which involves a lot of difficulties.

For example, imaginary time.

This thing is just a mathematical tool in field theory. If we treat it as an independent dimension, that is, an imaginary time axis, we need to reconstruct the space-time ontology, which is equivalent to directly subverting the AdS/CFT duality. In layman's terms, it means mapping the real-time information entropy to the imaginary dimension, and we must reconstruct the second law of thermodynamics.

In addition, the transformation of quantum states into closed time-like loops requires the maintenance of a specific structure, which is the CTC solution before Gu Wei traveled through time. However, the CTC solution depends on non-physical conditions.
At least from Jin's perspective.

If you don't consider the cost or duration of this technology, then it is still possible to temporarily materialize it in the laboratory with the basic reserves of the nine arbitration nations or the Star Alliance.

But escaping in life form like now, and being able to erase the entire information of the Burning Crusade exploration team during the weak period, this is too exaggerated and bizarre.
"Let's not discuss the technical aspects for now. I have an idea about the problem of not being able to find intelligence." Milo thought for a moment and came up with another idea:

"Perhaps the existence of the Eraser is the same as the third disappearance incident. It has been sealed because of some taboos involved? So no one knows about its existence?"

The third disappearance that Milo mentioned was one of the anomalies that Jin discovered when he was looking through the missing files of the Weaver's necklace:

The Weaver's Necklace has been lost three times in history. The first two were recorded, but the third was sealed with the authority of a civilization monument.

And considering the size of the Star Sea civilization, there must be many such undisclosed secrets.

Just like Gu Wei's battle to defend the Earth 99 years before the time travel.
"Save the files?"

Jin was silent for a moment after hearing this: "There is definitely a probability, but it doesn't make sense logically. According to Gu Wei, the harm of the Eraser is more direct than that of alien life. So shouldn't the Star Alliance make this known to everyone and ensure that they can send out a siege force as soon as they discover it? Unless..."

Milo answered like a curious baby: "Unless what?"

Jin glanced at him and said word by word, "Unless the Eraser is contaminated in some way, any life that knows of its existence will be marked in some way involving information, and then erased at a specific point."

After Jin finished speaking, one could hear a pin drop.

A full half minute passed.

Milo's mouth twitched twice: "Jin, don't scare me for no reason. I tell you, our fleet is too small to handle such a big pot."

"Then you can only comfort yourself that the Alliance didn't know about the existence of the Eraser," Jin crossed his arms and shrugged expressionlessly. "Anyway, it's probably one of the two. It depends on which one you believe. By the way, Gu Wei, did the mecha say how the Eraser got out?"

"No, they don't seem to know either," Gu Wei shook his head and explained, "From the trajectory, it seems that it was dug out along with the Fisherman's Wrath and then possessed Qiao Kewen and the others, but in fact it should be much more complicated than this - the previous sentence is more like a certain result."

Li Zi, who had been silent the whole time, tilted his head and said, "It's like a Buddha statue that is supposedly suppressing evil spirits. After it was moved away, the suppressed evil spirits escaped, but there are many unknown games behind it? - For example, according to the original situation, if you move the Buddha statue away and replace it with Nono, nothing will happen?"

Gu Wei hummed: "That should be what it means."

Jin, who was standing by, glanced at the location where the liquid was originally located and did not make any further comments.

Although the existence of the Eraser has severely impacted her knowledge framework, she has been traveling in the starry sea for many years after all, and her acceptance of unknown things is still quite high.

Things have already happened. Rather than questioning them, it is more important or more meaningful to explore the deeper truth.

at least
If the Eraser really exists, then even if the Star Alliance has sealed up some data, there should still be some clues to follow - and the difficulty shouldn't be particularly high.

After all, the left hand said it very clearly.

The harm posed by the Eraser is more direct than that of alien life forms. Coupled with the characteristics it exhibits, a certain direction is obvious: large-scale disappearances!

To be precise, it is a missing case that starts from the star system and has no upper limit!

And at the same time.

the other side.

Milo, who had just come to his senses, looked at the equipment around him and thought of another thing: "Oh, by the way, what should we do with Qiao Kewen and this spaceship?"

"According to what Gu Wei said before, there is a breach in the 'world' that Jokovin and the others are in, so they can communicate with us. The transmission of information requires a channel. Can we rescue them through the channel?"

"Besides, we don't necessarily have to do this work for free. We can just agree on the compensation and do it later."

Milo's idea was simple.

The transmission of information in the current universe cannot exceed the speed of light. The essential reason is that information is transmitted through wave packets, and its actual propagation speed is determined by the group velocity of the wave packets.

The wave packet here is equivalent to the channel, that is, only with a communication channel can information interact with each other.

Unless it involves the tower model or the Astropath platform, this statement can be regarded as an axiom in the current universe.

Although Jokovin and Milo had previously communicated through the Astropath platform, the core of the whole incident was that the virtual world established by the Eraser was imperfect, causing some information to leak out through the gap.

If that's the case, then we can definitely lead them out through the channel.

And before the introduction, both parties can agree on a price. It’s not as exaggerated as saying that you can make a huge profit, but at least you can make a small profit.

"Don't even think about it." However, after hearing Milo's words, Jin shook her head: "At least in the known world, they have already died. There is no possibility of resurrection."

Milo frowned immediately: "Why?"

Jin did not answer directly, but pointed at Gu Wei beside him: "Do you remember why we didn't just decipher his thoughts when Gu Wei first showed up?"

Milo glanced at Gu Wei and said, "Of course it's because of this consciousness thing. Wait!"

Milo suddenly realized something and stared at Jin and said, "Are you saying that Qiao Kewen and the others' self-referentiality has been destroyed, so they can't come back?"

"That's right," Jin reached out and touched a metal tabletop beside him. "Reconstructing the body is simple. For example, we can use induced pluripotent stem cell technology to cultivate a new body, or use 3D bioprinting to reconstruct brain tissue. We just need to ensure the biocompatibility of the neural circuits."

"Consciousness transmission is not a problem either. Through high-frequency observation, we can gradually lock the collapse direction of the consciousness state and then create a closed-loop feedback control system. I was able to do this with my eyes closed when I was four years old. At most, I suffered from partial amnesia due to impedance mismatch."

"But the self-referentiality of consciousness is a fatal difficulty that cannot be repaired. I have said before that the Eraser's technical principle is completely different from simply extracting consciousness and then simulating an environment for hypnosis. It completely destroys the self-referentiality and reconstructs the world."

Milo was silent.

Although he is not a top student like Jin, as a qualified captain, he is not completely unfamiliar with some concepts.

For example, consciousness can only be transmitted and cannot be repaired after being decoded.

That is.
The self-referentiality of consciousness.

This is also the core reason why most ship spirits use consciousness rather than artificial intelligence, no doubt about it.

Simply put, self-reference means that consciousness has the ability to refer to itself, such as reflecting "I am thinking".

If an external observer wants to fully decipher consciousness, he must jump out of the framework of this system, but this will cause the deciphering tool itself to become a new self-referential system, falling into infinite recursion.

Before Gu Wei traveled through time, self-reference was also a very cutting-edge topic - it involved physics and philosophy, but in essence it was a very serious physics topic.

Because no matter whether you start from the perspective of quantum mechanics, Turing machine or topology, you cannot break through its limitations.

For example, quantum mechanics.

If consciousness is the medium of quantum state collapse, its own state is bound to the object being observed.

To decipher consciousness, it is necessary to treat it as an observed object, but the act of observation will change the quantum state of consciousness (similar to the quantum Zeno effect), causing distortion of the deciphering results.

The topological structure is because consciousness can be modeled as a high-dimensional manifold, and its self-referentiality is manifested in that the local structure of each point on the manifold implies global information.

If you want to decipher local information, you must presuppose the global background, but the global background is composed of local information, forming a self-referential closed loop.

Before Gu Wei traveled through time, the mathematical community had constructed the Alcubierre metric mentioned earlier, which is the superluminal engine, and had demonstrated the characteristics of black holes and even white holes. They even came up with the extremely exquisite world framework of M theory, but they were still helpless in the face of self-reference.

Jin then paused and continued, "Jokowin and his team are now like completely open source code. Anyone can add something to it, even if it is inactive information."

"For example, when they see an apple, the underlying code of the apple will be deconstructed and reorganized into countless new information in their minds. It is an apple one second and a black hole the next - and it is not just the apple that changes, everything they see will change irregularly."

"At the same time, they are unable to determine their own status through reflective behaviors such as [Am I a human being?], and the endless reorganization of information will eventually lead to overload and crashes - unless you can reshape your consciousness every 0.01 seconds regardless of the cost."

Milo was silent for a while: "So they can only stay in that broken space forever?"

"Heh, when did you become so naive?" Jin sneered twice and directly punctured Milo's fantasy: "The Eraser failed because it did not have enough energy to build a complete world. Now the Eraser has been taken away by the Wrath of the Fisherman. Do you think that world can continue to exist? - The energy depends on you, right?"

Didi didi.
As if to verify Jin's statement.

As soon as Jin finished speaking, a rapid prompt sound came from Milo's Star Talker platform.

The person who came was
Jokovin.

Note:
During the day there are still
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