The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 14: Time, reality, and the world are not on our side

This is also the most important reason why Lin Sheng believes that Bai Zichen deserves the title of a level 4 researcher.

Passion, positivity and most importantly -

Young and creative.

For an ordinary human being, the impact of physical condition brought about by aging on what he wants to do is obvious.

Just like those famous researchers who were "invited" by Lin Sheng, after Lin Sheng punctured their beliefs in the entire physical world and destroyed the edifice of physics that they had devoted their lives to building.

Either they have an abnormal enthusiasm for him like Lin Sheng did when he met the old man who called him "holy", or they are committed to "patching" those boring theories.

Yes, in Lin Sheng's opinion, all those who are committed to using some special cases to explain the "cycle" phenomenon, and those who are committed to using complicated mathematical formulas and theories to patch up the "science" in this "science" world will have their ratings downgraded in the future.

Lin Sheng never thought that things like "kicking down a satellite with a football" or "kicking a concrete pillar with one's body" could be explained by "conventional" scientific thinking.

"I must tell you, if you want to truly understand the 'loop' or what I call the 'timeline' theory, all researchers must abandon the logic that this world has instilled in you!"

Lin Sheng has emphasized more than once in executive level meetings that conventional logic should not hinder the progress of scientific research.

"Is the time loop I mentioned truly a loop? Everything I've recorded and described to you, such as the existence of two different timelines, is there really such a thing as a timeline?"

"All of this is just a simulation! Everyone here should have read the viewpoints I described at the end of my conjecture. All of this is a concept proposed to facilitate your understanding."

In order to prepare for that meeting, Lin Sheng also studied some basic knowledge about space-time theory overnight.

"Physics says that time and space cannot be separated! If you really want to stick to those so-called 'theories', you shouldn't even believe that there is such a thing as a tangible 'timeline'."

"But that hourglass sure proves it!"

"What does that hourglass prove? Do you see a timeline on it? Is there something wrapped around it?!" Lin Sheng's words caused a small burst of laughter. "I don't understand. If you quickly accepted the concepts I proposed, why are you still clinging to that 'brick'?"

"But, but that is the crystallization of centuries of human wisdom! It is a truth that has been tested by time and reality!"

"Well, I'm sorry, everyone. I'm sorry." Thinking back to his experiences in that short, short period of time... Lin Sheng couldn't quite put his finger on how long it had already passed, "Yes, I admit that those sophisticated models, calculations, and results have been tested by time and reality.

"Now is the time when time, reality and the world are not on our side."

"The reality is this is all happening, regardless of the loop or this damn timeline!"

At the end of the meeting, Lin Sheng even scattered those repetitive and boring experimental applications on the floor: "Look at what experiments you applied for!"

"On the Hypothesis of the Effect of Incomplete Food on Circulatory Reset", "On Whether the Effect of Circulatory Reset Has a Minimum Unit Effect on Liquid"...

These are all very cautious guesses, trying to find a coupling between the theory of what's happening in the loop and reality.

Everyone clearly remembers what Lin Sheng looked like at that time.

He stood up in anger, supporting himself on the table with both hands, his knuckles even turning white from exerting too much force, his chest heaving violently, obviously completely enraged by these seemingly repetitive and meaningless experiments.

"We are facing unexplainable phenomena, and you are wasting precious resources on these unproductive things!"

Lin Sheng's gaze swept across everyone in the conference room, carrying a terrifying sense of oppression, as if to penetrate their hearts. "I want a breakthrough, progress, not this waste of paper!"

"Use your brain! No scientific theory would put the words 'case' and 'time' together, or even in the same sentence!"

Finally, he ended the executive meeting with one sentence:
"If you still cling to that old common sense and theories and continue to study according to the rules, then you will drown in this damn time!"

Obviously, young people always have some strange ideas.

"I, I, I," This was the first time Bai Zichen showed off his talent. He raised his right hand tremblingly, drawing everyone's attention to him. "Actually, I have an idea."

I have to say he is truly a genius, considering that such a theoretical breakthrough would likely take decades.

Since no one except Lin Sheng is aware of the existence of "cycles" so far, doing research in this area is like asking a biologist to perform genetic editing on the microorganism "time" without using a microscope or molecular scissors.

"So we can first consider directly applying the time traveler effect. After all, just like we still don't fully understand why airplanes can fly, this doesn't prevent us from using it."

This is why Bai Zichen was promoted exceptionally. He designed an extremely simple instrument based on the timeline bug caused by the "travel effect" -

That is TDD, timeline change meter.

This is a most brilliant idea. It designs components and produces TDD based on the minimum space-time affected by the time-travel effect shown by Lin Sheng.

And its production method is so simple that even a medieval blacksmith could do it.

The key lies in the items that have experienced cycles. Bai Zichen discovered that the pointer of one of the metal watches was synchronized according to the "story timeline", which means -

The pointer does not move according to the logic that the gear moves a certain amount per rotation. This kind of timeline synchronization directly ignores the operating logic of the mechanical watch and points to the result.

What if we melted the metal part of this watch? What if we replaced the scale behind the hands with white paper without any numbers?
……

Finally, TDD was born.

Its watch-like appearance suggests that it is related to time, and the six hands of different colors represent year, month, day, hour, minute and second respectively.

Although its working principle is still unclear, one thing is clear: after psychological suggestion and implanting some less materialistic ideas in the testers, perhaps because of the users' own beliefs, the watch is more accurate.

"Next, we'll continue testing on personnel," Bai Zichen said confidently. "We believe this data will likely help us derive a reality stability index that reflects timeline changes."

"Very good," Lin Sheng recalled the news presented to him by the Operations Department. "The first batch of equipment will be equipped to the 'Story Guide' task force of the Reality Intervention Department."

After spending so much time and effort, Lin Sheng can finally try to compete with this "world". However, he has not forgotten that he is being "carefully targeted" by the world.

"According to the plan, while monitoring Kudo Shinichi's actions, we will send someone to quietly invite our chief researcher over. Remember, it must be 'quietly'. Any unexpected situations will be reported to the executive team immediately."

"Yes! Promise to complete the mission!"

"Hehe," Lin Sheng let out a classic villain-like snort, "Dr. Agasa, how can the development of the alliance be without a genius inventor like you..."

　Did you know that scientists still haven't figured out why airplanes can fly?

　　This is fluid mechanics (laughs)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)