Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 242: Long-distance communication!

This peculiar way of connection is...quantum entanglement.

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement was discovered as early as the early Earth era.

This is a "ghostly" connection that exists between microscopic particles.

When the state of one particle in a pair of entangled particles is determined, the state of the other particle can also be determined. This process occurs in real time and is independent of the connection between the two particles.

To make a crude analogy, it's like having a red ball and a green ball in a pocket.

Two people took out a ball from their pocket, but they didn't know what color the ball was.

Afterwards, the two people rushed to different planets, for example, one went to Mars and the other stayed on Earth.

The shortest distance between the two people is 4000 million kilometers. According to conventional electromagnetic wave communication, the one-way communication delay is about 133 seconds.

But now, the person on Earth opens his pocket and sees that the ball he has is green.

So, without any delay, he can know that the ball in the other person's hand 4000 million kilometers away must be red.

This is quantum entanglement.

Of course, true quantum entanglement is extremely complex and cannot be understood without a deep understanding of physics, but if you try to put it roughly, it probably follows this pattern.

As early as the Earth era, people have dreamed of relying on the "real-time and no-delay" property of quantum entanglement to apply it to communications, but have never been able to do so.

I couldn't even find the direction.

But now, thanks to a huge breakthrough in basic physics, Li Qingsong finally has hope of doing this.

At this moment, the two huge devices in the two spacecraft, which are about 3000 million kilometers apart, are connected together through this mode.

At this moment, on the console of one of the spaceships, Li Qingsong controlled a clone and entered a series of characters.

The next moment, these characters appeared on the display screen of another spacecraft 3000 million kilometers away. They were then transmitted back via conventional electromagnetic wave communication for confirmation.

After waiting for about 100 seconds, Li Qingsong received a confirmation message.

After comparing this piece of information with the original information, Li Qingsong was shocked to see that the information on both ends was basically identical!
At this moment, Li Qingsong felt ecstasy in his heart.

Although quantum communication technology, or long-distance communication technology, is still extremely primitive at the moment, its communication terminals consume extremely high energy and are extremely large in size, even requiring a large spacecraft to accommodate them, and the communication rate is extremely low and there are many uncontrollable errors, this does not affect anything.

That is, he has truly mastered the technology of long-distance communication!
All that needs to be done in the future is iterative optimization.

Just like humans in the past, once they created the atomic bomb, would the emergence of nuclear fission power plants be far behind?
In the future, when long-distance communication technology matures, I will no longer be restricted by distance when developing galaxies.

Even at this moment, Li Qingsong's overall production and scientific research efficiency will be greatly improved due to the emergence of long-distance communication technology.

Because Li Qingsong's fleet was so large at the moment, the two furthest-distance ships could even be over 3000 million kilometers apart.

Even if Li Qingsong was in the center of the fleet, there was still a delay of about 50 seconds for the ships and clones at the edge of the fleet.

Even with the support of Shengong AI, this 50-second delay still affects overall production efficiency by about 5%.

Soon, this 5% impact was eliminated. Li Qingsong invested more research resources in long-distance communication technology, resulting in rapid optimization and iteration of related technologies.

Not long after, Li Qingsong achieved another technological breakthrough.

A neural chip suitable for the human body has been successfully developed.

This is a chip that can be implanted in the human brain and directly translate brain neuron information into data.

This breakthrough may seem meaningless, but when combined with ultra-long-distance communication technology, it has brought about tremendous changes to Li Qingsong's production and living patterns.

At this moment, two clones implanted with the first-generation neural chip arrived at both sides of the fleet, 3000 million kilometers apart.

Li Qingsong's consciousness is in the body of one of the clones.

The next moment, Li Qingsong had an idea and issued an order to another clone.

Originally, Li Qingsong's consciousness would be transmitted to another clone at the speed of light through a communication method whose principle was not yet understood, so the one-way communication delay between the two would be 100 seconds.

But now, the communication model has changed.

The brain information of the clone where Li Qingsong's consciousness resided was first transmitted to the neural chip.

The neural chip sends a signal and transmits it to the long-distance communication device terminal A.

A and the long-distance communication device terminal B are in a quantum entangled state and can communicate over distance.

The information and instructions are then transmitted to terminal B instantly.

Terminal B sent out another signal and connected to the neural chip in the brain of another clone.

The brain's neural chip sent a command to the other clone's brain. Thus, even though they were 3000 million kilometers apart, the clone executed Li Qingsong's command to "stand up" only about 0.1 seconds after Li Qingsong's original body issued the command.

The communication delay between the two has been reduced a thousand times from the original 100 seconds to 0.1 seconds at this moment!
Even this 0.1 second delay is not a delay in long-distance communication, because long-distance communication does not consume any time at all.

This 0.1 second delay is the delay in data processing, translation and signal transmission between brain neurons and neural chips, and between neural chips and long-distance communication terminals.

Even if the distance between the two is expanded to 6000 million kilometers or reduced to 1000 million kilometers, the delay will be 0.1 seconds and will not change.

Moreover, as technology improves further in the future, this delay will continue to shrink.

At this moment, Li Qingsong's heart was truly excited.

For thousands of years, Li Qingsong had been limited by the speed at which his clones could connect. But now, with technological breakthroughs, this limitation had been broken.

Li Qingsong seemed to see a scene where billions of clones, although scattered throughout the galaxy and hundreds of billions of kilometers away from each other, were still able to execute his orders in real time without delay under his unified control.

It is certain that Li Qingsong's industrial capabilities, scientific research capabilities, and all other abilities will skyrocket because of this technological breakthrough!

At this moment, after truly verifying the feasibility of this model, Li Qingsong devoted himself to the research and improvement of neural chips and ultra-long-distance communication with even greater enthusiasm.

He even made a grand plan for this purpose.

Within the next ten years, a neural chip will be implanted in the brain of every clone, completely changing the connection mode between you and the clones!
(End of this chapter)