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17、20、23、35、37、45......

After dinner, Xia Yunian went to work at the convenience store.

Lu Chen returned to his bedroom and began his scientific research work seriously.

There is no doubt that the most important information he currently has is these 17 time-travel reports.

Although I don’t understand why my “previous” self didn’t “speak frankly”, but since this information has been left behind, it means that the answers to all questions are probably hidden in it.

So Lu Chen was being as serious as he could be at this moment, and it felt like he was back in his senior year of high school.

And what he is studying now is the so-called "world line rate of change".

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World line rate of change.

According to Baidu Encyclopedia, this word is mainly used to describe and detect changes in world lines.

Well, it’s basically the same as not saying anything.

However, someone on the forum gave a more detailed explanation.

The original words are——

History is changed due to certain actions or events, and the world needs to be reconstructed from the old world line to the new world line based on the law of causality. During this reconstruction process, the world line will change, and the difference between it and the "old world" is the rate of change.

To be honest, Lu Chen still didn't quite understand it.

Fortunately, I could vaguely understand what this person meant.

To put it simply, you can regard everything as an online novel about the theme of rebirth.

Before rebirth, the protagonist was just an ordinary person, and even lived a very hard life.

But after rebirth, the protagonist's life will inevitably become very different. He will start a company, make a lot of money, and date beautiful girls... In short, it will be a world of difference from his previous life.

Of course, Lu Chen felt that there shouldn’t be such a big difference for him.

Before traveling through time, he was just an ordinary college student trying to have his feet on three boats.

After traveling through time, he is still an ordinary college student who tries to have his feet on three boats.

Well, there are definitely some subtle differences though.

And if I understand correctly, the amount of these differences is the so-called "world line rate of change".

In simple terms, it means——

How much change has been brought to this world every time I travel through time.

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"So little..."

It was completely dark outside the window, but the bedroom was well lit. The ceiling lamp, estimated to be at least 360 or watts, cast bright white light, illuminating the entire room from degrees.

Half an hour later, Lu Chen took his hands off the keyboard, leaned back in his chair, and silently looked at the numbers on the computer screen, looking thoughtful.

0.2261 ‰

This is the world line rate of change he calculated based on the Australian Lotto winning numbers.

The comparison groups calculated are "the current world" and "the world of the 17th time travel".

0.2‰, which means that the future direction of the two worlds is only % different.

Lu Chen felt it was a bit low at first. After all, based on the records in the time travel report and combined with what he had experienced so far, the difference should be huge.

So he calculated it several times.

But the result is the same: 0.2261 thousandths.

After the final verification, Lu Chen roughly understood why this happened.

Just like a grain of dust in the desert, a drop of water in the ocean, reality is not an online article, and you are not the protagonist.

So even if your life changes a lot, the impact on the world will be minimal.

From a more macro perspective, whether Lu Shuyu had a car accident, whether he would leave Yanjiang, or even whether Tongsheng would go bankrupt, would not have much impact on the development of the world or the fate of mankind.

If you think about it this way, 0.2 per thousand can even be considered a very high proportion.

I guess the butterfly effect accounts for the majority of this.

After all, I am not the apple that hit Newton, nor am I the failed student who failed to get into the Academy of Fine Arts...

"Click~"

After thinking for a while, Lu Chen shook his head and clicked the mouse to open a document.

The document was titled "Study Materials", but its contents were the four "unsolved mysteries" he had previously sorted out, as well as the photos of these 17 time-travel reports.

He copied all the calculations he had just done into this document, deleted the original document, and then typed two words and a colon:

【significance:】

Not a record, but a question.

Twelve out of 17 time travel reports mentioned the "world line change rate", which is enough to prove that this is a very important "indicator".

But Lu Chen thought about it for a long time and still couldn't figure out what the meaning of this thing was.

Yes, now I know how much the world has changed.

But then?

How does this help me?

What good does it do to know this?

I just can't figure it out...

Grabbing his hair in distress, Lu Chen tried to think for a long time but couldn't utter a single word. If you didn't know him well, you would think he was writing a paper.

After thinking for a long time, he even began to doubt the significance of these time-travel reports.

"Did I misunderstand..."

"No, I must have overlooked something..."

Lu Chen frowned and muttered to himself as he kept flipping through the photos on the screen. His expression became increasingly weird.

Because he suddenly felt that these 17 time travel reports did not seem to be a "behavioral guide" for himself.

It is just a record similar to an "experimental report" or a "project summary".

In other words, whether or not one gets these time-travel reports does not have much impact on understanding all the truth and making the choice of "seeking benefits and avoiding harm."

This is not just his fantasy, but is supported by logic.

Because before getting these reports, he was still able to make the "correct" choice.

At least until today, the rich young woman has not had a car accident, has not learned the identity of her illegitimate daughter, and has not peeked at the time travel report.

Xia Yunian did not suffer from depression, nor did he commit suicide.

Even Qingbao's surgery was a great success.

All the previous reasons that led to failure were avoided by myself.

When these things happened, I didn't even know about the existence of the time travel report...

Ok?

wrong!

Suddenly, Lu Chen's eyes widened as if he had thought of something.

Wait a minute......

Since I don’t know anything, where do these “changes” come from? ?

......

......

Someone once said that you should never think about philosophical questions when you have nothing to do.

Because you will find that no matter how you think, you cannot get the answer, but you are very likely to fall into the quagmire of skepticism and nihilism.

But there is no need to be too scared.

According to statistics, among the top scholars in all disciplines, philosophers have the lowest suicide rate, while writers and artists have the highest.

So if you have to choose between "writing books" and "thinking about philosophy", the latter is better.

At least there is no danger to life, at most he may become weird occasionally.

For example, Lu Chen now...

"wrong......"

"I clearly don't remember anything, how could I have made a different choice..."

"Thinking about it carefully, there must be something wrong..."

Walking back and forth in the bedroom with his hands behind his back, Lu Chen never stopped talking. His anxious look made the yellow-haired man next to him stunned.

You can't blame him for being so irritable.

After all, Lu Chen always believed that "traveling through time without retaining memories is equivalent to not traveling through time at all."

Because if a time traveler does not retain his memories, then although objectively he has indeed "traveled through time", subjectively he is no different from not having traveled through time.

He still doesn't know that Bitcoin will skyrocket in the future, he still doesn't dare to take out a loan to buy a house in 2009, and he will still live a life that is no different from before he traveled through time.

And at every fork in the road of life, you will still make exactly the same choice as last time.

From a philosophical perspective, this is called "historical inevitability."

According to Lu Chen's understanding, this is called "forgetting means not bringing it."

No matter what, he felt that his idea was correct.

But because of this, the biggest contradiction so far has arisen.

Since I don’t retain any memories before the time travel, and I just received the time travel report yesterday.