The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 40 Missing (ask for a recommendation ticket, ask for a monthly ticket)
"Isn't this obvious!" Shiliu looked at Jiang Yu like a fool: "Everything that happens every minute on the earth is 'branded' on time and space.

"These are all information! As long as there is information, there will be intersections and sources."

Jiang Yu babbled and babbled, is the world of children so difficult to understand?

Seeing that Jiang Yu didn't understand, Shiliu explained: "For example, if you were smoking a minute ago, then the information that you smoked will be 'branded' on the time 1 minute ago.

"The smoke just now increased the levels of nicotine and carbon monoxide in my room, which is the spatial representation of the information of your smoking, the 'imprint'.

"Because you smoked a cigarette, your chances of getting lung cancer increased by one ten-thousandth. This is the event of smoking, which changes your fate."

Jiang Yu unconsciously lit another cigarette: "I'm sorry, but your understanding of time, space, and fate amazes me, and smoking a cigarette will suppress my shock."

"It's my honor to surprise you." Sixteen continued with a smile: "Comparatively speaking, the information efficiency of observing events from space is very low, and it is easy to miss some key information.

"Still taking the incident of you smoking as an example, the nicotine and carbon monoxide will be gradually diluted by the air, and after ten minutes, only professional detection equipment can prove that you have just smoked.

"Over time, key spatial information about the cigarette you just smoked fades away.

"However, the 'stamp' on time and fate will never disappear, as long as I can 'check' the minute you smoked, I can know all the information about that cigarette you smoked at any time.

"Sadly, all the observations humans make are at the spatial level."

Jiang Yu nodded: "I understand what you mean. For example, we want to know the process of the formation of the sun. If we can observe the time level, we can go back 50 billion years and watch the live broadcast.

"But now we only have the level of observation at the spatial level, we can only observe the current sun, and then keep making subjective guesses.

"Speculation is always speculation, and the formation process of the sun is only in our theory."

Sixteen smiled happily: "That's right, that's what it means.

"Although this universe generates massive amounts of information every moment, I think there must be a 'confluence' behind the information.

"Time and destiny intersect there, and it will make time run on a normal track, and it will determine the fate of all matter, life, and everything at the beginning of the formation of everything.

"Our observation of this 'junction' is very one-sided, and we only use its appearance to summarize laws and theories, but we don't know anything about its essence.

"But it must exist, if it does not exist, the fate, time, and space of the entire universe will not be as orderly as they are now!

"Just like the cigarettes you smoke, if there are no cigarettes in the world, there will be nicotine and carbon monoxide, but it is difficult for them to produce a combination that excites your brain in a natural environment.

"It is conceivable that if there is no 'information junction', both time and space will be disordered."

Jiang Yu quietly finished smoking the cigarette in his hand: "You remind me of the ideological debate between the East and the West.

"Eastern people have always believed that 'seeing is believing', while Westerners believe that 'seeing is believing'.

"This puts Easterners at a disadvantage in terms of modern science, because the main achievements of modern science cannot be 'seeing is believing'."

Seeing that Shiliu was listening seriously, Jiang Yu smiled and said, "This is my major. I have to explain the premise clearly to you, so that you can understand what I want to express."

Sixteen nodded.

Jiang Yu continued: "The main achievements of science now basically exist at the theoretical level.

"For example, electrons. So far, no physicist has seen the appearance of electrons. There are some structural diagrams and imaginary diagrams, but those are not the real appearance of electrons.

"But you can't deny the existence of electrons just because you can't see them! This is the favorable condition provided by Westerners' ideology to create modern science for them.

"Many people, including Easterners, criticize 'seeing is believing', but I don't think it should be criticized, this is precisely the advantage our ideology gives us.

"This makes the Orientals more pragmatic and down-to-earth. No matter how sophisticated the theory of electronics is, without UHV technology, there will still be a lot of consumption during the transportation process!"

Jiang Yu looked at Sixteen: "The existence form of the 'information junction' you mentioned is both real and virtual, right?"

Sixteen thought for more than ten seconds before saying, "Your explanation is very interesting and hits the nail on the head.

"I understand what you mean. The real and virtual you mentioned are not real and virtual in the physical sense, and have nothing to do with the 'uncertainty principle'.

"It's conceptual, no, 'concept' is not a precise word.

"In short, it is a higher level of reality and emptiness, it is more like an ethereal spiritual description or consciousness description...

"Sorry, I really can't find any vocabulary that can describe it accurately."

Jiang Yu smiled and said, "Tao can be said, very Tao.

"Note that 'very Tao' should be read as non, constant Tao, not very, Tao!"

Shiliu thought for another half a minute before smiling: "The use of 'chang' is really wonderful! It turns out that the ancients have clearly realized that there are many things that can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words."

"There are many people who have never understood the word 'very Tao' throughout their lives." Jiang Yu said with a smile, "You are the smartest child I have ever met.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to belittle you by saying you were a child."

Sixteen smiled and shook his head: "Today's conversation was also the happiest I've ever had in my life. I never thought that the collision of thoughts would be so pleasant."

Jiang Yu has already changed from the original "to make the children happy" to a very engaged conversation.

He asked Sixteen: "Why do you want to do this level of thinking and verification? In my opinion, you have already put a lot of effort into this issue.

"If it's just because of curiosity, it shouldn't be enough to support you to invest so much energy all the time."

Sixteen fell into silence, and after a few minutes he said: "Because I realized that I seem to...seem to be lacking.

"This feeling is very strange, not the physical lack of hands and feet, nor the conceptual lack of IQ and EQ.

"I don't know what's missing.

"That's why I started looking."

Jiang Yu understood what he meant: "Do you think that if you find the source of your destiny, you will know what you are missing?"

Sixteen nodded.

"You seem to be complicating matters."

Shiliu said seriously: "No, I haven't found this sense of lack in any human books or ideas.

"It should be a super complicated question in itself."

Jiang Yu lit another cigarette: "Let me help you think about it from a different perspective and see if I can help you find clues."

Sixteen nodded happily again.

After pondering for more than ten minutes, Jiang Yu said: "I really want to understand what you are missing, but I need your cooperation to prove my conjecture with experiments."

(End of this chapter)