Chapter 167 Time Traveler Hypothesis

If you want to improve the accuracy of your predictions, you need to fully understand these variables. At this time, the restricted area of ​​physical laws will be touched - the microscopic world is full of randomness, and it is impossible for any observer to determine these variables in advance.

In this way, it becomes impossible to predict the precise time when the cup hits the ground. Subsequently, it is even more impossible to predict how many pieces the cup will break into, and the precise coordinates of where each piece will fall. After all, these things are also closely related to air resistance and the earth's gravity.

This is a true reflection that the improvement of accuracy will lead to a great increase in the difficulty of prediction.

Of course, predicting precise meteorological changes in a certain limited space, predicting the dissolution progress of Antarctic permafrost, the propagation path of archaea, predicting the occurrence of earthquakes, predicting the intensity of sunspot outbreaks, etc., these predictions require The accuracy may not touch the physical restricted area, so there may still be a certain degree of theoretical feasibility. However, how advanced will a civilization that can complete predictions with this level of accuracy be?

This is probably unimaginable in the current human world.

Rather than thinking that this is a prophecy, it is better to think that it is man-made. After all, it is easier to manipulate these incredible things than to predict them.

But even if these things are accomplished by human manipulation, the difficulty is so daunting that humans are afraid of it.

Manipulating sunspots?

Human spacecraft cannot even get close to the sun, let alone control it.

It is certain that anyone who can do this must be a super advanced civilization that is far beyond humanity.

Then the problem comes again. Since they are such an advanced super civilization, why do they go to such trouble to absorb human intellectuals? And, even if you want to absorb it, why should you be so sneaky and hide your head?

What's more, even though he didn't even hide his head and tail completely, so many clues were discovered by his own side.

This is really unreasonable.

Lu Ming thought silently and found that there were logical loopholes in these two speculations that could not be filled at the moment. He could only sigh and gave up his intention to continue thinking.

At the same time, he became increasingly curious about the secret organization hidden in the dark. There was a feeling like scratching his ears and heart that made him extremely eager to know the truth.

But he also knew that he might never know the truth of this matter. After all, here in the Operations Department, there are many cases that are classified as unsolved and cannot be investigated.

"Go on step by step, wherever you go is where you go."

He thought to himself.

Seeing that Lu Ming didn't think of anything to add, this regular meeting was about to end. Zhang Dingshan was about to announce, but He Wei seemed to have just remembered something, and suddenly raised her hand: "I thought of something!"

"oh?"

The three of them simultaneously turned their attention to He Wei's figure on the screen in front of them.

"I noticed one thing in common among these prophecies."

He Wei quickly said: "These predicted events were extremely popular when they occurred. They became hot spots in public opinion in a very short period of time, and they occupied the top position of hot searches in major software. !

What I am thinking about is why the secretive organization chose these events as prophecies, rather than other events that are less popular but closer to the work and life of senior intellectuals. Is this a coincidence? Or is there another reason? "

He Wei seemed to be trying to deduce something through this commonality.

Lu Ming was startled for a moment, and then realized that this was indeed the case.

Needless to say, the crash of flight EU7655 attracted the attention of almost everyone in the world at that time. Several other issues, such as soybean mutated blight and a series of subsequent events caused by it, are also extremely hot.

After all, soybeans are closely related to people's livelihood. Oils, feed, various delicacies made from soybeans such as tofu, yuba, and meat from various livestock that use soybean meal as the main feed, all of which have skyrocketed in price due to the outbreak of soybean mutated wilt. It is not surprising that it has attracted public attention and is extremely popular.

The earthquake caused chemical leakage, leading to the emergency evacuation of tens of thousands of people, and the sunspot outbreak caused a blackout in Sanyuanhe City. Which one is not the focus of attention?

"So, is it that the secret organization can only predict such hot events, or do they deliberately choose such hot events, or... they actually predict some non-hot events, but we don't know?"

There seem to be only three possibilities.

"I lean towards the first two."

He Wei said: "Most of the final targets we selected are related to these four hot events."

If the secret organization also creates "suspended death" by predicting non-hot events, then the number of people who have nothing to do with these four hot events but have been screened out by the party should be larger.

Of course, this is not absolute. After all, my own screening is not that perfect and accurate. But it is okay to use it as a reference.

“I also identify with the first two.”

Lu Ming nodded: "Either the secret organization can only predict such hot events, or they deliberately choose to only predict these hot events."

"Of these two possibilities, I prefer the first."

Zhang Dingshan finally spoke: "The reason is very simple. I can't think of their motive for only predicting hot events when they clearly have the ability to predict other events. This is very contradictory."

In other words, if you have this ability, why not use it? Since they don't use it, it proves that they don't have this ability. Then there is a basis for thinking that this secretive organization can only predict hot events.

"I agree."

He Wei said: "So, why can this secret organization only predict hot events? Does this kind of prediction ability have different levels? If people don't pay attention, they can't predict it. Only when more people pay attention can they predict it?"

Lu Qingliang frowned and suddenly raised his head.

"A possibility occurred to me."

He considered the words: "I, I remembered a routine commonly used in online novels."

Lu Ming and He Wei looked at each other.

Why is this kind of thing related to online novels again?

"In online novels, there is a type called time-travel, do you know? By chance, a person travels to a previous era for some reason. Then, because he comes from the future, this person can control the future development route .At the same time, because of the limited memory of people, this person can only predict hot events and major events in the future, but cannot predict the details of things that are not paid attention to. Because he only remembers those major events and Hot-button events, don’t remember events that don’t get attention.”

Zhang Dingshan narrowed his eyes slightly. Lu Ming's expression also became serious.

The "traveler hypothesis" can indeed explain why the secret organization predicts big events.

But... isn't this too bizarre?

"A time-traveler? There is a time-traveler who traveled from the future to our era. Then, he used the major events he remembered as prophecies and as evidence to prove his abilities to attract the high-level intellectuals of our era? At the same time, , just because he is a time traveler, he does not need to have the ability to truly predict the future, nor does he need to have the ability to manipulate people to do those things, in order to accurately predict these major events?"

Although absurd, Lu Ming had to admit that this at least made sense logically.

"Is our enemy a time traveler?"

He Wei's face was full of disbelief.

"Is it possible to travel through time?"

She looked at Lu Ming.

Lu Ming thought for a moment and finally shook his head.

"Impossible. It is impossible for such a thing to happen as a time traveler. It has nothing to do with the level of technology. It can be denied with logic.

Suppose there is a time traveler who traveled back to the present from an hour later. So I would like to ask, after he travels and leaves that future world, does that future world still exist? "

"Of course it exists. It's impossible for a person to travel through time, and the whole world will be gone, right?"

Lu Ming nodded: "He traveled to our world, and our world undoubtedly exists. So, our world exists, and the future world also exists. Do both worlds exist?"

"Of course."

"Okay. By extension, since the world exists one hour in the future, what about the world after one hour and one minute? A world of zero, one minute and one millisecond, one microsecond, one nanosecond, one Planck time. Of course It will also exist, right?”

Lu Qingliang was silent for a moment, then nodded. Because according to this logic, we can only draw this conclusion.

"Let's not discuss issues such as the grandmother's paradox for the time being. Let's just say that if every smallest time node, that is, every node of Planck time, there is a universe, and the only time progress between the two is different, there will always be a universe. Extending to the end of cosmic time, then, that obviously means that everything in the future is predestined. That's fatalism, and fatalism contradicts existing theories. So, I don't think it exists."

Lu Qingliang was slightly unconvinced: "Maybe each universe has its own independent evolution?"

Lu Ming shrugged: "Even if each universe has its own independent evolution, then do we need to assume that there are so many universes? Just to make the small hypothesis of 'the existence of time travellers' reasonable, we must Make such a disruptive adjustment to the theoretical framework of physics?”

People don't open a refrigerator factory just for a refrigerator. Similarly, humans will not make such subversive adjustments to the theoretical framework just to make a small hypothesis reasonable. One would just think that that little assumption was unreasonable.

He Wei interjected: "What about parallel universes? Doesn't it mean that there are infinite parallel universes?"

Lu Ming shook his head again: "Parallel universe is a false proposition. The parallel universe hypothesis was proposed to explain the randomness at the bottom of the universe.

Because some people do not recognize the existence of entangled states, and because one of two results will appear after quantum collapse, in order to explain the other result, the parallel universe hypothesis believes that after quantum collapse, both results are actually the same. Appeared, but with quantum collapse, the universe split into a 'parallel universe'. In this way, the result A appears in our universe, and the result B appears in the split parallel universe. In this way, two results That's all, and this is how we have the parallel universe hypothesis.

However, Bell's inequality has proved that the entangled state is a real state and there are no hidden variables. Before quantum collapse, it does not know which state it will be in. Therefore, the hypothesis of parallel universes is simply unnecessary. "

He Wei thought for a moment and realized that she could not fully understand Lu Ming's words. But she already knew that the "traveler hypothesis" had been rejected by Lu Ming.

Lu Qingliang was a little annoyed: "Well, it seems that our enemy is not a time traveler."

"Why this secret organization only predicts hot events, this matter is doubtful for the time being." Lu Ming said solemnly: "However, I have been inspired and have some ideas. Qing Liang, check, among all the hot events in recent times Apart from these four, what other hot topics are involved in the scientific field?"

"good."

Lu Qingliang worked quickly for a moment and quickly drew up a list. Then several people worked together to eliminate the hot events that did not meet the requirements one by one.

"It's true that XX actress cheated on her? If it doesn't fit, delete it."

"The wife of XX actor cheated on the actor's agent, and she joined forces with the agent to empty out the actor's property? Oh, this is contemporary Pan Jinlian, tsk tsk, but it's not consistent either, so delete it."

"What? You didn't hear about such a lively incident at that time? Your home doesn't have Internet access yet, right?"

"Well, I haven't paid much attention to entertainment news..."

"The canteen of XX Kindergarten uses expired ingredients to cook for children, causing food poisoning in a large number of children? Damn it! This kind of person should be shot!"

After excluding all entertainment news, the size of the list of hot events has been reduced by almost two-thirds. After that, after excluding some other irrelevant ones, only hot events related to technology are left.

"If there are any human factors, delete them as well."

"Well, the Lunar-6 probe successfully returned to Earth, delete..."

"It is confirmed that there is an underground ocean on Enceladus. Well, no human factor can interfere with whether there is an underground ocean on Enceladus. But this kind of thing has been predicted before, and it is not consistent. Delete it..."

After deleting again and again, when the final result appeared, several people discovered that only they already knew about the four hot events: plane crash, soybean mutated blight, chemical leakage caused by earthquake, and sunspot outbreak.

"It seems that this secret organization has a high utilization rate of hot events that meet the requirements..."

Lu Ming muttered to himself.

Zhang Dingshan suddenly raised his head.

He realized what Lu Ming meant.

At least during this period of time, the secret organization's utilization rate for hot events that met the requirements was 100%. In other words, every hot event has been used as a prophecy.

In that case...

When the next hot event that meets the requirements appears, will they also use it as a prophecy?

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