Chapter 556 Precognitive Dreams and Reversal of Cause and Effect
"Yes, he can't tell the difference! According to this pseudo-human algorithm, in a novel, it is enough for the author to set him to be unable to tell the difference." Yu Yifeng agreed.
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One problem after another was placed in front of everyone. Everyone discussed for a while, and then fell silent.
Discussed for a while, and then fell silent again.
Another scientist said with some sighs: "I experienced a 'precognitive dream'. Every few days, I would have a precognitive dream, and I dreamed of major events that would happen in the future in a confused way. My task is to prevent the occurrence of the precognitive phenomenon..."
"Then what?"
"Of course it failed, and all 31 precognitions became reality!" The scientist was very distressed, as if he had encountered some experience that destroyed his worldview: "Anyway, all the prevention behaviors failed inexplicably. This kind of foreseeing the future seems to have no way to change, and it is a kind of power exerted by the whole world!"
"On the last day... I... I actually foresaw my own death!"
The scientist was pale and said with fear: "... I was so scared that I quickly gave up treatment and quit the game!"
Everyone laughed again after hearing this.
Dr. Rimbaud was still shouting, "Calvino, you will die anyway! This prophecy is indeed correct. Are you still looking forward to eternal life?"
Yu Yifeng also laughed.
After laughing, there was a long silence and sighs...
No one spoke, thinking about the philosophical truth behind it.
"This story explores...the collapse of traditional causality caused by quantum mechanics. We usually think that there is a cause before there is a result. But now it has changed to a result first, and then a series of causes appear." One of the experts said.
The most classic, easiest to understand, and most difficult to understand should belong to the "double-slit interference experiment of electrons."
The first experiment: When a series of electrons are emitted one by one and pass through the double slits, many bullet-shaped "double-slit interference patterns" will be formed on the screen behind.
This pattern, similar to wave interference, can be "temporarily" explained by the wave-particle duality of electrons: electrons, as a quantum, become a wave and "simultaneously" pass through two slits.
The second experiment: When electrons are emitted one by one, passing through the double slits, and a camera is used to clearly observe which slit the electron passes through, the pattern produced on the screen at the end is different, with only two bullet-shaped patterns!
Note that in the two experiments, there is only one more camera in the middle to observe which slit the electron passes through, and the other conditions are exactly the same.
Well, this is not the most bizarre. It can be temporarily considered that it is the "observation" of the camera that interferes with the movement of the electron.
This experiment does not destroy the theory of causality and is temporarily acceptable.
But this is just... the beginning of the whole weird experiment.
The whole event can be magnified and a series of "delay processing" can be carried out.
The vast starry sky and huge space can realize various large-scale experiments. A great super civilization has set up a "ten-light-year" super test site to do a "double-slit interference experiment".
Because of various high-tech relationships, the moving speed of this super civilization can be considered to far exceed the speed of light, almost reaching infinity. Moreover, the vacuum environment of the universe, coupled with the ultra-high precision of the experimental equipment, this super civilization can accurately determine the error to the Planck scale.
The experiment began. When a beam of electrons close to the speed of light was emitted from the instrument, there were no extra steps in between. In the end, it took these electrons nearly ten years to hit the screen 10 light years later, forming a huge "double-slit interference pattern".
This is the first classic experiment, and the answer is: "Double-slit interference pattern", which is mediocre.
In the second experiment, when a beam of electrons close to the speed of light was emitted from the instrument and passed through the double-slit device, this super civilization said "unmoved".
Let's take a break for a while. The entire test site is 10 light years away. It takes ten years for electrons close to the speed of light to hit the screen on the other side of the test site and show a specific pattern.
Okay, now, 9.9 years have passed...
The super civilization suddenly did something bad.
He took out a handful of "entangled particles of these electrons" from his crotch. Now, as long as we analyze these entangled particles, we can clearly know which slit this group of electrons passed through!
And... analyzing entangled particles will not destroy the original trajectory of the electrons.
"The electrons have been passing through this device for 9.9 years, so what if I check your history?" The super civilization thought triumphantly.
As a result, when it learned the complete truth... the double-slit interference pattern that was originally expected disappeared, and it turned into two bullet-like patterns!
In other words... when this beam of electrons passed through the double-slit device, it seemed to have self-awareness, and "foresaw" that this super civilization would make a move in 9.9 years, so it finally formed two bullet-like patterns...
Perhaps it can be said in another way that the current actions of the super civilization have changed the past behavior of the electrons. This concept is called "optional history".
Super civilization: "The past history was changed by me???"
It was very unconvinced, and thought that it might be the quantum entanglement state that destroyed the movement of the electrons.
It did the "three views destroyed" experiment again for the third time: when a beam of electrons close to the speed of light was emitted from the instrument and passed through the double-slit device.
Then, it waited patiently for 9.9 years, and took out a handful of entangled quantum again, and first analyzed their data. However, instead of checking this part of the data, it used a rigorous experiment to destroy all the data, including the entangled particles!
Then, the answer finally displayed by this string of electrons was: the classic double-slit interference pattern.
The electron said: Although you observed, you completely destroyed the data, and in the end no one knew our trajectory. Very good, I am generous and don't care about your observation behavior, so it became a classic double-slit interference pattern again.
Super civilization: Electrons have self-awareness? !
The electron laughed silently: Brother, it's not that I have self-awareness, but my past history is uncertain, that is, it can change at will... Your current observation determines my past history, and the result is of course determined.
But as long as your observation is unsuccessful, my history will not be determined.
What happened to the causal theory? How did it become that there is a result first and then a cause?
"The traditional causal theory is probably just an experience, not the true essence of the world!"
After discussing this series of unsolved mysteries, Yu Yifeng sighed and said that he could not even believe in the traditional causal theory. What should he do?
Is it because there is a result, and then a series of causes appear?
The three views are completely destroyed, materialism becomes idealism, what the hell is "observation"? Isn't it a kind of consciousness that only life has? The observation of life has brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire universe? ? !
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They can't solve any of the "Ten Difficulties" of the old world.
Explanations in this regard:
There is the Copenhagen interpretation: "The observation of human consciousness causes the uncertainty of particles to collapse"
There are also various explanations such as multiple worlds and multiple histories. I won't go into details.