The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Kanter's arrival did not change Pang Xuelin's life trajectory in a short period of time.

Although the countries of the Wallfacer Project have reached a consensus, there is still a lot to argue about the authority and candidates of the Wallfacers.

The four Wallfacers are the former U.S. Secretary of Defense Frederick Taylor, the former Venezuelan President Manuel Reydíaz who performed outstandingly in the fight against U.S. aggression, and the former President of the European Union Bill Hines , Hines is not only a politician, but also an outstanding scientist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology and the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that the thinking and memory activities of the brain are carried out at the quantum level , and the last Wallfacer was Luo Ji, who was reminded by Ye Wenjie to create cosmic sociology.

Among the four, Taylor represented the interests of the United States, Manuel Reydíaz represented the interests of Russia and the third world countries, Bill Hines represented the interests of Europe, and Luo Ji undoubtedly represented the interests of China.

Pang Xuelin didn't know if Luo Ji had come into the Planetary Defense Council's attention because of being assassinated by the ETO at this time. If not, it's better to say that if there were, then there were two candidates for Wallfacer from China.

As the proposer of the Wallfacer project, as well as the top mathematician in the world, coupled with his former ETO membership, he is convincing enough to become a Wallfacer.

Not to mention Luo Ji, the fact that Trisolarans ordered ETO to assassinate Luo Ji alone was enough to make Luo Ji enter the ranks of Wallfacers.

So whether China can get the two Wallfacer quotas depends on the government's game in the PDC (Planetary Defense Council).

But one thing Pang Xuelin can be sure of is that not only does his current treatment show no signs of decreasing, even after Kanter came over, Pang Xuelin's treatment in terms of security and other aspects has even been further improved.

Originally, Zhuang Yan knew that Pang Xuelin was alone in this world, so she wanted to invite Pang Xuelin to her house to spend New Year's Eve together.

As a result, it failed the security audit.

In the end, Pang Xuelin discussed with Li Yao and decided to have a New Year's Eve dinner together at Xishan Villa on New Year's Eve.

So, on New Year's Eve, Li Yao and Wang Miao brought their son over, Zhuang Yan and her mother were also invited, together with the staff in the villa and Kanter who almost became Pang Xuelin's personal assistant, everyone gathered together We made dumplings together, ate New Year’s Eve dinner and watched the Spring Festival Gala. We had a lively Spring Festival.

After the Spring Festival, Pang Xuelin entered a busy state again.

Except occasionally through Kanter,

Apart from expressing some specific opinions and suggestions on the "Wallfacer Act", he spent most of the rest of the time in macrophysics papers.

In this world, the biggest difference between the basic science field and the real world is the discovery of macro atoms.

The so-called macro atoms refer to atoms that are visible on the macroscopic scale.

This is the black technology shown in Liu Cixin's other "Ball Lightning", but "Ball Lightning" and "Three-Body" world are on the same plane, so the existence of macroatom technology is also mentioned in Three-Body.

The nuclei of macroatoms exist in the form of two-dimensional strings, without entities, and can only be observed by refracting visible light. Macroelectrons exist in the form of "vacuole", visible to the naked eye, and become ball lightning after being excited into an excited state by lightning, etc. .

The macro electrons excited by energy are in a quantum state without an observer, and everything can only be described by probability, and the probability of being excited is very small.

In the novel, human beings destroyed by macro electrons (ball lightning) did not die, but lived in another world in a form similar to "ghosts", and only appeared in this world with a very small probability. (Because it collapses when observed, thus explaining the existence of the soul)

For this reason, Pang Xuelin specially invited Ding Yi, the discoverer of the macro atom, the Nobel Prize winner in physics, to ask him if there is a way to shield the sophon monitoring from the macro atom.

In the evening, Pang Xuelin, Kanter and Ding Yi were sitting on the terrace of Xishan Villa, drinking tea and chatting.

"Block sophon monitoring?"

When Pang Xuelin proposed this idea, Ding Yi fell into deep thought with his signature big pipe in his mouth.

After a long time, Ding Yi shook his head and said: "Actually, until now, our understanding of macro-atoms is still quite rudimentary, and after the emergence of sophons, they have also interfered with the experiments related to macro-atoms, so I haven't thought of any suitable way to do so for the time being." Shield Sophon."

Pang Xuelin nodded, not surprised by the answer.

In the movie, the Wallfacer Frederick Taylor wanted to use the ball lightning weapon to deal with the Trisolarans, but the answer he finally got was "the Lord doesn't care."

This can also indirectly show that Trisolaran's research on macro atoms may far exceed human imagination.

Even in the third part of the Three-Body Problem, "Death and Immortality", there is a saying that macro-electrons (ball lightning) are formed after the low-dimensional expansion of micro-electronics.

According to string theory, the universe is composed of eleven-dimensional space-time, ten of which are space dimensions and one is time dimension.

The reason why the universe we see is three-dimensional is because the remaining seven dimensions are all curled up in microscopic particles.

However, in the early days of the Trisolaran universe, the universe was in a ten-dimensional form.

In the ten-dimensional universe, the speed of light is infinite, and light can travel from one end of the universe to the other in an instant.

But later, because of the war between civilizations, the continuous dimension reduction strikes caused the macro dimension of the universe to continue to shrink, and finally formed the three-dimensional universe that is visible to the naked eye today.

And the speed of light has also been continuously reduced due to dimension reduction attacks, and has become today's 300,000 kilometers per second.

In the third part of the novel, those humans who are lucky enough to enter the four-dimensional space will feel an indescribable sense of depression when they return to the three-dimensional universe. This is the so-called three and three hundred thousand syndrome.

We usually feel that the vast and boundless space of the universe is not a cage that confines us.

The three chatted for a while on the terrace, and the staff came over and told Pang Xuelin that dinner was ready.

"Professor Ding, let's go to dinner first, and continue talking after dinner."

"good!"

Ding Yi got up with a smile, and together with Kanter, followed Pang Xuelin into the restaurant.

Dinner is a simple four dishes and one soup. The chef's craftsmanship is very good. Although the ordinary home-cooked dishes can always give people a different feeling.

There is a TV in the restaurant, and everyone is watching TV news while eating.

"A few days ago, the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) launched a vote on the "Wallfacer Act", of which 13 votes were in favor and two votes abstained. The "Wallfacer Act" will be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly for consideration soon..."

"At 18:30 U.S. Eastern Time, the U.S. National Strategic Missile Defense System (NMD) successfully conducted a test exercise to destroy Sophon deployed in low-dimensional low-Earth orbit. In the three tests, the target was a reflective film discarded from the International Space Station in October last year. A spokesman for the Planetary Defense Council (PDC) said that the interceptor with a nuclear warhead successfully destroyed the target. The target area is about 3,000 square meters, and also That is to say, before the three-dimensionally expanded sophons reach a sufficient area to form a reflective mirror that threatens human targets on the ground, the NMD system is sure to destroy them..."

"According to our station's reporter at the United Nations Secretariat, the United Nations spokesperson announced at the just-concluded United Nations press conference that the issue of fugitiveism will be discussed at the recent special session of the UN General Assembly, which is organized by Planetary Defense. The joint efforts of the Council and the permanent members aim to urge the international community to reach a consensus on the issues of fugitiveism and technology publicization, and to formulate corresponding international laws!"

As the name suggests, Escapism means that human beings escape from the solar system before the Trisolaran fleet arrives.

Soon after the emergence of the trend of escapeism, many media outlets around the world reported that the United States and Russia, two major space technology powers, had secretly started their own outer space escape plan.

Although both governments immediately and categorically denied the existence of such a plan, it still caused an uproar in the international community and triggered a "technology publicization" movement.

At the third special session of the UN General Assembly, many developing countries requested the United States, Russia, Japan, China and the European Union to disclose their technologies and provide all advanced technologies, including aerospace technology, to the international community free of charge, so that all countries and All nations enjoy equal opportunities in the face of the three-body crisis.

The "publicization of technology" movement has received unanimous responses from developing countries, and even the support of some EU member states, but related proposals were all rejected at the meeting of the United Nations Planetary Defense Council.

Afterwards, China and Russia put forward a proposal of "publicization of limited technology" at the Fifth Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, proposing technology publicization among the permanent members of the Planetary Defense Council, which was immediately rejected by the United States and the United Kingdom.

The U.S. government stated that any form of technology publicization is unrealistic and a naive idea. Even under the current circumstances, the national security of the United States is still in an important position "second only to the defense of the earth."

The failure of the "Limited Technology Publicization" proposal also caused a split among the technological powers, which led to the bankruptcy of the plan to establish the United Earth Fleet.

The impact of the setback of the "communalization of technology" movement has been profound, and it has made people realize that even in the face of the devastating Trisolaran crisis, the unity of mankind is still a distant dream.

The "publicization of technology" movement was triggered by escapism. Only when the international community reaches a consensus on escapism can the gap between developed and developing countries and between developed countries be partially bridged.

It is against this background that the current special session of the UN General Assembly will be held soon.

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"Actually, we should really seriously consider the issue of escape. Under the premise that the cutting-edge science of mankind is locked by sophons, it is meaningless to plan the defense of the earth and the solar system in four and a half centuries. The height that can be reached in the century, the more realistic goal of mankind is to create interstellar spaceships, so that a small number of people can escape to outer space, so as to avoid the complete extinction of mankind!"

Inside the restaurant, Ding Yi said.

Pang Xuelin smiled faintly and said, "But, whoever leaves, who stays?"

As soon as these words came out, the restaurant became quiet again.

Under the premise that the three-body crisis has been announced to the world, who will go and who will stay has become the biggest problem. If you want to leave, everyone will go together, and if you want to stay, everyone will stay together.

In the original book, this problem has been throughout the era of crisis, era of deterrence, and era of broadcasting, and later even international law prohibits the regulation of human flight.

Until the final blow of the dark forest and the complete extinction of human beings on the earth, this problem could not be solved.

"Okay, let's not talk about such a heavy topic, come, Professor Ding, Dr. Kanter, let's have a toast!"

"cheers!"

The three of them clinked glasses lightly and drank in one gulp.

At this time, another piece of news was broadcast on the TV: "According to the news just received by our reporter, Professor Ji Xingxian, Professor Jiang Zhiwen, and Professor Bu Jiashu, famous aerospace experts in my country and academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, encountered a A micrometeorite rain, unfortunately sacrificed..."

Pang Xuelin was stunned for a while, holding a cup, watching the news on TV, and did not speak for a long time.

Ding Yi and Kanter quickly discovered his abnormality.

Kantor said, "Professor Pang, what's the matter?"

Only then did Pang Xuelin come back to his senses, shook his head and said, "Is it all right?"

Ding Yi asked curiously, "Professor Pang, do you know these scholars who died?"

"No, I don't know each other. It's just that I feel a little bit about the danger of space. We want to completely conquer space in the future, and we don't know how many sacrifices we will have to face!"

Ding Yi nodded, and said with a solemn face: "Yes, right now, in the Aerospace Institute, the rocket faction and the non-working substance spaceship faction are arguing fiercely, and I don't know if their death will have any impact on this debate. "

The corners of Pang Xuelin's mouth curled up slightly, but he didn't answer.

Of course he knew that this meteorite rain was man-made, and the main character was none other than the male lead of another dark thread in "Dark Forest" and the creator of future human beings in the galaxy——Zhang Beihai!

Zhang Beihai created this rain of micrometeorites precisely to kill these old-school academic authorities, so as to ensure that the non-working substance faction can gain a real right to speak in the future aerospace system.

Because the non-propellant spacecraft is the best carrier for human beings to conquer the stars and seas in the future.

In the movie, Zhang Beihai is forbearing and introverted, resolute and decisive.

He inherited from his father the unanimous point of view of the future history school (a school composed of scholars and soldiers, who conduct reasonable deduction on the future of mankind)-humanity must be defeated!

But on the surface, he showed a firm triumphalism, and even his superiors and colleagues were a little puzzled, where did his triumphalism come from.

But it is precisely because of this that he was selected to enter hibernation as a member of the future political task force.

Two hundred years later, Zhang Beihai woke up before the start of the dark battle. Because he was worried that the fleet would be controlled by the steel seal tribe (ideological steel seal, invented by Wallfacer Bill Hines), Zhang Beihai, as a human being in AD, was selected to serve as the executive officer of the "Natural Selection" captain.

However, this was exactly the opportunity Zhang Beihai dreamed of.

The moment he took over the "Natural Selection", Zhang Beihai directly activated the spaceship and chose to escape by boat.

At the same time, the Asian Fleet sent four spacecraft to chase the "Natural Selection".

And the result of the doomsday battle just proved that Zhang Beihai was right to flee.

As a result, the few remaining spaceships of human beings formed starship humans, which became the seeds of future galactic humans.

Although in the subsequent dark battle, the few spaceships left by human beings broke out in internal strife for surviving supplies, Zhang Beihai was killed together with the entire crew of the "Natural Selection" because of a momentary hesitation.

But anyway, looking at the trilogy, Zhang Beihai's success is unparalleled.

Compared to Luo Ji, who had comprehended the laws of the dark forest, this was the true savior of human civilization.

He has never been officially awarded the title of "Wallfacer", but because of his inner sense of responsibility, he has become the most successful "Wallfacer" in history.

"Maybe, if there is a chance in the future, we can cooperate."

Pang Xuelin thought to himself.