Paintings of TerrorCh268 - Quantum Immortality

Ke Xun shared his thoughts with Mu Yiran and Zhu Haowen. Even with his eyes closed, he could sense their silence, as if they were suddenly enlightened.

“You know,” Zhu Haowen finally spoke with a somewhat peculiar tone, “to mock the orthodox faction’s ‘uncertainty principle,’ Schrödinger proposed the ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ theory. At that time, it indeed put the orthodox physicists in a difficult position because they couldn’t explain the superposition state of life and death of the cat. GClvHe

“This problem became a puzzle that countless physicists wanted to solve. It wasn’t until a physicist named Everett came up with the Many-worlds Interpretation, commonly known as parallel worlds.

“Using the double-slit experiment as an example, when a single electron is emitted, how does it simultaneously pass through both slits? The Many-worlds Interpretation suggests that when the electron passes through the double slits, two worlds with superimposed states are created. In one world, the electron goes through the left slit, and in the other world, the electron goes through the right slit.

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“Thus, the wave function doesn’t need to collapse to randomly choose whether it goes through the left or right slit. Because there are multiple universes, in the world of Universe A, the electron goes through the left slit, while in Universe B, people observe the electron going through the right slit.

“So, this theory can be used to explain Schrödinger’s Cat. According to Everett, the two cats, one alive and one dead in the box, both exist in the real world. It’s just that they are in two parallel and different worlds, displaying a superposition of states. d0xRNf

“Using this to explain Cheng Shi’s suicide, then it becomes quite easy to understand. Cheng Shi treated himself as Schrödinger’s Cat. When he was alive, he lost his son, so he put himself in a state of superposition. At this point, parallel universes were created. The dead him existed in this universe, and the living him went to another universe to find his son, who’s still alive there.”

“Wait a minute,” Ke Xun said, “Cheng Shi died in the manner of Schrödinger’s Cat, but his son didn’t. He jumped directly from the building. How does that superimpose?”

“The principle is the same,” Zhu Haowen explained, “Replace Schrödinger’s Cat with a person, and the hammer with a gun. If a person shoots themselves, because the bullet is composed of particles with the property of wave functions, then there will always be a very, very small possibility that all the particles will collapse into one particular state—namely, they all avoided the person’s head, ensuring the person remains unharmed.

“Although the possibility of this situation is extremely minimal, due to the existence of the Many-worlds Interpretation, every universe displays one of the states of superposition. Then, in billions of parallel universes, there will always be one universe where ‘all particles that make up the bullet avoided the person’s head.’

“The same goes for other methods of suicide, whether it’s jumping off a building, cutting wrists, poisoning, electrocution, or hanging. There will always be some parallel universe where the person is still alive. In a certain universe, the person committing suicide can never die.

“This situation is called ‘quantum immortality.’

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“What Cheng Shi wants to find is his son living in a universe of quantum immortality.”

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“No, we don’t have to,” Mu Yiran, who had been silently listening to their conversation, spoke up. “Even if parallel universes exist in the real world, Cheng Shi has already died in our universe. The living him is already in another universe. And even if we were to follow his example and create a parallel universe through death, the living us would also go to another universe just like him. In the universe we currently occupy, we would be dead, and searching for the signature would be meaningless.”

“Oh right,” Ke Xun slapped his forehead. “I’ve been scared silly by everything I learned today, unconsciously treating the real world as if it were the world in the painting. Now that I think about it, have you guys noticed that the malice of the ‘paintings’ has been growing? In the painting ‘Scarlet Beast’, it tricked us and made us treat the world inside the painting as the real world. In this painting, it’s actually enticing us to treat the real world as if it were the world inside the painting, making us begin to question and despair about the real world. If during ‘Scarlet Beast’, the intention of the painting was to make us stay in the painting, by this painting, it’s trying to make us lose even the belief in continuing to live!”

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“As you said,” Shao Ling’s voice continued, “the brilliance of this painting lies in that, the things it uses to ‘trick’ us, all of which are real scientific theories and hypotheses existing in the real world. It’s like someone deceiving you with all true statements. So, ask yourself, is this deception a deception, or is it the truth?”

“Brother Shao, stop talking. With your question, I can’t help but think that this is the truth,” Luo Bu said, frightened.

“I asked you guys to think about the clues. Have you thought of anything before joining in?” Ke Xun asked.

“I was actually thinking about it, but what you guys said drew my attention away,” Wei Dong said. “Since the Boss Mu’s suggestion is that we must not die, but Cheng Shi and his son are also not in the same universe as us, so how can we find the signature?” GfzHdA

“In fact, I have some thoughts on the subject of consciousness that Ke Xun mentioned just now.” Mu Yiran looked at Ke Xun. There was something about Ke Xun being unable to see due to his closed eyes that made Mu Yiran feel a bit heart-wrenching. Unable to resist, he reached out and held Ke Xun’s hand, immediately receiving a warm response as always, as his hand was instead held tightly with their fingers intertwined.

“Since Cheng Shi firmly believes that consciousness determines matter,” Mu Yiran continued, “then his body, as matter, has already died. What about his consciousness? Does it still exist in this world, just that we can’t see it? If consciousness indeed determines matter, then can we find the signature by locating his consciousness?”

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“It feels even more challenging to find his consciousness than to find his body,” Luo Bu said. “At least the body has a tangible form, but consciousness, this intangible, colorless, and massless thing, how do we look for it? Unless it’s just, floating randomly in the air? Drifting wherever the wind blows? It might end up two miles away once the wind blows!”

“When it comes to the relationship between consciousness and matter,” Shao Ling said, “materialists believe that matter determines or gives rise to consciousness, idealists believe that consciousness determines or gives rise to matter, and both of these views are called ‘monism’ in philosophy. However, there is also ‘dualism‘,’ where matter and consciousness do not have a determining or derivative relationship; they exist side by side as separate entities.” aDpiCt

“This idea has some followers even in the physics community,” Zhu Haowen continued Shao Ling’s words. “Some people believe that a person’s body and consciousness belong to different dimensions. The body exists as a three-dimensional organism in four-dimensional space, while consciousness exists in multi-dimensional space. Saying both of them exist side by side is reasonable in a sense.”

“What’s the four-dimensional space?” Wu You spoke.

She sounded quite calm now.

“In physics, the four dimensions refer to length, quantity, temperature, and time,” Zhu Haowen explained. “The body exists in a four-dimensional space, constrained by time. It can only progress along a timeline and is unable to freely jump between the past, present, and future. Y5kd3i

“But consciousness is not bound by the constraints of time; it can instantly go to a past moment or switch back and forth between cause and effect.

“To give a simple analogy, if we want to go from point A to point B, the body can only move from A to B as time passes. However, our consciousness can instantly imagine that we have arrived at point B, even be able to imagine every aspect of point B, while the body cannot confine the consciousness from ‘flying’ to point B.

“So, there’s some basis for saying they exist side by side.”

“In other words, since all well-founded hypotheses in this painting can be true, we can make this law real and make Cheng Shi’s consciousness stay in this universe,” Ke Xun said. “As long as we find his consciousness, we can find the signature!” d UNjm

“Now the problem lies here, doesn’t it?” Wei Dong shrugged. “The key is that this consciousness can’t be seen or touched, how do we find it?”

Ke Xun extended a finger, “Darling, don’t we have the book of laws and the item box? What if consciousness can be used as an item?”

As he finished speaking, Ke Xun heard several people’s surprising reactions.

“This idea is quite imaginative,” Qin Ci commented, “I think we can give it a try.” l0gLJN

“I’m on it.” Zhu Haowen, who spoke, quickly opened the book of laws on his interface.

“Dualism of matter and consciousness.”

“The resource is currently in use, please try again later.”

“What does that mean?” Wei Dong hurriedly asked. 3Ry8M7

Mu Yiran pondered for a moment, “Maybe because Ke Xun’s dice has never stopped, it’s equivalent to a document being opened and used on a computer. If you try to open the document again, it will be displayed as locked, or write-protected, or only allows read-only operations. An open document cannot be edited on page one and modified on page four at the same time.”

“But when we are in different challenges, can’t we simultaneously use these functions?” Luo Bu asked.

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“At that time, the ‘document’ becomes a network shared document. We can simultaneously modify it on different networks,” Mu Yiran explained. “The most intuitive example is QQ Docs in our chat software. Currently, we are in the same room, sharing the same computer and its resources.”

“So, this means that I have to stop the dice, release the resources it’s using, and then others can continue using it?” Ke Xun said. “No wonder the dice rolling has to be done in turns, and everyone can’t roll at the same time.” jX6yF9

“But if Ke Xun stops the dice, it means he has rolled a number, and this will initiate another round of dice rolling. The second person will only have 60 seconds. During these 60 seconds, we need to use laws and items to find Cheng Shi’s consciousness. If we can’t, the second person will have to roll the dice.” Zhu Haowen explained. “And if, after all of us have rolled the dice, we still haven’t found Cheng Shi’s consciousness, we will have to enter the next challenge, go through another round, to return here and continue using laws and items to search for Cheng Shi’s consciousness.”

“No need for that!” Deng Lin suddenly spoke up. “Didn’t Mr. Mu just say that once we enter the challenge, we all can use laws and items simultaneously? So when we’re in the challenge, we can try to find Cheng Shi’s consciousness together, right?”

“If one group finds Cheng Shi’s consciousness and, as a result, gets the signature, what about the others?” Wei Dong asked him.

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