Dream Guide

"What on earth is this?" Aoki asked.

"Don't be impatient." Professor Mei said, "Let's talk about the pyramids."

He pointed to the inside of the pyramid on the drawing and said: "This is the known tomb structure. This is the queen's tomb. This is the pharaoh's tomb. There are four vents here." The professor's fingers kept moving on the drawing.

"I heard that these vents accurately point to certain constellations?" Aoki thought of the rumors about some pyramids he had seen before.

"Oh, there is such a theory, but it is not widely accepted in academic circles. However, these passages are only less than eight feet wide. I don't know how people dug them out at that time, but this is not surprising. What I want to say Yes, the inverted pyramid at the bottom of the Tubuai Islands also has a shaft less than half a foot wide, which goes straight down from the main burial chamber to the pyramid's spire."

Only then did Aoki discover that there was a line on the drawing connecting the tomb chamber and the top of the pyramid. Because the line was so thin, you wouldn't even notice it if you didn't look carefully.

The professor said: "Since it has been confirmed that the two pyramids have a mirror image relationship, then the things in this inverted pyramid should also be in the Egyptian one. So someone used rays to further scan the Pyramid of Khufu, and sure enough, this shaft was found on it. . And the scan shows that there was originally an opening at the top of the pyramid, and the tip should have been covered later."

"Okay, now it's perfect. The two pyramids are exactly the same, even the details are the same." The professor smoked a cigarette and looked at Aoki mysteriously, "Now, what did you think of?"

"Oh, learning is really a brain-consuming thing!" Aoki said, stroking his messy hair, "Does that Pharaoh think he can crawl out from the other side of the earth after being buried on one side?"

"Well, that's interesting. Keep talking." The professor encouraged.

"Aha, are you right? But I was just guessing! Professor, you'd better tell me directly."

Aoki is really too lazy to use up a lot of brain cells. Anyway, this old man is just showing off, and he will tell him later. Don’t all knowledgeable people like this!

"Can't you use your brain more? This can help wake up your sleeping memories!" Mei Yiqiu said with hatred, and then burst out laughing, "Forget it, you are already a weirdo Well, if the neurological problems and all memories are restored, I don’t know what kind of monster he will become!”

Mei Ziqing, who was changing tea for them, looked at Aoki after hearing the professor's words, his eyes full of curiosity.

Mei Yiqiu took an hourglass from the bookcase behind her, shook it in her hand, and then put it on the table.

Of course, this hourglass is not the crystal hourglass in the picture sent by Professor Silva, but an ordinary glass cone. The sand is flowing down from the small hole where the two cones are connected, forming a thin yarn.

"The most intuitive meaning of the hourglass is time, and the flowing sand is the passing time." Mei Yiqiu said, "Think about it, what has been the biggest dream of emperors since ancient times?"

"Immortality!" Aoki could think of this without using his brain.

Mei Yiqiu nodded: "Yes, it is immortality. But people will always grow old, and the hourglass of time will not stop. Who can compete with time?"

The sand in the hourglass keeps flowing down without any hindrance.

"But the greatness of civilization lies in its struggle with the god of fate and creating miracles in this struggle. Every civilization has pursued immortality, but their methods are different. For example, the Chinese have always tried to It is achieved by refining elixirs and taking medicines, and the ancient Egyptian civilization naturally had their own methods——"

Mei Yiqiu suddenly turned the hourglass over, and the sand that had just flowed from a cone flowed back instantly:

"Turn back time!"

Aoki found it incredible: "Are you saying that the purpose of the Egyptian Pharaoh building the pyramids was to turn back time?"

"It's just a guess at the moment, and more archaeological evidence is needed to support it, but this guess has a certain rationality. Look at these two pyramids," Mei Yiqiu put the two drawings of the pyramids together. The spiers of the pyramid touch each other, "how like an hourglass of time!"

Aoki saw that it was indeed similar to the picture sent by Professor Silva. The shaft leading to the tip of the pyramid was like a thin flow of sand, and the pharaoh's tomb was the center of the two boxes of the hourglass.

"However, the pyramids in Egypt are facing upward, while the underwater pyramids on the other side of the earth are facing downwards. In this case, the tops of the two pyramids are not facing each other! It should be that the top of the one under the sea is facing the Pyramid of Khufu... ..." Aoki asked his question, "...Butt?"

"What? Butt?" Mei Yiqiu was stunned for a moment, "Oh, no no! Don't understand this mirror symmetry in the same space.

Mirroring is based on observers. Without observers, there would be no mirroring problem.

The pyramids we see in Egypt are pointed upward, while the pyramids we see on the bottom of the South Pacific are pointed downward. This is a phenomenon we observe, like looking in a mirror.

In addition, the space of the universe is not as straight and regular as we imagine. Due to the effect of gravity, you cannot find a naturally existing straight line in the universe, and all space is distorted.

You can imagine that between the Giza highlands in Cairo and the undersea ruins on the edge of the South Pacific Ocean Basin there is a door to time and space, just like... the one in Doraemon's pocket... you see this pyramid on the other side of the door , opened the door and saw another one.

This is the observer-based mirror effect. "

Aoki nodded in understanding.

Mei Yiqiu continued, regardless of whether Aoki understood or not: "We know that in a plane, the triangular structure is the most stable. Four equilateral triangles are used to form a square cone to represent the stability of space. This It is the physical meaning of the pyramid - space."

"Why not create a triangular pyramid? Isn't a triangular pyramid more stable?"

"Hmm... maybe the triangular pyramid is too stable and loses the variability of space... Or, the four-sided pyramid symbolizes the four spatial dimensions..."

Professor Mei Yiqiu frowned tightly, as if he was improving his theory as he spoke.

"The pyramids were built in the desert. The desert represents the world, and the passage of sand represents the passage of time. The Egyptian pharaohs believed that one day the two cones of the hourglass would be reversed, and then time would flow backwards and the pharaoh would be resurrected. .”

Aoki said doubtfully: "Then why build another inverted pyramid so far away?"

The professor said: "Perhaps they know some unpredictable things, such as that one day in the future, North Africa will be swallowed by the ocean, and the submarine continent where the Tubuai Islands are located will rise and turn into a desert; or the earth will one day be affected by The direction of rotation is changed due to other gravitational forces. God knows what the Egyptians thought!

"There is another speculation that seems more absurd and terrifying. Professor Garcia, an Argentine geologist, said that the Sahara Desert was slowly formed after the construction of the pyramids. In other words, because a large number of pyramids were built, the Sahara Desert The area slowly turned into a desert. Although no one in the academic community publicly agreed with his point of view, in fact, the explanations of the causes of the Sahara in meteorology and traditional geology are equally weak as his point of view. Just a step."

"This is too scary!" Mei Ziqing next to her exclaimed, and then covered her mouth. She knew that when Professor Mei was talking to someone, his assistant should not interrupt.

Mei Yiqiu was not angry, and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of. Compared with the entire universe, human beings are so small that they are not even a grain of sand."

Although Aoki felt that this statement was unlikely to be true, he was still a little shocked when he heard this version of the story. He imagined a scene of a mummy crawling out of the pyramid's shaft a few years later, shook his head and said, "It's just a dream!"

"Yeah, who says it isn't! But from a scientific point of view, the space in dreams is also a real space, and has some connection with our real world. Just like the two pyramids that are mirror images of each other, One is standing alive in the Sahara Desert, while the other is hidden under the sea, affecting the other in a way that we don’t yet know.”

Mei Yiqiu held the pipe in his left hand and turned the hourglass on the table over again with his right hand.

"Perhaps one day, just as those pharaohs hoped, the two spaces will be reversed, and we will fall like sand from this time and space into the dream that we once thought was unreal."