Fabricating The World: Creating A Three-Body Invasion At The Beginning

As the video continued to play, at the following IDC committee meeting, the person in charge brought in a specially made umbrella that he had arranged for.

Like the umbrella given to the princess by the ethereal painter in the story, this umbrella is black and has eight ribs, with a small stone ball at the end of each rib.

Umbrellas in the true sense have long since disappeared from modern life. To cover the rain, modern people use something called a rain shelter, which is as big as a small flashlight and blows air upward to blow the rain away.

Of course, people know that umbrellas once existed and have seen them in movies and TV shows, but few people have seen the real thing.

Everyone curiously scrambled to play with this thing and found that it could be opened by the centrifugal force of the stone ball during rotation as described in the story.

It can also sound a corresponding sound alarm when the rotation speed is too fast or too slow.

Everyone's first impression was that holding an umbrella while spinning like this is very tiring. The princess's wet nurse was able to hold an umbrella like this for a whole day, which was very admirable.

Ai AA also took the umbrella and turned it open. Her hand strength was relatively weak, and the rotating umbrella quickly drooped, and the bird chirping warning that the speed was too slow appeared.

From the moment the chairman opened the umbrella for the first time, Cheng Xin stared at it intently.

Now, she suddenly pointed at aa and shouted: "Don't stop!"

Ai AA sped up the speed of the umbrella and the chirping of birds subsided.

"Spin faster," Cheng Xin said, staring at the umbrella.

Ai AA tried his best to turn the umbrella, and the wind chime sounded to warn that the speed was too fast.

Then Cheng Xin asked her to turn slower until the bird chirped again. This was repeated several times.

"This is not an umbrella!" Cheng Xin pointed at the spinning umbrella and said, "I know what it is!"

Bi Yunfeng next to him nodded: "I understand too."

Then he turned to Cao Bin, the third AD man present, and said: "This is something that only the three of us can think of.

"Yes." Cao Bin said excitedly as he looked at the umbrella, "Even in our time, this thing was very strange."

Some of the other participants looked at the three living ancients, and some looked at the umbrella. They were all confused, but they were all looking forward to it excitedly.

"Steam engine centrifugal speed regulator." Cheng Xin said its name.

"What is that, a control circuit?" someone asked.

Bi Yunfeng shook his head: "There was no electricity when that thing was invented.

Cao Bin began to explain: "It was something that appeared in the 18th century. It was a device used to adjust the speed of steam engines. It was the earliest industrial automatic control system.

Therefore, through the analysis of the technical principles of the centrifugal governor of steam engines, people quickly understood the first metaphor of the umbrella.

But unlike the soap boat, the steam engine centrifugal governor does not have a clear metaphorical direction.

People can think of many things that it metaphors, and two of them are relatively certain: negative feedback automatic control and constant speed.

Therefore, interpreters began to look for the meaning coordinates corresponding to this double-layer metaphor.

They quickly found the corresponding metaphorical object in the fairy tale-the Prince of Deep Water.

In Yun Tianming's story, the height of Prince Deepwater does not change with distance in the eyes of observers.

This can also have many interpretations, and there are two obvious ones: some kind of information release system in which the signal does not attenuate with distance, and a physical quantity that is constant in any frame of reference.

Comparing with the interpretation results of the umbrella, we immediately found a certain combination - a constant speed that does not change with the reference frame, which obviously refers to the speed of light.

What the interpreters did not expect was that they found a third meaning coordinate for the umbrella metaphor:

... Helsingen Mosken soap is made from that kind of bubbles. These bubbles are weightless, so the truly pure Helsingen Mosken soap is also completely weightless and is the lightest thing in the world...

The fastest, no parallel journey, this is a single-layer metaphor that is now confirmed:

To sum up, the umbrella is a metaphor for light or the speed of light.

Capturing the bubbles of the Magic Bubble Tree has two possible meanings: collecting light energy and reducing the speed of light.

Interpreters all believe that the first possible meaning has little to do with human strategic goals, so they focus on the second possible meaning.

While the clear meaning of the intelligence remains elusive, interpreters have discussed a second possible meaning, focusing on the relationship between reducing the speed of light and issuing cosmic safety declarations.

"Imagine that if the speed of light in the solar system, that is, the space within the orbit of Neptune or the Kuiper Belt, is reduced, it may produce an effect that can be remotely observed on a large scale of the universe."

The idea excited people.

"But does this have any safety implications for observers of the universe? Suppose that reducing the speed of light in the solar system by one-tenth would make us appear safer?"

"There is no doubt that in that case, even if humans have a light-speed spacecraft, the time it takes to fly out of the solar system will be one-tenth longer. Of course, this does not mean much.

"If you want to have a safety significance for the universe, it is obviously not enough to reduce the speed of light by one-tenth. You may need to reduce it even more, such as reducing it to one percent of the original value, so that observers can see that this is a self-constructed project by humans. The stagnant zone ensures that it will take a longer time for us to fly out of the solar system, thereby increasing observers' sense of security for civilization in the solar system."

The idc members' interpretation of Yun Tianming's fairy tale in the video also aroused the audience's interest.

In this extremely dangerous universe, it is undoubtedly very important to understand and control the technology that can issue safety statements to the outside world.

In reality, the cosmic coordinates of the Earth have not yet been exposed, so humans certainly do not need to issue safety statements so urgently to prove the harmlessness of their 160 degrees.

But just because you don’t need to use it doesn’t mean you don’t need to master this technology!

Once the coordinates of the solar system are accidentally exposed and humanity falls into a life-and-death crisis, the universe safety statement may become the last life-saving straw!

In fact, after the video about the space safety statement was exposed, humans have already asked the Trisolaran civilization about the relevant content.

However, the Trisolaran civilization, which cannot deceive, stated bluntly that it was impossible for them to leak this technology to humans.

This attitude directly reflects two crucial messages:

First, the cosmic safety declaration technology actually exists, and today’s Trisolaran civilization already knows the relevant technical details.

Secondly, the technology required for the cosmic safety declaration is very dangerous. It is very likely that in the judgment of the Trisolaran people, once humans master this technology, it will pose a huge threat to Trisolaran civilization.

According to the first basic axiom of the dark forest theory - survival is the first need of civilization, it is absolutely impossible for the Trisolarans to leak super technology that could threaten their own survival to humans.

Therefore, humans can only speculate on the principles of this technology from other details.

But they didn't expect the surprise to come so quickly. The content played in the video had almost put the real answer in front of them!