Star Empire

The first bridge of the Star, the flagship of the federal army.

All the important beings who participated in the proof and development of the grand unified theory of information and have mastered valuable information are here.

A research meeting is being held in the captain's command room on the bridge. The speaker is Cape Town Zhai Cahill, the chief control technician of the federal information collection network. The content is to explain clearly what the technologies used by the federation over the years are. How many are close to the level of information and information.

Around a temporary circular hollow conference table, two consuls, two scientists, a resident general and two soldiers who had survived the crystal energy vortex explosion and adapted to the crystal energy infection were all sitting here. , while Zhai Cahir stood in the space left in the middle of the ring table, showing off the results of his visual inspection.

"It's really an amazing discovery." Zhai Cahill's excitement was palpable. He changed his usual laziness. However, since he participated in this series of events, his personality has gotten rid of the unreality and returned to reality much faster. accelerate. But what changed him, whether it was the crystal energy vortex, the activation of arcane energy, or the confirmation of the unified theory of information, no one knew.

Of course there is no need to know.

"In the federal technology system, quasi-information technology can even be said to be quite extensive, including the utilization of pseudo-laws and the utilization of deep laws that we once considered, the utilization and extraction of vacuum zero-point energy. There are also ten-dimensional virtual space, etc., all of which have been We are beginning to approach the level of information manipulation—we are even at the level of manipulating conceptual-level information models to a considerable extent!”

"Wait a minute, Zhai Cahir." Wei Ruifan suddenly raised his hand to interrupt the general control technician's generous discussion, "First of all, we need to know the basis for your classification of ordinary physical technology and information-like operation technology."

"The basis for the distinction is the impact of these technologies when used. You may not be able to confirm it yet, but I can see the difference from my information perspective."

Zhai Cahir activated the portable holographic display, and two soft blue lights lit up from the silver metal rings floating around him, and outlined two complex devices. Several people present recognized them at a glance: -Antimatter annihilation conventional engine and ship space resonance-warp space bubble jump engine.

"From my current, understandable information perspective, direct use of physical means can only affect ordinary technology on the surface of matter. Putting aside macroscopic objects and effects, there will only be one change during use: entropy. increase."

As he spoke, Zhai Cahill enlarged the display of the matter-antimatter annihilation engine and started the simulation demonstration. Under the restriction of the strong magnetic field inside the engine, matter and antimatter collided together and eventually became a bright photon stream, which was propelled from It shot out from the spout.

"Matter is annihilated and converted into energy, and this energy is eventually converted into heat, while the degree of chaos increases. This is the direct impact on the information level that I have noticed after incorporating conventional physical methods into the new system."

Zhai Cahir waved his right hand lightly, and strange colors suddenly appeared on the original blue image. In the structural diagram of the engine, some annotations outline the physical changes and intuitive structures that ordinary people can see, and some An unknown existence with an indescribable color, like smoke, is seeping out from around the engine.

"Those indescribable colors are the embodiment of entropy in the information world." Zhai Cahill waited quietly for a while after the prompt. After the participants accepted it, he continued to speak: "This is information The predicted function of the filter, this picture was simulated by a computer according to my own ability. Of course, the ontology of this technology is still in the research and development stage. As you can see, the most obvious impact of the application of ordinary physical means is only the entropy value. The entropy value in thermodynamics. The application at the quasi-information level is quite different."

The screen showing the matter-antimatter annihilation engine returned to its original normal size, while the space resonance-warp space bubble transition engine was displayed on top. After Zhai Cahir started the simulation, the vibration ripples that were originally invisible were attached. The color can be easily confirmed, and around the engine, some bright total reflection mirrors began to slowly appear from the void and enveloped the entire body.

"Be careful, the next hidden phenomenon may be astonishing." After Zhai Cahir issued the reminder, the perspective began to gradually zoom out, and in the end it directly diffused to display the entire universe, tens of billions of light away from the location of the engine. At the other end of the year, the location of a space vibration wave hub was simply marked.

On a cosmic scale, the display problem of such an object cannot be solved by resolution. However, after Zhai Cahill superimposed the information filter screen, the original display was mainly the silver of starlight and the black of space. The picture was instantly occupied by two weird color blocks. These two huge weird color blocks expanded extremely rapidly. If these pictures corresponded exactly to the actual universe, then their diffusion rate might have reached a billion light-years per second.

After the two strange color blocks came into contact, the mark marking the engine began to move quickly toward the hub. During the movement, the starry sky of the entire universe began to blur and distort, just like a radar screen after being subjected to strong interference. .

"What... does this mean?" Vidoville looked at the huge and distorted picture in front of him, frowning and looking at Zhai Cahir.

"This is an impact that this kind of information technology can have." Zhai Cahir shrugged and raised his finger to point at the slowly merging color groups in the picture.

"The impact of the space resonance-warping space bubble jump engine from the information level is like this. What allows our spacecraft to move "parallel to the world" must not be ordinary space conduction waves. It is from the information level, it combines two Different locations coordinately produce the same waveform, causing the two vibration sources to tend to approach each other, and then use the warp space bubble to "push" the spacecraft away from the main world, allowing the spacecraft to get rid of most of the physical laws of the macro world. Let information close to the trend take over to achieve faster-than-light movement.”

"However, this part is just a relatively unique influence of this engine." After Zhai Cahir finished speaking, he eliminated everything related to the propulsion facilities, leaving behind a slightly distorted starry sky.

"For this part, which is the common nature and main influence of information manipulation technology, these pictures are simulated because I really can't convert this situation into an easy-to-understand picture. In short, these distorted starlight It corresponds to the real world. To explain further, when quasi-information technology works, its main effect is to distort the reality of the entire world including our universe. Compared with the former, such a method has a negative impact on the world. The impact is quite profound.”

"Distorting the real world?" As soon as Zhai Cahir finished speaking, everyone suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"The concept of distorting the real world is not accurate. This is my understanding. And now we can only fumble. After all, we have not yet been able to formulate terms and standards. We can only look for vocabulary that can be used as much as possible. That's all. That’s all.”

Zhai Cahir shook his head slightly, "For us, the universe is too huge, and the total amount of information it contains is too large for us to understand. Such a small perturbation has basically the same effect on the entire universe. Oh, by the way, there is a more intuitive phenomenon. When the space bubble closes and the spacecraft begins to jump, the sudden flash of stars in the sky is the material manifestation of this "reality distortion". You should know this, that unique starlight Distortions are smoothed out in an instant.”

"How to explain this phenomenon? If direct manipulation of information will cause the entire world to be distorted, then it is very likely that many existing technologies will be contradicted... The Federation is very sensitive now."

After learning about this situation, Vidoville couldn't help but be a little worried. The several technologies or items related to information operations mentioned by Zhai Cahill are basically important for the military, especially large fleets, to quickly move, sustain themselves and maintain contact. , if these original "everyday items" can directly affect the world, then whether the current military can still safely use the equipment in their hands and support the development of the unified theory of information is worthy of further discussion.

"Archon, first of all, these disturbances can be considered negligible compared to the entire universe. At present, we are only wandering on the edge of the level of operational information. Furthermore, whether it is the resonant wave generation hub or the vacuum zero-point energy reactor They have been operating almost continuously for hundreds of millions of years, but no one working and living around them has noticed anything strange, so what do you have to worry about?"

"If we want to explain this phenomenon, then first let's make it clear: the world, or everything in our current macroscopic universe, all things, matter, space and time, and laws are made of information." said. At this point, Zhai Cahir paused and looked around.

Everyone here expressed their understanding. After all, they either supported the unified theory of information from the beginning, or they received a lot of theoretical bombardment from Cavinrel or Isendel after joining the crystal energy vortex incident. It’s okay not to understand. Got it.

"Then let me explain from the information perspective, why the world is distorted by information operation technology."

"In the unified world view of information, the world is composed of information. From the moment the universe was born, all information in the universe has already had its own evolutionary form given by the power of the beginning. In the expansion, cooling, microscopic particles and macroscopic objects of the universe In the process of emergence, information follows the trajectory that has been formed in the beginning. Including our emergence, life, evolution, etc., there are laws from the beginning that can be traced. In other words, before we have the means to operate information, what we do Everything you do is known to the world.”

"However, when we begin to approach the level of directly manipulating information, everything we do is no longer completely consistent with the universe, but with our subjectivity. In the simplest terms, the space of the universe will not spontaneously release the vacuum zero point It can, and will not produce such warped space bubbles and information resonance waves under natural conditions, etc.”

"...In my opinion, these technologies represent the emergence of new information flow and combination methods that were not originally included in the laws of the universe. We once interpreted many technologies that we can use but cannot really understand as The discovery of the deep laws of the universe. But in fact, those so-called deep laws do not exist in the original universe. Their true appearance is a compromise made by the world being "pushed" by the new information we create."

"Wait here, Zhai Cahir." Eisendel, who had been silent, asked, "From your perspective, when the world is distorted by the so-called "new information composition", what kind of properties will the world itself show? "

"Well, well, the world itself reflected in this is quite interesting." Zhai Cahill smiled slightly, "Everything in the world is an aggregation of information, whether it is an old information model or a new one, from From a hierarchical perspective, they are the same, so the two cannot suppress each other, but the world, as a whole self-consistent and huge body of information, has stability, or "inertia."

“So, when we use quasi-information technology, the impact we have on the world is to deviate from the original environment of the universe through the newly inserted combination of information. When our impact disappears, the world will return to its original state. It returns to its original state under inertia.”

"The most intuitive model is to add several mutually exclusive paints to a plate and equate them to the original universe; and what we do is to add a new paint to this plate, a new The colors will make the original plate visually change as a whole, but the original colors cannot erode the new colors."

"So overall, even if the effect persists, it's stable; and once we stop using these technologies and take the new colors away, the universe will go back to the way it was, at least for now. "

"If you say so, then the two existences of the information collection network and the crystal energy vortex are the largest stable sources of disturbance in the universe?" Eisendel continued to ask.

"Of course it is, and the phenomenon is already obvious. Their impact should be clear to everyone except Eskett Torres."

"What?" Weisrifan asked.

"Sir, do you still remember Cavinriel's first crystal energy report? At that meeting, Cavinriel's personal system time display did not match the time of the main universe."

"Is it an error caused by the perpetual clock?" After this reminder, Cavinrel suddenly recalled the situation at that time. His personal time calculation method had an error with the main network, but it was different from the perpetual clock inside the blockade. The clock is consistent. The core of the eternal clock has now been determined to be formed by the interference of arcane energy. Theoretically, no physical means can interfere with it.

"The influence of the information collection network and the perpetual clock is actually much greater than you think. Time will be slowed down in the gravity field. Everyone knows this. There are many other influences. Factors in the flow rate of time. But now that the Federation occupies the entire universe, colonial areas are spread across every corner, and even the black holes near the cores of many galaxies are used as anchor points for space stations. It is not possible to keep the flow rate of time consistent in these strong gravitational environments. As far as the universe can go."

"In fact, it is the information collection network and the three perpetual motion clocks that, relying on the impact of the level of arcane energy and the innovation of information combination, have nailed the flow of time in the entire universe to one axis! And the blockade The time in the area is inconsistent with that outside, because the pressure of the crystal energy vortex has caused the world to be distorted to a different extent than the outside world!"

"...It has actually had such a big impact..." Zhai Cahir's words caused everyone present to fall silent in shock, while Cavinriel frowned and pondered for a while, and suddenly asked: "What is the level of time? The level of physical laws, or the level of strong laws in theory?"

"Both." Zhai Cahir nodded slightly to Cavinriel, expressing his gratitude to Cavinriel for breaking the oppressive situation he had created. "In my opinion, the concept of time is a measure of the universe. It is a quantity of information that reflects the degree of deviation in the evolution of information according to laws. It can be confirmed that this kind of thing flows at different speeds in different universes, and may even exist in different ways. This is a manifestation of the former."

"But such an existence is indispensable, and this is the embodiment of the latter. Speaking of this, based on current observations, I think that many of the laws or meanings in our current universe should be abstracted into concepts On the level, their meaning level can reach the strong law."

"Okay, Zhai Cahir, these are still speculations at the moment." Vidoville interrupted the chief control technician's ramblings, "Your ability is very special. At present, we have no way to confirm or truly understand your ability." Viewpoint. We will discuss these contents later when we have the ability to transcend this universe. Now please describe more about the technologies and equipment we have now that are related to information manipulation and can be helpful in crystal energy research. "

"Yes, Archon, I'm a little excited." Zhai Cahill said apologetically, "Then, I will introduce two more pieces of equipment that I estimate are currently the most valuable for federal expansion research: the vacuum zero-point energy reactor. and space stabilizers.”