"a book?"
Zhou Li was stunned. He couldn't understand why it was a book.
"Yes, a book."
As if she already knew Zhou Li and Eluma's reaction, the girl named Torea stretched out her hand, and countless papers flew into the air, and finally they gathered into a thick book and fell into her hands. Torrea suspended the book in the air and said to the two of them:
"One dimension is a line."
A line appeared next to the book, and Zhou Li and Eluma could see it. There were countless points on this straight line, and each point shone with its own brilliance.
"In a one-dimensional world, all existence is one point after another. Their humans, creations, countries, and even entire civilizations are all points with different essences."
Sliding his finger gently, the points on the entire line showed the whole picture. Obviously in the eyes of Zhou Li and Eluma, these were just irregular points, but they saw a lot from these points.
Walking people, speeding vehicles, mountains, weird mines, and bugs killing humans wantonly.
"Creatures in one dimension can hardly break through their own limitations and move towards higher dimensions. They have no concept of a plane or a three-dimensional concept, so they can only survive and develop online, and finally announce their discovery at the end of the line segment Understand the laws of the universe - the universe has an end."
"But in two dimensions, everything is different."
The line disappeared and was replaced by a flat surface like paper. This plane appeared in front of everyone. Torea stretched out her hand and lightly tapped the paper, and countless shapes appeared in front of them.
"In two dimensions, all matter is a shape on a plane."
On the paper, human beings of various shapes were walking through the majestic buildings, and countless flying instruments were spread across the entire plane. Zhou Li could see that in the center of the plane, a building like an altar stood quietly in the heart of the city. Around the altar, countless humans dressed in strange costumes knelt on the ground, as if they were worshiping something.
“Do you know about the turkey-farmer hypothesis?”
Torea's words stunned Zhou Li. Of course he knew what the Turkey and Farmer Hypothesis was. As a science fiction enthusiast, the Three-Body Problem was as important to him as a compulsory course in Chinese. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly remembered something.
Why does Torrea know about the Turkey and Farmer Hypothesis?
"Farmer's hypothesis: There is a group of turkeys on a farm, and the farmer comes to feed them at 11 noon every day. A scientist among the turkeys has been observing this phenomenon for a year without exception, so he also discovered a great law : "At 11 o'clock every day, the appetite will come. "It announced this law to the turkeys on Thanksgiving morning, but at 11 o'clock that morning there was no food, and the farmer came in and killed them all."
"Creatures in two dimensions have the opportunity to break through the limitations of dimensions and enter three dimensions or even higher dimensions, but those only exist in theory. In fact, most two-dimensional creatures are like turkeys on the farm. Common phenomena in the three-dimensional world are regarded as truth."
Slowly closing the two-dimensional surface, Torrea took out the book she called "The Essence of Gaia" and said calmly: "In the beginning, the world of Gaia was the same."
In this book called Gaia, a piece of paper was slowly pulled away. On this paper, countless patterns of different colors and shapes appeared in front of Zhou Li and Eluma. As a person who had read a half-understood book, Eluma could tell what these patterns were with just one glance.
"Talis Civilization?"
A city with silver-white architectural style, dazzling energy crystals, and a prosperous civilization stood under the blue sky. Eluma looked at those people wearing blue and white clothes with happy faces, and said softly: "I am only here I’ve seen their civilization briefly.”
"It's normal."
Nodding, Torrea said: "The Talis civilization was the only turkey in the entire history of Gaia's world that broke through itself. They discovered dimensions and discovered that they were only a two-dimensional existence, and then... ··”
Talis, this civilization that only existed on paper suddenly discovered something. They began to look at everything around them curiously, and began to look beyond the paper. They tried to use their own power to drill through the paper and make a three-dimensional hole in the two-dimensional paper.
"They committed an act that put three civilizations in crisis at the same time."
Hole.
They punched a hole in the paper.
"They wanted to explore the outside world and explore the infinite world outside this limited universe. Unfortunately, they used the wrong method, and then..."
Through the void, Talis scientists were ecstatic to see the truly vast and boundless three-dimensional universe. They cheered and shouted, announcing that the Talis civilization had taken control of the dimension and had found the only way out of this narrow world.
Then, disaster struck.
"In the beginning, it was just that the water was poisonous."
On the paper, the people of Talis drank clean tap water to welcome a new day, and then, fifteen people died in Talis that day.
For Talis civilization, whose technology has reached its peak, the death of fifteen people is an extremely bad and terrible event, because they have already overcome diseases and any substances that can threaten Talis' health. There had been no involuntary deaths in a century, but in one day, fifteen people died due to accidents. After they investigated the cause of death, something even more incredible happened.
Their death was because of that glass of water.
Drinking water is no longer a need for the Talis civilization. For them, eating one capsule every day is enough to satisfy their consumption of any element throughout the day. Drinking water is, for the most part, just an old hobby. And these fifteen people died because they drank tap water produced by an old company.
They thoroughly investigated the water plant company and found that the company's procedures were up to standard, there were no equipment problems, and the raw materials were approved by the state. Just when these people were confused, a man curiously placed the detection instrument in the mother river, and then, the piercing buzzing of the alarm rang in everyone's ears. Since then, Talis has announced that an unknown element has been discovered in all water throughout the world of Gaia. This element is extremely poisonous to the Talis people, so the water element has been completely banned.
Then, the air is poisonous.
"This highly toxic element is also spreading in the air."
The air is also highly toxic.
The Talis civilization has been studying it for a long time, but cannot analyze why this poison exists. But after they eliminated various factors, they found the center of the problem.
That hole.
Later, the Talis civilization learned that even if they put the most high-tech protective measures around the hole, and even if they sent the top scientists to safely explore the hole, they still could not stop the hole from Gaia. The erosion of the world.
Because what flows in the cave is not matter, but "concepts".
"The erosion of concepts is irresistible."
Stretching out her hand, the element representing air appeared in Tolea's palm. She stared at the colorless and odorless gas in front of her and said softly: "Talis, who has already punched a hole in the dimension, will soon The first concept from the other side of the hole emerged, oxygen."
Yes, oxygen is highly toxic to the Talis. Before the hole connecting the three dimensions and the two dimensions appeared, there was no oxygen in the Talis air.
"Between different planets, any germ may be highly lethal. And between different dimensions, the concept is a germ like a killing cell, which will continue to wreak havoc on everything. But fortunately, Talis' Technology was enough to allow them to resist the invasion of these foreign concepts, and in the end, they adapted to it all."
"But conceptual invasion is just the beginning."
The universe is a very broad concept, which encompasses all dimensions, space, and time. On the scale of the universe, two planets and one dimension are as small as a hydrogen element in sea water. However, it was such a small cluster that produced a terrible phenomenon.
Triple stack problem.
"This is Earth."
On the left side of the bunched paper, a three-dimensional earth appeared.
"This is Noah's world, my home."
On the other side of the paper, a pale planet slowly emerged. Looking at this familiar planet, a trace of tenderness flashed in Torea's eyes, "And between these two planets is Gaia."
On a cosmic scale, the distance between the earth and Noah's world is actually not that far away, about three solar systems apart. But in fact, for the Earth, which cannot even achieve interstellar navigation at one-tenth the speed of light, this distance is already an insurmountable gap. The number 70,000 light-years makes these two worlds the most distant neighbors in the world.
Yes, neighbor.
The three-dimensional distance between the two planets is a full 70,000 light-years. Even if the Trisolarans came, they would have to travel tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to reach them. But on a dimensional scale, these two planets are neighbors.
"According to common sense, the existence of the two-dimensional world will not affect the three-dimensional world. Even if the civilization of the two-dimensional world is promoted to the three-dimensional, they will enter the three-dimensional from the two-dimensional, rather than continue to exist in the original dimension."
Looking at the microscopic model in her hand, Torea sighed softly, and said helplessly and regretfully: "Unfortunately, the Talis civilization made a wrong choice. They opened the hole between dimensions, causing the original At a distance of 70,000 light-years, a super-light channel appeared on the dimensional level. The distance between the earth and Noah was shortened to only 0.03 light-years."
"The most deadly three-layer problem was also born."
In the model in Torea's hand, two planets that were originally far apart in the universe suddenly approached. They were only separated by a thin piece of paper, a two-dimensional plane.
"The so-called triple stack problem means that the information from the three planets will pass through this dimensional wormhole and be continuously superimposed on the world of Gaia."
Raising her head and staring at Zhou Li, Torea asked softly: "Zhou Li, have you never doubted why places that are very similar to the world of Gaia and the earth appear?"
Yes, why.
Zhou Li was stunned, and then countless thoughts began to pour into his brain. Yingnan is very similar to the United Kingdom, Jordan is also known as the Fog City, Magnum has a very similar behavior style, and the Three Oriental Courts are exactly the same as China... The architectural styles of the Tang and Song Dynasties, travelers, themselves, countless Countless things, after careful consideration, can find their original shadows on the earth.
"This is the impact of the three-layer problem."
Stretch out your hand, and the "entropy" from the earth, that is, the "information" is constantly superimposed on the paper of Gaia's world. At the same time, the same message came from Noah's world.
"And what Noah taught Gaia was magic power."
The two three-dimensional worlds, because of the existence of dimensional wormholes, continue to superimpose their own information on Gaia in the two-dimensional world. At this time, the two planets and the piece of paper repel and attract each other, thus forming a strange balance. But both Zhou Li and Eluma could see that this balance was only temporary.
"The most deadly part of the triple stack problem is that after the information from the other two worlds is continuously superimposed, the Gaia world will expand the size of the dimensional wormhole due to the spread of information. At the same time, because the Gaia world is a two-dimensional world, these three-dimensional The information spread in the world will not be absorbed so easily, but will be superimposed on it one after another with the same weight as the Gaia world. Slowly..."
"The world of Gaia was superimposed two-dimensionally one after another, and finally, it became a book."
"A book that evolves toward a wormhole."
The finale is coming soon...
(End of chapter)
