Volume 3: Dance of the Aurora Chapter 17 The Sun Also Rises
It was already evening of the next day when the protozoan arrived at the seaside, and the formerly busy port area was already empty.
However, it did not notice this. In fact, it did not even realize that these fragile protein structures around it were living things, let alone that it had just easily destroyed the city built by these small animals.
Nature is cruel and horrible, but you can't say it is evil, just like a lion tearing an antelope apart, you can't say it is evil.
Now the hungry newborn has eyes only for iron ore, huge quantities of which are piled up at the dock.
It is not easy to construct a body with unprocessed iron ore. There are many issues that need to be considered: the purity of the metal material itself, the adhesion between different structures, various intersecting stresses, the damage to the body caused by collisions during movement, etc.
But if your instincts could manipulate electrons, everything would be much simpler.
He is now very skilled in using materials that are close to him to build his torso. Unlike simply grabbing the materials at hand and kneading them into his body, this process is quite complicated and involves a lot of microscopic electrical operations.
But it's not difficult for this protozoan, instinct is instinct. Just like all other organisms, its huge body has organized itself in the most efficient way, and this process does not require rational participation at all.
The only problem was probably the huge amount of energy needed to form the body. The night the protobody was born, it almost drained the entire power grid, causing a large-scale power outage that could not be restored in a short time.
But there is no shortage of energy around the Bohai Bay.
Even if conventional energy is used up, there are still several fission reactors here.
Manipulating electrons does not mean picking them out one by one and then manually arranging them into lines. In fact, basic particles such as electrons and photons are merely abstract summaries of the structure of the microscopic world made by humans from their own perspective . There are no such things as electrons in our world.
The first time humans became aware of the existence of electrons was through experiments in the macroscopic world to detect the basic electrical charge of matter. This experiment is the Millikan oil drop experiment taught in high school physics classes.
Later, people built larger and more expensive experimental equipment to explore the microscopic world. However, whether it is the trajectory in the cloud chamber, the interference pattern presented by light penetrating the metal film, or the synchrotron radiation produced by the huge accelerator, they can only be regarded as "evidence" of the existence of electrons.
Throughout history, no living person has ever seen with their own eyes small balls with a diameter of no more than ten to the negative twenty-second power meters and carrying a charge of 1.6 times ten to the negative nineteenth power coulombs flying back and forth between solid crystal lattices.
Moreover, because of the observer effect in physics, theoretically even if electrons really exist, humans cannot see them.
If you want to see anything with your own eyes, you must find a photon to collide with it. This is the limitation of human beings.
Of course, humans have no way of knowing whether photons really exist. After all, all elementary particles are simply intuitive descriptions of the material existence and interactions of the world based on symmetry.
We can only choose to believe that they all exist, just as we choose to believe that the laws of physics in the next moment will be exactly the same as before, and that the sun will rise as usual tomorrow.
Humans have many limitations, for example, metabolism is required as long as we are alive.
To put it more bluntly, he needs food and water. Now Fang Cheng realizes that he is very short of food and water.
"Emmm, I just found a few purification tablets in my bag. Each tablet can purify two liters of water, which can last for quite a long time..."
But the purified water is very unpalatable and has a strange smell.
"I actually have a life support system built in."
The bracelet spoke.
Seeing that neither of them reacted, it thought they didn't hear it.
"I have a life support system built in, so you don't need to worry about food and water."
Fang Cheng felt his wrist being forcibly pulled up, and his arm was stretched horizontally in front of his chest.
He saw the metal ring stretch out to wrap around his entire palm and then quickly fade away. A second later, a suspended water ball about the size of an apple appeared above his palm. In its center was a tiny silver particle, which would be invisible to the naked eye if it were not magnified by the convex lens formed by the water ball.
"There is so much water in the planet's air that all it takes is one condensation nucleus to collect it all."
Fang Cheng nodded as if he understood, although he couldn't understand why even with the condensation nuclei, so much water could maintain its shape and not disperse. It was definitely not enough to rely solely on surface tension.
At this time, he discovered that the girl squatting on the ground had been staring at his hands with shining eyes for a long time.
"What is this? It can talk! Hey, my legs are numb, can you help me up..."
The water ball in his hand evaporated in an instant. Fang Cheng reached out and grabbed her wrist, then pulled Ai Bishui up with all his strength.
"Is this given to you by those aliens you just mentioned? Is there a software like chatCPT built into it?"
"I have half a brain."
Fang Cheng felt a little uncomfortable being stared at. His hands were very rough and had some scars. He didn't really want to be seen like this.
"Or...you're wearing this?"
Anyway, he had long felt that it was a bit strange for a boy to wear a silver bracelet. It was obvious that this expensive-looking jewelry should be worn on a more beautiful wrist.
"Ah, is it really possible?"
"Can."
Half of the brain spoke.
Since the bracelet itself had already agreed, there was no reason to refuse. Fang Chengyi stretched out his hand to pull it off, but found that it was stuck tightly.
"The transfer requires you to connect your limbs together, and I will slide over smoothly."
"Uh... why is this."
"Because topologically you are already inside me, any movement under this premise does not consume energy. But if you forcibly remove me, it is equivalent to triggering a non-spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is a phase transition."
"Then after you transferred over, I was still outside of you, wasn't that a topological phase transition?"
"It's just that the internal structure has been replaced by another individual. From my point of view, there is no difference."
Fang Cheng didn't understand the principle behind this, but Ai Bishui nodded in agreement and put her hand on the palm of the boy opposite her, which had been suspended in the air.
The other person's cool and soft hands did not arouse any new emotional fluctuations in him. Fang Cheng felt that he was more like a puppy shaking hands with someone.
He couldn't help but gently pinch it with a little force, and secretly glanced at the expression of the girl opposite him with the corner of his eye. She didn't seem to care at all, and all her attention was on the bracelet.
The metal ring floating in the air flowed smoothly over the place where the palms met, and after moving to the other wrist, it slowly shrank until it could fit just right there.
Well, it does look much better than when I wore it.
