Volume 4: Spacetime Singularity Chapter 2 The Trolley Problem
On the morning of May 10th, just like the previous two days, Ning Yu'an was woken up by the tossing and turning when the sky just cleared up, but this time she was woken up by the shrill air raid alarm.
What was different from yesterday was that this time she didn't hesitate, but got out of bed directly, stood on the floor of the dormitory, took out her mobile phone, and opened the social software with 99+ red dots on it.
Hey, no matter what tricks you come up with, can you please let me get some good sleep first?
At the very least, people have to complete a round of rapid eye movement sleep.
Anyone who has studied neuroscience knows that sleeping, like eating and drinking, is a necessary biological rhythm, especially for the brain.
If you can't get a good night's sleep, it will be difficult to form new neural circuits in your brain, which will greatly affect your memory and judgment when you are awake.
She swiped down the screen of her phone while muttering to herself. This time the information was no longer a notice from the counselor, but an announcement sent directly to everyone's phone by the State Oceanic Administration and the municipal government.
The wording in the announcement was very scary. It simply told everyone that in a few hours there would be severe convective weather and tsunamis of unknown size and duration, without providing any additional information about these disasters.
According to the Emergency Response Law and the Regulations on Ocean Observation and Forecasting Management, the ocean department will conduct aerial and satellite remote sensing detection of potentially dangerous waters before possible marine disasters occur in order to grasp the disaster situation in real time.
This situation will be reported to the forecast center and disaster reduction center, which will inform the public and specify a detailed plan for the next response.
To put it simply, before any disaster occurs, radars, airplanes and satellites will see it in advance, and the big machine of the modern state will start working to minimize the harm to ordinary people.
The problem this time is that all these eyes were blind before they could function.
Without exception, all radars in Northeast Asia malfunctioned when the protozoan first appeared. The intensity and density of the electromagnetic waves generated by the monster were too huge, and the waveform did not belong to any type of noise known to mankind that could be plotted on the power spectrum. It was impossible to completely filter out this wave from the received signal with existing technical means.
In other words, the electromagnetic radiation produced by the protozoa is so powerful and sharp that all other signals become noise in front of it. Radars of any frequency band can only see its roar and ignore the truly useful information.
As for airplanes, it is even more impossible. The turbulence caused by the violent solar wind is the largest and most intense atmospheric movement experienced by mankind since the birth of mankind. Under such conditions, any aircraft that relies on aerodynamics to fly will be tantamount to suicide if it wants to take off.
In fact, the moment Fang Cheng changed the direction of the solar wind and directed it towards the monster, he had inadvertently shot down a large number of transoceanic flights. The subsequent atmospheric circulation blew passenger planes all over the world into pieces.
On the day when the solar wind rushed towards the earth, mankind experienced an unprecedented aviation disaster in the history of civilization. The surviving passenger planes were less than one percent of the total number of passenger planes flying in the sky at that time. From then on, there was no more air transportation in the world.
Due to the drastic change in the Earth's magnetic field, the communication systems of all artificial satellites were impacted to varying degrees. The connection between most satellites and the ground was cut off in an instant, and many of them were never reconnected and became space junk.
But this is only a matter of time. After human society completely falls apart, all satellites in the universe will become space junk.
The entire human society is like an ingenious machine carved from fragile crystal into gears, and the Earth with its thick atmosphere and magnetic field is like a glass display case that completely encloses the machine. If this combination is just put on display, it seems that it can last forever, until one day a hammer falls from the sky and smashes into the glass.
And the person wielding the hammer should not have been Fang Cheng.
When Ai Bishui thought of this plan, she quickly deduced the possible consequences in her mind, and the consequences made her shudder. She had seen many memes about the trolley problem on the Internet before, but she didn't expect that this choice would be handed to her in such an unreasonable way.
Would you rather watch the entire human race being destroyed, or kill tens of thousands of people yourself to prevent this destruction? What would you choose?
Her choice was not to choose, and to give the opportunity to choose to a lucky audience. But the lucky audience did not realize that he was making a choice at all, and the only thing on his mind was to kill the monster. This is probably the difference between the thinking of men and women. Men's thinking is more focused on completing the given task at hand, and when focusing on a task, they often ignore other issues. Women may see it more comprehensively.
Especially those extremely smart women, they often fall into a self-circular , so they unknowingly develop the habit of giving useless or harmful choices to people around them. This action has become a conditioned reflex today, and they do not need to think at all when executing it.
When encountering a problem, the first option that comes to mind is to escape. This is human instinct at all times.
Of course, Fang Cheng gradually realized on the way back how much damage he had just caused, mainly because he saw a lot of wreckage of crashed large passenger planes and a giant cargo ship that had been broken into several pieces on the beach.
Not long after Ning Yu'an got up, someone knocked on the door. It was the student staff who took them to the evacuation point from house to house. She quickly packed her things and followed the crowd through the narrow and crowded corridor. When she arrived at the door of the dormitory, she and everyone else were stunned by the scene in front of them.
The sky in front of me was filled with blue-green balls of light of varying sizes. They were jumping under the strong wind visible to the naked eye, flowing across the sky like waves. The overall brightness of these balls of light was much higher than the background lit by sunlight, and they were clearly visible even in the daytime.
She thought of Van Gogh's most famous painting, "Starry Night".
Is there a possibility that Van Gogh was actually a time traveler, who accidentally jumped to the time point of human destruction, and the horrific scene of the collapse of the sky and the earth was the culprit of his mental disorder?
Could it be that after returning to his own time, he was considered crazy by the world because he kept mumbling about the scenes he saw after traveling through time?
