Volume 5: Eternity Chapter 1 Symmetry Transformation
"What is a person made of antimatter? Once a person made of antimatter enters this world, he will immediately disappear."
"In order to study different biological samples, we will conduct comprehensive sampling of typical individuals, but this sampling cannot destroy their own lifestyle and habitat, so we usually prepare a 'symmetrical' individual through entanglement and conduct research by collecting information about this symmetrical individual."
Fang Cheng had a rough idea. This kind of action at a distance could produce a strictly symmetrical copy, and every move of the positive matter creature would be accurately reflected in the antimatter creature.
"Then... can she still turn into positive matter and return to this world?"
"Theoretically, there is no problem. This is just a simple symmetry transformation."
It sounds simple, but humans have not yet fully discovered the reason for the asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the universe.
"If we perform this transformation... and turn all the antiparticles that make up her body into positive particles, then will the person created be the same as the previous one..."
If a person dies and is resurrected, then since consciousness must have continuity, philosophically speaking, although the resurrected person has all the memories, all information, all thinking and emotional activities of the previous person, because the thought itself is interrupted, the newly created person is not the previous person.
This conclusion also applies to the so-called "mechanical ascension", because the process of mechanical ascension cannot be absolutely "smooth and continuous", and there must be a process of interruption of consciousness. Therefore, the result of ascension is actually that all the previous people die, and the new people with their memories and emotions continue as representatives of civilization.
This process is no different from the previous mass extinction on Earth, where old species are wiped out and new life quickly adapts to the environment and dominates the Earth. However, if this were to happen, the rate of mass extinction would be 100%, and all old humans would disappear.
However, with regard to symmetry transformations, based on the knowledge that humans have currently acquired, it is impossible for us to know whether the new person and the old person are the same person. Even the resurrected person himself has no way of knowing.
"Performing symmetry transformations does not destroy the continuity of a person's thoughts, so theoretically this is not a resurrection. In other words, although all the information of the person as a positive matter being has been absorbed by the singularity, because we cut off the quantum entanglement in time, the information of the antimatter person has not been affected at all. In fact, she has never 'died'."
Fang Cheng then remembered that the aliens seemed to have never said the word "death" from the beginning. He initially thought that they were avoiding the word, although he didn't know whether aliens would really avoid matters such as life and death.
From their previous conversation, Fang Cheng did not notice any expression related to emotions. He was a little suspicious whether these so-called metal life forms were really completely unable to understand human emotions brought about by hormones and various chemicals.
They must really be... literally heartless.
However, there is another possibility that these organisms have new mechanisms that can replace chemical stimulation, allowing them to experience another kind of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. However, the so-called emotions should be completely different from the emotions in human language.
All abstract concepts in human language are, so far, only applicable to humans.
"Then what is the price of this resurrection?"
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
"This symmetry transformation requires a large amount of 'energy', or more strictly speaking, negative entropy. This negative entropy needs to be provided by your star."
"Does that take a lot of energy?"
"No, strictly speaking, this amount of energy will not have any visible impact on the earth's natural environment."
"So it has no effect?"
"Strictly speaking, no. These energies are indeed a microscopic disturbance to the Earth's dynamic system, which may cause long-term consequences in the future and drive the Earth's dynamic system from a fixed point that it was originally about to enter to a new fixed point."
This is a bit like releasing a small ball from the top of a mountain. Whether it goes left or right is completely random, but an extremely small disturbance will drive it to roll in the direction it shouldn't have.
No one knows where the earth will roll.
"That……"
"I am now returning her to Earth's world."
"Ah? Now? At this moment? I haven't said whether I want to..."
"I'm not asking you to choose. I was going to change this symmetry anyway. You just happened to mention it, so I'm going to do it now."
"What about the impact on the Earth?"
"Now...is not the time to think about these issues."
"What's the meaning??"
Before Fang Cheng finished speaking, a large halo appeared in front of him again.
The halos were exactly the same as the ones he had seen on the aliens' equipment before, all emerald-colored.
The ball of light gradually condensed into a human figure in front of his eyes, and began to flicker in his field of vision.
Although he had experienced all kinds of storms, Fang Cheng was still startled by the sudden light in front of him.
He instinctively stepped back, and his back hit the bed with a bang, adding a bit of pain to his already sore shoulders.
The flickering of light suddenly stopped in an instant, as if there was a sudden power outage, and the female body blocked by the strong light emerged from the air.
She was wearing nothing.
When Fang Cheng saw the person floating in the sky, two options automatically appeared in his mind, one was to quickly dodge and the other was to quickly catch him. He hesitated for only a few milliseconds before choosing the second one.
But when he reached out to catch it, he found that the person hanging in the air did not fall directly down.
She maintained the same posture as at the beginning, floating motionless in the air like a sculpture.
Fang Cheng's eyes widened as he watched from below. As his gaze drifted, his breathing became more and more rapid, and all the fatigue from running around in the past few days was swept away.
While he was staring at the ceiling in a daze, the person above his head suddenly fell down like a kite with a broken string, and hit Fang Cheng's body in a free fall. He felt a sharp pain in his arm on the spot.
It took him a long time to come back to his senses.
“Ouch, that hurts…”
Ai Bishui supported Fang Cheng's shoulders with her arms and sat up, then touched the corners of her eyes with her fingers.
She looked up at the terrified boy in front of her, and felt a little relieved.
"Where am I... Um, can you help me find some clothes first?"
"I'm looking for it now, wait a moment..."
He got out of bed, rushed to open the closet and started looking through his clothes. At this time, another girl's voice suddenly sounded behind him.
"Hey Fang Cheng, I'm done washing, you go in and wash now..."
