Great Power Technology.

Chapter 503 The Real Boundary

(I just finished the flight today, I'm too tired, let's update a chapter first)
"All? Yaoyao, let me be clear, what is all?"

Chen Li looked at Yaoyao's face in shock. The expression on her face at this moment made everyone feel a little strange --- it was not something that a child who is more than 8 years old and not yet nine years old should show The look that came out.

It was obviously immature face, but revealed a strong indifference like that of an old man after reading a thousand sails.

The two extremely contradictory elements came together on her body, presenting a weird but breathtaking beauty.

Hearing Chen Li's question, Yaoyao was silent for a moment, then replied;
"That's all, Uncle Chen, I know what this experiment is about."

"Just like my mobile phone, its memory card is not enough, so you want to add another memory card to my mobile phone—or the hard disk on the computer."

She accurately stated the purpose of the experiment, and the expressions of everyone in the project team became more complicated after hearing her words.

".What else do you know?"

Chen Li was really afraid that she would say another sentence similar to "I know everything", because he knew better than anyone else that if Yaoyao really obtained and processed all the information they pre-stored, it would be a big deal for her. It won't be a good thing.

Because information is just information, but the processing process of information is affected by thinking logic, way of thinking, and even subjective cognition.

The information gap can be made up through BCI transmission technology, but thinking is the result of long-term training, and Yaoyao is still too young, and the thinking training she has undergone is still extremely limited. The information is combined and it is very possible to draw wrong conclusions.

For example, Chen Hao had been exposed to a very typical case before. At that time, he was still taking courses related to neurology. The teacher took them to a mental hospital and saw a mental patient who firmly believed that he was a mushroom.

This is not a tasteless joke, in fact, the patient demonstrated the homologous relationship between humans and mushrooms through extremely rigorous logic, and cited a large number of arguments to explain to everyone who asked him that he did not think he was now Mushrooms, but tens of thousands of years ago, their ancestors may have been a mushroom.

Therefore, he believes that he cannot abandon his ancestors, even if he cannot turn himself and his ancestors into mushrooms again, he should demand himself according to the standard of "mushrooms" in his daily life.

For example, try to survive in groups as much as possible, use smells and pheromones as methods of communication, and never have anything related to mushrooms and fungi on the dining table.

This kind of cognition developed more and more extreme, and finally one day, his family couldn't bear it and sent him to a mental hospital.

In addition, the so-called flat earth theory, quantum speed reading, and perpetual motion machines are all similar cognitive biases, and the main cause of such biases is the result of limited and correct information combined by wrong logic.

Seeing Chen Li's nervous expression, Yaoyao was obviously taken aback for a moment, and then replied:
"Nothing special. I can see a lot of information, but that information also seems to have a boundary. There are some things I want to continue to understand, and I can't find the result."

Chen Li let out a long sigh of relief, it seemed that his caution was indeed necessary.

In this test, he did not let Yaoyao directly access the Internet through the BCI transmission system as originally planned, but manually screened some factual information points and pre-stored them in the BCI system.

That is to say, the information that Yaoyao can recall is actually only those in the hard disk of the BCI system.

The total amount of data will not exceed 400MB.

Thinking of this, Chen Li smiled self-deprecatingly——his subconscious still had a certain fear of this technology, which also caused him to overestimate the impact of technology to some extent.

Yes, information is just information. The essence of this technology is just a kind of "storage and query". Just go up.

"That's good Yaoyao, what you said is too scary. Well, Sister Chuya will ask you some other questions. After you answer her questions, we will collect the results, and today's test can be over."

Yaoyao on the chair nodded calmly. At this time, probably because her attention was attracted by Chen Hao, the amount of data transmitted in the neural pathways in the BCI transmission system was reduced, and the age-related look on her face The aura of inconsistency has also faded a little.

The 400MB of knowledge covered a wide range, including history, literature, mathematics, physics, etc. Chuya asked typical questions one by one, and Yaoyao answered the answers smoothly.

Everything was just as they expected—or, a little smoother, but not beyond comprehension.

Yaoyao's words were like an insignificant episode, although it caused some waves, it didn't have much impact on the overall situation.

After more than half an hour, Chuya had finished asking all the questions on the list, and then she randomly checked some relatively vague information that had not been marked, and the answers were also satisfactory.

"Great, Yaoyao. Alright, that's all for today's experiment. Come on, I'll help you take off the equipment, and you can go back to rest later."

While talking, Chen Li signaled Zhu Xuan to disconnect the device, but when the latter was typing on the keyboard and sitting to collect and sort out the last information, ready to disconnect safely, Yaoyao suddenly asked:
"Uncle Chen, can I ask a few questions first?"

Chen Li was stunned for a moment, then replied with a smile:
"Of course, Yaoyao, what do you want to ask?"

Yaoyao hesitated for a moment, then said:

"I would like to ask the reason why the over-exploitation of silver in the Western world led to the decline of the Ming Dynasty. Fundamentally speaking, was it because the transportation capacity of the Ming Dynasty was insufficient at that time?"

"In the Ming Dynasty, this issue is not that simple. It has to be analyzed from all aspects of society at that time. As you think, the lack of transportation capacity did lead to excess silver accumulation in coastal areas, which exacerbated the uneven distribution of resources and local price increases. Finally After a series of transmissions, the consequences of land annexation were finally produced."

"If you connect the mining of silver in the West with the fact that the Ming Dynasty declined, it probably follows such a logic."

Chen Li himself is a very curious person, and he has been exposed to a lot of knowledge in different disciplines. He can also explain a few sentences about the question raised by Yaoyao based on his own experience.

However, being able to ask such a question proves that Yaoyao not only saw the knowledge through the BCI system, but also had some thoughts of her own in the process, which is a good sign.

After all, it is useless just to have a huge hard drive. A computer system needs its central processing unit to function.

Chen Li was about to praise Yaoyao, but suddenly noticed Chu Ya's expression.

The information revealed in that expression was not a compliment.

"what happened?"

Chen Li asked suspiciously.

Chu Ya shook her head slightly, and replied with some hesitation:
"In the database we randomly grabbed, there is no such information as you discussed."

"No? What do you mean?"

Chu Ya gave Zhu Xuan a look, and the latter directly opened the database file in the system, and then entered the keyword "Baiyin" to search, but there were only a few results that appeared in front of their eyes.

There is only one result that happened during the Ming Dynasty in China.

Moreover, it was not mentioned when explaining the history of the Ming Dynasty, but it was mentioned in the history of Western industrial development.

The focus of this article is the Potosi silver mine in Peru. After reading the whole article, Chen Li took a deep breath.

In this article, the Ming Dynasty is not mentioned in the whole text.

However, Yaoyao connected the two with great certainty——even directly formed an "axiom-style" conclusion in her mind!

Chen Li took a breath, then looked at Yaoyao with some doubts and asked:
"Yaoyao, do you have any other questions?"

"Yes, I still have a lot of questions."

"For example, if dark matter cannot be detected, how do we know it exists; for example, why does time have a direction, why is entropy increase irreversible; The symbolist literature has no clear source"

Listening to Yaoyao's eloquent words, Chen Li's mouth opened wider and wider, and then, at a certain moment, he suddenly understood everything.

Yes, what Yaoyao said "she knows everything", this sentence is not wrong.

What she learned from the BCI system is not just the knowledge and information itself, but the connections between them.

The connection between things is the basis of all scientific research.

Now, the information contained in the database they use is still extremely limited and rough, but as an experimenter, Yaoyao has been able to further deduce new conclusions from these limited information, if one day, she really intervenes in consciousness What about the Internet?

With the influx of massive information, is there a possibility that she, or human beings, will become an "omniscient" in a sense? ——
No, this idea is too advanced, and the amount of information required should also exceed the limit of the processing capacity of the human brain.

But if she changed her way of thinking and only considered a very small area, then she could definitely exhaust all possible connections in this limited area at an extremely fast speed!
To verify this, in fact, only a small problem is needed.

A question that is not mentioned in a database, but can be inferred through information fusion.

Chen Li let out a breath slowly, and then asked:
"Yaoyao, you know, according to the current physics theory, the movement of objects cannot exceed the speed of light."

"Then, assuming that there is a train traveling at 0.8 times the speed of light, and a bullet with a speed of 0.3 times the speed of light is fired in the same direction on this train, what should be the speed of this bullet?"

Yaoyao on the opposite side frowned and thought for a few seconds, then replied:
"If this is the case, according to the theory of relativity, when approaching the speed of light, the speed superposition method of objects should be different."

"That said, there should be a new way to calculate speed Uncle Chen, I don't know what it is."

"But I feel like, if that's the case, there's got to be some kind of energy being offset."

"Does that mean that in our world, there are still some things that are contrary to what we see?"

Chen Li turned his head to Chu Ya and Zhu Xuan, his eyes were extremely solemn.

In fact, when he raised this question, he wanted only one answer, that is, when the speed of light is close to the speed, the formula for calculating the speed is different from that when the speed is low.

This point, Yaoyao answered almost without thinking.

Then, she even further brought up a fact, but Chen Li had no idea of ​​the concept she could come up with.

antimatter.

And antimatter is an important factor in the Dirac equation used to explain the theorem "the speed of light cannot be surpassed" in the special theory of relativity.

Obviously, Yaoyao didn't know how this process was realized—her mathematical foundation could not support her to complete this part of the calculation, but she did "see" the hidden connection.

And such a possibility is probably the real boundary of BCI transmission technology.

(End of this chapter)