On the [Lightning Train] heading to Rainbow Castle, Chabron looked out the window.
A numbing sensation surged to his scalp, and the extreme cold that penetrated his bone marrow spread across his back.
"In Rioli's universe, the pi ratio is different from the Earth's universe."
——When he learned that the password to open the door was not common knowledge in this world, this idea had already appeared in Chabron's mind, like the devil's whisper in the wind.
3141592653······
The irregular sequence of numbers is exactly the code used by visitors from a foreign land to distinguish their fellow countrymen - a strange number derived from their common dream, an infinite non-repeating decimal.
Chabron originally wanted to ask the black-haired girl Mera next to him, asking this priest of knowledge who has seen many anomalies, what is the circumference of pi?
But just as his question reached his lips, it stopped and was blocked by his lips.
It was not fear or any other emotion that hindered his speech, but Chabron simply could not ask the question in the common tongue.
He searched through every common language word in his mind, but could not find the word "pi".
When Chabron was thinking about this question, the memory of this body already gave the answer:
The circumference of a circle is always three times its diameter.
Chabron knew this secret of the world from the beginning - because it was not a secret at all - this content was buried deep in his mind as an unquestionable common sense. Like all other taken-for-granted common sense, without in-depth examination
Thinking goes unnoticed at all.
Just like the volume of a cube is the third power of its side length, rather than 3.02 power or 2.98 power. There is no need to define a special mathematical vocabulary to describe a positive integer within 10.
Chabron thought: Pi can be calculated by tangent. If even the circumferences are different, then is the Pythagorean theorem also wrong in this world? In Riemannian space, pi is less than π. Could it be that he is in a state after traveling through time?
Is it a universe similar to Riemannian space?
No, no, he improvised several theorems and formulas to compare his memories on earth with common sense in this world.
The few laws and axioms that Chabron could come up with in a short period of time were still the same as those on the earth. Only this series of strange numbers taunted him. In theory, the young man could also explore the truth through a large number of other mathematical methods, but his brain was chaotic due to the impact.
I don't support him doing this.
At this moment, Chabron truly believed that Duncan was a stranger from the same place as him. In the initial imagination of the handsome blond boy, the code to identify the identity would be "Odd changes to even, the symbols look at the quadrants"/"Heavenly King Cover"
Rhymes like "Earth Tiger, Pagoda Town River Demon".
However, the dwarf mage goes one step further. The code he uses transcends nationality, race and language, is not limited to slang of any cultural circle or language, and is above the vibrations emitted by the dispersed air packets through the throat, tongue and lips.
He chose meaningless notes in the Creator's song of creation.
3141592653……
The aboriginal people in the world of Rioli have no way of knowing the profound meaning of this string of numbers, and will only mistakenly think that 31415 is a series of numbers that make people look for patterns. Only visitors from a foreign land know that this is a beautiful mathematical song in their common dream.
This endless string of non-recurring decimals transcends race, language, writing and cultural circles, and is the "whale song" used by strangers to identify each other's fellows.
Theoretically, if other time travelers exist, they are most likely to be players who have been exposed to "Nightfall" - they are obviously born in modern society, and usually have at least a computer, and most of them have basic mathematical knowledge. (Nevertheless, Chabron believes that this
It’s best to only take the question to 3.1415926 and stop there, after all, many people don’t remember the last two)
Even if the human civilization on earth has been destroyed and rebuilt, even if the people who traveled to the world of Rioli are alien races that belong to the same universe as the earth, these numbers are still proof of their illusory dreams of past lives.
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If even the underlying mathematical laws are different, how can the world function normally?
Chabron looked at the passing scenery outside the train window, gently stretched out his hand, and then his hand was blocked by the window glass - maybe the electromagnetic force prevented the two objects from occupying the same space, or it was stopped by something else.
At least the optic nerve and auditory nerve have been telling him that this world is so normal. Without the intervention of magic and other supernatural elements, the physical laws look almost the same as those on the earth:
·When cold objects and hot objects are placed together, the cold objects will heat up rather than cool down.
·When Chabron rides a horse, there will be no embarrassing situation like "the horse walks away and the person falls to the ground" because there is no friction.
·For any event that occurs in the human world, the cause always occurs before the effect. There is a connection between cause and effect and it is not all accidental.
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Or is this so-called normality just an illusion? It's a veil used to hide the dark and weird nature of the world.
Chabron could not guarantee that he was not the poor man in "Firebird: Resurrection" who regarded the robot as the only human being in the world; or that he was the male protagonist in "Song of Saya" who recognized the squirming stinking piece of meat as the girl Saya.
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Perhaps, Chabarron is now a group of tentacles with eyeballs on the top, or a mass of squirming and screaming flesh in non-Euclidean space, or other blasphemous forms that cannot be described by existing languages.
It experiences the world based on strange senses that were incomprehensible to the human brain in the past - not vision or hearing. The world in front of us composed of water, light, air, and soil is nothing more than an illusion of the brain's self-deception.
The world of Rioli uses some units that are consistent with those on the earth - such as feet and minutes. However, Chabron only realized through his own subjective perception that these units seemed to have the same meaning as the units of the same name on the earth.
In fact, Chabron was unable to bring any rulers or clocks from the earth to this magical world. How to prove that these units are really the same and not just illusions under subjective perception?
If the laws of physics and mathematics are the same, he can at least measure the wavelength of light by double-slit interference, measure the speed of sound with the rotating gear method, test the universal gravitational constant with the Cavendish torsion scale experiment, and perform conversions based on known results on the earth. Re-convert each
An earth unit is brought into another world.
But on the basis of different physical laws, if everything in this world is larger or smaller, faster or slower than the earth, how can he know it when he is "in this mountain"?
Perhaps the centuries he experienced in the world of Rioli were just a moment on Earth. When he returned to Earth after experiencing several epochs in Rioli, his hometown had just entered the next Planck time.
Or, the reality may be completely opposite - his one breath on this earth was the entire time from the Big Bang to the heat death of the universe in the previous life. When he slowly exhaled the air in his mouth, the universe where the earth is located simultaneously
Quickly exhale the airflow called "order" and "counter-entropy". When the exhalation ends and the air pressure difference in the lungs becomes consistent with the air pressure difference in the outside world, the entire universe where the earth is located has also completed its breathing, and caused
The temperature in every corner of the universe is the same cold.
In the final analysis, Chabron was unable to find a way to connect to the earth. The only thing that proved the existence of the earth was his memory and the talent of the gods. No matter crossed the dimensional barrier and came to this world. In his body, everything from
From a nerve cell to every water molecule, they are made of elements from this world.
The blond boy stopped thinking and drove away those disturbing thoughts.
Chabron gently raised his head and looked out the car window at the blue sky with white clouds drifting across——
