Ever since the data processor completely recorded the image of Ai Bin that Aisen dreamed of, Aisen has cried secretly many times. Since losing contact with his twin brother 6 years ago, although he has seen Ai Bin countless times in his dreams,
Bin, but those were all blurry and fleeting. Now, he can finally look at each other seriously through video in reality. This feeling is both beautiful and bitter.
Aisen copied a video to Easton and watched it over and over alone at night. With every expression and movement of Ai Bin, his consciousness began to revolve around every word Ai Bin said.
From the time Ai Bin first reminded him of the intrusion of extrasolar stars into the solar system to now, every time he received the "language" or message transmitted from his mind, it was very brief and clear, but he seemed to have reservations every time, just like brothers.
The two of us played guessing games when we were kids, half-talking and letting the other person think.
Aisen knew that Ai Bin now seemed to be in another "space", and it was impossible to communicate with him in the same way as when he was a child. Moreover, everything Ai Bin said, every set of information passed to him
They all have strong directivity, and some have even been verified. He knows that although he can only obtain this information through dreams, all of this is not as simple as a dream!
"Zhuang Zhou dreamed of butterflies?!" He suddenly thought of this allusion in "Zhuangzi: Equality of Things".
Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he turned into a butterfly, a lifelike butterfly. He felt so happy and comfortable that he forgot that he was Zhuang Zhou. After waking up from the dream, he found that he was still Zhuang Zhou. The reality of the dream made him fall into confusion about reality.
Confused - did he turn into a butterfly in a dream, or did the butterfly dream that he turned into Zhuang Zhou? If the dream is real enough, people have no ability to know that they are dreaming. Although in both reality and dream,
, Zhuang Zhou is Zhuang Zhou, and a butterfly is a butterfly. They are not the same. But in Zhuang Zhou's view, they are just a phenomenon, a form of movement of "Tao", and a stage of operation. Therefore, Zhuangzi put forward
A philosophical proposition - how do people understand reality? Can people accurately distinguish between reality and illusion, as well as the materialization of life and death?!
"If dreams are real, can reality be illusory? Of course it is impossible! However, if reality is not illusory but real, and illusions are just dreams, then the intersection between dreams and reality that I have experienced
How to explain it?! Perhaps, as Zhuangzi expressed, dreams and reality are just different forms and stages of the existence of all things in the world? In other words, they are different spaces?!"
Aisen felt that he seemed to understand a little bit.
He had a sudden idea and immediately took out a pen and paper. After thinking for a while, he wrote a line on the paper:
"Ai Bin, I believe that your world is real, and my world is also real; the spaces where the two of us exist coexist in parallel, and the two can communicate through the exchange of ideas! Ideas are spatial.
Another dimension!"
After finishing writing, he felt that there was still a faint impulse in his heart, so he picked up the pen and added a paragraph at the end:
"If what I said is right, please send a message to my mobile phone as you did before, even if you send any symbol!"
Eisen put down his pen, looked at the few lines he had written, and prayed silently in his heart. He did not deny that his idea was too weird and almost full of superstition, but he was determined to try it. In other words, it was something in his heart.
Inexplicable thoughts drove him to do this.
In less than a minute, the phone rang "ding dong" as expected. That was the text message alert tone!
Eisen went to grab the phone nervously and panicked. Due to his excitement, his hand slipped and he dropped the phone to the ground, and the panel also cracked.
However, what he saw was not the reply from Ai Bin, but the greeting from Ding Yushi:
"Eisen, have you rested?"
Eisen sighed deeply, hesitated for a moment, and replied with two words: "Not yet."
"I'll come over here."
Before Aisen could think about whether he needed to reply anything, the doorbell rang.
"I can't sleep and want to talk to you." Ding Yushi said as soon as she entered the door.
"Sit down." Eisen responded casually, but then felt that he seemed a little lazy, so he continued: "I just can't sleep either. Want a cup of coffee? I bought some instant ones."
"No, that will make it even more difficult to sleep." Ding Yushi smiled. She glanced at the note addressed to Ai Bin that Aisen put on the table. "What is this?" She picked it up and looked at it. "That's just what I wrote randomly..." Aisen was a little embarrassed.
Ding Yushi held the piece of paper and looked at it for a long time before slowly putting it down, staring at him: "Has he contacted you again? Or do you have any ideas?"
"It's my own feeling. I also want to see if he can receive it."
"Strange! I also had an indescribable thought just now, but it's just not clear yet... It's exactly what you meant - I was referring to the previous paragraph."
"Do you agree that parallel spaces exist?"
"Many people have put forward this point of view. Although it cannot be proven scientifically at present, many things in reality seem to tell us that it exists. However, you said that 'idea is another dimension of space'. What do you think about this?
How do you understand it?"
"I just came up with this idea..." Eisen replied while thinking, "People have been saying that the other dimension of the four-dimensional space-time is 'time', and even Einstein thought so. However, if according to people's current understanding of
Interpretation of dimensions, zero-dimensional space is just a point, one-dimensional space is just a line, two-dimensional space is a plane, and three-dimensional space is the real three-dimensional world. So, why does the four-dimensional space have to use 'time' as an extra dimension?
?"
"Because everything is constantly changing, and time records its changes."
"This logic is a bit far-fetched and difficult to justify. Do you think that the point in the zero-dimensional space is meaningful? No! It is just a completely abstract point without any scale and cannot be seen at all; if it can be seen by us, then
Even if it has scale, it cannot be considered zero-dimensional. What about the line in one-dimensional space? It is also a completely abstract line and we cannot see it at all; because although it has length, it cannot have width. As long as it has width, it
It cannot be counted as one dimension. The plane of two-dimensional space is also abstract, because it cannot have any thickness, otherwise it is not two-dimensional. People can only use projection to represent the existence of two-dimensional space, but it only exists in
Within the scope of 'understanding', only three-dimensional space can be seen and touched by us. Expressed in philosophical concepts, it is material and is the physical object and field that constitutes all objects in the universe."
"You are only talking about the scale, not that it changes with time."
"You're right! But I want to ask, since time has an effect on three-dimensional space, doesn't it have any effect on zero-dimensional space, one-dimensional space and two-dimensional space?"
"..." Ding Yushi couldn't answer for the moment. She really hadn't thought about this question. She had always agreed that zero-dimensional space, one-dimensional space and two-dimensional space were just abstract concepts, so she had never thought about time and them.
The relationship between.
"Zero-dimensional space is too abstract and I can't express it well," Eisen continued. "But at least I think one-dimensional space and two-dimensional space should also be related to time. For example, this line in one-dimensional space is
It is composed of countless zero-dimensional points. When God draws this line, as time goes by, he will continue to draw new zero-dimensional points, thus making this line segment longer. Therefore, even in one-dimensional space
, will also change with the change of time, which is the relationship between time and it. Similarly, the two-dimensional space is even more so. Then the question arises: if time can be considered as an extra dimension of space, why can it only
What if it acts on three-dimensional space and raises it to four-dimensional space, but cannot act on one-dimensional or two-dimensional space to raise them? In fact, in one-dimensional or two-dimensional space, no matter how abstract they are, 'time
'Theoretically, it should exist, but people don't think that adding 'time' to one dimension becomes two dimensions, and adding 'time' to two dimensions becomes three dimensions. Instead, they believe that one dimension can only be added to another.
The direction dimension can become two-dimensional, and two-dimensional can only become three-dimensional by adding another direction dimension, but this direction dimension is not the direction of 'time'. If 'time' is a dimension, then is this the same as the one-dimensional sum?
Two dimensions 'unfair'?"
"So?"
"So, I think what we call 'space-time' is only a narrow concept, which only exists in response to the action of time; and in a broad sense, whether it is one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional or multi-dimensional, it should be called '
Space' rather than 'space-time'. 'Time' cannot be counted as an extra dimension of the four-dimensional space at all! Einstein and the others got it wrong!"
"So you think that 'idea' may be another dimension of space?"
"At least this is one direction for us to think and understand multi-dimensional space." Eisen became more and more excited as he talked. "If we identify 'idea' as another dimension of space, then multi-dimensional space can be understood as: it is composed of countless
Parallel space is a space that can only be interacted with and 'traveled through' through the thoughts of a certain person or a specific group, and cannot be simply understood as the so-called 'time and space' composed of four, five or more dimensions."<
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"You mean that Ai Bin and the 'marginal space' exist in another parallel space of this 'multidimensional space' you call it? And you can just communicate with them through your personal thoughts?"
"It can be understood this way." Eisen sighed, and after a moment's pause, his speaking speed began to slow down. "The philosophical thinking we have accepted before is that matter and consciousness, or existence and thinking, are the two major components that form the world.
The main reason. We come into contact with objective things through our sense organs and thinking functions, resulting in various consciousnesses and concepts. Therefore, everything we see in the world, or our understanding, interpretation and feelings of everything in the world, are all determined by our respective
Determined by your heart, what you think in your heart is what the world looks like in your eyes. The so-called 'appearance comes from the heart'. This is not idealism, it is an objective phenomenon. Human beings live in a four-dimensional space composed of three-dimensional objects and 'ideas'
Here, everyone observes three-dimensional things driven by his own independent thoughts, forms a "three-dimensional projection" of the observed things in his brain, and ultimately forms his understanding of everything in the world, or what is called a worldview. This worldview is actually relatively independent.
, everyone has their own world view. For a group, the leaders of society need to first unify their ideas to a certain extent and achieve long-term solidification through guidance, education, etc., so as to form a unified idea so that they can work together in this world.
Driven by a unified idea to observe and understand things, only in this way can the same 'projection' of the observed things be formed in everyone's brain, and ultimately form a common world view of the group. Individuals are driven by their own independent ideas to observe the world, and the group
They are driven to observe the world by thoughts that have been unified by the leader in advance. The difference between the two is what kind of thoughts he or they are driven by. The same thing is that they both eventually form a projection of the observed things in their respective brains.
'!"
"I seem to understand, but what you said is still a bit confusing!"
"Let's take an example. You are looking at me right now. You see what I look like, what I'm wearing, you hear what I say, and you can also see my actions. But let me ask you, do you know the door behind you?
Is there anything in the corner? Don't look back -" Aisen stopped Ding Yushi's instinctive turning back in time.
"How do I know if I don't see it?!"
"By the way, because your mind is driving you to observe me at the moment, but it is not driving you to look behind you, to look at that corner. So this is like the song 'I am the only one in your world'..." "That's called 'Only You in My World'!" Ding Yushi snickered.
"Anyway, it means the same thing." Eisen still looked serious. "But if you are sitting where I am now, you can see a charging plug and a small mop in the corner. The three-dimensional space that your brain accepts now , only what you see. What you can’t see beside you and everything behind you is like nothing to you.”
"Isn't it right?! Although I can't see it now, I know that there is a bed, bedding, and pillows in your room, and there is a wardrobe next to it with your clothes. I even know that your clothes are What style, what color? Isn’t this something that actually exists in this three-dimensional space?”
"That is not what you see now, but what you have seen before and it is still in your memory. It is a memory, but it may not be real. If, I change the clothes in the cabinet before you come in or If you take it out and put it somewhere else, then the conclusion you draw based on your own memory will be wrong."
"Isn't this related to time again?"
"Please don't change the concept. The three-dimensional space that your mind allows you to see now does not have that wardrobe. If you insist on moving to the space where the wardrobe is, then you might as well turn around and open it!"
Ding Yushi stood up pretentiously, walked to the closet, opened the closet door, looked at it, and said, "I'm right! Aren't these the clothes I know? They really exist!"< /p>
"Don't look back now." Eisen made some small movements and then asked: "Do you know what I just did?"
"I don't know."
"That's right, because you can't see what's happening behind you - I hid the note to Ai Bin, didn't you know?"
"This doesn't seem to mean anything." Ding Yushi closed the cabinet door and turned back to her seat. "Although I didn't see it, not all of the things you mentioned happened in our current three-dimensional space. Yeah!"
"Now please look at the corner of the door again."
Ding Yushi looked back and said doubtfully: "There is nothing there! Why did you tell me there were charging plugs and small mops?"
"That's because I deliberately guided your thoughts to make your brain accept things you can't see. Because I am the leader of this space now! I tell you this, and you believe me, so even if you don't observe , they also exist in your consciousness!"
"What if I plan to observe?"
"Then I will ask similar questions to other places you have not observed."
"Why do I feel that what you are saying is a bit like the 'Schrödinger's Cat' of quantum mechanics - only when you open the box can you know whether the cat is dead or alive?"
"That's it. Although 'Schrödinger's Cat' is very abstract, it illustrates a truth: Only by observing can you know the state of things. Human thoughts are in a quantum state, and we must act under its influence.
Observation can form a three-dimensional projection of things in the brain, and this has nothing to do with time. So, 'idea' is another dimension!"