Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 192: Time Reorganization

The Linghu Building has a strange name and a strange shape. It looks like a cunning fox, with only its head visible and its tail not. The building's curved waist seems to be about to collapse, but it is still so upright. This building is at least 200 meters tall.

Linghu Guang and a group of people were already waiting at the entrance of the building. Beside Linghu Guang was a tall and beautiful woman in a purple dress. She glanced at the yellow sports car a few times, then looked at Linghu Guang, who shook his head at her.

Chu Xiaolu and Pan Na got out of the car one after the other. The woman in purple glanced at them, and when Zhou Yuan stepped off the car and his face and body came out, her eyes lit up with an unusual light. Linghu Guang nodded towards the woman in purple, a smile on his face, and she smiled back.

"Brother Zhou, sisters, welcome to X-WORLD Company." Linghu Guang led the way, and his group stepped forward to greet the three. Today, he was quite different from his previous playboy image; he was wearing a suit, his hair was buzz cut, and even his mustache was gone.

"Brother Zhou, let me introduce you to my sister, Linghu Ying."

Zhou Yuan reached out and grasped Linghu Ying's soft, fair hand. "Miss Linghu, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Mr. Zhou, I never imagined you were so young and accomplished." Linghu Ying held Zhou Yuan's hand tightly, looking directly at him with a seductive air.

"Hehe, Miss Linghu, you flatter me." Zhou Yuan withdrew his hand and chuckled awkwardly.

"Yingzi, these are Jay Chou's personal secretary and bodyguard, Sisters Pan Na and Chu Xiaolu."

"Greetings, sisters." Linghu Ying bowed and greeted them, and Pan Na and Chu Xiaolu also bowed in return.

"Jay Chou, ladies, let's go upstairs and chat."

Linghu Guang and his entourage stepped forward and led everyone into the building. This building indeed had a sci-fi feel of traveling through time. At the fox-shaped, streamlined corner, it seemed as if there was another world inside.

The group entered the building. Linghu and his sister, along with Zhou Yuan, took the elevator to a high floor. From the window, they could overlook the ground and nearby buildings. It was a huge conference room, where a beautiful woman wearing red-rimmed glasses was already seated. She was looking at a laptop and gesturing on the table.

"Professor Huo, still busy?" Linghu Guang greeted the bespectacled woman.

The woman with glasses seemed to have poor eyesight. She pushed up her glasses and finally responded. She immediately got up from her chair and waved to Zhou Yuan.

"Hi, hello, I'm Huo Jing." The bespectacled woman greeted Zhou Yuan and the others.

"Professor Huo, I have a surprise for you. Let me introduce you to Zhou Yuan, the president of GenAI."

"Huh?!" The bespectacled woman was very surprised, her eyes widening.

"Sister Jing, isn't President Zhou very young and accomplished? Just like you," Linghu Ying said with a giggle.

"Yes, that's right, I didn't expect that. Mr. Zhou, I'll definitely ask you for advice if I have any more questions in the future."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself, "This beautiful academic genius seems to be obsessed with science. She's constantly researching, it would be a miracle if her eyesight wasn't damaged."

"Professor Huo, how could I dare to accept such an honor? We can all learn from and exchange ideas with each other. I am just as interested in your time travel project as Young Master Linghu."

"Oh, really? That's great. My project feels like it's hit a dead end, and I'm hoping for some outside help to get me through this."

"Professor Huo, don't worry. President Zhou is a tech-savvy person. You've seen the videos of intelligent robots circulating online, haven't you?"

"Yes, to be honest, I was shocked when I first saw that video. I never imagined that such advanced technology existed in the world."

"Professor Huo, you flatter me. These research results are all thanks to my assistants and researchers. I only proposed the ideas and framework."

"That's quite remarkable."

"Professor Huo, President Zhou, we are all here, so let's get straight to the point."

"it is good."

"Professor Huo, as you know, the military and investors both hope your project can progress faster. What difficulties are you facing in your project plan? What technical challenges are there? What can we do to help?"

"Young Master Linghu, to sum it up, all the difficulties are concentrated on one technical point: long-term time travel. According to my calculations, it requires a very large amount of energy to activate the time machine."

"Okay, if I wanted to go back two hundred years, how much energy would that enormous amount be?"

"I've calculated that this energy is roughly equivalent to the energy that one sun radiates to the Earth's surface every second. This energy is about 17 trillion kilowatts, which is equivalent to 35,000 times the current total annual energy consumption of the world. In other words, we would need to store the current total energy for 35,000 years to send you back to 200 years ago."

Linghu Guang was dumbfounded. How could he possibly acquire such a massive amount of energy?

"Professor Huo, didn't you once claim to have sent a cat back twenty years?"

Huo Jing looked slightly embarrassed and rubbed her nose with her right hand. "Ms. Linghu, this was just a prank by one of the scientists in my project team. I have already clarified this matter in the news."

"Professor Huo, excuse me, I don't understand the theory of time travel and I have many questions. I hope you can give me some guidance."

"Mr. Zhou, you're too kind. Please go ahead."

"Professor Huo, what is the principle behind your time travel, or time machine?"

"Faster than light speed, to go back to the past or to the future."

Zhou Yuan was taken aback. Faster than light? This virtual universe has a constant speed limit on the speed of light. How could she exceed the speed of light? Even hyperspace travel is not true faster than light. It only greatly shortens the travel time, achieving a "faster than light" effect in a roundabout way. However, hyperspace travel does not have the function of time travel or going to the future. The faster than light that Huo Jing mentioned should not be hyperspace travel or warp drive.

"If I went back in time and killed my grandfather, wouldn't I cease to exist? And without myself, how could my future self travel back in time?"

Zhou Yuan deliberately created a "time paradox" to test Huo Jing.

"Yes, the grandfather paradox and the law of causality in time paradoxes. Regarding the current time travel paradoxes, the mainstream theory is the parallel universe hypothesis. This theory holds that time travel simply means going to a parallel world. If you go to a parallel world and kill your grandfather in that parallel world, then all events and influences related to you in that parallel world will disappear. Due to the unidirectional development of the timeline and the limitations of causality, time travelers in this world cannot return to the past or future of this world. Mr. Zhou, is that what you mean?"

Zhou Yuan nodded in agreement.

"Mr. Zhou, I'd like to ask you, what do you think time is?"

Zhou Yuan didn't try to show off, but simply said, "Professor Huo, I don't know much about these things. I recently read one of your books on time, titled 'The Reconfigurability of Quantum Time in Multidimensional Space.' Generally speaking, time is the continuity and sequence of the motion and change of matter that we perceive; time, space, and matter are inseparable. Most scholars believe that time and space together form four-dimensional spacetime, constituting the basic structure of the universe. Time and space are not absolute in measurement; the passage of time measured by an observer at different relative velocities or different points in spacetime structures will be different. Contemporary physics theory holds that time is continuous, uninterrupted, and has no quantum properties. However, Professor Huo, you believe that time is discontinuous and has quantum properties, and you boldly propose in your book that quantum time can be reconfigured in four-dimensional or even multidimensional space. Wait, Professor Huo, through multidimensional space, do you think it's possible to exceed the speed of light and reverse time?"

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, you are very smart." The beautiful professor looked at Zhou Yuan with a surprised expression. She thought that not many people could understand her book. Huo Jing couldn't help but become interested.

The other four remained silent, listening to the two discuss the "heavenly book".

Zhou Yuan lowered his head in deep thought. Although he had indeed pondered the issue of four-dimensional space or even higher-dimensional space in the Origin World before, he believed that four-dimensional space or even higher-dimensional space was very small, merely crammed into three-dimensional space, and had no practical significance.

Zhou Yuan's heart suddenly pounded, because he thought of hyperspace travel. He had always thought hyperspace travel was a three-dimensional spatial flip, but he still didn't understand this kind of spatial flip. He suddenly wondered if hyperspace travel could be achieved through a fourth dimension. In hyperspace travel, a powerful force field generator provides enormous energy, causing the four-dimensional space that was curled up in three-dimensional space to expand. This expanded four-dimensional space provides a "faster-than-light" passage.

Zhou Yuan felt a sense of sudden enlightenment, but he still had some doubts.

"Professor Huo, if a fourth dimension exists, as far as I know, this fourth dimension is extremely confined within three-dimensional space, and we simply cannot discover or utilize it."

"Yes, you are absolutely right. You should know that the speed of light in this universe is constant, and that light has wave-particle duality."

"Yes, Professor Huo."

"The reason why this universe is three-dimensional and the speed of light is constant is mainly related to the properties of light."

"Oh, could you elaborate?" Zhou Yuan couldn't help but look at this beautiful professor with newfound respect.

"Although light in this universe exhibits wave-particle duality, particle nature dominates the macroscopic world, resulting in a three-dimensional space and continuous, forward-moving time. In the microscopic world, wave nature dominates, and the quantum nature of light is fully manifested, making time discontinuous. The fourth dimension is a highly compressed micro-space dominated by wave nature. If I had enough energy, I could expand this highly compressed fourth dimension and rearrange and reorganize quantized time. Of course, rearranging and reorganizing time is just a vivid analogy; in reality, it involves adjusting the wave nature of light. This way, every probability event in the universe can be manipulated. Events that seem impossible in this world, which are actually events with extremely low probabilities, can occur, such as time reversal. I want to emphasize that since its inception, this universe has had infinitely many possible directions of development, and every event has infinitely many possibilities. However, under the constraints of the constant speed of light and the law of causality, which are dominated by the particle nature of light, those events with extremely low probabilities are compressed into four-dimensional or even higher-dimensional spaces. Those events with extremely high probabilities form the many parallel worlds we can imagine."

"But if the speed of light, which is dominated by particle properties, is constant, why is it determined by three-dimensional space rather than four-dimensional space?"

"Because this saves more resources!"

Zhou Yuan was greatly shocked by the amazing remarks of Professor Huo Jing, who summarized the three major mechanisms of this virtual universe: the constant speed of light, causality, and resource conservation (resource recycling). However, she probably did not know that this universe is actually virtual.