From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 478 A Sudden Crisis, a Crash of Runs
"If you want to understand the relationship between dimensions and space in multidimensional field theory, the easiest way is to first think about the relationship between point, line, surface, and body."

In Lin Xiao's office at Shangjing University, he is explaining the knowledge of multidimensional field theory to his graduate students in physics.

Although multidimensional field theory has been born for a long time, and has become a popular direction in frontier research in physics, it is still relatively new after all, so people's research on it is still in the preliminary exploration level.

Of course, this cannot stop more and more physicists and students from choosing this direction.

After all, for those who study physics, classical mechanics can allow them to explain most things that happen in this world, while quantum mechanics and relativity can allow them to explore the essential composition and all phenomena of the universe; while studying multidimensional fields On the other hand, it allows them to cross the three-dimensional space, or the universe in the narrow sense, to explore the universe in the general sense, that is, the conditions of each dimension of the universe they live in.

Imagining what a high-dimensional or low-dimensional world is like has not only become what physics likes to study recently, but also becomes what science fiction circles like to discuss.

As the pioneer of multidimensional field theory, Lin Xiao naturally attracted the attention of many physics students. Since he started recruiting graduate students in physics, a large number of students want to apply for his graduate programs every year, and then study with him. Multidimensional field theory, whether domestic or foreign.

There are even quite a few students who failed to stand out as his graduate students in the end, but still chose other physics professors in his school, and then came to him from time to time to ask related questions.

In this regard, Lin Xiao could only express helplessness. Although he repeatedly stated that he had no obligation to teach the students of these other professors, when these students came to ask him, he was always too embarrassed to refuse.

Just like now, although it was one of his students who asked him this question, there were several students from other professors listening beside him.

At this time, one of the students raised his hand and asked, "Professor, how should we imagine higher dimensions? If you say that a line is a one-dimensional space, a surface is a two-dimensional space, and a volume is a three-dimensional space." , what about the four-dimensional space? What is the four-dimensional space? How should we imagine the existence of the four-dimensional space?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "No, we don't need to imagine what this four-dimensional space looks like, because as three-dimensional us, we can never imagine what a four-dimensional space looks like."

"It's like a blind man touching an elephant. For blind people, they can still touch the elephant, and there is still room for imagination. However, our eyes have never seen the four-dimensional space, so the 'elephant' in the four-dimensional space, you will never be able to see it." Don't think about being able to guess its full appearance, of course, don't try it, otherwise, it will be a photoshoot."

Listening to Lin Xiao's explanation, several students nodded, "We understand."

"Well, although the multidimensional field theory gives us the opportunity to study other dimensional worlds, it is better for you to study the theory of this dimension for your current stage, because if you study this dimension, at least you can There are quantum mechanics and relativity for your reference."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something, and then said with a smile: "Oh! Although the physics community has not completely changed its mind, today's quantum mechanics and relativity should be called the theory of everything."

Several students laughed and said, "This is all thanks to your professor!"

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hands, "That's it, I just completed the more critical steps."

These graduate students from the physics department immediately showed more admiration. They were joking. It was just a few words, but in fact it meant the unification of quantum mechanics and relativity.

Regarding this point, not many physicists in the past thought that physics could develop so fast.

But Lin Xiao made it a reality, so for these physics students, Lin Xiao is undoubtedly like a living Newton and Einstein in their eyes, and he is the idol of all of them.

At this time, another student asked: "By the way, Professor Lin, can you tell me more about Qiankun No. [-]? Has the computing power of Qiankun No. [-] really reached such a powerful level?"

Hearing the words "Qiankun No. [-]", Lin Xiao frowned.

A month ago, he, Kong Huaan, and Pang Wei were looking for loopholes in the Qiankun No. [-] operating system, as if they were still vivid in his memory.

Although until now, he is still very concerned about that strange incident at the beginning, but as far as it is now, a month has passed, and nothing strange or similar to information attacks has happened in this world. Let him relax for a while.

However, he also asked Kong Huaan to leave a data monitoring program inside the operating system of Qiankun No. [-], and then used this monitoring program to observe the computing power usage of Qiankun No. [-], but nothing abnormal was found.

But the only problem is that Qiankun-[-] will always occupy [-]% of the computing power, which has not changed.

It's just that the current Qiankun No. [-] has basically no chance to restart, because it has been officially put into use, and in this case, it will not be allowed to stop working, unless it is completely powered off. , so now there is no chance to go and see if the last one percent of computing power can be "taken back" by restarting again.

"professor?"

His recollection aroused the doubts of the student who asked him this question, so he asked aloud.

"Oh!" Lin Xiao came back to his senses, and then said with a smile: "Of course, this is true. The huge computing power brought by 100 qubits is the sum of all the computing power on the planet."

"And such a huge computing power has already been mastered by us."

"Then...Professor, the computing power of Qiankun No. [-] is so powerful, wouldn't it be easy to use it to hack into other people's computers?"

Lin Xiao immediately smiled and said, "So, didn't we declare at the United Nations that we would never use Qiankun-[-] first if no one else tried to hack into our network?"

Several students suddenly laughed, this sentence, they are really too familiar.

Lin Xiao smiled, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, go ahead, continue your own studies, don't chat with me, especially the two of you, when your own tutor will come to me again to complain about me stole his students."

The two students he was talking about scratched their heads in embarrassment, and then said, "Sorry, Professor Lin, I will definitely do it next time!"

Lin Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry and waved his hands, next time for sure?
He didn't believe it, and then drove away these students and started his own business, which is to study the knowledge of artificial intelligence that the system rewarded him at the beginning, especially the content about artificial intelligence self-awareness.

He wants to find a way to actively discover the self-awareness of artificial intelligence from this.

Since you can't passively discover it through some signs, you can only try to take the initiative.

However, because there is a lot of content in this part, and he doesn't have time to study this matter every day, he hasn't read all the content yet.

But just when he was about to start his research, another student of his ran over. This student was also a physics graduate student of his, so Lin Xiao thought it was just a few students who ran over to him to ask him about the problem. Knowledge about multidimensional field theory.

It's just that when he looked up and saw his student's expression, he couldn't help being stunned, because the student's face was very anxious, as if something big had happened.

So he asked suspiciously: "Wen Yong, what's the matter? Did something happen?"

Wen Yong immediately said very anxiously: "Professor, the money in my bank card suddenly disappeared!"

"I really can't help it, so I came here to find you."

Lin Xiao frowned immediately.

"The money in your bank card is missing? Why didn't you see it?"

Then Wen Yong told Lin Xiao all the details.

Lin Xiao finally understood the whole situation.

Wen Yong's bank account has more than 3 yuan. Of course, as Lin Xiao's student, there is usually a lot of money in the bank card. As long as you can save money, you are not the kind of moonlight family.

And when Wen Yong was going to buy something a week ago, he unexpectedly found that his payment failed because there was no money in his bank card.

But obviously this is impossible, because what he bought was a pair of sneakers worth a few hundred dollars, so it should not be possible for this to happen.

However, when he checked his balance, he found in a panic that all his money was gone, not even a transfer record, but the past consumption records clearly indicated that he still had more than 3 balance.

So he thought it was a network problem or an error in the banking system, so he waited for a day, but the next day, his money still did not come back, so he contacted the bank staff, and the bank staff knew The seriousness of this situation indicates that the cause will be investigated. However, when he asked again in the past few days, the bank staff replied to him that this matter is still under investigation.

But at this time, Wenyong had been borrowing other people's money for several days, because he didn't want to tell his family members so that they would not worry, so he chose to call the police, but who would have thought that the police would call the police again today? He replied that this matter cannot be dealt with for the time being, and he was asked to contact the bank to deal with it, because there was no sign that his money was defrauded or transferred away, so he could not file a case, so he had to go to the bank to deal with it.

As for this situation, Wen Yong had no choice but to come to his mentor, that is, Lin Xiaolai to deal with it. In his opinion, his mentor, as the chief scientist of the country, obviously possessed enough energy to handle this situation for him. thing.

After Lin Xiao heard all the story, he stretched out his hand and groped for his chin.

Money, suddenly disappeared?

Don't even have a transfer record?
Obviously, whatever the case may be, this sort of thing is serious enough to be taken seriously.

Private property is sacred and inviolable, which has become one of the most basic principles of human beings following the rise of capitalism. Although it has changed to a certain extent today, this idea is still deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In addition, not to mention the impact this incident may have on society.

He stood up, pulled Wen Yong to a corner, and asked, "Have you publicized this matter on the Internet?"

"Not yet." Wen Yong shook his head, and then asked again: "Should I do this?"

Lin Xiao waved his hand, "Don't do that, just wait for the news."

Then he took out his wallet, took out all the money in it, about 500 yuan, and handed it to Wen Yong.

"You can use the money first during this time, and just ask me when you run out."

Wen Yong's eyes turned red immediately, "Professor, this..."

"Just take it, you're a big man, don't be so hypocritical." Lin Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I'm going to ask you about this now, remember, don't talk about it everywhere." thing."

Wen Yong took the money and nodded heavily: "Yes! I know the professor!"

Lin Xiao said no more, and then quickly left here, and a man in a black suit in his office quickly followed Lin Xiao and asked, "Chief Lin, do you want to arrange a car?"

"Well, it's arranged. I have a question and I need to ask you Guoan after I get on the bus." Lin Xiao said.

"Okay." The national security officer responded, then pressed his ears and said a few words in a low voice.

Then when Lin Xiao came downstairs, an ordinary-looking Audi appeared at the intersection.

After Lin Xiao got into the car, there was another person sitting in the back row, who was Qi Shangao.

After the car started, Qi Shangao asked, "Chief, do you have anything to ask?"

"Well." Lin Xiao didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Has there been any major incidents in the banking system recently?"

"I didn't expect you to know the chief." Speaking of this question, Qi Shangao's expression suddenly became serious, "A week ago, there were about 174 cases where the balance suddenly disappeared across the country. As for the detailed reasons, It's still under investigation, but the question basically points to the possibility of a very sophisticated hacker."

"Hacker?" Hearing these two words, Lin Xiao couldn't help being taken aback, "How can a hacker have this ability?"

Qi Shangao smiled wryly, and said, "Who knows? Now some people claim that someone has found the proof of P=NP. To be honest, if you hadn't falsified this question some time ago, the chief, you would have brought this thing a lot of attention. Otherwise, no one would think about it so quickly."

Lin Xiao was speechless for a moment: "I've been falsified, and they still think that someone has found the proof?"

"It is inevitable that some stupid people think that they are the smartest." Qi Shangao smiled, and then said: "However, in a word, this is the situation. We are still investigating who this hacker is."

"Oh, by the way, this has also happened in other countries. After statistics, a total of 1024 such incidents have been found."

"1024?"

"Is there a problem? Chief."

"Oh, just thinking of it mathematically, 1024 is 2 to the tenth power."

Lin Xiao smiled.

"Hehe, that's true, but this number is probably just random." Qi Shangao said.

"I hope so."

Lin Xiao nodded silently, "But, is this news suppressed?"

"Our domestic situation is suppressed, but some countries abroad are not." Qi Shangao shook his head, and then said with a smile: "Of course, the impact on foreign countries is not great. The population of foreign countries is not as large as ours, oh, except for India. On the other hand, there are more than 200 cases in India, and most countries like Europe and the United States have less than [-] cases."

"All in all, the more populous a place, the more cases will appear, and if the number of people does not exceed one hundred, the impact will be controllable."

"En." Lin Xiao nodded slightly.

He knows very well how much damage it will cause to the entire human society once the news is not suppressed and becomes uncontrollable.

When people start to distrust banks, there will be the possibility of a run on the bank, and the vast majority of bank deposits are loaned out. In terms of deposit reserves, they often cannot afford the run-on storm that people flock to, and finally cause What happened was the bank's failure.

At this time, only urgent printing of banknotes can solve this problem, but the problem is that additional printing of banknotes will bring another serious economic consequence, which is quite serious inflation, so this method, If it is not at the last moment, it is absolutely unacceptable.

At this moment, he couldn't help looking into the distance, and his pupils flickered slightly.

Is it Qiankun No. [-]?

At this time, Qi Shangao's cell phone rang suddenly, he connected the phone, and just said a few words, his expression became extremely serious, "Yes, yes, we promise to protect Chief Lin, please rest assured superiors! "

Lin Xiao was taken aback, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qi Shangao said in a calm voice: "The problem has become bigger. Just now the bank center has monitored the data. Suddenly there are more than 1 bank account balances in our country, and they suddenly become zero!"

Lin Xiao's pupils shrank suddenly.

"Because there are too many people involved, and these people are evenly distributed, every province in the country has been involved. It will be very difficult to suppress the news this time. In order to prevent you from being affected, in the next period of time, the above It is decided to let you temporarily live in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the safety factor is relatively high."

Lin Xiao didn't care so much, but asked directly: "What about abroad?"

"Foreign countries are still unclear. We just monitored the data, but I will tell you as soon as there is news later."

"I see." Lin Xiao nodded, "By the way, what about my family?"

"You can also rest assured that nothing will happen to your family."

"That's good, thank you for your hard work."

"It is our honor to serve Chief Lin." Qi Shangao said with a smile.

Lin Xiao smiled, but was even more surprised and uncertain in his heart.

He looked into the distance again. To be precise, it was the Feishi side, because the place where Qiankun No. [-] was located was Feishi, where the University of Science and Technology of China was located.

This incident had to make him wonder whether the problem was caused by Qian Kun No. [-].

"Taking advantage of the next few days, I need to read all the content about controlling the self-awareness of artificial intelligence as soon as possible, otherwise, it will be too late."

A decision was made in his mind.

Although it is still uncertain whether some kind of self-awareness has really awakened in Qiankun No. [-], but now, he has to try it through z's own method.

Of course, before that, he did not forget his students, especially Wen Yong.

Once the news is not suppressed and it causes shocks across the country, there will inevitably be a large number of people going to the bank to get their money back.

At this time, it is not like the economic crisis that happened in the past.

The frenzy of bank runs that occurred during the economic crisis was due to people thinking that the banks had no money, so they ran on them. Now it is not that the banks are out of money, but that the money in the bank card has disappeared inexplicably. It turns out that there is still one Numbers, but now they have directly become zero duck eggs.

Therefore, no matter whether the bank has enough money or not, it cannot change the decision of the people to withdraw their own money. After all, the bank cannot guarantee that their money will not become zero inexplicably.

Obviously, at that time, the bank will definitely use all means to prevent depositors from withdrawing money, and it is very likely that a full-scale military action will be staged in the end.

In the end, depositors who cannot withdraw their money have many choices, and the most likely choice is to retaliate against the society, such as buying at zero yuan, robbing, etc., especially food.

And as the dispute gradually expands, personal safety will also be lost.

So in order to avoid Wen Yongyi impulsively participating in such activities before the situation gets out of control, or his students are in danger, it is necessary for him to remind his students.

So he immediately called and informed.

……

However, the evolution of the situation still exceeded everyone's expectations.

Within a day, the balances of more than 2 depositors in Huaguo became zero, and there were more than 1 in the United States, as well as European countries, etc. All in all, far more than the first 1024 people, the number of people affected this time has already More than 10 people.

With such a large number of people, coupled with the dispersion of the population, unless the Internet, telephone and other ways of dissemination of news are interrupted all over the world, the news will inevitably spread to the whole world.

Therefore, in just one day, everyone in the world knew that it was not safe to store money in banks, and the bank run happened naturally.

……

United States, Texas, Lubbock.

****The door of the Lubbock branch of the bank.

"Damn bank, let me withdraw money, you can't guarantee the money in my account, why don't you let me withdraw money?"

"Get out of the way, Yankee lackeys! We're going to take our money!"

"Go away!"

"..."

At the entrance of the bank, the manager of this branch looked devastated.

He never expected that, even though there was no sign of an economic crisis, a frenzy of bank runs would suddenly sweep in.

As for their branch, it is obviously impossible to provide deposits to so many people.

As for transferring money to other branches?
joke!

Because just now, even the city of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, requested assistance from his branch.

At this moment, he only felt that the world was coming to an end.

(End of this chapter)