Three bodies

"After reading those, you must have thought of the macro atom discovered by the research of ball lightning three years ago. That was your most glorious era." Wang Miao said to Ding Yi, and they were in the spacious living room of Ding Yi's house, The two leaned against the pool table.

"Yeah, I've been working on the theory of macroatoms, and now I'm inspired: Macroatoms are probably the unfolding of ordinary atoms in lower dimensions. This unfolding is done by some natural force unknown to us, and the unfolding may occur in Not long after the Big Bang, it may still be going on all the time now. Perhaps, all the atoms in this universe will eventually expand to low dimensions in a long time, and the final outcome of our universe is to become a macroscopic structure composed of low-dimensional atoms. The universe, this can also be regarded as a process of entropy growth...At that time, I thought that the discovery of macro atoms would bring breakthroughs in physics, but now it seems that is not the case at all." Ding Yi said, got up and went to the study to search What.

"Why? Since we can capture macro-atoms, can't we bypass high-energy accelerators and study the deep structure of matter directly from macro-atoms?"

"That's what I thought at the beginning," Ding Yi came out of the study, holding a delicate silver-framed photo frame in his hand, "It seems ridiculous now." He bent down and picked up a cigarette butt from the messy floor, " Let’s look at this filter. We said that its two-dimensional area is as big as the living room. But if it is really unfolded, can you study the three-dimensional structure of the filter from that plane? Obviously impossible, those three-dimensional structures When unfolding, the information has disappeared, just like a broken cup cannot be restored, the low-dimensional unfolding of atoms in the natural state is an irreversible process. The genius of the three-body scientists lies in their simultaneous expansion of the low-dimensional particles. The information of the high-dimensional structure is preserved, making the whole process reversible. However, if we want to study the deep structure of matter, we can only start from the eleven-dimensional microscopic dimension, that is to say, we cannot do without the accelerator. For example: the accelerator is our the abacus and the slide rule, only through them can we invent the electronic computer."

Ding Yi showed Wang Miao the photo in the frame.In the photo, a young and beautiful female major officer stands among a group of children, with clear eyes and a charming smile.She and the children were standing on a well-manicured green lawn with a few small white animals on it.Behind them, there is a tall factory-like building with brightly colored cartoon animals, balloons, flowers, etc. painted on the walls.

"We met before Yang Dong? Your life is rich enough." Wang Miao said looking at the photo.

"Her name is Lin Yun, and she has made key contributions to the research of ball lightning and the discovery of macro atoms. It can be said that without her, this discovery would not have happened."

"I haven't heard of her."

"Yeah, because of something you haven't heard about either...but I always thought it was unfair to her."

"Where is she now?"

"In...in a place, or some places...well, it would be nice if she could show up now."

Wang Miao didn't care about Ding Yi's strange answer. He was not interested in the woman in the photo. He returned the photo frame to Ding Yi, waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, everything doesn't matter anymore."

"Yeah, everything doesn't matter anymore." Ding Yi put the photo frame upright on the pool table, looked at him, and reached for a bottle of wine at the corner of the table...

When Shi Qiang opened the door and came in, the two of them were eighty percent drunk, and they were very excited after seeing Da Shi.Wang Miao stood up and put his arms around the shoulders of the visitor, "Ah, Da Shi, Police Officer Shi..." Ding Yi found a cup and put it on the billiard table, and poured him a drink, "You still have that evil move!" It’s better not to let it out. That information, whether we read it or not, the result will be the same after more than 400 years.”

Da Shi sat down in front of the pool table, and looked at the two of them with sneaky eyes: "The matter is really as you said, everything is over?"

"Of course, everything is over."

"The accelerator can't be used, and the structure of matter can't be studied, so everything is over?"

"Then what do you—say?"

"Isn't technology still improving? Academician Wang and the others have even invented nanomaterials..."

"Imagine an ancient kingdom. Their technology is also improving. They can create better knives, swords, and spears for soldiers. They may even create bows and arrows that fire continuously like machine guns, but..."

Da Shi nodded thoughtfully, "But if they don't know that matter is composed of atoms and molecules, they will never be able to build missiles and satellites. The level of science is limited."

Ding Yi patted Da Shi on the shoulder, "I have long seen that Officer Shi is a smart man, just watching..."

Wang Miao went on to say: "The study of the deep structure of matter is the foundation of all other sciences. If there is no progress in this, everything will be—in your terms: nonsense."

Ding Yi pointed to Wang Miao, "Academician Wang will not be idle in this life, he can continue to improve knives, swords, and spears. What the hell am I going to do in the future? God knows!" He threw an empty wine bottle on the table Go up, pick up the billiard ball and throw it over.

"This is a good thing!" Wang Miao raised his glass and said, "We can spend our lives anyway. From now on, there will be reasons to be decadent and depraved! We are worms! Worms that are about to become extinct, haha..."

"Well said!" Ding Yi also raised his glass, "Cheers to the worm! I never thought the end of the world would be so cool, long live the worm, long live Sophon! Long live the end!"

Da Shi shook his head, drained the glass of wine in front of him, and shook his head again, "Like a bear."

"Then what are you going to do?" Ding Yi stared at Da Shi with drunken eyes and said, "Can you cheer us up?"

Da Shi stood up, "Let's go."

"where to?"

"Looking for cheer."

"Come on, Brother Shi, sit down and drink."

Da Shi grabbed the two of them by their arms and dragged them up, "Go, if not, bring the wine."

After going downstairs, the three got into Da Shi's car.When the car started, Wang Miao asked where he was going with his tongue out, and Da Shi replied, "My hometown is not far away."

The car drove out of the city, drove west along the Jingshi Expressway, and got off the expressway just after entering Hebei.Da Shi stopped the car and dragged the two people out of the car.When Ding Yi and Wang Miao got out of the car, they squinted their eyes in the bright afternoon sun, and the North China Plain covered with wheat fields spread out in front of them.

"What did you bring us here for?" Wang Miao asked.

"Look at the bugs." Da Shi said, lighting a cigar given by Colonel Stanton, and at the same time pointed to the wheat field in front of him with the cigar.

Only then did Wang Miao and Ding Yi realize that the field was covered with a thick layer of locusts, and several locusts were crawling on each stalk. On the ground, more locusts were wriggling, which looked like a sticky liquid.

"There are also locust plagues in this place?" Wang Miao drove off the locusts on a small piece of ground on the ridge of the field and sat down.

"Like a sandstorm, it happened ten years ago, but this year is the worst."

"So what? Da Shi, it doesn't matter anymore." Ding Yi said with still drunkenness.

"I just want to ask you two to think about a question: Is there a big gap between the technical level of the earth people and the Trisolarans, or is there a big gap between the technical level of the locusts and us?"

This question was like pouring cold water on the heads of two drunken scientists. They stared at the piles of locusts in front of them, their expressions gradually became serious, and the two quickly understood what Da Shi meant.

Take a look, these are bugs, the gap between their technology and ours is far greater than the gap between us and the Trisolaran civilization.Human beings try their best to eliminate them, use all kinds of poisons, spray them with airplanes, introduce and cultivate their natural enemies, search for and destroy their eggs, use genetic modification to sterilize them; burn them with fire, flood them with water, every family There are pest killers to deal with them, and there are weapons like fly swatters under every desk to kill them... This long war has accompanied the entire human civilization, and the outcome is still undecided, and the bugs have not been exterminated , They still roam proudly between the heavens and the earth, and their numbers are no less than before the appearance of human beings.Trisolarans who regard humans as bugs seem to have forgotten a fact: bugs have never really been defeated.

The sun was obscured by a small black cloud, casting a moving shadow across the land.It was not a common cloud, but a swarm of locusts that had just arrived, and they soon began to land on the nearby fields. The three of them were bathed in the rain of life, feeling the dignity of life on earth.Ding Yi and Wang Miao slowly spilled the two bottles of wine in their hands on the North China Plain under their feet, as a respect to the insects.

"Da Shi, thank you." Wang Miao held out his hand to Da Shi.

"Thank you too." Ding Yi held Da Shi's other hand.

"Let's go back quickly, there is a lot of work to do." Wang Miao said.