Dreamland Guide

Mei Yiqiu held the enhanced version of the second-generation space box that he had just received, with a satisfied smile on his face.

He tapped the alloy surface of the helmet lightly with a pipe, making a crisp sound, like a wind chime in the wind.

"This sound may make you think it is fragile, but in fact it is strong enough!" the professor said excitedly, "you can't break it by throwing it off the roof of the laboratory!"

"Professor, why use such advanced materials?" Mei Ziqing was puzzled. "I saw the cost table. The most expensive part of the helmet is actually the shell and its supporting materials! If ordinary alloy materials are used, we at least It can save 30,000 U.S. dollars for each helmet."

Mei Yiqiu said: "My child, don't worry about money. We have large sums of money, and they are constantly increasing."

Mei Ziqing stubbornly said: "But we need to advance the game project as soon as possible. If each helmet is 50,000 US dollars, we need to invest 500 million US dollars to develop 10,000 players, and our goal is 1 billion users!"

The professor laughed, his hard and fluffy hair exploded, and he trembled with his laugh: "Poor honest boy, who told you that we are going to give the helmets to the players for free?"

Mei Ziqing said: "When we first started the promotion, didn't they all occupy the market for free?"

"No, no, only **** will be free. Real good things will not be free!" said Bian Ziyuan on the side. "Many products are free to occupy the living space of opponents. Once the market is occupied and a monopoly is formed, Will charge higher fees and make back all the previous losses. Our helmets are unparalleled in the world and have no competitors; our games are unparalleled in the world and have no competitors. Why should things be free without competitors?"

"But it's not a necessity! If you are not a necessity, you have to spend money to cultivate the market. Even if you are unique, users can choose not to." Mei Ziqing argued.

"Well, opium is not a necessity, and it has never been free. Users can choose not to use it, and all governments do not encourage people to use it, but the sales of opium have never worried traffickers." Bian Ziyuan said.

"Opium is addictive, not counting!"

"Games are also addictive."

"You mean yourself, game madman!"

Bian Zi admits this far, so he doesn't want to fight anymore. In fact, he also wanted to know why the professor used such expensive materials to make helmets, for a pair of fifty thousand dollars. This is not something ordinary people can afford. Such an expensive price really shuts out most ordinary people.

Mei Yiqiu said cheerfully: "Do you know how complicated the structure of the space box is? Our first-generation product was falsified for more than 20 million U.S. dollars. Up to now, the second-generation product has shrunk so much in size, but has a little function. There are also a lot of children, and even some added. This puts forward high requirements on the material. You must know that the space box is not only a VR helmet, it is not just as simple as a few sensors inside. It needs to carry one Human consciousness and all memory to create a new world. The consciousness of game players is the master of this world. They first create the world in this box, not on our server. So the amount of information carried by the box is incredible. Just like our human brain."

The professor pointed to his head full of fluffy white hair, "Do you know how much information the human brain can store?"

Bian Ziyuan is not very familiar with biology, but because he studies artificial intelligence, he has a certain understanding of the brain and nerve center. He said: "The information storage mechanism of the human brain is currently not very clear. It should be different from the computer's storage mechanism. Whether it is multiplying the information stored by a single neuron by the number of neurons in the brain, or using the connection of human brain neurons Patterns are used to characterize information. We are unable to estimate the information reserves of the human brain. At least so far, we have not found anyone who says that his brain is full and can’t remember anything.”

Mei Yiqiu nodded: "You’re right, this is only long-term memory information. There are also genetic information and genetic information. Although science can’t confirm it now, we never deny their existence, or even think that they have a large amount of information. It's bigger than our lifetime memory. Although there has been controversy about where this information is stored, when our consciousness wants to obtain it, it must always be extracted through the brain, and it will eventually be transformed into the brain's long-term memory."

"So, is the storage space of the human brain infinite?" Mei Ziqing asked curiously.

"You can say so." The professor replied affirmatively, "Because of this, our space box must match the human brain. For the consciousness to create the world here, it must be able to carry everything that the human brain can carry."

"Could it be that the capacity of the space box is also infinite? But how is it achieved?"

Bian Ziyuan is also very curious. If there is any gap between his Cronus and humans in terms of intelligence, it is the way of information storage and the scalability of thinking.

If an artificial intelligence cannot break away from the information processing mode of the computer, its limitations are obvious-no matter how advanced the storage device is, or how small the hard disk becomes, there will always be a full day when it can only delete old information. Or add new hardware.

Mei Yiqiu said with a smile: "Do you know the Mobius belt?"

"Of course I do!" said Bian Ziyuan, "twist a piece of paper 180°, and then glue the two ends together to form a closed loop. When I was a child, the teacher did interesting experiments for us."

Mei Yiqiu said: "The secret of unlimited storage of information lies on this tape. The Mobius tape has only one side. A bug can crawl across the original two sides of the note without having to fold over the edge of the note."

"What does this have to do with information storage?" Mei Ziqing asked.

"I see!" Bian Ziyuan snapped his fingers. "Originally, our information was recorded on one side of the note, but after being connected to the Mobius tape, both sides of the note became one side. This doubles the amount of information stored."

Mei Ziqing still puzzled: "That's only doubled!"

Bian Ziyuan said excitedly: "No, you forgot, the Mobius tape can be cut! When we were young, we used to play, twist the two ends of the paper, and then cut it along the center line of the paper circle. It will not become two paper circles, but will become a larger Mobius belt. Then cut it along the center line, and it will become a larger Mobius belt..."

After all, Mei Ziqing has followed Mei Yiqiu for many years. When Bian Ziyuan said this, there is no one who doesn’t understand: "Ah, I see, the binary information of the computer is linear in space~www.readwn.com~ is not. It will occupy the width, so as long as the Mobius belt is infinitely divided, it can become infinitely long and can store infinite information!"

Mei Yiqiu was very happy and looked at his two students with encouraging eyes: "I can think that this step is not easy. When Professor Hans proposed this, everyone was shocked! Don't underestimate such a simple one. The idea, because to realize it, it involves countless problems that need to be overcome, especially in materials."

"That's why you need to use such expensive materials?"

"Yes! Imagine if you want to divide a centimeter-wide Mobius belt infinitely to the nanometer level, how long will it be?"

"The difference between centimeters and nanometers is ten million times. Even if 1 centimeter is divided into tens of nanometers, it must be divided at least one hundred thousand times. And every time it is divided, the length of the Mobius strip will be doubled and divided ten times. Ten thousand times, that is to say, the strap is exactly 2 times 100,000 times longer than the original. This..."

Bian Ziyuan was taken aback by this number, silently calculating for a long time in his heart, but did not figure out how much it was.

Mei Yiqiu said with a smile: "Don't forget it, this length can encircle the entire galaxy twice."