Chapter 120 The Reason for Tyler's Sacrifice_1

Marcus: "As I just mentioned, our thoughts might be entangled and resonant with the dark matter in high-dimensional space, and that might even be our true mental entity.

"After ball lightning strikes the human body, our physical and brain material components are certainly completely absent, but the high-dimensional thought entity still exists. It can exist for a considerable length of time, and this is what we call quantum life.

"We also don't know if this can be defined as life. We feel that it is life, but its characteristics do not conform with our definition of life. Perhaps the definition of life needs to change in the future.

"Ball lightning, after striking the human body, affects the high-dimensional thought entity, endowing it with the ability to lower its dimension, although we still haven't clarified the specific mechanisms involved.

"It means that quantum life has gained the ability to change dimensions, just like Sophons. This also explains why quantum life exhibits the observer effect; after all, quantum forces have never possessed the kind of observer effect where a glance changes the outcome.

"We felt that we saw what quantum life looks like, but in fact, we did not. It's just the high-dimensional thought entity becoming entangled and resonant with our thoughts, making us believe we have seen quantum life.

"This observation, to be precise, is the entanglement resonance that happens between our thoughts and the thoughts of quantum life. This resonance can cause quantum life to collapse again in high-dimensional space. This is the true observer effect of quantum life.

"It indeed resembles how consciousness determines matter, but we prefer to regard consciousness as matter as well.

"Ordinary people, after dying normally, will also leave behind a high-dimensional consciousness entity. However, they can't lower their dimension to manifest, especially since they also believe they should be dead. Their high-dimensional consciousness entity will gradually dissipate.

"Quantum life, on the other hand, can use the method of self-observation to maintain its quantum state without collapsing. Even though Tyler initially thought that quantum state life had aggressive capabilities (Tyler's initial plan was breached, and although intentionally concealed, this was not a secret for core personnel like Marcus), the latest research has found that it's almost ineffectual.

"Any effect is mutually reciprocal. Quantum life cannot be killed, which itself suggests that quantum life's effect on reality is minimal.

"Here, it seems we have reached a research dead end; we cannot observe high dimensions, thus we do not know high dimensions, or even what quantum life truly is.

"We have only confirmed that dark matter, high-dimensional space (quantum thinking space), and thought are connected, but cannot accurately define their relationships.

"Just as a two-dimensional creature sees a sphere passing through their world, they can only see a cross-sectional circle that grows from small to large and then shrinks and disappears. A three-dimensional world viewing a high-dimensional object can only see a 'cross-section,' or more accurately, a 'cross-body.' Everything we see may be illusory; we must investigate the deep underlying causes.

"The best way is to go see high-dimensional space for ourselves, and more importantly, to be able to transmit high-dimensional information back.

"When ball lightning strikes the human body, the body is quantumized, the quantumized life (high-dimensional thought entity) exists within this level of space, and it can transition between high and low dimensions. In this space, the consciousness of quantum life also conforms to quantum characteristics and can be termed as consciousness cloud or quantum consciousness.

"Another very common feature in the quantum world is quantum entanglement. The same applies to thoughts. For instance, if two people with resonant brainwave frequencies maintain a constant entangled state through Mind Tactility.

"Naturally, we speculate that if we can entangle the thoughts of two individuals in advance and train them until their thought synchronization is high, then we can have one of them enter Quantum Space and become quantum life.

"By allowing quantum life in Quantum Space to resonate quantumly with the thoughts in the brain of the other person in reality, we should be able to communicate with quantum life.

"We are too curious about this high-dimensional quantum thinking space, and our research has hit a bottleneck; this is the only breakthrough we've thought of.

"The most crucial point is that Tyler and Hines have many hypotheses that cannot be confirmed in reality — we can only find answers in the quantum thinking space.

"This agony finally compelled them to make a decision, which is that Tyler is preparing to use the anti-macro electron excited state to transform himself into a quantum life, and his high-dimensional consciousness will also possess the ability to reduce dimension and resonate with our minds, conveying some information out."

"In the end, Tyler said he had two goals, one is to see if his plan is feasible, the other is to explore for your plan," Hines said.

Lin Sen had guessed that Tyler definitely had his own plan, but now the specifics of this plan were still unclear, still missing a lot of information. Tyler or Hines would surely leave some clues, there was no rush for that.

As for going to explore for Lin Sen's plan, Lin Sen did indeed have a conjecture, and it was because of this conjecture that he let Tyler study the anti-macro electrons.

But Tyler was studying the essence of thought; he wanted to use this essence to realize information exchange between quantum life and people in reality, not the direction Lin Sen had guessed.

Lin Sen suddenly realized that Tyler must have guessed his conjecture, he had always been studying his conjecture. Although he didn't know the specifics of Lin Sen's plan, he understood that if Lin Sen's conjecture proved true, then the implications would be too significant, critical to anyone, even to the PDC.

For that conjecture, Tyler was willing to give everything, or rather, a large reason for Tyler's sacrifice was for Lin Sen.

Thinking about this, Lin Sen felt a pang of heartache; although he had saved Tyler, Tyler's heart might have died at the moment he was preparing to commit suicide, and his reason for living was merely for Logic or for Lin Sen.

Alas... he still hadn't been able to truly save him! Lin Sen had thought he could see through the emotions of others, but he had still been mistaken with Tyler.

No, maybe he was not mistaken, Tyler should have left something for himself, he should have his own plan.

Just as Hines hinted before going into hibernation, if their plan is useful to Lin Sen, they will give it to you for use, Lin Sen; if not, they would proceed with their own plan, facing the Trisolarans by themselves.

Lin Sen sighed, "Was it for this that Tyler sacrificed himself?

"Alas... He finally found a cause worth dedicating his life to."

Lin Sen knew the Trisolarans were definitely listening in, and he said this also to mislead the Trisolarans.

Marcus: "Yes, Mister Tyler perhaps wanted more to become a quantum life, to change into another form of life.

"Actually, I can understand him, the knowledge one seeks but cannot attain is truly what torments him, and we are even willing to sacrifice everything for a piece of knowledge.

"You might not understand, but in the pursuit of knowledge, we all have a kind of obsessive drive; if humanity escapes the Trisolaris crisis, I also plan to go and see the Quantum Space, life and death really are trivial in this context.

"My favorite saying comes from Huaxia: 'To hear the truth in the morning and die in the evening would be sufficient.'

"Mister Tyler and I are the same, he is not so much a politician, but more a scientific researcher.

"Actually, Mister Tyler also had a conjecture he wanted to verify, which is the quantum array effect."