Chapter 71

If the mysterious disappearance of the research ship at sea is shocking, the news is enough to shake the whole scientific community.

Evans Lester is recognized as the greatest scientist in the world today. He has won the Nobel Prize in physics twice and the fields prize once. If he had not taken the initiative to announce that he would no longer receive any prize, the Nobel committee might have debated whether a person should be allowed to win the Nobel Prize three times.

Many of his discoveries have injected new energy into the theoretical and scientific circles that have been silent since the second half of the 20th century, making the stagnant water alive again. It is generally believed that the unified field theory will be perfected in Lester's hands, and the giant of science will take the most important and solid step after relativity and quantum theory.

Although Professor Lester is almost 80 years old, he is in good health and enjoys the highest level of medical care and safety protection in the world. If he is ill, the scientists here will get the news at the first time. They will be more nervous than they are ill.

MEG was as shocked as anyone here. He and Lester are also old friends. When he taught at Princeton University, he was lucky to work with Lester and was deeply influenced by it.

At that time, Mei was still very young. As a Chinese genius, he often compared himself with westerners and felt proud that he had never lost to them. But since knowing Lester, his pride has been broken, scattered and eliminated from his bones. Throughout the entire scientific community, there is no one more comprehensive and omniscient than Lester.

"What happened? How did he die?" someone asked.

"According to the news from Hopkins Medical Center, Mr. Lester died of acute encephalitis at his own apartment last night," Frederick said

"I don't believe it!" Mei Tui jumped up angrily from her seat. "There is no acute encephalitis that can cause brain death in such a short time. If she has been infected with encephalitis virus long ago, why don't we send her to hospital in advance? Why don't we know?"

"Yes, Mr. Lester doesn't belong to a country, he belongs to the world! What right do they have to hide his physical condition?" someone echoed.

"Please calm down." Frederick reached out his palm and pressed the crowd. "Hopkins Hospital has scientists worthy of our respect. We should believe their diagnosis."

Mei sat down.

He knew Frederick was right. The death of a person of Lester's level was enough to trigger an earthquake in the scientific community. No one dared to hide anything unless Lester didn't want to tell the world.

"Is there any connection between these two things?" it's a little strange for Frederick to announce these two things at the same time.

"I hope there is no connection between them, but I can't be wishful thinking. In fact, I don't know," Frederick said.

"What do you mean? As far as I know, Mr. Lester was not involved in the investigation of the underwater pyramid," said Professor Hans from the University of Copenhagen.

Frederick nodded: "it is true that he was not directly involved in the expedition and had never been to the tubuai islands, but that does not mean that he is not concerned about the progress of the matter. In fact, he specifically mentioned it in his last words."

"He has a last word?" many people asked together.

"Yes," said Frederick, "his last words were written in the thought matrix code and handed over to his trusted friend, Dr. dardova, before he died. Through Dr. dardova, the last words came to us again, and even his family had not had time to see them."

May wants to know the password of the thought matrix.

This is a complex brain wave code. It does not depend on the memory of symbols or words, but identifies the thoughts at that time according to the signals sent by brain waves under the action of pure consciousness during self hypnosis.

It is very difficult to decipher this signal. Only by studying the thinking characteristics of the coder's life and finding his consciousness coordinates in the matrix can we interpret the radio wave information.

Mayer remembers that when he was in Princeton, Lester said that his original intention of inventing this code was to try to prove that consciousness interferes with quantum, and quantum does not work on consciousness itself.

Later, it seemed that the experiment failed, but this matrix cipher was proved to be feasible and became one of the most difficult ciphers in the world.

There are two characteristics of this password. One is that if you don't know the thinking characteristics of the person who wrote the password, even if you know his life like the back of your hand, you can't get his consciousness coordinates. Without conscious coordinates, it is almost impossible to find information from the matrix, just like finding a floating sesame in the Pacific without coordinates.

The second feature is that it can be completed by the subconscious only in the state of self hypnosis, and can not be forced and fake. Therefore, the thought matrix cipher is also called "Leicester signature".

Of course, because the conversion of conscious thinking into language must be vague and inaccurate, its signature authentication function is more meaningful than encryption.

"What did his last words say?" Mei asked.

"Mr. Lester said that another conscious body had invaded and attacked his brain," Frederick said with a strange expression.

"What does this mean?" even if all the scientists here are scientists, it is difficult to understand such a statement.

Frederick said: "according to Mr. Lester, he had a long struggle with the intruder. He suspected that the intruder was extraterrestrial life, which is what we often call aliens."

"Aliens?"

"Yes, aliens." Professor Frank, chairman of the International Association for quantum applications, who was sitting next to Frederick, took Frederick's microphone.

"In our novels and movies, aliens always have a body similar to that of earth creatures. They are either like humans or insects. They have five senses and digestive tract. They need to eat and excrete. The top length is a little disgusting, such as several long tentacles and highly corrosive acidic saliva."

"But we are scientists. We should not be limited to the understanding and simple imagination of carbon based life. Why does life have to grow like us? Why can't it be a stone or a nebula? We shouldn't even be limited to the assumption of silicon-based life. It's too narrow!"

Professor Frank said this at once, paused a little, and looked out of the window of the conference center, just like looking at galaxies hundreds of millions of light-years away.

"Why must life be material? In addition to matter, there are extensive and unknown existence in the universe. In those seemingly empty places, there may be some life forms that we can't understand, just as we can't understand ourselves - our consciousness - what is the composition?"

"Mr. Lester has a superhuman brain that none of us can compare. It is he who gives us a new hope of theoretical physics. I believe he will not talk nonsense even when he is dying."

Professor Frank withdrew his eyes and looked at the scientists present.

There was another whisper in the hall.

Independent consciousness exists widely in different dimensions of the universe. As a scientific hypothesis, it has long been put forward. However, this assumption is meaningless from the perspective of experiment, mathematics and logic, so scientists rarely talk about it and few people do real research.

But once it comes out of the mouth of a leading academic figure, it's different.

"What does this have to do with our meeting and the missing islands in the Pacific?"

Frank looked at the questioner, nodded gently and said, "Mr. Lester believes that there is a wormhole leading to the unknown place of the universe in a certain area of the earth."

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