Please see the previous part"Computing Power: Fantasy Geometry (1)"

At the special astronomical observation site on Mount Kitt of the Wallace Foundation, when the night was silent and the night wind was blowing, I couldn’t help asking myself that strange question: If the ancient Greek sages were alive in this world, what kind of wisdom would they use? What about the metaphors for discussing the Internet? What kind of fables will they create to discuss the future of mankind in the sandbox of language? Can the rich tension of cybernetics beyond the connotation of communication science be abstracted by geometry? When advancing from the visible form of the Internet, what language and images will they use to reveal the circulation and distributed storage of data?

When modern people open the philosophical classics and go deep into the depths of time to talk to the most intelligent minds that humans have ever had, they can’t help but realize that—benefiting from the gifts of the technological age, human beings’ ability to transform nature has soared, but two thousand years Is there really a qualitative improvement in the thinking power of the human brain? The answer is almost no. No one is qualified to criticize philosophers for their limited scientific basis. On the contrary, they should try their best to chase the light that breaks free. When they faced a difficult situation, they made noble choices and thinking. When I face the test of the philosopher king and the residents of the Acropolis, what choice will I make?

At this moment, in front of me is a 16-meter telescope and a dark night. Cell phones are not allowed, as any glimmer of artificial light will cause observational errors. The long rectangle of bright Milky Way exposed by the dome of the observatory is the only source of brightness for me and Wallace at the moment. At this moment, Wallace poked his head out from the huge mirror body, and he said, "The parameters are adjusted."

The spherical dome above the head moved to the direction Wallace set, from exposing the starry sky in the south to exposing a corner in the west, making a loud noise that made the ground tremble. "Come here, Nico. Come to the observation site, and you will rediscover a galaxy 'nearest' to us."

I aligned my left eye with the field of view of the lens.

Distant galaxies painted like fireworks painted with blood and embers. I saw a planet tidally locked to its star. The side of the planet close to the star is in daylight, and the surface of the planet is raining heavily. One example of a similar phenomenon is 390 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, where there is the only planet we know of orbiting the star WASP-76. This giant planet with a daytime temperature of 2400 degrees Celsius is not only hot enough to melt iron, but also to split molecules into atoms. Every black raindrop that Odaily welcomes is the iron it melted with heat.

But I quickly realized: No, this is not right. The closest extragalactic galaxy to us is Andromeda Major. Even a telescope with a diameter of 16 meters and an advanced real-time high-resolution spectral imager should not be able to draw such rich details! I can't see that clearly!

I quickly checked the locked value of this telescope. "The coordinates of the Andromeda Nebula you entered! This is wrong!" I asked. "how did you do that……"

Wallace zoomed in, motioned me to continue watching, and smiled without answering.

The picture in the zoomed-in shot is still terribly clear, I can't even see a single pixel, it's like a Matisse abstract painting palette copied to my iris in vector quality. Blue, pink and black liquids chase and roll in snuggling and fighting. The ink ocean of the palette breeds new bubbles at a fixed frequency, then bursts, dissipates into dandelion-shaped mobile ruins, and returns to the source. The game of jumping color blocks looks like the indescribable alien life is performing the process of splitting molecules into atoms with dance.

"They follow a certain law, orderly." I muttered to myself. This is not the characteristic and phenomenon of physical phenomena, but the essence.

“It is code. Code is law.”

"Geometry was Kepler's tool for legislating the sky. I want code," Wallace said. "I think that if human beings want to use data to create nature and create new forms of habitat, they must first resort to the starry sky, which is the source of geometry. It is eternity. Only children born thousands of years ago can use it as brains Training is a perfect nectar. I hope that children in the world, regardless of nationality and family, children of farmers, children of murderers, vagrants, and unfortunate ones, can have a smart terminal that can be vividly programmed, a low-cost learning Science, tools to study the stars. If they don't have one, I invent and build it for them."

It sounds like Wallace is someone who doesn't want the strong in the world to be strong, but wants to give everyone an equal opportunity. "You hope to use education to give everyone a relatively equal starting line in front of science."

"No, the starting line is very different. Perhaps, for every person and country on the long-distance running track, from now on, they will all wear the same pair of running shoes."

As Wallace spoke, he pressed a button next to the telescope. The top of the closed observatory rises suddenly, and the surrounding walls are like a flower bud made of concrete and steel bars, breaking its petals and blooming outward. After rumbling fusion, I was exposed to a vast, clear field of starry sky and breathed the fresh night air.

"David Bohm thought that the universe seemed solid and solid, but it was only an illusion. The universe was a huge, detailed hologram, the inner membrane of a decorated balloon," Wallace said. "So I That's it. All the starry sky, grass, and streams you see are not reality, but "image reality", which is a holographic projection created by 36,000 high-definition projections and extreme light-sensitive material screens. We use nearly 30% The global computing power constructs the natural reproduction of all the known universes of the earth at this time. Every second, there are millions of machine models running. When we are farther away from the projection point of the data universe, the universe we feel The more complex and macroscopic it is.”

"Different from the real world, the non-Euclidean engine renders all visual models. When you stand in the holographic projection, every three-dimensional coordinate point seen by the naked eye, and the picture that can be seen by the field of vision are all arrays of possibilities. .Only in this way can the infinite be accommodated in the limited actual space.” Wallace stretched out his hand towards the direction of the sky. "However, after the platform was built, something we couldn't imagine happened—some creations broke away from the original cognition, Nico."

"What is it: every perspective point image seen by the naked eye is an array of all possibilities?" I observed the surrounding environment, streams, deciduous trees, temperature, wind, and humidity, like a normal valley in the spring night in the West of America, and No difference.

"The image rendered by each perspective point is a function of variables, not a fixed constant." Wallace replied. "The fixed-point perspective of oriental painting that refers to the constant state, the scientific and realistic isometric perspective of western oil painting, and the unimaginable geometric composition method exist at the same time."

I stretched out my hand and used the illusion of perspective to pretend to hold the moon in the distance from my perspective. The moment my palm touched the bottom of the moon, suddenly, a ball with uneven surface fell into my hand. . I screamed, shook my hand, and dropped the miniature version of the moon to the ground, and it rolled down the lawn in accordance with the laws of physics. When I looked up again, the moon hanging in the sky disappeared, and due to the change of gravity, the stars around the moon immediately began to tremble, as if they were crying. The ground under my feet was also shaking faintly, and the mechanical balance between the earth and the moon was even affected. Trembling with shock, I trotted a few steps in embarrassment to pick up the moon from the grass by the stream, and hung it back to the sky carefully. Now, it appears to be back to its supposed size of 3,476 meters in diameter.

The starry sky returned to silence. Because of my inadvertent actions, this surreal 6D theater almost showed a disaster movie.

My panic made Wallace laugh. With laughter, a shooting star fell from the starry sky.

"One hundred thousand engineers all over the world have contributed to this. The basic platform of Star Chain is a masterpiece that we have never thought of." Wallace smiled and looked up at the sky. It stimulates my endless curiosity about science and technology. I think that letting everyone have a star in the holographic projection is the best science education. This should not be a privilege, but everyone has the right."

"You have a hundred thousand engineer employees?"

"No, 100,000 independent developers created for our common ideal." Wallace said. "This is the fruit of sharing the fruits of open source knowledge, and naturally it should be shared with the world for free. The foundation accepts donations. But it believes that software use and modification should be free, and creation should be free, just as stars should be free, It deserves to belong to any citizen on earth, not to some people, the rich or the lucky. I want to use open source to make science a little bit slower and become a reflection of the Matthew effect of power and money, and I hope I can do it.”

With a star on Wallace's Star Chain, you can get the world's best programming API and sufficient computing power pool for free, and you have a private land with personal scientific research computing. Every scientific research achievement on Odaily will be automatically logged into the blockchain that is shared by 100,000 people and cannot be tampered with. Of course, each Odaily is also bound to a distributed key in the digital world, and the smart contract will award Star Token digital currency rewards for contributors to the optimization system, so as to unite people's hearts and encourage creation.

"This Odaily provides a very good simulation and mutation sandbox for astrobiology, physics and even philosophy. And we need you to develop a programming language based on this platform, or an application. Let everyone really easily Build your own Odaily, vividly understand the essence of programming and quickly master it. We want more people to have equal rights in programming, and make it cool and equal.” Wallace said to me. "You have several rare abilities that you must have for this job. Of course, your contribution will be evaluated by the community and issued in the form of Star tokens, which can be exchanged for the scientific research data you need or other things you want on any star."

Like a generous and selfless sea captain or an eccentric circus master, he sent me invitations to sail and tickets to the rare science show. I was a little dazed by the news of the explosion, Tao Taoran, light and light. In the end, I was naturally moved, as were the 100,000 other developers who volunteered to contribute to this.