Dream Guide - #459 - Chapter 459 Atomic Clock of Consciousness

Alice clearly remembers that they rushed into the fog in the lifeboat, and then encountered savages on the island. Mrs. Larry suffered as a result. Partick and other sailors were eaten by savages. Only she and Anderson escaped. .

She had told Qingmu and Su Huilan all this, and there would be no problem, but how many days had passed in the meantime? She had never calculated it accurately, it felt like just a few days.

But she suddenly wasn’t sure, and her memory suddenly became blurry, as if she had just had a dream.

Alice had a painful look on her face and murmured to herself: “Why can’t I remember! Why can’t I remember!”

Su Huilan on the side supported her shaky body and said: “That’s because there is no standard sunrise and sunset on the island, and the length of day and night is also unstable. Our brains only keep time according to our own biological clocks, and objective memory cannot It helps us understand time, but it confuses the brain’s thinking. So when you don’t think about this problem, your intuition is that a few days have passed. When you think about it deeply, you will find that there is no memory of time at all. The brain has already determined This is invalid information thrown into the information garbage heap.”

Situ nodded and said: “You are right, so it is difficult for us to estimate the exact time we were on the island. I said it took several months because I simulated an atomic clock in my dream.”

“Atomic clock?” Su Huilan asked curiously, “You can simulate the decay of microscopic particles in a dream? This is incredible!”

“Actually, this is not difficult. You can do it too. The only problem is that you have to understand the principles of atomic clocks and the resonance frequency of the atoms you want to use when they transition between energy levels.” Situ waved lightly. Shishou said, “It just so happens that I participated in the design of the world’s first cesium atomic clock and witnessed its success with my own eyes.”

“The first cesium atomic clock was built in the late 1950s, so wouldn’t you…”

Su Huilan has been hesitating whether to ask Situ about the man in her dream. He is too similar to the man her father left in her dream, but he is too young. According to what her father said, he was once the young man in the alliance. The best member of the generation is the successor of Master Nanke, which means that he was already an outstanding young man when Master Nanke was alive, and Master Nanke disappeared during World War II.

If Situ really participated in the design of the first cesium atomic clock, then the time would match, but it was really hard for her to imagine that the handsome man in front of her, who was suave and had the look of a superstar in every gesture, was already in his 80s?

“Yes, the atomic clocks of that era were so heavy that they needed a big house to fit them in. It was not easy to build.” Situ did not deny or admit what Su Huilan said, “But it would be much easier if it was in a dream, and you can even omit it. There is no need for the tools and steps used to cool or heat the cesium atoms, and there is no need for the lasers to lift the cesium atoms and the sensors to capture them. Everything is done by consciousness.

We only need a suitable energy field to allow the cesium atoms to pass through repeatedly and transition between two different energy levels, so that its resonance frequency reaches 9,192,631,770Hz. In this way, a consciousness atomic clock is ready.

Atomic clocks are the most stable timers. The second has been defined for a long time in human history, but it has been unable to accurately measure and calibrate it. It was not until 1967 that people redefined the second as the transition between two ultrafine energy levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom. A time that is 9,192,631,770 times the period of the radiated electromagnetic wave. This definition is equivalent to the second defined in the astronomical almanac, and the error only occurs by about one second every 20 million years.

However, the environmental requirements for atomic clocks are too high. It requires the cesium atoms to be cooled to a static state close to absolute zero, and magnetic field interference is not allowed during the entire energy level transition process. But in the real world, the universe is full of Magnetic fields and rays. But all this is different in dreams. The dream space is composed of the subconscious mind and can block all interference. “

Qingmu finally understood how Mo Yu and the others felt when they listened to Situ’s strange story about the physics of mirrors capturing light. He didn’t know anything about atomic clocks, but after listening to Situ’s explanation, he felt that it was something like that, but he wanted to make one in his dream, but even with Aoki’s mental strength, he couldn’t do it. Because atomic clocks are by no means as simple as Situ said. If you are not proficient in atomic physics and have personally participated in the design of atomic clocks, it would be impossible to simulate such a thing. It’s like it’s not difficult to simulate the effect of a nuclear bomb explosion in a dream, but it’s difficult for non-professionals to simulate an atomic reactor.

Even he was confused when he heard it, and others were even more confused. What mental power, dreams, consciousness, etc. were like a fantasy to Alice and others.

Su Huilan was the only one among the people who could understand, but she still had doubts: “Mr. Situ, I still don’t understand. The resonance frequency of cesium atoms is fixed in nature, but in dreams, all conscious creations, in your atomic clock The cesium atom was also created by your subconscious mind, so isn’t its frequency also variable at will? How can you be sure that the second you define is correct?”

Situ said: “The so-called vibration frequency is actually the radiation generated during energy level transitions. It is a kind of wave. Waves can be captured by consciousness and can interfere with our mental power. Our mental power is also based on waves. It exists in the form of. I have felt the pulse of the cesium atoms in the atomic clock at a stable frequency, so I can reproduce the same pulse in my dream.”

“I didn’t expect you to be able to unify things in the conscious world and things in the physical world to such a high degree. I have never tried this before.” Su Huilan was very impressed.

“It’s not difficult. The combination of dreams and profession is a method we often use. Engineers can use dreams to design drawings, and physicists can use dreams to simulate the movement of celestial bodies. In the age without computers, things that are difficult to display intuitively on a flat surface Everything can be created through dreams, it just requires more mental energy. Many geniuses I know have done this, and you can do it too.”

Situ said and smiled at Su Huilan, “But Professor Su is doing philosophy research and may not have much contact with physical simulation, but many philosophers in history have also used this method. For example, Kant tried to simulate a dream in a dream. God, of course this dream failed, because in the dream he himself was God, and one world could not tolerate the existence of two gods. In addition, he also simulated the evolution of the solar system in his dream, and this time it was very successful, so he proposed the nebula Said, written in his “General History of Nature and Celestial Body”.”

Su Huilan had to admire Situ’s erudition. This idea really inspired her. The subconscious can create the world, but it cannot be separated from memory. But a lunatic like Kant wants to create God in a dream. This is not only whimsical, but also an innovation. Wisdom and rebellious courage.

Of course, Su Huilan would not be easily led astray by Situ. She returned the question to the atomic clock just now and asked:

“But Mr. Situ, the time of dreams and reality are not consistent. There is a Chinese idiom called ‘Huang Liang Yi Meng’, which tells that a person has gone through a tortuous life, and finally realized that he had just had a dream and woke up. The rice in the pot has not been cooked yet. The length of time in a dream only depends on the speed of neural signal transmission in our brain. How can you determine the time in the real world through the atomic clock in the dream?”

Situ smiled and said, “Don’t you know about real dreams?”