You've heard of Schrödinger's cat, but have you heard of Schrödinger's person?
As the saying goes, when in doubt, turn to quantum mechanics.
The quantum world is full of wonders and strange phenomena.
Here, a cat can be both dead and alive.
Here, an electron can be both a particle and a wave.
Here, entangled particles can influence each other faster than light.
All these strange phenomena point to one conclusion:
The entire universe is generated by code!
This novel assumes that the code was written by someone from an outer universe.
The writer's real goal was to win a prize at the Fourth Creation Art and Culture Festival.
Civilizations had previously been cultivated in other galaxies. Earth Online is equivalent to the fourth generation of civilization.
As civilizations advance, they will all become capable of proving that the universe is encoded and that people are NPCs in a game.
This realization can make people take their own lives.
It can make people lie flat and stop developing technology.
It can make people stop having children.
Unless they especially like little kids.
As a result, every civilization eventually declines.
Because the Creator was careless, Earth Online got a key item ahead of time: an energy orb that makes quantum effects macroscopic.
My sweet wife, Xiaowu, accidentally got hold of the energy orb.
We handed it over to the government.
Yet the threats from outside still haven't been dealt with!
Will the fourth-generation civilization repeat the fate of the first three?
What new tricks can quantum technology offer?
Enough talk. Let's begin our quantum sci-
