Chapter 473 Sudden crisis, running frenzy

"If you want to understand the relationship between dimensions and space in multi-dimensional field theory, the simplest way is to first think about the relationship between points, lines, planes, and bodies."

In Lin Xiao's office at Beijing University, he was explaining the knowledge of multidimensional field theory to his graduate students in physics.

Although multidimensional field theory has been around for a long time and has become a popular direction in frontier research in physics, it is still relatively new, so research on it is still in the preliminary stages of exploration.

Of course, this cannot stop more and more physicists and students from choosing this direction.

After all, for those who study physics, classical mechanics allows them to explain most of what happens in the world, while quantum mechanics and relativity allow them to explore the essential composition of the universe and all phenomena; and the study of multi-dimensional fields Theory allows them to cross the three-dimensional space, or the narrow universe, to explore the general universe, that is, the various dimensions of the universe in which they live.

Imagining what a high-dimensional or low-dimensional world is like has not only become something that physics likes to study recently, but it has also become something that the science fiction community likes to discuss.

As the founder of multi-dimensional field theory, Lin Xiao has naturally attracted the attention of many physics students. So since he started recruiting physics graduate students, a large number of students want to apply for his graduate studies every year and then study with him. Multidimensional field theory, both at home and abroad.

Even though there were many students who failed to become his graduate students in the end, they still chose other physics professors from his school, and then came to him from time to time to ask relevant questions.

In this regard, Lin Xiao could only express his helplessness. Although he repeatedly stated that he had no obligation to teach the students of other professors, when these students came to ask him, he was always embarrassed to refuse.

Just like now, although the person who asked him this question was one of his students, there were several students from other professors nearby, listening.

At this time, one of the students raised his hand and asked: "Professor, how should we imagine higher dimensions? If you say that lines are one-dimensional space, surfaces are two-dimensional spaces, and bodies are three-dimensional spaces. , what about four-dimensional space? What is four-dimensional space? How should we imagine the existence of four-dimensional space?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said: "No, we don't have to imagine what this four-dimensional space looks like, because as three-dimensional people, we can never imagine what the four-dimensional space looks like."

"It's like a blind person touching an elephant. For blind people, they can still touch the elephant and have a certain amount of imagination. However, our eyes have never seen the four-dimensional space, so you will never see the 'elephant' in the four-dimensional space. Don’t even think that you can guess its full picture, and of course, don’t try, otherwise, it will be a sign.”

Listening to Lin Xiao's explanation, several students nodded, "We understand."

"Well, although multi-dimensional field theory gives us the opportunity to study other dimensional worlds, at your current stage, it is better to study the theory of this dimension, because if you study this dimension, at least it will be better. There is quantum mechanics and relativity for your reference."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiao suddenly remembered something, and then said with a smile: "Oh! Although the physics community has not completely changed its tune, today's quantum mechanics and relativity should be called the theory of everything."

Several students laughed, and then said one after another: "This is all your credit, Professor!"

Lin Xiao smiled and waved his hand, "That's it. I just completed the more critical steps."

These graduate students in the Department of Physics suddenly showed more admiration. They were joking. It was just a matter of a few words, but in fact it meant unifying quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

Regarding this, not many physicists thought that physics could develop so fast in the past.

But Lin Xiao made it become a reality, so for these physics students, Lin Xiao is undoubtedly like a living Newton and Einstein in their eyes, and is the idol of all of them.

At this time, another student asked: "By the way, Professor Lin, can you tell us more about Qiankun No. 1? Is the computing power of Qiankun No. 1 really that powerful?"

Lin Xiao's brows flickered when he heard the words "Qiankun No. 1".

A month ago, he, Kong Huaan, and Pang Wei were looking for vulnerabilities in the Qiankun No. 1 operating system, and it seemed that they were still vivid in their minds.

Although until now, he is still very concerned about that strange thing, but now, a month has passed, and nothing strange or similar to an information attack has happened in this world. Let him relax a little temporarily.

However, he also asked Kong Huaan to leave a data monitoring program inside the operating system of Qiankun One, and then used this monitoring program to observe the computing power usage of Qiankun One, but no abnormalities were found.

But the only problem is that Qiankun One will always occupy 1% of the computing power, which has not changed.

It's just that there is basically no chance for Qiankun No. 1 to restart now, because it has been officially put into use, and in this case, it will not be allowed to stop working, unless all of it is powered off. This is possible. , so now there is no chance to see if the last one percent of computing power can be "taken back" by restarting again.

"professor?"

His recollection aroused the doubts of the student who asked him this question, so he asked aloud.

"Oh!" Lin Xiao came to his senses, and then said with a smile: "Of course, this is true. The huge computing power brought by 100 qubits was the sum of all the computing power in the world."

“And such huge computing power is already at our disposal.”

"Then...Professor, the computing power of Qiankun One is so powerful, wouldn't it be easy to use it to hack into other people's computers?"

Lin Xiao immediately smiled and said: "So, haven't we declared at the United Nations that we will never use Qiankun One first when others do not try to invade our network?"

Several students laughed immediately. They were so familiar with this sentence.

Lin Xiao smiled, then waved his hand and said: "Okay, go ahead, continue your own studies, and don't chat with me, especially you two. When the time comes, your own instructors will come to me to complain about me. He stole his students."

The two students he was talking about scratched their heads in embarrassment, and then said: "Sorry, Professor Lin, I will definitely do it next time!"

Lin Xiao couldn't help but waved her hands, "Next time?"

He didn't believe it, so he drove away these students and started doing his own thing, which was to study the artificial intelligence knowledge that the system had originally rewarded him with, especially the content about artificial intelligence's self-awareness.

He wants to find a method that can be used to actively discover the self-awareness of artificial intelligence.

Since you can't passively discover it through some signs, you can only try to take the initiative.

However, since there is a lot of content in this part, and he does not have time to study this matter every day, he has not read all the content yet.

But just when he was about to start research, another of his students came over. This student was also one of his graduate students in physics, so Lin Xiao thought that he and the other students just came over to him to ask questions. Knowledge related to multidimensional field theory.

But when he looked up and saw the expression of his student, he couldn't help but be startled, because the student's face was very anxious, as if something big had happened.

So he asked in confusion: "Wen Yong, what's wrong? What happened?"

Wen Yong immediately said anxiously: "Professor, the money in my bank card has suddenly disappeared!"

"I really have no choice, so I came here to find you."

Lin Xiao frowned immediately.

"The money in your bank card is missing? Why is it missing?"

Wen Yong then told Lin Xiao all the details.

Lin Xiao finally understood the whole situation.

There are more than 30,000 yuan in Wen Yong's bank account. Of course, as a student of Lin Xiao, there is usually quite a lot of money in bank cards. As long as you can save money, you are not the kind of people who only pay money.

And just when Wen Yong planned to buy something a week ago, he unexpectedly found that his payment failed because there was no money in his bank card.

But obviously this is impossible, because what he bought was just a pair of sneakers costing several hundred yuan, so this should not be possible.

However, when he checked his balance, he was very panicked and found that all his money was gone, and there was not even a transfer record. However, his past consumption records clearly showed that he still had more than 30,000 yuan. balance.

So he thought it was a network problem or an error in the bank system, so he waited for a day, but the next day, his money still had not been returned, so he contacted the bank staff, and then the bank staff knew The seriousness of this situation indicated that the cause would be investigated. However, when he asked again in the past few days, bank personnel replied to him that the matter was still under investigation.

But at this time, Wenyong had already borrowed money from others for several days. Because he didn't want to tell his family yet, so as not to worry them, he chose to call the police. But he didn't expect that the police would call the police again today. He replied that the matter could not be handled for the time being and asked him to contact the bank to handle it. Because there was no sign that his money was defrauded or transferred away, the case could not be opened and he could only contact the bank to handle it.

For this situation, Wen Yong had no choice but to come to his mentor, Lin Xiao, to deal with it. In his opinion, his mentor, as the country's chief scientist, obviously had enough energy to handle this for him. thing.

After Lin Xiao heard everything, he stretched out his hand and touched his chin.

Money suddenly disappeared?

There’s no transfer record anymore?

Obviously, no matter what the situation, this kind of thing is enough to attract attention.

The sanctity of private property has become one of the most basic principles of mankind with the rise of capitalism. Although it has changed in nature to a certain extent, this idea is still deeply rooted in people's hearts.

In addition, let alone the impact this matter may have on society.

He stood up, pulled Wen Yong to the corner, and asked, "Have you publicized this matter on the Internet?"

"Not yet." Wen Yong shook his head, and then asked: "Do I want to do this?"

Lin Xiao waved his hand, "Don't do this, wait for the news."

Then he took out his wallet, took out all the money in it, about more than five hundred yuan, and gave it to Wen Yong.

"You can use the money during this period. Just ask me when you're done."

Wen Yong's eyes suddenly turned red, "Professor, this..."

"Just take it, you're a grown man, don't be so pretentious." Lin Xiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I'm going to ask you about this matter now, remember, don't talk about it everywhere. thing."

Wen Yong took the money and nodded seriously: "Yes! I understand, professor!"

Lin Xiao said no more and quickly left the place. A man in a black suit in his office quickly followed Lin Xiao and asked, "Chief Lin, do you want to arrange a car?"

"Well, let's arrange it. When we get to the car, I have a question that I want to discuss with your National Security Bureau." Lin Xiao said.

"Okay." The national security officer responded, then pressed his ears and whispered a few words.

Then when Lin Xiao came downstairs, an ordinary-looking Audi appeared at the intersection.

After Lin Xiao got in the car, there was another person sitting in the back seat, it was Qi Shangao.

After the car started, Qi Shangao asked: "Chief, do you have anything to ask?"

"Yes." Lin Xiao didn't waste any time and asked directly: "Have there been any major events in the banking system recently?"

"I didn't expect you to know, Chief." When talking about this issue, Qi Shangao's expression suddenly became serious, "A week ago, there were about 174 cases of sudden disappearance of balances across the country, and as for the detailed reasons, It's still under investigation, but the question basically points to the possibility of being hacked by a very skilled hacker."

"Hacker?" Hearing these two words, Lin Xiao couldn't help but be startled, "A hacker can actually do this?"

Qi Shangao smiled bitterly and said: "Who knows? Now some people claim that someone has found the proof of P=NP. To be honest, if you hadn't falsified this problem some time ago, chief, and brought popularity to this thing, Otherwise, no one would think of this so quickly."

Lin Xiao was speechless and said: "I have already falsified it, and they still think someone has found the proof?"

"It is inevitable that some fools think that they are the smartest." Qi Shangao smiled and then said: "But, in short, this is the situation. We are still investigating who this hacker is."

"Oh, by the way, this situation has also occurred in other countries. According to statistics, a total of 1,024 cases of this kind of thing have been discovered."

"1024?"

"Any questions? Chief."

"Oh, just thinking from a mathematical point of view, 1024 is 2 raised to the tenth power."

Lin Xiao smiled.

"Haha, that's true, but this number is probably just random." It's just Qishan Gao.

"I hope so."

Lin Xiao nodded silently, "But, has this news been suppressed?"

"Our domestic situation is under control, but some foreign countries are not." Qi Shangao shook his head, and then smiled: "Of course, the impact on foreign countries is not big. The foreign population is not as large as ours, oh, except for India. On the other hand, there are more than 200 cases in India, and in countries such as Europe and the United States, there are mostly less than 100 cases."

"All in all, the more populous a place, the more cases there will be. If the number of people does not exceed 100, the impact will be controllable."

"Yeah." Lin Xiao nodded slightly.

He knew very well how much damage would be caused to the entire human society once the news was not suppressed and became uncontrollable.

When people begin to distrust the bank, there will be a possibility of a run, and the vast majority of bank deposits are loans. The deposit reserves are often unable to bear the risk of a run when people swarm in, resulting in The only thing that happened was the collapse of the bank.

At this time, only emergency printing of banknotes can solve this problem. But the problem is that printing more banknotes will bring another serious economic consequence, which is quite serious inflation. Therefore, this method, If it is not at the last moment, it must not be taken.

At this moment, his eyes couldn't help but look into the distance, his pupils flickering slightly.

Is it Qiankun No. 1?

At this moment, Qi Shangao's cell phone suddenly rang, he answered the call, and after saying a few words, his expression became extremely serious, "Yes, yes, we promise to protect Chief Lin, superiors, please rest assured! "

Lin Xiao was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Qi Shangao said in a calm voice: "The problem has become bigger. The bank center monitored the data just now. The balance of more than 10,000 bank accounts in our country suddenly became zero!"

Lin Xiao's pupils suddenly shrank.

"Because there are too many people involved, and these people are relatively evenly distributed, every province in the country is involved. It will be difficult to suppress the news this time. In order to prevent you from being affected, in the next period of time, the above We have decided to let you temporarily stay at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, where the safety factor is relatively high."

Lin Xiao didn't care so much, but asked directly: "What about abroad?"

"It's not clear yet abroad. We have just monitored the data, but I will tell you immediately when there is news."

"I understand." Lin Xiao nodded, "By the way, what about my family?"

"You can rest assured that nothing will happen to your family."

"That's good, thank you for your hard work."

"It is our honor to serve Chief Lin." Qi Shangao said with a smile.

Lin Xiao smiled, but felt even more confused.

He looked into the distance again, to be precise, it was towards Fei Shi, because the place where Qiankun No. 1 was located was Fei City, where Hua University of Science and Technology was located.

This incident had to make him wonder if the problem was caused by Qiankun One.

"In the next few days, you need to quickly read all the content about controlling the self-awareness of artificial intelligence, otherwise, it will be too late."

A decision was made in his mind.

Although it is still uncertain whether any self-consciousness has really awakened in Qiankun No. 1, now, he must try it through his own method.

Of course, before that, he had not forgotten his students, especially Wen Yong.

Once the news is not suppressed and causes shock across the country, a large number of people will inevitably go to banks to get their money back.

At this time, it is not like the economic crisis that happened in the past.

In the past, the frenzy of bank runs that occurred during the economic crisis was because people thought that the banks had no money, so they ran. But now it is not that the banks have no money, but that the money in the bank cards has disappeared inexplicably. It turns out that there is still another bank. Number, but now it has become zero duck eggs.

Therefore, no matter whether the bank has enough money or not, it cannot change the people's decision to withdraw their money. After all, the bank cannot guarantee that their money will not inexplicably turn into zero eggs at any time.

Obviously, banks will definitely use all means to prevent depositors from withdrawing money, and in the end it is very likely that an all-out attack will take place.

In the end, depositors who cannot withdraw their money have many choices, and the most likely choice is to retaliate against society, such as zero-dollar shopping, robbery, etc., especially food grabbing.

As the dispute gradually expands, personal safety will also be lost.

Therefore, in order to prevent Wen Yong from impulsively participating in such activities before the situation gets out of control, or his students are in danger, it is necessary for him to remind his students.

So he immediately called and informed.

…

However, the evolution of the situation still exceeded everyone's expectations.

In one day, the balances of more than 20,000 depositors in China became zero, and there were more than 10,000 depositors in the United States, as well as various European countries, etc. All in all, they far exceeded the 1,024 people in the first time. The number of people affected this time was already More than 100,000 people.

With such a huge number of people, coupled with the dispersed population, unless the whole world interrupts the Internet, telephone and other methods of news transmission, otherwise, the news will inevitably spread to the whole world.

As a result, in just one day, everyone in the world knew that it was unsafe to store money in banks, and bank runs naturally occurred.

…

Lubbock, Texas, United States.

The entrance to the Lubbock branch of JPMorgan Chase Bank.

"Damn bank, let me withdraw money. You can't guarantee the money in my account. Why don't you let me withdraw money?"

"Get out of the way, Yankee lackeys! We want our money!"

"Get away!"

"..."

At the door of the bank, the branch manager looked worried.

He never expected that even though there was no sign of the coming economic crisis, a frenzy of bank runs would suddenly sweep over him.

And their branch obviously cannot provide deposits to so many people.

As for transferring money to other branches?