Chapter 422

Mei Tuo was holding the enhanced version of the second-generation space box she had just got, and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.

He gently tapped the alloy surface of his helmet with his pipe, making a crisp sound, like a wind bell in the wind.

"The sound may make you think it's fragile, but in fact it's strong enough!" said the professor excitedly. "If you throw it off the roof of the laboratory building, you can't break it!"

"Professor, why use such advanced materials?" Mei Ziqing was puzzled. "I saw the cost table. The most expensive part of the helmet is the shell and its supporting materials! If we use ordinary alloy materials, we can save at least 30000 US dollars for each helmet."

"Child, don't worry about money. We have a lot of money, and it's still increasing."

Mei Ziqing said stubbornly, "but we need to promote the game project as soon as possible. If each helmet is 50000 US dollars and 10000 players are developed, we need to invest 500 million US dollars, and our goal is one billion users!"

The professor laughed, his hard and fluffy hair exploded, and trembled with his laughter: "poor honest boy, who told you that we are going to give the helmet to the player for free?"

Mei Ziqing Qi said: "didn't you occupy the market for free at the beginning of promotion?"

"No, no, only garbage will be free, and real good things will not be free!" Bian Ziyuan said, "Many products are free in order to occupy the living space of competitors. Once they occupy the market and form a monopoly, they will charge higher fees and earn back the early losses. Our helmets are unparalleled and have no competitors; our games are unparalleled and have no competitors. Why should things without competitors be free?"

"But this is not a necessity! If it is not a necessity, it is necessary to spend money to cultivate the market. Even if you are unique, users can choose not to use it." Mei Ziqing argued.

"Well, opium is not a necessity, and it has never been free. Users can choose not to use it, and all governments do not encourage people to use it, but the sales of opium have never worried traffickers," Bian Ziyuan said.

"Opium is addictive, not counting!"

"Games are addictive, too."

"You mean yourself, game maniac!"

In fact, he also wanted to know why the professor used such expensive materials to make helmets. Fifty thousand dollars a pair, which is not affordable for ordinary people. Such an expensive price really shut out most ordinary people.

Mei Tui said happily: "Do you know how complex the structure of the space box is? The counterfeiting of our first generation products exceeded US $20 million. Up to the second generation, the volume has been reduced so much, but the functions have been added a little. This puts forward high requirements for materials. You know, the space box is not only a VR helmet, but also contains several biographies in it The sensor is so simple. It needs to carry a person's consciousness and all memory to create a new world. The consciousness of game players is the master of the world. They first create the world in this box, not on our server. Therefore, the amount of information carried in the box is incredible, just like our human brain. "

The professor pointed to his fluffy white haired head. "Do you know how much information the human brain can store?"

Bian Zi is not very familiar with biology, but because he studies artificial intelligence, he has a certain understanding of the brain and nerve center "At present, the information storage mechanism of the human brain is not very clear, which should be different from that of the computer. Whether we use the information that a single neuron can store multiplied by the number of neurons in the brain, or use the connection mode of human neurons to represent information, we can't estimate the information storage of the human brain. At least so far, no one has found him My brain is full and I can't remember anything. "

Mei nodded: "You're right. It's just long-term memory information. There are genetic information and genetic information. Although science can't prove them now, we never deny their existence. We even think that their amount of information is larger than our lifetime memory. Although it has been controversial where these information is stored, our consciousness always needs to mention it through our brain Take, will eventually be transformed into the brain's long-term memory. "

"So, is the storage space of the human brain infinite?" Mei Ziqing asked curiously.

"You can say so." the professor replied positively, "because of this, our space box should match the human brain. If we want consciousness to create the world here, we must be able to carry everything that the human brain can carry."

"Is the capacity of the space box infinite? But how does this happen?"

Bian Ziyuan is also very curious. If there is any gap in intelligence between his Cronus and human beings, it is the way of information storage and the expansibility of thinking.

If an artificial intelligence cannot be separated from the information processing mode of the computer, its limitations are obvious - no matter how advanced the storage device is and how small the hard disk becomes, it will always be full one day. At that time, it can only delete old information or add new hardware.

Mei asked with a smile, "do you know Mobius belt?"

"Of course!" Bian Ziyuan said, "turn a piece of paper 180 °, and then stick the two ends together to form a closed loop. When we were young, the teacher did interesting experiments for us."

"The secret of the unlimited storage of information is on this tape. The Mobius tape has only one side, and an insect can climb over the original two sides of the note without crossing the edge of the note," said mezzo

"What does this have to do with information storage?" asked Mei Ziqing.

"I see!" Bian Ziyuan snapped his fingers. "Originally, our information was recorded on one side of the note, but after connecting into Mobius belt, both sides of the note became one side, so the storage capacity of information doubled."

Mei Ziqing was still puzzled: "that's only twice!"

Bian Ziyuan said excitedly, "no, you forget, the Mobius belt can be cut! When we were young, we often played, twisted the paper strip, connected the two ends, and then cut it along the center line of the paper circle. It will not become two paper circles, but will become a larger Mobius belt. Then cut it along the center line, it will become a larger Mobius belt..."

After all, Mei Ziqing has followed Mei for many years. When he was said by a remote person, there is nothing he doesn't understand: "ah, I know that the binary information of the computer is linear in space and won't occupy the width, so as long as the Mobius band is infinitely divided, it can become unlimited and store unlimited information!"

Mei Lei was very happy and looked at his two students with encouraging eyes: "it's not easy to think of this step. When Professor Hans put forward this, everyone was surprised! Don't underestimate such a simple idea, because to realize it involves countless problems to be solved, especially in materials science."

"Is that why you need to use such valuable materials?"

"Yes! Imagine how long it will be to divide a cm wide Mobius band infinitely to the nanometer level?"

"The difference between centimeter and nanometer is 10 million times. Even if one centimeter is divided into tens of nanometers, it will be divided at least 100000 times. Each time, the length of Mobius belt will double and be divided 100000 times, that is, the belt is 2 times longer than the original 100000 times. This..."

Bian Ziyuan was startled by this figure. He silently calculated for a long time in his heart, but he didn't figure out how many there were.

"Don't worry, this length can circle the whole galaxy twice," Mei said with a smile