One Two Three

It had been raining for several days in the capital, and the damp air rushed into Shen Qi's office through the window.

During graduation season at Yenching University, undergraduates are busy with their graduation theses.

Shen Qi's work seems no different from that of an ordinary science and engineering student: building coordinates, smoothing and correcting curves, extracting nodes, doing various averages, comparing, plotting, inputting, calculating, inputting again, calculating again, inputting again, generating a model.

Thousands of Differential Equation and Partial Differential Equations were input, and tens of thousands of matrices were derived to build a new Great Wall. The prototype of the causal model was about to emerge. It was like a giant city, with blue-lit coordinates dividing it into many "blocks". The curves in the sky intertwined and densely covered it like Colorful Auspicious Clouds.

Tiny arrows of various colors move incessantly according to certain rules; entropy, boundaries, chaos, divergence and vorticity, reconstruction and collapse, scaling and universality, particularity and probability, turbulent solitons that are no longer lost, a vast and complex array of elements merge together, their intricate connections following the most rigorous formulas and equations.

What Shen Qi is doing has almost reached the pinnacle of human mathematical and physical knowledge.

There were a few people whom Shen Qi had to show his respect to.

First is Leibniz, second is Heisenberg, third is Poincare, and fourth is Shen Qi.

The Operable Causality Model is being generated, progressing from 1% to 2% to 3% to 7%. On May 12th, the entire day, the progress bar only reached 7%.

"Looks like I need to apply for a Biological Computer."

Shen Qi left his computer on, then left the office and locked the door.

What if someone steals such important research findings?

It's alright, Shen Qi believes that no one but him can understand and learn how to use his ultimate model.

The next day, Shen Qi actually wrote an application report and submitted it to the Computer Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

With the help of biological experts, the Computer Science Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences applied cloned monkey brain tissue to the research and development of biological Computer Science and produced a prototype.

Shen Qi applied for a prototype of a monkey brain biological Computer Science; he needed it because it was faster than a supercomputer.

At the end of May, Shen Qi's conventional Computer Science finally completed the 100% progress bar of the Operable Causality Model.

A new icon appeared on the computer desktop, which Shen Qi named "One Two Three" version 1.0.

One begets two, two begets three, three begets all things. The "One Two Three" version 1.0 is a program, a deductive terminal program based on a causal model.

Activating "One Two Three" requires responding to a command. The command is randomly generated, and the generation principle was created by Shen Qi himself. No one but him can operate "One Two Three".

Imagination cannot arise from nothing; even the most imaginative ideas must have a grounded, real-world prototype.

Cause-deduction-result: this is the core design concept that Shen Qi gave to "One Two Three".

In scientific terms, the cause is the raw data; the more data samples and the more precise the data, the more accurate the deduction.

Shen Qi locked himself in his office, rubbing his hands excitedly; the exciting moment was about to arrive.

Clicking on "One Two Three," Shen Qi entered all the raw data copied from FAST: radio source images, spectra of H2CO masers and H2CO absorption lines, radio nuclei and high-intensity radio lobe edges of the Butterfly Nebula, and outlines of the Butterfly Nebula automatically generated by various algorithms... This data from FAST totaled more than 2TB.

Then, Shen Qi input the data he had collected, which came from neutron stars and black holes that people had detected, as well as the definition of Dark Matter.

Thump!

Shen Qi struck a historic blow, activating the first-ever deduction of "One Two Three".

The goal set by Shen Qi for the simulation was: whether Dark Matter exists in the Butterfly Nebula.

Some people said this was inappropriate, so Shen Qi wrote a program himself and used it to deduce whether Dark Matter existed more than 6,000 light-years away.

Isn't this just empty talk? Would pragmatic experimental physicists accept this self-directed and self-acted scenario?

It's alright. If they don't accept it, we can discuss it further and each have our own reasons... Based on the above principles, Shen Qi stared intently at the computer screen, "One Two Three" was calculating the instruction "Does Dark Matter exist at the Butterfly Nebula?"

The massive torrent of data relentlessly assaults the limits of "One Two Three," nonlinear equations unleash towering waves, and countless functions are automatically generated and evolve into new functions, their deep roars like terrifying, enormous vortexes.

The little boat "One Two Three" is tossed about in the turbulent sea of data, but its captain, Shen Qi believes that sunshine always follows the storm.

A message appeared on the screen, an estimated progress of the simulation from "One Two Three": "This simulation is expected to last seventeen years... 1%... Simulating... 1%..."

"Holy crap..."

Shen Qi was dumbfounded. Seventeen years later, his daughter would be old enough to date, and Grandpa Shen would be almost 50. He couldn't wait that long.

Version 1.0 of "One Two Three" is, after all, a trial version, and Shen Qi may still need to continue his efforts to make technical improvements to the software.

Another factor limiting computing speed is hardware. Shen Qi's application for Biological Computer was submitted to the Chinese Academy of Sciences half a month ago, but it has not yet arrived.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences attaches great importance to Shen Qi's application. The academy's leaders solemnly replied that they would definitely provide Academician Shen with a prototype monkey brain biological Computer Science with the best performance and the most stable operation. They asked Academician Shen to wait patiently.

Shen Qi terminated the calculation command for "whether Dark Matter exists in the Butterfly Nebula". The workload of calculations related to the stars and the sea is extremely large. If tiny humans want to peek into the mysteries of the universe, they need to pay a long price in time.

"Let's use a more approachable simulation method."

Returning to Earth from space, Shen Qi input the raw earthquake prediction data he had prepared ten years ago and commanded "One Two Three" to calculate the probability of an earthquake occurring at those two coordinate points in the Northern Hemisphere.

The sequence "One Two Three" provides an estimated timeline for the simulation. "This simulation will last 66 days, 3 hours, and 58 minutes... 1%... Simulating... 1%..."

This time, the precise time points of "One Two Three" are given in whole numbers, indicating that it is well-prepared and its calculations are not rushed.

"More than two months is still too long..." Shen Qi was eager to verify the accuracy of the "One Two Three" deduction in a short period of time. He designed the program and knew that the larger the amount of data and the more complex the calculation, the longer it would take to get the result.

It would take seventeen years to extrapolate cosmic activity more than six thousand light-years away.

It takes more than two months to deduce the Earth's crustal movements.

Shen Qi obtained two reference coefficients.

Based on the "One Two Three" design concept, Shen Qi turned his attention to humans.