Chapter 114: Mathematics Problem
The rocket launch was complete, and Jiang Yang’s attention shifted to another matter.
“How is the alien text decryption work going?”
Although it could not be confirmed at this moment that those images composed of line segments and dots were alien text, people had already defaulted to this assumption.
Gu Changshan said: “Domestic experts are formulating a decryption plan and writing decryption algorithms.
The action team is conscripting domestic supercomputers and contacting foreign countries, attempting to include foreign supercomputers as well.
The work should be nearing completion, and it can start running in just a few hours.”
Jiang Yang was slightly surprised: “Supercomputers?”
Gu Changshan said: “Yes. The decryption of these texts is actually a problem of mathematics and computer science.”
Hearing Gu Changshan’s explanation, Jiang Yang gradually understood in his heart.
Unlike the alien text decryption process he had imagined before, this process actually did not involve many ancient text decryption experts, but rather more related to mathematics and computer science.
Ancient text decryption experts decrypt ancient texts more by studying the evolution process of these texts, combining archaeological discoveries, and comparing them one by one with existing archaeological traces in reality.
For example, a roof radical plus a “pig” — knowing that pig means swine, and the roof radical obviously implies some kind of shelter, combined with the history of human civilization, after some research and comparison, one can know that this means “home.”
But these alien texts obviously have little relation to things on Earth, so the possibility of decrypting them using existing ancient text experts is eliminated.
But people have another way to attempt decryption.
The first thing that can be confirmed is that since they are texts, they must contain certain logic internally. The arrangement between one text and another is regular and meaningful, not likely random.
And studying the internal arrangement rules of texts falls under the scope of linguistic logic.
But studying only their linguistic logic is still insufficient to decrypt their content. At the same time, people have no other references.
So the method of decryption is left with only the final one.
Brute force enumeration.
So-called brute force enumeration is to assign a number to each text, first assume it means something, for example, assume this text is “home,” another text is “sun,” then replace the original texts with this set of plan, and use artificial intelligence to analyze whether the logic of the article after replacement is smooth and conforms to linguistic rules.
If the finally generated article’s logic does not make sense through this replacement, it can naturally be eliminated.
At the same time, if a replacement plan shows sufficiently smooth logic in the early stages, for example, the combination of two characters is considered to mean “little A home,” but the same character representing “home” appears after a character identified as “wind,” forming the meaningless combination “wind home,” then this replacement plan will also be negated.
Modern commonly used Chinese characters number about 3000. From this perspective, each alien text has 3000 possible meanings. But do not forget, one alien text may not correspond to just one Chinese character.
It may correspond to a word, or even directly to a sentence.
In this way, the possible meanings for each alien text become countless.
And the possibilities that need to be eliminated one by one using this replacement plan also become too numerous for human manpower to count.
Therefore, introducing supercomputers and using AI to assist in elimination became inevitable.
This is why the Apocalypse Project Command not only conscripted all conscriptable domestic supercomputers but also took the initiative to conscript supercomputers globally.
The computational load is simply too great; only with global cooperation is it possible to decrypt the meanings of these texts in a short time.
“I don’t know if other nations will cooperate with us…”
This was a bit of worry that arose in Jiang Yang’s heart. And as if seeing through Jiang Yang’s thoughts, Gu Changshan said gravely: “The work is progressing very smoothly at present.”
……
On the other side of Earth, in a spacious and huge office, numerous people wearing military uniforms or expensive suits gathered together.
In the front, Mr. President, with hair blond streaked with white, had a serious expression and quietly listened to a subordinate’s report.
“…After the previous nationwide industrial mobilization, that nation carried out frequent and massive heavy launch vehicle rocket launch missions.
Their failure rate was extremely high. And intelligence indicates that at least one-fifth of the rockets were crewed launches.
In the end, out of 292 rockets, a total of 60 launches succeeded.
Ballistics research shows that the launch targets of these rockets were all the same: the Moon.
However, up to this moment, we still do not know what they discovered on the Moon that made them so, um, crazy—yes, I can only describe their actions as crazy.
At the same time, based on comprehensive analysis, I believe their actions—whether the previous bold launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles over our territory, or the conscription of our superconducting material production factories, or the nationwide industrial mobilization, or the current crazy rocket launches, and just now the request we received for them to conscript all supercomputers within our borders… should all be based on the same event framework.
These things are not unrelated but belong within the framework of the same major event.”
This subordinate closed the document in his hand, looked at Mr. President and all the colleagues, and said heavily: “So, should we agree to their request to conscript our supercomputers?”
The meeting room instantly buzzed with discussion.
After a moment, a soldier with a resolute face raised his hand to speak.
“I oppose.
Supercomputers involve our nation’s core interests and secrets; they cannot be handed over just like that.
Combined with the current situation, previously their intercontinental ballistic missiles flew over our territory, while our launched missiles were intercepted by them, which has already caused a sharp drop in our national prestige.
If we cooperate with their demands now, gentlemen, do you know what that means?”
“I also oppose.”
For a time, everyone in the meeting room voiced their positions, some opposing and some supporting. But whether opposing or supporting, all had sufficient and seemingly irrefutable reasons.
The discussion finally stopped. All eyes gathered on Mr. President.
At this moment, for some reason, Mr. President, who usually appeared strong and stern, as if no difficulty could defeat him, suddenly showed a trace of aged weariness.
He was silent for a long time, fully more than ten minutes, before lifting his head.
“Gentlemen, put aside the hatred, unwillingness, and prejudice in your hearts, and accept reality.
Although we are not the leaders of this event, but they are… at such a critical moment, do not fight for discourse power anymore.
Only if people are alive, the nation exists, and civilization continues, is there a future…”
