Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 127 Hibernation and Commemoration

After witnessing the commencement of construction of the Circum-Equatorial Particle Accelerator, Ding Yi gave the particle accelerator a name.

[Einstein] Equatorial Particle Accelerator.

Ding Yi harbored a conflicted attitude towards Einstein, whom he had never met. Often, Ding Yi lamented that he and Einstein were not from the same era. His biggest concern was whether Einstein had actually completed his research on the unified field theory in his later years, and how many of the four fundamental forces he had unified. He also wanted to tell this white-bearded old man: God is indeed playing dice—quantum mechanics has been personally verified by the Wallfacer.

On the other hand, Ding Yi did have a personal motive for promoting the establishment of the Equatorial Particle Accelerator. Breaking the interference of sophons on high-energy particle experiments was only one aspect. Another aspect was that Ding Yi hoped to use the Equatorial Particle Accelerator to conduct experiments to prove his conjectures. Yes, he still held hope for unifying the four fundamental forces. If the Equatorial Particle Accelerator could be successfully built, it would be the closest he would ever get to his dream.

At the age of 55, Ding Yi decided to go into hibernation, with the hibernation period set after the complete construction of the Ring Equatorial Particle Accelerator.

Since Ding Yi went into hibernation, the world seems to have been put on fast-forward. In that vast Antarctic hibernation base, two Wallfacers lie in eternal slumber. In the last decade, more than 7,000 space forces from various countries have participated in special hibernation programs to support the future.

During this long journey of hibernation, the passage of time for ordinary people never stops.

After being convicted of fraud, Shi Xiaoming started a legitimate business upon his release from prison. With his relatively quick wit, he amassed a considerable fortune, married, and had a son. When his son was five years old, Shi Xiaoming took him to an Antarctic hibernation base to visit his father.

"Is this Grandpa?" The son pointed with his childish finger at Shi Qiang under the transparent canopy.

"Ah."

"What happened to Grandpa?"

"If you get sick, you'll have to go to the future to get treatment."

"Will I ever see Grandpa again?"

Shi Xiaoming, who was already in his forties, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Of course we can. Dad hasn't saved enough money yet. Once I've saved enough, I'll take you to the future to find Grandpa... It won't be long."

At its peak, Antarctic hibernation bases housed approximately 70 people. Of these, about 15 were officially hibernated by governments or the United Nations and the PDC. The remaining 50 were mainly the result of the commercialization of hibernation bases. The high cost of hibernation exacerbated social inequality to some extent, but it also solidified the hope of some. In this protracted collective hibernation, time rolled by and history rolled by.

In response to this situation, the Hibernator Protection Act was enacted, and this plan was eventually incorporated into the UN Charter, ensuring its protection to the greatest extent possible in the future.

The expansion of the hibernation base exacerbated the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet. In response to rising global sea levels, the Wallfacer Luo Qing dragged a large amount of seawater away from Earth and to Mars.

This seawater was diverted to the Utopia Planitia on Mars—some planetary geologists believe that the Utopia Planitia on Mars may have been an ancient ocean on Mars. Of course, in order to prevent the seawater from evaporating completely under high temperatures, humans built the largest 'flying liquid' soap bubble in history to cover the ocean on Mars.

This massive geological transformation of Mars was almost entirely accomplished by Luo Qing single-handedly, and the emerging Martian base began to expand around that tiny bit of ocean.

This saves humans a lot of effort.

Luo Qing is not the only one striving for this world in his own way.

Jean-Claude Said, the former UN Secretary-General and former rotating chair of the Planetary Defense Council, was once praised by Luo Ji as "the second most beautiful female politician the Philippines has contributed to the world." During her tenure, she spearheaded two significant projects: Project Wallfacer and Project Stars. However, Said's most significant achievement was not these. Rather, it was her iron-fisted approach to integrating global resources, which transformed the UN into a political entity that major powers could not ignore under her reorganization. In this respect, Said's successors greatly admire her.

After leaving office, Say did not remain in obscurity; instead, he used his influence to launch a human memorial project among the public.

In this era dominated by victoryism, supplemented by defeatism, and with escapism lurking in the shadows, Say, as a realist, believed that the future was uncertain in the absence of theoretical stagnation.

It's too early to predict victory or defeat.

She believes that the value of civilization lies not only in its survival, but also in being witnessed. Even if humanity becomes extinct, the information about civilization can still drift through the universe.

"Let the universe know that we existed."

This is the slogan of the human memorial project initiated by Zaire.

Thanks to the existence of MOSS, the most difficult part of the human memorial project (collecting and organizing information) could be entirely entrusted to this quantum ghost, making Sai's work much easier. The memorial project collected almost all of human civilization's electronic data and a portion of the physical memorial artifacts.

To express her respect for the UN Secretary-General, the director of the Louvre Museum in France presented her with a 1:1 replica of the Mona Lisa by a contemporary master painter. Although it was a forgery, Say expressed her sincere gratitude to the Louvre director.

After personally presenting the forgery to Jean-Baptiste Say, the Louvre director said meaningfully, "President Say, although it is a forgery, it encapsulates the essence of art. I hope your memorial project will preserve it properly."

“Definitely.” Sai’s answer was brief and forceful.

In addition to collecting online materials and offline memorials, Say also commissioned MOSS to build a website called "Human Diaries," in which she hoped that as many people as possible would record their daily lives in words and images as part of the records of civilization.

MOSS set up a check-in system, virtual rewards, and a seemingly useless upgrade system for the Human Diary website. These rules and systems, which included positive emotional feedback, attracted a large number of users to participate in the Human Diary website.

From wall-facers to homeless novelists, everyone uploaded their writings to the Human Diary website in the form of diaries. Due to the anonymity system promised by MOSS, the Human Diary website even attracted a group of ETO members to participate anonymously.

The Human Diary website became the largest information repository in the history of the internet. Although the Planetary Defense Council believed that the Human Memorial Project might fuel defeatist sentiments, it ultimately did not pass a resolution to restrict the website, given the support from the Wallfacers.

In the remainder of her life, Say received art forgeries from various museums and memorials, which she collectively considered part of the memorial. In the future, Say planned to place the memorial and the online information storage entity on an unmanned spacecraft, which would then depart from the vast solar system. But this was clearly a long road ahead, and Say continued her personal efforts towards this cause until her death at the age of 84.

Luo Qing attended her funeral; it was the first time he had ever attended the funeral of an old friend since he came into this world.

Perhaps there will be many more times in the future.

That's all for today's four chapters. I need to start accumulating manuscripts to pay back the patron.

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