How to write parallel universe novels

The original sci-fi short story "Parallel Universe"

Twenty years ago that afternoon, Zongheng Li was a child. An old man with a pestle passed by his house downstairs and got a job. While sharpening his knife, he told people fortune. Zongheng Li's mother asked the old man to make a divination for her son. The old man put down the kitchen knife and twisted his beard and said, "This young man will travel north and south in the future and have a bright future!"

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On the last morning years ago, the alarm clock rang three times. Li Shoufang woke up from her dream and went out without washing her hair. He has two meat buns in his hand, running all the way. He ran faster than usual, and the wild cats on the roadside gave way. Just passing by a beautiful woman, she slipped and fell to the ground. The steamed stuffed bun in her hand was in a muddle, and the beauty was frightened. He said, fuck! Get up and keep running. If you are late today, it's not as simple as deducting 100 yuan. You can't get a year's attendance award if you get up early and get greedy. That's a thousand dollars!

Finally arrived at the subway station, more crowded than before. I didn't get on the subway twice in a row, and I had a fight with someone. When the second subway left, I knew I couldn't catch up. Li Shousheng looked down at the podium, full of thoughts.

Looking back on my bleak life, I failed in the college entrance examination (because of nervousness), repeated reading, failed again (because of insomnia), repeated reading, failed again (because of diarrhea), reluctantly went to college, and wanted to study physics-although I didn't get good grades in physics, I was full of curiosity about the universe-but I was transferred to software engineering. Learn from a painful experience and strive to become stronger. I didn't even talk about my girlfriend for fear of affecting my study, but I really couldn't go on studying. Because I was not interested, I had to play games all day to drown my sorrows. In a blink of an eye, I graduated from college and went out to drift north. I became a hard-working code farmer. Write logic all day, spell ui, work overtime seriously, and often recite the pot. I'm almost 30, and I don't have a girlfriend. I haven't even held a girl's hand. Yes, I did. That time I worked overtime all night, and a beautiful woman accompanied him all night. After the bug was solved, both of them fell asleep at their desks. Less than a week later, the exam was cancelled.

What pains him most is that he is getting farther and farther away from his dream of becoming a great physicist. The dream of physics came back to life last night, and I couldn't sleep. Get up in the middle of the night and go to Zhihu to search how to become a physicist. Sure enough, the same question has been asked, and the answers are mostly cold water. Only a few of them are insightful and inspiring. Speaking of how Einstein changed from a small clerk to a master of science, Li Shoufu was full of emotion and blood boiling. I immediately decided to buy a set of Feynman physics lectures (recommended in the answer) and place an order with Amazon, but it was out of stock.

Thinking of all this, Li Shousheng couldn't help sighing: Damn, I really did something wrong, I'm dead!

Just then, the lights in the distant tunnel came on, the next subway came, and Li Shousheng jumped off the platform. . .

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Time seems to have stopped, and there is a double image in the front of the subway. Some people around you are dumbfounded, half-open, and some are unconsciously thinking about life and all freeze.

Li Shousheng's soul was knocked eight feet away, and when he returned to his body, he felt sick.

At this moment, a beautiful woman appeared in front of him. Her skin is bright and white, as if she had self-luminescence, and her skirt and long brown hair fluttered rhythmically, seemingly unaffected by gravity.

Beauty: You can't die!

Li Shousheng: Why? Who are you?

Beauty: I come from another parallel universe, and my civilization is higher than yours. Your death will have a bad influence on my universe through quantum entanglement, so I will stop you.

Lie Conservation: Parallel Universe? Quantum entanglement?

Beauty: Huh? Really?

Li Shousheng shook his head: I haven't bought Feynman's physics lecture notes.

Beauty: OK, I'll make it simple. Suppose this is an electron?

When she waved her hand, the palm of her hand generated a silver ball, and at the same time, a double-slit screen appeared in front of her. With a gentle push, the electrons begin to accelerate and enter the bullet time. As the electron gets closer to the target, its trajectory becomes more and more wobbly, and finally it splits into two at the moment of arrival-one enters the left slit and the other enters the right slit. Then the space began to deform, at first like two images in a mirror with a certain angle on both sides, and then each of them bent into a ball and divided into two worlds.

Beauty: This is the parallel universe! Note that we can see that the universe is divided, because we are from the perspective of God, and people in the universe don't know this. They and their memories can only be separated from the universe.

Then these two electrons go through various changes in their respective worlds-down to the depths of the stratum and up to outer space, participate in inorganic reactions, and blend into cell metabolism ... but somehow, they have a heart in their hearts, which always keeps rotating in opposite directions.

Beauty: This is quantum entanglement!

Li Shousheng praised: God's tmd image is vivid, which is simply an epic teaching!

I can't help but think of Zhihu's last question: "What kind of experience is it to have a girlfriend who knows quantum mechanics?"

Beauty: Now you understand!

Zongheng Li: Well, almost, but what effect will my death have on your universe? Will it lead to its destruction?

The beauty smiled: that won't come.

Then it goes on to say: two individuals in parallel universes are entangled with each other. If they contain more than a certain proportion of mutually modified particles, their macroscopic states will show a strong correlation, such as one death and the other death.

Before the beauty finished, Li Shousheng suddenly realized: Oh, I see, we are entangled!

It's a little exciting to think of being connected with such a beautiful woman (or a highly civilized woman) with the same life.

Beauty: No, you are entangled with my little turtle.

After that, he took out a canned bottle with a green turtle the size of mahjong in it.

Li was sweating profusely and his mood plummeted.

Li Shouheng: You are so selfish as an advanced civilization. Why can't I die for your little turtle?

The beauty waved again and the background disappeared. They seem to be in endless deep space, and then there are countless black holes of different colors, and there are words in unknown languages next to them.

Beauty: You are not the only body that is entangled. You are entangled in all these universes.

Lie conservation point opens a blue black hole;

In this universe, he is a single-celled creature inferior to that turtle, drifting with the tide in the primitive ocean, swinging his cilia, and trying to swim in a warmer and richer direction, while a predator in front is slowly sticking out of the cell membrane and sinking into the maw.

Conservation of lies once again opens a red black hole:

In this universe, he is a manic Tyrannosaurus Rex, and he is fighting a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The two sides were evenly matched and caught in a bitter battle. Just then, a golden light flashed across the horizon, and then the earth shook, the sea boiled, the volcano erupted, the smoke billowed, and the once-in-a-billion-year asteroid impact happened.

Conservation of lies once again opens a yellow black hole:

The muddy yellow sky and the blue beach are a completely different world. He is a soldier, and for some reason, he came to kill dragons. His body is a soft red sphere, which moves by shifting the center of gravity and elastic deformation. There are several tentacles sticking out from the side of his body, two of which are thicker, and one of them is curled at the end, holding a sword. This dragon is dozens of times bigger than him. Its mouthparts are covered with tentacles and mucus. It has a laser eye. The strength contrast is obviously disparity. Under the attack of the dragon, the soldier was almost desperate, but he still clung to the hilt and looked pale.

Zongheng Li can feel the slightest emotion of each entanglement, as if he had experienced it. He didn't expect that there are thousands of "egos" in the universe in Qian Qian, and he may be the most disappointing one.

Beauty: Every life is a great adventure. The fate of these entanglements is closely related to you. Do you still want to kill yourself?

Li Shuzheng was immersed in emotion and still didn't wake up. After a while, he looked down at his body.

Zongheng Li: But do you think I can be saved if I crash like this?

Beauty: It's light this time. The last time you jumped off a building and fell on a 10,000-volt high-voltage line, you got burned.

Zongheng Li: You mean I want to die more than once?

Beauty: Yes, this is the eightieth time.

Lie protection hides the face.

Beauty: Why do you have to die?

Zongheng Li: I'm almost thirty, and I'm still single. I dreamed of becoming a great physicist, but now I am a poor programmer. I haven't got the 1000 attendance award yet. You say, what's the point of living?

Beauty: don't just look at the present, persistence will make a difference.

The beauty waved again, and time passed. For example, in the center of the hurricane, Li Shousheng's eyes quickly turned into paste.

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The alarm clock rang three times and Li Shousheng woke up from his dream. He turned off the alarm clock by feeling, and there was a set of "Advanced Civilization Physics Lecture" next to the alarm clock. Although he will be late, he is in no hurry. He washed his hair first, had breakfast at the door, and then walked to the subway station facing the morning sun. While waiting for the subway, he looked at the tunnel (as if there were magnets there) and hesitated for a long time. The light on the corner in the distance came on, and the subway came, but Zongheng Li didn't jump.

I'm late for the company downstairs. When I went upstairs, I happened to meet the sister at the front desk, a healing beauty with a sweet smile. She was late, too.

Zongheng Li is usually a boring person, but today he took the initiative to greet people for the first time. My sister is also very friendly, not only giving him a healing smile, but also chatting with him.

Zongheng Li: Oh, I'm late today.

Sister: Yes, I didn't wake up until the alarm clock rang three times today.

Li Shousheng: Me too? Oh, what a pity! I am almost full-time this year.

Sister: That's easy. I'll give you a proof that you forgot to bring your card. Just write on time.

Li Shousheng was overjoyed: Really? ! You can give it to me.

The wanderer smiled cunningly: nothing.

After opening the certificate, Zongheng Li sat in the workstation, typing the code and remembering his son's smiling face, and finished writing an operation: 1000 warning, 1000 error.

He put down the keyboard and got up the courage to come to the front desk again.

Zongheng Li: Are you free at noon? Can I invite you to dinner?

After saying this, Li Shousheng felt that his blood pressure was rising rapidly, and his heart was pounding like an open nuclear reactor, getting worse and worse. Just when he was about to collapse. ...

Sister: OK.

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A week later, Li Shouheng got the attendance bonus.

A month later, Li Shousheng confessed his success to the girl at the front desk.

More than ten years later, Zongheng Li understood the first formula in the first section of the first chapter of Lectures on Advanced Civilization Physics, and became the greatest theoretical physicist of this century.

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In other universes:

Single cells get rid of predators.

Tyrannosaurus rex escaped extinction.

The brave man killed the dragon.