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In the past two years, the reason why Ning Chen has not used brain simulation skills is largely because his brain simulation skills are only the last one left.

If it had been before, Ning Chen might not have been able to make up his mind to use this precious last opportunity.

With Ning Chen's character, he might keep this last chance until many years later, until Ning Chen replenishes the number of skills.

But with ten redemption times as a basis, Ning Chen no longer worries about insufficient skill times.

With Ning Chen's reconfirmation, Ning Chen consumed the last number of brain simulation simulations and entered the simulation space.

In an instant, a very empty, almost endless dark space appeared in Ning Chen's brain.

Several years have passed since Ning Chen last entered the simulation space. This made Ning Chen feel a little strange when he first entered the simulation space.

However, Ning Chen quickly regained his previous feelings and quickly started the simulation task.

This time, Ning Chen first created a planet that was exactly the same as Blue Star, and also created Shengzhou's black hole telescope and other facilities.

Ning Chen's move was also to simulate the working scene of the entire black hole telescope as realistically as possible.

Immediately afterwards, Ning Chen simulated the various behaviors of the large dormant black hole in the distance of the universe.

Because the existence of this black hole still remains at the level of hypothesis, Ning Chen's simulation may not be exactly the same as the real situation.

But as long as he compares the simulated situation with the real situation and compares the differences between the two, Ning Chen may discover the problem.

As the details in the simulation space continued to be filled in, the intensity of the simulation continued to increase, and fine beads of sweat began to appear on Ning Chen's forehead.

After the mental index increased significantly, Ning Chen could perform simulations with better results. However, when the accuracy of the simulation increased to a certain level, Ning Chen also clearly felt that it was a bit difficult.

"The current simulation accuracy... should be accurate enough to simulate the entire process of receiving cosmic signals by a black hole telescope. If I forcibly superimpose the excitement mode, I'm afraid I won't be able to persist for too long."

Ning Chen decided to use the brain simulation skills alone to experiment first to ensure that he could receive enough data.

In the following time, Ning Chen maintained this state and used the black hole telescope in the simulated space to receive various signals emitted by the dormant black hole.

Observing some of the signals, Ning Chen always felt that there seemed to be a familiar feeling. However, because the simulation took up too much of Ning Chen's brain power, Ning Chen was temporarily unable to spare his brain power for analysis.

Ning Chen plans to wait until the simulation is over to analyze these signals. What Ning Chen needs to do now is to memorize these large amounts of data.

There is an obvious flaw in brain simulation simulation skills, that is, the data in these simulation spaces cannot be directly transmitted outside the simulation space.

Even Xiaozhi cannot enter this space, and all data can only be memorized by Ning Chen's brain.

Fortunately, Ning Chen now has a strong enough data memory ability, which is not even inferior to many ordinary computers.

Relying on his powerful memory far beyond ordinary people, Ning Chen worked hard to memorize these massive data in his brain.

After an unknown amount of time, Ning Chen finally felt that his brain was about to reach its limit.

"With the current amount of data, it should be enough for me to analyze and compare." Ning Chenxin said.

In this case, Ning Chen felt that there was no need to waste another time to restore energy.

In addition, according to Ning Chen's current brain state, the brain simulation cannot be continued for any longer, and it should automatically exit the brain simulation state soon.

Ning Chen didn't care about these few minutes and decided to reserve some of his energy for the subsequent data analysis and comparison.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen said silently in his mind:

"System, end this brain simulation simulation state."

This kind of brain simulation state does not strictly limit the duration of each state. Instead, when the user exhausts his energy or actively ends the state, the consumption of one use is completed.

After coming out of the brain simulation state, Ning Chen felt very tired.

Ning Chen's brain had been consumed a lot, and his body also felt like it was being hollowed out.

But even so, Ning Chen did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately started the "data export" work without even taking a minute's rest.

Because the amount of data involved in this simulation is too huge, if the data is exported in the normal way, I am afraid that one day will not be enough for Ning Chen.

Although this work is far less energy-intensive than the brain simulation just now, it is difficult to maintain it for a long time in Ning Chen's current state.

Fortunately, Xiaozhi can now help Ning Chen in this matter. After Ning Chen's training, Xiaozhi can record the information in Ning Chen's brain as quickly as possible and import this information into the computer.

This method of information transmission is not as simple as ordinary computer information transmission. Instead, Ning Chen needs to remember the information and clearly present the information that needs to be transmitted in his brain, so that the information can be effectively transmitted. .

Continuous high-intensity mental work put Ning Chen's brain through a very severe test, but Ning Chen relied on his strong willpower to persevere.

It wasn't until Ning Chen finished transmitting the last part of the data that Ning Chen could finally let his brain relax.

"Huh... I can finally rest for a while."

The long period of excitement made Ning Chen not feel sleepy for the time being, but soon after relaxing, Ning Chen felt a strong sense of fatigue.

Soon, Ning Chen fell into a deep sleep.

After a dreamless night, Ning Chen finally woke up after an unknown amount of time.

Looking at the time, Ning Chen was a little surprised to find that he had slept for a full twelve hours.

You know, such a long sleep time is already twice as long as Ning Chen's usual sleep time.

"I really didn't expect that just one brain simulation state would reach the intensity of using the brain in the excitement mode. It seems that last night, I really exceeded my brain load by far."

But this experience made Ning Chen feel full of accomplishment, because compared to before, not only his brain power had been improved, but his willpower was also far stronger than before.

"Fortunately, last night, Xiaozhi helped me increase the speed of data transmission. Otherwise, even if I stay up until now, I may not be able to complete the transmission of this information."

Feeling that his brain had completely returned to its normal state, Ning Chen began to compare and analyze the data.

In order to compress the amount of data to the greatest extent, Ning Chen did not consider the various signals existing on the Blue Star when performing the brain simulation last night.

Not only are these signals useless for Ning Chen's research, but they are also very difficult to simulate and will interfere with Ning Chen's normal research work.

After comparing the data, Ning Chen found that the simulated data last night was consistent with the real data received by the black hole telescope to a large extent.

"Sure enough... the simulation degree of my brain simulation yesterday was very high. Except for a few details, the simulated signal is not much different from the real signal."

In last night's brain simulation, Ning Chen constructed almost all the necessary elements, which allowed Ning Chen to complete the entire simulation process very realistically.

At this moment, Ning Chen suddenly noticed something wrong.

"No... the data here seems to have found no similar existence in the actual signals received by the black hole telescope."

Since these signals were very weak, if Ning Chen hadn't analyzed them very carefully, he might not have even noticed the existence of these signals.

But after Ning Chen's careful comparison, these signals did not escape Ning Chen's eyes.

In order to further confirm his conclusion, Ning Chen continued to compare the signals from both sides, but still found that the black hole telescope had received similar signals.

After careful analysis, Ning Chen determined that these weak signals in the simulation space were closely related to the existence of gravitational waves.

"This is a bit difficult to explain. Logically speaking, the conditions in the simulation space and the real world are the same, so there is no such difference. Wait a minute..."

At this moment, a bright light seemed to flash through Ning Chen's brain.

It was this sudden inspiration that made Ning Chen think of the possible answer to this question.

"The data I just used are filtered data from the black hole telescope. These data discard all kinds of signals artificially created by humans, but there is a possibility that we accidentally eliminated the signals of gravitational waves at the same time. Already..."

Ning Chen had not noticed this blind spot before, but after careful thinking, Ning Chen felt that such a possibility did exist, and it was not small.

Because the signal of gravitational waves is extremely weak, even an artificial intelligence like Xiaozhi may not be able to distinguish it from other signals well, let alone other ordinary software.

Thinking of this, Ning Chen immediately found the data before the black hole telescope was processed and started searching carefully.

This is a very difficult task, because the amount of data before being processed by the black hole telescope is so huge that it is almost impossible to complete the information processing within a limited time with just the human brain.

But Ning Chen has already gone beyond the scope of ordinary humans, which makes Ning Chen's abilities in some aspects even surpass those of computers and artificial intelligence.

Of course, Ning Chen also used many techniques when processing this data, such as amplifying the signal characteristics of some gravitational waves to distinguish gravitational waves from human signals.

In this way, several days passed. Just when Ning Chen felt exhausted, Ning Chen finally found his ideal signal.

"This... is this signal! This is evidence of the existence of gravitational waves and black holes!"

In the excitement, Ning Chen wiped away the tiredness of many days and suddenly became energetic again.

In order to confirm that the signal he found was the signal of gravitational waves, Ning Chen extracted the signal and conducted further analysis.

After detailed comparison, Ning Chen determined that this signal was exactly the same as the gravitational wave signal previously received in the simulation space.

After extracting the specific source of this signal, this information was exactly the same as the position of the dormant black hole calculated by Ning Chen.

With these results as evidence, the existence of gravitational waves has almost become an indisputable fact.

To be conservative, Ning Chen spent a few more days analyzing other signals received by the black hole telescope, and successively found several identical gravitational wave signals.

At this time, Ning Chen was finally ready to write the paper.

Before writing the paper, Ning Chen did not forget to deal with another matter first.

Ning Chen modified the signal screening algorithm of the black hole telescope and added an amplification processing program for gravitational wave characteristic signals, thereby avoiding the error of gravitational wave signals being mishandled as human signals.

After completing this work, Ning Chen handed the optimized algorithm to Lu Minghao.

After receiving the new algorithm sent by Ning Chen, Lu Minghao knew that maybe something big happened that made Ning Chen decide to modify the original algorithm.

"Mr. Ning, did you find any problems with the previous algorithm?"

"Yes, there are indeed some problems with the previous algorithm. I will explain the specific problems to you in detail later. Now you can just update the algorithm first."

Before the paper was officially published, Ning Chen did not want to explain the matter in detail to anyone. Instead, he wanted to concentrate on writing the paper first so that he could be in the best possible condition to compete for the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Because this research topic is astrophysical and its application value is relatively limited, Ning Chen can safely reflect the content in the paper.

This is the most purposeful paper written by Ning Chen in his scientific research career. Although Ning Chen has an indifferent attitude towards the completion of system tasks, when Ning Chen really sees the hope of completing system tasks, Sometimes, we will still try our best to complete the system's tasks.

Because this not only allows Ning Chen to get rewards from system tasks, but also allows the next system task to be refreshed as soon as possible.