符玄致叶尔孤白学士的信 Letter from Fu Xuan to Scholar Yaakob

在一次成功的合作之后，作为感谢，符玄去信为博识学会提供了大衍穷观阵的技术文牍。 As a token of gratitude following a successful collaboration, Fu Xuan sent a letter to the Intelligentsia Guild, providing them with technical documents on the

叶尔孤白学士：

Dear Scholar Yaakob,

展信佳。

I hope this letter finds you well.

贵方为罗浮提供的重要观测数据，有效减少了在南迪阿克瓦阻击战中至少70%的我军伤亡。我谨代表罗浮六御，对贵方表示衷心的感谢。

The observation data you provided for the Luofu has reduced the casualties in Operation Nandikwa by at least 70%. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you on behalf of the Luofu's Six Charioteers.

依照六御共署的协议，我将向贵方展示一部分大衍穷观阵的技术文牍。同时，为表诚意，我会用学会能听懂的语言对此事进行简单的解释。

As stipulated in the agreement signed by the Six Charioteers, I will share a part of the technical writings on the Matrix of Prescience Ultima with you. To express my sincerity, I will give a brief explanation in a manner that is understandable to the Guild.

相信学会也清楚，在「预测未来」这件事上，「混沌系统」是难以逾越的天堑。任何对「未来」的预测，最终都不得不归结于对某个「混沌」的预测。而混沌是不可预测的，小到天气变化，大到三体问题，任何一个微小的扰动都会导致预测结果出现致命性的偏差。

I believe the Guild is aware that the Chaos System is an insurmountable hurdle when it comes to predicting the future. All predictions boil down to predictions on a certain type of Chaos, but Chaos itself is unpredictable. Any tiny disturbances, whether caused by changes in weather or the three-body problem, may result in fatal deviations in the prediction outcomes.

而大衍穷观阵最初的创造者，从「遍智天君」处求取了一个灵感，以此作为预测未来的方法：在所有预测未来的行为背后，都存在着一种确凿无误的扰动因素——「观测」本身。简单来说，当我们观测一个混沌体系时，我们的观测本身就会对这个混沌体系最终的运行结果造成影响。

The creators of Matrix of Prescience Ultima sought inspiration from the Wisdomwalker and used the idea to predict the future: There is a constant and conclusive disturbance factor behind all predictions — the observation itself. To put it simply, when we are observing a Chaos System, our observation itself will affect the final operation of the system.

而此时，如果我们将「观测」本身当做一个变量去处理（或者用绕一些的说法「去观测我的观测」），就能够得到一个尽可能准确的预测结果。

Now, if we treat the observation as a variable (as in observing our observations), we can derive an outcome that is as accurate as possible.

当然，这只是创造者们最初的计划。当他们将这个伟大的机器投入使用时，完全在所有人理解范围之外的情况发生了。

Well, that is what the creators planned to do initially. When they put the amazing machine to use, something beyond everyone's comprehension occurred.

随信附的文件中用更加精准的数术用语描述了这个现象，但在这里，我会简单解释（也许会有失精准）：当大衍穷观阵观测一个观测结果时，穷观阵所观测的未来就如同在迎合我们一样，从混沌之中露出真容——尽管这未来只有粗疏的轮廓线条。

The phenomenon is described more accurately in the attachment with the use of more precise mathematical terms, but I will give a simple explanation here (which may be inaccurate): When the Matrix of Prescience Ultima observes an observation, the future it observes will come toward us and reveal itself from Chaos, though it only has a rough framework.

或者让我们换一个格物学上更加不严谨的解释：当我们不观测未来时，「尚未发生的未来」恰如「早已发生的过去」，是不存在于当下的。但当我们观测未来时，未来则会以我们观测的方式发生。

Or let us explain it less rigorously in terms of physics: When we don't observe the future, the future that has not happened does not exist, just like the past that has happened. But if we observe the future, the future will happen in the way we observe it.

让我更坦白一点吧——至少在目前，大衍穷观阵的运作原理是一个黑箱。我们只知道，「去观测我的观测」这件事，可以从混沌体系中得到一个准确到令人汗毛竖立的预测结果。但没有人知道为什么会这样，也没有人解释得清为什么会这样。

Let me be more straightforward here — the way the Matrix of Prescience Ultima operates is like a black box. We know that we can derive a frighteningly accurate prediction from the Chaos system by "observing our observation," but no one knows how it works nor can anyone explain it.

很多人，包括很多太卜司的同僚都认为，这是人类可以依靠自己的力量影响乃至择选未来的例证。可对我而言…我用另一种角度诠释这个事实——

Many, including my colleagues from the Divination Commission, consider this to be an example of how humans can change or select the future with their own power. But for me... I will interpret this from another perspective...

过去、现在、未来，并非历时存在，而是共时存在的。（我这句话本身否定了「时间」的存在，所以「历时」和「共时」有些用词不当。）早在创世之初，这宇宙中的每分每秒就早已被注定了。

The past, present, and future do not exist sequentially across the axis of time, but all exist simultaneously. (This statement of mine essentially denied the existence of time, so the concepts of "sequential" and "simultaneous" might be slightly inappropriate here.) Every moment in the universe has been predetermined since its creation.

这也同时意味着，未来是绝无可能改变的。

That is to say, it is impossible to change the future.

即颂近安。

Best regards,

罗浮太卜司太卜，符玄

Fu Xuan, Master Diviner of the Luofu Divination Commission