Chapter 392, the trend of thought restricting the development of earth science and technology
"Close the door!"
Following Liu Yuan's thoughts, the virtual machine directly issued instructions. The thick alloy door slowly closed, and the dazzling golden light was gradually blocked.
Looking at gold was just incidental, Liu Yuan did not forget his main purpose of coming to the moon this time.
That is to take a look at the research status of nuclear fusion technology. This is a major issue that affects whether you can go to alien planets and do it alone.
In Liu Yuan's view, the current earth has gradually entered a wrong path of development, the most important of which is the prevalence of hedonism.
This idea originated from the Western Renaissance and spread to the world. Money is supreme and instant gratification is rampant.
The consequences are extremely serious, the most worrying of which is fertility issues.
In almost all developed countries and regions, fertility rates are frighteningly low.
The fertility rate in Europe and the United States is very low, especially among white people.
France, for example, has gradually opened up immigration because people in its own country are unwilling to have children, have serious population problems and lack of labor force, and at the same time vigorously encourage childbirth.
As a result, rewards are of no use. White people are still unwilling to have children. They prefer to enjoy the moment and enjoy life instead of spending their time, energy and money on children.
Immigrants from Africa and North Africa are very willing to have children. They have no labor skills and it is difficult to make money. If they can live a good life by giving birth to children, then they have to give birth to children at all costs.
In just a few decades, their demographic structure has undergone tremendous changes. Only 40% of newborns are white, and less than 30% of newborns are pure French whites.
The Gallic chicken has become a blast furnace black-bone chicken, and changing the bird from the cage is nothing more than that. The parasitism of the cuckoo is taking place in civilization.
Of course, not only France, but other regions are also facing severe population problems. People are unwilling to have children, but choose to enjoy the present.
The same is true in several East Asian countries. The birth rate is very low. On average, a woman only gives birth to a little more than one child, and the age of childbirth is generally around 30 years old.
If this situation continues, the problem will be extremely serious.
Aging is very serious, there is no vitality, and negative population growth has brought many problems, but the most important problem is that if a country or region is not willing to have children, then it has lost its future, it can be said that it has no future.
No matter how much wealth you have, what's the point of it without people?
In the future, this wealth will not be used to benefit others.
Obviously, this has gone astray.
Without people, there is no hope and no future.
Liu Yuan knew from the inheritance seeds that the population of any civilization in the universe is calculated in terms of capital, and the billions of people on the earth are simply drizzle.
The competition between civilizations is very cruel.
Sometimes in a war between the two sides, more than a dozen or dozens of life planets may be lost at every turn, and tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or trillions of people may be lost.
When you don't have enough population, you simply can't compete with other civilizations, because even if you fight for consumption, you can't compete with people.
What's more, the development of a civilization requires technological progress.
The progress of science and technology, in addition to a good education system, also requires a huge population base, and the proportion of scientists produced is almost fixed.
Under the same education model, the more populous a country and region is, the more scientists and talents it will produce, and vice versa.
Without enough scientists, especially talented scientists, a civilization's technology cannot develop at all, let alone continue to develop towards a more advanced civilization.
Even at this point, Liu Yuan feels very worried about the current situation on earth.
Fortunately, we have never had contact with powerful alien civilizations. Otherwise, with the current situation of the earth, how could we possibly compete with each other?
Maybe we will be enslaved by a powerful civilization in the future.
The scary thing is that as this trend of thought spreads, everyone thinks it is right. Rich people are not willing to have children, and those without money are even less willing to have children. Many people say that they are already suffering enough and there is no need to give up their children.
I also brought them out to suffer together, so I didn’t have children or get married.
What a terrible thought.
The enemy can use this kind of thinking to eliminate you invisibly, slowly emasculate your entire nation, and no longer pose any threat. Even after some time, they themselves will slowly perish.
Like Southern Korea, their birth rate is only 0.84, which means that on average, a woman does not give birth to even one child.
This is a very terrible thing!
It also means that every 20 years, their population will be reduced by more than half per generation. It will not take many years for the country itself to perish.
This phenomenon is also happening to us. The birth rate is getting lower and lower, and the population is aging seriously.
The key is that everyone thinks this is right and a good phenomenon. People should enjoy themselves and live a free and unrestrained life instead of having children and being delayed by them.
This is the main reason why Liu Yuan wants to go out and work alone. As for other things, they are secondary.
Liu Yuan wants to create a great civilization and a powerful civilization in the interstellar universe. Obviously, it is better and simpler to re-establish a great civilization outside.
After all, it is the most difficult thing to change a person's ideological concept. It is difficult to get out of the current situation on the earth where hedonism is rampant.
This is like a shackle on the earth's civilization, an obstacle and bottleneck to the development of civilization. If such shackles are not broken, the earth's civilization may never leave the solar system.
A future that can be met.
Bad money drives out good money.
People from developed areas who are unwilling to have children are gradually being replaced by people from underdeveloped areas who are willing to have children. This process may be relatively fast, just like the Gallic chicken. In just half a century or so, people from underdeveloped areas will gradually
White turned black, they lost hope and future.
What happened in France is likely to be played out globally, in developed regions and countries around the world. This seems to be the trend in the future.
Once it develops to that point, can the earth's technology go beyond the earth and out of the solar system?
This is definitely a question worth thinking about.
Liu Yuan didn't want to see something like this happen to the land he loved so much, but he was still a man of few words.
To put it nicely, Liu Yuan is a great scientist, entrepreneur, the richest man in the world, and so on. He has a lot of titles and identities, and each of them seems to be very good.
But in fact, Liu Yuan could not do anything at all and could not affect anything.
So you still have to go out and work alone, lead a group of like-minded people to do great things, build a great civilization, and develop and rise in the interstellar universe.
Nuclear fusion technology must be developed. Only by mastering controllable nuclear fusion technology can we provide sufficient energy for the warp engine.
Except for the energy generated during the nuclear fusion reaction, other technologies are not enough to provide enough energy for the warp engine. After all, it is necessary to fly at warp speed, which consumes too much energy.
"Boss, our controllable nuclear fusion technology has reached its most critical moment."
"Now there are no problems with the ignition device. We have conducted several experiments on the moon and have successfully ignited the nuclear fusion reaction material, which is enough to ignite the nuclear fusion reactor."
"The biggest problem is our magnetic restraint device, which has never been able to meet our requirements. Although it can restrain powerful energy, the technology is still not mature enough. When the energy is too large, problems can easily occur."
Zeng Xuan led the way while giving Liu Yuan a detailed report on the research progress and situation of controllable nuclear fusion technology.
The key technologies have actually been solved.
Wang Wei has successfully researched the ignition device, and is still researching energy technology to lay the foundation and preparation for the future production of energy weapons.
Magnetic confinement technology, under Liu Yuankai's plug-in, has actually reached the stage of use and can be used to constrain powerful energy. This proves the correctness of this theory and it can indeed be applied to the field of controllable nuclear fusion technology.
Once it is fully mature, controllable nuclear fusion technology will be considered a success. The next step is to study the warp engine, and the core of the warp engine is controllable nuclear fusion technology and material technology.
The most difficult aspect of material technology is how to create degenerate materials that can withstand the strong pressure and energy generated when the warp engine operates.
This point is also related to magnetic confinement technology. Using powerful magnetic confinement technology, you can create degenerate materials from an atomic perspective and create materials that can satisfy the warp engine.
If you think about it carefully, it seems that you are already very close to creating a warp engine. It won't take too long for Xinghai Technology to create a warp engine.
Of course, this is theoretical. It is estimated that it will take several years to actually manufacture the warp engine and the spacecraft.
PS: Do you think you should have children? If you don’t want to have children, what are the reasons?