Chapter 61 Information Strengths and Information Weaknesses
Yu Yifeng said: "Dr. Lan Bo, your point of view is very good, but... you have ignored one point. We have been here for a month, and the light signal has been transmitted for a month! Although we have information advantages now,
But after the opponent escapes from the super-light environment, perhaps this advantage has turned into a disadvantage!"
"Because in this month's relationship, it's not that both parties discovered each other at the same time, but the other party... discovered us first!
“Discover us early!”
Yu Yifeng gave an example: "Let's assume that the other party leaves the super-light state 0.1 light-years away at this moment. What will they observe? They will see the Dig 114 planet 0.1 years ago, right?
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"Yes! You mean..." Dr. Rimbaud's mind was spinning rapidly, and he suddenly turned pale and discovered the flaw in his inference.
Suppose... at this moment, the enemy exits the super-light state 0.1 light-years away. Due to the limitations of the speed of light, the data they observe on the Dig 114 planet is not real-time data, but something from 0.1 years ago.
And because of the Doppler effect, they will see a fast-forward picture as they advance... A few days later, they will see the Deep Space spacecraft arrive at the planet Dig 114, and then a Titan and five Levi's
A nuclear war broke out between the tank spacecraft and the Gaia creatures on this planet!
However, the enemy spacecraft can only be observed by humans 0.1 years after it breaks away from super-light travel.
In other words...in fact, humans occupy an absolute disadvantage in information!
"This is a complete unequal information!"
"The analysis just now is all wrong, we are at a huge disadvantage!"
To their surprise, two completely different results were actually analyzed. Everyone was stunned and didn't know what to say.
Dr. Rimbaud shook his lips with a pale face, stood up, sat down, and stood up again. Yes, he had to admit that there was a huge bug in the reasoning just now, and Yu Yifeng's result was correct.
As a perennial radical, Rimbaud did not want to give up this powerful biological factory, but Yu Yifeng's words shocked him too much... He was wrong!
People are simply not safe, and end up back where they started...
A strike at the speed of light may fall on people's heads at the next moment.
"The actual situation should be like this: before the opponent escapes from super-light speed, humans have an information advantage. People know that the opponent will most likely come here, but the opponent does not know the existence of humans."
"But as long as the other party escapes from super-light speed, it will detect images of humans early, because... humans have been on this planet for a long time. The exact timeline is one month."
"But humans can only detect the enemy with a delay through light-speed media such as photons or gravitational waves. So at this moment, humans are at an absolute information disadvantage."
This is the final version analyzed by people, and there should be no loopholes.
"but!"
Dr. Rimbaud had a flash of inspiration and suddenly shouted: "We haven't been here long, one month is not that long, and Deep Space has been in a state of radio silence for a long time. Think about it!
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"At the beginning, in order to reduce the possibility of being discovered by the indigenous people, our Deep Space was radio silent when it arrived, and it was also wrapped in a curvature bubble and emitted very little light... The probability of being observed during this period was very low."
Everyone looked at Dr. Rimbaud in confusion, could he still turn the tide?
"Let me give you another example. If the opponent leaves the super-light speed at 0.1 light-year in 0.1 years, what will they see? They will see the scene we have today! The most conspicuous thing is only a Titan flying in the sky...
…It’s not obvious that our Deep Space probe is staying on the second satellite. Don’t forget, even 0.1 light-years is still a long, long distance away, and conventional observations can only obtain quite fuzzy information!”
"If we hide Titan and Deep Space now, yes... they won't be able to see anything then! The information advantage is still with us...
"Everyone think about it, is this true?"
"The key is when in the future the opponent will break away from super-light speed and at what distance... We assume that the break-out time is t and the distance is x..."
Rimbaud drew an image on the screen, which is a straight line of a linear function of t and x. The abscissa is x and the ordinate is t. The lower area is human information disadvantage, and the upper area is human information advantage.
"As long as the time and location when the other party leaves the super-light speed state falls above this function diagram... it means that they have missed this month's information! They still don't know that humans exist!"
"The premise is...human beings must hide themselves in the next moment!"
Having said this, Rimbaud looked straight at Yu Yifeng: "If we want to capture Gaia, we must immediately maintain radio silence and hide the Titans flying in the sky! They are still too obvious... At the same time,
We hope... to pray that the time t and distance x when the other party escapes from the speed of light falls in a favorable area for humans!"
"Or, retreat now..."
Yu Yifeng's heart was beating wildly and his face was ashen. He didn't expect that things would turn out like this...
Such a choice is really difficult!
People are naturally divided into two groups. One group of people believes that they should escape as soon as possible and give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to keep the green hills and have no worries about running out of firewood.
A few others feel that this one-in-a-billion chance may never be encountered... Even if humans completely explore the entire galaxy, they will not encounter the next newborn Gaia creature!
"It's been 30,000 years since our army left, and the flying saucers have been gone for 12 years... From this point of view, it doesn't seem like a big deal to hang out on this planet for another month or two." A young man said: "
We might be able to try for a while longer."
"You...you are just taking a chance!" Xu Yunjin roared with a blushing face. He didn't care about his status on this occasion, he just wanted to express himself to his heart's content.
"Civilization will be destroyed because of a fluke like yours!"
After being scolded like this, the young man immediately fell silent.
However, Dr. Rimbaud immediately stood up: "Please... where is the luck? We only analyzed it from a probability perspective! Think about it with your brain, will people still be wandering around here in 30,000 years?"
"God knows when the other party will come to this planet. What if... ten years from now? It would be the biggest joke if we run away now! We abandoned the biggest treasure in the universe because we were afraid of death, so we ran away in despair!"
"Do you know what we have to give up? We have to give up the potential for future advancement! Do you really think that you can sit back and relax after crossing the Great Filter? Wrong, everything is wrong... Interstellar civilization will also stagnate!"
"...it is your kind of thinking that hinders civilization!" Rimbaud, as a perennial radical, roared at Xu Yunjin with a thick neck. After all, their qualifications were about the same, they were in different departments, and they had exchanged blows many times.
Everyone was in a complete fuss. On the contrary, a group of young people quietly supported Rimbaud, but they did not dare to speak on such occasions. The big guys scolded each other in a civilized manner, and they were not qualified at all.
Yu Yifeng sat silently on the chair. He listened to everyone's quarrel and his heart beat faster.
Both sides' words were very reasonable, making it difficult for him to make a choice, but at this moment, his mind was inexplicably immersed.