"Prediction? Surprise...continuation?" Yu Yifeng thought quickly, generating a lot of guesses about these keywords.
Just with these few words, he had a feeling... that the other party was playing games with the entire universe.
Yes, the entire universe of games!
"Could it be that the opponent is too powerful and invincible, so in a long period of time, he is sowing some small-probability events in search of a little unpredictable fun?"
As soon as the idea came up, he felt a bit ridiculous.
"But it seems to be real... Is the other party omniscient and omnipotent? Even if it is just close to omnipotence, there must be something unexpected in the long road to have some fun..."
Such speculation made it difficult for him to describe his feelings, and he couldn't help but feel a little panicked. Because he thought of a series of events that humans had experienced...
He was thinking, since there really is such a majestic existence in the universe... Could it be that from the very beginning of the appearance of the Noah to the series of stories that followed, were they all "games" of a powerful civilization?
Is it some kind of "behind-the-scenes manipulation"?
It’s not that this idea has never been discussed, because people have encountered quite a lot of adventures.
People seem to have a lot of good luck.
"A civilization that grew up with all kinds of good luck...If we didn't have enough luck, alas, we would have died on the moon..."
The universe is so big, and overall it is quite empty and peaceful. However, everything that people experience seems like a legend, which makes people secretly feel a little suspicious.
Yes, as long as you are a smart person, you will have doubts. Even if life and intelligence are common in the galaxy, it is impossible for every star to give birth to all kinds of weird things, and then happen to be encountered by humans...
Why do humans always encounter such good luck?
"...Even the discovery of this detector must be a kind of good luck. It is so small that it will be missed in one second. As long as the Deep Space's curvature navigation is large, it will never be found in one second...
…”
But……
Although people are very confused, from the current perspective of mankind, everything seems to be accidental phenomena and is made up of many coincidences.
"If an extremely powerful existence hides in the dark and controls it, what is its purpose? Can it gain anything?"
Just for fun? Or for something more...
For example, a certain philosophical goal?
The things it involves are too broad.
So extensive that it is unimaginable with human intelligence...
Starting from the explosion of the earth, to the moon, and to the Martian flying saucer behind, this series of events involves the battlefield of the solar system millions of years ago. Could it be that "it" began to control and calculate during the interstellar war millions of years ago?
The green-light people running into the solar system cannot be manipulated secretly...it was their own choice.
The Nix civilization was driven to extinction tens of millions of years ago by itself. It should be, not manipulated.
And the series of things that happened on DIG 114 were definitely the choices of human beings themselves.
Moreover, the Destroyer civilization behind it sincerely wants to wipe out human civilization...it takes all the effort to escape, but it is all due to the efforts of humans themselves.
Therefore, from the perspective of these things that can change at any time, the probability of there being a "mastermind behind the scenes" is extremely low... most likely it is people's own conjectures.
Of course, extremely low does not mean it is impossible...
If there really are unimaginable great beings... is there any point in playing with ant-like humans?
"Humanity is just an ordinary civilization in the vast galaxy, there is nothing special about it."
Yu Yifeng sighed deeply.
Human beings are indeed nothing special. They are not a great species in themselves. They are controlled by their own desires. And human brains are not very bright and always make mistakes. Moreover, human nature is inherently cowardly and likes to make unpredictable decisions.
Something that boils down to fate...
"The various remarks about fate may just be because of insufficient science and technology... No one knows whether Laplace's demon exists..."
However, now is not the time to discuss various conspiracy theories, we must first deal with the ball of light in front of us.
Everyone discussed for a while and carefully replied: "We really don't need this kind of wisdom inheritance. But what do you mean...how to continue the 'surprise'?"
Everything started with the Tucker Civilization's detector, so let's return to the detector again...
After hearing this question, this voice sounded in people's minds again: "You can find a suitable planet and throw it away at will; you can also launch the entire detector randomly and let it find it on its own, hoping that it will encounter the dark planet.
The real master...the choice is in your own hands."
After hearing this sentence, people discussed again for a while. One scientist asked his doubts: "We think the first method seems more reasonable. But why did you choose the second method in the first place? Why not
How can we find a final destination for this inheritance of wisdom and the tombstone of civilization?"
He continued: "... there should be many low-level civilizations that have not yet developed natural technology. They can definitely be found within a few hundred light years nearby. Why launch it at will? It may crash on a lifeless planet and be lost.
Lost the original meaning..."
This existence smiled and replied: "It's great to be young...there will always be so many surprises and unknowns. To this question, I can only answer simply. You have to discover the specific truth on your own. Only in this way can there be more
pleasure."
"Because we don't know whether the inheritance of this knowledge will have a negative impact on lower-level civilizations."
"Perhaps, with their original potential, they could have broken through the first screening and become an interstellar civilization. But after receiving this extraterrestrial knowledge inheritance, although they could take a few steps forward quickly, they eventually stopped at a certain stage early.
I will never be able to reach the stage of the stars."
"This inheritance has a great impact on civilization. Whether it is good or bad, we don't know..."
"Back then, we didn't want to do bad things with good intentions."
Hearing this reason, Yu Yifeng was immediately surprised.
For its sentences, if humans are still at the level of low-level civilization, they may not be able to understand it at all. But now, after experiencing so much, people can vaguely understand it, but their understanding is not profound.
In the process of natural development of a civilization, if there is strong external interference, it will be difficult to predict the quality of its future development.
For example, the indigenous lizard civilization of the planet Nix was once forced to grow by humans, resulting in a large number of gods worshiping psychology. People don't know how it will evolve in the end.
People just vaguely feel that the probability of them breaking through interstellar civilization is low.
But without the reminder of the light ball, humans would have never thought about this issue at all.
In the long silence, many scientists were thinking hard.
From the perspective of human beings at the moment, it is definitely a good thing for such knowledge inheritance to be obtained by a lower civilization, which can greatly promote the development of science and technology.
As a result, this light group actually thought that it was not necessarily a good thing and did not want to do it...
From this point alone, the huge intellectual gap between the two civilizations has been reflected.
Depending on the height at which you stand, you will look at different issues. Perhaps in the eyes of the sower civilization, this knowledge inheritance is like absurd statements such as "geocentric theory" and "the sky is round and the earth is round", which makes it unwilling to bring some wrong things into the world.
To other civilizations, even low-level civilizations.
Could it be that the Atlan civilization also thinks so?
Yu Yifeng felt that these two civilizations had a kind of "fraternity" for the entire world.
Perhaps this kind of fraternity has gone beyond the thinking principles of ordinary interstellar civilizations and is a sublimation on a philosophical scale.
He thought for a while and tentatively wrote his answer: "What you mean is that due to the huge butterfly effect in the passage of time, the optimal solution currently seen is only partial and is likely to bring about problems in the future.
greater adverse effects.”
"...The inheritance of this knowledge may promote the development of science for a while, but it may also create huge thinking patterns and obstacles to the development of science and technology in the future. It may even be regarded as a scientific classic by low-level civilizations and erroneous
Take things as truth..."
"In this way, their science can develop for a while, but from now on, it will be difficult to progress."
"Yes, the truth is relatively close, but it's not all..."
This being said with admiration: "It seems that your cosmic sociology has developed to a certain height. It does not make much sense to shorten the development time of a civilization, if they can explore these things by themselves. Time is
It is the least valuable thing in the universe..."
Yu Yifeng asked again: "But if this detector falls onto a lifeless planet or into a star, wouldn't it mean that the inheritance of wisdom is cut off?"
"Yes, it was a pity for us back then, so we launched the detector again. It will not fall into any planet within the scale we can calculate... If it is really destroyed by a star, it will be its final destination, right?
Nothing in the universe lasts forever."
"As for what happened next...didn't I meet you guys?"
The ball of light said with a slight smile, "The choice is already in your hands."
Yu Yifeng thought for a while, discussed with everyone for a while, and decided to follow suit and re-launch the detector, delivering its final destination to the infinite "unknown". Maybe it will be passed to the fourth place somewhere.
What about a civilization?
Immediately afterwards, Dr. Rimbaud stood up and asked: "According to your opinion, the current optimal is not the global optimal, but how to find the global optimal solution for civilization? This seems to be a very difficult problem."
"The strategies we usually adopt are just greedy algorithms. We have no way to predict the future. Finding the local optimum for a period of time is already very good."
"Your question is very good, but we don't know the true optimal solution. Our wisdom is still limited, and the future we can see cannot be infinite, but what we find is relatively correct."
This being was silent for a moment, and said in a detached tone: "The complexity of a civilization's development problem is too high. It is too difficult to choose the global optimal in every decision...Every
Choices all involve evolution over thousands of years."
"We are also looking for the final answer to this question. Maybe we can find it, maybe we can find it, maybe we are only part of what we are looking for..."
At this point, the tone of the light ball became more vicissitudes: "There are too many mysteries in the deep space. Our wisdom is always limited. We have walked through confusion and transformed too many unknowns into the known.
But this kind of unknown has never decreased, but has become more and more... And the deduction of civilization is almost the most difficult thing."
"If you reach a high enough level, you may realize this... It was difficult to sort out what was right and wrong in the past at the time, and it will only become clear later."
The crowd in the conference room unexpectedly became quiet.
Such a great being still thinks that he is a humble and insignificant human being who has only passed the first screening. What qualifications do he have to be arrogant?
During this short period of getting along, a sensitive scientist discovered that the size of this light ball seemed to have shrunk by 3.2%!
"In other words, the time it can talk to us is likely to be limited!"
Yu Yifeng's heart moved. When its energy is exhausted, the two parties may not be able to communicate, so they must hurry up!