Chapter 698 Thousands of years of accumulation of Trisolarans
In fact, it has been mentioned in the original work that the Trisolarans had never experienced a technological explosion before they encountered humans, and it was clearly mentioned that they were moving forward at a constant speed or even slowing down on the road of technological development.
, that is to say, the closer it is to the current high-end technology, the longer it will take to come into being.
This means that it probably took the Trisolarans thousands of years, or even thousands of years, to develop from the period of the human industrial revolution to the current technological level.
Speculations in this area have actually been published by scientists a long time ago, but at that time, humans were still facing more practical problems caused by Trisolarans. These speculations were of little significance in solving practical problems and did not cause much concern.
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Now that Lannuo has understood the text of the Trisolarans, he relies on controllable high-energy particles to sneak into their database, read their documents and their history from the hardware level, and finally intuitively understands the slowing down of technology development.
How long does it take for Trisolarans to grow to the point they are now?
The way Trisolarans calculate time is different from humans. The movement of celestial bodies in the solar system is very regular. Therefore, the rotation of the earth allows the sun to appear regularly, and the sun is born. The moon is born when the moon is waxing and waning.
The four seasons rotated over and over again, and after being recorded by people, the year was born.
But all of this does not exist for Trisolarans. They are extremely luxurious and can only exist in dreams.
Their earliest timing method has actually been reflected in the three-body game, which is to continuously flip the hourglass and record the passage of time by recording the number of flips.
Therefore, timing technology is probably a technology developed by a few Trisolarans much faster than humans. The way Trisolarans calculate time is also described in the original work. The translation into human language is probably Trisolaran time, which is what they
The ancient sages turned over the hourglass once.
This timing method is too unintuitive for humans, so Lanno will still use the day, month, and year timing method when translating.
He found in historical documents that the iconic event of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the steam engine. Of course, the Trisolarans simply invented the steam engine and there was no revolution. Even now, the Trisolarans' political system is still quite
In a dictatorship, the consul can decide almost everything, whether everyone is guilty or not, and whether they live or die.
Although Lanno does not believe that liberal democracy is political correctness and that freedom can solve all problems, he must also admit that a rigid social system will suppress a person's creativity and suppress people's subjective initiative to a considerable extent.
This is also one of the reasons why the technological progress of the Trisolaran planet has gradually slowed down. The time when the steam engine was invented was a full 5,327 years ago. The steam engine has been continuously improved and has grown to the peak performance of the human steam era.
It took a full one hundred and fifty years, during which time classical physics was perfected by generations of Trisolaran scientists, and finally took a prototype.
What’s interesting is that this generation of Trisolaran civilization did not end the steam age after that, but entered an era of steampunk, which is to develop steam technology to its peak. Human beings who have developed to this day are all struggling.
The level of amazement.
At one time, a huge steam train network was built covering the entire surface of the planet, and the steam pipes were connected to thousands of households like computers. Mechanics once became the most cutting-edge subject on the entire Trisolaran planet.
Lan Nuo carefully read this period of history and finally discovered the reason for this phenomenon. The history records that a Trisolaran adventurer fell into a canyon, but found the lost steam city in the dense jungle.
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There are not many official records of the origin of this Trisolaran adventurer, but they record the impact of this adventurer's discovery. The huge steam city is a relic left by the Trisolaran civilization of the previous generation.
It brought a large amount of advanced technology to the Trisolaran people and promoted the development of the Trisolaran people's steam revolution, but it also caused the Trisolaran people's technology to go astray in an attempt to replicate the lost steam city of the destroyed civilization.
And this story has also left a profound impact on the culture of the Trisolaran people and has become an allusion. In human language, the general meaning is that deliberately imitating the footprints left by losers will eventually lead to failure.
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The progress of science cannot rely on archeology. The mistakes made by the Trisolaran people made Lan Nuo realize this more deeply. He also realized that on the road of scientific development, those who learn from me will live, and those who resemble me will die.
, even if humans can now steal the technology of the Trisolarans, they must unswervingly follow the route of independent research and development, otherwise they will never be able to get out of the shadow of the Trisolarans. Instead, the monitoring of controllable high-energy particles will become a constraint on themselves.
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After the age of steam, the technological development of the Trisolaran people entered a period of rapid development, and this period was also the period when the humanistic revolution occurred among the Trisolaran people. After the originally harsh feudal empire ruled, the Steam Empire gradually declined due to the exhaustion of resources.
, had to make certain compromises with the lower level of the Trisolaran people, so individuals had slightly more rights, and the Trisolaran people with their subjective initiative mobilized developed another kind of fossil energy that was different from the previous ones.
Successfully saved the steam age from the verge of collapse, entered the age of internal combustion engines, and then entered the age of electric energy. This was the fastest development period of Trisolaran science and technology, and it was also the time most similar to the explosion of technology, but it was still sufficient.
It took five hundred years to complete the technological progress during this period, and this time was still more than 4,300 years ago.
On the one hand, this is due to the high degree of centralization of power among the Trisolarans, which leads to a certain lack of subjective initiative. In fact, the bigger reason is the frequent chaotic eras. The development of civilization will always be hit hard at critical moments.
After finally establishing a prosperous civilization and connecting all places with roads, the Age of Chaos came. A large number of people had to be dehydrated and then transported to underground dry warehouses for storage, while a small number of people continued to maintain the operation of society.
In the process, the unmaintained railways gradually melted, factories burned or froze, and the resources accumulated by civilization for hundreds of years were wiped out in a short time. When the Era of Chaos passes and the Era of Eternity arrives, everything will have to start from scratch. If all this is
If it were made into a survival game, it would definitely make the players' blood pressure explode.
The technology that I have finally built with great effort will have to be started all over again after a natural disaster. The impact on players can be imagined, and the impact on a civilization is even more terrifying.
Although the technology of the Trisolarans is decelerating, the construction of infrastructure is progressing steadily. Entering the era of controlling electricity, the Trisolarans have learned to use solar energy and made products that can still survive in the chaotic era.
A device that prevents being melted by the sun and absorbs solar energy and converts it into electrical energy.
This can be said to be an epic upgrade for the Trisolarans, so that they will have enough energy to build their underground cities underground in the era of chaos.
At the same time, ultra-long tunnels between cities were built underground to replace the railways on the surface. From then on, the hot period during the Chaos Era became a period of rapid development for the Trisolarans.
From the current underground city network of the Trisolarans, we can still see some traces of the underground city construction process in the past, and this era is also the era in which the Trisolarans have stayed the longest, staying for nearly a thousand years.
This is not because of the lack of subjective initiative caused by centralized rule, but because the Trisolaran people were too fanatical during this period, fanatical about their solar power generation equipment, fanatical about being able to survive without dehydration in the chaotic era.
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The Trisolarans are also extremely fanatical about the ability of underground cities to protect them. After all, it is extremely rare for astronomical phenomena to tear the entire planet apart with four consecutive stars. As long as enough underground cities are built and connected,
Once it gets up, the Trisolaran civilization will be able to achieve a stage of stable development for a long time.
Because of this, the enthusiasm of the Trisolaran people for their work was extremely high. Building underground facilities became politically correct and almost everyone believed in it. So much so that scientists who were engaged in scientific research at that time were regarded as having solar power equipment and not doing their job properly.
, Trisolarans no longer need other technologies. If they have time to study those useless things, they might as well participate in the big construction.
The story of this period has also become another far-reaching allusion among the Trisolarans. The general meaning is that don't give up a more ambitious future just because of the small profits in front of you.
And the end of all this will have to wait until a three-day volley 3,400 years ago. That three-day volley lasted for about ten years in the human world. At first, the three suns provided Trisolarans with
The extremely abundant energy made the progress of their construction projects unprecedentedly fast.
But as the sun shines longer and longer, the earth is gradually unable to insulate against high temperatures, and the surface has turned into magma. Even their solar power generation equipment and its high temperature resistance have begun to fail one after another.
The most terrifying thing is that the originally safe underground city is also heating up over time.
Only then did the Trisolarans discover that hiding underground was not absolutely safe. Faced with the rising temperature, all the Trisolarans felt that death was coming. Fortunately, before mass deaths occurred among the Trisolarans,
, the three-day volley ended and was replaced by three flying stars. The cold climate finally saved the Trisolarans who were almost roasted underground collectively from the end of civilization extinction.
But everyone's near-death experience, and the panic caused by the Trisolaran government's repeated orders to dehydrate, finally made the Trisolaran people realize that blind avoidance cannot save their civilization.
Next, the Trisolarans ushered in a short period of rapid technological development. From 3,400 years ago to 3,100 years ago, the Trisolarans mastered nuclear power technology and developed controllable
Nuclear fusion, compared to humans, Trisolarans are more unique in this aspect.
Frequent close contact with stars makes them extremely rich in nuclear raw materials. Whenever there is an era of chaos or an extremely hot environment, a thick layer of nuclear raw materials will accumulate on the surface of the earth. As long as it is extracted from the soil, it can
Obtain an endless supply of large amounts of fuel as the energy source for the reactor.
In fact, if there were no Jupiter for human controllable nuclear fusion, the earth's nuclear raw materials would soon be exhausted as humankind's increasing demand for energy.
After history entered this stage, the technology of the Trisolarans gradually ushered in a deceleration of development, which was influenced by environmental issues and historical factors.
The Trisolarans chose to develop into the interior of the planet, underground, instead of heading into space to find other planets in the galaxy.
In fact, if you think about it from another person's perspective, you can understand that if human beings live on such a chaotic planet, the sun in the sky is like a menopausal goddess, moody and always bringing about horrific deaths, one by one that is related to their own survival.
Stars like planets are swallowed up by the moody sun. Will humans still expect to explore in space?
On the contrary, the thick earth has isolated the high temperature of the sun and the extreme cold of the eternal night time and time again, selflessly protecting the budding growth of civilization. Regardless of rational factors, from an emotional point of view, the Trisolarans obviously prefer the planet.
Internal development and transformation.
Many people believe that they could not avoid the terrible disaster from the three-day volley before because the shelter they dug was not deep enough. Of course, some Trisolarans question this view and believe that no matter how deep the shelter is dug, if the planet
If you fall into the sun, you will die.
However, the Trisolarans are a highly centralized civilization, and the main body of the civilization can only have one voice. Therefore, the space faction with a weaker voice failed. The Trisolarans have carried out internal development of the planet for thousands of years. Today, the Trisolarans have underground cities.
The system basically took shape at that time.
It is during this process that the accumulation of industrial capabilities of the Trisolarans has increased to a level unimaginable by humans. The Trisolarans at this stage are actually only a little more advanced than humans at the beginning of the 21st century, but they have almost wiped out the crust of their own planet.
It was hollowed out and a nine-story underground city was built under the earth. Each level almost opened up the entire underground world. It was almost equivalent to peeling off the planet, leaving only huge support pillars to support it.
The outer crust and other areas are almost completely opened up.
In such nine layers of underground space, the surface area where Trisolarans can survive is nine times larger than the surface area of the planet. And on these nine layers of surface, their industrial facilities are spread all over the planet.
They extracted a large amount of metal elements contained in the magma and became their main source of resources for building this underground city. Almost the entire planet will be transformed by them.
Even now, mankind has acquired a lot of Trisolaran technology through the rapid technological explosion, but compared with the Trisolarans two thousand years ago, it is already very good to have one percent of their productivity. As you can imagine
, the Trisolarans who now have one hundred and eighty floors of dungeons are many times more productive than humans, and this... is a gap that cannot be bridged by pure technological catching up. Unless humans also have a thousand years, otherwise
There is simply no way to carry out such an epic transformation of the planet.
