Chapter 103: Reverse Practice of the Theory of Relativity
Zhang Zicheng's guess was correct. Although the other party had hunted a lot of wild boars in the past two days, he also dragged large pieces of meat into the space-time pocket and ate a lot of barbecue.
But in the human diet, the most important substance is carbohydrates after all. When a person can only eat meat every day, then her desire for steamed buns will far exceed the average person's desire for meat.
Kong Huan began to feast. The spices in the instant noodles were all the achievements of industrialization. For anyone who eats them for the first time, they are indescribably delicious.
However, Zhang Zicheng looked at her devouring food and sighed, thinking that she was indeed a 100% pure human being.
The so-called eyes are larger than normal, but it looks more like starvation.
Finally, after the sound of sucking and sucking, Kong Huan puffed out his cheeks and said, "Where do I start? There are so many things, I can't explain them for a while."
"Don't be in a hurry, just speak slowly." Zhang Zicheng said that he has plenty of time.
So when the sun gradually rose in the sky, during the hours-long narration and questions and answers, both of them obtained sufficient information about the other's planet.
The civilization's mother star where the empty ring is located is called the heart of the Milky Way, because they had the concept of the Milky Way shortly after they first started developing astronomy. However, due to various religious and humanistic reasons, they directly upgraded from the geocentric theory to the galactic theory.
The theory of the heart has been maintained for hundreds of years, until even if both theories were overturned, the name of the planet has become a recognized noun, and it is not good to change it rashly.
The place where Kong Huan lives is a satellite of the Galactic Heart planet, named Pan. This is why Kong Huan calls himself a Pan person. The Pan language is also slightly different from the Galactic Heart language. Most places are like dialects and only have a few nouns.
It is different from verb.
But this is not important. What is important is that, in Zhang Zicheng’s view, the development route of the other party’s civilization is very weird...
Their home planet has achieved unification early. In other words, there is a country with strong martial virtues that uses advanced military strength to dominate the world before technology similar to nuclear weapons was invented.
The reason why they did this, instead of starting colonial rule like the Earth, was also due to religious reasons... In their past religion, they not only had the arrogance of thinking that they were the center of the entire galaxy, but also a yearning for a unified theory similar to that of Chinese Confucianism. For the clerical country that once occupied the world, although population, land, and wealth are very important, the most important thing is to eliminate all other ideas and sects that oppose it. This kind of thing cannot be done simply by relying on colonization.
Once it arrives, it can only be completely swallowed and slowly digested.
Zhang Zicheng was a little surprised when he heard this: "Since your planet is unified and is still a complete theocracy, why have you been talking for a long time and I haven't heard you mention the name of this religion or the name of your gods?
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Kong Huan said nonchalantly: "Because the rule of that sect has been completely overthrown. In order to avoid similar problems, their names have been erased and there are only various nicknames."
The more Zhang Zicheng listened, the more strange he became. He always felt that there were some common sense in it that the other party thought everyone else understood, but in fact only existed in the other party's culture.
It was as if in his own common sense, religion and technology were completely mutually exclusive, but Kong Huan felt baffled by this.
"Strange, doesn't your planet's religion say that the universe was completely created by gods?" Kong Huan looked confused.
Zhang Zicheng was equally confused: "Well, basically, religious explanations of the world have been updated with scientific progress, but because tampering with classics is a sin in itself, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to justify themselves. People who believe in them have been
There are fewer and fewer of them. What do you specifically say?"
Kong Huan immediately clasped his fingers and said: "In our eliminated religion, they say this - in this universe, all logic, matter, cause and effect, mathematics, time and space, etc., are all designed by gods.
To study these natural sciences is to accept the wisdom of the gods. Only by learning all the wisdom that the gods have thrown into the world can you know the purpose of the gods in doing all this."
"So, in our ancient culture, the more knowledgeable a person is, the closer he is to the wisdom of the gods. All religious fanatics are also masters in promoting the development of science and technology... What about yours?" Kong Huan was curious.
Asked.
Zhang Zicheng, with a strange look on his face, briefly explained the content of Earth's sect.
Kong Huan looked incredulous: "Ah? Your religion actually allows an ordinary person to compile a religion that tries to explain everything, and then burns those who study science and overthrow dogma on the stake? This... this is too stupid.
Right? Wouldn’t that mean a lot of people are burned to death every year?”
"Ahem... this is only the case in extreme cases, and the fever is caused by other reasons, not all because of studying content that is contrary to the Bible." Zhang Zicheng still explained.
Kong Huan didn't care about this. She tilted her head and said in confusion: "Not to mention other things, your classics actually try to determine the time when the universe was born and the time when humans appeared? Will this not be nakedly slapped in the face in the future? This kind of delusion
The way of drawing conclusions for everything on behalf of God will only become more and more difficult as we deepen our understanding of nature, right?"
She covered her forehead and suddenly sighed: "I see. No wonder you think that religion and science are opposite. It is indeed natural to reach the stage of overthrowing religion with the development of science... I really envy you.
We didn’t reach this stage until we all started colonizing satellites.”
Kong Huan said, taking a long breath and shrugging: "But... it is precisely because of this that your planet is torn apart. It has been unable to unify and concentrate on development. I don't know whether it is good or bad." p>
Zhang Zicheng was also a little speechless. In other people's eyes, the development path of the earth turned out to be weird.
However, Zhang Zicheng can still understand the earth's religion relatively well. The core concept like Kong Huan said, although it can be continuously patched with the development of the times, it has no appeal to ordinary people in ancient times.
What people want is a conclusion, a result, a dogma that can be believed forever without any burden, no doubts, no pressure, and from now on, there is no need to go through the pain of any knowledge update. And this is even secondary, the main thing is to give people comfort.
It makes people feel that after death, they can come to a world that is countless times happier than the painful reality.
Therefore, in comparison, the development route of Konghuan relies more on coincidence - people who happen to believe in their core concept have established technological advantages from the very beginning, and with this belief that focuses on natural science, they continue to develop and continue
Maintaining the advantage of crushing level to snowball finally leads to this result.
"But the question is, since your religion is so harmless and focuses on development, why do you want to overthrow it?"
Zhang Zicheng really didn’t understand. Since the other party’s ancient religion did not have any rigid dogma that could not be changed, and some only had the harmless view that ‘with scientific progress, we can get closer to God’, why should we overthrow it?
Kong Huan rolled his eyes: "Harmless? Are you sure? Do you know how I got through my childhood?"
So Kong Huan began to express her bitterness. It turned out that she had lived in a parochial school with socialized education since she could remember, and had never met her mother... In fact, she even doubted whether she was a genetic child born from a mechanical womb.
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And where she is, the entire responsibility of all minors is to study outside of sleeping time. Yes, even during meal time, they must learn the molecular formula of a substance before they are allowed to eat it.
"It's just like training a dog..." Zhang Zicheng secretly complained.
Even sleeping has been compressed from the previous 8 hours to 3 hours due to genetic improvements.
Because of this, for Kong Huan, when she begged Zhang Zicheng for mercy, she had nothing to offer and could only exchange the knowledge in her head for the cost of survival.
But Zhang Zicheng suddenly discovered a blind spot: "Wait a minute, didn't you say that you have overthrown that religion? Why are you still forced to study so enthusiastically?"
"Because this is already very relaxing..." Kong Huan said, shivering all over: "At least, if you don't do well in the exam, it will be considered disrespectful to the wisdom of the gods, and you will be directly exiled to the mining area, or do those things...
Those menial jobs are better..."
Zhang Zicheng opened his mouth slightly, but said nothing.
He could only complain in his heart: what kind of ultimate enhanced version of the college entrance examination hell that will accompany him throughout his life.
This kind of social environment has obviously been pushed forward by generations of fanatics.
But it can be pushed until the satellites have started to be colonized, and then it is completely rolled into the explosion. It can be considered that this snowball has rolled really well. I am afraid that if it is solid, it will be filled with thousands of years of ice.
So after all, it turns out that the other party is a little girl who is tired of studying?
Zhang Zicheng's eyes suddenly became strange. The way he looked at the other party had changed from a mysterious visitor from an alien civilization to a bad guy who was tired of studying and went to the mountains and forests to hunt and survive in the wilderness.
"Okay, now that you've talked about your civilization, how did you get to Earth?"
I had so many exchanges with Kong Huan before, and most of them were general summaries of civilization. Zhang Zicheng thought that his summary was very poor, with a serious lack of details, but he estimated that the other party was similar. Anyway, you only need to have a general understanding of this thing.
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What we really need to pay attention to, apart from the current knowledge in Kong Huan's mind, is how that space-time pocket came to earth.
Kong Huan shrugged: "Well...because your planet doesn't have relevant technical background, I still have to start with some common sense. Do you mind?"
Of course Zhang Zicheng doesn't mind, and is even happy to hear more details about non-Earth cultures.
As the two communicated, Kong Huan became more and more casual, showing no signs of worry about his situation.
If it were before, Zhang Zicheng might have thought that the other party was arrogant, but as he got to know him better, he estimated that for Kong Huan, as long as there was no specific harm, any environment would be better than studying in his hometown, so he could study in such a simple environment.
You can also look so comfortable.
"First of all, can you understand the speed of light?" Kong Huan asked.
Zhang Zicheng nodded: "I know."
Kong Huan suddenly said happily: "That's easy to say. Since you know the speed of light, you must know that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. There is almost no way to create a super-light spacecraft. You know this, right?"
Zhang Zicheng said speechlessly: "Although our applied technology has just been able to land on the moon, and has been held back by various political systems and ideologies. But our theory at least knows the approximate travel time of the universe, the Milky Way, super galaxy clusters, and our
Relative distance, and we have successfully taken photos of black holes in the past few years. There are other things like supersymmetry, dark matter, quantum and other messy things that I don’t understand at all, but at least don’t treat people on earth as indigenous people who don’t understand anything.
What?"
Originally, Zhang Zicheng just complained casually. In his opinion, even if the earth has so many theoretical discoveries, it is probably not enough to casually mention the existence of controllable nuclear fusion.
Who knew that the empty ring was surprised and said: "Ah? What dark matter? Quantum? What are you talking about?"
Zhang Zicheng raised his eyebrows. He said these words according to the system's translation. If it was a noun that did not exist in the other party's language, how did the system translate it?
The system explained: [Literally translated, dark matter is directly a mixture of the two words dark and matter.]
But it’s okay.
However, Zhang Zicheng raised his eyebrows when he saw the other party's surprised look. He turned the laptop on the table toward him, searched for speculations about dark matter and related terms about quantum theory, and translated it for Kong Huan.
After listening to this, Kong Huan was silent for a moment and sighed: "Although our application technology is very advanced... but this kind of... this kind of deviant speculation without any practical basis is very rare in our civilization. Although
There are also theoretical groups, but they are not so bold as to question that everything in this universe is random..."
Zhang Zicheng somewhat understood.
It seems that no matter what religion, it will still impose some restrictions on people's thoughts... On the earth, there is no pressure or risk for the emergence of any theory. For example, there is no one who firmly believes in the flat earth theory so far.
Supporters were burned to death.
After all, even on the earth, every country has different politically correct topics. In China, racial jokes can be made casually, but overseas, there are all kinds of shouting and killing. Therefore, at this point, although Zhang Zicheng cannot understand the other party's
But we can also understand a little bit about how social atmosphere is formed.
On the other hand, Kong Huan's attitude was not as careless as at first, and he began to explain seriously.
"Due to the absolute impossibility of light-speed spacecraft, some priests once speculated that the gods did not want us to use this method to cross hundreds of thousands of light-years in the universe."
"Because vertical development was not possible, we started horizontal development..."
"Thus, the greatest formula since the new century was born, m=E/xc."
"Using energy that can nearly reach the speed of light, it can change its own space-time properties... and thus reach another universe."
Zhang Zicheng was shocked.
To be honest, he had almost completely believed that the other party was an alien fleeing from this universe.
However, I didn't expect... In the final analysis, she would still use scientific means to achieve a 'traveler' across parallel time and space to other universes.
But that formula sounds a bit familiar...
Zhang Zicheng thought for a moment and quickly remembered the formula that almost everyone knows.
E=mc?
Damn it, practice the theory of relativity backwards?