Chapter 445: Theory of Cosmic Civilization[3700 words]
When people are alive, they always want to pursue clear ideas without confusion.
Poor people think that if they have money, they will be free from confusion.
Rich people think that if their family is happy and their body is healthy, they will be free from confusion.
Humble people think that by being in power they will be free from confusion.
Those who are neither above nor below think that if they get promoted and make money, they will be free from confusion.
However, in fact this is impossible.
The biggest difference between humans and animals is that humans can always find new desires for themselves after reaching a certain stage, and then become confused and never satisfied.
Human beings yearn for the sea and sky when they are on land, even though there are sharks, storms in the sea, cold currents in the sky, lightning and other fatal dangers.
Human beings yearn for the universe when they are in the low-Earth orbit space station, but the universe is full of dangers.
Human beings are well aware that new dangers lurk in new environments, and they also know that leaving the comfort zone means being close to death. However, regardless of the threat of enemies or not, humans have never stopped exploring the unknown.
The two opposing natures of timidity and fearlessness are deeply rooted in the souls of people on earth in a very complex way.
Human beings are never satisfied.
The same goes for Chen Feng.
After traveling through time this time, he has lived for an extra hundred years.
Humanity also existed for a hundred more years.
But Chen Feng didn't feel satisfied at all. He even forgot to celebrate.
He has been doing one thing for hundreds of years, studying.
It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people.
Chen Feng has seen many geniuses, including Ryan and Ou Qinglan, to Sergei, Lai Wenming, Franky in the history books, and now Freders by his side.
Each one was enough to make him feel ashamed for a long time.
Every time he built up the persona of the sage Chen Feng in his mind by reading historical materials and began to call himself a master, he was always quickly taught how to behave.
Therefore, Chen Feng was forced to learn to be humble and have a clear understanding of his own IQ talent.
Just because your brain works fast doesn't mean you can comprehend it quickly.
Just because you remember it, doesn't mean you really understand it and can teach it to others.
So Chen Feng chose to spend a hundred years building himself up.
Since I don’t have any talent, I’ll just fly first.
I can't figure it out at a glance like those monsters, so I'll just pile on the time.
I have spent a hundred years building myself into a knowledgeable person, not a sage in name only.
Chen Feng is essentially a person who hates studying. His concentration in study was often criticized by former teachers Ou Qinglan and Fanxing, but this does not hinder his tenacity.
Back then, with no talent whatsoever, he could shut himself in his room and study music theory for nearly a year. He memorized the complete arrangements of the two songs "Boring" and "Boring" by rote, and the desk and floor were covered with music.
His trembling feet when he memorized things and scratched his head and scratched his head were as smooth as a mirror. Now he can also study and fight for the rise of mankind.
Even if he really doesn't like it and subconsciously regards it as a great pain, he can always persevere.
In addition, Chen Feng did not actually leave the territory of the Morrowind Empire at this time.
He originally planned to fly away.
But when he continued to move through the Star Gate and finally reached the border of the Morrowind Empire, he changed his mind.
At present, mankind has a relatively deep understanding of the planetary systems within the empire's territory, but the wider exploration range beyond five thousand light-years has extended to as far as three thousand light-years away.
It's just that there is no stargate outside, so long voyages can only rely on the ship's "legs" to run.
The first batch of ten-time-light-fast scientific research ships set out three hundred years ago, and the scientific researchers aboard have become members of the second generation who grew up from frozen embryos.
The first batch of ultra-fast scientific research spacecraft with twenty times the speed of light set out nearly fifty years ago and have now reached a thousand light-year distance.
Countless professional exploration and scientific research spacecrafts have successively sent back a lot of information, so even if Chen Feng goes out, he will just repeat the path taken by his predecessors.
If given the chance, Chen Feng would of course also want to cross the distance of tens of thousands of light-years and find the home planet of the Mysteries.
But it is obvious that with Morrowind 2's current extreme speed of 21 times the speed of light, even if he is lucky enough to stay out of the sight of the compound-eyed person, he will not be able to live for another few thousand years.
Then he can only run less than one-tenth of the distance at most, and he can't stop along the way and can only watch the scenery.
As for whether you can find "local products" that can be used to deal with compound-eyed people, you can only leave it to luck.
Therefore, Chen Feng decided not to leave, but to stay within the territory of the Morrowind Empire and use the Star Gate's quantum jump to quickly reach his destination.
Anyway, the medium-layer flight ability brought by Foredes greatly increased his safety factor and made him almost impossible to detect.
Unless he is unlucky enough to crash into another ship when leaving the subspace, but this is an extremely unlikely event.
Chen Feng was not running around aimlessly like a headless fly.
Freders found that when Chen Feng tried to figure out how to learn alien technology, if what he faced was too different from the common sense of the solar system, his understanding would always be one level lower, as if there was a layer of veil between him, and no matter how carefully he explained it, it would be almost meaningless.
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I asked Chen Feng if he understood. He felt that he understood.
But if he were asked to invent something based on this technology, his mind would be completely confused.
Ask him to organize his thoughts and write a monograph to explain scientific principles to others, and he will be in a daze as soon as he writes, and he will be stunned when he is in a daze.
Freders analyzed that the reason is that Chen Feng is a native of the solar system after all. He has stayed in the solar system for too long, and his logical thinking ability has been limited. In addition, his own IQ is "low", so he is trapped in inter-galactic cognition.
Within the deviation.
Freders suggested that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. Instead of studying behind closed doors, it is better to visit on the spot and understand things that are originally incomprehensible in the corresponding stellar quantum storm.
As a result, Chen Feng visited countless life galaxies with secondary civilizations in the past hundred years, as well as a large number of galaxies with some miracles in the universe that he intuitively judged to be useful to mankind.
It wasn't just him who got the amplification and enhancement, but also Freders.
Although Freders' depth of knowledge and understanding is always deeper than Chen Feng's, who knows if there is another layer below this layer?
Just like in the past, humans thought that the smallest unit of matter was molecules, then discovered atoms, and then discovered protons, neutrons, and electrons. Now humans have even discovered that pure string energy can still be divided and recombined to form different characteristics.
Now that Foredes has obtained the special ability of the Grass people, the degree of communication with the quantum network is much deeper than that of ordinary people. The breadth of information obtained by the detection instruments on Morrowind 2 may not be as wide as that of other large human scientific stations, but Chen Feng feels that the depth
Maybe there's a fight to be had.
Therefore, when he visited these planets, he also wanted to try to see if Freders could use his special abilities to find treasures left behind by other humans.
There are more than 10 billion stars in the Orion Arm, which is more than 10,000 light-years long. These stars form a long "light belt".
The solar system is located on the inner side of the Orion Arm near the galactic center, and the density of stars nearby is higher.
Human activity routes mainly spread along the Orion Arm to both sides, and there are a total of more than six billion stars within the empire's territory.
Among them, in addition to humans, it has been proven that there are at least hundreds of thousands of secondary civilizations. However, the only ones with the ability to travel across planetary systems and be considered as civilizations above the first level are humans and the thieves of Grass, and a small number that cannot be said to be lucky or lucky.
The "lucky" civilization that unfortunately was pulled into the same warship by humans.
This is news that Chen Feng has clearly learned in the previous timeline.
Throughout the galaxy, civilizations that have acquired or are about to acquire the ability to travel across galaxies will be eliminated by the Compound Eyes.
It's just that he only knew that there were them before, but he didn't expect that there would be so many other intelligent beings within the little Orion's arms.
The development levels of these secondary civilizations vary greatly. They are divided rigidly based on the Kardashev scale. The lowest one is only 0.0001 level, which is comparable to primitive human society. The highest one is almost 0.5 level, such as Grass.
people.
The development speed of these civilizations is extremely slow. The weak civilization with level 0.0001 has possessed wisdom for at least tens of millions of years, but in millions of years of reproduction and development, it has only improved from 0.00001 to 0.0001.
According to human calculations, even if this weak civilization develops for another 100 million years, it will still be able to reach level 0.01.
As for other civilizations that have developed to around level 0.5, they have also entered a similar vicious circle, falling into a situation where technology has stopped, as if they have hit an invisible wall head on.
The stagnation time can be as long as hundreds of thousands of years, or as short as hundreds of years.
Based on human understanding of civilization and logical calculation, conclusions can be drawn.
Even without the Compound Eyes taking any action, these civilizations that are unable to break the shackles and break out of the galaxy will eventually reach the same ending - due to the depletion of their own available resources and energy, irreversible decline, until they perish in despair.
The tens of millions of civilization ruins existing within the Orion Arm are proof that they once existed but disappeared in the long river of time.
On some planets with relatively favorable environments, there are even dozens of relics representing the past existence of different civilizations and races.
This means that the rules of this star and the planets that can breed life under these rules have not been able to cultivate a planet that can represent this galaxy in the universe despite efforts ranging from tens of millions to billions of years.
"representative".
According to the results of mathematical analysis, scientists believe that in the past few billion years, at least tens of millions of civilizations have been born in the Orion Arm, but these civilizations have returned to dust, dust to dust, appeared quietly, and disappeared quietly.
Already.
After a generation of civilization was completely destroyed, their transformation of the planet and the traces of life they left behind became the nutrient soil for the next generation of completely different species to quietly breed.
Human scientists have conducted in-depth analysis of these civilizations and concluded the greatest possibility.
The physiological structure of these civilizations can only support their exploration of the universe to this extent. Their wisdom cannot understand things at a deeper level.
For example, room-temperature superconducting technology, microwave power transmission technology, ultra-durable and ultra-high conversion rate solar panel technology, controllable nuclear fusion, low-loss dielectric engine technology, etc., which are easily mastered by humans.
These civilizations that have worked hard have all been firmly blocked by invisible walls that may be defects in their own consciousness structures or may be attributed to the external environment.
This wall of sighs is the "upper limit" of intelligent life with different physiological structures, and represents a certain cruel rule of the universe.
Assuming that mankind fails to find a breakthrough in new energy, until it exhausts the fossil fuel resources on the earth, and fails to obtain unlimited energy that is stable, controllable and sufficient to supply the needs of the entire civilization, then mankind's situation will also be dangerous.
Even if there are recyclable energy sources such as wind energy, water energy, and tidal energy, it is useless. Once energy output cannot keep up with social needs, resources will become increasingly scarce, which will inevitably lead to cruel wars for resources, and most of us will perish together.
I am afraid that human beings will not be able to escape the same fate as these extinct civilizations.
Humans once thought they were alone in the universe.
Now it seems that it is completely an illusion caused by ignorance. It was just that we could not see and contact each other before.
As the ultimate idealist philosophy says, "What cannot be seen does not exist."
Human beings' sense of loneliness is based on extremely idealistic concepts.
At a certain stage, this is true.
But at another stage, it failed itself.
Only when you stand at a certain height can you see the mystery of the vast and infinite universe.
Competition in the universe has always existed and is extremely cruel and fierce.
Every race that can escape the shackles of interstellar distance and leave its home star is a lucky person in the universe.
Of course, these lucky ones will all meet a tragic fate.
All races will inevitably fall under the butcher's knife of the compound-eyed ones.
For millions of years, no one has been spared.
People with compound eyes usually don't pay attention to low-end secondary civilizations at all, just like humans never care about an ant nest outside their home.
No one cares whether this nest of ants develops and grows or is destroyed and disappears quietly.
But when the ants mutate, become larger, become more toxic, and may even harm humans, humans will decisively use flamethrowers to feed the nest of ants.
In addition to secondary civilizations, there are more than 20 million planetary systems with special cosmic rules within the territory of the Morrowind Empire that have some reference value at some level.
Human beings have cracked a lot and studied a lot, but I dare say that only 10% of them have been understood in depth enough.
Many of these knowledge are required courses that Chen Feng has studied hard for hundreds of years.
