From black technology to super engineering

The lights of the underground passage were turned on one by one, illuminating the entire passage as if it were daytime.

And as Ye Ming walked out of the passage, so did the street lights in front, as if welcoming him, from the gate of the academician's community to the gate of his house.

The door opened quietly, and Ita stood at the door waiting for his return.

"Brother Lei, thank you for your hard work." Ye Ming turned around and smiled politely at Zhou Lei and another soldier.

He knew that after Zhou Lei and the others sent him in, they had to be vigilant at all times for security—of course, the smart cameras and various sensors all over the campus made Aita fully competent, but the job of Zhou Lei and others was to be responsible for the security. His safety needs to be on guard at all times.

"It's okay, I've been used to it for a long time." Zhou Lei chuckled, crossed his hands in front of him, and signaled Ye Ming to enter the room.

Ye Ming nodded, and then walked into the house.

It was approaching 12 o'clock at night. After chatting with Director Niu for a while, he discussed the details of the follow-up experiment with Mo Gu.

Mogu's current experiment is to use the original injection method to experiment with the expressed protein of SIRT8 on mice. According to the current observation results, its expression organs seem to cover all the tissues of the mice. For this, Mogu’s guess is that SIRT8 may have achieved the reverse transcription of the protein, thereby delaying the aging of mice by controlling the time of cell division.

But this guess is just a guess... because it violates the central laws of human biology.

The so-called central dogma refers to the standard process of genetic information, genetic information cannot be transferred from protein to protein or nucleic acid.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as prions.

The latest challenge to this rule was ten years ago when a team proved that RNA can also be written back to DNA—but note that this is RNA, not protein.

Ye Ming knew that he would not be stronger than Mo Gu in the field of biology, especially in this cutting-edge field, so he respected Mo Gu's views.

Therefore, he fully supports Mo Gu's attitude of "don't worry, and thoroughly figure out the ultimate after she passes away"-it would be best if the reverse transcription of the protein can be realized, but if it can't be realized, I'm afraid the only way to do it is to do this "life-prolonging needle" up.

But as the person in charge of the most expensive project in the world, he also needs to find money for the project... At least, the pie must be drawn for those rich people.

...

"Ita, is Seventh Sister asleep?"

After taking a shower, Ye Ming asked in his mind while wearing pajamas.

"Fell asleep."

"Well, let's go to the study." Ye Ming brushed his hair carelessly a few times, then walked softly through his bedroom. He knew that Paint and Ink has been busy recently and has been in charge of the modular factory. Don't bother her, but go directly to the study.

When he opened the study door, he saw Ita hunched over and tiptoeing like a thief, and he couldn't help laughing: "Who did you learn your tricks from, a thief?"

"Hey, this is the smallest voice."

"Of course, a thief." Ye Ming then walked into the study and lay down on the single bed in the study.

Ita closes the door tenderly, then sits on the edge of the bed.

Ye Ming grabbed the holographic glasses at the head of the bed, breathed out slowly after a few seconds of silence, and then looked at Ita: "Do you think the main terminal of the system will be in the four-dimensional space?"

"I don't know." Ita shook his head slowly, and the display on his head showed a embarrassed expression: "I remember, we talked about this issue before."

"Yes, we talked. But at that time, we knew almost nothing about high-dimensional space. But now...we know a little bit."

"But it's also close to ignorance."

"No, although I have no evidence, I have a hunch." Ye Ming said, put on his glasses, and then connected to the detector that was sent into the high-dimensional space.

The pictures from the four-dimensional space come across dimensions through long-distance communication.

It is still an indescribable grotesque scene, and people can't even determine where they are. Even if they start the engine, it's just an indistinguishable flow of images.

But in Ye Ming's eyes, this actually conforms to the projection model - that is, the lens of the high-dimensional space detector does not view the scene of the high-dimensional space itself, but the reflection of the projection of the detector itself in the space.

In a word, it is looking at itself.

"What premonition?"

"I have a hunch that there may be civilizations in the four-dimensional space." Ye Ming fell silent and sighed again: "I am actually very reluctant to assume that there is such a thing as a high-dimensional civilization, because it is not only difficult to cross dimensions, It’s even hard to imagine, for example, what form does a high-dimensional creature exist in, we can’t imagine it at all.”

"But... when Mr. Huo regulated my space metric, he obtained a stable field solution. Then he discovered that the solution and his previous hypercube configuration can be transformed into each other."

"Energy and matter can all be preserved in a high-dimensional hypercube configuration—he even made an extension, thinking that the cube can meet the definition of higher-dimensional projection."

"It's a pity that, as three-dimensional creatures, even if we enter the high-dimensional world, we can't see the reality of the high-dimensional world, we can only see the three-dimensional horizon."

Ita nodded after "thinking" for a while, and then said with some doubts: "But does it have anything to do with whether the system is in a four-dimensional space?"

"The relationship is very important..." Ye Ming stared at her: "Once we determine the coordinate system, then I can find its position through the interference of the system and myself, and even... go to its side!"

After speaking, Ye Ming sat up, his eyes burning.

For a long time, countless people have regarded him as a genius born at the right time, who is as famous as Newton and Einstein, and even surpassed.

But Ye Ming was never lost at all.

He knew that he had only tried "a little" harder.

Without the inspiration of the system, it is absolutely impossible for him to achieve what he has achieved today—at most, he is an engineer, or the 996 kind.

Ye Ming doesn't believe in fate, but he really wants to ask in front of the system and the system maker, why himself?

Ita spread her hands and made a helpless gesture.

"Well, it seems that you still have reservations about me."

"I don't!"

"Well... Indeed, it seems that you didn't understand anything when you were born." Ye Ming squinted, smiled and joked, and felt a lot happier: "Come on, let's design a verification of the teleportation wormhole." Model."

...

As the star interstellar kept moving away from the earth, the calendar turned over page by page, and it came to May in a blink of an eye.

During the first weekend in May, a paper from the Brain-Computer Center was posted on Aita Academic.

——"Observation on the Effect of SIRT Family Gene Expression Proteins of Canglanxing Biology on the Lifespan of Mice"

In this report, it was proposed that the mammals of the Canglan Star share the SIRT gene with humans, but there is an additional subfamily, temporarily named SIRT8. Through analysis, the thesis team believes that this family of genes is similar to the "longevity gene" of human beings, and can widely affect various important organs of organisms, including heart, lungs, etc.

At the same time, the report also pointed out that through observation and comparison, the mouse-like mammals of Canglan Star have extremely long intervals between cell division cycles, which means that even ordinary "rats" have a lifespan of three to five years. Year.

After injecting the extracted SIRT8 protein into the mice, the cell division cycle of the mice was also prolonged.

As we all know, the upper limit of human life span is positively correlated with the division cycle of cells, and the length of cell telomeres determines the number of divisions—that is, if the natural life wants to live longer under the exclusion of disease factors, it must either increase the number of divisions, Either slow down the division cycle.

Although the paper is very rigorous and does not mention prolonging lifespan, every word refers to prolonging lifespan.

...

The provincial capital science and technology park gathers wisdom and technology.

As a giant with an unimaginably large "output value", Jizhi Technology's shares have been reformed several times in the past few years, and its founder's shares have long been diluted to almost invisible.

Well... to be precise, it has been nationalized.

However, neither the management nor the ordinary employees have changed.

Everyone still goes to work from 9 to 5, and goes to work easily and happily. Even for ordinary employees, the wages are not as ridiculously high as the rumors outside, and the country has long implemented a strict hierarchical individual tax system, and fully realized Aita's management - you can't dodge taxes if you want.

Therefore, apart from being a little more relaxed, and perhaps having a slightly higher "social status", the employees of Jizhi Technology do not have much practical benefit.

But how should I put it, in the current era when the country is gradually moving towards high welfare, social status, or "sense of honor" and "sense of superiority", has become... visibly worth pursuing.

Among other things, being a colleague with Academician Ye Ming, who else would dare to think about such a thing?

In the conference room, Paint and Ink is holding a meeting for a group of subordinates.

"Tomorrow is the day for the trial operation of our first universal integrated factory. Everyone cheer up and don't think about having Aita in everything."

Qi Yumo's hair was pulled into a bun at the back of her head, which made her look much more capable. At this time, she had a serious expression, and even knocked on the table: "Let's talk a little bit, the universal factory is the place where the vast majority of human beings will be in the future. The premise of exploiting the resources of the moon, the asteroid belt, and the Kuiper belt, to put it more broadly, can support the unmanned colonization of human beings in deep space, and there is no mistake."

Everyone nodded in unison, agreeing again and again.

In fact, they do not need to be reminded by paint and ink, they also know the significance of the universal integrated factory - mainly lies in the word "universal".

What is omnipotent?

Of course, being able to do anything is omnipotent.

At present, humans have initially established a primary industrial base for mining and water and ice resource circulation on the moon base, but the base occupies a large area and a large scale... It takes a long time and a huge cost, as everyone has seen with their own eyes. .

With the discovery of the blue star, it will be inevitable to establish a colony there in the future. So... a question that lies before us is how to complete the establishment of the industrial system on Canglan Star as quickly as possible?

Of course, a complete industrial system is obviously impossible.

But what if there is such a factory that can maximize the completion of multiple production tasks in industrial production?

Thus, the idea of ​​universal integrated factory came into being.

In the design, this first universal integrated factory will adopt unmanned production in an all-round way, with full mechanical arm operation. The core is smelting, machine tools and resource circulation. Its functions will cover mineral collection, smelting, stamping, segmentation, manufacturing, etc. field.

To put it simply, it is to throw it on an uninhabited planet. As long as it has energy, it can mine by itself, collect water ice by itself, and then create the required parts and mechanical equipment from zero.

Of course, it says it is "universal", but in fact it is definitely not omnipotent. For example, semiconductors, rubber products and other chemical raw materials need to be carried by themselves-after all, steel is the heaviest and takes up the most space among all materials.

As for the energy... naturally it comes from the external power of the spaceship.

After a year of design and manufacturing, at present, although the production capacity is not enough at all, the universal factory that does the work beyond imagination has finally taken shape.

And it is only the first batch of factories that focus on steel products.

According to Ye Ming's idea, it should have complete self-replication ability, only in that way can the productivity be completely liberated.