Road to science and technology

Perhaps, except for Yue Yuanzhou and the civilization that released the attack, no one knows the truth here anymore.

In addition to super strong electromagnetic radiation gamma rays, the explosion will also eject most of its material outward at a speed of up to 10% of the speed of light, and radiate shock waves to the surrounding interstellar material, which will cause its expanded gaseous dust Forming a shell-like structure, but that will come later.

Now Yue Yuanzhou is not in the mood to care about this supernova explosion because he is very puzzled. The reason is that he can't find who lost the light particles.

"Isn't this too well hidden? Are all the advanced civilizations in Trisolaris so stubborn?"

Yue Yuanzhou frowned and walked back and forth in the hall. He still didn't know how he was discovered. From entering the universe to being hit by light particles, he had never done anything to expose himself. Could it be that this is a busy route?

Now Yue Yuanzhou has placed the Shenzhou star in the starry sky, and at the same time is constantly sending detectors up and down to nearby star systems. These detectors do not emit any electromagnetic waves, and only quantum entanglement communication is always on.

Now that we know it's this universe, it's always right to be careful. Even if he is very confident in his technology, he must be careful. The water here is too deep, and hiding yourself well is the first step.

Just as Yue Yuanzhou continued to quietly send out a group of detectors, Carl walked in from the gate. He also understood a little bit about the situation just now, but he was not very clear about some situations, so now he still thought that Yue Yuanzhou was in this universe with others. He had a grudge, so he asked: "Exploding stars! This seems to be different from Lieyang Technology. Why are they suddenly under attack? Did you have a grudge against them before?"

Yue Yuanzhou turned his head speechlessly to look at Karl, who was still walking and making sounds in his phantom state. He had a grudge.

He didn't want to say it at first, but when he saw Ah Zhui, who had been waiting, looking puzzled, he thought it would be better to explain it, but he didn't say it too fully: "No grudge! It should be that this universe is originally That's it."

"How do you say it?" Karl didn't ask how he knew.

"Dark forest, the universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is a hunter with a gun, sneaking in the forest like a ghost, gently pushing aside the branches blocking the road, trying hard not to make a sound with his footsteps, even breathing Be careful, because there are stalking hunters like him everywhere in the forest. If he finds other life, there is only one thing he can do: shoot to eliminate it. In this forest, other people are hell and an eternal threat. Any life that exposes its existence will be quickly wiped out. This is the picture of cosmic civilization, so we should have been exposed to the vision of a well-hidden civilization just now."

Yue Yuanzhou introduced them to the concept of light particle strike as he spoke.

After he finished speaking, before Karl could say anything, Ah Zhui couldn't help but put away his legs and stood up from the sofa and asked, "Why? How come you have such a concept!"

"Why." Yue Yuanzhou thought for a while and explained: "First of all, there must be two basic axioms. First, survival is the first need of civilization. Second, civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged. This You have no objection at all, right?"

"No!"

"No!"

The ones who said no were not Karl and Ah Zhui, but Mo Zhai and Xi Jiao, who always appeared in pairs. They happened to arrive when Yue Yuanzhou spoke, and they bowed to Yue Yuanzhou as he spoke.

"Here we come, let's listen together." Yue Yuanzhou waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to be polite and then continued: "There is also the chain of suspicion. Both parties cannot judge whether the other is a well-intentioned civilization. The goodwill and malice between civilizations. Good and evil. It is not rigorous to put similar words in science. If Zhuangzi were here, he would definitely have said a lot of truths, so you can just understand it literally. Goodwill means not taking the initiative to attack and destroy other civilizations, while bad faith means the opposite."

“A civilization cannot judge whether another civilization is a good civilization or an evil civilization. It cannot judge whether another civilization thinks its own civilization is a good civilization or an evil civilization. It cannot judge whether another civilization will launch an attack on itself. It cannot judge whether another civilization is interested in itself. It is impossible to judge whether another civilization thinks it is kind or malicious, and it is impossible to judge whether another civilization thinks it is kind or malicious."

"Another reason is that any civilization may experience a technological explosion. If you don't eliminate a backward civilization, it may suddenly become stronger soon, discover you, and eliminate you."

There are many civilizations in the universe, and there will always be civilizations that attack those whose coordinates are exposed.

After Yue Yuanzhou finished speaking, Xi Jiao rolled his eyes twice. Before anyone else could speak, he immediately grasped the key, so he said: "So communication will definitely expose the position of civilization! But all this should be based on the fact that the speed of light cannot be exceeded. above."

"Yes, if the relative speed of civilization's warp navigation exceeds the speed of light, it will easily break the communication barrier and break the chain of suspicion." Yue Yuanzhou said and found that these people were looking at him.

"Why are you all looking at me? Huh? The speed of light! Are you saying that the civilizations in this universe cannot travel at super-light speeds?" Yue Yuanzhou thought about it. It is indeed the case. If these civilizations could super-light speed, they would have broken through it long ago. There is a chain of suspicion.

But even if the chain of suspicion is broken, as long as the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged and there is still technological explosion, according to the tradition of this universe, what should be destroyed will still be destroyed. If we don’t destroy them, will we still wait for these civilizations to develop and rob the universe of resources?

As for warp speed, wouldn't my warp speed of 300 times the speed of light mean that he was going sideways?

Huh? ! No, I haven’t tried it yet! ! !

"You have reminded me that maybe we have overlooked a problem. Let's take a look first."

As Yue Yuanzhou spoke, he waved a projection screen. Inside the projection screen was the detector he had released before. In order to stay concealed, he subconsciously did not start the warp navigation.

But now he directly gave an order to one of the detection spacecraft to enter warp speed, and his move made everyone present who was staring at the data take a breath.

On the projection screen, after the detection spacecraft started its warp voyage, the warp crystal used as fuel immediately released the energy that distorted time and space, and then the detection spacecraft instantly entered the warp voyage. However, according to the data displayed, the detection spacecraft now The relative speed is the speed of light!

In other words, the seemingly normal universe limits the upper limit of warp speed!

"This data is all normal, is this happening?" Mo Zhai, who already had a very deep scientific literacy, suddenly shouted. He knew that the maximum warp speed of civilization is three hundred times the speed of light. And now. The speed of light! It can't be surpassed, not even by warp speed navigation, which is a trick where space moves but I don't move!

But fortunately, there is no problem with time and space jump, it has been verified before.

"This is the physical reason for the dark forest!" Karl was the first to recover from the shock. What kind of universe is this and what kind of history does it have?

At this time, Xi Jiao, who was silent on the side, was shouting in his heart: Black, it’s so dark!

The only difference is Yue Yuanzhou, he has seen more.

It's not that he saw more, but that he knew more from the information.

First of all, Yue Yuanzhou saw from the data that the detection spacecraft entered warp speed, and it was instantaneous, but there was no dead line. This is enough to explain a problem, that is, the warp speed navigation used by them is different from the civilization here. Maybe they are not using warp speed crystals.

Yes, Yue Yuanzhou nodded secretly. This is reasonable. After all, the warp crystal is made by himself using space technology and some kind of dark matter plus soul technology. This is why he needs to put the warp crystal in an intelligent civilization when he makes it. And the civilization here is in the dark forest. If you don't find this method of making warp crystals, at least most of them can't have it. So they took another approach!

Yue Yuanzhou thinks this is very possible, because he knows that the warp speed of this universe has a time dilation effect. But it doesn’t seem to have the same mass-increasing effect as light particles!

Logically speaking, it is impossible for warp-speed navigation to have this effect, because warp-speed navigation itself does not move but space moves, so this clock-slowing effect can be avoided in principle.

But the warp speed navigation here is the same as directly pushing the speed to the speed of light! But it’s different!

Speed ​​of light, warp sailing, warp crystal, dead line, black domain, light particles.

Words related to the speed of light appeared in Yue Yuanzhou's mind. After a while, he sighed, then looked at the people present and said, "We don't understand this place yet!"