Road to science and technology

Information theory says that information is not an object of cognition, but a necessary and important component of living things that are as real as objects and energy. The fundamental difference between biological and material-energy systems is that in addition to material energy, it also has information and information functions. It is a holographic entity of the three elements of matter, energy and information.

Without any one of the three elements, living things cannot exist. Just like matter and energy, living things are not only inseparable from information for a moment, but also all their activities are guided by information.

Information theory also says that once a self-organizing system has information and information functions, it will have two major characteristics that matter and energy systems do not have. First, it can find, identify, and combine objects through information, and holographically communicate information and matter-energy with the outside world. , obtain negative entropy to survive and grow. The second is to change the organizational structure of DNA through information feedback, from gradual change to mutation, and evolve into a new biological system.

Of course, from Yue Yuanzhou's current point of view, this is undoubtedly one-sided, because in the unified theory of chaotic information of the Shenzhou civilization, information is regarded as the starting point of everything and the lowest logical component of the universe.

But having said that, some ancient arguments still have some inspiration for Yue Yuanzhou.

Especially now, when he decided to transform himself into a body of information.

For an information life form, the most basic unit must carry everything about it. Then the first thing Yue Yuanzhou must solve is the relationship between the soul and information.

He led this research within civilization a long time ago.

Dragon Scale’s ‘spiritual operating system’ is one of the products of that research.

In other words, the Shenzhou civilization has already mastered the technology of controlling "objects" through the spirit. The connection between the spirit or soul and objects and energy has been expressed by the Shenzhou civilization with accurate mathematics.

So what Yue Yuanzhou wants to solve now is the problem of how the underlying information of the universe expresses soul or thoughts.

This question seems to involve why there is life in the universe? Where does life come from? Such an ultimate question.

Undoubtedly, Yue Yuanzhou definitely does not know the ultimate problems of the universe at present, but he is not discouraged.

Because not everything requires knowing all its principles before it can be implemented.

Just like the ancients didn't know the law of universal gravitation, but they also knew that dropping rocks from a high place could cause damage to the people below.

The more you try, the more you will know.

Therefore, Yue Yuanzhou's approach is very simple, that is, to use endless experiments to exhaust everything. He believes that he can use the stupidest method to find the optimal solution.

Although simple, this method is also based on the original soul of Shenzhou civilization, information technology and unlimited computing power.

Both are indispensable.

In this way, Yue Yuanzhou began a long period of research and experiment work in this meaningless universe.

And the multi-dimensional composite detector sent by Yue Yuanzhou to the three-dimensional universe has now quietly arrived in the Milky Way.

Before coming to the Milky Way, it had already detected the star field where the Demon Eye and Yue Yuanzhou had fought with the defenders, and then sent the result to Yue Yuanzhou that all the affected galaxies and spaces had been restored to their original appearance.

During this period, it was not discovered by the defenders, or it was not watched.

So now it's coming to the Milky Way.

This technological creation that integrates Magic Eye Dimension Technology and Yue Yuanzhou's information camouflage technology has a very casual name, called Lens Detector.

Because of the fear of being watched by defenders, the initial design of the lens detector was not to keep in contact with Yue Yuanzhou at all times. Instead, it would collect enough information before leaving the Milky Way, and then send the collected information to people in the galaxy. Yue Yuanzhou in a meaningless universe.

Therefore, it is obvious that the lens detector must be intelligent, otherwise it would not be able to complete such a broad instruction of 'collecting information'.

At this moment, the lens detector has been unpacked, so it is invisible in any light wave band. Not only visible light, but also the gravity that runs through the entire universe is blind to it, just like treating it as an ordinary dimensional space and just penetrating it. past.

Therefore, gravity detection is also invalid for it. If you want to 'see' its existence, you must achieve a certain degree in space. According to the division of this universe, you must reach at least a level six civilization to detect it to a certain extent. The prerequisite It is that it does not deliberately hide itself.

When the lens probe reached the Milky Way, it also found that the defensive barrier had disappeared.

After passing all this information to Yue Yuanzhou, the lens probe entered the Milky Way.

So far, lens detectors have been wandering around the Milky Way for a long time.

However, out of caution, Yue Yuanzhou set some programs for the detector. As long as the navigation speed is limited, the cruising speed of the detector does not exceed 150 times the speed of light. This relative speed is basically the limit speed of the sixth-level civilization in this universe. .

Of course, the lens detector has cruising methods such as dimension jumping, but because the specific technology of the sixth-level civilization in this universe was not known at the beginning, the lens detector did not use such technology.

Because based on Yue Yuanzhou's previous encounters with the Demonic Eyes and the information collected from the rebels and the past millennium, the defenders restrict civilizations above level six from truly appearing in the galaxy, so the lens detector cannot show more than 1,500 One hundred times the warp speed navigation capability.

This makes the process of cruising the galaxy and collecting information very slow.

Of course, this situation will be alleviated after learning that some sixth-level civilizations have four-dimensional jumping technology, but we have not yet encountered such a civilization. For 150 light speeds, the Milky Way with a diameter of hundreds of thousands of light years is so vast.

In fact, in such a vast universe, encountering a civilization is an extremely unlikely event.

But after all, the lens detector is not a creation of an ordinary sixth-level civilization, but a technological creation equivalent to the two peak eighth-level civilizations in this universe. Therefore, many information that ordinary sixth-level civilizations cannot detect by conventional detection can be easily detected by the lens detector. can be detected.

A kind of spatial fluctuation based on four-dimensional space jumping technology was detected by the lens detector.

While receiving such spatial fluctuations, the lens detector automatically unlocked the four-dimensional jumping technology that it already had but was initially restricted.

Just when the lens detector wanted to locate this civilization through space fluctuations, it received a message, a star-wide broadcast message.

"Guardian civilization! I am a Taihao civilization from the Large Magellanic Galaxy. I am fighting your old enemy. Come to the tail of the Orion cantilever in the Milky Way to help me!"

The broadcast message was brief, but it conveyed a sense of anxiety.

After the lens detector measured the distance between itself and the broadcast location, it found that it was not that far away. It was only more than three thousand light years. After unlocking the four-dimensional jumping technology, this distance was not that far away.

So the lens detector decided to go to the tail of the Orion spiral arm to observe.