a certain scientific hogwarts

"Little guy, please stop playing tricks on me..." Lao Deng felt tired.

"No, this is not a joke." Joan spoke for Hans. "You still haven't figured out the essential problem of yourself. Or the current essential problem of the wizarding world."

"Well... tell me, what did you see?"

"Magic, although it has all kinds of strange and strange features, and in a sense is more like a miracle to ordinary people, its essence is still a tool, controlled by the wizard's thoughts and actions, and a means to achieve the wizard's purpose. It’s just that this method is simpler and more efficient than ordinary people’s methods.”

"To use an inappropriate metaphor, ordinary people may only be able to calculate addition and subtraction. But wizards are born with multiplication and division. There is no need to go through calculations or analysis. They can get the results directly by just looking at the questions. So when When ordinary people need to learn to use multiplication and division, they need to study theorems and formulas, and then calculate the results. This is the difference between ordinary people and wizards. Therefore, in ancient times, ordinary people's science and technology did not form a system. , before the multiplication and division formula theorem was developed, wizards were more advanced."

"That makes a lot of sense! What about modern times?" Newt interjected.

"However, in modern times, ordinary people have summarized past experience and formed a development system in the field of contemporary science and technology. Basic scientific research discovers and understands the nature of the world, or the basic rules, and then through industrial development and applied technology research, the basic research results are further transformed into people's Actual tools or products that can be used, and then use these new tools and products to further improve and update research tools for basic scientific research. This is an iterative cycle of development."

"What about you wizards? In my opinion, you hold magic as an extremely high-quality tool, and compare it only to the life products of ordinary people. What about the research on the foundation and essence of magic? Is there any? I don't know. Use magic Have you studied this world? It seems that you have not? Yes, you have developed many magical spells, many more efficient potions and magic props that are beyond ordinary people's understanding. But from the perspective of ordinary people, you will only use Tools are used to make products. It completely ignores the development of magic as a tool itself. Similarly, it also ignores the development of the wizarding world itself. Don’t rush to refute me. You wizarding world has always been a squib, to what extent have you studied it? I guess we can figure out how squibs are divided into those with magical power and those without magic power, right?"

"You have gone from being the masters of magic to being controlled by magic."

"Although I don't completely agree with your idea, it seems that the wizarding world is indeed following this trend..." Lao Deng lamented, "But the problem causing this trend, I personally think is that the foundation of the magic field is too difficult. , and caused by too few wizards.”

"I don't want to deny these two objective factors. But this is caused by you dividing the entire society. Although there are historical reasons for dividing the society, that is not the point. Your wizarding world is about to be destroyed because of your own choices. You have fallen into the dark forest. Once you fall completely, your destruction will only be a matter of time."

"Dark Forest? What is that?" It was John who asked this time.

"A science fiction novel that can logically and self-consistently propose the sociological laws of the universe. I like this work very much!" Hans happily answered his grandfather's question.

"That must be a great work! But let's talk about this rule first."

Through Joan of Arc, she briefly introduced the story and what cosmic sociology is, and then began to imitate the dialogue between Luo Ji and Da Shi in the novel, guiding everyone to understand the laws of the dark forest.

"I will first put forward two axioms, and you can try to refute them:

1. Survival is the first need of civilization.

2. Civilization continues to grow and expand, but in the universe, the current situation should say that the total amount of matter on the earth remains unchanged.

Does anyone have any objections?I think even magic cannot make matter appear out of thin air, and the existence of that kind of interference law cannot be defined as the realm of humans.Even the summoning spell in Transfiguration, I think it is the same, right? "

"As the name suggests, what is summoned seems to appear out of thin air, but it already exists and is not created out of thin air. What you think is fine, regardless of theory or knowledge of magic." Lao Deng answered. "But then what? You can't tell anything from the theorem alone, right?"

"Suppose from a cosmic perspective, what if there are extraterrestrial civilizations, if we observe them, or they discover us?"

"Interesting hypothesis! But even if we observe other cosmic civilizations, there is no way to affect them, right?" This time it was Lucius.

"Americans have already landed on the moon in 1969. For ordinary people, it is just a matter of time." The agent chief answered.

The wizards were shocked and speechless.

"I think if it were a civilization with the same technological level as ours, they might really try their best to develop space attack weapons to destroy them." The agent leader continued, "After all, launching satellites, rockets, missiles and other non-living things into the universe Objects only need to consider transportation issues. Sending people there for communication? The difficulty will increase exponentially."

"Can't we just leave it alone? And according to you, higher civilizations will choose to destroy us as soon as they find us. But we will not pose any threat to them?" The person who refuted him was Tina. . "What do you think, little one?"

"I will introduce two more concepts to you, chain of suspicion and technological explosion." Joan of Arc continued to explain in detail.

"So, sitting back and doing nothing, communicating with each other is impossible, I know it!" The secret agent leader was very happy that he guessed correctly, "This work alludes to the development of human society onto the fantasy of cosmic civilization, oh! I think too Look at the kids!”

"Oh, don't think about the novel first, what's the conclusion?" Tina was a little unhappy at the agent chief's interruption.

"When communication and laissez-faire both violate the first axiom, Tina, tell me, what choice do you have? Or, do you still have a choice?" Lao Deng rubbed his temples, "Although this theory It does have flaws, but the logic does support itself. But I don’t think the wizarding world is completely consistent with this theory.”

"Albus, think about it again! Think about the political factors!" Old Barty suddenly said excitedly, "Think about the reasons why the Four Giants created Hogwarts? Think about why there is the Wizarding Secrecy Act? Never mind pure Whether Xue admits it or not, the huge difference in body size is the most direct reason why the wizard remains mysterious and reclusive, why?"

"Because we wizards simply cannot afford to be exposed to the primitive bloody jungle laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest, and to be exposed to the price of living in the world of ordinary people, that's why we choose to escape into the darkness! In the era of the Four Giants, Ordinary people are just holding cold weapons, and wizards are almost extinct! If the Dark Lord completely exposes us, what do you think the Muggle Prime Minister will choose? Anyway, as a politician, if I am in the position of Muggle Prime Minister, No mercy. Just like I did to the Death Eaters!"