Voyage of the Stars

On the Gnoll Planet, the Gnolls have data left by humans as a verification reference, but humans have nothing. Facing the unknown road ahead, humans can only rely on themselves.

The Awakeners and Pioneers did give humans some reminders, but they only let humans recognize the signs of each level in the future. They didn't mention the details of the theory. I don't know whether it's because they can't tell or they don't understand it individually, or it's to test humans.

In short, if humans want to find a grand unified theory, they can only rely on themselves.

However, a hundred years have passed, and the experiment still hasn't made much progress.

At the beginning, the public still expected news about the experiment to suddenly break out tomorrow, but as time went on, this expectation gradually turned into disappointment, and then into a "ridicule of achieving controlled nuclear fusion within fifty years". The reason is that at the beginning of the experiment, a scientist vowed that the collision experiment would help humans find experimental traces of the grand unified theory within fifty years.

However, a hundred years have passed, and it's still standing still. Oh, it can't be said to be standing still, at least humans have collected hundreds of collision experiment data. Yes, it took a hundred years to collect hundreds of collision experiment data. It's not that humans don't work hard to do experiments, but each astronomical collision experiment takes a long time.

The particle acceleration stage alone takes a month, plus the information round trip, the detection of collision results, and the reset and maintenance of the collider. It's already the best to do ten collision experiments a year, unless humans build a few more astronomical particle colliders, but this is impossible. Building one is already the power of the entire civilization. What's more, the situation in the century does not allow it.

The awakener said that if humans want to get out of this space, they must get a fourth-level civilization. At that time, the exit of the space will naturally appear. Otherwise, no matter how humans look for it, they will not be able to find the exit.

This is very clear. On the surface, it tells humans that they must reach a fourth-level civilization to get out. In fact, the subtext is that humans can find a grand unified theory by using astronomical particle colliders to conduct experiments. After so much time, human scientists are still working hard and have always believed that the route of astronomical particle colliders is correct. This is the reason.

First of all, the awakener is a benevolent civilization, and the awakener's "illusion" takes care of humans to the extent that humans believe that he will not deceive themselves.

But where exactly is the problem?

The long-term failure has made scientists begin to reflect while continuing to improve experimental methods.

The problem is theoretical, not experimental box-some scientists have put forward such a view, which believes that there is a problem with the foundation of mankind's grand unified theory, but that's all, they can't provide evidence of where the problem lies.

Another view is that it is not enough time accumulation, or in other words, the accumulation of experimental data is still insufficient, which has led to our failure to find that trace in the limited experimental results data.

This view believes that this time humans need to break through the basic theory, and the basic theory is precisely the most difficult to make progress and the most time-consuming. They gave an example, saying that it took about 70 years from the work of Faraday and Maxwell to Edison and his real backstage support scientist Nikola Tesla actually mastering electromagnetic force. And now how long has mankind conducted real collision experiments? It's only been a hundred years, and this time may be far from the right answer through trial and error.

This view is supported by most people, basically all fanatical experimental scientists.

Another group of scientists hold a different attitude. They believe that the experiment has actually been successful, but humans are not capable of discovering the successful experimental results. In other words, humans are not capable of detecting abnormal experimental phenomena or new experimental products.

The failure to discover the problem is attributed to the experimental detection technology.

Their statement is also reasonable. Historically, physicists have solemnly declared that certain phenomena are "untestable" or "unprovable" many times. Just like some scientists in the 19th century chose to promise that the composition of stars cannot be measured experimentally.

In 1852, a French philosopher and social critic wrote in "The Progress of Philosophy": "The stars are too far away from us. We know nothing about them except that they are unreachable points of light in the sky." They believe that machines in the 19th century or any century after that cannot provide humans with enough power to escape the earth and reach the stars.

But the facts tell us that later humans can not only determine the abundance of elements in stars through stellar spectra, but also launch detectors to stars.

This is what scientists who hold the "undetectable" view believe. They think that human technology still has a few steps to go, especially in detection technology. As long as the detection technology reaches the peak of Level 3 civilization, it will definitely be able to detect new phenomena and new products of the experiment.

But there are also scientists with another attitude. They believe that other indirect methods can be used to detect or discover new products of the experiment. For example, Planck energy is difficult to obtain, but we may be able to conduct indirect experiments around Planck energy and make unexpected breakthroughs.

As time goes by, more and more scientists support the idea of ​​"untestable", because there are too many such examples in history. The first is the stellar information problem mentioned above. The second is the existence of atoms. When the atomic hypothesis was first proposed in the 19th century, many physicists refused to believe in the existence of atoms. They believed that atoms were just a mathematical method, and mathematics just happened to give the correct description by chance.

The third is the existence of neutrinos. In the early 20th century, humans had no ability to detect the existence of neutrinos, but fortunately discovered the disappearance of the law of conservation of matter and energy in some radioactive experiments. Later, Wolfgang Pauli hypothesized a new invisible particle and called it neutrino.

The development of history is vivid, so many scientists believe that humans are now facing a similar situation as before. This makes sense, but now even the experiment has not found any abnormalities, which has led some scientists to want to make a hypothesis or a hypothetical particle like their predecessors without any basis.

Everything is normal, you can't just brag, after all, scientific research is not just about opening your mind, but also based on real experimental data or unexpected discoveries.