Voyage of the Stars

Matter disintegration ray technology is only one of the technical branches under the framework of the Theory of Everything. Not all human scientists are studying this. There are also different teams studying and exploring technologies in other areas.

For example, planetary warp technology, real shields, gravity bombs, super star destroyers, new generation detection technology, communication technology, and tachyon weapons, which belong to the same energy weapon field as matter disintegration rays, are all in full bloom.

After mastering tachyon communication during the fourth-level civilization period, humans imagined that there would be a superluminal tachyon weapon, but they have never found that type of tachyon weapon. Now that the Theory of Everything has been mastered, research in this direction is naturally on the agenda again.

Regardless of whether there is that type of weapon, humans will explore it, because weapons are related to how wars are fought. Humans have come all the way from primitive civilization and have a deep understanding that every time new technologies and new equipment appear, the form of war will change.

Along the way, from over-the-horizon long-range combat to close-range combat, and then back to long-range strikes, it is not a historical cycle, but a change that occurs according to the changes in weapons.

Take the fifth-level civilization as an example. Its warp speed has reached 100 times the speed of light. If there are no superluminal weapons, then the war will become a super close-range combat, just like the battle between the Tianqin and the fifth-level civilization exploration spacecraft.

Of course, superluminal weapons must exist. After all, as long as there is warp technology, as long as the brain is not rusty, it will think of using warp engines as engines for various weapons and bombs, but weapons with this driving method can only be regarded as interstellar missile weapons.

And because of the characteristics of warp speed, the maximum speed is equal to the speed of the warship. Also, because of the warp speed, it will be detected by the warship in advance, so the ultra-long-range strike will definitely not hit the warship moving at a high-speed warp speed.

So if there are no tachyon weapons, then the combat form of the fifth-level civilization is definitely close combat, so the future warships must be designed according to the combat idea.

If there are tachyon weapons, it will become like before the third-level civilization was mastered. There will be over-the-horizon long-range strikes, and wars will return to various ways of predicting and dodging. Of course, close combat is not excluded, just like the fighting form of the first-level civilization.

After mastering the theory of everything, humans will naturally upgrade their warships, but they will not blindly change or build new ones. Instead, they must first study these technologies thoroughly, and at the same time think about the possible war situation in the future based on the technology, and then use this as a guide to design new warships.

Therefore, if humans want to start building new warships, they must at least master various derivative technologies related to war, such as real shield technology, super star destroyer cannons, planetary warp engines, tachyon weapons, etc.

Humans have been working hard, but everyone knows that this takes time.

In addition, humans want to continue to study this natural wormhole, so they continue to stay in this star field. Year after year, many years have passed quietly.

In a blink of an eye, it has come to the first thousand years since humans arrived here.

The passage of time and the slow progress of the research on derivative technologies have made humans more and more aware of the difficulty of the development of civilization. They have also realized that the more advanced the civilization is, the more branches of science and technology it involves, and the more people need to participate in it.

If it continues like this, perhaps one day it will really be the case that a person’s entire life will not be able to push the knowledge of one of the science and technology routes to the forefront. If that happens, the entire civilization will stagnate.

Since mastering the theory of everything, Yue Yuan, as a person who coordinates the overall situation, has clearly felt this problem. He now vaguely understands what the awakener said about finding a breakthrough in the upper limit of wisdom.

Humans now seem to have gradually reached that level. Perhaps in the near future, people will feel powerless about the development of science and technology, and will not be able to learn everything even if they live for 13,500 years. After all, the knowledge learned will not only increase, but also be forgotten.

At that point, humans will either find ways to strengthen their wisdom and improve learning efficiency, or transform themselves to live longer and use time to compete with massive knowledge. But there is also a problem with doing this, that is, the war between the enthusiasm for learning and the lazy gene.

Perhaps a person can live for 1,800 years and still be positive, but what about longer? Who can guarantee that he can live for tens of thousands of years and still be curious about the future of science?

If there is no way to make most people live long and maintain curiosity and enthusiasm, the entire civilization will stagnate.

And this kind of thing is very likely to happen at the level of Level 5 civilization, because Yue Yuan still remembers what the awakener said about the fallen civilization, which is basically Level 5 civilization.

In other words, the Level 5 civilizations that can cross this hurdle have solved this problem. How did they solve it? How should humans solve their own problems at that time?

After discovering that various derivative technologies and branch sciences are progressing slowly, Yue Yuan thought a lot.

He knew that this problem must return to the study of human beings themselves, and that must be a breakthrough in the field of life sciences.

Then, combined with the previous understanding of Level 5 civilization, there is only one way for human beings to move forward in life sciences. There were two ways before, but because of the existence of electronic battleships, humans gave up the route of brain-machine integration, and then there was only one way to continuously strengthen themselves from all aspects.

The School of Life Sciences is also making efforts in this regard.

However, a new school of thought has recently emerged in the School of Life Sciences. They advocate solving various problems of human beings from the field of spiritual consciousness, and advocate directly bypassing physical genes to transform humans into a spiritual consciousness life.

To this end, they advocate that humans should increase their investment in the research of consciousness uploading technology, and at the same time suggest that they go to Adley after completing the creation of the fifth-level civilization.

It is a very reasonable request, and the new government passed the resolution.

But when passing the research on consciousness uploading technology, relevant scientists proposed a possibility of future human evolution. They said that after mastering consciousness uploading technology, if life span technology has not yet broken through, then human individual consciousness can be continued by replacing the body.

Hearing this proposal, Yue Yuan knew that he would be busy again. Although it is not yet time, and it is not said whether the replacement of the body is cloned or something, the relevant departments must prepare for the rainy day and formulate corresponding laws as soon as possible, as well as formulate solutions to the social ethical and moral problems brought about by it.