Chapter 258 Half a Century of Development
Author: Baiyun fluttering
While Say was hibernating, time was still progressing. First, the new location of the space curvature drive research base was decided in a confidential meeting, and it began to move out to the Kuiper Belt.
Later, after the colonial fleet and Star Destroyer strike group were built, Cheng Xin, the administrator of the Halo Group, suddenly announced that he would develop the Kuiper Belt and form a fleet world floating outside the solar system.
In terms of technology, both worlds have undergone major changes. The Trisolaran world seems to have entered a state of technological explosion, and new technologies have begun to emerge one after another.
Even though he was misled by Sai to study nonsense hyperspace jumps, the Trisolaran civilization still achieved certain results in light-speed spacecraft and built a prototype of a warp-speed spacecraft.
This also makes the Trisolaran civilization hesitate, because the Trisolaran civilization still has no clue about hyperspace jumps. They cannot do it whether it is a fixed low-dimensional space or a high-dimensional space.
But the super-light speed mentioned by Say deeply attracted the Trisolarans. You must know that the speed of light and super-light speed are not the same concepts. If the Trisolaran people master the latter, then they can establish a huge interstellar civilization.
As for the progress of human civilization, it is even faster. In half a century, humans have built four new circumsolar accelerators, three global accelerators, and a larger number of particle accelerators and other basic science research equipment.
Through this, humans have realized a large number of technological theories, such as strong interaction materials, cheap heavy element fusion, simulating neural electrical signals, operating microscopic seven-dimensional space, large-scale quantum computers, industrial anti-gravity, etc.
First of all, with the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, human industry has ushered in progress, and now most basic tasks can be performed by robots.
With the new generation of highly intelligent humans, human scientific researchers now account for one-twentieth, with an average of 1 scientific researcher in 20 people.
Coupled with the huge human population and the culture of advocating academics, this is an extremely terrifying number. It is also this huge scientific research team that promotes the progress of human technology.
With the assistance of quantum computers, the super artificial intelligence "Xiao Xi" covering the entire solar system has become more and more advanced, gradually penetrating into people's lives, and the informatization level of human society has greatly improved.
There has also been remarkable progress in sophon blind zones. Humans have created sophon blind zones that can cover the entire space city, and electronic equipment can also operate in sophon shielded rooms.
Therefore, the scale of research on space curvature drive technology suddenly increased, and the Star Alliance government began to invest huge amounts of money in researching light-speed spacecraft.
There have also been many breakthroughs in the quantum body. Humanity has opened up two parallel worlds by relying on this kind of thing, and has gained a lot of theoretical knowledge.
However, the biggest breakthrough is the exchange with the Cretaceous civilization, which not only brought breakthroughs to human civilization, but even brought breakthroughs to the Trisolaran civilization.
According to the guidance of the Cretaceous civilization, humans discovered several dinosaur space battleships. According to the Cretaceous civilization, such battleships are similar in function to human Star Destroyers.
Because the mass of dinosaurs is more than ten times that of humans, and their spaceships use antimatter annihilation energy, the mass of their star destroyers is also much greater.
The tonnage of this giant spaceship is at least tens of billions, which is much larger than the colonial ships built by humans in the past. It will be of great help to humans in manufacturing super-large spaceships.
Therefore, in the 60th year of the Deterrence Era, mankind built a super colony ship weighing tens of billions of tons, which carried hundreds of millions of passengers to colonize Saturn on the 5th world.
The super engineering technology of dinosaurs has also allowed mankind to make progress in other engineering aspects, and the speed and scale of human construction of space buildings have also been greatly increased.
Take space cities for example. The largest space city today covers hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, which is no less than a country in the AD era.
There are even more places where ant technology can be used for reference, such as power muscles manufactured by bioengineering, as well as technologies such as ultra-miniature medical equipment and medical robots.
The only pity is that due to such a long time, all the annihilation engines left by the Cretaceous civilization have been completely scrapped, and there is no possibility of reverse engineering.
Therefore, there is no need to think about spacecraft with larger tonnage, because it is a behemoth that can be propelled by antimatter. It is difficult to make such a thing have stellar navigation capabilities by relying on controllable nuclear fusion alone.
However, although the annihilation engine has not been developed, humans have gradually mastered the ability to industrially manufacture antimatter and store antimatter on a large scale.
Then the number of antimatter production bases around stars began to surge, and hundreds of thousands of tons of antimatter were transported from the vicinity of the sun to other places every year.
At the same time, humans have gradually mastered a variety of methods of producing antimatter that do not rely on the sun. However, these antimatter production methods are expensive and consume huge amounts of energy.
Therefore, antimatter has gradually been widely weaponized, such as antimatter smart rail cannons and interstellar torpedoes equipped with antimatter warheads.
On the other hand, the ants themselves in the Cretaceous civilization also made great progress in biology for humans and Trisolarans. The two worlds found that the efficiency of ant brains was much higher than that of humans and Trisolarans.
The reason is very simple. Just an insect can actually master basic language and thinking abilities, which is not much better than humans and Trisolarans.
Therefore, the two worlds quickly launched research on Cretaceous civilized ants, and made outstanding progress in neurology and brain science. Humanity's mastery of the brain has also improved by an order of magnitude.
In the 70th year of the Deterrence Era, humans invented a brain-computer interface that was pierced into the spine. The brain-computer interface not only allowed users to operate computer equipment with their thoughts, but also input bioelectrical signals into the brain.
Although humans' current brain-computer interface technology cannot yet input complex neural electrical signals into the brain to simulate the senses, knowledge can be downloaded directly into the brain.
To be precise, you can only download other people's knowledge into your own brain. The principle is to use the brain analyzer to record the neural circuit model of other people's use of knowledge.
Then, the data is imported into one's own brain through the brain-computer interface. As for the technology of directly downloading electronic files through the brain-computer interface, it is not yet mature.
Brain-computer interface and knowledge download technology are currently only used in the military, but all fools know that this technology increases the density of knowledge infusion by an order of magnitude.
Therefore, the purpose of education will be to enable students to consolidate the knowledge they have downloaded, so that they can skillfully use computers to download the knowledge into their brains.
As a result, education reform has also begun. With the popularization of brain-computer interfaces in the future, the Star Alliance government plans to merge middle school knowledge and primary school knowledge and teach them all in primary schools.
(Middle school knowledge in this era is equivalent to the basic knowledge of modern university undergraduates)
Moreover, the latest generation of new humans has also embedded ant genes, which have improved their brain structure and have the ability to recognize a variety of chemical signals.
Of course, because the gap between ants and humans is so great, even with human gene editing technology, it is impossible to perfectly combine the genes of the two species.
Chapter completed!