Chapter 8: Scientific frontiers and mezzanines

No one knows what the next generation of technological subjects will be.

The so-called scientific subject is the most important factor that triggers the explosion of science.

For example, the first scientific explosion, although historically it started with the European Renaissance, actually started with the steam engine. Of course, it was called the Industrial Revolution, but didn't human science just follow social progress?

Progress?

Then came the internal combustion engine, and then the large-scale use of electricity, and then the second industrial revolution broke out. This was the electric power industrial revolution in history. And right after this, various sciences focusing on electricity began.

Following the second industrial revolution, the third industrial revolution is the rapid development of atomic energy, electronic computers, space technology and bioengineering. But in the final analysis, it is actually the development of electronic computer technology that provides the soil from which science is produced.

In the Industrial Revolution, without computers, there would be no soil for modern science to emerge. You can't ask for human power to calculate equations that need to be calculated billions of times, right?

So far, human science is actually still enjoying the fruits of the third industrial revolution. In other words, even though the third industrial revolution has broken out for decades, in fact, humankind’s current technological level is still in the third place.

During the three industrial revolutions.

So... what is the breaking point of the fourth industrial revolution? What is its soil? What is the new round of scientific explosion caused by it?

This has caused a lot of discussions in the scientific community. Some say it is biotechnology, some say it is the generation of new energy, some say it is the innovation of space technology, some say it is the formation and emergence of artificial intelligence. There are various opinions, but all scientists

There is a consensus that when the soil for the Fourth Industrial Revolution appears, mankind will usher in a new round of scientific explosion, thereby completely completing the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

In fact, Yao Yuan is very excited when he looks at the current vigorous development of Hope's scientific community, especially the wave of inventions in the recent period. He is eager to see the outbreak of the fourth industrial revolution in his lifetime.

By the time the technology belonging to the Fourth Industrial Revolution emerges, perhaps... after the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the explosion of science, human civilization will then be a new civilization suitable for space navigation!

Yao Yuan frowned as he listened to Polly's request, then sat back on his chair and said: "Since you know the existence of those robots, you should know that these robots are the last and final defense mechanism of the Hope.

, once any non-human invades the Hope, these robots will serve as a solid position, and the person who controls them is the Hope's central computer... I can't answer your request immediately. Please give me some time to think about it, because it is related to Hope.

Everyone's life is safe. Once the robot's program is rewritten...you know the consequences."

Polly frowned slightly, she didn't say anything more, lowered her head slightly, then turned and walked towards the door.

At this moment, Yao Yuan suddenly asked: "Polly, you have led many inventions recently. Could it be that...you have already felt the signs of the fourth industrial revolution? The forefront of the fourth explosion of human science and technology,

Is it as predicted by those scientists?"

Polly stopped, but she did not look back. She just said: "...Yes, I have some guesses and feelings, but whether it is true or not, I need to continue to conduct more experiments."

Yao Yuan thought for a while and said: "Is it related to Gaussian technology? In other words, is the fourth industrial revolution an industrial revolution of electromagnetic technology? This needs to involve new materials, such as high-energy storage batteries and new energy sources.

And a complete mastery of electromagnetic technology, right?"

Polly frowned and said: "I said, I'm not sure, I need more experiments!"

"Really?" Yao Yuan exhaled and said, "I will give you a reply within three days."

"OK."

After Polly finished saying this, she walked out of the captain's room. The moment she walked out of the door, she suddenly said: "There is a small shop selling rice cakes in Block C on the third floor. I like it very much."

Eat the rice cakes there." After saying that, she walked out minding her own business.

Yao Yuan was stunned. He shook his head with a wry smile and began to meditate silently. After a long time, he suddenly pressed a communicator on the table and said: "Place Zhang Heng, Ying

, the Black Iron trio called."

On the third day, in the weapons testing ground where Polly was, Ying, Heitie, and Zhang Heng were standing in their military uniforms. Behind them, there were several complete robots and several piles of damaged robot remains.

"Captain Ying, Captain Heitie, and Captain Zhang Heng, serve as the guardians and observers of this robot experiment." Ying took a step forward and said to Polly and the other scientists, researchers, and experimental students with great enthusiasm.

Polly glanced at the three of them, but she didn't care. She walked around them and walked to the pile of robots. First, she carefully stroked the shells of the robots, and then came to the pile of robot remains and examined them carefully for a long time.

Then she stood up and said at the same time: "Then let's start with the robot wreckage..."

(The precognition person feels danger, the clear person sees any of my actions, and the sensor person subdues or kills me in the shortest time... But it's okay, I don't plan to do anything, I have already said, that rice cake is the best

After eating, I like the Hope very much. That big idiot is indeed as suspicious as my father said...)

In this way, Polly's research continues. In terms of civil affairs, the milk powder purchase restriction order has not aroused public resentment. In fact, many people have stopped buying milk powder long before the baby boom began. The issuance of this decree

, on the contrary, many people applauded it.

With more than a thousand emergency trained doctors on duty, the baby boom in the next month has finally been dealt with. So far, the total population of the Hope has reached about 140,000, including more than 16,000 babies.

In the next two months, another 12,000 to 15,000 babies will be born. By then, the total population of the Hope will be more than 150,000!

However, the consequences of this are not only an increase in the number of humans, but also other factors, that is, the size of the Hope.

Some experts have clearly pointed out that the upper limit of the total population of the Hope is 220,000. Once this critical value is exceeded, the ecological park will not be able to support all the food sources for so many humans. Even the lowest level of food and clothing cannot be achieved.

Moreover, as the population increases, the load on the air circulation system, wastewater and water steam circulation system, and life support system will also skyrocket.

You must know that people are not machines. It is impossible to arrange people according to square meters. If people want to survive, they must have enough living space. Housing is one of them, as well as jobs, entertainment facilities, and the most basic food.

Source, etc., all of this challenges the fragile human civilization in front of us.

The Hope number is not too big, but... too small!

However, it is impossible for Yao Yuan to issue an order for family planning. First of all, this does not conform to the psychology of most European and American people. Secondly, the number of human beings is only a few hundred thousand. There is no buffer time for family planning. If a generation is planned

If children are born, the population of the next generation will be immediately halved, or at least reduced by 30%. If this continues, the human race will be completely finished in at most two generations. If nothing else, once genetic diversity is lost, the proportion of consanguineous marriages may increase.

If it rises straight up, by then, humans might as well just commit suicide without encountering any cosmic disaster at all.

In general, as those scientists or experts have mentioned, the size of the environment, the number of people, these factors are the basis for determining the continuation of human beings in the universe.

"It seems that the external cabin plan must be implemented immediately."

In order to solve the problem of population growth and the problem that the Hope is too small, relevant experts proposed a plan to transform the cabin into an external cabin.

According to them, the external cabins can not only be used to produce various luxury goods and meat products, but can actually create more external cabins to develop more space on the Hope. The increased space will provide

More jobs and living environment.

In fact, these experts clearly pointed out the irrationality of Yao Yuan's space jump.

At present, the Hope can only make nearly 400 space jumps, and each space jump only lasts for three days. In other words, if all the space jump times are accumulated, and each space jump does not encounter anything, then

In fact, only three to four years can pass.

But Hope has been able to survive independently in the universe for about forty years. If the energy of the space jump is completely used up, what will it do with the remaining thirty years? Will it continue to drift indefinitely?

Therefore, experts proposed that every time a space jump occurs, no matter whether there is anything around, it must stay in the void for one month, that is, thirty days. During this period, the external cabin can be deployed, and within thirty days,

It is enough for some plants to grow and harvest, and it can also allow the extra people in the future to live in the external cabins. Only when the space jumps, the external cabins are folded, allowing the people to return to the Hope, and then expand again after the jump. Such a

circulation mechanism.

If the population and housing are divided in this way, then the Hope can afford the living needs of no more than 500,000 people. At that time, at least two generations of the population have passed, that is, at least more than 40 years have passed.

At that time, humans will either advance in science and technology and be able to build new types of spaceships, or they will be completely finished and human civilization will disappear in the universe, so there is nothing to worry about anymore.

While Yao Yuan was discussing matters related to the external cabin with the experts, a new report came from Polly's scientific team.

It was not that the Gauss weapon experiment was successful, or even that any accident occurred, but that the Polly science team found a very strange signal. This signal was transmitted from the complete robot, and its receiving source was not actually the central computer of the Hope, but

It's...in the mezzanine below the central computer of the Nozomi!

There is the internal metal sandwich of the Hope, which is a solid metal layer, but the signal is actually received there. In other words...
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