Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 890: Heavy Industry First

Of course, there is more than just this technology. There is also the fourth-generation warp technology called the planetary warp engine that humans have been working hard to research.

There was also the matter disintegration cannon that he had seen during the battle with the level 5 civilization exploration spacecraft, as well as some technologies that he had heard from other civilizations and other beings.

Like consciousness uploading technology, interstellar communication technology and the like.

Humans certainly don't make choices, they need them all.

And these are just the directions that humans have known before. Level 5 civilization must have more than just these technologies. There must be tens of thousands of scientific branches under the framework of the Theory of Everything. These are just the ones that can be seen on the surface. There are also countless technologies that benefit society.

The progress of a civilization must be the comprehensive development of multiple disciplines, because only the comprehensive development of multiple disciplines can elevate the level of civilization.

Therefore, the science and technology derived from the theory of everything will inevitably involve all aspects of society, and both applied physics and life sciences will benefit from it.

Humans themselves may also evolve and strengthen again due to the improvement of civilization level, but we don’t know how to go forward. Will they continue to follow the carbon-based physical route, or mechanized body, or move towards spiritual consciousness?
There are many paths for the advancement of individual life. It depends on how humans go forward, and of course it also depends on what kind of technology humans can master.

These are the changes that may come after mastering the Theory of Everything.

However, at this stage, what the human leadership is most concerned about is not the evolutionary direction of individual humans, but the performance of applied technology derived from the Theory of Everything in the military field.

As long as Yue Yuan is still around, any technological progress made by mankind will definitely give priority to the military and to arming mankind itself.

In the interstellar age, the foundation of human survival is undoubtedly a powerful fleet. Only powerful military force can ensure the survival of human civilization in this crisis-ridden universe.

This concept makes humans always put the development of military armament first. This time of technological advancement is no exception. Just like before, the military has become busy as soon as the Theory of Everything was announced to have been verified.

The same is true for Yue Yuan. The place he visits most often recently is the battleship design department.

Just like the previous times when the civilization level was upgraded, every time the technology took off, humans would put the construction of new warships on a daily basis, and this time was no exception.

Humans have indeed never seen a true level five civilization fleet. What they saw was just a level five civilization exploration ship. However, it was just an exploration ship, and its size was almost as big as a human battleship.

This means that the spaceships of the fifth-level civilization must be larger, which is consistent with what humans learned about the fifth-level civilization spaceships from the Kuntai civilization database.

The home planet of the Kuntai civilization was originally taken away by a super-large spaceship, and according to the description in its database, that spaceship must have been larger than the current human flagship.

Of course, the bigger the warship, the better. However, there must be a reason why the warships of the fifth-level civilization are so large. Although humans don't know the reason yet, with the emergence of some technology, humans will definitely know the reason.

Just like why human flagships are built so big now, it is because they need to carry star destroyers. If they are not built so big, they cannot carry star destroyers.

Analyzing from this perspective, the human warship design department believes that perhaps the reason why the fifth-level civilization warships need to be built larger is perhaps because they can carry certain weapons.

As soon as these words came out, Yue Yuan instantly thought of the long-forgotten destruction of the solar system. At the same time, a voice rang out in his heart: Super Star Destroyer Cannon! That was a real star destroyer cannon, a cannon that could destroy the stars in the sky. The sun and the Centauri triple star system were destroyed by that weapon.

Humans have long known that the ability to destroy stars requires at least a level five civilization.

The star destroyers that humans have now can at most destroy rocky planets like Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. It’s not impossible to destroy larger planets by just firing one more shot, but in front of a star, they can only sigh in despair.

Even the smallest red dwarf star in the starry sky cannot be shaken by human star destroyer cannons, and at most it can only produce a few sparks.

Human scientists already know that a Level 5 civilization has the ability to destroy stars, but the specific principles and technologies used to achieve this are still unknown.

Of course, there are several theories. Especially after mastering the theory of everything, scientists have made several more guesses about the weapon based on existing theories.

According to historical records of human civilization, the Sun was destroyed almost four years after the Centauri triple star system was destroyed.

A level five civilization can travel at a speed a hundred times the speed of light. Logically speaking, if the unknown civilization that destroyed the Alpha Centauri star system really wanted to quickly destroy the sun, it only needed to travel at warp speed towards the sun. However, the fact was that it took more than four years.

So the unknown civilization should have destroyed the Alpha Centauri triple star system when passing by it, and then for some unknown reason also fired a shot at the Sun. In other words, the super star destroyer cannon fired was at the speed of light.

Although we don't know why it is not superluminal, this point shows humans one of the characteristics of the super star destroyer cannon, which is the speed of light.

Combining this information, it is easy for humans to come to the conclusion that weapons like the Super Star Destroyer Cannon are super kinetic weapons. The reason is simple, because of the relativistic kinetic mass formula.

A massive object is accelerated to a speed close to the speed of light, so its kinetic mass will become very large. When it hits the sun, the unparalleled impact force generated by the instantaneous collision directly destroys the stable structure of the sun, and then triggers a series of collapse reactions and finally explodes.

Of course, this is just one viewpoint.

Scientists who hold different opinions believe that if this type of attack was used, the Sun would be destroyed, but a white dwarf remnant should be left after the explosion. However, based on the explosion radiation and the diffusion rate of the residues from various solar and triple star systems observed by humans after they drifted into the starry sky, there should be no remnants left after the Sun and triple star system were hit.

This shows that such an attack is much more powerful than the method of destroying a star by taking advantage of the unstable collapse and explosion inside the star.

Therefore, another group of scientists believe that the super star destroyer cannon should be another kind of technology, perhaps some kind of technology that is almost negative energy or negative matter. The specific principle is currently unknown, and we may need to have a deeper understanding of negative matter to know it.

Their current guess is that there is a repulsive force between negative matter and positive matter that is as great as gravity, and it is this force that may cause stars to be shattered into pieces.

Yu Nanfeng, an older generation engineering scientist, shook his head at this statement. He has always believed that great power can create miracles, and he always believed that it was a powerful kinetic weapon. He felt that as long as the speed was closer to the speed of light, kinetic weapons could also blast a star into pieces without leaving any trace.

These two concepts have also become the two research directions for human civilization to develop super-star destroyer cannons.

One is equivalent to the school of miracles, which advocates using the powerful force of the super-force field to accelerate massive objects to near the speed of light, thereby destroying stars. The other is equivalent to the school of skills, which advocates exploring some kind of negative matter principle, directly allowing negative matter to explode inside the star, causing the strong star to fall apart under the combined effect of its own unstable collapse and the sudden strong repulsive force.

(End of this chapter)