Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 893: Love Changes with Time
Matter disintegration ray technology is just one of the technical branches under the framework of the Theory of Everything. Not all human scientists are studying this. Different teams are also researching and exploring technologies in other aspects and fields.

For example, planetary warp technology, real shields, gravity bombs, super star destroyer cannons, a new generation of detection technology, communication technology, and tachyon weapons, which belong to the same energy-type weapon field as matter disintegration rays, have all blossomed.

After mastering tachyon communication in the fourth-level civilization period, humans imagined the existence of a superluminal tachyon weapon, but they have never found that type of tachyon weapon. Now that they have mastered the theory of everything, research in this direction has naturally been put on the agenda again.

Regardless of whether there are weapons of that type, humans will explore them, because weapons are related to how wars are fought. Humans have come a long way from primitive civilization and have come to realize that the emergence of new technologies and equipment will change the form of war.

Along the way, the shift from beyond-visual-range long-range combat to close-range combat and then back to long-range strikes is not an inevitable historical cycle, but a change that occurs based on changes in weapons.

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

Of course, superluminal weapons definitely exist. After all, as long as there is warp technology, as long as the brain is not rusty, people will think of using warp engines as engines for various weapons and bombs. However, weapons with this type of drive can only be regarded as interstellar missile weapons.

Moreover, due to the characteristics of warp speed, the maximum speed is equal to the speed of the battleship. Also, due to the warp speed, it will be detected in advance by the battleship, so the ultra-long-range attack will definitely not hit the battleship moving at high warp speed.

Therefore, if there are no fast-particle weapons, then the combat form of the fifth-level civilization will definitely be close combat, so future battleships will have to be designed according to the combat concept.

If there are fast-particle weapons, it will become like before the third-level civilization was mastered. There will be beyond-visual-range long-range strike methods, and war will return to various predictive and dodging methods. Of course, close combat is not ruled out, just like the combat form of the first-level civilization.

After mastering the theory of everything, humans will naturally update their warships, but they will not blindly modify or build new ones. Instead, they must first thoroughly study these technologies, think about possible future war situations based on the technologies, 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 to do this, but everyone knows that this takes time.

In addition, humans wanted to continue studying this natural wormhole, so they continued to stay in this star field. As the years passed, many years passed quietly.

In the blink of an eye, it was the thousandth year since humans arrived here.

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

If things continue to develop in this way, perhaps one day there will really be a point where a person will not be able to advance the knowledge of one scientific and technological route to the cutting-edge field in his entire life. 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 to 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 have to find ways to enhance their intelligence and improve their learning efficiency, or transform themselves to live longer and use time to compete with the vast amount of knowledge. But there is also a problem with this approach, which 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 periods of time? Who can guarantee that they will live for tens of thousands of years and still remain curious about the future of science?

If there is no way to keep most people alive long enough and still maintain their curiosity and enthusiasm, civilization as a whole will stagnate.

This kind of thing is very likely to happen at the fifth-level civilization, because Yue Yuan still remembers what the awakener said about the fallen civilization, which was basically a fifth-level civilization.

This means that the level five civilizations that can overcome 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 were progressing slowly, Yue Yuan thought a lot.

He knew that this problem would definitely come back to the study of human beings themselves, which would inevitably require breakthroughs in the field of life sciences.

Combined with our previous understanding of level five civilization, there is only one path for the advancement of life sciences for mankind. There were two paths before, but because of the existence of electronic warships, humans gave up the brain-machine integration route. The only thing left is to continuously strengthen themselves in 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 starting from the field of spiritual consciousness to solve various problems of human beings themselves, and advocate directly bypassing physical genes and transforming humans into a kind of spiritual conscious life.

To this end, they advocated that humans should increase their investment in the research of consciousness uploading technology, and suggested that they go to find Adley after completing the creation of the fifth-level civilization.

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

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

Upon hearing this proposal, Yue Yuan knew that he would be busy again. Although the time has not come yet and there is no word on whether the body will be replaced by cloning or something else, the relevant departments must plan ahead and formulate corresponding laws as soon as possible, as well as formulate solutions to the social ethical and moral issues that arise as a result.

(End of this chapter)