Dimensional Swordsman

Chapter 369 The Final Question (The Finale)

Time flies, and the years are like weaving.

It has been 100 billion years since the Big Bang restarted this universe.

In the area about 60 billion light-years away from the center of the universe, there is a place called the Milky Way. At this time, the Milky Way has passed through the chaos of its initial birth, and the original quasars in the center of the galaxy have been emptied billions of years ago. All the matter in the vicinity of [-] light-years was wiped out, and the galaxy became calm since [-] million years ago. Civilizations with different shapes and strange appearances rose up, and the Milky Way gradually entered a stage of prosperous growth.

At the edge of the spiral arm called Orion, there is a star called the sun. Among this star, there is a planet that has not yet been discovered by other civilizations and inhabits intelligent life.

This planet is named Earth by the race that lives on it.Nowadays, human civilization on earth has just begun to germinate, and the fourth generation of electronic computers has become popular all over the world, which also means that people on earth are gradually getting rid of manpower and using machines to develop technology.

Huaxia ranks in the second echelon of the earth's comprehensive strength, and with a population of 15 billion, it has become the most populous country on earth.Now in Huaqing University, the highest institution of higher education in Tianjing, the capital of China, a very ordinary seminar is being conducted.

This is a small classroom. The shape of the ladder allows everyone to clearly see the blackboard and the pictures on the projector. It is March now, and the warm spring breeze blows through the windows, bringing silky It's cool, but it makes people full of energy. The twenty postgraduates sitting here didn't have any distractions, and listened to the famous professor's speech in front of them with full attention.

"... Therefore, we can know from the Fermi Paradox that in the known universe, the chances of other higher-tech civilizations are very small. Even if there are civilizations from extraterrestrials, there has been no civilization in such a long time. Being observed by us represents the only existence of our subjectivity. Before the real discovery of aliens, we can assume that we are the only race in the universe. It can be called a frog in a well!"

The professor named Su Xiaofan suddenly laughed at this point. He closed the slide show that was playing at this time, then opened a folder on his laptop, and saved a file called "Do we really have free will?" 》The paper was opened, and a projector was used to shine light on the whiteboard.

"This is a paper recently published by Ding He on the Internet. It has caused a lot of repercussions on the Internet. I think you have probably read it. But now that we are here, let's take this paper Try to analyze some, see what kind of arguments Ding He has, and let some world-renowned scientists personally respond to this paper..."

Professor Su Xiaofan is about 50 years old. He is not a teacher hired by Huaqing University, but an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, a world-renowned theoretical physicist, astronomer, electrical engineer, and philanthropist.

All the students present here are the best graduate students of Huaqing University. That classmate named Ding He happened to be sitting in front of Professor Su Xiaofan at this time. Hearing that the idol he had always admired suddenly announced that he was discussing his thesis, he immediately sat upright and his heart beat wildly.

Su Xiaofan has studied science for most of his life, involving a wide range of subjects.But when he saw this paper, he had to be shocked by the author's wonderful thinking, as if a world had suddenly opened up, explaining to them what they had overlooked.

Su Xiaofan was very satisfied with Ding He's performance. He nodded slightly at him, then turned around and pointed to the paragraph marked in red in the text, and said, "Student Ding He makes a hypothesis here, that is, at the beginning of the birth of Chinese civilization, During the period when various schools of thought were contending, our ancestors had already understood the problems that we still don't understand. Now I read these passages..."

"In the "Tao Te Ching", the main idea of ​​persuading people is to be indifferent to fame and wealth, and to restrain one's own desires. There are also rumors of many hermits in ancient my country. They have profound wisdom, but they live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, willing to live a plain and poor life. Life, what is all this for? Is it really because they have seen through the seven emotions and six desires in the world, and they can no longer care about life and death?"

"Taoism pursues longevity. It seems that longevity is a myth now, but in the future, can people really achieve longevity? In ancient times, monks would always say 'not in the five elements, jump out of reincarnation'. If this sentence After verifying my previous hypothesis, can we draw a conclusion: the so-called five elements are not the five elements of the universe, but the five behaviors of life?"

"Based on my deduction and research, these five behaviors are survival, reproduction, knowledge seeking, greed, and gregariousness! These five behaviors represent the basic behaviors of a normally developing life, and are also the basic requirements for judging whether it is life. At that time, people were already aware of this problem, so they thought that if they want to live as long as stones, they must abandon all human behaviors and truly get rid of the shackles of the universe!"

"...Yes, in the appendix of the above Taoist classics, as well as in the special cases of people who have lived longer than a hundred years old in the past, the role of mentality can be seen. If we abandon the 'five elements' that human beings should have, then the life span will naturally increase. If Some people think that there is no life without emotions, so what is life? Who can define the definition of life?"

"The reason why the universe produces life is still an ultimate question that everyone has been thinking about. Why should we limit such behaviors as long as it is life? Why do we have to abide by these behaviors to survive in the universe? This is the result of natural reproduction. Or is it a necessary factor caused by the influence of a certain rule?"

"Human consciousness is naturally produced, and it is the greatest product of nature, but in any known substance, there must be some rules that limit the movement of these substances. Then, why is there no rule for the consciousness of life? Why do we call it Awareness of freedom, isn’t it controlled according to a certain law, giving us the illusion of freedom?”

After Su Xiaofan finished reading this paragraph, he suddenly stopped, and he turned to face Ding He: "This is the main argument of this paper... This is the first time I have heard such an argument, but it sounds reasonable ...However, without scientific data analysis, such an argument is untenable. Now, let Ding He explain to us why he has such an argument!"

Ding He felt the respectful eyes of his classmates, stood up slowly, first bowed respectfully to Professor Su Xiaofan, and expressed his respect.Then Ding He put his hands behind his back and said modestly: "In fact, this paper is just a pastime in my spare time. I didn't expect it to cause such a big response. The students are really flattered."

"Boom..." The students immediately let out good-natured laughter, and some even compared themselves with themselves, loudly expressing their respect for this paper.

Ding He showed an embarrassed smile, and said shyly: "Actually, I don't have a strong argument to explain the scientific nature of this paper. But after the publication of this paper, there are many people I admire very much." People in the scientific community have already found countless arguments, but I am just a very ordinary graduate student with too little knowledge, and the arguments I put forward seem extremely naive when compared with these, so I dare not use them to increase the number of jokes.”

"Well, very good, very good!" Su Xiaofan smiled with satisfaction, let Ding He sit down, then turned off the projection of this paper, and opened other related papers.These papers naturally come from the discussion of Ding He's "Do we really have free will? "The discussion of the arguments, in which the signatures are all well-known contemporary scientists.

After Su Xiaofan explained these arguments from different countries and ethnic groups, he briefly expressed his opinion: "Whether we have free will or not, it cannot replace the superiority of life over other things in the universe. Among the existing theories, Within 500 years, human footprints will spread all over the solar system, and the resources of the entire stars will be used by us. The development of civilization is endless. Just like the most likely assumption made by the Fermi Paradox, there is no way to see it in the universe. The footprints of aliens are most likely that life has just been born, and we are the first batch of life, so other civilizations have the same level of technology as ours, so it is impossible to detect traces of extraterrestrial civilization.”

"Obviously, under the premise that there are at least 2000 billion stars in the Milky Way alone, no one will believe that we are the only civilization in the universe. Therefore, it is obviously on your generation to shoulder the heavy responsibility of earth civilization. Only by developing our technology can we gain a certain advantage in future contact with aliens... I believe that human beings will not be inferior to other civilizations. Human technology has developed to the level it is today in just a few hundred years , is enough to make us proud to say: we earthlings are a qualified cosmic civilization!"

After Su Xiaofan finished speaking, he announced that the class was over. After expressing his gratitude to the students in the audience, he packed up his belongings and left.

Ding He quickly packed up his books and notes, caught up with Professor Su Xiaofan, and shouted from behind: "Please wait, Professor Su!"

"Huh? What's the problem, student Ding He?" Su Xiaofan was obviously very satisfied with Ding He. Although with his international status, graduate students like this are everywhere, Ding He's thinking is very rare. It was enough for Su Xiaofan to pay enough attention.

In fact, Su Xiaofan was preparing to go back, just like Huaqing University wrote a recommendation letter, sponsoring Ding He to obtain a Ph.D. in physics.For a graduate student like Ding He, this is simply an extremely lofty honor, and he will not have to worry about work for the rest of his life.

Ding He recalled an idea that came up to him yesterday, because he knew that the time of the person on the other side was precious, so he briefly summarized: "Dr. On, I have some ideas, and I want to ask you for confirmation."

"My little genius, what subject are you still researching, can you tell me about it?" Su Xiaofan didn't pay too much attention to Ding He's question, because basically the top physicists in the world are looking for this " "Damn particle", if it can be found casually by a graduate student who doesn't even have experimental equipment, then these so-called top physicists in the world can commit suicide.

Ding He scratched his head, and was about to express his thoughts on the Higgs boson, but suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing, and at the same time, a strange sound rang in his ears.

"Woo... Weng - woo... Weng..."

At this time, Ding He and Dr. Su Xiaofan were standing in the corridor next to the classroom, and there were no stairs or vents nearby. The gust of at least five degrees of wind was very strange, but it really existed.

In just a moment, the shocking picture slowly entered the eyes of everyone in the corridor. A blue object that looked like a police box appeared and disappeared in the corridor. At the same time, the source of the gust of wind was also the from this conspicuous object.

"What... what is this?" Seeing such an incomprehensible picture, Ding He's head short-circuited instantly.

According to Ding He's consistent scientific thinking, after the appearance of this weird police booth, he immediately began to analyze the composition of technology, and tried to find some false appearances to overthrow all these phenomena produced by technology.

But the result was very frustrating. Ding He didn't find any loopholes. The object in front of him suddenly appeared in front of him through some unknown way.No matter what method is used, its technology must be much higher than that of the earth, and even reach a mythical level!

"squeak--"

The door of the "Blue Police Box" was pulled open, and a group of people who looked like humans came out from inside, walking directly in front of Ding He.

Among them, a 30-year-old man wearing a dark gray coat stepped forward, put his hands in his pockets, and shouted with a smile on his face: "Hi, Ding He. How is life here, do you need my help? "

"Uh... who are you?" Ding He didn't remember this man with a smile on his face at all, not only did he not remember who this man was, he didn't even know the other four people behind him.

At this time, apart from the man in the overcoat, even the four people who came down with him had expressions of confusion and shock.Su Xiaofan was even more daring. He sneaked up to the "Blue Police Box" to study how this thing, which is at most two meters wide and three meters high, could fit five people in it...

The man in the overcoat smiled boldly. He turned his head and looked around, took out a wallet with a card in it and said, "I'm a doctor. I'm here to ask you a question."

"This is a blank sheet of paper." Ding He glanced at the wallet and said silently.

The doctor's expression remained unchanged, he put the wallet back into his pocket, and stepped forward again, the distance between the two was only 300 centimeters: "The Senluo people want to spread [-] million seeding spacecraft in this universe to transform the planet and multiply human beings. We have no opinion on this matter, now only you are left, if you agree, then this universe will become a universe full of human beings in the future..."

"What Senluo people? What seeding boats? Are you crazy?" Ding He was a little puzzled.In his memory, he is just an ordinary graduate student. Although he has attracted some attention recently, the impact is only on the scale of the earth, and it will not affect the entire universe in any case.

The doctor laughed, pointed behind him, and said: "The four of them are Zhen Longxing, Mo Xiaoqiu, Li Hanwang, and Wang Yun. I brought you all the people on Earth. You come here Isn't it just to meet them, now we are going to travel to the edge of the universe, do you want to go together?"

"What are these things!" Ding He was given a headache for the first time in his life by the jumping thinking of the person in front of him. He was thinking about what happened since his appearance, and he didn't realize that he was walking forward involuntarily for a while. with.

When Ding He came back to his senses, he realized that he had arrived in front of that "blue police booth" before he knew it.After seeing the doctor and other five people entering the small pavilion one after another, Ding He suddenly realized the peculiarity of this pavilion.

How could this small police booth accommodate five people at the same time?
"Is this magic?" Ding He stopped and walked around the pavilion, but didn't find any ropes or passages around, or the existence of hidden rooms.This pavilion is docked on the corridor near the classroom. There is no place to hide nearby. The only thing that can explain this phenomenon is the word alien technology.

"Space folding..." Thinking of this word, Ding He finally stepped into the "blue police box".

The facts were exactly as Ding He expected. Inside the pavilion, there was a huge space filled with unnamed equipment.If these devices are seen by any scientist on the earth, they will be trembling with excitement.

"Dr. Su, why don't you..." Ding He saw Su Xiaofan at a glance. He was tapping in front of a machine like a vacuum cleaner, using the small instrument in his hand to detect the structure inside.And he has already connected his laptop to this weird-looking device, and the screen is flickering crazily, as if it has withstood the computing power of overclocking.

"Stand firm, let's take the star road this time... Ding He, you are really a genius. With this star road, I can save at least [-]% of the energy every time I travel through the universe!" The doctor didn't take long after Ding He came in. As soon as the launch lever of the spacecraft was dropped, the sudden violent bumps were like a roller coaster experience, causing most people who were unprepared to fly up into the air and land heavily on the ground.

Naturally, Ding He also fell to the ground, lying on the metal floor like this, holding an unknown metal pipeline by his hand.Although his body felt violent jolts at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart.

"Is this... considered being kidnapped by aliens? What's the use of him kidnapping me, and what's the meaning of the question he asked me just now? What are the Senluo people, and why do they need my consent to send seeding ships in the universe?"

If someone stands outside this police box, they will find that this "blue police box" has left the earth at this time, and even left the scope of the Milky Way, and is driving in a channel that cannot be described in words in a spiral manner.

Within ten light-years of the "Blue Police Box", there are at least [-] large-scale man-made space fleets. , An expeditionary army full of murderous intent.

But no matter what it is, at least they are not earthlings, they are real alien races!
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Complete the book!
(End of this chapter)