Beneath Deep Space

For scientific research, the amount of calculation is certainly important, but scientific research intuition, insight and sensitivity are more important... Brain chips cannot significantly enhance these abstract abilities.

Only by perfecting the elements can we truly strengthen the brain in all aspects, and even increase abilities such as "intuition"...

In a way that is incomprehensible to humans…

Yes, at the current biological level, it is still difficult to understand the mechanism of action of perfection.

Even though people have developed brain chips that provide high computing capacity. However, we still only know about ten-tenths of the macroscopic and microscopic aspects of the brain structure.

Why does self-awareness arise?

Does it have a soul?

How can we make people smarter?

have no idea……

There are still too many mysteries in the universe.

"But what is scientific intuition... is it a kind of IQ?"

"This kind of improvement in IQ seems to be different from the improvement in brain chip. It's hard to understand..."

"Is it possible that the value of perfection is to improve IQ?"

Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng felt a little confused.

He suddenly said with some sadness: "I was wondering whether a civilization has its own intellectual limit? Our human abilities are limited after all..."

"In the past hundred years, our research on nanotechnology has been quite, quite difficult... Our scientists are all geniuses, real geniuses, but they have already felt the almost infinite complexity, and the advancement of this science is so slow..."

"I'm thinking, because of the huge amount of complexity, when the top geniuses are unable to promote future technology, will a civilization stagnate?"

"Such stagnation is almost permanent... because when technology stagnates, its level is not enough to improve the intelligence of civilized individuals. This is an endless cycle."

Yuriko was thoughtful and did not reply directly: "Maybe there is a possibility. Could it be that... improving intelligence is an extremely difficult subject, more difficult than nanotechnology and genetic technology?"

"Fortunately... our nanotechnology is still developing slowly. Even if we don't have perfection, it shouldn't be the limit of our intelligence..."

"Alas, genetic dynamics may be our limit. Simple minds cannot understand more difficult subjects... This is normal."

Yu Yifeng vaguely felt the final law of intellectual barriers in the universe, and through the window, he saw the starlight in the sky.

The obscure universe is so cold and cruel. The limits of a race may have been determined at birth.

Can ants understand human subjects? Can monkeys understand people's calculus? Obviously, not...

"...Could it be that the existence of perfection is to better break down intellectual barriers?"

"At least, human beings are still making progress, and this progress can last for a long time, which is already a good thing..."

Thinking of this, he shook his head and gave up these random thoughts.

He walked directly out of the captain's room and inspected the Deep Space.

The biggest purpose of this spacecraft maintenance work is to replace the curvature engine on a large scale to achieve higher speeds!

...5 times the speed of light!

During this period of time, a talented scientist named "Kavala" constructed a more optimized mathematical model of curvature bubbles, which can theoretically reach 5.17 times the speed of light.

This curvature model was proposed and optimized by people themselves, and they finally got rid of the "dilemma" of plagiarizing Green Light Man.

After long-term experiments and confirming their stability, people have developed a new batch of curvature engines and are preparing to use them.

In fact, after running such a long distance, it is impossible to look back.

This is the sparse star belt between the Orion Arm and the Sagittarius Arm. The nearest dwarf yellow star is also twenty light years away, emitting a faint light...

From this distance, all stars lose their priority.

If a person walks outside the spacecraft and looks at the starry sky, without using the light of the Deep Space itself, he will be surprised to find that except for the starry sky, it is completely dark.

This kind of darkness is the kind that makes you unable to see even your fingers...

Yes, I can see the stars in the sky, but I can't see my hands!

The density of photons here is so low that even if the object reflects the photons, the human eye cannot identify them.

Deep Space still maintains strict radio silence and only relies on its own inertia to move. Many staff are busy working inside and outside the spacecraft, and the entire hull emits regular signal lights.

The entire engine replacement plan will take two months, but people are not worried. After all, they have flown four hundred light years faster than the speed of light. When the opponent's detection speed is still "light speed", it is impossible to figure out where the people have gone.

"The other party doesn't know where we have gone, but they can estimate our general direction. They may be waiting near some stars, waiting for us to run out of resources... Their sailing speed is much faster than us!"

"Oh, oh... look what the gravitational wave telescope discovered. Because of the information disorder caused by super-light speed, these two planet-class spacecraft are retreating backwards? Well, it should be traces of gravitational waves from decades ago. "Professor Thomson of the Observatory held his chin and said with a smile.

"Actually, which star might they be lurking in... Do you want to pretend to be a planet at some point?"

Planet-level spacecraft of this kind were often observed during maintenance in the past few decades. Those that aroused everyone's surprise are now becoming increasingly rare. In fact, these are images from decades ago.

Well, the other party may not understand why the little "Deep Space" can persist for so long.

The other party didn't know that such a low-level civilization would have such a thing as a gravitational wave telescope.

"Perhaps we can look for some small-scale meteorite belts to supplement resources..."

"The probability is very low... You can use long-wave radar to detect it. It would be good to find one or two small meteorites." A young student looked at the dim starry sky and said softly.

Professor Thomson smiled incredulously. Of course, such fantasies only exist among young people.

In the vast space, the probability of a single meteorite suddenly appearing is extremely small, much lower than the probability of winning the lottery. The Deep Space has been flying for so long without hitting any meteorites.

Meteorites in space are either captured by the gravity of stars and become comets. Or, because of the gravitational force, they attract each other and appear together. At this time, they can be observed with a gravitational wave telescope.

As it is now, when gravitational wave telescope observations are fruitless, the probability of finding stray meteorites with a smaller mass is really low.

At least the first few times they stopped to check, they found nothing.

"You can give it a try and use ultra-long wave radar...and check if there are any obstacles on the way forward..."

Even if the probability was low, Professor Thomson did not stop these enthusiastic young people.

They began to gather in front of the radar, searching tirelessly in all directions...

Looking for...

Looking for...

"Ah! Ah! Look there, there is..." Suddenly, someone screamed.

A miracle happened. In just a few hours, the radar actually detected an unknown dot!

And, within reach of humans!

This time, even Professor Thomson was alarmed and hurried over. A meteorite is a good diversion in a boring and wandering life.

"Judging from the reflectivity, it's probably a meteorite full of metal elements. Good luck... But it's not big, only about thirty meters long... Huh?"

"The shape is a bit strange and irregular, and it cannot be scanned for the time being...it is about 876,000 kilometers away from us."

"The speed is very fast, 36.8 kilometers per second, which is far beyond the orbiting speed of ordinary stars... Incredible, could it be sputtered out when a planet collides?"

"...You don't care so much, just apply to the higher authorities first! Locate it quickly and don't lose it!"

These young astronomers were talking excitedly.

This is the first time they have discovered stray meteorites in more than a hundred years! It could also be Deep Space, replenishing matter for the first time in nearly a century!

Of course, such a trivial matter does not need to alarm Yifeng. After the military staff got the news, they also became interested. They immediately dispatched several small drones according to their authority, hoping to capture this small meteorite.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Even if it only supplements a few thousand tons of substances, it is still good...

But after the drone approached the "meteorite", things quickly developed beyond people's expectations. The soldiers and astronomers were shocked.

Emergency reports were typed up one after another, and they were also transmitted to Yu Yifeng's computer screen.

He clicked on the report and looked at it, and was suddenly stunned.

"What? A space probe, 860,000 kilometers away from our spacecraft?"

According to the close-up photos from the drone, this circular detector has four wide and long solar panels.

There is a circular cylinder in the middle, and there is an ion jet at the tail, that is, the kind of interstellar engine that can only lift a piece of paper...

This is very similar to the detectors previously launched by humans, that is, the detectors launched during the Earth era!

But it was obvious that this detector had exhausted all its energy and did not emit any radio waves. It was just wandering aimlessly in the universe, and then, by luck, it was encountered by humans.

Even...the metal on the surface of the detector is no longer smooth and has become pitted, and the solar panels no longer generate electricity.

These phenomena can only show that this large detector has been wandering in the universe for a long time...

It's been so long... it's completely broken!

Yu Yifeng thought about it for a while and finally made up his mind: "Capture!"