Beneath Deep Space

When Yu Yifeng walked out of the conference room, he was still thinking about the development plan for the next few decades.

"Significant increase in population, anti-matter weapons, gravitational wave broadcast technology, nanotechnology, dark matter theory, more and stronger spacecraft..." In the future, there are too many things that need to be developed.

Science and technology are closely related, but they are separate from each other.

Science is biased towards theory, which is equivalent to the main pole of a "big tree" and has a guiding role. Technology is the transformation of science into practicality and is a branch of the main pole.

The emergence of the two actually has a certain sequence, that is... a certain lag.

And with the development of the times and the deepening of science, this lag is being stretched longer and longer...

Faraday invented the generator, but it was more than forty years before the electric light was invented; Einstein's mass-energy equation was discovered decades later before the atomic bomb was developed.

There is more and more science, and humans have no way to turn it into usable "technology".

This kind of "conversion" requires experience, accumulation, and intelligence.

For example, in the Standard Model, except for gravity, the other three basic forces have long been unified.

But humans have never been able to convert electromagnetic force into strong interaction, nor can they create materials with exaggerated strength...strong interaction.

For another example, humans can already use dark matter to distort space, allowing space to expand and contract slightly, but they cannot create a static gravitational field to create artificial gravity and anti-gravity...

Converting scientific theories into more practical technologies requires long-term exploration.

The current human technology tree covers L2, L3, and L4. The main pole is very long, but there are not many branches. It is almost a bare middle one.

In other words, there are many theories that are temporarily in a "useless" state. The branch technologies at all levels are far from fully explored, not even... not even one ten thousandth.

"But our population is not large... If we want to dig to our limit, it is estimated that tens of thousands of years will not be enough. It will take hundreds of thousands or millions of years! The size of the technology tree now is no longer comparable to that of low-level civilizations. "

"So there must be a research focus, which is... to create our own unique technology! Then, use these technologies to trade with other friendly civilizations, so that we can exchange what we have and save time."

Yu Yifeng believes that research on nanotechnology is the current top priority.

The level of technology does not represent the practicality, but it represents to a certain extent the research difficulty and... "price" of this technology.

Because of the existence of intellectual barriers, higher-level technologies are often more difficult to research. Things are rarer and more expensive, so their prices are higher. Low-level technologies can be researched by ordinary civilizations, and the prices are often lower.

"One ordinary technology based on L3 nanoscience may be exchanged for three ordinary technologies based on L2 dark matter theory in terms of price..."

Nowadays, nanotechnology is mixed with various disciplines, making it increasingly difficult. Almost all cutting-edge science is basically conducted by transhuman scientists.

The original human scientists could only figure out some corners and engage in some work of accumulating experience.

This made Yu Yifeng secretly lament the strength of the intellectual barrier. Without perfection, humans might have stopped at L3 or L4.

Without the assistance of "Ling", which comes with various natural templates, it is estimated that even the research on nanodynamics can only be as slow as a snail crawling.

"But... even if nanodynamics is very difficult, our superhuman scientists still have room to spare. So we should not give up our advantages in this area... but dig deeper!"

"...In the future, we can also take a dominant position by exchanging technology with other civilizations."

"On the other hand, ordinary scientists can engage in research on L2 dark matter science..."

Thinking about this, Yu Yifeng really wanted to be cruel and use the perfect element to transform everyone into superhuman beings with higher intelligence.

As the number of superhumans increased, he deeply felt the gap between the abilities of the two individuals.

The lifespan of ordinary people is only a short hundred years. Using various technical means, it is only four hundred years. It is too short in the entire universe.

Superhumans, on the other hand, have a lifespan of a thousand years. Using various current life extension methods, the total lifespan is more than four thousand years, which is slightly more impressive.

Not just lifespan, but also other aspects...

Thinking of this, Yu Yifeng let out a long sigh.

As the population slowly increases, there have been calls for a "universal superhuman plan" among the people and even high-level government officials.

Superhumans are much stronger than ordinary people. After all the people are converted into superhumans, the speed of technological advancement will undoubtedly be greatly increased by countless times.

"For ordinary scientists, the current difficulty level has gradually reached their upper limit... It is normal for them to want to become smarter."

In these years, no matter how the government departments formulate plans, there is no way to naturally transition the citizens' mindset to the aspect of "publicly raising children."

"The current social system is already perfect. Raising children is actually a natural responsibility for individuals who are extremely wealthy. In order to set an example for their children, citizens' work consciousness is guaranteed to a certain extent."

"Changing it rashly is not beautiful."

"But if we don't change, we won't be able to pass the intellectual barrier..." Yu Yifeng sighed again: "Do we... still have to rely on perfectionism with unknown side effects?"

After careful study, the government department decided to... temporarily shelve the "National Superhuman Plan."

Firstly, biologists have not proven the absolute safety of Perfection. Secondly, the current population has not reached the standard at all, and we have to endure it for a while. Otherwise, if everyone uses Perfection, the population growth rate will be even lower.

"A population of five to six million!"

He looked up at the bright starry sky, his eyes a little confused... that seemed to be the direction of the sun.

There are still many unsolved mysteries in the world... Is Perfection safe?

Have humanoids taken over the galaxy?

What is the trading market among interstellar civilizations like?

All of this... needs to be revealed by humans themselves.

"Come on!"

Yu Yifeng quickly regained his fighting spirit and devoted himself to the intense and busy work...

Time flies.

Ten, twenty years passed...

Now is the New Human Calendar...0561, the 98th year since the new humans arrived in the Auriga Galaxy.

The spectacular and beautiful new-generation mothership "Homeland" has stayed on the space dock. It was officially completed forty years ago. All structures are made of nanomaterials. It is an extremely expensive spacecraft.

The Gaia creature "Ling" played a huge role in this process. The ultra-high production capacity is almost comparable to that of the new human civilization, and many technologies were even derived from her.

Real controllable nuclear fusion technology was finally completed thirty years ago.

For this technology, humans use inertial restraint technology, using high-energy lasers to attack targets from all directions. These plasma particles are compressed to a high temperature and high density state through centripetal explosion, thereby causing nuclear fusion reactions.

In fact, this device is just a variant of a nuclear explosion furnace. The nuclear raw materials used are helium-3 and deuterium, but it is a small device realized by using nanotechnology materials after generations of improvements.

The "Noah" inside the Home has been filled with a lot of material resources after so many years.

This time it was fully loaded, and it was truly full, using more than 70% of the space. It was an incredibly large project in the past.

The internal space of Noah has a diameter of 200 kilometers in the horizontal direction and a length of 60 kilometers in the vertical direction. The internal volume of such a large ellipsoid... is as high as 1.2 million cubic kilometers, which can be filled to the brim by humans!

Although not everything inside is solid, there are various forest parks, oceans, air, etc., but the material resources are truly massive! 1.2 million cubic kilometers, it’s hard to imagine how big it is.

Except for serious planet-class spacecraft, from a resource perspective, almost no spacecraft can match this amount of resources.

The entire loading project is almost hundreds of times larger than the construction of the "Home"!

Human beings can accomplish this because of... nanotechnology.

During this period, as more and more superhuman scientists joined, nanotechnology developed more and more rapidly, and the functions of various robots gradually became more complex.

Even mineral mining excavators are gradually being phased out and transformed into...mining nanorobots.

This ultra-small nanorobot has only two functions, reproduction and decomposition. It can be used as a combat weapon or for mining.

As long as sufficient radio energy is provided, the nanorobots will work automatically, breaking down hard stones into very fine sand. After this mining area is completely decomposed, just use a loading machine to load the sand back for smelting.

This mining speed is many times higher than the original technology!

For nearly a hundred years, thanks to the efforts of the whole people, all the technologies of the new human civilization have shown a flourishing attitude.

May Day is here and I want to take a little rest. I have informed everyone in advance.

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