Chapter 376 Information Advantages and Disadvantages

Yu Yifeng said: "Dr. Rambo, your point is very good, but... one point is overlooked. We have been here for a month, and the light signal has been propagating for a month! Although we have an information advantage now, after the other party escapes from the superluminal environment, perhaps this advantage will turn into a disadvantage!"

"Because of this month, it is not that both parties discovered each other at the same time, but that the other party... discovered us first!

"Discover us in advance!"

Yu Yifeng gave an example: "Let's assume that the other party has escaped from the superluminal state 0.1 light years away at this moment. What will they observe? They will see the planet Dig 114 0.1 years ago, right?"

"Yes! You mean..." Dr. Rambo's brain was working fast, and his face suddenly turned pale, and he found the bug in his inference.

Suppose... at this moment, the enemy escaped from the superluminal state 0.1 light years away. Because of the limitation of the speed of light, the planet Dig 114 they observed was not real-time data, but something from 0.1 years ago.

And because of the Doppler effect, they will see a fast-forward picture as they move forward... They will see the Deep Space spacecraft arrive at the planet Dig 114 a few days later, and then a Titan and five Leviathan spacecrafts will have a nuclear war with Gaia creatures on this planet!

However, the enemy spacecraft can only be observed by humans 0.1 years after it escapes from superluminal travel.

That is to say... in fact, humans have an absolute disadvantage in information!

"This is a complete information asymmetry!"

"The analysis just now was all wrong, we are at a huge disadvantage! "

In a moment of shock, two completely different results were analyzed. Everyone was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Dr. Rambo's face was pale and he shook his lips. He stood up, sat down, and stood up again. Yes, he had to admit that the reasoning just now had a huge bug, and Yu Yifeng's result was correct.

As a perennial radical, Rambo did not want to give up this powerful biological factory, but Yu Yifeng's words shocked him too much... He was wrong!

People are not safe at all, and they are back to the starting point...

The light speed attack may fall on people in the next moment.

"The actual situation should be like this: before the other party escapes from superluminal speed, humans have information advantages. People know that the other party is likely to come here, but the other party does not know the existence of humans. "

"But as long as the other party escapes from superluminal speed, they will detect the image of humans in advance, because... humans have been on this planet for a long time, and the exact timeline is one month. "

"And people can only detect the enemy later through light speed media such as photons or gravitational waves. So at this moment, humans are in an absolute information disadvantage. ”

This is the final version analyzed by people, and there should be no loopholes.

“But!”

Dr. Rambo suddenly shouted: “We haven’t been here for a long time. One month is not long, and the Deep Space has been in radio silence for a long time. Think about it, isn’t it!”

“At the beginning, in order to reduce the possibility of being discovered by the natives, our Deep Space was radio silent when it came, and was wrapped in a curvature bubble, with very little light emitted... The probability of being observed during this period is very low.”

Everyone looked at Dr. Rambo in confusion. Can he still turn the tide?

“Let me give you another example. If the other party escapes from superluminal speed at 0.1 light years after 0.1 years, what will they see? They will see our scene today! The most conspicuous one is only a Titan flying in the sky... Our Deep Space stays on the second satellite, which is not obvious. Don’t forget that even 0.1 light years is a very long distance, and conventional observations can only get very vague information!”

“If we hide Titan now and let the Deep Space hide, yes... they will not see anything at that time! The information advantage is still here...

"Everyone think about it, isn't it?"

"The key is when the other party will break away from superluminal speed in the future, and at what distance... Let's assume that the time of breakaway is t, and the distance is x..."

Rimbaud drew an image on the screen, which is a linear function line of t and x, with the horizontal coordinate being x and the vertical coordinate being t. The area below is the information disadvantage of humans, and the area above is the information advantage of humans.

"As long as the time and position of the other party's exit from the superluminal state fall above this function graph... it means that they have missed the information of this month! They still don't know the existence of humans!"

"The premise is... humans must hide themselves in the next moment!"

At this point, Rimbaud looked straight at Yu Yifeng: "If we still want to capture Gaia, we must immediately maintain radio silence and hide the Titans flying in the sky! They are still too obvious... At the same time, we hope... pray that the other party will exit the superluminal state at time t and distance x, and fall in an area that is beneficial to humans!"

"Or, retreat now..."

Yu Yifeng's heart was pounding, his face was livid, he didn't expect things to turn out like this...

Such a choice is really too difficult!

People naturally split into two factions. One faction believed that they should escape as soon as possible and give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is better to keep the green mountains and not worry about the firewood.

And a few others think that this one in a billion probability may never come across... Even if humans explore the entire galaxy completely, they will not encounter the next newborn Gaia creature!

"The main force has been gone for 30,000 years, and the UFO has been gone for 12 years... From this point of view, it seems that it is not a big deal to stay on this planet for another month or two." A young man said: "Maybe we can try for a while."

"You... you are lucky!" Xu Yunjin roared with red face. In this occasion, he didn't care about his status, anyway, he just expressed his opinion.

"Civilization will be destroyed because of your luck!"

After being scolded like this, the young man was silent.

However, Dr. Rambo immediately stood up: "Please... How can it be a fluke? We just analyzed it from the perspective of probability! Think about it, in 30,000 years, will they still be wandering around here?"

"God knows when they will come to this planet, what if... ten years later? If we run away now, it will be the biggest joke! We abandon the biggest treasure in the universe, and run away in disgrace because we are afraid of death!"

"Do you know what we have to give up? We have to give up the potential for future progress! Do you really think that you can sit back and relax after crossing the big filter? Wrong, all wrong... Interstellar civilization will also stagnate!"

"...It is your thoughts that hinder civilization!" Rambo, as a perennial radical, roared at Xu Yunjin with a thick neck. Anyway, their qualifications are comparable, and they are also from different departments, and they have sprayed each other many times.

The crowd was in a mess, but a group of young people quietly supported Rambo, but they didn't dare to speak in such occasions. The big guys scolded each other in units of civilization, and they were not qualified at all.

Yu Yifeng sat silently in the chair, listening to the quarrels of the crowd, his heart beating faster.

Both sides' words made sense, making it difficult for him to make a decision, but at this moment, his heart was inexplicably immersed.