Chapter 411 A Detector

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 the perfect element can 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, but did not reply directly: "Maybe there is such 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 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 stars, without the help of the light of the Deep Space itself, he will be surprised to find that except for the stars, it is completely pitch black.

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.

"In fact, they might be hiding on which star... Do they want to disguise themselves as a planet?"

This kind of planet-level spacecraft was often observed during maintenance in the past few decades, which surprised everyone, but now it is becoming less and less. In fact, these are images from decades ago.

Well, the other party may not understand why the small "Deep Space" can last so long.

The other party also doesn't know that such a low-level civilization actually has something like a gravitational wave telescope.

"Maybe 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. If you find one or two small meteorites, it would be good." A young student looked at the dim starry sky and said softly.

Professor Thomson smiled helplessly. Of course, only young people have such fantasies.

In the vast space, the probability of a single meteorite appearing suddenly is extremely small, much lower than the probability of winning the lottery. The Deep Space has been flying for so long, and it has not hit any meteorites.

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

As it is now, when the gravitational wave telescope has failed to observe, the probability of finding a smaller stray meteorite is really low.

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

"You can try to use the ultra-long wave radar... and by the way, confirm whether there are any obstacles on the way forward..."

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

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

Searching...

Searching...

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

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

Moreover, it was within human reach!

This time, even Professor Thomson was alarmed and hurried over. A meteorite is a good tonic for boring wandering days.

"From the reflectivity, it is likely to be a meteorite full of metal elements. Good luck... But it is not big, only about 30 meters long... Huh?"

"The shape is a bit strange and irregular. 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, far exceeding the orbital speed of ordinary stars... Incredible, is it splashed out when a planet hits it?"

"... Why do you care so much? Apply to your superiors first! Locate it quickly, don't lose it!"

These young astronomers discussed excitedly.

This is the first time they have discovered a wandering meteorite in more than a hundred years! It may also be the first time that the Deep Space has replenished materials in nearly a hundred years!

Such a small matter certainly does not need to alarm Yu Yifeng. After the military staff received the news, they also became interested. They immediately dispatched several small drones according to their authority to capture this small meteorite.

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Even if it only replenishes a few thousand tons of materials, it is not bad...

But after the drone approached the "meteorite", the development of the matter quickly exceeded people's expectations. These soldiers and astronomers were shocked.

Emergency reports were constantly being typed up, and were also transmitted to Yu Yifeng's computer screen.

He clicked on the report and was stunned.

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

According to the close-up photos taken by the drone: this circular probe has four wide and long solar panels.

In the middle is a circular cylinder, and there is an ion jet at the tail, that is, an interstellar engine with a force that can only hold up a piece of paper...

This is very similar to the probes launched by humans in the past, that is, the probes launched during the Earth period!

However, it is obvious that this probe has exhausted all its energy and has no radio waves. It just drifts aimlessly in the universe, and then, it is encountered by humans by luck.

Even... the metal on the surface of the probe is no longer smooth, but has become bumpy, and the solar panels no longer generate electricity.

These phenomena can only mean that this large probe has been drifting in the universe for a long, long time...

So long... that it has completely broken down!

Yu Yifeng pondered for a while in his mind and finally made up his mind: "Capture!"