Chapter 414: Wisdom Inheritance

Gamma-ray burst, the biggest and most desperate disaster in the universe.

There is a theory that the first mass extinction of species on Earth occurred in the Ordovician period more than 600 million years ago because the Earth was attacked by gamma rays 6,000 light years away.

At that time, two suns appeared in the sky, 70% of the atmosphere was destroyed, causing the base of the marine food chain to be destroyed, and 85% of species disappeared from the Earth.

Fortunately, the distance of 6,000 light years is long enough, and it was not a direct sweep. The first mass extinction of species on Earth was not very thorough, but made vertebrates the new overlords on Earth.

However, at the moment before the Earth exploded, humans still did not get rid of the deep fear of this disaster.

Because people were shocked to find that there was a star called WR104 8,000 light years away, which was about to explode.

At that time, there might be gamma rays passing by the Earth... I don’t know what kind of impact it will cause...

Earthlings are still afraid of the distance of 8,000 light years, let alone the Turk civilization, which is only more than 100 light years away and is directly aligned with the axis of rotation of the star?

If you don’t run away, you will die!

The metal plate continued to write:

"After discovering this sensational fact, we launched these probes at the fastest speed, hoping that they can escape. They carry part of our hope."

"We also plan to exhaust the power of the entire civilization to develop controlled nuclear fusion technology. We will use up all fossil energy to build spacecraft that can accommodate a large population. At the same time, super shelters are also being built urgently... These are two different plans."

"I hope we have enough time, I hope the universe... I hope that super star will give us a few hundred years. Time, time, we don't have enough time..."

"Tak civilization, recorded in 011110011011 AD, probe number 00011010100."

The letter ended here.

Everyone was a little depressed because the term "controlled nuclear fusion technology" was mentioned in it. People clearly know the difficulty of it, at least... humans have not yet achieved it.

"The future of this civilization doesn't seem bright... and a spaceship that can accommodate everyone would require a huge amount of engineering... A super shelter is somewhat feasible..." A scientist opened his mouth, shook his head, and didn't say anything more.

Obviously, he was not optimistic about the escape project of the Tucker civilization.

"... Even if a super shelter is built, if the planet's atmosphere is completely blown away and the ecological chain is greatly damaged, the life inside will not survive for more than a few years. More than a hundred light years is still too close." Yu Yifeng shook his head.

Time flies, time flies.

150 million years, this unimaginable long time has passed just like that... All history is condensed into just a little bit: more than two hundred pages of metal sheets, plus a metal plate.

Under the endless flow of time, the greatest individual has become a name.

The most powerful country is only a short record.

How many things have happened in history?

Someone is crying, someone is laughing, someone is sick, someone is dying... All the major events related to oneself, all kinds of struggles for survival, all kinds of laughter and scolding, seem so insignificant in the face of endless time.

Without even a trace of existence, what is the crying and laughing in the past?

Humans do not know the final outcome of the Tucker civilization.

Even from the current perspective, the image of the Milky Way they drew at that time is incorrect. 150 million years later, astronomers can no longer find the planet where they originally lived.

"It can't be found, because the Milky Way is also moving... It's hard to guess..." Professor Thomson of the Observatory waved his hand regretfully.

The conference room was quiet.

Seeing the lonely probe again and the last remaining information, everyone present suddenly had an unparalleled sense of panic in their hearts.

If humans encounter a truly insurmountable catastrophe, will they do the same thing?

Will they record all their wisdom and pass it on to the next civilization in the dark?

Could it be that the Noah on the moon... is the same?

People were confused and panicked.

When their future existence could not be determined, the Tak civilization chose genetic inheritance or spiritual inheritance...

It was difficult to comment on this action. Perhaps this was not a solution in the end, but it caused people to have an uncontrollable panic.

They even didn't know why they were panicking.

Then, the metal disk began to play something new.

The content behind it was still relatively important physics theorems, mathematical theorems, etc., of course... it did not exceed the scope of human knowledge.

Some things looked novel, but they were just equivalent statements of a certain inference, and some experts were discussing this.

The new human civilization was much more advanced than them, and basically had all this knowledge.

The text on the screen, starting from calculus, to advanced algebra, topology, functional analysis, real variable function... many courses were condensed into just a few sentences.

The Tak civilization listed the theorems they thought were most important, and because of the length of the text, even the proof process was directly omitted.

For a low-level civilization, launching any space probe, even one kilogram of material, would require a huge economic cost, so this civilization chose to condense and condense information.

Some of the mathematical definitions are different from those of humans, but the general idea is similar, that is, similar to Hilbert's axiomaticism.

At the end, the other party also emphasized the mathematical paradoxes brought about by some infinite problems and the huge mathematical crisis brought about by set theory. They felt deeply regretful that they did not solve these basic mathematical contradictions when they launched the probe into space.

These problems also puzzled humans, which is the so-called third mathematical crisis. To this day, the third mathematical crisis cannot be said to have been fundamentally eliminated, because many important topics in mathematical foundations and mathematical logic have not been fundamentally solved.

People even know that it is impossible to completely solve paradoxes and confusions with current methods.

Because the great Gödel's incompleteness theorem irrefutably reveals the limitations of the formalistic system, it mathematically proves the impossibility of attempting to solve the paradox problem once and for all with the formalistic technical method...

In other words, the entire bottom-up scientific thinking is not necessarily correct...

Perhaps, humans will never be able to solve all problems with this method, that is, they will not be able to fully understand the entire universe.

The last page of information was turned over, and this inheritance of wisdom from ancient times finally came to an end.

The screen was blank, and the back was all garbled. I don’t know if it was because of the loss of information or the metal disk itself.

"No more." The scientists present were disappointed.

"There is no technology, all theoretical knowledge."

Even if they didn’t get any epoch-making technology, everyone still felt the heavy history from a low-level civilization.

This is a mission, even if it is about to be destroyed, it is also a mission to pass on wisdom.

"When disaster strikes, what will humans choose?"

At this time, a team leader responsible for detecting the micro-ecosphere sent a message: "... There is no living life in the micro-ecosphere, only some traces of life that once existed. No genetic material was detected, no complex organic matter... Most of them have been hydrolyzed."

"We have no way to restore it, and there is not even protein."

This result is almost consistent with what people speculated.

Without energy, no life can last so long, and all that can be decomposed has been decomposed.

"The genetic inheritance of the Tucker civilization has failed... But the spiritual inheritance will remain in this world forever. We have learned an extremely important lesson."

"Don't be too pessimistic. Judging from this number, they have launched more than one probe... Maybe the genetic inheritance on another planet has succeeded? It is even possible that they have become an interstellar civilization!"

The scientists present are not sentimental people, but they keep thinking about the good side. Who knows the final truth?

But no matter what, tragedy is still a high probability...

For the universe, what does the joy and sorrow of an individual or a civilization have to do with it?

But at this moment, suddenly, a message that shocked everyone popped up on the screen.

There was something at the end of the metal plate! There was also information!