MTL - Number One Player-Chapter 283 Start with the Fermi Paradox

"I don't know how much time we have recently, maybe a year, maybe half a year, maybe even just two or three months..." Nie Zhibo sighed, "But what I know is that we have to speed up."

"Such critical news," Mu Shiming asked hesitantly, "do we need to announce it to the world?"

"Don't!" Shang Yinhe and Nie Zhibo expressed their objections in unison.

After the extremely tacit voice fell, the two looked at each other, and Shang Yinhe made a "please first" gesture.

Nie Zhibo was the first to speak: "I think this kind of news that can obviously cause widespread panic should definitely not be released to the world. All past experiences have already proved that there are some crises, if they are fully disclosed, they will cause social chaos. What's more, what we are facing now may be the invasion of advanced civilization, a crisis that seems to have no chance of winning on the earth!"

"I have the same thoughts as Old Nie," Shang Yinhe added. "In the face of such a crisis, I have no doubt that there will be many people who will betray humanity completely and become the so-called "leading party."

"And if you think about it," Nie Zhibo continued, "Jiuqu obviously knew about the news for a long time, but he never thought about releasing the news. His choice was to use video to force human society to advance, not This news was released in the first place, and the whole world was in a state of precarious panic."

"That's right," Shang Yinhe replied, "Captain Mu, think about it, if you knew that the world was about to be destroyed more than half a year ago, you would still work and live honestly, maintain a positive attitude, and serve the society. Can we contribute to development? Can we still follow the rhythm of the nine songs so smoothly and create a leap in the development of the entire human society in half a year?"

"As soon as the news comes out," Nie Zhibo added, "there will definitely be a large number of people who will fall into a state of drunkenness, or simply start giving up on themselves and try criminal acts that they never dared to try before."

"Okay, okay..." Mu Shiming shrugged, "You guys sing in harmony, it's easy."

He thought for a while, and then said, "I really don't think the news should be fully disclosed, but we should disclose this information selectively, right?"

Nie Zhibo spread his hands: "Hey, in modern society, a slightly powerful country can have countless talents. How many smart people and how many strange extraordinary abilities are there?"

He couldn't help shaking his head: "I have no doubt that maybe some countries or some elites have already known this news, but they just kept it secret and kept the news within a very small range. In the next period of time, I also thought of it. The number of guesses should slowly increase..."

"But at least we should synchronize with our country's top leaders, right?" Mu Shiming said, "I believe in our high-level vision, and doing so is beneficial to our original plan."

"I agree with Mu Team's statement," Shang Yinhe replied, "Whether the country knows or not is the country's business; whether we say it or not is our business. The country knows this news, which is very beneficial to us. In the construction of the body, if there is the cooperation of the state, the difficulty will be greatly reduced.”

After a detailed discussion, they finally decided: after leaving the Sky City, Nie Zhibo would write a top-secret internal reference and submit it to the senior leaders of China. Expounded his conjecture that the invasion time of advanced civilization is likely to be in the near future.

"I still have a question," Mu Shiming raised a new question after the discussion came to an end, "If this advanced civilization that is about to invade really exists, where are they? It's the piece above our heads. In the sky?"

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"If this advanced civilization that is about to invade really exists, where are they? In the starry sky above us?"

In the research base of Yongliang City, Lu Yanchi was thinking about this question.

After receiving the promise of the research funding budget from his fellow alliance partners, he immediately let go of his slightly apprehensive worries.

When it comes to playing politics, economics, conspiracy, and conspiracy, he can't keep up with his friends.

He was very relieved to leave this aspect to them.

The mere tens of billions of dollars in funds must be a small case for them!

("just" "just", someone doesn't seem to have a strong concept of money...)

Of course, when it comes to scientific research, other friends can't keep up with me.

Just yesterday, the thousand-person teleportation experiment officially ended, and all the participants in the experiment found no problems.

This made Lu Yanchi breathe a sigh of relief.

The most difficult level of space teleportation technology has passed, and the next step is nothing more than burning money, conducting repeated experiments and expanding experiments, continuously reducing costs, and continuously improving accuracy and safety.

These things can be done by any of his scientific research dogs, and he doesn't need to spend a lot of time on experiments.

As a result, Lu Yanchi, who was relaxed, had more energy and time, and began to focus on the starry sky.

And the first problem he encountered was not the difficulty of scientific research and practice of technology, nor his concern about the cost of capital, manpower and materials, but—

Rather a logical paradox:

"If aliens really exist in the world, why is there such a situation as the Fermi Paradox?"

The Fermi Paradox is a paradox that has a high reputation in many fields such as cosmology, astronomy, and science fiction.

One day in 1951, Nobel laureate Fermi, a physicist, was discussing the issue of flying saucers and aliens with others when he suddenly asked, "Where are they all?"

And this seemingly simple question is the famous "Fermi Paradox".

The implication of the "Fermi Paradox" is that, in theory, humans can fly to various planets in the Milky Way in 1 million years. Then, as long as aliens evolve 1 million years earlier than humans, they should come to Earth now .

In other words, the "Fermi Paradox" shows such a paradox:

A. Extraterrestrials exist - Scientific inferences can prove that aliens evolved long before humans, and they should have come to Earth and exist somewhere.

B. Aliens do not exist - so far, humans have not found any clues about the existence of aliens.

The two contradict each other.

Another question closely related to Fermi's paradox is the Great Silence - even if interstellar travel is difficult, why can't we detect electromagnetic signals if life is ubiquitous?

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is an organization whose purpose is to listen for signals from extraterrestrial intelligences. If there are 100,000 intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way, even if only a few of them emit radio waves or laser beams or other communication signals, SETI's satellite array should receive a variety of signals.

However, SETI has never received such a signal, not even once. [Note]

The "Dark Forest" of The Three-Body Problem, which is very popular in China, is a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox. In addition, there are countless explanations such as the rare earth hypothesis, the big filter theory, the zoo hypothesis, the planetarium hypothesis, and the virtual world hypothesis.

And now that we are about to enter the interstellar era, Lu Yanchi has to re-examine this well-known paradox that has entangled cosmology for countless years:

Where are all alien civilizations?

Jiuqu showed the real challenge of this copy in "The Extraordinary Age: Eyes from afar". In this dungeon, the earth civilization and the alien civilization appear one after the other, and each even-numbered level shows a different alien civilization. Especially in the second level, the strange alien with green skin color and much taller body than the earthlings appeared for the first time, which directly caused a sensation in the whole human society.

However, there are too many things implied in "The Extraordinary Age: Eyes From Afar". Against the background of many exaggerated news, the appearance of aliens seems to have become bleak.

In the scientific research world, the science fiction world, and various gossip forums on the Internet, there are countless speculations about "The Extraordinary Age: Eyes From Afar", each of which seems reasonable. On this basis, there has even been a small explosion of science fiction.

A more generally accepted guess is:

"There is a civilization in the universe that is powerful and chaotic, the embodiment of the eerie eye in The Otherworldly Eyes: Eyes From Afar."

"It has been remotely controlling and watching the civilizations in the rest of the universe, and by devouring the different scientific research development ideas and artistic development works of various civilizations, it is used as nourishment to develop and strengthen itself."

"When the civilization in this universe wakes up, it will completely clean up all civilizations that have not entered the interstellar era and have no ability to resist."

"If you want to fight the civilization that this eye represents, there is only one way, and that is—"

"When this civilization closed its eyes and rested, it quickly developed the road of the interstellar era and had the ability to barely resist blows."

However, this seemingly plausible conclusion raises more questions:

Where does this possible high-level civilization exist?

How does it perceive the existence of other civilizations? Why haven't we sensed anything wrong until now?

If it really exists and has really destroyed many civilizations, it will inevitably leave many traces. Why have we not noticed any traces it left?

Lu Yan turned the pen in his hand late, and his brain turned fast. When he pondered these questions seriously, the explosion of inspiration brought about by his extraordinary abilities caused one question after another to be born in his mind.

He came up with countless possible explanations, and in an instant, he found a huge flaw and directly denied it.

Slowly, with the support of the extraordinary state of inspiration explosion, Lu Yanchi even began to think about some issues that seemed even more... more wrong:

Why have we never observed traces of alien civilizations?

Do worlds beyond the Milky Way really exist?

Why does the whole universe seem so silent?

Why does the speed of light have to be constant?

Why is the universe expanding?

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These things, which were originally regarded as natural truths, seem to have other meanings when thinking about them now.

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The author has something to say:

Note:

1. This paragraph explains the Fermi paradox from the Internet

2. The Fermi Paradox is a very interesting paradox, and countless classic conjectures and science fiction works have been born on its basis. The Dark Forest in "Three-Body Problem" is an explanation of Fermi's paradox. On this basis, Da Liu directly unfolds an incomparably magnificent imaginary world.