Chapter 2869: Not Happy with Material Things
When two civilizations are racing, it is definitely difficult for the backward civilization to catch up with the advanced civilization, especially in terms of the advanced civilization's superior technology. The backward civilization is chasing from behind, and the advanced civilization is also running in front, so it is difficult to catch up. However, if it is a brand new runway and a brand new rule, then the backward civilization still has a chance to catch up with the advanced civilization.
It is just like the discussion of whether to use bombers or rockets to deliver nuclear bombs. Aircraft have been developed for a hundred years, and developed countries have accumulated considerable experience. But rockets are new things, and they have only appeared for more than ten years. The gap of a hundred years and the gap of more than ten years, the gap of more than ten years is definitely easier to catch up.
So we should play to our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, and be good at finding the weaknesses of our opponents.
Now humans and dinosaurs are studying curvature engines together, which can be regarded as playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses. The dinosaurs proposed that they could bring a ring belt. After restoring the earth, there is no need to make a ring belt. They can directly connect the dinosaur ring belt with the earth, install the engine, and go to the universe together.
The dinosaurs have never entered the era of light speed. This is the gap between them and the great god civilization, and they have never been able to break through. Although they tried to get technology from the Great God Civilization, the Great God Civilization always had a series of additional conditions for the technology, and they only had the right to use the technology. The construction and maintenance had to be done by the Great God Civilization itself. Not only was it expensive, but they also had to apply for a license to use it, which was very troublesome.
If they used the technology of the Great God Civilization, they would become a vassal completely, which was something the dinosaurs did not want to see, so the dinosaurs finally chose to be the strong in the low-end civilization and were stuck at the speed of light.
Now that humans have taken out the technology, they can finally move towards the speed of light.
Humans are learning frantically to encourage childbirth and restore the population as soon as possible. Human resources are divided according to the number of people, and even newborn babies can get a share of resources. In this case, they must have more children.
When the population is about the same, they will propose: If you want to be rich, have fewer children and plant more trees. That is, they will not distribute resources anymore, increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and concentrate money to upgrade industries.
Humans are working hard to recover according to this process, giving birth to children first, and distributing resources according to the number of people. Scientists and newborn babies get exactly the same resources, which is not distributed according to work, but distributed according to the number of people. In this way, the population is rising rapidly.
When the price rises to a certain level, people are encouraged to have fewer children and plant more trees. The distribution method also returns to distribution according to work. If you don't get resources for having children, everyone will just have one child and invest all resources in education and development. Entering the era of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, when the industrial upgrading is completed, you can enter the market economy.
In short, in order to restore the population, humans are also moving forward with difficulty. Only with population and technology can we surpass the dinosaurs. Humans are serious and they will never be willing to lag behind.
What can the dinosaurs say? They are very casual and don't feel nervous. For them, as long as they master the curvature engine, population and culture will be completely unimportant at that time, because the entire universe is waiting for them to explore. At that time, artificial intelligence will definitely be more important than population. And as long as they enter the speed of light, the concept of time will be meaningless. Decades outside may only be half a year in the spacecraft.
When they enter the speed of light, the outside world may have changed. Population is a resource that is effective within a specific time. When time is broken, the common sense that life depends on should also be broken. The dinosaurs have come into contact with the great god civilization and know that the power of the great god civilization lies in personal creativity.
"Humans, you are still at the stage of resource assetization, and are still trying to convert various resources into money and property as a conversion. This kind of thinking was reasonable before the speed of light, because the concept of property can lead to better development. But after the speed of light, property is meaningless. For the Great God civilization, they can jump a thousand years at any time. Any property will vanish, and only the spirit is immortal. Therefore, the Great God civilization regards resources as dung and ideas as wealth." The dinosaurs said that humans are too young and don't understand what the speed of light represents. It represents that the world will change in an instant, and the industries they value will vanish.
Values will be constantly subverted. A city or a civilization may still exist before entering the speed of light, but it will disappear after the end of the speed of light. The assets that humans value now are not worth mentioning in the face of time.
"After entering the speed of light, you will have a new understanding." Although the dinosaurs have not entered the speed of light, they teach humans like their predecessors, and say that they are ready to enter the speed of light, have put down worldly thoughts, and they are waiting for acceleration.
Humans don't understand at all. They don't know whether the dinosaurs are pretending or really prepared. After all, they were dismantling planets in the universe not long ago. Suddenly, they made a 180-degree turn. The change is too big.
The dinosaurs are really prepared. They have seen the light speed civilization. Grandfathers and grandsons have received members of the same great god civilization across generations. One day in the great god civilization may be one year for the dinosaurs. So they know that entering the light speed and not entering the light speed are two different worlds. So they have already started psychological preparation. They will get used to the light speed in the fastest way.
"It seems that relativity is correct. Time changes at the speed of light. When the speed is infinite, the time scale is different, and different objects will have different times." The scientists in the virtual conference room were very excited because the field of light speed is brand new. No one except Yun Tianming has experienced light speed travel. And Yun Tianming also took the Trisolaran spaceship to fly at the speed of light because of the Trisolarans. Time is indeed slowed down. It takes hundreds of years in the universe, but only a few years in the light speed spaceship. When Yun Tianming left the light speed, the earth had been destroyed. He tried hard to save the earth and mankind, and told three fairy tales, but still did not change anything, and mankind was still doomed.
So sometimes think about it, the society that you try hard to maintain will eventually be destroyed, and there is no meaning.
"Although I have never come into contact with the Great God civilization, light speed travel can indeed make people feel a sense of nothingness. In the blink of an eye, hundreds and thousands of years have passed in the outside world. No matter how precious the material is, it is vulnerable to time. Civilization, society, country, and planet are all gone in the blink of an eye. It is really hard to accept that kind of gap, so the way to avoid the gap is to not care from the beginning, which is the best way." Yun Tianming saw the destruction of the earth after his first light speed trip, but when he learned that the goddess Cheng Xin escaped from the earth, he was still looking forward to seeing her.
But in the end, he did not wait for Cheng Xin, but chose to marry Cheng Xin's bestie and live together. It can be said that he has a great enlightenment. He first lost his body, then lost the earth, and finally lost his love, but he is still alive. Perhaps life itself has no meaning to the universe, but Yun Tianming's transformation from giving up life to trying to live has already approached the Great God civilization in mentality.
Everything is gone in the blink of an eye, but we still have to live. After time traveling, every human being must be freed from the constraints of matter, but finally return to matter. It can be said that it originates from matter and returns to matter. Although thought exists through matter as a medium, thought is no longer confined to matter. It can be said that one is not happy with things nor sad with oneself.