Chapter 301 Grand Unification and Theory of Everything

Time passed slowly. Every progress in pterosaur breeding technology was touching people's hearts.

From the successful breeding of the first experimental farm, to the establishment of the second expanded farm, to the third, the fourth...

By the tenth farm, the technology had been completely mature.

Finally, the tenth official farm was located on the water demon star in the asteroid belt.

The official number of the water demon star is asteroid 165. It is about 150 kilometers in size, extremely barren, and there are no human settlements around it.

The main reason for choosing it is to eliminate interference and prevent pterosaurs from escaping from the breeding farm.

The total area of ​​this breeding farm has reached 10,000 square kilometers. If one square kilometer can accommodate 10 pterosaurs, a total of 100,000 pterosaurs can be bred here.

Therefore, the artificially cultivated pterosaur larvae, one as big as an adult elephant, were carefully placed in the breeding area.

Different breeding areas are isolated by high-strength alloys to prevent contact between different pterosaurs.

A breeding area covers an area of ​​about 60,000 square meters and is more than 200 meters high, which can accommodate an adult pterosaur.

In the next 100 years, these pterosaurs can only spend their time here.

For these still fragile - of course, in comparison. In fact, even a newly born pterosaur can easily fight against 10 adult tigers. The ability to adapt to harsh environments is far beyond.

Even if thrown into a vacuum and high radiation environment of more than 200 degrees below zero, these pterosaur juveniles are completely fine.

Today, these pterosaur juveniles are roaring ferociously in the breeding box.

But with up to 300 chickens thrown in, these pterosaur juveniles immediately calmed down and began to swallow these delicious foods.

Pterosaurs have a strong digestive ability. As long as it is a living organism, whether it is an animal or a plant, even microorganisms and algae, they can eat it all.

In extreme cases, even some simple organic matter, such as methane and urea, can be eaten.

These nutrients will construct the pterosaur's body together with the various minerals it swallowed, and provide irreplaceable functions for maintaining life and reproduction.

After eating, these pterosaur larvae immediately became lazy.

The pterosaurs live in a harsh environment. Now that they have a stable food supply, they have no motivation to hunt prey. People have deliberately reduced their mineral intake, making it impossible for them to form hard armor, and there is no condition to produce nuclear fusion and nuclear fission devices in their bodies, so their combat effectiveness has been reduced to the lowest.

This batch of pterosaurs survived in the farm.

As time passed, the weight of this batch of pterosaurs gradually increased, and their appetite became larger and larger. On the eve of being marketed, their weight reached about 450 tons, and their appetite increased to the point where they had to eat 15 tons of food every day.

One hundred thousand pterosaurs means an average of 1.5 million tons of food per day. Calculated based on the weight of a chicken of 1.5 kilograms, this is equivalent to one billion chickens.

And chicken is the cheapest animal protein that human civilization can produce.

Fortunately, pterosaurs don't need to use animal protein for food, some plants are also fine.

So a lot of grasslands were born from human society, and a large number of plants were also transported here, and filled the pterosaurs' stomachs together with chickens.

The huge food demand of pterosaurs has greatly promoted the development of planting and breeding industries in human civilization, provided countless jobs, and created a lot of social wealth.

The small water demon star became the core of the asteroid belt for a while, and a large number of heavy transport ships came and went every day.

When they came, they transported food, and when they left, they transported pterosaur feces-this thing is also a good thing. It not only has industrial value, but the residue also has extremely rich nutritional value. It can be used as fertilizer and feed.

With sufficient food supply, these extremely vicious and even strange lives that can destroy a weak civilization have now become round and lazy all day long, either eating or sleeping, and they look inexplicably more lovely.

After a hundred years, all the pterosaurs were transported to a processing plant also built on the Water Monster Star, where they were all slaughtered and made into various pterosaur biological products including pterosaur capsules, which were supplied to human society.

The major capitals that participated in the investment and construction of this pterosaur farm made huge profits, and the human government also received a large amount of tax revenue.

Every worker in this industrial chain received a generous salary and began to consume, so the entertainment industry, catering industry, clothing industry, etc. were also stimulated to flourish.

During this period, pterosaur farms began to appear in large numbers on other asteroids, ranging from hundreds to 100,000 heads. Even some zoos have obtained breeding licenses and began to introduce pterosaurs for people to watch.

"The next show is the pterosaur drilling the fire ring. Please welcome our cute little pterosaur-Feifei!"

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In the venue of several square kilometers, the audience watched the scene in the distance through telescopes.

The steel gate opened, and a human was holding a rope in his hand. At the other end of the rope was a huge pterosaur that was ten meters tall and weighed up to a hundred tons.

The pterosaur was like a duck, obediently led by humans and walked out, full of comedy effects, and the people watching cheered and applauded. Many children had little stars in their eyes: "Mom, look, what a cute big bird."

The little pterosaur named Feifei bowed his head obediently and let the breeder sit on his neck, then flapped his wings and flew up, deftly shuttling between dozens of fire circles in the venue, rotating his body or turning rapidly, making various special effects movements, which caused cheers from the audience.

After the performance, the pterosaur, led by the breeder, came to the edge of the venue and began to imitate humans, stroking his chest with his wings and bowing, and began to bow, constantly acting cute, and people threw the chickens, ducks, fish, mutton, beef, etc. that had been slaughtered in their hands into the venue.

Seeing the food falling like raindrops, the chubby pterosaur was so happy that he rolled on the ground and couldn't wait to eat the food, causing laughter from the audience.

At this moment, in people's minds, the image of pterosaurs has been associated with the chubby big birds in the zoo who only know how to act cute and beg for food, as well as the dazzling array of pterosaur biological products on the shelves, such as pterosaur capsules, pterosaur leather bags and leather shoes.

As for the terrible life that is overwhelming and can even destroy a civilization and exterminate the biosphere of an entire planet, it has completely disappeared from people's minds.

Human civilization is developing rapidly in peace and stability. At this stage, Han Yang has an overview of the overall scientific progress and finally feels that the time for human civilization to launch an impact on the third-level civilization stage has come.

Just like before breaking through to the second-level civilization stage, people realized that controlled nuclear fusion, ion propulsion and other technologies are the keys to breaking through to the second-level civilization level. At this moment, when they are about to launch an impact on the third-level civilization stage, Han Yang also realizes what the key to becoming a third-level civilization is.

Grand Unified Theory.

It is currently believed that there are four basic forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, and weak interaction force.

These four forces are "basic". All other forces can be summarized under these four basic forces.

For example, the root of various chemical changes lies in the breaking and reorganization of chemical bonds, which occurs at the atomic and molecular levels. The root of changes at the atomic level is electromagnetic force.

Basically, all changes encountered in daily life, except gravity, are all dominated by electromagnetic force.

Even the process of humans eating food and digesting it is dominated by electromagnetic force. Because the essence of digestion is to react with food through stomach acid, which is a chemical process. And the root of chemistry is electromagnetic force.

Weak force determines the decay of matter, and strong force determines the violent nuclear change process, such as the explosion of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs.

Gravity, of course, needs no mention. It determines that people will not fall when standing on the earth and determines that planets revolve around stars. Even on the cosmic scale, gravity shapes the appearance of the universe today.

The understanding, mastery and utilization of the four basic forces determine the technological level of a scientific and technological civilization.

But people believe that these four basic forces can be unified under certain conditions. That is, these four basic forces are also different external manifestations of the same force.

Just like electricity and magnetism, people originally thought that these were two different forces, but they were eventually unified into electromagnetic force.

Based on this idea, countless scientists have conducted research, and finally unified the weak interaction force and the electromagnetic force into the electroweak interaction force.

At extremely high energy levels, about 100 GeV, the electromagnetic force and the weak interaction force have exactly the same properties, and there is no single electromagnetic force or weak interaction force.

In the early universe, just after the Big Bang, when the temperature of the universe exceeded 100 trillion degrees Celsius, the two forces in the universe were unified. However, the temperature later dropped, and because of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the two forces separated into two.

After unifying the electromagnetic force and the weak interaction force, although there has been progress in the research on the four basic forces, there has been no decisive breakthrough, and it is impossible to unify the electroweak interaction with the strong interaction force.

The so-called grand unified theory is a theory that describes the unification of these three forces into one force.

If we add gravity, which is the most difficult to unify, and unify the four forces together, then it will be the legendary theory of everything. At least at this stage, Han Yang cannot see the hope of realizing it.

But Han Yang has seen hope for the grand unified theory, and has confirmed that this is the key for human civilization to advance to the third-level civilization.

As long as he can master the grand unified theory, then Han Yang can truly realize the unique technology of the third-level civilization, fluidless propulsion, energy weapons, energy shields, etc. (End of this chapter)