Chapter 455 Two Axioms!!
"Taylor failed?!"
"The first wall-facer failed?"
"Taylor's plan is thoughtful, but it's not very realistic..."
"Have the plans of several people come to light?"
"Taylor committed suicide?"
"The old thief started killing..."
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At the beginning of the novella "Spell", thousands of readers from Kyushu exclaimed with wide eyes.
Five years later, Taylor's wall-facer plan failed and he jumped into the lake to commit suicide.
The first wall-facer, Taylor, the former Secretary of Defense from Mi State, made such a plan. On the surface, he was looking for a human death squad to fight a desperate battle with the Three-Body Fleet!
In fact, he hoped to use ball lightning weapons to raid the human death squad to quantize it, and use the quantum ghost fleet to fight against the Three-Body civilization.
Using ball lightning to create a quantum ghost fleet is an extremely creative idea. Perhaps ordinary readers don't know how strong this idea is, but science fiction writers more or less know it. For example, Mike was holding his breath and didn't even have time to drink a sip of coffee.
But Taylor's plan failed.
It has to be said that Taylor's plan was somewhat taken for granted. Apart from the fact that the strategic intention was not well hidden, the plan itself was also untenable.
Not to mention that the entire plan was technically difficult and the experimental feasibility was low, the most important thing was that the Trisolarans were not afraid of this at all. In front of the Sophon, humans had almost no secrets.
Even if humans had studied the principle of the consciousness body offsetting the observer effect through the self-observation effect, the quantum ghost fleet would eventually have to spread throughout the universe with the probability cloud.
Another point is that with the level of civilization of the Trisolarans, ball lightning is very likely to have been thoroughly studied long ago, so using this "head-on" plan to fight against the Trisolaran civilization is somewhat taken for granted.
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“It seems impossible to fight against the Three-Body Civilization head-on. Under the threat of the Sophon and the Wallbreaker, it is impossible to achieve technological leadership. Taylor took the wrong path from the beginning.”
“Yes, if the Three-Body Civilization can be defeated by technology, the situation of the Earth will not be so desperate.”
“To be honest, Taylor’s thinking is the thinking that Mizhou has always believed in power. But this time, the power of the Earth may not be able to match the Three-Body Civilization.”
“Have Luo Ji and Ye Wenjie met?”
“Could this be the reason why Luo Ji was chosen!”
Before the audience sighed for Taylor’s death, a classic chapter of “The Three-Body Problem” was finally presented to readers all over Kyushu.
This is a memory of Luo Ji.
Ye Wenjie is no longer alive, but just a few years ago, Luo Ji and Ye Wenjie had a meeting in front of Yang Dong’s tomb.
Luo Ji’s unstarted cosmic sociology research is very likely the direct reason why the Three-Body World wants to kill him. It is precisely because of this that Luo Ji became a wall-facer.
Ye Wenjie said to Luo Ji at that time, first set up a few simple self-evident axioms, and then deduce the entire cosmic sociology theory system based on these axioms.
The two axioms that Ye Wenjie had thought about for most of her life immediately made countless viewers in Jiuzhou confused and stunned.
[First, survival is the first need of civilization. ]
[Second, civilization continues to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged. ]
[To deduce the basic picture of cosmic sociology from these two axioms, there are two important concepts: suspicion chain and technological explosion. ]
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These are two self-evident axiom foundations.
Just like Euclid's "Elements of Geometry", the entire geometric building was built on the basis of several self-evident axioms. Modern physics and various disciplines all use this foundation!
Many complex things really start from the evolution of the simplest things.
The cosmic sociology axioms proposed by Ye Wenjie are the foundation for Luo Ji to build the Dark Forest later.
What is the chain of suspicion? Simply put, it means that both parties cannot judge whether the other party is a benevolent civilization.
Technological explosion means that the speed and acceleration of civilization progress may not be consistent. A weak civilization may surpass a strong civilization in a short period of time. It may be caused by internal or external factors, such as the technological leap after the industrial revolution.
When these two axioms came out, more than 90% of readers did not take them seriously. At most, they were in a state of not knowing how powerful they were. They did not think they were so awesome or shocking.
Because there are only a few people who really know and understand this aspect. Even "Elements of Geometry" has not been heard by many readers.
There are even many readers whose first reaction to Ye Wenjie's two axioms is:
"That's it?"
"Aren't you talking nonsense?"
"Isn't survival the first need of civilization?"
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The reactions of these readers are normal reactions. If a reader is shocked when he reads these two axioms for the first time, he is not to say that he is well-versed, but at least his knowledge and understanding are far above ordinary people.
Luo Shen, a physics teacher, is such a person.
"Are you trying to get Luo Ji to establish cosmic sociology?!"
"Using these two axioms as the foundation?"
Luo Shen's pupils suddenly shrank and he took a deep breath.
Why most readers don't feel shocked is because this is the foundation!
If cosmic sociology is compared to a tall building, the two axioms are the foundation.
Only those who really know the business can understand the meaning of this foundation and appreciate it, so it is said that the reaction of the vast majority of readers is the normal reaction.
But as a physics teacher, Luo Shen knew what the old thief was going to do!
"Elements" is an immortal work by the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid. It completed mankind's understanding of space for the first time. It is a truly handed down work of mankind. There are almost no books that can compete with its status.
Even the basic terminology of modern mathematics in Xiazhou is derived from this "Elements of Geometry".
The specific content of this book is difficult to describe at the moment.
But "Elements of Geometry" is based on five postulates.
Postulate 1: A straight line can be drawn from any point to any other point.
Postulate 2: A finite straight line can continue to be extended.
Postulate 3: A circle can be drawn with any point as the center and any distance.
Postulate 4:…
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Simple?
The knowledge that even primary school students know in modern times is the basis of such handed down works as "Elements of Geometry".
Through these five self-proven postulates, a series of mathematical theorems about modern numbers were derived, such as equal quantities minus equal quantities, the difference is still the same, and objects that can overlap each other are congruent, etc. wait.
The so-called postulate has the same meaning as an axiom. It is a statement that is generally recognized as true, so there is no need to prove that it is correct!
This is the foundation!
Only by understanding the postulates and the process of theory formation can we truly appreciate and be shocked by how important these axioms are, which are the simplest, even simple enough to make people laugh, and feel "that's it?"
It’s okay for thousands of readers now to not understand it for the time being, but after today, there will definitely be a large number of netizens. How important are these two axioms of popular science!
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"Civilizations continue to grow and expand, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains the same."
Luo Ji in the story locked onto these two sentences. Although he didn't know the exact secret, Luo Ji's thinking told him that the answer lay in these two self-evident laws.
As for the Three-Body Civilization, it was precisely because of these two laws that Ye Wenjie told Luo Ji that it viewed Luo Ji as a threat.
Even to the point of being "scared".
Luo Ji kept thinking.
Think about what Ye Wenjie once said.
I don't know how many days passed, and Luo Ji was in the icy water. Between the dead cold and darkness, Luo Ji seemed to see the truth of the universe...
Just like the protagonists in those fantasy novels, they suddenly understood the laws of the dark forest and understood the key truth!
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"Luo Ji has thought of a solution?"
"any solution!"
"Say it quickly!"
When Luo Ji entered the headquarters and asked astronomer Albert Ringer about the traces of the Trisolaran fleet, thousands of readers knew that Luo Ji, as a Wallfacer, had his own plan!
This plan is...
Fire the "spell"!
...(End of chapter)