Deep Space Fleet

Zhang Yuan met an old acquaintance in his office, Mr. John Wilson, the pessimistic scientist in the nuclear fusion engine.

John woke up two months earlier than him, and seemed to be hit by the bleak reality. He just said hello to Zhang Yuan, and then sat in his seat all day long, in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zhang Yuanchang sighed, almost everyone here is like this.

In the current social environment, it is impossible to engage in some complicated work. At least half of the population is depressed, and it is quite rare to be able to do a simple job. Don't try to create too much social value.

Fortunately, the decision-makers had anticipated this situation in advance, and made some adjustments when formulating the hibernation policy.

At present, the conscious population is 600 people, more than 100 people are responsible for the maintenance of the power system, and the remaining population is distributed in communication, medical services, botanical gardens, and material management.

There are also a small number of soldiers and administrative personnel responsible for maintaining law and order.

In this self-sufficient small society, everyone's workload is very small.

The engine of the Earth Age is turned off, and it is navigating by inertia in the universe. In addition, most of the functions have been turned off, so more than a hundred years of work will not accumulate catastrophic accidents, and it is okay if everyone slacks a little.

...

In this uncomfortable atmosphere, time passed day after day. Zhang Yuan has restrained all his emotions and started to learn new knowledge normally.

There are enough new things happening on the planet, whether it is academics, history, or humanities, there are many things worth serious study.

Because of the qualitative change caused by the quantitative change, Zhang Yuan found that he could not even understand the most cutting-edge scientific papers. He can only read relevant news written by some popular science websites to grasp the overall scientific trends.

He said to himself: "That's great. It's a good thing if you don't understand it. If an ancient person like me can still understand it, human beings must be doomed."

"What's wrong with the ancient people? It's fine for me to be a university teacher!" John said: "It's the 25th century, and students in universities are still learning calculus? It's really boring."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help but smile, this sentence is true, before the emergence of technology to improve the intelligence of the whole people, no matter what era college students should be learning calculus. The entire civilization still has to rely on genius to promote it.

"John, what does this super-alpha state mean?"

"I don't know, maybe it's a new academic term in condensed matter physics... I'll help you look up related papers."

Facing modern knowledge, the two people in the office have a lot of things they don't understand. However, it is actually quite interesting for multiple people to study together, and the research progress is faster than that of one person.

There was once such a question on the Internet, if Einstein traveled to modern times, would he still be a top scientist?

It is not necessarily the top, but it is quite easy to become a good scientist again. Because under the influence of good habits, learning new knowledge is actually a relatively pleasant thing for Einstein. After a few years of hard work, it is estimated that he will be able to learn cutting-edge subjects.

Even with new knowledge in front of you but not learning it, there will be a sense of depraved insecurity.

"... Frontier science is full of good news. Through a condensed matter superfluid experiment, it seems to have found evidence for the existence of gravitons!"

Suddenly, Zhang Yuan seemed to have discovered some big news, and shouted.

"It's really not easy!"

After reading one of the papers, he sighed deeply.

The mood at this moment can only be described in one word: cool!

According to the description of this paper, after scientists used superfluid to surround a limited area, they found that a very small amount of gravitational changes occurred in this part of the area.

This gravitational change was greater than expected.

In some theories, gravitons are spin-2 bosons that produce superfluidity mechanisms analogous to helium-4. That is to say, this part of superfluid is likely to short-circuit some of the gravitons flowing through this region, so as to realize local shielding.

The evidence for the existence of gravitons may be the greatest scientific discovery in the past two centuries!

It means that certain basic theories seem to be ready for further development.

Various related papers emerge in endlessly, and the final winner has not been selected yet.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuan's heart beats slightly faster. He deeply understands how important the discovery of gravitons is to cutting-edge science!

"The graviton is related to the physical phenomenon of gravity. If gravity can be unified into the quantum theory, then the "Grand Unified Theory" will no longer be a dream!"

"If under the guidance of the theoretical basis, anti-gravity and artificial gravity-related technologies can really appear, human beings will once again achieve a qualitative change in technology!"

Zhang Yuan is still very willing to engage in research in this area.

Of course, for the current him, he can only be a distant observer, looking for some fun in these news.

Any progress in human civilization is a very safe and gratifying thing for him.

"I'm already a 200-year-old elder, juniors, come on." Because he was in a good mood, Zhang Yuan joked.

"Ahem, if you want to understand the civilization of the earth, you can read the special reports of the Deep Space Foundation every year instead of looking for information here. There are so many outrageous news, and some of them are random from the media. Fabricated."

John said slowly on the side.

After so many months, he has slowly returned to normal. Moreover, Zhang Yuan's explosive learning spirit also directly drove him, so he had to follow suit.

This guy still sighs sometimes, but at least he can communicate.

It has to be said that time can dilute everything, and human beings are also creatures with strong receptivity. If you choose to keep yourself busy, all the heaviness will be slowly thrown behind you...

People always have to live for themselves.

"Why, seeing these scientific research results, you are not pessimistic about the future of earth civilization?" Zhang Yuan asked with a smile: "It is very refreshing to see scientific progress. Once the technology of earth civilization undergoes a qualitative change, we will also bring qualitative change"

John excitedly said: "It is indeed a great discovery! I was also very happy a few days ago, which diluted the pessimistic expectations. By the way, what do you think about the phenomenon of gravity loss caused by superfluid phenomena? How to achieve industrialization? anti-gravity?"

"There is an interaction between gravitons and fermions. In addition to the Yuchuan coupling similar to the interaction of electrons and photons, there may be other items in the Lagrangian. I think as long as these items are clarified, the effect of gravitational shielding can continue. Enhance!"

"The nature of the world is really beyond imagination!"

"Aren't the four basic forces the ultimate essence?"

"Don't be too optimistic. At present, the whole theory has not been fully understood."

The more the two talked, the more excited they became, and they began to talk wildly, as if anti-gravity technology could really be realized...