This theory is so dark, so counterintuitive that even I had great doubts when I first reasoned these conclusions.
However, more and more evidence now leads me to believe this theory, which is almost the only reasonable explanation for the current state of the universe. However, subjectively, I still hope that I am wrong this time.
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Selected from Luo Ji 's posthumous manuscript ' Out of the Dark Forest ' ( unfinished )
[ The beginning of the two-dimensionalization of the solar system in the 67th year of the Masking Age ]
Destruction began. Space is flowing and accelerating towards that plane. After entering the two-dimensional space, the material in the three-dimensional universe loses the opportunity to break away from the two-dimensional plane, and all the information carried in it is spread in an almost holographic form. The light is generated and also disappears, and the photons in the two-dimensional plane cannot enter the high-dimensional space, which makes the already two-dimensional material gradually dim. Only the energy released by the newly falling two-dimensional material during dimensionality reduction briefly excites fluorescence on this dark plane.
With only three days, this batch of curvature engines cannot be completed before the two-dimensionalization of the base. After redesigning the original curvature engines, scientists and engineers at the Mercury base worked around the clock ( while the Earth was still in use at the time of the cover age ) to reduce the duration of the engines to four months. This is already the limit and must not be shorter.
However, just one month after the project began, the two-way foil came. Fifty years of a big chess, this has been victorious, but ultimately lost, lost to time.
Cao Bin sat down on the chair, and there was no more harshness and determination in his eyes. He understood the state of mind of Vader fifty years ago, which was cold and desperate. Perhaps this is the cruelty of the dark forest hunter, who mercilessly smashes hope when humans see it.
Now, this is the only meaningful work.
Cao Bin calls a pair of wise sons to open the quantum channel between the solar system warning center and the Mercury base, and he will give the final command to the Mercury base. Humans now have only one light-speed spacecraft capable of unlimited interplanetary voyages, i.e., Ring-1, which has been fitted with a return-to-retrofit curvature engine.
Three years ago, the curvature engine of Star Ring 1 was repaired and used as an experimental engine again, and it was verified that it could produce uniform space flow. Since then, this engine was installed on the Star Ring 1, an interstellar escape spacecraft, to prepare for the worst possibility. Cao Bin did not think that the next step of chess has become the last hope today.
After a short call with the Mercury base, Cao Bin obtained the secondary command authority of the Star Ring One. He discovered that Ring 1 was still moored at Jupiter 's homeport, and that it would be impossible to bring back the intended fugitives from Mercury 's base under conditions of such urgency.
However, if the fugitives are re-selected, people will cause great unrest in order to seize the speed of light spacecraft, making the last hope extinguished. The situation is urgent, there is no time to hesitate. Cao Bin can only make such an unwise choice.
Ring 1 slowly left Jupiter 's mother port and went to the bunker world hibernation center to pick up Cheng Xin and Ai AA. Cao Bin made Cheng Xin go to Pluto voluntarily with a lie that was not difficult to debunk. There, Luo Ji will make the final arrangement for them.
[ Meanwhile Pluto ]
Luo Ji was reluctant to see such a result, not because of the destruction of the solar system, he had long expected this possibility. It is because he does not want his correct speculation to be confirmed in his life.
The two-way foil coming to the solar system is the last piece of puzzle. In front of Luo Ji, the darker essence of the universe appears. Rogge 's doubts about the dark forest theory began a few years ago, when wiseons flying at the speed of light to the outer solar system with curvature engine experiments did not encounter blind spots. Since then, Luo Ji has sent dozens of pairs of wise children to all directions outside the solar system, and has also obtained the same results, even in the place where the three-body 's wise children fail : there is no blind spot.
It should be known that the dark forest state of the universe needs to be maintained by a chain of suspicion, and if there is no wise blind spot, almost all parts of the universe can communicate in real time, and the chain of suspicion does not attack itself, where there is a dark forest.
However, such a conclusion is obviously contradictory to the status quo. It is almost funny to doubt the dark forest theory when your galaxy is about to be destroyed by the dark forest.
However, the dark forest theory was also considered to be somewhat funny when it was first proposed, and now it has become a truth that almost no one doubts. Even if it seems extremely absurd thinking, as long as there is a realistic basis, there is no reason not to go on.
The theory of the mechanism of action of the three-body human 's intelligence blind zone has quickly made a breakthrough. The detection of the wise child blind area reported by the three-body man shows that the micro-dimensions of those spaces under the Planck scale are seriously distorted. This distortion is strong enough to invalidate the wise child made by the three-body man after etching the nine micro-dimensions. However, for the wise child whose ten dimensions are all modified by information, although this distortion will have a great impact on the wise child and reduce its information processing ability, it is far from enough to invalidate the wise child.
The nine-dimensional etched wise son, although it is difficult to defend in the eyes of human beings, is only a thin piece and fragile like a picture in front of the advanced civilization that can manipulate ten dimensions. Those weird spaces that are enough to affect the wise son, because their specialities are hidden below the Planck scale, have no effect on ordinary three-dimensional matter, and only have strong lethality to intelligent particles. This makes people suspect that the real mystery of space is also hidden in places where only intelligent particles can be found.
From nine dimensions to ten dimensions, it seems that there is not much gap, but in fact it is a world of difference. It is calculated that the cognition of the microscopic dimension requires extremely high energy, and the higher the dimension is, the deeper it is hidden. If we only want to study the structure of matter to nine dimensions, we only need to build a planetary accelerator, but if we want to get the unified equation under the ten-dimensional space structure, we must build a huge accelerator at the star level similar to the solar accelerator. Such a project, no doubt, will expose the position of civilization.
The Confederation issued a Dark Forest Strike Alert, which was instantaneously transmitted to Pluto by Wizards, and the underground caverns of Pluto were in chaos.
Within a few minutes, all the underground people left one after another, and only Luo Ji had no intention of escape.
'Lao, won 't you go ? '
The last person asked as he walked by Luo Ji. One of the reporters laughed, and the man hurried away.
Soon, the blue fusion flame lit up the characters of the four alloys of ' Earth Civilization ' on Pluto.Only a part of these radiations can escape, and the rest of the material will go with the ship they pushed to the doomed fate.
Luo Ji got up and went deep into the cave. The wall of the cave is engraved with the crystallization of human civilization for thousands of years. Now they will soon be buried with this planet in an unknown corner of the star sea.
Two hundred years of time, like a drama scene in the mind playback. I have also been wandering, loved, guarded, and fought, but these are almost no longer meaningful. He and a civilization he spent most of his life guarding are coming to the end of their lives.
The universe is so cruel, the fate of the bustling dream broken again and again, in the end even the most optimistic people have to laugh at their own innocence. Infoboxes continue to emerge, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth, Mercury, Uranus, those once extremely prosperous world one by one are accurately drawn into a giant painting. This is perhaps the most poetic death in the universe.
Luo Ji remembered her and that choice. What she could have guarded was always destroyed in front of herself again and again. In the cold universe, even the coldest heart would feel endless chill and be frozen again. Belief has been extinguished, life no longer leaves a trace of heat, Luo Ji 's life, that continue to create tragedy and witness the tragedy of life, will end in the human tragedy is the biggest and the last.
I do not know how long, an hour or a day, thinking continues. The two-dimensional foil tells people that the bunker is not safe at all, and gives people the illusion that reaching the speed of light can avoid destruction. However, since the shelter that can defend against light particles will be destroyed by two-way foil, there is no reason why the light-speed spacecraft will not be destroyed by more advanced weapons.
Then, as long as the coordinates are exposed, civilization must die, because there is reason to think that the liquidator is always the first step. Therefore, for a civilization whose survival is the first need, the Sun-Ring accelerators that expose the coordinates should not exist, and they cannot get a unified equation.
However, such a theory has obvious loopholes. In this case, the cleanup will not exist at all. Because whether it is a light particle-a neutral particle that obtains great mass by ' borrowing ' vacuum energy, or a two-dimensional foil-a small two-dimensional space, all micro-dimensional operations are required to manufacture. But in a universe where no civilization has dared to build a Sun-loop accelerator to obtain a unified equation, these weapons are impossible to exist.
In the universe shrouded by the laws of the dark forest, no civilization dares to claim that it is the first intelligent life born in the universe, even in the early days of the universe. Cleaners are always hidden. No one knows the silence around them because there is no cleaner here, or cleaners are hidden so well that they cannot be found.
To expose one 's position, wherever and whenever, is to risk one 's survival, which should have been the greatest taboo in the universe. It is difficult to understand that there must be civilizations in the universe that have committed this taboo, and from the current density of cleansers observed, such civilizations are not rare.
There is only one explanation, that is, all the higher civilizations in the universe do not take survival as the first need. This is evident in humans - and it is precisely because of this that humans were very late in deriving the law of the dark forest - a spirit of sacrifice that many scientists have had since Bruno. " Survival as the first need " is actually an evolutionary inertia, which is regarded as the absolute truth by every intelligent species in the early stage of development. Most civilizations should also introduce the dark forest law at this stage. However, with the development of civilization and the emergence of philosophy, this evolutionary inertia is likely to be broken, thus creating a number of civilizations that are not afraid of destruction.
In this way, perhaps those advanced civilizations are philosophers who study the meaning of existence and absolute truth. However, there is still a problem, why should civilization, which no longer takes survival as the first need, maintain the dark forest state of the universe as a cleanser ?
Luo Ji vaguely felt that the answer to this question must be extremely dark. Two girls came, and after a brief conversation, Luo Ji sent them away. He tries his best to cover up the dark history of these years and preserve the final love and innocence of human civilization.
'Children, go into the picture, go well ! '
This is the final farewell. The curvature engine is launched to fight against the powerful power of the two-way foil in this huge waterfall of space flow.
It will take a long time for the curvature engine to escape the engulfment of the two-dimensional plane and accelerate to the speed of light, a process that will take a decade for outside observers. In a period of ten years, Ring 1 has only traveled a distance of several hundred astronomical units.
However, for the observers in the star ring, this is only a few minutes, and there is no exception. In the last ten minutes, the neural network, which is almost representative of human civilization, is still fighting against fate.
'Quantum thinking simulation synchronization has been completed ' Even the electronic sound is distorted due to vacuum decay. Luo Ji will die, but the zhizi neural network will not, every zhizi can easily reach the speed of light.
Just a few days ago, the autonomous consciousness of the Zhizi neural network was awakened, and the first decision it made to violate the initial setting was to replace Luo Ji. Luo 's powerful computing power is enough to simulate all the quantum information in Luo 's brain and reconstruct his consciousness.
Here, that proud and wise soul will become another new and more powerful being.
Go, help them, let human civilization stand in the stars ! '
This is the most legendary man 's last words in history. Without warning, tens of thousands of wise men left the solar system at the same time. Thinking continues.
The previous thoughts are the combing and confirmation of their new ideas in recent years. Those are just a problem. The answer is still far away. A popular theory in the AD period appeared in Luo Ji 's thinking. Large filter. The dark forest may also be just a filter through which higher civilizations sift through the nascent civilization. For what ? Find civilizations that dare to sacrifice for truth or strength. What to do ?
A very bizarre thought flashed by, and Luo Ji suddenly stood up and threw his cane on the ground with a force that was disproportionate to his age. This section of red sandalwood that had accompanied him for decades was broken in two. That sentence full of anger and sadness has not yet been exported, was two-dimensional plane ruthlessly swallowed.
With no time left, Luo Ji and the tombstone he wanted to keep for 100 million years spread out into the giant painting. Through the white-haired old man in the picture, you can see the endless dark stars on the other side.
The second chapter ends