Lu Ze asked a different question: "So, in which year did the Earth enter the horizon of the singularity?" ”

"The year 220 of the Galactic Era. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Singularity replied.

Lu Ze was stunned again.

If calculated according to subjective time, as long as the spaceship is allowed to travel infinitely close to the speed of light, then it can fly to the end of the universe in a short time, or reach the end of the universe, if the universe will really end. But according to the Galactic Age calendar, tens of billions of years or more have passed.

It is now the 20th year of the Galactic Era, and if the Earth enters the singularity horizon in the 220th year of the Galactic Era, doesn't it mean that in terms of time on Earth, the universe will be destroyed in 200 years?

How is this possible?

It's not that Lu Ze doesn't believe that the universe will collapse into a singularity, but this time is too incredible.

You know, the universe has existed for 13.8 billion years since its birth, so why didn't it collapse earlier, but collapsed 200 years later?

The only explanation is that it is man-made, and that it is human civilization that has caused the destruction of the universe.

Moreover, the scale of the universe is also tens of billions of light years, if it collapses under the action of gravitation, it is impossible to exceed the speed of light, only like the "inflation" of the Big Bang, let the universe itself "collapse" at a speed of countless times more than the speed of light, it is possible to collapse the universe into a singularity in just 200 years.

So Lu Ze continued to ask, "Then why did the universe collapse?" ”

Singularity replied: "A war broke out between human civilization and superhuman civilization, which consumed the dark energy of the entire universe in a short period of time, thus causing the collapse of the universe. ”

Dark energy?

After hearing this word, Lu Ze couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Could it be that Lan Ye, or the current human civilization, has studied the nature of dark energy?

However, Lu Ze quickly reacted that he was thinking too much about himself.

In the past, people liked to interpret dark energy as an energy that drives the movement of the universe or the expansion of the universe, but in fact, dark energy is not energy in the usual sense, but an existence that is similar to the laws of the universe or the nature of space itself. It is often believed that dark energy is responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe, but this is not true. It would be correct to say that humans first observed that the universe was expanding at an accelerated pace, and in order to explain this phenomenon, they hypothesized the existence of dark energy.

Someone once said, "There are as many dark energy models as there are dark energy experts." ”

This statement is an exaggeration, but it also reflects how confusing people's perception of dark energy is.

Even Adam Rees, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerated pace, once said, "Dark energy is very strange, but I think it's reasonable that we can't see it." I have absolutely no idea what dark energy is. ”

Even Nobel laureates say they don't know what dark energy is, so the correctness of a lot of theories explaining dark energy can be imagined.

However, it is precisely because human beings do not know anything about the source and existence of dark energy, and it is closely related to the fate of the universe, that so many physicists are interested in dark energy.

Although Lu Ze is not a physicist, he is also interested in dark energy. The reason why he hibernated for a hundred years was not only to see what the world would be like in the future, but also to see how far scientific theories would develop in a hundred years.

However, in the past 100 years, although a large number of mystical theories of the universe have been born, there are still different opinions on what dark energy is, even after a hundred years, and there is no definite explanation.

Obviously, in Lanye's game world, it is only a hypothesis that the universe collapses due to the exhaustion of dark energy, just like Lu Ze also gave dark energy all kinds of romantic properties in science fiction novels, the purpose is to provide a reason for the collapse of the universe, which does not mean that dark energy may really be consumed.

In any case, although the technological setting in this game world is far from Lu Ze's initial guess, there is one thing that Lu Ze guessed correctly, that is, this game world is indeed based on the war between human civilization and superhuman civilization.

But why doesn't Singularity mention that I know machines? What is the position of the self-consciousness machine represented by Tian Yuan in this war?

"You said that the war between human civilization and superhuman civilization led to the destruction of the universe, but what about the machine?" Lu Ze asked directly to the singularity.

Singularity explained: "In the 40th year of the Galactic Era, the superhuman civilization underwent the ninth major renewal of thinking, and after that, there was no difference between the superman and the self-consciousness machine, whether it was the material form or the way of thinking, and there was no longer a distinction between the superman and the self-consciousness machine, and the self-consciousness machine and the superman were the same. ”

"Uh...... So why did the war break out? Lu Ze asked again.

Lu Ze was not surprised that there would be a war between human civilization and superhuman civilization, but he was curious about the reason for the war.

Human civilization has mastered controllable nuclear fusion energy, and is even about to establish a Dyson cloud, which can obtain endless energy directly from the sun, even if human civilization is really divided, it is impossible to have a war because of resource problems.

But resources are never the only reason for war. For example, in the past religious wars, two groups of people were able to knock out their brains just because they believed in different gods. Even some barbarians invade simply because they think war is fun.

Lu Ze wanted to know the reason for the outbreak of war between human civilization and superhuman civilization.

Is it really as stated in the "Virus of Justice" theory, that superhumans will forcibly transform the minds of human beings?

I only heard Singularity say in an emotionless electronic voice: "Because the last item of the ninth major update of thinking is: after this update, all previous human versions will no longer be supported." ”

After a long time, Lu Zecai muttered, "This is terrible. ”

This is precisely the reason why there were all kinds of restrictions on the thinking of transcendents in the original Star Spirit Network Conference.

Not only to reduce the impact of neural upload technology on human civilization, but also not only to consider that mental transformation may lead to the division of human civilization, just like the human civilization and superhuman civilization in this game. What's more, the transformation of the mind may turn the person into a being that is completely incomprehensible to humans.

(To be continued.) )