Li Zhendong is not wrong, after all, man is a social creature, and the gradual reduction of the same kind is like the gradual withering of leaves on a big tree, and the rest of the leaves will also produce a similar sense of unease.

Even Zhang Yuan would have similar thoughts, seeing his friends fall asleep one by one, always giving him the illusion of being abandoned by the times.

Once eating in the cafeteria, he suddenly realized that he was the only one in the entire canteen except for the tireless robots.

That feeling of loneliness made him not know how to describe it at all, so he could only be stunned for a while, and then put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand.

There is no appetite to eat anything at all.

When the sober population fell below 10,000, basically all the functions that should be shut down were closed, including most of the laboratories and industrial areas, and only the most basic necessities for survival remained.

All the populations have been merged into Zone A, and the merger of popularity has made the surrounding atmosphere a little more lively

Everyone is assigned a small house hanging from a large centrifugal wheel, similar to Europa's kind of house. At 11 o'clock at night, the entire Ferris wheel spins, simulating the Earth's gravity.

In the large annular living area of Earth Age itself, the rotation speed will be reduced to one-twentieth of the standard speed, and it will only take half an hour to rotate more than one point.

The reduction in angular velocity means that the simulated equivalent gravity is only 0.22 times that of Earth.

There is no way, there is no machinery, it can work normally in space for 3,000 years, and if the central bearing of the Earth Age is too worn out and fails, there is no way to repair it by the personnel in the spaceship alone.

Only such a snail-like spin can survive the long time.

In addition to his new assignments at nuclear power plants, Zhang Yuan's spare time assignment was to monitor the turbulence of the fusion engine.

In fact, it is a very boring and idle thing. It has been more than 30 years since the birth of the second-generation engine, and the control method has long been very perfect, and usually there will be no big mistakes.

And he himself no longer wants to continue studying the turbulence problem.

In other words, even he himself felt that there was no way to make better and stronger results in this field.

It's Senior Brother Zhao next door, who has been reading young comics in his spare time, which is simply shocking. Maybe it's his wife and the girls in the lab who hibernate and let him reveal his true nature.

It turns out that Senior Brother Zhao is such a sullen person.

"Zhang Yuan." In the midst of this idleness, Senior Brother Zhao suddenly said, "There is no need for scientific research in the spaceship. You have to relax, you really have to relax, otherwise with such a small population, there is a risk of depression. My "Pirate King" is still a genuine comic, do I want to lend it to you? ”

Zhang Yuan said: "Learning makes me happy. ”

"Ahem," Senior Brother Zhao immediately returned to his senses: "I also think that this job is too easy for you, perhaps, you can do some more difficult work." I have four directions to recommend to you......"

"Four directions?"

"First, the new industrial standard design, some very trivial and complex mathematical calculations, if you want, you can go to Academician Ding to take some tasks."

"Second, learn a little bit about the ship's control system. I am sure that the Scientific Committee will open up higher authority for you. Of course, the more people who know the control engineering of spaceships, the better, and it is more convenient to take turns to rest during hibernation. ”

"Third, write some doctoral dissertations and get a doctorate. Your current level of knowledge has theoretically reached the level of a doctorate, but you still can't do it without a thesis. With all the labs closed, I suggest you switch to science and do some math or the historiography of a new civilization. ”

Senior Brother Zhao talked eloquently: "Especially the history of new civilization, if you are interested in this subject, you can consider self-study...... Well...... This school of thought is actually quite interesting. The Council of Science is also interested in absorbing you......"

"The New Civilization School?" Zhang Yuan has never been interested in politics, "I don't have any political beliefs, can I join this school?" ”

Zhao Qingfeng raised his head and glanced at him: "You know, it's a little different from the usual, the New Civilization School is a cosmic sociology that pursues truth and logic, and it doesn't have too complex and old-fashioned political concepts, otherwise it would have been seized by the ruling class on the earth a long time ago......"

Zhang Yuan was stunned, as if this was indeed the case.

But he still hasn't said a word, why should he say that his idea is the truth?

Sure enough, I saw Senior Brother Zhao say with a smile: "I already said a few days ago that the core content of the New Civilization School is pure mathematics. Whether mathematics is the ultimate truth, I don't know, but it's probably the closest thing to the truth. ”

"We use calculations to generate the entire civilization decision, and this decision is most likely the global optimal solution, not the local optimal solution, and there will not be a situation that is very applicable now and very bad in the future."

"This kind of decision-making is not comparable to a certain leader who pats his head and comes up with a self-righteous approach......"

Zhang Yuan thought for a while and said suspiciously: "A civilized decision-making is all subject to calculation, your idea is very good, and even the ruling class doesn't need it anymore." ”

But how should it be calculated? How to ensure the accuracy of the algorithm? Calculations are also given by people, so how to ensure the fairness of people themselves? Is it possible to generate decisions that convince the crowd through AI computing? ”

"I think it's hard for ordinary people to accept that they hand over their fate to algorithms and calculations. They will be suspicious and will not like this controlled behavior. Humans are creatures that can be ruled by other people, but they can't be ruled by artificial intelligence......"

"yes, you're right. These are all questions. ”

Senior Brother Zhao shook his head and sighed, "Human beings are arrogant creatures, always self-righteously believing that they can hold the throat of fate. Unfortunately, 99% of people can't. This is indeed the biggest obstacle. ”

He asked a question again, "How many colony ships similar to the Earth Age can be launched by the Earth civilization in the next few hundred years?" ”

Zhang Yuan thought for a while, "There may be one or two, or three or four, all of them." ”

Senior Brother Zhao smiled mysteriously and stretched out a finger: "66.23% probability, one." ”

"The rest of the probability, zero, there is no other possibility."

Zhang Yuan was slightly shocked in his heart, looking at Senior Brother Zhao's expression, he was not joking.

He thought for a few seconds and questioned, "How do you calculate the probability?" ”

Senior Brother Zhao said: "Through a complex functional system in the historiography of the new civilization......"