The Bubble of False Progress

Zhang Yuan chattered about his scientific experience, regardless of whether the other party was listening or not. Since the other party doesn't want to communicate, it can only irritate the other party.

According to his strategy, if a scientist sees an error and does not correct it, is he still a true scientist? !

Faced with Zhang Yuan's nonsense for five days, one of the giant salamanders finally couldn't bear it anymore. There are still such nonsense guys in the interstellar trading market!

It discussed with its chief for a while, and after obtaining permission, it jumped out a little angrily: "I'm sorry! Your statement is wrong, and you can even say that it is a big mistake! The real magnetic field perception is like this, it just Like 'Varagan of Kan', it's an 'an' series of being caught' feeling..."

"I don't know what you mean by 'color', but it refers to a spectrum of certain wavelengths, but magnetic fields and electromagnetic waves are completely different substances, so you shouldn't treat them so simply!"

Now that the other party finally spoke, Zhang Yuan's heart moved, and he started talking with him calmly.

He didn't know what the hell the so-called "Kan's Waragan" and "An series of beings" were. Perhaps this was something that was difficult to describe in the language of the Xia Kingdom.

Just like the English word "Party" not only means "gathering, party", its real meaning also means "party, team", which is actually difficult to express in Chinese. Can only express a vague meaning in Chinese.

This is especially true for the language of the Gaia civilization. It is not accurate to rely on human translation to master the Gaia language.

This giant salamander is indeed very serious. Every time he says a word, he has to think for a long, long time, wondering if it will expose the core of this civilization. Their technical terminology is also very strange, Zhang Yuan can only guess based on his own experience.

But as we talked, we talked about optical perception, which is the key research topic of Toss civilization. The Tuosian found that Zhang Yuan was not the kind of person who was ignorant, and he wanted to know these things, so his original anger dissipated a little.

"I really want to know the real light. The ability to perceive electromagnetic waves is much more important than magnetic fields."

Zhang Yuan said: "True light should be like this... You first need to understand color. The concept of color refers to the feeling of color perceived by vision. In our human civilization, there are also some blind people, so we Knowing that there is no way to perceive the light, what is it like, here is a book written by a famous person in my civilization, I can give it to you."

It is a book called "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", with some deletions and revisions, it will not expose too much information about human beings.

"Thank you very much for your gift. But we still don't know what the color means. Your description is not very useful to us."

It's still the same kind of tone.

Just because this civilization doesn't appreciate you, doesn't like to communicate, and isn't pretty, its status in the trading market is indeed not high, and it doesn't have many friends.

On the contrary, the new human civilizations here, because human diplomats are generally more tactful, have formed friendships with more interstellar civilizations.

But Zhang Yuan knows that the friendship between civilizations is only limited to the surface, and it really involves interests, and this kind of friendship is not of much use.

So the opponent is in a good state.

Zhang Yuan asked again: "Can you tell me, how many civilizations that have done related experiments in the past have developed their own magnetic field perception?"

This matter is not a big secret, after a long time, the other party replied: "Not one."

Zhang Yuan couldn't help being silent, explaining that the difficulty of this matter was higher than imagined. Breaking through the boundaries of one's own brain is indeed... very difficult.

"May I ask your name, maybe we can have an academic exchange meeting in the future..."

"My name is Calvi, and we have to ask our diplomats for instructions at the academic exchange meeting..." The large giant salamander refused very politely.

Immediately afterwards, another diplomat from the Tuoshi civilization explained: "I'm sorry, the scientists of the new human civilization. We have carried out such technical exchanges with other civilizations before, but there was nothing to gain. So we don't think it's too much. It is necessary."

"We didn't have high expectations for this thing."

"More and more civilizations only want to obtain data on magnetic field perception, and then sell it to each other, making a false impression that their own civilization has made efforts and made progress. That's all. There are very few civilizations that can really calm down and study. rare."

"Get nothing again and again, smoothing the edges and corners of almost all interstellar civilizations."

He finally said with a little emotion: "Young new human civilization, fortunately, the entire trading market is about to dissolve... This is a kind of misfortune, but also a kind of luck. I hope that we can gain something from each other in the last period of time." ."

Zhang Yuan didn't quite understand this sentence.

However, the other party obviously didn't want to say too much.

He withdrew from this room, returned to his office, pondered over what the other party said, and finally sighed softly.

Laziness is the normal state of life, and it is also the normal state of civilization. Once progress is stopped, laziness will be natural. This state is not only unique to human beings, but other civilizations are also theoretically the same.

In other words, the subtext of the other party is that most of the interstellar civilizations here are civilizations that have almost stopped making progress, although everyone is still very busy discussing research meetings, renting experimental equipment, and communicating with each other...

This is likely to be a beautiful bubble boasted for self-paralysis!

Yes, I have worked hard, and I have gained some data... Civilization is always improving, right? Yes, this way, I can feel at ease. But actually?

Paying is likely to be useless work, and all efforts are useless work.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan talked with a nearby diplomat for a while.

He said with a wry smile: "However, Mr. Zhang Yuan, this bubble of false progress cannot be burst, at least not easily. Only a small number of civilized people know that they are making false progress. I know. Even if you don't work hard, it's better than being lazy."

"Once the bubble is burst and the truth about the Great Stagnation is revealed to the public, what will happen?"

Zhang Yuan was at a loss for words.

Think about it, if nothing has changed for hundreds or thousands of years, then what is the point of the people's efforts? Just like the human beings in the cherry blossom world, they have given up fighting for a long time, and what they have is enough to meet everyone's needs.

Once this bubble is burst, they will wake up immediately, and it is hard to predict what will happen then. This is why it is better to pay for nothing than to give nothing.

This is a huge hurdle for Henglan in front of the third-level civilization, and even the fourth-level civilization.

Only by becoming a fifth-level civilization and completely modifying the driving force of its own existence can this crisis of laziness be avoided.

Zhang Yuan silently considered some words left by the Tuosians...

It is even possible that the Toss civilization has stepped into this crisis, but it is unable to struggle out.

It's really sad.