Chapter 151: The Technological Revolution Triggered by Digestive Patterns

There are many phenomena in the universe, some of which are very obvious, while others are hidden and need to be activated.

In Yan Xia's view, life is a complex technology created by the universe, and life is used to activate these hidden phenomena.

For example, photosynthesis, or the utilisation of gases and energy substances within biological bodies, is not just about consumption. Biological bodies can also fuse some material elements to create chemical substances, and all of these demonstrate the wonders of biology.

This is also why Yan Xia studies biology.

Among the messages Yan Xia received, there was a lifeform that utilises energy. This lifeform only has primary intelligence, similar to that of a 10-year-old human child.

It looks like a chestnut ball, but it is white, and after removing the hair, it looks somewhat unseemly, resembling the larvae of some beetles, with a very long and sharp chest and feet. These are their weapons, which they use to tightly embrace and kill their prey. Their entire body is not structured like an insect, but rather like a mammal, primarily composed of muscles.

All lifeforms on Earth are of the same origin, so they are primarily composed of striated muscles. However, this lifeform has a different muscle structure, resembling a pearl necklace, where the pearls are muscles and the chains are similar to tendons.

This muscle structure is very strong, allowing them to prey on larger animals.

But this is not their true strength; their true power lies in their digestive patterns.

The typical digestive pattern involves using the stomach or similar organs to extract absorbable substances from food, which are then converted into energy by cells, and the non-absorbable parts are expelled as waste.

This lifeform, however, consumes food and absorbs it all as energy, then selects the absorbable energy, and converts the non-absorbable energy into material waste for excretion.

This low-absorption pattern may seem insignificant to ordinary citizens, but it sparked some inspiration in Yan Xia.

In terms of physics, energy and matter can be converted into each other.

For example, strings are not matter, but energy. They form basic particles through a particular form of vibration, and these basic particles are matter.

Therefore, matter and energy are essentially one, and when strings are in motion, they are matter, but they themselves are not matter, and this is not a contradiction.

Yan Xia was inspired by the digestive pattern of these white chestnut balls.

Since they have already reached the second level of civilisation and explored the basic energy level of strings, why can't they first decompose matter into energy and then convert energy back into matter?

Some may argue that this idea is similar to quantum teleportation, but quantum teleportation is actually the transmission of quantum states, and it does not transmit any matter or energy.

Therefore, it cannot achieve superluminal travel.

Yan Xia's idea is somewhat similar to the popular notion of quantum teleportation, but it involves converting quantum states into energy or information.

After converting matter into energy, it can be free from mass limitations and can move at the speed of light.

Of course, the issue of energy carriers must also be considered.

Energy requires matter as a carrier to propagate, and pure energy cannot move on its own, which is why there are basic particles that transmit interaction forces in quantum mechanics.

This is not difficult to find, as photons can carry information.

All of this is within a reasonable range, and such ideas should have been discovered in the present, and indeed, many scholars and non-scholars have had such thoughts. However, how can matter be converted into energy or information?

And how can energy be converted back into the original matter?

These are the challenges.

This brings us back to the [Cloning Avatar].

Why can the [Cloning Avatar] achieve a single consciousness, even though the Civilisation Federation created it? This problem remains unsolved.

As Yan Xia thought, perhaps the connection between the original body and the clone is not just a matter exchange, but also an energy exchange, and energy is information, which allows them to be controlled by a single brain.

This is different from the control of the Brain Bugs, which simply transmit information to the basic units of the Zerg, like making a phone call. The basic units of the Zerg receive the command and then control their own bodies.

The [Cloning Avatar] only provides inspiration in one aspect, and it is still very different from Yan Xia's idea of matter-energy conversion, as it is purely an energy exchange without involving matter.

However, through 22 years of research, Yan Xia indirectly solved a problem that had troubled him for tens of thousands of years: consciousness uploading.

Consciousness uploading is essentially information transmission, but the original consciousness uploading is almost like information simulation, so the uploaded consciousness is not the original one.

Yan Xia created a new consciousness uploading machine that can condense the consciousness information of the original lifeform into a crystal tube. As long as this crystal tube is installed, it is the original lifeform.

Of course, if the crystal tube is damaged, it is no longer the original lifeform.

A rough understanding is that the crystal tube is like a brain removed from the human body, and consciousness uploading is like connecting this brain to a computer. Only then is the original person the original person.

If the brain is damaged, the computer will start to simulate the brain's signals to maintain the person's existence, but it has become simulated information, so it is fundamentally not the original person.

This technology is just a by-product.

The real research has just begun.

Yan Xia began to destroy and reorganise matter, and he found that each time he did so, the matter underwent subtle changes. These changes existed at the Planck scale, and the strings that make up the basic elements shifted in position and changed their movement patterns.

Initially, Yan Xia thought these changes were insignificant, but after further research, he discovered that these string changes could lead to incomplete information.

Incomplete information at the microscopic level could trigger a butterfly effect, causing macroscopic deviations and making this conversion unsuccessful.

For example, in one conversion, a pure iron metal block, when converted into energy and then back into matter, was found to contain impurities.

This is not significant at the macroscopic level, but for fine structures, such as a high-precision device (quark robot), it could be damaged. For life, it may still be the original lifeform, but it would become unrecognisable.

Yan Xia conducted numerous experiments in the simulated universe, and after 246 years, he finally completed the first phase of success: the light-speed battleship.