Chapter 115

From its birth to the present, the main theoretical cornerstone of the new civilization school is the "principle of mediocrity".

Its core is two words: mediocrity.

As big as the whole galaxy and as small as a cell, the probability is mediocre.

Take a simple example: Earth, an ordinary rocky planet in the solar system. The earth is not the center of the solar system, nor is it the center of the universe. There are many earth like planets in the universe.

The sun is just an ordinary star in the Milky way, and there are countless similar dwarf yellow stars.

The Milky way is just an ordinary spiral galaxy in the universe.

This can also lead to another conclusion, that is, our position in the universe and the current stage of evolution are mediocre.

The principle of mediocrity is so profound that it can be applied to all aspects of life.

How do humans study the life of bacteria?

Take a picture on the Petri dish, that is, it has been filled with the life and death of bacteria. Because bacteria are ordinary, they are similar all their lives.

In the same way, take a picture on the street at will. Most people in the picture are ordinary.

If an alien with a high level of civilization wants to study human culture and understand human life style, he doesn't need to stare at a person's whole life, which will take too long. They just need to collect as much human data as possible at the same time.

Why?

Because most people's life is mediocre, and these human life trajectories are similar. By collecting data from others, one can already predict one's lifestyle.

Go on and enlarge this conclusion to some abstract concepts.

For example, civilization.

Looking in any direction, you can see hundreds of millions of stars.

It can be boldly predicted that these stars are mediocre and ordinary.

What about the civilization inside?

The probability is mediocre. There is absolutely no need to imagine aliens as particularly powerful. It can be boldly predicted that many civilizations inside may not be comparable to human civilization.

So... What about human civilization?

We have to admit that human beings are probably a mediocre civilization. Many great figures have indeed been born in history, from the ancient Qin Shihuang, Sakyamuni and Muhammad to Lincoln, Mao, Newton and Einstein in the old times.

But in the whole universe, it is just ordinary. All events follow the laws of history itself. A great man indeed promoted the times, but the times in turn gave birth to great men.

There is no evidence that human beings are extraordinary.

It has to be said that this is a very frustrating prediction.

So, what kind of civilization is an extraordinary civilization?

The civilization that took place on Tabi, trying to build Dyson ball, is probably an extraordinary civilization.

Any mediocre civilization can know that tabby civilization is strong and different.

Dyson ball, a huge amount of work, even if human beings are billions or even tens of billions of times stronger, there is no way to do this project.

Last question.

How to make human civilization become an extraordinary civilization?

The answer is: I don't know.

There are too few non trivial samples that can be observed, and the new civilization school can't make any calculations.

But there is no doubt that human civilization has done an extraordinary thing.

That's -- launch the earth times!

From the perspective of probability, mediocre civilizations usually don't do such expensive but "meaningless" things. Otherwise, human civilization will be able to observe more traces of "mediocre" alien civilization, which is contradictory to the existing facts.

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After a long time, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes.

For a moment and a half, the whole head was still in a state of chaos.

"Wake up, he wakes up!"

"Hello... Can you hear me?"

It was as if someone was shouting beside him, and the voice came to my ears from the distant sky.

The body temperature is recovering bit by bit, and Zhang Yuan's will is slowly waking up. This feeling is very uncomfortable. It seems that people wake up from a deep sleep, but the brain is not completely awake, there is no way to move, but the muscles are twitching instinctively.

"Mr. Zhang Yuan, you have been sleeping for 183 years. It's time to wake up..."

"Give him a little adrenaline."

After a while, Zhang Yuan's eyes moved and his neck twisted slightly.

Instinctively looking around, there are bright electric lights on the ceiling, some needles inserted in the arm, and nutrient solution hung on it.

There is a medical machine monitoring physical health on the bedside table nearby.

The whole environment seems a little familiar.

There is a line of numbers in the upper display: 2448.11.13, 12:20.

There are also several people on the next bed who have just awakened from hibernation.

A nurse with a mask stood beside her. She said softly, "Hello, Mr. Zhang Yuan, this is the hospital in area A. You have been sleeping for 183 years and just woke up from hibernation. Don't worry. If you feel tired, you can continue to sleep for a while. "

Hibernation is different from normal sleep. Although he has been sleeping for 183 years, Zhang Yuan still feels very tired and can't think about any problems.

This time, I slept for another three days.

Under the nourishment of the nutrient solution, he has slowly recovered his health.

"Thank you, Miss Mary. Why can I have beef?" Zhang Yuan lay on the hospital bed and said in a hoarse voice.

"Beef jerky can't be eaten for the time being. These days, we can only eat probiotics to restore gastrointestinal health, plus a little porridge."

The nurse smiled and said, "you may be the most greedy patient I've ever seen. Most people wake up and ask, "what happened in the past 100 years..."

Zhang Yuan felt uneasy.

Why doesn't he want to know?

However, he was a little afraid and didn't dare to face the story.

"Well, is everything normal?"

"Everything is normal. There have been no particularly serious problems."

"That's good."

On the fifth day, Zhang Yuan was officially discharged from the hospital.

He was received by a liaison named Yu Feng. Zhang Yuan, a 50 year old man who was once a professor at Shenzhen Space University, has now become a political liaison.

"Level 16 jobs? High tech talents! "

When he saw his information, Yu Feng was slightly surprised, "Mr. Zhang, unfortunately, this is a small year, and the sober population is only 600. If you don't have a life partner, you may be lonely... "

"Thank you. I'm used to being alone."

Zhang Yuan reluctantly smiled and nodded.

Xiaonian refers to an era when there were very few sober people.

There will be a big year every 20 small years.

In the new year, the sober population can soar to 20000. A large number of people will maintain the whole spacecraft as a whole, and then produce the living materials needed for the next 20 years within one year.

The next time, everyone began to have a cold little year again.