Chapter 112

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

Its core is two words: mediocrity.

As large as the whole galaxy, as small as one cell, the probability is mediocre.

Take a simple example: Earth, a common rocky planet in the solar system. The earth is not the center of the solar system or 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 dwarf yellow stars like it.

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

It also leads to another conclusion, that is, our position in the universe and the 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?

Just take a picture on the Petri dish. It's full of 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 of the people in the picture are ordinary.

If an alien with high civilization level 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 the vast majority of people's life is mediocre, these human life trajectory is similar. By collecting other people's data, one can already predict one's lifestyle.

Continue to enlarge this conclusion to some abstract concepts.

Civilization, for example.

You can see hundreds of millions of stars in any direction.

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

What about the civilization inside?

The probability is mediocre. There's no need to imagine that aliens are particularly powerful. We can boldly predict that many of the civilizations in them are not necessarily comparable to human civilization.

So What about human civilization?

I have to admit that human beings are probably a mediocre civilization. There are many great figures in history, from the ancient Qin Shihuang, Sakyamuni and Muhammad to the old Lincoln, Mao, Newton and Einstein.

But in the whole universe, it's just common. All events follow the law 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 humans are extraordinary.

I have to say that this is a very depressing prediction.

So, what kind of civilization is extraordinary civilization?

The civilization that took place on Tabby, trying to build the sphere of Dyson, is probably an extraordinary civilization.

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

Dyson ball, a huge amount of engineering, even if human beings are more powerful than one billion or even ten billion times, there is no way to achieve this project.

One last question.

How to make human civilization an extraordinary civilization?

The answer is: No.

The number of non trivial samples that can be observed is too small for the new civilization school to make any calculation.

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

That's it - launch the earth age!

From the perspective of probability, mediocre civilization usually does not do such seemingly expensive but "meaningless" things. Otherwise, human civilization will be able to observe more traces of "mediocre" alien civilization activities, which is in contradiction with the existing facts.

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Long time, Zhang Yuan opened his eyes.

For a moment and a half, the whole brain is still in a chaotic state.

"Wake up, he wakes up!"

"Hello Can you hear me? "

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

Temperature is recovering bit by bit, Zhang Yuan's will slowly sober. This kind of feeling is very uncomfortable, as if from the state of deep sleep was suddenly awakened, the brain is not fully awake, there is no way to move, just the muscles in the instinctive twitch.

"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 look around, the ceiling is a bright light, arm inserted some needles, hanging on the nutrient solution.

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

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 bed next door who have just woken up from hibernation.

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

There are some differences between hibernation and normal sleep. Although he has been sleeping for 183 years, Zhang Yuan still feels very tired and has no way to think about any problems.

This time, I slept for another three days.

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

"Thank you, Miss Mary. What can I do with beef?" Zhang Yuan said in a hoarse voice, lying on the bed.

"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 said with a smile: "you may be the most greedy patient I have ever seen. Most people wake up and ask what happened in the past 100 years... "

Zhang Yuan was a little nervous.

Why doesn't he want to know?

However, he was a little afraid, a little afraid to face the story.

"Well, is everything ok with the ship?"

"Everything is normal, there is no particularly serious problem."

"That's good."

On the fifth day, Zhang Yuan was officially discharged.

He was received by a liaison named Yu Feng. Zhang Yuan, who is about 50 years old, used to be a professor at SZU, but now he is a political liaison.

"Level 16 jobs? Hi tech talent

When he saw his information, Yu Feng was slightly surprised. "Unfortunately, Mr. Zhang, this is a small year, with a sober population of 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 smiles and nods.

Xiaonian refers to a time when the population is very small.

About every 20 small years there will be a big year.

In the big year, the sober population can soar to 20000, and 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 in one year.

The following time, we began to have a cold new year.