Chapter 406

"Science" has no meaning of praise or criticism, it is just a way to understand the world and study problems. For a simple example, when people say that traditional Chinese medicine is not a science, there is no derogatory meaning at all, because it is a method of accumulating experience. However, to say that TCM is totally invalid is to ignore the facts.

Let's not say more about this. At least scientism is more in line with objective laws than empiricism and can promote the development of productive forces. That's enough.

As far as the current Taipu civilization is concerned, due to the fact that the world is divided into more than 1000 countries, large and small, with different cultures, it is very difficult to truly unify the world and produce cohesion belonging to the whole civilization.

Under this premise, the professor on the stage came to the conclusion that So we speculate that in the next few hundred years, taps will not be fully integrated. It is possible that a country similar to Xia country on earth will unite with several big powers and rush out of its own planet. "

"As for the rest of the countries, what should be abandoned can only be abandoned."

"It's just one possibility More likely, they will not be able to rush out of their own planet, or even produce controllable nuclear fusion, and become a mediocre civilization standing still. "

After deduction, many people sighed in silence.

The reason why in the 20th century and the 21st century, all the big powers aid the Asian, African and Latin American countries is just to obtain economic growth points. If there are not enough benefits, why should they help? If we can really develop the outer planet, the cake we can get is too big, so we don't need to consider the game within the planet, let alone pay attention to the life and death of small poor countries. It's too late for us to develop space. Who cares about the poverty and backwardness on the other side of the planet?

In fact, a little humanitarian help is useless. If the whole cultural level is not good and the spiritual core is not good, this kind of country will not be able to survive.

Between culture and culture, there are advanced and barbaric. If a certain culture can not promote the progress of the whole society, it is probably a dross culture. The most important thing is whether the people have the courage to abandon it.

"That's the general history of the TAPP civilization." The scientist made a slight bow and stepped down.

This historical material is of great help to the historiography of human new civilization. Unlike the Riley civilization, it is just some religious classics. It is really valuable when it comes to some years, the emergence of some heroes and the birth of some ideologies.

Many historians of the new civilization have begun to calculate, deduce and verify this subject with great interest, and at the same time, predict the next step of this civilization.

Then, another geologist came to the stage and gave an important investigation result: analysis of the possible trace of the enlightenment civilization on the planet TEP.

This result directly aroused the interest of many people, even Zhang Yuan was a spiritual shock.

Li Zhendong said on one side: "I can basically calculate the civilized style of the enlightener. They usually predict what kind of difficulties will arise when a certain civilization develops to a certain stage. Then, in view of this difficulty, give a little help. "

"As for whether this civilization can develop to this stage or cross this barrier, they don't care. The difficulties encountered by the Taipu civilization A lot, really a lot! "

"It should have been." A deputy captain next door said, "there are so many civilizations in the universe, how can we take care of them all?"

This is also the opinion of a large number of human scientists. Therefore, this paper focuses on the difficulties faced by the Taipu civilization.

The first is the integration of civilizations. As a result, the Taipu civilization is completely divided. More than 1000 countries have developed to the present, and there is no possibility of integration.

Therefore, it can be considered that the enlightenment civilization did not pay attention to this point, or that it had taken some measures, but failed in the end.

Secondly, the industrial problems in the high gravity environment, especially the heavy industry, seem to be struggling and developing slowly. Although they can make big empty boats and ships, the whole process takes more than ten times of human time!

Originally, after the outbreak of the industrial revolution, science and technology should have developed rapidly. As a result, the taps found that the power of machines was not equal to that of traditional livestock. It took them hundreds of years to improve the steam engine.

"The question is easy to understand." A mechanical expert explained, "a simple example is a steam turbine, a rotating steam power plant. Under different gravity conditions, the flow direction of steam varies greatly. The pressure flow needs to be changed to gravity flow, and the impeller also needs to be changed accordingly to ensure force balance."

The higher the gravity, the more difficult and complex it is for heavy industry.

The reason why heavy industry was moved to other low gravity planets in the late stage of earth civilization is that the low gravity environment itself has its own advantages. For example, in the gravity free environment, 3D printing perfect metal products, key parts do not need welding, directly cut the interface flat and press together, this technology can be used for high-precision metal products or jewelry inlay, can also be used for industrial production of integrated metal shell.But on earth, it's impossible.

The gravity of the star is far greater than that of the earth. All kinds of instruments and devices can only be very rough, time-consuming and laborious, and their performance is not high.

This is the second difficulty encountered by the Taipu civilization.

The third difficulty is the lack of rare earth elements in this large planet!

For some cutting-edge industries, this is almost a fatal blow!

"We investigated the science and technology system of the Taipu civilization and found that this planet lacks rare earths! Especially heavy rare earth! "

There are two kinds of rare earth, one is heavy rare earth, the other is light rare earth. Heavy rare earth is more important and valuable than light rare earth.

The land area of this planet is far larger than that of the earth, but there is a lack of rare earth raw materials, which makes it difficult to improve the performance of many materials.

The geologist, who played a simulation video of the natural birth of the planet on the screen, explained, "why is there a lack of rare earth? Mainly because of high gravity As we all know, rare earths are mostly heavy elements with large atomic weight, which tend to accumulate over time and sink to the underground core. "

The planet is too big, the gravity is too big, and it has existed for more than five billion years, which has caused a lot of heavy elements to sink to the bottom of the earth. Therefore, the proportion of heavy rare earth in the crust is lower than that of the earth.

And then, of course, the taps were miserable.

Zhang Yuan sighed: "if this civilization can exploit the earth's core, then rare earth is not lacking. But the problem is that even we don't have such technology to exploit the earth's core, of course they can't either."

In fact, even the amount of gold, silver, copper and iron in the crust of Taipu star is even rarer. Fortunately, these are common minerals after all, and the base number on the surface is large, which does not affect the normal development.

But without rare earths, it would be fatal, greatly delaying the development of cutting-edge technology.