Chapter 295: The ruins

Looking at human history, scientific exploration driven by economic interests is definitely the primary driving force for the progress of human civilization.

In a sense, the technological leap of mankind during every large-scale war is actually the result of scientific exploration driven by economic interests. The reason is very simple. The root of internal war in human beings is actually the economic contradiction between the two sides of the war.

Scientific research work in the field of quantum theory has put the economic promotion model to its limit.

After the ring-daily accelerator created the same quantum, the companies involved in the investment did not stop there, but decided to continue to fund scientists and allow scientists to continue to explore in depth. Although entrepreneurs who made this decision may not have scientific knowledge and are even less likely to understand quantum theory, their economic intuition lets them know that funding scientists to conduct in-depth research in the field of quantum theory is definitely an extremely cost-effective business. In other words, the achievements made by scientists in the field of quantum theory can be transformed into economic benefits.

Just fifty years later, the second ring-daily accelerator was built.

However, this accelerator is slightly smaller than what scientists need, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. However, when designing, each acceleration node has the highest orbit deployment capability. That is to say, if it is necessary to build a larger ring-sun accelerator in the future, these acceleration nodes can be utilized, that is, directly deployed to a further orbit rather than remanufacture. However, a larger orbit radius means that more acceleration nodes are needed, so some acceleration nodes must be added during construction.

At that time, in order to facilitate scientists to conduct research, a scientific research base was established on a Uranus satellite.

This is also the farthest cosmic base from the earth with permanent personnel at the end of the 22nd century.

The problem is that such a huge investment did not receive the expected results. In fact, later humans in the universe built larger ring-daily accelerators, and the largest set even reached outside the Orte Cloud, with orbit lengths of hundreds of millions of times that of the first ring-daily accelerator. But even so, human scientists still did not find the legendary elementary particles, and did not completely unveil the mystery of quantum theory.

Of course, these investments are not without returns, but have produced great returns.

For example, the "smart particles" that were later used by humans in the universe to explore surrounding galaxies was the result of in-depth research on quantum theory.

At the end of the 22nd century, theoretical physicists had already proposed that quantum theory has no end.

To put it bluntly, there are no so-called elementary particles at all.

However, no one could prove it or argue it at that time. The reason was very simple. If there were no elementary particles, then what was the matter in the universe composed of?

Obviously, in the field of quantum theory, human beings have gone astray.

Later, when humans discovered the remains of civilization on Mars, they gradually realized that quantum theory is likely to have the same fate as gravity field theory, that is, the ultimate expression of these two theories is exactly the same, just one facing the microscopic world and the other facing the macroscopic world.

It is not difficult to understand when it comes to the scientific big bang theory proposed by Russell.

The humans in the universe have proved that the development model of most alien civilizations is different from that of human civilization. The first thing they come into contact with is quantum theory, not gravity field theory. In other words, the normal scientific and technological development route of civilization should only be after a major breakthrough in quantum theory, and thus connect the microscope and the macroscope, and ultimately unify it under a complete physical theory.

This is confirmed in the remains of Mars' civilization.

According to archaeological discoveries, Mars civilization was born about 2 billion years earlier than the Earth civilization. Mainly because Mars is smaller in size and cools faster. About 3 billion years ago, an environment suitable for living organisms appeared on Mars, and the first batch of microorganisms appeared. In the following billions of years, higher intelligent organisms appeared on Mars and developed into civilizations. According to some biological relics, it can be basically concluded that Mars civilization is also a carbon-based civilization, that is, organic matter that constitutes life bodies is still dominated by carbon elements. From this, it can be roughly concluded that even if the Martians have obvious differences in appearance from humans, the difference in essence is not big.

About 2 billion years ago, about 10 million years after the emergence of intelligent creatures on Mars, the Martian civilization reached its peak. According to the remains on Mars, the Martians had built a set of accelerators orbiting the Martian equator, which was likely to have made a major breakthrough in quantum theory.

However, the reason for the extinction of the Martian civilization is likely to be related to the Martian civilization.

For example, transitional resource development has led to the depletion of Mars resources.

Of course, these are all speculations, but there are some indirect evidence. For example, based on a comprehensive investigation of Mars, it was found that there are a large amount of metal oxides on Mars, and the oxygen elements in these oxides are far exceeding the normal level and much more than the hydrogen elements on Mars. Under normal circumstances, oxygen elements are most likely to react with hydrogen elements, and the product is water, while there are fewer hydrogen elements on Mars. From this, we can draw a conclusion that the Mars civilization must have mastered the controlled fusion nuclear technology, making hydrogen elements the main energy resource, and consumed a large amount of hydrogen elements, which seriously depleted the resources on Mars, and eventually led to the extinction of the Mars civilization. Another indirect evidence is that the helium elements on Mars are very rich, and the helium elements are the product of hydrogen elements after fusion.

The question is, is the Martian civilization really extinct?

This is definitely a question worth discussing.

At that time, some scientists suggested that since the Mars civilization mastered the controlled fusion nuclear technology, even if it did not make major breakthroughs in the theory of gravity field, it should have sufficient space capabilities, be able to colonize nearby planets, and establish colonies on some planets. Although the environment on Earth was extremely harsh and could not allow carbon-based life to survive, the Mars civilization would not abandon the solar system like this. You should know that about 1.5 billion years ago, the environment on Earth had been greatly improved. The first batch of living organisms, namely single-celled organisms in the ocean, appeared at this time, and they also had an environment for carbon-based life to survive. More importantly, with the technological power of the Mars civilization, it should not be difficult to transform the earth, and it should be a simpler thing than immigration to outer space.

That's true, many people believe that human beings are descendants of Martian civilization.

Of course, in order to make up for it, these people believe that humans are the outcasts of Martian civilization. Most of the Martians left the solar system, and the few who remained were also restricted, such as limiting the level of wisdom in some way so that humans will not expand wildly.

More people believe that the Martian civilization collectively abandoned the solar system and moved to other galaxies.

Obviously, this theory is more tenable.

According to archaeological speculation, the Martian civilization was extinct, or before abandoning Mars, it should have evolved to an extremely advanced level. For example, I have already understood the theory of gravity field and even mastered the means of flying at the speed of light. Therefore, the Martian civilization must have the ability to carry out overall migration. At that time, there was indeed no planet in the solar system that was more suitable for civilization survival than Mars. After all, the Earth was still a hot planet at that time. For a civilization that has existed for about 10 million years, it is obviously unreliable to wait for 500 million years in the solar system.

Of course, these people also believe that it is the overall migration that has consumed all resources on Mars.

This makes sense. You should know that in theory, there will be no less water on Mars than on Earth, so the total amount of hydrogen should not be much different from that of Earth. If the evolution of Mars civilization is similar to that of Earth civilization, then when it leaves Mars, there should be more energy resources available for mining. Only by overall migration can it be used up.

In fact, the main reason for the extinction or migration of Mars civilization is likely to have nothing to do with resources.

You should know that if Mars civilization masters the technology of great migration or masters the controllable fusion nuclear technology, it will have the ability to mine resources on other planets. Just like humans in the 22nd century, they have begun to mine resources on the moon and asteroids, and Mars also has two satellites, closer to the asteroid belt.

In the eyes of scientists, the real reason may be two.

First, the sudden explosion of the planet on the asteroid belt that is not much different from the Earth has had a devastating impact on Mars, leading to the extinction of the Martian civilization or forcing the Martian civilization to migrate. You must know that even if the Martian civilization is powerful enough to intercept all meteorites hitting Mars, it cannot change another impact, that is, the gravity field fluctuations caused by a companion star with a larger mass and very close distance suddenly destruction. The resulting impact is enough to form a geological disaster on Mars and is enough to completely change the ecological environment of Mars.

In terms of time, the planet exploded about 2 billion years ago.

Second, the geomagnetic field on Mars suddenly disappeared, causing the ecological environment on Mars to deteriorate sharply.

Relatively speaking, this possibility is greater. The main reason is that Mars is much smaller than Earth's size, so it is much larger than Earth's influence by the Sun. If there was once a companion star with a mass comparable to Earth, then the energy of the Martian core is much faster to be lost by tides.

Archaeological discoveries also prove this, that is, the geomagnetic field of Mars disappeared twenty billion years ago.

Of course, it may not be one reason, but multiple reasons that ultimately lead to the collective migration of Martians, or collective extinction before the migration.

Interestingly, the majority of scientists supporting migration are involved.

The main thing is that no remains of organisms were found in the remains of Mars civilization. Although 2 billion years are long, there should not be no fossils of Martians in the underground relics. You should know that if it is a collective mass extinction, there must be some fossils of Martians in the remains of Mars civilization.

You know, scientists have discovered biological fossils on Mars.

Of course, the biggest gain from scientific investigations of Mars ruins has basically nothing to do with archaeology.
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