Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 75 Technology Generation Difference

Yue Yuan's decades of homework were not in vain, and he understood what Xu Zhenyi meant.

"Silver Mist" is not only a true product of nanotechnology, but its most basic components must be at least picometer level, and the energy transmission component is also a picometer level superconducting material.

What kind of superb microscopic technology and what kind of precise instruments are required to do this!The industrial strength it displays can indeed easily make lower-level civilizations despair!
Especially scientists.Ordinary people only see an overwhelming sense of oppression when looking at the "Silver Mist", but what scientists see is its inherent high-tech content.

Can humans really make medical nano-robots? Since seeing the "Silver Mist", humans have eliminated the word "human" and renamed them medical nano-machines.Although they are all named after nanometers, most of them are human gimmicks.Compared with the "Silver Mist", human beings' so-called nanomachines are no different from the stone axes of the Stone Age.

"We see despair, but we cannot be frightened by despair. We should turn despair into motivation. Aliens can do it, and so can we. One day, our human technology will surely reach that level, or even surpass it." Yue Yuan held his head high and spoke generously.

He is still waiting to become rich in the future and go back to avenge his dead compatriots!
"Don't worry, Commander, I'm not that fragile."

Xu Zhenyi understood Yue Yuan's words. After a smile crept onto his face, he stood up and continued: "'Silver Mist' made me see a peak, a ten thousand-meter peak. This peak is what I want to climb in the rest of my life. Even if I fall, there will be thousands of successors who will continue to move forward and eventually reach their destination."

Yue Yuan also smiled and said: "Human beings will definitely be able to reach the peak of true nanotechnology, but Professor Xu, you cannot fall. You have to see the scenery on the top of the mountain with your own eyes."

"Not counting hibernation time, I'm already 53. Even if I live to be a hundred years old, it's hard to see that day." Xu Zhenyi didn't look sad when he said this, just a little regretful.
"Chief, to be honest, I really can't see the possibility of real nanotechnology like Silver Mist being realized in 50 years, not at all. Yes, we did see the direction and the scene on the top of the mountain, but there was no way to pass it. On the way there, we have to pave our own roads and build our own means of transportation, and then we have to face the difficulties and obstacles of ‘looking up the mountain and running to death’.”

A technology goes from not knowing it to knowing it, and then from knowing it can be realized to actually realizing it. Which step does not require a long time to settle?

Let’s not talk about it remotely, just take controllable nuclear fusion as an example.

After humans knew that controllable nuclear fusion could be realized in the 50th century, they never stopped researching it. Then they said it could be realized in 50 years. After saying it for an unknown number of years, they changed the word from 30 years to 30 years. Then they said [-] years was almost the same. It has not been realized for hundreds of years.

It is foreseeable that technologies that dare to report a timetable will be so difficult, let alone a technology like true nanotechnology that cannot even estimate the timetable.

Technological progress is never achieved overnight.

As everyone knows during the Warring States Period, "all the most powerful bows and crossbows in the world came from Korea." Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao, Wei, Qin, Zhongshan, Song, Wei, and Lu. All the princely states knew that at that time, Korean bows and crossbows were the best in the world, but who could know that it would become the best in the world in a short period of time? One with a crossbow as powerful as Korea's?
No.

The Korean crossbow has a range of 500 steps, which is equivalent to [-] meters. It is completely an assault rifle.According to historical records, during the reign of King Wu of Qin, the military strategist Gan Mao led one hundred thousand soldiers out of Hangu to attack Yiyang of Han. With the power of Qin swords and the bravery of Qin's warriors, they attacked for five months without stopping, resulting in heavy casualties.

The one Han relies on is the most powerful crossbow in the world.

After this war, Qin began to exert its efforts in the field of crossbows. It was not until the period of King Qin Zhaoxiang, the great devil in the history textbook, that he dug craftsmen from South Korea and set up assembly lines. After countless years of work, the Qin crossbow replaced the Korean crossbow and became the world's most popular crossbow. First.

This is true for crossbows at the same level of technology, not to mention that there is still an unknown gap between human civilization and the civilization that created the 'Silver Mist'.

"Zhuangzi once said: 'My life also has a limit, but my knowledge has no limit. If I have a limit, I will follow the limitless, and I will die!'" Seeing Xu Zhenyi's emotion about life span, Yue Yuan first quoted the words of the ancients, and then expressed his own views : "It is true that 'there is no limit to follow the limitless', but as long as we can extend the 'limited' to eternity, we may not be unable to use the 'limited' life to seek the 'endless' knowledge."

You'll see, Professor Xu!Our human biotechnology will not stand still. A mere hundred years is no longer the limit of our human lifespan. In the near future, a hundred years will not be more than middle age. "

"Oh? Is there any progress on Dr. Yi Kai's side?" Over the years, Xu Zhenyi has been focusing on superconducting research and has not paid much attention to other fields, so he is not aware of the research progress in life sciences.

"Of course, if he doesn't come up with something, he will die of old age." Yue Yuan joked to Yi Kai from afar.

"Hahaha, that's true. Dr. Yi Kai is over 80 this year, right?" Hearing what Yue Yuan said, Xu Zhenyi suddenly became concerned about Yi Kai's age.

"Well, 83, but it's not a big problem. You'll find out when you have time to learn about his life."

Yi Kai has now truly fulfilled the poem "I am still working hard after eighty years of hard work", but Yue Yuan did not say it clearly, after all, it is Yi Kai's private life.

He changed the topic and said: "There are two living samples here for him to study, especially the other one. If he doesn't come up with something, how can he be worthy of his name?"

"That's right." Xu Zhenyi nodded, "The production department is very busy now."

"It's better to be busy!"

Yue Yuan smiled. He originally wanted to go back after learning about superconductivity, but since Xu Zhenyi didn't know much about the progress of life science and technology, he said by the way:

"Life science has progressed as early as half a year ago. Last month, Yi Kai took out the first dose of clinical trial medicine. According to his speculation, the medicine can increase people's life span by about 1 to 1.2 times. So far, the test subjects have not found any adverse effects. reaction."

"Oh, if the fertility function doesn't count, it doesn't. As we knew before, humans who use the life potion will temporarily lose their fertility until the body enters the aging cycle again."

Yue Yuan began to tell Xu Zhenyi about the recent achievements in life sciences.

In fact, Yi Kai's research progress goes beyond this, but due to the fact that humans have lost the rich gene pool of the earth's biosphere, his research has been difficult, and many very interesting experiments have been unable to be carried out.

It took so long to come up with such a reduced version of the life potion.

According to Yi Kai, the reason why it is impossible to create a complete world is entirely because humans have lost the foundation of the earth's biosphere.

For this reason, Yi Kaidu asked Yue Yuan to bring him a planetary biosphere more than once.

　Let’s give it a try
　　
　
(End of this chapter)