Chapter 311 Theory of Cosmic Evolution

After finishing the conversation with Yue Yuan, Gander's thinking did not stop. On this long and slow journey to the Pot Cover Star, Gander had enough time to think.

The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is not as simple as answering the question. Behind the paradox, there may be many unknown secrets about the universe. Therefore, thinking and exploring the Fermi Paradox is actually a peek into the secrets hidden in the depths of the universe.

This kind of thinking and exploration may not help human science in the short term, but it will promote human cognition of the universe, which is beneficial to mankind in the long run.

Because with the deepening of cosmic research, it will open up an infinitely broad and unified vision for mankind, so that philosophy and science, which are far away from science, can find a point of convergence again, and re-exalt the role and value of the peak of human thought.

In fact, most experts and scholars now know that since the disaster of Callisto, although the survivors have rebuilt civilization, they have begun to go to a historical fork in many aspects, and even stagnated and regressed.

First of all, in terms of social system, because it was a matter of life and death, any decision had to be made quickly for survival, and there could be no dragging. In addition, the situation was like this, so a new government was born.

The new government headed by Yue Yuan was also established under that situation. At that time, it seemed understandable, but as humans got rid of the deadlock and the population gradually increased, many people complained about this system.

Of course, because Yue Yuan had a high reputation, this kind of criticism did not become a prairie fire, nor was it directly said openly. The arguments of those who were dissatisfied with this often used the solidification of the bureaucracy of the new government.

It was precisely because of these voices that Yue Yuan had the policy of governing the country with technology. At the same time, not using his dictatorial power in non-emergency situations was also a concession made by Yue Yuan.

It can be said that he has tried to make the human social system move from dictatorship to enlightened dictatorship. But that's all. It is unrealistic for Yue Yuan to resign directly and then restore the election system every few years, not only for him, but also for those scientists who have risen to high positions with their scientific knowledge.

Or they would rather go on like this than let humans return to the internal power struggle.

So in the eyes of many people, the current human social system cannot be said to be regressing, at most it has not progressed, but then again, some experts believe that the social system is only suitable or not.

For example, now, human society actually has elections, but many positions have become elections every 500 years. After all, the interstellar era has a very long time span, and human life expectancy has also been greatly improved. If measured by the system of the Earth era, it is indeed inappropriate.

The reason why we have to talk about the social system is that the study of the universe is related to the progress of philosophy, and the progress of philosophy will in turn affect the stability of human society itself.

Simply put, after the disaster of Callisto, human philosophy has stagnated, but no one considered this issue at the time. After all, there were so few people at the time, and it was a blessing to be able to survive.

But now, the human population has returned to 150 million again, which is considered to have been officially pulled back from the brink of extinction, with a certain number of people. Therefore, many studies that no one had thought about before have gradually been found back from history and continued to be carried forward.

The re-establishment of philosophy is conducive to the establishment of a broad outlook on life for human individuals, thereby guiding humans to get rid of the influence of past narrow thoughts, and then allowing individuals to sublimate, and finally forming a positive and progressive atmosphere for the entire human race.

At this stage, the fuse that triggered human philosophical thinking is the cosmic evolution theory proposed by Gander.

The seventh year after the conversation with Yue Yuan ended, this year happened to be the year when humans received a reply from the Nair civilization again, and it was also the year when humans were 27 years away from the Pot Cover Mangmang Star.

Gander published an article titled "Cosmic Evolution Theory" based on the window period hypothesis derived from his thinking about the Fermi Paradox, and published it on the Human Science Network.

In his article, Gander said at the beginning that humans were the first batch of life in the universe, and those advanced civilizations just happened to be born with wisdom and set foot on the starry sky a few years earlier than humans, but they were not as early as the generation gap.

This argument has aroused great interest among people who have always held the view of human supremacy.

Gander believes that from the birth of the universe to the appearance of the primordial stars, and then to the first generation of stars and the second generation of stars, there was no life.

Only in the cosmic environment after the birth of the third generation of stars did life gradually appear, and then evolved step by step, from simple life to complex life, and then wisdom was born.

In other words, the universe first had matter, and then it was possible to give birth to thoughts based on the existence of matter. The materialistic worldview, the "mind" exists based on "matter", and the "mind" without "matter" cannot exist. This is the tone of Gander's view.

He believes that the universe is not as people have known it before, with entropy increasing and degenerating continuously, and finally the entropy value increases to the maximum, and then the universe is disordered and destroyed, and everything returns to deathly silence.

This is heat death, the end of the universe deduced based on the second law of thermodynamics.

Gander explained the fact that his view violated the second law of thermodynamics. He believed that there were two arrows in the universe, one was a closed system governed by the second law of thermodynamics, and the other was an open non-equilibrium system, which was constantly growing negative entropy.

The argument that the universe was evolving was based on the second system.

He believed that the heat death of the universe in a closed system and the open non-equilibrium system were the two poles of the evolution of the universe, and the two were interdependent. The second law of thermodynamics would indeed push the universe to heat death and make everything move towards thermal equilibrium, but it was also one of the driving forces behind the evolution of the universe.

It was precisely because of this flow of energy from high to low that the gathering of energy from low to high was possible.

The original stars, the first generation of stars, the second generation of stars, and the third generation of stars, each time the energy spread from high to low, created conditions and possibilities for the birth of life and wisdom.

So why did the universe give birth to intelligent life?

But from the perspective of the heat death theory, life feeds on negative entropy, and the more advanced the civilization composed of intelligent life develops, the more negative entropy is needed to maintain their existence.

In this way, the birth of life in the universe undoubtedly accelerates the heat death of the universe itself, so the conclusion is: life is the cancer of the universe, the parasite of the universe, and the strongest driving force that accelerates the death of the universe.

However, in Gander's view, that is only a one-sided view, which is the result of looking at the problem from the second theorem of thermodynamics in an isolated closed system.

Everything has two sides. When looking at problems, we should jump out of traditional thinking and look at them from a global perspective. Moreover, the end of the universe deduced from the second theorem of thermodynamics is just one of many hypotheses about the end of the universe.

In addition to the big heat death, there are also big rips, big collapses, big vacuum decays, and big rebounds.

Therefore, he believes that the birth of intelligent life in the universe is an inevitable result of the evolution of the universe. The universe strives to make life appear at the cost of increasing entropy, not to accelerate suicide, but to save itself.