Chapter 245 (2/2)
Listening to these comments, Zhang Yuan sighed: ”that is to say, in that case, human beings will probably be stuck. There is no excuse. Knowing only the term electricity, how can they try to study what wires, magnets and electromagnetic induction? ”
”Continue to deduce that in the universe, it is difficult for a planet without oxygen to develop real technology? This is... Very strange. ”
”I thought of another way, bio smelting! The change of life is infinite. On the earth, some bacteria have a good accumulation of soluble metals under high temperature conditions. Maybe the creatures on some planets can smelt metal by themselves? ”
”This probability is not absent, but it is very low. You can't ask the creatures on those oxygen free planets to evolve the ability of biological smelting... ”
When he came to this conclusion, Zhang Yuan had to lament the good luck of mankind.
This condition is really a little harsh. There must be a few planets with a large amount of oxygen. Oxygen is produced by plant photosynthesis and cannot be born out of thin air. The active chemical nature of oxygen means that if it cannot be produced continuously, it will react with other substances and be consumed quickly.
Oxygen free planets are the majority.
Because of this, the productivity of Gliese civilization has been in the stone age. There is no way to separate natural elements chemically, and there is no way to study electric energy physically.
Lightning is the only natural phenomenon related to electricity that they can observe. Various physical models have been proposed one after another, and some even gave their lives to touch lightning!
However, what is the significance of all this when the production tools are still stone and wood?
This tragedy and the degree of difficulty are really difficult for outsiders to tell
”I don't know, I don't know anything... We know nothing about the world. It seems that a layer of darkness envelops our eyes and obscures our way forward. We know that electricity exists and that it can exert magical power. ”
”But all the attempts were fruitless...”
From youth to middle age, and then to old age, the wise man exhausted all his efforts, but achieved nothing. He wrote sadly in his diary: ”damn electricity, what is...!”
At this time, it has been... 30000 years since the enlightenment civilization left.
At the moment of seeing this paragraph, it seemed that something hit Zhang Yuan's heartstrings. As a scientific research worker, he often expressed such feelings?
The universe is so ruthless that it only needs a little catalyst to block a civilization.
Just because there is no oxygen.
There is no mockery. Compared with Gliese civilization, human beings have only a little more good luck. At least they have developed their own technology and penetrated the sporadic truth of the universe.
”Alas... The technology of earth civilization has been stuck for a long time. Is there something missing that we don't know? ”
”Lack of some thinking, or the reason we don't know... Or something else...”
The evolution of history continues, not for the will of any life
In the case of fruitless long-term exploration, science has slowly lost its momentum of progress. Physics, chemistry, biology and medicine are in a state of great stagnation, and no one is willing to study these things anymore.
Mathematics is booming. Because mathematics does not need experimental verification and is not limited to productivity, as long as it is logical.
Year after year, ten thousand years after ten thousand years
Gliese civilization's science and technology tree began to produce serious deviation, mathematics took the lead, and other disciplines were in a mess!
A funny thing happened, and its mathematical level has even surpassed that of human beings! However, the tools used are still the most primitive tools such as stone and wood!