Chapter 664

【File? -006】

【To all members of the "Delta Council":】

【Let's briefly describe our preliminary research results.】

【Previous research led by O5-7 in the Extraterrestrial Civilization Exploration Department indicates:】

【Any known civilization seems to have a certain special point in time during its development, after which the civilization suddenly loses the motivation to continue developing and maintains itself in a certain determined state for a considerable period of time.】

【If they are lucky enough, they can break away from this state and continue to develop, and if they are unlucky, the civilization will stagnate from then on until it decays.】

【Such events seem to have happened many times on Earth as well.】

【"Entropy Pool Hypothesis" can explain part of this phenomenon.】

【It attributes the self-closure and stagnation of civilization to the disappearance of uncertainty within the civilization system.】

【As everyone knows, uncertainty is the prerequisite for the possibility of civilization's existence and development.】

【At the same time, uncertainty is also one of the important reasons for our own scientific and technological development.】

【Uncertainty brings us a sense of crisis, and also makes us feel excited and curious.】

【We humans conduct scientific exploration precisely to satisfy our curiosity about uncertainty and our expectation for infinite possibilities in the future.】

【With the development of civilization, uncertainty will gradually disappear, and civilization will lack the motivation and energy to contend with "certainty"—or a word we are more familiar with, "fate."】

【Without uncertainty, a civilization can only exist according to a fixed pattern, and its future has already been arranged by fate.】

【It loses all possibility of change and development, and then perishes silently in stagnation.】

"What is an 'Entropy Pool'?"

"It should be a similar term proposed by imitating the concept of 'entropy' in physics, but I can't figure out what it specifically means."

"Entropy is a concept that measures the degree of disorder in a system. Just like the things in your room, if they are all placed messily, the entropy is high; if they are neat, the entropy is low... what is said here should be describing the predictability of the future of civilization."

"So it's still an indicator of the degree of confusion—whether the future of civilization is chaotic or clearly visible."

"Nature tends to increase entropy, which is to tend toward disorder. But can the future of civilization also be explained by this set of theories? I always feel that something is not quite right."

【But the "Entropy Pool Theory" has a fatal weakness; it cannot explain why the "Entropy Pool" has an upper limit.】

【According to thermodynamic theory, a self-gravitating system similar to the universe, bound by pure gravity, can at least theoretically have negative heat capacity.】

【Absorbing heat causes the universe's energy to increase, but the temperature decreases instead, which means—the universe simply does not have a theoretical thermal equilibrium state.】

【Naturally, the resources we can utilize—that is, "initial and meaningful possibilities"—are infinitely many, and the entropy pool does not have a theoretical upper limit at all.】

【As long as we can find more resources, we can let the "Entropy Pool" keep expanding, and the uncertainty increased during this period is enough to support us in extending the edge of the entropy pool to a larger size.】

【Walking to this step, the answer is already ready to come out: there is some factor—or rather, an anomaly—that is blocking the emergence of uncertainty.】

【Based on our previous discussion, this existence is undoubtedly enough to pose a potential and destructive threat to human development.】

【—"Insurgency" "Emergence Project" Team】

The researchers of the "Emergence Project" talked at length.

Simplifying it, removing the "Entropy Pool Theory" used as a theoretical explanation, the rest of the content is not essentially different from O5-7's conjecture.

Without prior communication, O5-7 and the "Emergence Project" team reached the same result.

This situation almost proves that O5-7's idea is completely correct.