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Chapter 335 Civilization Faction
"We noticed that you just mentioned the civilization faction to which our civilization belongs? What does this civilization faction mean?" Zhuo Fan asked when the AI ​​who claimed to be Nok seemed to be in a good mood because he found the original Nost galaxy Important information just heard.

Nock directly answered this question when he came over, as if the question itself was not a secret.

"Civilization factions are the core civilization values ​​of the civilizations that pursue survival and progress. For example, our Neo-Nost civilization belongs to the non-interference and limited communication faction. We believe that all civilizations are low-entropy aggregates, and the universe itself is an entropy-increasing system. If you want to maintain the low entropy of civilization, you must maintain the civilization to survive forever, and civilization must continue to achieve progress if it needs to survive forever. This kind of progress can be the progress of the individual life of civilization, similar to the genetic modification of your human beings , it can also be the scientific and technological progress of the entire civilization, and in order to maintain the continuous progress of civilization, it must continue to communicate with other low-entropy aggregates, that is, other civilizations. Only in this way can we find ways to maintain our own in an environment of increasing entropy Low-entropy state. Considering that in order to maintain the number and diversity of newborn civilizations, we choose not to interfere with limited exchanges with other civilizations, and obtain information on maintaining low-entropy or entropy reduction from exchanges.”

"In addition to us, there are also interference and exchange factions. They believe that they can increase contact and exchanges with other civilizations, even trading or fighting. Considering that although it has an impact on the diversity of civilizations, it has little impact, and there is a certain chance that it may There is a positive impact on other nascent civilizations, this faction is currently in a friendly relationship with us, and they can go to each other's star fields for civilization exchanges."

"Of course, there are still some civilizations whose core civilization values ​​conflict with ours. This part is a hostile relationship, and it is forbidden to communicate with each other's star fields. For example, there is a faction called the civilization absorption faction. They believe that maintaining their civilization with low entropy The only way is to absorb other civilizations into their own civilization system, so such a civilization faction will greatly reduce the number and diversity of new civilizations, which conflicts with the interests and ideas of Neo-Nost civilization.”

"Of course, there is also this energy body being captured this time, but they belong to a relatively special category."

After communicating with Noke, Zhuo Fan and others realized that this energy body life is a degenerate civilization.

The so-called degenerate civilization is a civilization that has stopped technological growth, and its own civilization is no longer able to increase negative entropy.Although such a civilization is still a low-entropy collection, the entropy value of its civilization has stopped and continues to decrease or even increase due to changes in the environment.One day in the future, it will be synchronized by the entropy-increasing universe and completely die out.

The civilization to which this energy body belongs has embarked on a path of self-evolution in order to pursue the immortality of civilization.They originally believed that life forms made of matter had theoretical limits in energy transfer and information processing, so after research they proposed an ultimate state of life—life made of pure energy.This kind of life body will be able to adapt to various situations in the universe, whether it is on a neutron star or in the empty cosmic vacuum, as long as the energy source is guaranteed, it can survive forever. The body will have incomparable advantages in energy transfer, conversion and application.

So the scientists of their civilization, after generations of hard work, finally successfully realized the transformation from material life to energy life one day, and the entire civilization crazily transformed everyone into energy life forms.

Then they discovered that the ultimate life form pursued by the entire civilization turned out to be a big mistake.

As mentioned before, civilization is a low-entropy aggregate. Why is it a low-entropy aggregate?Because the individual that constitutes the civilization, that is, the individual of the intelligent life to which the civilization belongs, is a low-entropy system that can obtain energy from the outside world and reduce its own entropy (or in other words, improve its own order).

But if a low-entropy system lowers its own entropy, where does the entropy that is expelled go?It is natural to return to the larger environmental system of the universe, so the price of low entropy is the entropy increase of the environment.

We must know that the entropy increase of the universe brings about the disorder of the living environment, and the change of the environment will cause the life body to no longer obtain energy, and thus its own entropy will increase and perish.The only way is to use technological means to continuously adapt to the environment, or to modify the environment in a limited way so that you can continue to survive.

But when the energy energy life civilization changed its life form, it found that it had entered a dead end.

The form they transform is a plasma bubble with a double-layer boundary under the violent action of electromagnetic field and plasma. Although it can obtain and convert energy (electric energy-heat energy) from the outside world, it can also discharge its own entropy.But because the free path of photons in the plasma is very short, they are still in a long-distance unrelated state overall, so they cannot achieve their own growth, and can only maintain a volume allowed by physical rules, that is to say, they have lost ability to continue to evolve.

It's okay to lose the ability to evolve, as long as the environment can be continuously transformed, the negative entropy of the entire civilization can still be maintained.However, since the entire civilization has been transformed into energy body life, it must be known that the plasma under the strong electromagnetic field is extremely high temperature, and the temperature can reach several thousand degrees.

We know that matter is composed of elementary particles, and the typical energy of particles in its physical process is called energy scale.The energy scale of our common chemical reactions is about eV (electron volts). For example, carbon-based life is composed of organic macromolecules such as proteins, amino acids, and fatty acids. The energy scale of the intermolecular forces of these molecules is about 0.01eV , which means that a few hundred degrees can destroy their structure.

Even if the chemical bonds of the chemical bonds of the leftmost and rightmost elements in the periodic table are slightly stronger, they are still at this energy level.So this has caused these beings transformed into energy bodies to be unable to manipulate most common substances, and almost any substance cannot maintain the stability of its chemical bonds under the plasma of high temperature and high magnetic field.In other words, this civilization completely lost all the material-related technologies it had accumulated.

In addition, energy body life is very suitable to live on the surface of stars, and stars are the most visible matter celestial bodies in the universe.This is equivalent to having the most and most comfortable living environment for energy beings in the current universe.

In the years of losing technology for a long time, energy life also gradually lost the stickiness of civilization.We must know that civilization is composed of individual lives, why should individual lives gather to form civilization?Because individual life is too fragile, it is difficult to survive permanently in an entropy-increasing environment, and must be gathered together, so that it is easy to evolve to adapt to the environment, and it can also try to change the environment.

(End of this chapter)