How big is the gap between civilizations when the Trisolarans wiped out the solar system fleet?

The most impressive thing in "The Three-Body Problem" is the doomsday battle. A Trisolaran probe wiped out the entire solar system fleet of more than 2,000 interstellar battleships within a few hours. Only when it came into contact with water droplets The Quantum and the Bronze Age, which had been prepared for the deep sea state before, escaped the blow of the water droplets! How exaggerated will the differences in civilization between different levels be?

What material are the Trisolaran water droplets made of? In what way did it destroy the Sol Fleet?

The water droplets of the Trisolarans arrived in the solar system in 205 of the Crisis Era, that is, 2212. At this time, mankind passed through the dark era of sophon blockade. Although no quantum computer was built, there was no improvement in materials. A breakthrough development, but mankind has achieved nuclear fusion and created a huge interstellar fleet in the solar system. Therefore, when the water droplets arrived in the solar system, the fleets of the people on earth all set off and lined up in a parade to greet the water droplets. Rather than greeting the water droplets, It is said that humans are planning to give the Trisolarans a blow!

But the development of things obviously exceeded expectations. When Ding Yi took the traffic boat on the Quantum to capture water droplets for inspection, he discovered that the surface of the detector was extremely smooth. Even if it was magnified 10 million times, it was still a mirror. , so Ding Yi had an ominous premonition at that time. This was definitely beyond the reach of human technology, but before the fleet could react, the water droplet activated interference and instantly accelerated to 30 kilometers/second. The energy of acceleration directly caused the water droplet to The spaceship vaporizes!

The way water droplets attack the fleet is simple and violent, directly hitting the key parts of the spacecraft and destroying it. In the end, only two prepared spaceships in the entire fleet left the battlefield and escaped successfully in the highest power mode of the nuclear fusion engine. This is because The captains of the Quantum and the Bronze Age both came from the era before the Crisis Era. They were naturally wary of the arrival of the Trisolarans and put the entire cabin into deep-sea status in advance to avoid tens of G accelerations that would cause the crew to directly exceed their physiological limits. die.

What are the water droplets made of?

The surface material of the water droplet is composed of atomic nuclei that have broken through the Coulomb repulsion under strong forces, so its density has reached the neutron star level, and its strong force is more than 100 times stronger than the electromagnetic force. The density of the atomic nucleus makes the strong force material a million times stronger than ordinary materials, so as long as a thin layer is used, it can be guaranteed to pass through the interstellar battleship of the earth like a drop of water cutting through tofu!

And its engine is "vacuum Valsex electric field vortex ring propulsion", which controls the collapse state of electrons at the head of the water droplet so that the water droplet can gain forward momentum. Of course, "Three Body" does not There is no detailed explanation of the principle and structure, but a civilization that has reached the era of strong forces produces electronic devices that are beyond human imagination!

How powerful is the technology of super civilization?

The former Soviet astronomer Kardashov proposed a method of classifying civilization levels based on energy utilization in the 1960s. This is the Kardashov index. The classification method is as follows:

< p>Type I civilization uses all the available resources of the planet: 10^16W

Type II civilization uses all the energy of the home planet: 10^26W

Type III civilization uses all the resources of the galaxy where it is located Energy: 10^36W

Of course, this crude method cannot easily tell the difference between civilizations. Just like a civilization that burns wood, a civilization that burns coal, and a civilization that burns natural gas, how big is the gap? ? I have no concept, but it is obvious that the most advanced weapons for wood-burning civilizations are bows and arrows, but coal-burning civilizations may reach the level of muskets. If natural gas is burned on a large scale, artillery and aircraft will come, so there will be a very obvious standard. , so what is the difference between type I, type II and type III?

Type civilization: the industrial and electronic age, the atomic age, the age of steel, alloys, plastics, rubber and composite materials

Type + civilization: the information age, the space age , space synthetic pure composite materials, non-metallic high-strength materials, smart materials, micron technology devices

Humanity is truly between and + civilizations, and there is still an exponential gap between Type I civilization .

Type I civilization: molecular structure materials, earth modification projects, space elevators, intercontinental or transoceanic tunnels, giant canals, ultra-deep mining; carbon nanotubes, buckyballs, synthetic organisms, artificial life, nano Devices/and highly intelligent robots

I+ type civilization: atomic structure materials, planetary system era; development of extreme extraterrestrial objects: planet transformation, geocentric exploration; material reorganization cycle, etc.

Type II civilization: development of powerful materials, stars, artificial planets, artificial exotic atoms, exotic materials, long-distance transmission of matter, etc.

Type II+ civilization: development of extreme stars in the universe, artificial stars, energy-matter conversion< /p>

Of course Type II and Type III civilizations are just our imagination. It is as ridiculous as the emperor working with a golden pole. We don’t know what the future will be like. We are just making some appropriate guesses based on the conditions of modern science. .

Type III civilization: control of photons, gravitons, and space-time structure. Entering the age of the universe, or even artificial time and space, mastering the use of high-dimensional space, space-time exploration, and reaching the quantum limit.

How big are the differences between these civilizations?

Synthesizing pure composite materials and non-metallic high-strength materials in space is an era that humans can achieve with a little effort, but it is not yet mature. If this technology is realized, the production of anti-ablation materials will It is easy to put it simply. Hypersonic travel through the atmosphere is just like playing. It does not require deceleration control at all. With the mastery of smart materials and super alloy materials, scramjet engines can also be programmed, and aerospace aircraft are about to come out.

Can this technology crush modern humans? Really hitting the whole world in one hour, who can resist? Just a little bit, about ten years.

Type I Civilization: Space Elevator and Highly Intelligent Robots

As a reference, one or two representative technologies of civilization can be used as a reference. The space elevator indicates that the other party can already transport 10,000 tons and hundreds of thousands tons of Materials are sent to space to build spacecraft, which can initially achieve interstellar flight. Simply put, it has the ability to colonize the interstellar space! Highly intelligent robots represent that humans will fight against aliens in the future, not aliens, but alien robots. How should we fight a war when we have sacrificed our lives but not necessarily eliminated a machine?

Type II civilization: strong force materials

What I talked about at the beginning of this article is strong force materials. Any building or weapon coated with a layer of this material will become indestructible immediately, such as being indestructible. Tanks and aircraft that cannot penetrate anything, or armor-piercing bullets that can penetrate anything, are like a hot knife cutting through butter.

Type III civilization: Mastering the use of high-dimensional space

If such a civilization really exists, they may suddenly appear on the earth or in low-Earth orbit. That would be a myth. This kind of plot can only be seen in science fiction movies. We have no means. The kind in Marvel is just telling jokes. Even if it is like the aliens in Independence Day, an alien race that can cross the stars, Just wiped out by humans?

It is just a fairy tale in the 21st century, but everyone is red-faced and excited when watching it. But please just watch it as a movie. The power of human beings in the universe is not as powerful as an ant. The threat posed by humans is great, because we are not even afraid of getting out of the ant nest!