Cosmic Evolution Theory
After concluding his conversation with Yue Yuan, Gan De's thoughts did not cease. On this long and arduous journey to the Pot Lid Vastness Star, Gan De had ample time to ponder.
The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is not as simple as just answering a question; behind the paradox may lie many unknown secrets about the universe. Therefore, thinking about and exploring the Fermi Paradox is actually a peek into those secrets hidden deep in the universe.
Such thinking and exploration may not help human science in the short term, but it will promote human understanding of the universe and, in the long run, benefit humanity.
As research into the universe deepens, it will open up an infinitely broad and unified perspective for humanity, allowing philosophy and science, which have been far removed from science, to find a point of convergence again, and to once again highlight the role and value of the pinnacle of human thought and understanding.
In fact, most experts and scholars now know that since the catastrophe of Callisto, although the survivors have rebuilt civilization, they have begun to go astray in many aspects, and even stagnated or regressed.
Firstly, regarding the social system, at that time, the country was facing a life-or-death crisis, so any decision had to be made quickly and decisively for survival. Given the circumstances, New Government was born.
The New Government, headed by Yue Yuan, was established under those circumstances, which seemed perfectly reasonable at the time. However, as humanity escaped its predicament and the population gradually increased, many people began to criticize this system.
Of course, because Yue Yuan enjoyed high prestige, these criticisms did not spread like wildfire, nor were they openly expressed. Those who were dissatisfied often cited the entrenched bureaucratic class of the New Government as the reason.
It was precisely because of these voices that Yue Yuan adopted the policy of governing the country through technology. At the same time, Yue Yuan made a concession by not using his dictatorial power in non-emergency situations.
It could be said that he has already made efforts to shift the social system of humanity from dictatorship to enlightened dictatorship. But that's all. To ask Yue Yuan to resign directly and then restore the election system held every few years is not only unrealistic for him, but also for those scientists who have risen to high positions based on their scientific knowledge.
Or perhaps they would rather things continue this way than allow humanity to return to internal power struggles.
Therefore, many people believe that the current social system of mankind has not regressed, but at most it has not progressed. However, some experts believe that the only question is whether a social system is suitable or not.
For example, elections still exist in human society today, but many positions are now elected every five hundred years. After all, the interstellar era spans an extremely long period of time, and human lifespan has greatly increased. It would indeed be inappropriate to measure it by the standards of the Earth Era.
The reason for discussing social systems is that the study of the universe is related to the progress of philosophy, and the progress of philosophy, in turn, affects the stability of human society itself.
Simply put, after the catastrophe of Callisto, human philosophy stagnated. However, no one really thought about this issue at the time, since there were so few people, and it was already a miracle that they survived.
However, the human population has now returned to 150 million, meaning we've officially been pulled back from the brink of extinction and now have a substantial population. Therefore, many previously unconsidered areas of knowledge are gradually being rediscovered from history and are being further developed.
The re-establishment of philosophy helps individuals to develop a broad outlook on life, thereby guiding humanity to break free from the influence of narrow-minded thinking in the past, leading to personal growth, and ultimately fostering a positive and progressive atmosphere for all humanity.
At present, the catalyst for philosophical reflection among humankind is Gan De's theory of Cosmic Evolution Theory.
Seven years after the conversation with Yue Yuan ended, this year also happened to be the year that humanity received a reply from the Nair Civilization again, and the year that humanity was still 27 years away from the Pot Lid Vastness Star.
Gan De, drawing upon his reflections on the Fermi Paradox and the resulting "Window Period Hypothesis, published an article titled " The Cosmic Evolution Theory " on the Human Science Network.
In his article, Gan De begins by saying that humans are the first life in the universe, and that those advanced civilizations are merely those who happened to be a few years ahead of humans in terms of the development of intelligence and the setting foot in the stars, and are not so far ahead as to be generationally different.
This argument has aroused great interest among those who have long held the view of human supremacy.
Gan De believed that from the birth of the universe to the appearance of primordial stars, and then to the environmental background of the first and second generations of stars, no life was born.
Life only gradually emerged in the cosmic environment after the birth of the third generation of stars, and then evolved step by step from simple life to complex life, and then gave birth to intelligence.
In other words, matter must have existed in the universe before thoughts based on matter could arise. This is the core of Gan De's materialistic Cosmic View, where the 'mind' exists based on 'matter,' and a 'mind' without a foundation in 'matter' cannot exist.
He believes that the universe does not, as people previously thought, continuously increase entropy and degenerate until the entropy reaches its maximum, after which the universe becomes disordered and destroyed, and everything returns to a deathly silence.
This is heat death, the cosmic end derived from the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Gan De explained the fact that his views violated the Second Law of Thermodynamics as follows: He believed that the universe has two opposing forces: one is a closed system governed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the other, conversely, is an open, non-equilibrium system that is constantly increasing its Negative Entropy.
The argument that the universe is evolving is based on the second system.
He argues that heat death in closed systems and open, non-equilibrium systems represent the two poles of cosmic evolution, and the two are interdependent. While the Second Law of Thermodynamics does indeed push the universe towards heat death and cause everything to move towards thermal equilibrium, it is also one of the driving forces behind cosmic evolution.
It is precisely because of this flow of energy from high to low that the accumulation of energy from low to high becomes possible.
The diffusion of energy from primordial stars, first-generation stars, second-generation stars, and third-generation stars, each step from high to low, creates conditions and possibilities for the birth of life and intelligence.
So why did Sentient Life emerge in the universe?
However, from the perspective of the heat death theory, life feeds on Negative Entropy, and the more advanced the civilization composed of Sentient Life becomes, the more Negative Entropy is needed to maintain their existence.
Thus, the birth of life in the universe undoubtedly accelerated the universe's own heat death. Therefore, the conclusion is that life is a cancer in the universe, a parasite of the universe, and the strongest driving force for Tachyon Universe's death.
However, in Gan De's view, that was only a one-sided perspective, a result of considering the second law of thermodynamics within an isolated and closed system.
Everything has two sides. When looking at problems, we should break out of traditional thinking and look at them from a holistic perspective. Moreover, the ending of the universe deduced from the second law of thermodynamics is just one of many Cosmic End Hypothesis.
Besides the Big Heat Death, there are also the Big Rip, the Big Crunch, the Big Vacuum Decay, and the Big Bounce.
Therefore, he believes that the emergence of Sentient Life in the universe is an inevitable result of the universe's evolution. The universe's efforts to bring about life at the cost of increasing entropy are not a hasty suicide, but rather a form of self-salvation.