Level 4 Derivative Technology

But time flies, and more than a decade has passed in the blink of an eye.

The Grand Unified Theory truly deserves its reputation as the core and hallmark theory of Level 4 Civilization. After humanity achieved the Grand Unified Theory, many technologies based on it emerged, marking a technological explosion.

Of course, scientists at the forefront of scientific research know that it is not really a technological breakthrough, because they prefer to say that it is the result of long-term accumulation and quantitative change leading to qualitative change.

Since the realization of the Grand Unified Theory, many theoretical physicists have faded from the public eye as usual, continuing to work quietly in their fields, refining the possible flaws of the Grand Unified Theory, and of course, focusing more on the future development of humanity.

The development from theory to application is largely the domain of experimental physicists and top engineers in various fields. The role of ordinary citizens is to cultivate talent for these fields. The New Government coordinates the overall picture, with each link having its own division of labor and each department fulfilling its responsibilities, thus creating a thriving scene of Human Civilization.

In recent years, many derivative technologies rooted in the Grand Unified Theory have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Among them, the most talked-about material is the Strong Interaction Force Material, a typical example. It is a mechanical material developed based on the Grand Unified Theory and with the Grand Unified Force Field as its technological foundation.

It is an application of Force Field Manipulation Technology.

Other branches of technology under the framework of Force Field Manipulation Technology include Full Optical Stealth Technology, Force Field Shield Technology, Warp Drive Technology, and Gravity Potential Well Technology.

And there are many applications that have been developed from these technologies.

Examples include Antimatter Storage Device, Warp Engine, Antimatter Warp Missile, Force Field Shield, Gravity Bomb, and Planet Destroyer Cannon, covering various aspects of a warship's mobility, defense, and attack.

On the other hand, there is research in the field of Tachyon, currently only Tachyon Detection Technology and Tachyon Communication Technology. Many scientists are also dedicated to research in the field of Tachyon, hoping to discover other types of Tachyon and develop them into faster-than-light weapons based on their phenomena, but so far no Tachyon technology suitable for weapons has been discovered.

Any one of these derivative technologies and applications is enough to easily defeat Level 3 Civilization.

For example, the emergence of Tachyon Detection rendered all light-speed weapons of Level 3 Civilization useless, and all light-speed weapons lost their element of surprise, allowing warships to detect and evade them in advance.

The appearance of the Force Field Shield rendered the Electromagnetic Railgun completely ineffective.

Because the force field in any Force Field Shield actually refers to the Grand Unified Force Field. According to the theoretical description, when a warship equipped with Grand Unified Force Field shield is activated, it will form a protective force field like a shield outside the warship. These force fields can play a very good defensive role against incoming material attacks.

Instead of directly confronting the target, Grand Unified Force Field is used to guide the incoming object, diverting it in another direction and thus preventing the warship from being directly hit. This is similar to artificially creating strong turbulent currents around a submarine to deflect incoming torpedoes.

Yes, Force Field Shield are not the kind of shields that people imagine can block all physical attacks, or shields that can withstand all physical attacks. They cannot be created by Grand Unified Force Field. Scientists actually believe that such shield technology exists, but they think that only a more advanced civilization could master it.

It's unclear whether it's Level 5 Civilization or Level Six Civilization; humanity knows very little about this. After all, the Rhomboid Crystal representing the Precursor didn't specify, and the Awakeners hasn't demonstrated such an ability in front of humanity.

Based on this, some human scientists speculate that the shield may be Characteristic Technology that only certain races can master.

All of these are derivative technologies and related applications of the Grand Unified Theory.

Of course, these are mostly applications in a broad, general sense. They manifest in the progress of civilization as a whole, directly elevating its overall combat capabilities to a significant level. Changes also occur within humanity and in individual human lives, but these are relatively insignificant compared to their application to warships.

For example, after the realization of the Grand Unified Theory, human biological scientists incorporated the concept of Grand Unified Force into the study of the biological brain and consciousness, combining it with previous Quantum Mechanics to re-establish a new model of the biological brain, thereby studying technologies related to biological consciousness.

Then they were surprised to discover that the 'Mind Imprint' technology previously mastered by humans did indeed have flaws, or rather, unknown side effects.

The Academy of Life Sciences spent over a decade researching this unknown side effect and discovered that it appears to affect the imaginative and innovative thinking of Sentient Life. In other words, any Sentient Life that has been subjected to Mind Imprint may have its creativity simultaneously stifled.

To say that confinement is merely a current stage of the Human Academy of Life Sciences's achievements, and that there may be other unknown impacts, is still unclear. Furthermore, biologists are currently unsure whether these effects will be passed down through generations.

This discovery has been met with great joy by the human leadership. When this technology first appeared, the New Government explicitly prohibited its use on humans themselves, and now it seems that this decision was absolutely correct.

This also suggests that the technology of Mind Imprint is not a complete technology; it may simply be a derivative technology in a certain direction of technological development. In short, from the perspective of current human technological level, scientists find this technology even stranger than when they first mastered it.

Because their perspective was still at the level of Level 3 Civilization, the scientists at the Academy of Academy of Life Sciences thought the emergence of this technology was reasonable and even perfect. However, after mastering the Grand Unified Theory incorporating the various concepts designed into it, they found it rather strange to have mastered such technology at the Level 3 Civilization level.

It even felt a bit inexplicable.

Scientists realized that the matter seemed serious, so they reported it to higher authorities.

As the leader of the civilization, Yue Yuan quickly noticed the relevant report and went to the Academy of Life Sciences to learn more. What he found there left him somewhat bewildered. The scientists at the Academy of Life Sciences told him about the various side effects of the Mind Imprint- Mind Imprint technology, as well as many details about its implementation and their records of Mind Imprint lives of individuals who had undergone the technology over the years.

Upon learning these details, Yue Yuan frowned even more, for it deeply sensed an indescribable malice in these records.

"We humans seem to have inexplicably mastered this Extremely Dangerous Technology, which could easily destroy the future of an entire civilization." These were the words Yi Kai said when Yue Yuan left the Academy of Academy of Life Sciences.