Starting from a top student and marching towards the sea of ​​stars

Chapter 586 Evolution
"Yes, Mr. Hayes, I also like warm-hearted aliens like you. Now, please let us read your latest research results, Mr. Hayes."

In the following time, Hayes told Ning Chen and Song Xiyun about his latest research results in the past few days.

This is Hayes' work on Mars. Even though he has already achieved financial freedom, Hayes has no intention of letting himself sit idle. Hayes, who has strong scientific research capabilities, is indeed conducting some very valuable research.

In fact, normally, before these research results are formally submitted, it is not convenient to disclose them to others due to their strict confidentiality. However, Hayes trusts Ning Chen and Song Xiyun very much, which made Hayes make such a decision.

Listening to Hayes' research, Ning Chen couldn't help but nod repeatedly, knowing that these were indeed some research with great academic and scientific value.

Hayes' main research direction is quantum physics, which is currently a very hot research direction. Until now, people have not fully understood the properties of light quanta. This wonderful substance always brings new surprises to people.

"Mr. Chen Ning, the previous communication with you gave me a lot of inspiration. Otherwise, I would not have been able to produce so many excellent research results during this period of time."

"No, Mr. Hayes, the most important thing is your strong scientific research ability. I am just a scientific research enthusiast and have not reached such a professional research level as you. Of course, if some modifications are made to some details, I think these studies can show better results."

Ning Chen provided some suggestions for Hayes' research according to his own ideas. After listening to Ning Chen's suggestions, Hayes' expression immediately changed.

"Mr. Chen Ning, your suggestions do sound better than my ideas. I knew that asking you to come here would definitely help me. Mr. Chen Ning, your scientific research talent is really rare in the world."

"This is just my personal opinion. It would be my honor if it could be of some help to Mr. Hayes."

The three of them ate and chatted, and the atmosphere seemed quite harmonious. At this time, Hayes also asked about some things about Ning Chen and Song Xiyun.

"Mr. Chen Ning, Ms. Yunxi, I haven't asked you what you have been researching recently. I'm sure with your research abilities, you will have made a lot of research results in the past few days, right?"

Hearing Hayes' question, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun couldn't help but look at each other with somewhat awkward smiles on their faces.

"Mr. Hayes, to be honest with you, we haven't made any formal research results these days. We are just adapting to and enjoying the new life on Mars. We are different from you. We are not professional researchers. We are just more interested in scientific research."

After learning of the results, Hayes couldn't help feeling a little disappointed. These situations were indeed quite different from what Hayes had expected.

"Ah, this is really a pity. I think considering your scientific research capabilities, this is not a difficult thing. It's just that you are free to choose how to do it. I hope we can have more exchanges like this. This will really be of great help to my scientific research. If possible, I will do my best to help you accomplish what you want to do."

The topic has come to this point, and Ning Chen feels that it is time to express his thoughts.

"Mr. Hayes, we currently have a research topic that we are quite interested in, but it is not easy to conduct research on this topic..."

Hearing that Ning Chen actually wanted to research a topic, Hayes immediately became interested and quickly said to Ning Chen:

"Mr. Chen Ning, please don't be so polite. I am very interested in any of your research and will do my best to support you. Please tell me about the research content."

"It's like this, Mr. Hayes. We are now very interested in the various structures and evolutionary processes of living things, especially intelligent ones. We have already learned a lot about the research on humans on Blue Star, but our understanding of the intelligent creatures of your civilization is still at a very superficial stage..."

Listening to Ning Chen's story, Hayes' expression changed several times, but he finally nodded and said:

"I understand, Mr. Chen Ning. This is indeed a very meaningful study. Now I will send you some basic information."

In fact, Hayes knew that this information about the intelligent creatures of his own civilization could not be disclosed to the outside world casually, because it might bring serious threats to them.

However, Hayes rarely let down his guard against Ning Chen. He believed in his heart that Ning Chen would not use this information to do anything that would harm the alien civilization, and he had no reason to do such a thing.

After sending the information, Hayes said to Ning Chen:
"Mr. Chen Ning, since these materials are very private, please only use them for your own research and do not disclose them to the outside world."

"Don't worry, Mr. Hayes, this is just our private research and will never affect the safety of your civilization."

After hearing Ning Chen's assurance, Hayes felt much more relieved. Even though Hayes did not like their civilization, he just wanted to get rid of it, but did not want to become a sinner of this civilization.

In the following time, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun carefully read this information together, and gradually gained a deeper understanding of the intelligent creatures of this alien civilization.

Similar to the Blue Star civilization, at the beginning of this civilization, only some very simple creatures appeared. After billions of years of continuous evolution, this kind of intelligent creature finally appeared.

It's just that in the process of biological evolution, this alien civilization has many creatures that have never appeared in the blue planet civilization, and it is difficult to find very similar creatures between the two. Just in the process of understanding this information, Ning Chen found a lot of inspiration, and these sudden ideas may bring great help to Ning Chen's research on the origin and evolution of intelligent creatures.

"Mr. Hayes, thank you very much for providing us with this help. This is something we in the Blue Star civilization have no idea about."

"Mr. Chen Ning, this is nothing. As long as you can fulfill your promise and only use the data for your own research, there will be no problem. We will definitely have more opportunities for such exchanges in the future. I look forward to our next meeting."

On the way back from Hayes' house, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun talked about what happened today.

"I never thought that Mr. Hayes would actually provide us with this data. With this data, we can have a more thorough understanding of the intelligent creatures of this alien civilization."

"Yes, Mr. Hayes has a broad vision and will not limit his knowledge to just one civilization. We cannot let Mr. Hayes down. We must use this data to produce more meaningful scientific research results."

In fact, if possible, Ning Chen would like to get more things from Hayes, such as some body specimens of intelligent creatures from alien civilizations, but such a request is indeed a bit too abrupt. Ning Chen thinks it is better to wait until there is a chance in the future before making more requests to Hayes.

Ning Chen was very satisfied to be able to get such help from Hayes this time. These internal information were something that the Blue Star civilization was currently unable to collect.

After returning to their home, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun did not take time to rest and immediately began their research based on the information they got from Hayes.

This was the first time that Ning Chen and Song Xiyun had conducted such formal research together after they woke up again, and it also made Ning Chen and Song Xiyun regain that familiar feeling.

"Song Xiyun, this time our research is completely based on simulation, and we cannot conduct actual research. However, with our current capabilities, relying solely on simulation is enough to carry out the research."

Although they have experienced various hardships such as brain damage and body freezing, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's current research capabilities have not been affected at all. In fact, due to the injection of high-dimensional quantum energy into the body, Ning Chen's brain ability has even improved to a certain extent compared to before.

Coupled with the added effect of Xiaozhi and the enhancement brought by the brain's biological computer, Ning Chen's current brain capacity has surpassed his former peak state.

In this way, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's brains together formed a brain biological computer array, which continuously simulated and evolved the evolutionary process of this alien civilization's intelligent creatures.

After several days of continuous research, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun have gained a deeper understanding of this research topic.

"Sure enough, from the essence of evolution, there is no absolute difference between the biological evolution of the Blue Planet civilization and the biological evolution of this alien civilization. It is only because the environments of the two planets are different that the intelligent creatures that eventually evolved have these differences in details..."

After the research had proceeded to a certain extent, Ning Chen summarized his insights on the research to Song Xiyun.

"Yes, at least from the beginning, the way organisms were born was very similar. After countless chemical changes, the first simple organism was finally created. Although this is a very small probability event, as long as it happens enough times, then to some extent, the emergence of organisms is inevitable."

"We can also assume that similar simple organisms have been born on many planets, but the harsh environment on these planets makes it impossible for these organisms to survive. They die immediately after they are born. This also means that we cannot find any traces of life on these planets. Only when the environmental conditions of the planets are within a certain comfortable range can life survive."

"Now we can be sure that the difference between this alien civilization and us is caused by the special environment on their home planet. But even so, our basic structures are still very similar. At least from the outside, we are all human-shaped creatures..."

The people on Blue Star and the aliens all have the same facial features and limbs, and even the same number of eyes, noses, and ears. Ning Chen believes that this is definitely not a coincidence, but the most reasonable choice made by living things after a long period of evolution.

In addition to the similarities and similarities between the people of Blue Star and the aliens, Ning Chen also found some "keys" to evolution from these large amounts of data, which may even completely overturn the previous theory of evolution.

The biological world of the Blue Star civilization once believed that the evolution of organisms was completely random, and that organisms would show a variety of different shapes depending on the various directions of genetic mutations.

The environment plays a role in screening organisms. Those biological traits that adapt to the environment are likely to allow organisms to survive. Those traits that are not adapted to the environment will cause these organisms to be gradually eliminated little by little.

However, according to the latest research by Ning Chen and Song Xiyun, the direction of biological evolution is not random, but will "directedly" choose the direction of its own evolution according to changes in the environment.

Of course, this "orientation" is not a complete orientation, but the probability of organisms moving in this excellent direction will be higher. Only by producing as many beneficial evolutions as possible can life adapt more easily to the current environment and ultimately survive.

For example, compared to primitive humans, modern humans have lost a lot of hair. This is not because the human races that retained a lot of hair have become extinct, but because humans feel that these shapes are not beneficial to them, so they actively abandoned this trait and achieved this goal through a long period of evolution.

Such research results are more consistent with the actual performance of organisms in nature. The previous "theory of evolution" cannot well explain the various problems that organisms have shown in the evolutionary process. For example, those organisms in the evolutionary process have no advantages in shape compared to other organisms, but they can always adapt to the environment and survive.

In fact, the ability of biological evolution is far beyond people's previous imagination.

(End of this chapter)