Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1484 Lagging Computer Technology

The four civilizations had planned to build their flagships in 100,000 years. Based on past experience, the completion time was usually earlier than expected, but this time it was not earlier and was actually later.

Of course, not all of them have fallen behind.
The Awakener Civilization and the Silver Heart Civilization were completed, while the Daya Civilization experienced project delays due to issues with its soul-destroying weapons. They would likely need another 10,000 years to complete their project. Human Civilization, unusually, was also not yet finished.

Ten thousand years have passed, and the Lyra spacecraft, a dream of human civilization, has still never been shown on a macroscopic scale, which is clearly due to the project's lag.

"Has the assessment report been released yet? What's the current situation?"

The problems caused by the project's delays need to be summarized, and other problems encountered should be resolved as soon as possible to complete the remaining workload. Therefore, at the point of 100,005 years after the commencement of the Dream Lyra project, Yue Yuan once again presided over a meeting regarding the Dream Lyra project.

This is an internal human conference, attended by engineers and scientists from various disciplines; the room is almost entirely filled with technical research personnel.

Yue Yuan presided over the meeting as the leader of the civilization. He was also a part of the Dream Lyre Project and had participated in the construction of the Dream Lyre as a coordinator over the years.

So he actually knows the overall progress of the Lyra mission. He is asking this question now because of the meeting process and because everyone has their own expertise. The Dream Lyra Project involves knowledge from all aspects, and some things require specialized researchers to explain.

"The report is out and has been shared to everyone's personal terminals!"

The speaker was Long Xinglv. Advances in anti-entropy factor technology had extended his life once again, which was his personal good fortune and also a good fortune for human civilization.

After a pause, Long Xinglv scanned the room of people present, some in person and others in virtual form, and then said, "Thirty thousand years ago, the Dream Lyra had already completed the welding of the folded space. Each or every string combination used to weld the folded space and the Calabi-Chou manifold has been tested and everything is normal."

"But the difficulty of manifold rewinding was beyond our expectations. Our most powerful super quantum computer has been working continuously for 30,000 years and still hasn't been able to calculate all the rewinding details. This is the main reason for the delay in our project."

"For a long time, although we have mastered the ability to become a cosmic-level civilization by mastering the vacuum zero point, our computer technology has not progressed much. To put it bluntly, our current computer technology is not much better than that of a civilization at the level of a sixth-level civilization."

Long Xinglv waved his hand and operated the holographic device in front of him. Then, with a thought, he retrieved the information he wanted to see through the mental link and said, "Over the past 100,000 years, we have also learned about the creation and upgrade plans of the Silver Heart, the Awakeners, and the Daya civilization. We have found that the complexity of the Dream Lyra far exceeds that of their flagship, so it cannot be said that our computer technology is inferior to theirs."

"However, the delays in the Dream Lyra project have also exposed our shortcomings in computer technology. It can be said that our existing computer technology no longer meets our development needs. As you all know, the Dream Lyra is a warship with a Calabi-Chu manifold hull, and its various attack methods, or rather, every attack we launch by plucking the strings, require the cooperation of a powerful computer."

"But our super quantum computer seems to be overloaded at present. If such a computer is used to assist the Dream Lyra in the future, it will inevitably affect its combat effectiveness."

"To solve this problem, the comrades of the Computer Science Department of the Academy of Physics have devoted themselves to research for tens of thousands of years, but still have not found a solution. However, I do not believe it is their problem, but rather a problem of our own human civilization. Well, or rather, a problem of humanity itself." At this point, Long Xinglv deliberately paused, and the attendees took advantage of his pause to discuss quietly with the people next to them.

An engineer stroked his stubble and muttered, "I know about this. Those computer scientists have plunged headfirst into the quantum ocean, trying to find a more efficient model. I heard they even proposed a computation model that doesn't require any computation process, but it seems a bit far-fetched."

Another engineer responded, "That's true, but you can't blame them. Sometimes progress is hidden in seemingly absurd conjectures."

One researcher joined the discussion: "Hey, I think it's our human talent in quantum computing that has reached its limit. Didn't Chief Scientist say it's our human problem?"

The engineer who spoke first nodded: "Possibly. What are those computer scientists doing? After so many years, they've only made so little progress, and this is affecting the development of the entire civilization. Can't they be more flexible?"

Researchers: "How can we find a workaround? It's easy to say, but the field of computer science only has a few paths. We've already reached this point in quantum computing; we can't just go back to the photonics computer route. If we had just scrapped everything and started from scratch with the ternary system when we encountered the dynamic graph civilization, perhaps we wouldn't be in this predicament now."

The engineer disagreed, shaking his head and saying, "What's the point of talking about this now? Unless we start all over again, we can't possibly go down the ternary route. Besides, the efficiency of binary isn't much worse than ternary; the key is that we haven't studied it in enough depth."

"Moreover, what I am most worried about is the possibility of interference with quantum computers. As far as I know, many quantum perturbations can affect entangled quantum particles, causing quantum decoherence, which in turn affects the normal operation of quantum computers. Although error correction systems can correct these errors, they will still affect the operation of supercomputers in the end."

At this point, the engineer noticed that a computer scientist sitting in the back row was still sitting calmly and composed, so he turned around and said, "Hey, Lao Luo, you're in the computer field, you must have some inside information, right?"

The scientist, known as Lao Luo, laughed and said, "There are no rumors, but there are some official reports."

"Oh? What do you say?"

"You should still remember the Divine Ju civilization, right?" Old Luo didn't answer, but asked in return.

"Isn't that nonsense? That's the Divine Mobility Civilization! Who could forget them?" The engineer twitched his lips and scoffed. "What does this have to do with the Divine Mobility Civilization? They were all taken away by the Simplified Civilization. Who knows if they'll ever meet them again in this lifetime!"

Luo was speechless at this answer. He simply shrugged and said, "I'm telling you, Engineer Tong, you don't seem to pay any attention to the development of the computer field at all. Didn't the Divine Ju civilization propose using gravity to build a supercomputer back then?"

(End of this chapter)