Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1623 The Scientific History of the Calabash People

Ike, whose full name is Ayu Ike, seems to have lived a life filled with failures and disappointments. Even his parents were frustrated by how difficult it was for him to learn to speak, as he was much later than his peers in learning to talk and walk. His first teacher also thought he was a stupid and mischievous child because he always disrupted the class with silly questions.

Ayuaike had few friends at school and had little interest in the courses. After completing the compulsory education required by the Calabash People, he dropped out of school. Because he had no diploma, his teenage years were full of setbacks.

Even his girlfriend, with whom he had reconciled, broke up with him, mainly because she disliked his lack of ambition, and thus canceled their engagement.

Yes, the Calabash People also have genders, and they are still the two genders familiar to humans, but their reproductive methods are different from those of humans, or rather, different from the four civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization.

Although they have different genders, their way of mating and procreation is quite unique. Their mating is not about complementing each other's body parts, but rather about directly merging with each other.

That mode is like an evolved version of using quantum macro-tunneling ability to pass through each other's bodies when the two sides make contact. They can merge their bodies like two drops of water merging into one.

After fusion, the bodies of the two gourd figures will interact under the influence of a series of active and passive skills. During the interaction, both will experience extreme spiritual pleasure. The ritual is usually completed two and a half months later.

These two and a half months are, of course, a human concept of time.

About two and a half months later, they will separate again into two gourd people, just like the fusion and separation of the Metamasa Fusion Technique in Dragon Ball. However, the separation is different. The Metamasa Fusion Technique turns two people into one person, and after a period of time, it splits back into two people. The gourd people, on the other hand, become two or more people when they separate.

If two or more gourd-shaped figures appear during the split, it means that the two have successfully reproduced; if two figures appear, it means that the two have failed to reproduce.

The two gourd-like beings who failed to reproduce cannot immediately begin a second reproduction process, because they would also consume a lot of energy during that process and would enter a state of sagehood, just like humans after they have finished.

Because their fusion time is so long, their "wise man" period also becomes very long.

Research has revealed that this period of calm is a form of self-protection for both the mother and the offspring, a biological mechanism for self-preservation.

When Yue Yuan first observed the life of the gourd people, he was stunned for a long time by their sudden transformation from one gourd person into two or more. He thought it was a magic trick.

I never expected it would involve giving birth to offspring.

Different creatures have different mechanisms for perpetuating their species, and the gourd people are no exception. However, their differences are so extreme that they amaze everyone who sees them.

That said, being jilted dealt a huge blow to Ayuaike, forcing him to calm down and reflect on his life. After saying "thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river," he completed his self-examination and finally understood what he wanted. He began to study on his own and later successfully entered a higher education institution through a special examination.

There, he came into contact with the most cutting-edge knowledge of the entire civilization, and among the fields covered by that knowledge, the field of spacetime was the most interesting to him.

Later, through his own efforts and talent, he became a researcher at a renowned research institute, and in the years that followed, he made outstanding contributions to the spacetime theory of the Calabash Civilization. Even now, he remains one of the most prestigious physicists of the Calabash Civilization.

In his memoir, he wrote: "After I became a researcher, I noticed that the light from the sky was not simple. I eventually came to the conclusion that if I chased a beam of light at the speed of light in a vacuum, I could see that the electromagnetic field oscillating in the air at that speed of light was stationary. However, the theory at the time told me that such a thing did not seem to exist. So I assumed the premise that the speed of light does not change."

Later, Ayuk's assumption was called the Ekko principle of the constancy of the speed of light, and he also created a new theory of spacetime based on the principle of the constancy of the speed of light.

With the emergence of the new spacetime theory, the gourd people's understanding of spacetime has taken another step forward.

At first, the people of the gourds thought that the world was an endless line, and that they lived on that line. Until one day, they completed a round trip, proving that the earth beneath their feet was a circle.

The undeniable truth forced even the most stubborn gourd people to accept this reality, but they still believed that the shining star in the sky was a line segment, and that it was a line segment much shorter than their horizon, that the shining line segment shone as it rotated around the earth beneath their feet.

From a two-dimensional perspective, this is indeed quite reasonable.

Therefore, this understanding was once considered a universal truth by the Calabash People, until later a scientist named Jilili jumped out and said that the earth under their feet revolves around the line segment in the sky. So he was a fanatical cultist and was tied to a wooden stick and burned to death with plasma flames.

However, his ideas were inherited, and subsequent scientists continued to advance along his lines, eventually proving his claims with data recorded over countless years.

But this also brings a new problem. Since the stars in the sky always appear as a line segment, if the circle on the ground revolves around it, then there are two possible conclusions: one is that the line segment in the sky also rotates and always points one side of it toward the ground; the other is that the line segment in the sky is actually a solid circle, just like the ground beneath our feet.

Later, as the probe was launched into space, the gourd-shaped figure proved that the line segment in the sky was indeed a circle.

That was also the beginning. They finally realized that the stars in the sky were actually solid circles. Based on this, the gourd people combined their observations of the universe and came up with their own worldview.

In their understanding, the universe is a flat two-dimensional world, because a two-dimensional world does not have the obvious redshift phenomenon caused by planets moving away from each other, and the Calabash People do not have their own Big Bang theory.

On the contrary, they believe that the universe was originally like this, with various "star rings" arising out of nothingness. This is a pragmatic hypothesis of nature's creation, and Ayueke is a supporter of it.

Another hypothesis is the creation hypothesis, which originated in an era of ignorance. The ancient gourd people believed that the universe was created by God. This hypothesis has been forgotten and abandoned by many people in modern times as science has developed.

But when things suddenly changed before their eyes, and they heard a being claiming to be from the three-dimensional world speaking to them, Ayuaike and his assistant began to doubt the worldview they had held for so many years.

(End of this chapter)