Abnormal crossing

Chapter 115 How to classify civilizations?

【Zhou】 civilization?
Hearing this word coming out of Jin's mouth.

Gu Wei was stunned for a moment, and a strange look flashed across his eyes.

Several times.
This thing is actually related to [Zhou]?
According to the introduction of Yuan Jin.

Billions of years have passed since the birth of this universe. Excluding the controversial first-generation civilization, there are only three civilizations in total that have touched upon the higher levels of the ancient tower, which is related to the field of polarized rift energy.

The current star sea belongs to one of them, and the remaining two are the [Xuguang] civilization and the [Zhou] civilization.

Among them, the [Xuguang] civilization is about 47 million years old and is the weakest of the three. Until its demise, it had not developed to the current level of the Star Sea civilization.

But the Zhou civilization was different.

It can be traced back to 1.57 billion years ago, and its level of civilization is the highest among the three. For example, a microwave radiation map engraved with a twilight trigger was unearthed in the ruins of Zhou's secondary capital. Many star scholars believe that this is a relic of Zhou.

True.

Gu Weimilo and others who have come into contact with Twilight Trigger naturally know that the real source of the microwave radiation pattern is the first generation civilization and has nothing to do with [Zhou].

But the fact that the mainstream opinion can reach the above conclusion is enough to give us a glimpse of the level of development of Zhou civilization.

Then Gu Wei pursed his lips and asked Jin, "Jin, what does this matrix have to do with [Zhou]?"

Jin touched Nuonuo's little head as if she was holding a hot water bottle, and said, "The Jilun matrix is a substance discovered and named by the Zhou civilization. The "Ji" and "Lun" in the name both represent a fairly long period of time in the Zhou civilization calendar."

"The exact span is still controversial in the historical community, but an 'era' is roughly between 8,000 and 10,000 years. As for the wheel, it is longer, about 50,000 to 60,000 years, about five or six times the epoch."

Gu Wei nodded as he listened.

The Chinese on Earth do have the concepts of wheel and period, but they are both only twelve years - the wheel is related to the reincarnation cycle of the twelve zodiac signs, and the period is the approximate time it takes for Jupiter to orbit the sun, which is also exactly twelve.

In addition to the wheels and the calendar, ancient China also had a 20-year "cycle" and a 60-year "jia zi" and so on.

In addition, there are some similar concepts in the West.

For example, the relatively niche Roman fiscal cycle of fifteen years, and the more popular Jubilee of fifty years - many people should be familiar with the term millennium.

Then Jin paused and continued, "The territory of Zhou civilization is even more vast than the sea of stars. When the territory is combined with time, the accumulated data is even more exaggerated."

"For a top civilization, these data cannot be discarded casually like garbage. Therefore, for a long time, Zhou civilization has been looking for more efficient data storage methods, and even ranked it at a very high position in the sequence of attention."

Gu Wei was stunned again, feeling a little surprised: "Data storage?"

"Don't think this is a small problem," Jin pulled out a line of data, as if she had guessed Gu Wei's thoughts: "For any civilization that has set foot outside its home planet, data storage is a matter of life and death."

"Take your Earth as an example. The so-called total data of a civilization can be divided into two parts: digital and non-digital. Digital data refers to electronic documents, Internet content, databases, audio and video, etc. Non-digital data refers to books, manuscripts, stone carvings, murals, buildings, oral culture, etc., which need to be converted into digital storage for estimation."

"According to what you described earlier, the total amount of digital data on Earth should be around 150ZB, or 150 trillion GB. Even a 20% annual growth rate is considered slow."

"I made a simple estimate of the non-digital data and it's about a few zettabytes, which can be ignored."

Jin's so-called estimation method is very simple.

The Earth Library has a collection of about 5 million books, and the average digital storage capacity of each book is about 500MB (text only) to MB (with illustrations).

Therefore, the total estimated volume is about 65PB (text only) to 65EB (text and pictures).

There are about 5 million paintings and sculptures, and the high-definition 3D scan of each is about 1GB. There are about 1 million historical buildings, and the 3D modeling data of each building is about 1TB. The total is about 10EB.

There are 5000 endangered languages, and recording 1 hours of audio for each would be about 100TB, with the total estimated to be about 5EB.

The rest of the miscellaneous stuff together adds up to about 150ZB.

"If we use traditional 4TB hard drives for storage, the number needed for just the Earth would not be less than 375 billion," Jin casually said a few rather ridiculous numbers:

"Even if DNA storage is developed, at least 700 kilograms of synthetic DNA will be needed - and this technology is much more complicated than a space elevator. It is easy to simply burn something, but the difficulty of industrialization is even at the same level as an engine with 11.9% the speed of light."

"That is, civilizations that have mastered DNA storage have at least opened up two or more star systems. At that time, the data storage they have to consider is another topic."

"If this is the case with planets and stars, what about a regular galaxy? What about a commercial galaxy cluster? What about a civilization that has hundreds or even tens of millions of galaxies as its basic components?"

The words that Jin said were like bangs on Gu Wei's heart.

Then Jin put the almost sober Nono back on the ground and brushed off the non-existent dust on her hands:
"Universe-scale data basically starts at NB or even DB, and the measurement term for civilization-level data is "Tai". According to existing literature, Zhou civilization even developed five galaxies larger than Blue Bridge as array processing centers."

"Under this premise, [Zhou Wenming] accidentally discovered a substance that could store large amounts of data 200,000 years after he set foot in the tower."

This time, Gu Wei followed Jin's rhythm: "Is it the Jilun Matrix element?"

"Yes, that's it," Jin nodded and zoomed in on another page: "The Jilun matrix element was first discovered in the special space-time kink region after the collision of black holes. It is a topological insulator that carries a non-directional magnetic monopole chain."

"Its three-dimensional surface and four-dimensional space form a Möbius-shaped conductive path, which can transmit Yotton-level energy without loss..about 10^23W of energy on your Earth. More importantly, each pico-cycle matrix element can store 10^28 bits of information."

"At the same time, due to its ultra-high condensed structure and the harsh environment in which it is generated, it is also called a dark information condensate."

"Its discovery has greatly reduced the data storage pressure of Zhou civilization, allowing it to expand its archives without restraint. It is also because of the existence of the Jilun Matrix that Xinghai was able to dig up a large amount of information about previous civilizations."

Only then did Gu Wei understand.

That's what it is.
To put it simply, it’s almost like you picked up a USB flash drive?
"Oh, right," Gu Wei then recalled Jin's initial words and continued to ask, "Jin, what do you mean by 'it's a pity'?"

"The enrichment is not enough, too little." Jin glanced at the probe on the platform and said with some regret: "The cluster of Jilun matrix elements you picked up is only a little over 1 Atk, which can only store the complete data of the general third-order civilization. Although the value is not low, it is just not low."

Complete data of a third-order civilization?
Gu Wei touched his chin.

When they first met, Jin defined the Earth as a Class II civilization. Later, when Gu Wei had a crew bracelet that could log into the Star Ocean Internet, he took the initiative to search for relevant information and roughly figured out the specific classification method of this Class X civilization.

In the star sea civilization.

From primitive tribes to the highest level of arbitration, there are eight categories, also known as the Eight Orders of the Star Sea. The so-called first-order civilization refers to those relatively backward primitive or feudal countries at the planetary level.

When a first-level civilization develops to a certain level, it can be promoted to the next level.

However, this is different from the industrial revolution on Earth.

The way Xinghai determines the first and second order civilizations is mainly based on the understanding of the physical framework - only civilizations that recognize the atomic structure can be classified into a completely new level.

This is actually not difficult to understand.

There are many ways for energy, or energy, to exist in the starry sea. Different types of life use energy in different ways.

But no matter whether you are a tentacle monster or a three-headed humanoid life, as long as you study along the energy line, you will inevitably come into contact with the same physical framework and recognize the same microscopic structure.

Therefore, for these primitive civilizations, the physical framework is the most universal means of division.

Take the Earth as an example.

According to Xinghai standards.

The time when the Earth broke through the first-level civilization should be after Rutherford proposed the atomic structure model in 1911, not in 1769 when Watt improved the steam engine.

The second-level civilization is the Earth before Gu Wei traveled through time. The hallmark of this type of civilization is that it has not stepped beyond the boundaries of the star's gravitational influence, that is, it is a civilization within the star system.

As for the third-level civilization, the definition span becomes much more complicated.

In the entire system, levels three to six are all related to star systems.

The so-called third-level civilization refers to the entry-level stellar civilization. As long as they can go beyond the star system, they are all considered third-level civilizations.

Simply put, it means mastering controlled nuclear fusion to ensure that the helium-3 combustion efficiency is greater than 99%, achieving normalized interplanetary navigation within a star system at 1% to 3% of the speed of light, and so on.

The requirements for the fourth-level civilization will be more detailed.

For example, a third-level civilization can be promoted to the fourth level only if a series of complex requirements are met, such as a collection efficiency exceeding 25%, a light-year logistics network is formed in multiple star systems, two-way conversion of matter and energy is achieved with a mass-energy loss rate of ≤0.0004%, and a star furnace can be built.

The fifth-level civilization is even more complicated.

First of all, a fifth-level civilization has rigid requirements for the territory it controls. The territory must cover more than 40,000 star systems, and there is no upper limit.

Technically, we need to directly master the technology of regulating the nuclear fusion rate of main sequence stars, accurately control the process of stellar evolution, and build a stellar engine to achieve the overall displacement of the star system, create localized cavitation bubbles in the star system, and the curvature drive coefficient will not be less than 0.7.
After the fifth-order civilization comes the pinnacle of star system civilization, which is the sixth-order civilization.

The requirements for the sixth-level civilization are equally numerous.

For example, we need to master the technology of easily compressing gas giants into micro black holes as energy hubs, build antimatter farms at the polar regions of stars, use stellar gravity wells to build cross-orbit instantaneous transmission networks, and easily transform a single star system into a foldable Calabi-Yau manifold, etc.
The above three to six levels are the complete classification of star system civilizations.

at the same time.

The sixth level is called a quasi-senator-level civilization, which can almost be regarded as the end point of all civilizations, that is, the ceiling that can be touched under normal circumstances.

Because the seventh and eighth level civilizations after the sixth level belong to the undisputed ruling class in the starry sky, and only one in a billion can break through.

The seventh-level civilization is also called the Councillor Civilization, and has only two requirements:
First, get out of the galaxy.

second
Can rewind/freeze the time flow of the entire galaxy ≤ 15 Planck time.

And the eighth level civilization?
Also called the Arbiter civilization, the requirements are equally simple:
Master the energy of polarization cracks.

The requirements for levels seven and eight can even be said to be the lowest in the entire civilization system, but the number of civilizations that can reach the corresponding heights is as pitifully small as the requirements.

According to the information found by Gu Wei.

Since the birth of Xinghai civilization, including those that have perished, there are only more than 490 seventh-level civilizations in total.

There are only ten tier eight arbitrators.
The number of the Jilun Matrix elements that Gu Wei picked up was small, so only the third-order civilization would probably be interested in it.

A Tier 3 civilization may sound okay at first, but don’t forget that a Tier 3 civilization in the Star Alliance is not an independent unit.

Although their technological level is not as high as that of other high-level civilizations, their trade channels have not been blocked - the third-level civilization can purchase other equipment to carry its own data.

Therefore, the actual value of the Jilun Matrix is lower than it appears on paper.

Then Jin waved upwards, and soon a robotic arm carrying a small bottle came down from above.

Jin reached out and held the small bottle in her palm. After looking at it for a few seconds, she handed it to Gu Wei: "Here, keep it."

Gu Wei took it and put it in front of him to look at it for a few seconds.

The appearance of the small bottle is a bit like the Kiehl's bottle he liked to use before he traveled through time. The bottle is two or three centimeters high and the material is transparent. You can't see the real object inside, but there is a light purple gas flowing slowly.

It is clear.

This gas should be the so-called chakra matrix element.

Tian Li, who was standing by, saw this and came to Gu Wei: "Gu Wei, can you show me?"

Gu Wei handed the small bottle to her with confidence.

Tianli took the bottle and shook it gently, being careful not to touch the knob. "This is the Jilun Matrix. I heard about it when I first learned to read, but this is the first time I've seen it. It seems that my 796th version of the treasure hunting formula is still very useful."

Talking and talking.

Tianli suddenly thought of something, her face froze, and she quickly glanced at Milo: "Captain, I didn't mean it. If you want to find someone, go find Gu Wei."

Milo had a question mark on his face: “???????”

(End of this chapter)