Three-body: The Most Competent Wallfacer in History

As Number Three said, every aspect of the Solar System State had changed due to the technological explosion and the establishment of the provinces.

The technological explosion mostly impacted the lives of the Solar System State's citizens, raising the standard of living considerably with the popularization of new technologies.

The colonies in the New Continent Star System gradually acquired a touch of sanctity; even the bustling areas lacked the intense atmosphere of revelry and decadence, beginning to resemble the portrayal of advanced civilizations in pre-Galaxy Era science fiction novels.

With the establishment of provinces, humanity's living space became unprecedentedly vast. One hundred and fifty million people may sound like a lot, but that's too few for a whole star system.

The Governing Council, besides encouraging fertility, also implemented a new round of popularization of genetic technologies.

As long as one held citizenship of the Solar System State, the next generation could use genetic technologies to obtain a minimum lifespan of five hundred years.

Because lifespans doubled, the population would also explode in the next one or two centuries.

Other fields symbolizing the power of a civilization, such as artificial intelligence and basic industries, had also developed rapidly.

Finally, Number Three said, "In the 31st year of the Galaxy Era, Jiang Shiliu and Thirty-Six reached the Four-dimensional Fragment. For over thirty years, they have been engaged in research on four-dimensional space.

"The Academy of Sciences also set up a special team to provide them with theoretical support.

"But because their research was extremely slow, the two often hibernated. They had just entered hibernation last year.

"Before hibernating, they made me promise to report their research progress to you, hoping you would further support their endeavor."

Jiang Yu was taken aback, "Doesn't Yun Tony support their work?"

"It's not that," Number Three said with a wry smile, "Jiang Shiliu thinks the support is still not enough.

"Let me first talk about their achievements. First, they found that there's no four-dimensionality at the microscopic level.

"That is, since there are still many four-dimensional fragments at the macroscopic level, four dimensions have not fully entered the microscopic realm.

"At the same time, their research on dimensions produced many valuable by-products.

"For instance, they found a way for three-dimensional protons to unfold in lower dimensions, which is key technology for the Trisolarans to create Sophon.

"However, we don't have a great need for Sophon, and both research and production costs are too high, far less practical than interstellar probes, so the proposal to produce Sophon has not been passed."

Jiang Yu nodded, "That's right, not everything from the Trisolarans has to be good.

"Sophon is a product of its time; nowadays, if humanity encounters other civilizations, they either escape or eliminate them. There usually isn't a need for long-term secret surveillance, so there really isn't much use for Sophon."

Number Three continued, "The second by-product is that they found a way to use the properties of parallel universes to create microcosms.

"The area of such microcosms may not be large, but they can exist independently of the larger universe, and with further mastery over the time dimension, they can even adjust the speed of time within the microcosms.

"Thirty-Six used a comparison you made before when explaining to me that the large universe is like a huge basin filled with soapy water.

"Many external forces constantly blow new soap bubbles in the basin, and the way to create a microcosm is to blow a small, civilization-controlled soap bubble within these larger bubbles.

"Such a small soap bubble can drift freely in the universe, and even god-level civilizations would have a hard time detecting it.

"We believe that the microcosm technology of the Trisolarans you previously mentioned likely uses this principle.

"According to Thirty-Six, this technology is simpler than we imagined, mainly because in theoretical aspects, we need to look beyond the superficial laws of the current universe.

"Previously we were helpless, only deceived by many of the universe's superficial phenomena, which is why we didn't notice these theories."

Jiang Yu stroked his chin in thought, "We need to raise the security level of this technology. We can keep the technology to ourselves for now, but it's not yet time for widespread application.

"If it becomes widespread, many will use it to avoid the current Dark Forest.

"As I said before, we must have an unflinching resolve to become hunters in the Dark Forest. The moment we have an escape route, that determination will be massively affected.

"Always thinking of hiding away and letting others develop their civilization, then reaping the benefits, would cause social turmoil.

"However, we do need this technology; the microcosm could serve as our last resort to avoid a Dark Forest Strike.

"Directly classify this project as top-secret!"

"Okay!" Number Three added, "The third by-product is quite surprising. Jiang Shiliu calls it a transportation technology.

"They found that the forms of virtual and real particles in four dimensions differ greatly from those in three dimensions, and after numerous experiments and observations, Jiang Shiliu believes that god-level civilizations may have also altered the appearance of particles.

"It's as if they've painted a layer on the particles, making it difficult for us to observe the state of the particles' virtual and real transformations.

"Of course, some believe it is our observation method that is incorrect, so we can't see the particle's form.

"This debate is very complex; I'll just give you the result. Jiang Shiliu found that under certain conditions, real and virtual particles can be switched.

"When a real particle becomes virtual, the corresponding virtual particle will definitely become real.

"This reaction, in theory, is like quantum entanglement and can occur anywhere in the universe.

"I'll give you an example: imagine having a particle converter on both Blue Maiden Star and Earth.

"When a real particle becomes virtual in the Blue Maiden Star converter, the corresponding virtual particle in the Earth's converter can become real.

"For example, if a piece of chewing gum's real particles on Blue Maiden Star were all converted to virtual particles, then, in theory, the real particles of chewing gum would appear in the Earth's converter."

"Fuck," Jiang Yu couldn't help but curse, "This is like a train in the universe!"

Wouldn't it simplify transporting materials across star systems?

Number Three replied with a wry smile, "This is still just a theory for now. First, there's the challenging problem of synchronization, how to make the virtual particles corresponding to the real particles in the Blue Maiden Star converter appear in Earth's converter?

"Plus, the conversion of virtual particles into real ones is at the particle level; it's very likely that even if the conversion is completed, we would still find it difficult to receive a piece of chewing gum.

"There is still a long way to go before this technology can be applied."

Yet Jiang Yu smiled cheerfully, "Thirty-Six and Jiang Shiliu have never disappointed."

He then asked, "What kind of support do they hope for?"

Number Three continued to wryly smile, "They believe that the current state of humanity is too lax, we should continue with the military management approach, gathering the whole of humanity's power to develop advanced technologies!

"They want to scale up their research on the by-products they've discovered, at least five times the current scope of research, which is tantamount to 90% of the Academy of Sciences' resources being at their service."