Lighting up super-god technology in the Three-Body World

Chapter 186 On Weapons

Chen Zhou took a deep breath; although this action was unnecessary in the Second World, it had become a habit.
"President Jiang, I now truly realize the shortsightedness of the Trisolaran leader. He naively believed that the Trisolaran civilization was so powerful that it could ignore the Blue Star civilization. His arrogant and conceited manner is truly laughable."

Jiang Fan did not agree, because compared to the humans in the original work, the leader of the Trisolaran civilization was already quite good. At least he did not have the idea that he was the best in the world and had enough respect for the deterrence system.

However, times have changed.

“When to build the insect bridge depends on when you can convince the Trisolaran people. Do you understand what I mean?”

Chen Zhou put on a serious face.
"President Jiang, I understand. I will do my utmost to promote your ideas and clearly convey the concept of integrated development of civilizations to all the people of the Three-Body Problem!"

What defines a progressive? This is what defines a progressive. If it weren't written that way, Jiang Fan would have given Chen Zhou a medal for being a sent-down youth.

"Alright, let's head back first. It will take at least a year to create clones of over two million Trisolarans."

"During this period, cloning chambers and mind transplant chambers will be mass-produced to meet the material requirements of interstellar society."

"at the same time,"

Jiang Fan looked at Ding Yi and the others.
"Gentlemen, the insect bridge technology is merely a trick using bubbles, and our true technological level is still inferior to that of the Trisolaran civilization. Do not be arrogant!"

"The most direct manifestation of this is that we still know nothing about the sophon project, and our research on the dimensionality increase and decrease of microscopic particles is limited to basic collision experiments."

"Furthermore, regarding energy, while nuclear fusion energy is inexhaustible, the fusion devices are extremely large, resulting in our interstellar warships being equally enormous,"

"In the early stages, this design could indeed sustain a spacefaring environment for a very long time,"

"But with the further development of 3D material printers, warships no longer need to carry large quantities of readily available supplies,"

"If we want to establish an interstellar society through roaming operations, then miniaturizing the spaceships is imperative. Otherwise, even if we exhaust all the resources of the entire solar system, we still cannot meet our need for one ship per person."

"besides,"

Jiang Fan chuckled to himself at this point, a sudden, but unavoidable laugh.

"Our weapons systems haven't been developed in over 50 years, which is incredible, but it's true."

"Aside from the crudely made antimatter bomb we produced recently, our most powerful weapon is still the hydrogen bomb from the UN era."

After laughing, he looked at Chen Zhou and asked,
"Sinking Boat, does the Trisolaran civilization have any unique insights into the concept of weapons? For example, what kind of violent equipment have you developed?"

Upon hearing his name called, Shen Zhou involuntarily straightened his posture, much like a high-achieving student leader. After a brief moment of thought, he answered,

"President Jiang, the Trisolaran civilization does not focus on developing weapons because they don't need them."

"We have indeed considered a way to destroy a star,"

"Using a ring accelerator, heavy particles are accelerated to near the speed of light and then launched."

"Based on the principle of the speed of light mass and the principle of kinetic energy,"

"The closer a substance is to the speed of light, the greater its mass."

"The greater the mass, the greater the kinetic energy, therefore it is possible to obtain 'heavy light particles' with theoretically infinite kinetic energy,"

"But in practice, it is not feasible."

"Because energy cannot be created out of thin air, creating heavy light particles with infinite kinetic energy would require an infinite amount of energy, which is simply impossible."

"So we abandoned the idea of ​​destroying stars and instead hoped to manipulate the laws governing the movement of stars by manipulating gravity, which is the so-called gravitational weapon."

"But like kinetic weapons, manipulating a star's gravitational field would require an energy input that is far greater than the star's mass, which is not feasible."

"The discovery of antimatter later led us to consider whether we could create an energy weapon to destroy stars through explosions," "Calculations showed that destroying a star would require energy greater than the star's binding energy, approximately 6 x 10^41 joules,"

"Even if the matter-antimatter annihilation effect could achieve a 100% mass-energy conversion rate, it would still require 3 x 10^24 kilograms of antimatter,"

"The entire Trisolaran star has a mass of only 7.899 x 10^21 kilograms, which is not even enough to cover the mass of matter in a matter-antimatter annihilation effect,"

"Not to mention that creating such a large mass of antimatter is completely beyond the capabilities of the Trisolaran civilization."

"In the end, we pessimistically discovered that civilizations that have not left their star systems have no way to alter their stars."

"So they abandoned the idea of ​​developing weapons,"

"It wasn't until the discovery of the Blue Star civilization that some kinetic and energy weapons were created, such as seamless material impact spheres, high-intensity polymer laser beams, antimatter bombs, and so on."

A group of people listened with great interest, almost cracking open a handful of sunflower seeds. When it comes to questions involving celestial bodies, the numbers involved are definitely not small.

Destroying a star is much harder than destroying a planet. How much mass does a planet have? Its gravitational binding energy is less than one trillionth of that of a star!

One kilogram of antimatter could destroy the surface environment of Earth, and 133 million tons of antimatter could blast Earth in two, but that would be far from enough to cause its collapse; it would heal itself over time.

Therefore, developing weapons is actually a false proposition.

Human weapons are primarily used to exterminate life, but in the eyes of other civilizations, weapons may be a means of changing the environment, or, on a deeper level, a means of changing the rules!

Therefore, developing weapons from a human perspective and with human-defined standards seems incredibly idiotic, just like the two thousand rounds of fire during the Spring Festival in the original work—nuclear bombs and lasers couldn't even penetrate a droplet of water.

For the Trisolaran civilization, the water droplet was merely a seamless material sphere, at most containing acceleration and deceleration devices.

After listening, Jiang Fan asked a question.
"You can all create sophons, haven't you ever thought about developing dimensional weapons? Extending the means of dimensional shifting from particles to macroscopic matter."

This is the two-dimensional foil mentioned in the original work, which can compress the three-dimensional world into a sheet of paper. The Trisolarans must have known about this technology, as can be seen from the three fairy tales given by Yun Tianming.

Shen Zhou glanced at Jiang Fan twice and replied,
"We've considered this issue, but manipulating the dimension of just one proton would consume the energy needed to build a warship, and the stellar activity in the Trisolaran system doesn't support our continuous use of stellar energy,"

"Therefore, this idea remains only a concept at present."

Jiang Fan asked again,

"Have you ever considered developing rules-based weapons?"

Chen Zhou frowned and said,
"Rule-based weapons? You mean the kind of weapons in science fiction that can alter the laws of physics?"

Jiang Fan nodded.

"Yep."

Chen Zhou thought for a moment and then said,

"Such weapons may exist, but we cannot understand them because our scientific systems are built upon the rules of physics as they are today,"

"It's like life inside a bottle; no matter how the environment outside the bottle changes, we're still inside the bottle,"

"To put it more bluntly, everything, including our thoughts, is built upon the current physical rules. If any of those rules were changed, we might cease to exist."

"So, I don't understand."

Jiang Fan squinted as he pondered something; he had underestimated the power of rules.

This thing is likely more powerful than dimensional weapons, since dimensional weapons still fall under the category of utilizing the laws of physics.

(End of this chapter)