Chapter 280 Diminishing Margins and Technological Freeze

With the level of science and technology of a second-level civilization, the social management capabilities it can support are limited.

Social management also requires costs. There is nothing wrong with a man being left alone. If a thousand people stay together, there will be chaos if there is no management system.

If there is a social management system, corresponding social resources need to be paid. The larger the population, the more social resources are required to pay for the management system.

An obvious truth is that the difficulty of social management increases exponentially as the population increases.

If the difficulty of managing a civilization with a population of 10 billion is 1, the difficulty of managing a civilization with a population of 20 billion is not 2, but at least 10.

The population has only doubled, but the difficulty of social management has increased to 10 times.

The improvement of social management capabilities depends largely on the level of science and technology.

If social management capabilities are insufficient, social welfare benefits will decrease, efficiency will decrease, happiness will decrease, and the fertility rate will decrease.

As a result, the level of science and technology is linked to the population of civilization through a series of complex mechanisms.

It is not impossible to forcibly increase the population under the current level of science and technology, as long as Han Yang is willing to bear the cost of further chaos in social order and further reduction in happiness.

But both Han Yang and ordinary people are obviously unwilling to bear the consequences.

Moreover, Han Yang discovered that forcibly increasing the population had no obvious benefits.

I originally thought that the larger the population base, the greater the number of scientific research people, and the faster the speed of technological advancement, this theory was actually untrue.

This involves diminishing marginal effects.

That is to say, under the premise that the quality of the scientific research population is not high enough, their brain capacity is not large enough, and their thinking speed is not fast enough, facing a scientific research project, it may take 100 people to complete it. If it is increased to 200 people, the number of people will double. times, but the time may still take ten months, which is only shortened by 16.7%.

If the number is doubled to 400 people, the time may still take nine months, which is only shortened by 10%.

In other words, the more people are stacked and the farther to the back, the slower the improvement speed.

In this way, piling up the scientific research population will not mean much to Han Yang and civilization.

Unless Han Yang can improve the quality of individual scientific researchers, making them have larger brain capacity, faster thinking speed, and smarter. But this obviously involves genetic science, which in turn involves basic science.

"Then there is no need to forcibly increase the population. Just let nature take its course and maintain a dynamic balance in the population of human civilization.

What I need to do is to reduce the communication costs of scientific researchers, improve their organizational skills and coordination, and indirectly achieve the goal of increasing average output under the premise that the quality of scientific researchers is limited. Coupled with my own existence, the scientific research capabilities of human civilization are still at least ten times that of other civilizations.

Moreover, the more advanced the subsequent technology is, the further it will be ahead of other civilizations. Well, the advantage is still with me, and it's huge. "

Han Yang increasingly realizes that technological development is a long-term undertaking and must be done step by step in a down-to-earth manner. Haste makes waste. Although his own existence has greatly improved the scientific research capabilities of human civilization, he cannot break this basic law.

Han Yang's mentality became more and more calm, and some of the impetuous atmosphere that existed before quietly disappeared.

With full development, more than 20 years after the launch of the human civilization exercise fleet, Han Yang finally achieved his first major breakthrough achievement.

Measuring electricity computers once again ushered in a huge breakthrough. In tens of thousands of special fields, quantum computers have achieved quantum advantages and replaced traditional electronic computers. This has resulted in a huge increase in the overall computing power of electricity measuring computers, which has increased by ten times.

At this moment, even if the latest warships consume more computing power than the warships during the expedition to the Eta galaxy, Han Yang has reached the level of being able to control 150,000 new warships at the same time, greatly improving his combat effectiveness.

At this stage, Han Yang is at least 60% sure that even if he goes on an expedition to Yuanshan Civilization and destroys it, he will do so.

Han Yang became more confident and calm.

Time passed by in a hurry, and more than ten years passed in the blink of an eye.

Since the first exercise fleet set off, in the past few decades, the entire human scientific community and Han Yang have never stopped researching and developing the latest generation of warships.

The large-scale research on basic physics and applied physics has provided sufficient support for the research and development of the latest generation of warships.

At this moment, Lin Lin finally figured out that there are already more than 100,000 new technologies that can be applied to battleships.

It covers everything from toilet water flow controllers to electromagnetic guns.

Seeing that time was almost up, Han Yang decisively issued a technology freeze order.

The so-called technology freeze is an engineering concept.

New technologies are emerging all the time. Just like the current human civilization, new technologies that can be applied to battleships emerge on average every day, ranging from six to seven to as many as twenty.

The design, development and manufacturing of warships takes time. You can’t just apply any new technology immediately after it comes out, right?

In this case, the new warship was about to be built, but today five new technologies were released, and they were re-designed. After finally designing it, and several new technologies were released and added to it, the new warship would never be built. .

This requires setting a time node and freezing the technology. That is, after this node, no matter how powerful the new technology is, it will not affect the manufacturing of existing spacecraft, and at most it will be put into the manufacturing of the next batch of updated warships.

After the technology freeze, the new warships quickly entered the research and development and manufacturing stage, and completed 1,000 ships again before another exercise node.

The second exercise fleet has set off, but at this moment, the first exercise fleet has not yet reached the Betelgeux system.

The distance between the stars is too far, which is also the norm for every civilization. Not only human civilization, but also the other three civilizations.

After the second exercise fleet set off, Han Yang immediately started the research and development of the third generation of new warships.

Time passed slowly. At this moment, in the vast space, Zhang Mingyang, the commander of the human fleet, slowly opened his eyes.

The cover of the hibernation cabin was slowly removed, and he sat up a little absent-mindedly. It took a while for him to come back to his senses and remember where he was and what mission he was performing.

In a blink of an eye, more than seventy years have passed since leaving the solar system. The fleet is about to reach Pollux and will start to slow down.

Recalling the time when we left the solar system and conducted uninterrupted training for ten years, it seems like it was just yesterday.

When I woke up, it was time to go to the battlefield.

That's right, in peacetime, this exercise is a war for the civilizations of the Yuanshan Alliance. The Pollux system is the battlefield.

"Then... let the other three civilizations see the combat effectiveness of human civilization!"

Zhang Mingyang is full of confidence.

As an officer who participated in the rebel guerrillas in the early days and participated in the expedition to the Eta system in the later period, Zhang Mingyang has excellent military qualities and is recognized as a rising star in the fleet.

Being able to send him to the Pollux system to participate in the exercise of the four major civilization fleets is enough to prove that President Han Liang attaches great importance to him.

At this moment, carrying the expectations of hundreds of millions of compatriots and the responsibility of fighting for honor for human civilization on the battlefield, Zhang Mingyang is not nervous at all, but full of ambition.

Come on! Come on! Let's see who is the king in this vast universe!

More than 80,000 elite soldiers in the fleet, as well as twice as many logistics and engineering personnel, also woke up and began to perform deceleration tasks.

At the same time, the soldiers also began recovery training, and the engineers began to repair the warships.

In case of failure due to mechanical failure, the face and dignity of human civilization will be lost, and no one can bear this responsibility.

At this moment, in the vast universe, the bright orange star is already in sight.

The mass of Pollux is about twice that of the sun. It is an old star that has entered the final stage of evolution. At this moment, its body has expanded into a giant star, with an increased volume, a reduced density, and a lower surface temperature.

In hundreds of millions of years, it will evolve into a white dwarf after losing most of its mass.

There are as many as a dozen planets around Pollux. Rocky planets, gaseous planets, planets with atmospheres, planets without atmospheres, Jovian planets, ocean-like planets, asteroid belts, comet belts, dwarf planets, everything is available, and the environment is extremely complex.

But it is precisely because of the complex environment that it is more suitable as a training ground. Because people can find almost any kind of galaxy environment here and fight in any environment.

After a long deceleration, the human exercise fleet finally stopped at Planet No. 7.

This is a rocky planet without atmosphere, with a mass between Mars and Venus. The Yuanshan Alliance allocated this planet to human civilization, and from then on, the exercise personnel will be stationed on this planet.

The aerospace mothership stopped, and a large number of engineering machinery and engineers descended on the surface of the planet and began to build industrial systems and various air defense bases according to standards.

Zhang Mingyang led the fleet leaders and took a small spacecraft to the director base in space.

The fleet leaders of the other three civilizations were already waiting here.

Wearing space suits, Zhang Mingyang and his party had just entered the venue when they saw that the total number of people sitting in front of them was as high as more than 300. The other three civilization fleet leaders who were also wearing space suits stood up at the same time and applauded enthusiastically.

While clapping, they also cheered loudly: "Welcome, welcome! Warm welcome!"

"Long live mankind!"

The three commanders personally trotted up to greet them and shook hands with Zhang Mingyang enthusiastically: "Welcome, welcome! We've finally got you here!"

For a moment, Zhang Mingyang even wondered if these aliens had sexual orientation issues.

The new year is coming, I wish everyone a happy family and all the best in the new year.

In addition, I would like to ask for some guaranteed monthly tickets...