Character Introduction
Zhang Xiangqian was born in 1965 in Anhui. He has an older brother who dropped out in third grade and two younger sisters. The family was extremely poor, and as a child, Zhang had to dig for ricefield eels to supplement the household income. Zhang's academic performance was above average, but unfortunately, he failed the pre-selection exams for two consecutive years (at that time, there were quota restrictions for the high school entrance exam, requiring an internal school pre-selection exam first). After graduating from junior high school, he stayed home to farm. In 1985, at the age of 19, Zhang Xiangqian claimed to have seen aliens in a trance, which became a turning point in his life. He began researching the unified field theory in his spare time.
Knowledge Taught by the Aliens
1. Principles of Spacecraft Motion
By using artificial field scanning technology, the mass of the spacetime surrounding an object can be reduced to zero, thereby achieving the speed of light.
The spacecraft has three states: zero-mass excited state, tiny-mass quasi-excited state, and normal state.
The spacecraft contains a ring-shaped empty gun, with circulating charged particles inside providing propulsion.
The direction of spacecraft motion and the spiral direction of the particle flow follow the right-hand rule.
It can switch between excited and quasi-excited states to achieve any flight speed.
2. Communication Technology
The brain can directly connect to the global public information network to access data and exchange thoughts.
Artificial field communication surpasses electromagnetic communication, using space as the transmission medium and enabling faster-than-light propagation.
3. Modes of Transportation
The global public transportation network enables teleportation and automatic food delivery services.
It uses nine ring-track artificial field generators to form the transportation network.
4. Biological Evolution
Water-based life forms have complete body shapes but struggle to evolve hands, while land-based life forms can use tools but have less robust bodies than water-based ones.
There exist parasitic crystalline life forms, but their unique parasitic methods are not explained in detail.
5. Civilization Classification
Civilizations are classified into low-level, intermediate-level, and high-level based on technological advancement.
The criteria for high-level civilizations also include the degree of virtualization.
6. Detection Technology
Fields are used instead of lasers for interstellar ranging and positioning, offering higher precision.
Questions
Why Don't Aliens Have Internal Organs?
The alien's body interior is merely a simple cavity, lacking complex organs such as the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys, and bladder. This is to simplify the body structure, making it lighter and avoiding illnesses caused by organ issues. The alien's respiratory, digestive, and excretory systems are all "outsourced" to an external circulatory system. Food is directly delivered into the body via the global transportation network, providing energy in a highly processed liquid form rather than through normal digestion. Waste is also processed by the circulatory system and does not circulate within the body. Such a body structure avoids organ aging and abnormalities, achieving agelessness and immortality.
Therefore, aliens lack internal organs to simplify their body structure, reduce weight, avoid functional diseases, and achieve a higher degree of mechanization and near-immortal biological attributes. Their survival relies on external support from the global circulatory system. This design theoretically maximizes the durability and operational efficiency of life forms. It also aligns with the characteristics of more advanced civilizations as described by the aliens.
Do Aliens Need to Learn?
Aliens can directly connect their brains to the global public information network using artificial field scanning technology. Through the information network, aliens can directly access any knowledge data, much like how we look up information online. Furthermore, aliens can directly copy knowledge data into their brains, achieving direct learning and knowledge acquisition. This means aliens do not need to learn through sensory systems like humans do, such as reading with their eyes or listening with their ears. They also do not need to rely on cumulative time to deeply study a subject like humans do. Through direct "infusion" of knowledge from the information network, aliens can instantly master any knowledge. This contrasts sharply with our need to gradually absorb knowledge through learning in schools or other platforms.
Therefore, based on aliens' ability to quickly and directly acquire global knowledge, they do not actually need to undergo the "learning" process as we typically understand it. Direct mastery of knowledge is sufficient, meaning they essentially do not need to learn. This is also one of the characteristics of more advanced alien civilizations.
What Does the Virtualization Indicator Mean?
Virtualization refers to the extent to which a civilization has evolved, specifically whether its material world and spiritual world have achieved integration. Low-level civilizations primarily remain in the material world, with the spiritual world limited to individual psychology or religious domains. Intermediate civilizations begin using technology to achieve partial virtual experiences of thought and senses, such as in games and simulations. High-level civilizations can fully project thoughts into virtual space, where efficient thinking and communication work can be conducted. Extremely high-level civilizations can even achieve consciousness分身 and parallel computing in virtual space, improving work efficiency. They can also achieve superpowers like psychokinesis and teleportation of objects, enhancing efficiency in the material world. The more virtual a civilization is, the more it can free itself from biological instinctual limitations and achieve a more advanced form of evolution.
Therefore, the virtualization indicator measures the degree of integration between a civilization's material and spiritual worlds, as well as the extent to which it has freed itself from biological instincts. This is also positively correlated with its level of civilization.
Why Do Land-Based Organisms Look Similar?
Early terrestrial life consisted mainly of microorganisms, which gradually evolved into higher life forms. Because terrestrial environments have relatively uniform resources and survival requires solving relatively complex problems, such as locomotion and feeding, this determined that land organisms must develop functional limbs, such as four limbs, for movement. Furthermore, terrestrial survival requires the development of senses like vision and hearing to gather information. Therefore, under selective pressures, land organisms evolved symmetrical upright limb structures and relatively complete sensory systems. This effective survival model easily gained an advantage in evolution and became a fixed pattern, leading to a high degree of uniformity in the body structures of land organisms. In contrast, aquatic environments are more lenient, allowing organisms to evolve along more diverse paths, resulting in more complex and varied forms among aquatic life.
So, simply put, it is the influence of the terrestrial survival environment on the selection of life forms that leads to a relatively uniform pattern in the appearance of land-based life.
What Do Qualitative Change and Quantitative Change Mean?
Quantitative change refers to changes in an object's motion state solely due to factors like its own speed and position. For example, the ordinary motion we understand, such as a car driving or an airplane flying, involves only changes in speed and position, with mass remaining constant. This falls within the realm of conventional motion in Newtonian mechanics, well-described by scientists like Newton and Galileo. Qualitative change refers to changes in the intrinsic mass of an object during its motion. The alien spacecraft can achieve the speed of light precisely because it can alter its own mass at will, transitioning from a zero-mass state to light speed. This ability to arbitrarily change mass and break conventional motion patterns is qualitative change. Qualitative change represents a new, unprecedented paradigm of motion, making faster-than-light object movement possible.
So, simply put, qualitative change means the mass of an object can change, while quantitative change is limited to changes in position and speed. This is also the fundamental motion mechanism of their spacecraft.
What Are the Criteria for Judging a Planetary Civilization?
Technological Level: Measured by the ability to perform interstellar travel, master faster-than-light communication, and other technological tools. Tool Usage Level: The ability to manufacture and use complex tools, especially spatial displacement tools. Civilization Education Level: Whether direct knowledge learning and a global public information network have been achieved. Biological Evolution Level: Whether intelligent life has broken free from the fixed patterns of natural evolution. Social Structure: Whether a unified and coordinated global social organization and management system have been established. Spiritual Civilization Level: Whether consciousness virtualization and psychokinetic control of matter have been achieved. Civilization Sustainability: The ability to overcome resource depletion and environmental threats to achieve sustainable development. Interstellar Influence: The ability to supervise and guide the development of lower-level civilizations. Civilization Security: Whether effective systems to prevent nuclear war and civilizational self-destruction have been established. Civilizational Self-Awareness: Whether a unified cultural identity transcending race has been formed.
Striving for higher levels in the above aspects indicates a more advanced and sophisticated level of planetary civilization.