Wandering Meteor-Chapter 172 - 171 Entropy Reduction Law

The second century-long plan is to utilize the full force of the Alliance to achieve Civilization Level III within one hundred years.

Since the Wandering Alliance had long obtained Space Energy Technology, and is now intensifying its research, Lu Chen set the goal to reach Civilization Level III within a hundred years.

Even though this timeframe might seem short, Lu Chen believes that with the concerted efforts of the entire Wandering Alliance, it can definitely be achieved.

And to accomplish this goal, Lu Chen is also open to any reasonable proposals.

Thus, at the conference, the scientific team of Earth Civilization immediately proposed an idea.

Earth Civilization suggested constructing an interstellar collider along the orbital path of Earth, mainly for particle research, and to accelerate the research on Space Energy Technology.

Because all the colliders on Earth are too short, one could say their energy level is too low, with the longest just encircling Earth once.

And the older large hadron colliders were even more pitiful, only a mere twenty or thirty kilometers long.

With colliders of such length, many microscopic particles couldn’t even appear through collision, thus Earth Civilization wanted to build a collider with a higher energy level.

But as the largest collider currently encircles Earth once, although it’s possible to circle multiple times, it would be considerably troublesome, so the perpetually imaginative scientists set their sights on space.

Moreover, constructing a collider in space is very suitable, as there is no need to consider the vacuum environment factors.

Secondly, the scientists also plan to use Earth’s gravitational pull during its orbit to power the operation of the interstellar collider, thus saving a portion of energy consumption.

Even though their current energy supply is seemingly inexhaustible, they can’t afford to waste it recklessly and must maintain the virtue of frugality.

When Lu Chen heard this proposal, he marveled at these scientists’ wild imaginations, and he agreed to the proposal.

After the second century-long plan was set, the meeting continued, only the third item wasn’t a plan, but Lu Chen publicly announced his own survival rule that he summarized over three years.

Lu Chen named it the "Entropy Reduction Law!"

After encountering the Entropy Beast, Lu Chen had already begun considering issues on entropy.

Then, following the Black Entropy Ball and the attack from Pirate Civilization’s entropy-based weapons, Lu Chen became even more resolute in his thinking.

Lu Chen believes that as civilization levels rise and scientific technology progresses, communication between civilizations becomes effortless, and the way civilizations interact will also change, thus the old survival rules slowly become ineffective, necessitating a new rule that better suits the current circumstances.

Realizing this, Lu Chen spent three years in deep contemplation, developing the Entropy Reduction Law.

Simply put, the Entropy Reduction Law states: every civilization in the universe pursues the continuation of its species as its primary goal, but the necessary condition for continuation is a stable environment, and to achieve a stable environment, entropy reduction of the whole system must occur, so the Entropy Reduction Law is an eternal rule that any cosmic civilization (whether aware or not) will follow.

Unless the nature of the universe itself changes one day, the possibility of the Entropy Reduction Law disappearing exists.

Above is the simplified definition of the Entropy Reduction Law.

Lu Chen believes that under the theory of the Entropy Reduction Law, any civilization aware that an increase in entropy accelerates its own destruction will strive to reverse their entropy increase and also vehemently avoid other civilizations from affecting their own entropy reduction.

Therefore, Lu Chen thinks that when the level and power of civilizations reach a certain point, fierce conflicts between them shift from overt to subtle, and an unavoidable internal conflict emerges since all civilizations exist under the same cosmic system, where any civilization’s reversal of their own entropy increase accelerates the overall entropy increase of the universe, aka speeding up the demise of the universe.

Once the universe perishes, all civilizations will perish simultaneously.

Thus, it could be said that every civilization born in this universe from the moment of its birth is a threat to each other.

Much like a small stream with a fixed amount of water, if the number of evolved aquatic creatures increases, the water resources, including the water itself, are depleted faster, intensifying the struggle.

Returning to the civilizations in the universe, if the cosmic civilizations don’t form alliances to create a unified entropy reduction system, they will inevitably try to eliminate opposing entropy-reducing civilizations to seize more resources while simultaneously slowing down the extinction of the universe, hence extending their own survival. freēwēbηovel.c૦m

Lu Chen therefore believes that under the Entropy Reduction Law, any civilization has only two choices: to ally or to oppose.

There is no such thing as neutrality; any civilization intending to remain neutral is surely harboring a profit-seeking, rogue intention.

Thus, when proposing the Entropy Reduction Law, Lu Chen also established survival rules centered on the theory of the Entropy Reduction Law.

Firstly, it is to hide one’s own entropy value in the universe as much as possible; secondly, to always be cautious of other civilizations using entropy weapons, just like that time with Pirate Civilization’s scientific team, where many civilizations might engage in friendly communications with you, but secretly use entropy-increasing weapons to disrupt your entropy system, thus slowly hastening your destruction.

This erosive method might take a long time, but it undeniably has the lowest risk.

Having said that, Lu Chen summarized all the survival rules into three points.

1. Under the Entropy Reduction Law, any civilization only has two options: to ally or to oppose.

2. Under the Entropy Reduction Law, each civilization will strive to hide its own entropy value.

3. Under the Entropy Reduction Law, each civilization must be extremely careful of other civilizations using entropy-increasing weapons under the guise of goodwill.

These three rules of the Entropy Reduction Law are what Lu Chen distilled after three years of contemplation, and he demands that every civilization within the Wandering Alliance must always adhere to and be vigilant of them.

After clearly articulating the specifics of the Entropy Reduction Law, Lu Chen further clarified the scope of the Entropy Reduction Law.

As no law is all-encompassing, there will always be its applicable region, just like Newton’s laws of motion, which perfectly fit the macroscopic world, but if expanded to the microscopic world, they face many inexplicable phenomena, leading people later to propose quantum theory to explain various phenomena of the microscopic world.

Lu Chen thinks the Entropy Reduction Law is similar.

The Entropy Reduction Law only applies to civilizations that have some research on the Entropy Law and understand the ultimate fate of the universe, typically those civilizations are at Level III or above.

For civilizations below Level III, due to limited thought and technological levels, many civilizations have a narrow vision and immense mutual distrust, thus they are more likely to adhere to the Dark Forest Law.

As for the law of the survival of the fittest, it applies to the entire universe and does not conflict with the Entropy Reduction Law or the Dark Forest Law.

After this profoundly impactful meeting concluded, Lu Chen fervidly utilized Space Acceleration, leading the Wandering Star System towards the Cosmic Center at 1.5 times the speed of light, and the Wandering Alliance began its exploratory journey into the Wandering Universe anew, with a fresh posture and understanding.