Before industrial revolution , the development of human civilization was relatively slow. However, in the past few hundred years since the Industrial Revolution, human science and technology have made rapid progress, especially in the past 100 years, the development speed has become faster and faster.
So, many people began to look forward to the next hundred years or even more distant future. If at the current speed of development, can human beings dominate the entire universe in one million years?
Given the current development speed, let alone a million years, it is difficult for us to predict the height of human civilization in 100 years.
However, human imagination can be unbound, and we can imagine what will happen in the next million years.
There is a very important factor that restricts the development of human civilization, that is, whether it can develop peacefully, that is, there will be no civil war or large-scale civil war. Small fights are definitely inevitable, as long as there is no world war .
What would happen if human civilization could develop peacefully for one million years?
When human civilization begins to explore space, we will find that time is not the main factor restricting the development of human civilization, speed is the key.
The speed mentioned here refers to the speed of light. We all know that nature has a limit on the speed of light. If the limit on the speed of light cannot be broken, there will be a ceiling for the height of human civilization development, and a ceiling that we cannot break through.
The speed of light is very fast in our eyes, but once it is placed at the height of the universe, the speed of light is as slow as a snail. Not to mention traveling around the universe, even basic communication problems cannot be broken through. The distance between celestial bodies in the universe is often thousands of light years. Humans do not want to send a message to be received by the other party after tens of thousands of years, and then they have to wait tens of thousands of years before receiving the other party’s reply.
In the process of human civilization development, the dissemination of information is crucial, and information sharing must be implemented to maximize the development speed of human civilization.
For humans living on Earth, the speed of light is already fast enough, basically equal to instantaneous propagation. But the same thing is true, once you leave the earth, the speed of light appears to be very slow.
Fortunately, nature did not completely close the door to " super-light ", and still left us a window. The laws of physics only limit that any object with static mass cannot exceed the speed of light, and do not lock all objects.
Once the limit of light speed is broken, the speed of human civilization development will be infinitely possible. At the current development speed, as long as there is no large-scale victory within human beings, it is not impossible to rule the entire universe for one million years.
If there is a large-scale war within humans, such as the terrifying nuclear war , it goes without saying much, I believe everyone should know the result. Einstein once said this: I don’t know what weapons humans will use in World War III, but the weapons used in World War IV must be wooden sticks and stones!
implicitly, if a global nuclear war occurs, let alone dominate the entire universe, human civilization is very likely to regress to primitive society and start everything from scratch.
