In a sense, quantum communication technology is a typical case of economic demand driving technological progress.

As mentioned earlier, in the early 21st century, although humans built geosynchronous orbital accelerators, they still failed to make a decisive breakthrough in the field of quantum theory. Scientists proposed to establish a cyclo-sun orbital accelerator, but because of the huge engineering, they were rejected by politicians.

In the second decade of the 22nd century, with the emergence of the craze for colonization of Mars, a major explosion in the scientific community's research in the field of quantum theory.

There is no doubt that this is also the result of national competition.

In the early 22nd century, China took the lead in sending astronauts to Mars, and there were as many as 120 people. It was not a simple landing activity, but built a semi-permanent base on Mars, half of which remained and began to expand the infrastructure. In the next few years, China gradually expanded the scale of the Mars Antarctic base, making it a permanent base, and more than a thousand astronauts were deployed.

At that time, China once planned to declare Mars as China's territory.

But, in the end, it didn't do that.

The main reason is that other allies have raised objections, believing that Mars should belong to humans like the moon, not to a certain country.

The Chinese authorities can ignore the feelings of the European Federation, but cannot ignore the opposition of dozens of allies.

The key is that China has carried out Mars development projects separately from the beginning and did not allow other countries to participate, so there are also great differences within China on whether to share. Many politicians believe that since the allies have not contributed to the Mars project, there is no need to share with the allies.

Obviously, this certainly won't work.

The ultimate solution is to allocate the significant benefits you will gain on Mars based on the contributions made by each country in Mars engineering.

Of course, the most important benefit is colonization to Mars.

You should know that by the beginning of the 22nd century, the global population had exceeded 30 billion, and the growth rate had not slowed down. Demologists have predicted that by the end of the 22nd century, the global population is likely to exceed 500 billion, exceeding the maximum capacity of the earth under normal circumstances. Colonization to alien planets is the only way to solve the population explosion, and Mars is an ideal choice to accept the remaining population on Earth.

Perhaps, in the 22nd century, Mars was not very important.

However, in the 23rd and 24th centuries, whoever can control Mars will have mastered the future of mankind.

You should know that in theory, Mars can accommodate about five trillion people. The main reason is that Mars, like the moon, does not have ecological protection problems. In theory, it can be transformed into a planetary city, that is, every corner on Mars, which can become a residence for human survival.

Of course, this is just a theory.

However, the gap between this theory and reality will not be very large.

Deciding how many people a planet can accommodate is not how large the surface area of ​​the planet is, but whether there are enough resources on the planet, especially energy.

Obviously, the energy mentioned here mainly refers to hydrogen.

You should know that by the middle of the 22nd century, with the maturity of the third generation of controlled fusion nuclear technology, hydrogen element became the main symbol of human energy.

To put it bluntly, mastering the third generation of controlled fusion nuclear technology means that humans have mastered the secret of the sun.

Of course, on Mars, there is not much hydrogen.

However, near Mars, there is hydrogen.

For example, scientists have discovered that in the asteroid belt, at least more than 10,000 asteroids or meteorites are entirely made of ice, and some asteroids have a large amount of solid methane. If you look further out, Jupiter is a gas giant planet mainly composed of hydrogen. Many of Jupiter's dozens of moons are made of hydrogen, and many of them are covered with solid methane, and even one satellite is covered with dozens of kilometers of ice. These are energy sources that can be used by humans.

More importantly, Mars is much closer to this resource area than Earth.

In other words, starting from Mars and mining the energy resources of the asteroid belt and Jupiter is much more convenient than starting from Earth.

These factors determine that in the next two hundred or three hundred years, Mars is likely to replace the earth and become the main place for humans to reproduce and prosper.

There is no doubt that whoever occupys Mars will master the future of mankind.

Later, humans in the universe were able to surpass humans on Earth and become the subject of human civilization, which was mainly related to Mars, that is, humans living on Mars are eight times that of humans on Earth. When the number of humans in the universe is far more than humans on Earth, humans in the universe naturally became the subject of humans.

However, in the early 22nd century, no one knew that in more than a hundred years, "state" would become a historic noun.

After China made concessions, countries around the world have thrown up the "Martian colonization boom".

At that time, the communication problem was the most important problem.

To this end, China joined hands with 19 countries including the United States and India that participated in the development of Mars and proposed to fund the research on quantum theoretical physics through international cooperation.

However, in the end, it was not carried out through political funding, but through corporate funding.

To be more precise, it is organized by the government. Companies that fund scientific research will obtain fifty years of patent use rights and charge patent use fees from other companies that have not participated in scientific research. The patent system will be abolished after fifty years, so that research results will become the common wealth of all mankind.

Of course, doing this is mainly to ensure that the company's scientific research investment can get returns.

Interestingly, enterprises are much more motivated than government, because in the economic development of the universe, communication means have become the biggest problem that restricts the development of productivity.

In a sense, if communication technology is not improved, human space activities may have temporarily ended.

In 2120, the political fu group of China and other 20 countries signed an agreement to jointly build a ring-sun particle accelerator with more than 10,000 companies from these 20 countries and thousands of companies from more than 80 other countries, and the ring-sun particle accelerator project was officially launched.

In a sense, this is definitely the last sprint initiated by human civilization to quantum theory.

Although it had been proposed at that time that if the ring-sun accelerator set between Mars and Earth orbits could not make a major breakthrough in the field of quantum theory, it would be possible to build a larger accelerator, which would be deployed between Neptune's orbit and Pluto's orbit. However, from an economic perspective, perhaps by the 24th century, humans would not have enough ability to build such a large accelerator.

Of course, most physicists, especially quantum theory physicists, are full of hope for the ring-daily accelerator.

Theoretically, this accelerator can accelerate protons to speeds that are extremely close to the speed of light, and the difference between them and the speed of light will not be higher than one trillionth of a trillion. After reaching this speed, you can basically find fundamental particles as if the protons have reached the speed of light, and you will be 99% sure to find the basic particles.

Theoretically, discovering fundamental particles is the basis for making breakthroughs in quantum theory.

This huge project lasted for twenty years.

It was not basically completed until 2141.

Just a year later, scientists have made major breakthroughs in the field of quantum theory.

Although scientists still did not find the elementary particles at that time, using the ring-daily accelerator, they obtained the first pair of quantums with the same bit.

This is a pair of protons.

This gain is enough to make the approximately one billion dollars invested by nearly 20,000 companies in the past twenty years valuable because it is the basis for obtaining quantum communication capabilities.

With this foundation, manufacturing quantum communication equipment is no longer a problem.

In 2147, the first experimental quantum communicator was released.

In just three years, quantum communication equipment has replaced all electromagnetic communication equipment in space and has become a must-have on every spacecraft.

Of course, this is just the first way of application of quantum theory in engineering practice.

In 2158, the first quantum computer was born.

Although the performance of this computer is not high, and it is not even as good as that of home electronic computers at that time, the potential of quantum computers is almost unlimited.

More importantly, scientists have discovered that the human brain is actually a quantum computer.

To be precise, it is not done in electromagnetic mode when the human nervous system exchanges information, but in quantum mode.

In fact, this is precisely why electronic computers can never surpass biological nervous systems.

To put it bluntly, it's like an abacus cannot surpass an electronic computer.

Of course, the biological brain, especially the human brain, is much more complex than quantum computers, but is similar to quantum computers in basic principles.

After the birth of quantum computers, the measurement standard of supercomputers is no longer the speed of computing, but the degree of intelligence.

By the end of the 22nd century, quantum computers basically replaced electronic computers, and their applications ranged from daily human life to aerospace adventures.

Of course, before 2092, every quantum device contained a considerable patent fee.

The result was that all the companies that invested in the Sun-Road had made a fortune and became the most powerful companies in the human world. In the end, these companies formed five major economic consortiums that supported the development of human economy through mergers, annexes, alliances, etc.

In fact, it is these five major economic unions that ultimately contributed to the birth of human beings in the universe.

In other words, in the universe, humans and humans on earth part ways, in addition to the differences in values, contradictions in economic interests are the real reason. Of course, this is also in line with human nature. You must know that in human history, there are economic contradictions behind any major political change. It can even be said that the human political system itself is based on the economic foundation.

In any case, the major breakthrough made by humans in quantum theory is definitely a great leap in technology.

However, Hengyuan's technological obstacles in front of humans have not been eliminated, that is, quantum theory seems to have no end, and the huge ring-daily accelerator still does not allow scientists to find elementary particles.
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