Chapter 28: Tower of Civilization
Babel can also be called Babylon.
They both mean "the gate of God" in the ancient Babylonian language.
In the Bible, the Tower of Babel is a tower built by humans hoping to lead to heaven. In order to stop humans, God made humans speak different languages and use different characters. Humans could not communicate with each other, which led to the emergence of many races and countries in the world.
This tower was only half built and was not completed.
In 4819 AD.
Ella spent 70 years to build the complete Tower of Babel.
The tower flew to Proxima b. Its shell was like a pointed conch with spiral patterns on it. The overall surface was like a silver mirror. The false windows emitted dazzling light, sacred and majestic.
Almost when it approached Proxima 30 astronomical units, the Proxima civilization had discovered this giant.
The entire civilization was in chaos.
The alien civilization they feared really arrived.
The heads of civilizations began to meet and discuss solutions within a few days.
Attack!
Try every possible means to destroy the spaceship.
Almost at the same time, the image of the spaceship spread rapidly within the civilization, and some creatures were stunned when they saw the appearance of the spaceship.
"Powerful hunters will not hide, but will treat the surroundings as their hunting grounds."
"One day, the thing that civilization fears will finally come, that is a silver-white tower emitting strong light."
"It is impossible to know whether they carry good intentions or bad intentions, but the tower is alone in the universe and will not attack or be destroyed. It opens its door and waits for people to enter."
"There is a secret treasure of civilization on the top of the tower, which can be obtained through many tests. Is it a gift from civilization or a poison for civilization? It is there, waiting to be picked."
"Those who pick up the secret treasure will become the messengers of advanced civilization, have supreme power, control powerful and unparalleled military forces, and even enable civilization to complete a leap. It will become a hero of civilization and immortal."
This is information that has been scattered on the civilization information network for decades.
No one has ever cared about it.
Just treat it as information that gets emotional satisfaction like other prophecies.
But the real thing has appeared before our eyes. This information spread among civilizations at a speed thousands of times faster than in the previous decades.
Soon, a senior official came out to refute the rumor.
"This is just a coincidence."
"We have hundreds of millions of such prophecies. No matter what situation we encounter alien civilizations, there will be a similar one."
"We have mobilized the weapons of the entire civilization and plan to destroy it."
"We can't surrender and retreat, otherwise what awaits us will be the demise of civilization."
"There will be no traces of us in the universe. We have evolved through hundreds of millions of years and civilization was born in tens of millions of years of precipitation. We should not have such an ending."
"At this moment, we should be like a spear, piercing the throat of the enemy scout, making the enemy hesitate and afraid."
The fierce declaration is still imprinted in my mind.
A few days later, a large number of warships were dispatched.
The largest main ship is a perfect sphere, somewhat like the "Golden Heart" in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", but larger, with a diameter of 10,000 meters, like a miniature planet.
Behind it is a huge propeller with a diameter of 2km, which uses the kinetic energy of dark matter.
Dark matter was first proposed on Earth in 1922 AD.
Dark matter in the universe is likely to account for 85% of the total amount of matter, while the matter we can see is only 15%.
It was born from the hypothesis that the movement of celestial bodies does not conform to Newton's universal gravitation. Until the destruction of mankind in 2037, it was only in the theoretical stage.
However, when Ella really entered the universe, she could confirm that dark matter does exist. It has mass, its speed cannot reach the speed of light, and its interaction with light is extremely weak. It almost only participates in gravitational interaction, and does not participate in electromagnetic interaction and strong interaction.
Dark matter is extremely stable and not easy to be discovered.
This kind of matter is essentially different from the matter we can see. They are inert in the universe.
Dark matter is a low-energy matter. It has only weak interaction force, that is, weak force, and reaches an extremely weak level, and even does not react much with quarks.
Ella speculates that dark matter only reacts with strings. The reason for this speculation is that Ella's technology has not yet reached the level of discovering strings.
The closest to dark matter is the inert neutrino, but the inert neutrino is still a little "stronger" than dark matter.
Although dark matter is very low-energy and only interacts with gravity in the macroscopic dimension.
However, dark matter itself can release a lot of energy through decay, and because it is widely present in the universe, it is a rich resource and can be produced through the fission and fusion of matter, which leads to its conditions as energy.
It is just that it is relatively difficult to use the energy of dark matter, even more difficult than the energy of antimatter. Only a very high level of civilization can detect dark matter and use it as energy.
This is the case with the Proxima civilization.
However, they are still in the early stages of dark matter utilization.
The spacecraft of the Proxima b civilization is extremely bulky.
Since their civilization developed, they have not experienced long-distance navigation. Without this demand, they naturally cannot develop.
Nothing can be obtained by theory. The long-distance navigation capability of a civilization that has traveled in the universe must be stronger than that of a civilization that has not traveled in the universe.
After the spacecraft started, it flew towards the tower.
The speed of the huge spacecraft was only 1584km/s, which naturally crushed Yan Xia, who used electromagnetic power before, but now Yan Xia's fleet has already replaced it with a more advanced power system.
21 days later, the spacecraft arrived at 10 astronomical units from the tower.
This is the distance that the civilization's weapons can hit.
The front of the entire spherical spacecraft began to separate into six petals like petals. These petals were not connected to the hull, but flew to a place about 50 kilometers away from the spherical spacecraft as an independent hull.
Up and down, left and right, a semicircle with a diameter of 110 kilometers was formed.
The spacecraft in the center began to emit a strong light, and lightning with a thickness of at least 100 meters began to wander on the six components.
These lightning formed a circle in space, which looked like a magic circle from a distance, releasing terrifying power.
When the energy reached its peak, the captain in the spaceship yelled, "Fire!!"
There was no observable matter.
Just like the antimatter Yan Xia had fired at the Hundred Eyes Star before, when the other civilization did not have the equipment to observe antimatter, the "shells" fired by antimatter weapons were invisible to that civilization.
The dark matter energy shot towards the Tower of Babel at 99.28% of the speed of light.
"Our civilization is sacred and inviolable. Anyone who dares to enter our galaxy will be destroyed regardless of civilization."
The tentacles on the captain's chin waved, and the first two pairs of three pairs of legs jumped up and slammed heavily on the floor of the spaceship twice.
More than 3,000 spaceship soldiers in the entire spaceship also yelled and made the same action. This seemed to be some kind of exciting action of this civilization similar to the earthlings holding their fists high above their heads.
It takes 84 minutes to reach a distance of 10 astronomical units.
There are no screens in the spaceship, but their bodies have been modified, and information is directly transmitted to their nerve centers, allowing them to generate information similar to pictures in their brains without seeing them with their eyes.
They waited.
168 minutes later.
They saw the terrifying dark matter bomb hit the Tower of Babel, and the energy generated by its detonation released a large number of high-energy photons, which escaped in all directions, forming a huge light ball with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers.
The light ball collapsed in the next moment and quickly condensed into a molecular-sized energy body, which exploded again.
This continued for 6 times before it indicated that the attack was truly over.
The total energy released in the 6 times was about 2700 trillion dense equivalents.
"This is our victory. For the first time facing the attack of an alien civilization, we have defended our homeland."
The captain shouted again that the spacecraft was to this civilization like a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier carrying nuclear warheads in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The dark matter energy cannon is the most powerful weapon of their civilization.
At the same level, its power is 1,700 times stronger than that of a fission nuclear bomb. Although it is still a certain distance away from the 2,222 times of matter-antimatter annihilation, it is not far away. You must know that they only master the lowest level of dark matter technology.
This proves that the potential of high-energy dark matter energy may exceed matter-antimatter annihilation.
The captain has turned around.
But the information in his mind solidified his excitement.
After the dazzling light comparable to looking directly at a star in the universe dissipated, the tower still stood, it was intact, as if the explosion did not exist.
"How is this possible?"
