Chapter 140: Cooperation at the Theoretical Level

“Huaxin News Agency reports.”

“The first formal meeting between Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization in Ganymede City on Ganymede has concluded successfully as of today.”

“The delegation of Stuo Civilization has departed from Ganymede City’s Stellar Port, returning to their civilization’s fleet group.”

“Beyond serving as a crucial step and key milestone in interactions between Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization,”

“Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization also engaged in specific exchanges of theoretical knowledge and scholarly communication among researchers in fields such as physics and mathematics.”

“It is expected that through this exchange with Stuo Civilization, our civilization has gained significant new knowledge and theories in previously undiscovered, unmastered fields, resulting from differences in our civilizations’ modes of thinking.”

“In multiple branches of physics, mathematics, and other disciplines, our civilization’s relevant theories are poised for substantial rapid development.”

“Based on information from the Negentropy Research Institute, following this formal meeting with Stuo Civilization, our civilization will continue cooperating and exchanging with Stuo Civilization in physics, mathematics, and other fields, further expanding the scope of theoretical interaction between our two civilizations.”

“Simultaneously, at the invitation of Stuo Civilization, in two months, the delegation of Human Civilization will formally visit Stuo Civilization’s city, meeting again for communication.”

Regarding this meeting between Human Civilization and Stuo Civilization,

within the HCC (Human Coalition) and the general public, it can be said that people paid unprecedented attention.

This was the first true face-to-face exchange between Human Civilization and an Extraterrestrial Civilization,

a key step in the communication process with the first Extraterrestrial Civilization encountered by Human Civilization.

In terms of the enormous benefits achievable through such interactions between civilizations,

the overwhelming majority within the HCC could infer that,

as long as nothing unexpected happened during this meeting and the two civilizations didn’t engage in conflict,

then inevitably, for the foreseeable future, extensive exchanges in technology and theory would occur between them.

After all, why would Stuo Civilization travel so far, spending so much time to reach Human Civilization’s Solar System otherwise?

And similarly for Human Civilization, missing out on Stuo Civilization could mean incomprehensibly long waits for the next chance to engage with another powerful Extraterrestrial Civilization.

It was foreseeable that, provided risks weren’t excessively high, Human Civilization currently leaned heavily toward pursuing exchange.

One could say,

the outcome of this meeting significantly shaped the future trajectories of Human Civilization, perhaps even the destinies of both civilizations.

However, unfortunately,

during the meeting, no live broadcast of the historic first encounter between Human Civilization and an Extraterrestrial Civilization was provided by the HCC.

Previously, Huaxin News Agency had only reported that the meeting had commenced,

and then no further updates followed.

Anxious people could only wait,

and now, the results of the Human-Stuo meeting were finally revealed!

Among the HCC populace,

those who had been both nervous and hopeful undoubtedly breathed a small sigh of relief upon reading the report’s content—

at least the civilizations hadn’t immediately gone to war.

Even though, if conflict broke out, the HCC vowed to retaliate fiercely against Stuo Civilization despite Human Civilization’s settlements facing possible annihilation,

avoiding war remained vastly preferable.

The report’s mention of significant gains in physics and mathematics via Human Civilization during the exchange

further fueled people’s anticipation.

Moreover,

this Huaxin News Agency report included images capturing moments from the delegates’ meeting,

offering the public its first relatively direct glimpse

at the appearance of this first-known Extraterrestrial Civilization encountered by Humanity.

“The Stuo people seem a bit taller than us… I recall hearing Stuo Civilization’s intelligent species reproduces via sub-body splitting? Wonder how that actually works.”

“Your curiosity borders on personal… though Stuo Civilization individuals do look quite distinctive.”

“Well, obviously! Stuo Civilization likely finds us pretty weird too.”

Amidst tension, people overflowed with curiosity about Stuo Civilization.

A completely unfamiliar, long-migrating civilization in the cosmos—

how do its intelligent beings live? What are their customs and society like?

Too many unknowns.

Subsequently,

utilizing currently obtained information about Stuo Civilization,

Huaxin News Agency produced a special report commissioned by the HCC,

providing a basic overview of Stuo Civilization and its intelligent species,

partially satisfying public curiosity,

and alleviating some of the excessive anxiety and unease stemming from the unknown at this stage.

“Sleeping a dozen times a day, just minutes or a dozen minutes each time? Hard to imagine… Stuo individuals probably can’t fathom us sleeping for hours straight either.”

“Maybe Stuo’s original habitat was harsh, requiring constant high alertness.”

“Possibly… Hard to gauge how much this exchange will impact our physics and math theories… I study theoretical physics myself—was going to graduate this year. Hope I don’t get stuck.”

“Wishful thinking—definitely stuck! Forget Stuo’s entirely different theoretical development path; even minor deviations would have explosive effects. New fields will emerge, new theories, better frameworks, answers to seemingly impossible old problems.”

“I research a niche problem in partial differential equations. PANICS MORE… Don’t know whether to hope Stuo already solved it, or hope it’s still unsolved.”

“If unsolved, I might never see the answer in my lifetime. If solved… I’ll be scrambling for a new thesis topic overnight.”

Heated discussions erupted,

vibrating from online spaces to reality, making everything feel unusually animated.

People already foresaw that even this initial theoretical exchange would trigger vast changes within Human Civilization.

Indeed,

in the following period, events within Human Civilization absolutely lived up to expectations.

…

After the Human-Stuo meeting concluded,

some additional time was spent compiling findings and conducting further research spurred by new insights.

Then,

output of research results in theoretical physics and mathematics within Human Civilization exploded.

Major breakthroughs in mathematics and theoretical physics

suddenly flooded out, like papers handed out freely at a wholesale market.

First, papers detailing theories from domains previously unknown to Human Civilization, or solutions to unresolved problems, all directly obtained from Stuo Civilization,

were published, authored under “Stuo Civilization” or the individual Stuo researchers who originated them.

Next arrived papers by Researchers at the Negentropy Research Institute and all relevant fields across Human Civilization,

who made fresh advances on longstanding research problems thanks to inspiration from Stuo Civilization’s different perspectives.

These also began emerging steadily.