Thanos' tall and burly body was originally very oppressive, but it looked much more elegant and easy-going with the straight suit and the gold-rimmed glasses on the Bilian.

He nodded, walked into the conference room and greeted his colleagues.

Then take out a stack of paper documents from the briefcase and distribute them to other members of the Project Management Committee (Titan Star senior management still advocates the use of paper documents rather than electronic documents when holding meetings to prevent information leakage).

Everyone opened the document and glanced at it. The content of the document was divided into two parts. The first part was roughly the breakthrough in the research and development of the super-light engine. In a very short time, it could develop the super-light speed starship belonging to Titan.

There is no doubt that this is definitely great news for the whole world to celebrate together.

The successful development of super-light engines is beneficial to the nation, the country, and even the entire civilization.

It not only means that the interstellar colonization plan has obtained the most critical puzzle, but also means that the Titan civilization's power will expand greatly in the future, with benefits to the present and future generations.

Just after reading the first part of the document, the senior executives of the Aerospace Administration who attended the meeting were already excited and wished to immediately smash the Peace Prize and Lifetime Achievement Prize at Thanos's team, allowing him to stand on the throne and push him directly to the altar.

Considering the historical significance of superluminal engines, this treatment is not an exaggeration.

Just as the participants were beating their hearts and couldn't help themselves, Li Ang raised his hand and signaled everyone to continue reading the second part of the document.

"Display the colonization project of ktx-456134 now?"

The deputy chief executive of the Aerospace Administration read out the title of the second part of the document, raised his head in confusion and glanced at Thanos, "What's going on?"

In the second part of the document, Thanos explained in a serious tone the need to launch an interstellar colonial plan immediately.

Looking at the warning between the lines, if Titan cannot colonize the alien planet within a hundred years, it will be destroyed in an instant, just like a country and a seed.

Everyone raised their heads from the documents and looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.

The deputy chief executive glanced at Li Ang, who was sitting in the chief, looked at the latter's eyes closed and meditated, so he had to cough lightly and said to Thanos,

"Thanos, first of all, on behalf of myself, my colleagues from the Aerospace Administration, and all the people of Titan, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you, and thank you for your efforts in the development of superluminal engines, but..."

No matter which race, civilization, or language system, once the word "but" blurts out, it means that the first half of the discourse can be invalidated, and the second half of the sentence is really the decisive effect.

"But, isn't the interstellar colonization plan you proposed too urgent?"

The deputy chief executive said hesitantly: "The star area where Titan is located is quite barren. Even the habitable planet KTX, 456134, is hundreds of light years away, even the habitable planet closest to us.

The plan of colonizing aliens that is beneficial to the present and future generations is undoubtedly the most important thing.

But building a superluminal engine takes time, building a supporting spacecraft takes time, training crews takes time, convincing the government and the people takes time,

What's more, before sending the colonial spacecraft, we need to send an unmanned scientific research ship and a manned scientific research ship for a comprehensive inspection.

Every job requires a lot of time, not just by rushing.”

The deputy chief executive shook the documents in his hand and said softly: "Everyone here has worked step by step from the grassroots level, and no one is an amateur.

Everyone knows that even if there is a super-light engine, the KTX-456134 planetary colonization plan will take three hundred years to plan, at least two hundred years,

In your plan, it is constantly emphasized that more than 70% of the population of Titan must be transferred to the KTX-456134 planet within a hundred years..."

The deputy chief executive picked out gentle words as much as possible and said to Thanos, an unprecedented engineer, with a kind look, "Is this a bit... unrealistic..."

If someone else had come, the Deputy Chief Executive would have been so rude that he would have been so polite.

Thanos took a deep breath and said calmly and firmly: "I know the request I made is quite excessive, but there are legitimate reasons for this - our planet is on the verge of collapse."

No one said that in recent years, among the various nest cities of Titan, the collapse theory has been hustle and bustle. A small group of people believe that Titan will face a huge political and economic crisis sooner or later and will collapse completely.

Behind this theory, many data reports are involved, and even professionals cannot find obvious rules from the cumbersome numbers, so the market for collapse theory is not large - usually concentrated in those angry people.

Everyone in the conference room is an elite who has received higher education and does not buy much about the so-called collapse theory - most people believe that the Titan is in a new historical period at this stage, and the overall situation is extremely stable. The collapse is completely absurd.

Thanos felt the silent atmosphere. He looked around the people in the room and said slowly: "Since the birth of human society, human society has always faced a dilemma: the contradiction between the poverty of material life and the human reproduction requirements.

Simply put, the population proliferation ability is greater than the land's ability to produce human living materials. The increasing population will exceed the land carrying limit, and the extra population will be eliminated in some way.

There are many forms of expression in this way, such as plague and famine. Of course, the most common one is war - war can not only solve population problems, but also produce many more material resources.

Before the Titans developed a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, we struggled in the quagmire of war for thousands of years, until now, we thought that the energy we made could help us get out of this trap.

On the surface, we succeeded, the fusion reactor continuously released energy, almost inexhaustible.

We have enjoyed thousands of years of peace, and the term war has never been so far away.”

There is nothing new under the sun, and the problem Thanos pointed out is the Malthus trap - of course, on Titan, this theory has been changed.

The Deputy Chief Executive interrupted, "Sorry, Dr. Thanos, what do you want to explain?"

Thanos glanced at him and said slowly: "We were wrong.

Although controlled fusion reactors provide inexhaustible energy and delay the onset of population traps, the problem is the problem.

It is like a pustule, hidden under healthy skin. As time goes by, this pustule that looks no different from other skins will continue to accumulate highly toxic pus. It will not explode suddenly until the time comes, causing fatal damage to the entire living body."

There were still not many expressions on the faces of the people in the conference room. They heard too many threat theories like this, and their ears were called in, and they could not cause any touch.

Thanos was not angry at all, and he said calmly: "I know this sounds ridiculous. The Titan civilization is rich and the people are strong. The technological strength is enough to provide sufficient material resources to support many nesting cities.

Even if the population is too crowded, we can come up with the idea of ​​sending people to the space station and keeping all elements in a balanced state. Even if the people are a little dissatisfied, they will not have any thoughts of disrupting social order because of the excessive pressure of survival.

However, we seem to have forgotten one thing, that is the speed of technology development.”

There are many talented and agile people in the conference room. When they heard this change slightly, Thanos continued: "Since the invention of the controllable fusion reactor, we have enjoyed a thousand years of peace.

Technology has been developing continuously, and it has been constantly transforming technological power into productivity, suppressing the contradictions of population issues.

However, the development of this technology is entirely based on the theory of unified physics thousands of years ago.

In the past thousand years, we have only contributed to the unified theory, but have never made any breakthrough progress. If we expand our sight to a thousand years, it is easy to find that the iteration speed of scientific theories and science and technology is constantly slowing down.

At present, population problems can still be balanced, but when the development of science and technology completely stagnates, the ever-increasing population cannot be erased because of war.

This is like a pressure cooker that is gradually becoming unbalanced inside and outside. When the pressure increases to the limit, the pressure cooker will become a bomb.

I can guarantee here that if within a hundred years we will not be able to transfer the vast majority of the population to another planet,

At that time, the population will grow to its limit in a logical manner, unprecedented pressure on survival will overwhelm everything, and our civilization will collapse instantly."

Thanos' tone was sincere and serious, and even the bureaucrats of the space agency had to start thinking about this issue seriously.

Someone frowned and said, "Why do you say that population issues will overwhelm everything?"

The plan to transfer population to the space station was repeatedly discussed and studied by think tanks many years ago, and can perfectly relieve social pressure.

In addition to the macro-control of the Titan government, I guide public opinion, and I don’t think any sudden incident will break out.”

Thanos nodded and said, "What the think tanks are thinking about is the situation at that time, but they underestimated the level of chaos in human nature.

During my college years, I took an emerging course called ‘Psychological History’, which is also called ‘Social Physics’.

In order to regard the overall movement of human beings as a change in matter itself, we will comprehensively consider the social elements such as politics, economy, culture, military, etc., and combine the public psychology to infer the future development direction of society to a certain extent.

In short, this is a science similar to 'big data derivation'. As long as you collect enough information and use appropriate algorithms, you can predict human history."

After saying that, Thanos took out his personal information terminal, pressed it twice, and projected a huge, extremely cumbersome calculation formula in the air.

Everyone was stunned. Although they had heard of the emerging sociological branch of "social physics", when Thanos said the four words "predictive history", they still couldn't accept it.

"Absurd! Nonsense!"

The elites of the space agency who had received higher education were a little angry. They regretted why they were wasting time. However, after they glanced at the icons, they were shocked to find that behind the cumbersome algorithms there were extremely wonderful mathematical rules.

Everything about psychology history seems to be happening for a while, and it seems that it can really form self-consistent...

More importantly, the future derived by those equations is not very good...

"A hundred years later, the Titans' tendency to self-destruct, abandoning social responsibility, contempt for the authority of the Titan government, and cruelty towards others and themselves,

It will make people exclude and even hate each other, abandon the great unified situation, divide the crowd again according to region, nation, civilization, and skin color, religion transcends science, and fanatical personality cult beyond democracy and freedom.

In the end, the entire Titan will fall into unprecedented civil strife, and people divided into countless groups will attack each other, and will no longer be able to form a whole. Technology will retreat by hundreds or thousands of years, and the natural environment and material resources will be destroyed unprecedentedly.

The Titans, who can never point out alien colonization technology, can only be trapped on the surface of the planet forever..."

Thanos Youyou said: "This is the future derived from social physics. Have you heard of the large filter theory?

The transition from intermediate civilization to advanced civilization will inevitably face a test. One of the contents of this test is to break through the population trap."

The conference room became quiet again, and the elites were a little skeptical - they had to admit that what Thanos said seemed to make sense.

"......What do you want us to do?" someone asked softly.

Thanos took a deep breath and said frankly: "It's very simple. I have developed a super-light engine, and all you have to do is to support my interstellar colonization plan on behalf of the Aerospace Administration.

As long as the population is transferred to the planet KTX-456134 within the time limit and the extraterrestrial colony is built, there is still a chance to recover everything."

The people in the conference room were silent and turned their eyes to Li Ang in the chief.

Leader, what do you think?

“…”

Li Ang's fingers were pounding back and forth on the wooden table. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said slowly: "Yes, your request will be met.

But you have to promise me a condition.”

Li Ang opened his eyes, looked at Thanos, and said calmly: "In your theory, the changing trend of per capita resource possession is the most fundamental factor that determines the social form.

War and peace, beauty and ugliness, everything can be attributed to the contradiction between finite resources and unlimited population.

Do you want peace? There is no war, no chaos, no peace in humanitarian tragedy,
To be continued...