6 things that make no scientific sense in aging

The changed is a high concept science fiction story that asks many big questions. It asks us – rightly – to concentrate more on the human parts of Jan's Adventure, and leaves the Whys and how exactly his space expedition works for good old -fashioned video games Technobable. There is no reason why we don't have a bit of fun and can explore some of the game's scientific action holes!

Thinking about Project Dolly opens up many questions and quandries as well as some dilemmata that may be even greater than those in the game that are presented.

This article contains spoilers. We recommend ending the age at least once before we read on.

It is never explained faster than easier to travel

Project Dollys Quantum computer is designed in this way Optimize the best possible resultEspecially to find and extract rapidium. For this purpose it The ship navigation system adapts constantlyTo point it towards a star system and a planet that most likely contains the difficult to grasp.

It's all good and good, but it still doesn't explain how Jans ship and the rescue ship follow, You can reach a different star system in a few weeks. We know from Lucas' mutilated message during the prologue that the planet is circulating Gliese 3804also known as as Red dwarf L 762-51, after in addition Sternkatalog. That brings Jan 37 light years from earth.

The times vary every round, but on the assumption that the rescue team leaves around 30th day and arrives by day 90, this is a 60-day trip, i.e. Ally Corporation ships can travel with a rough average of 225 times the speed of lightwith a slow estimate. However, how this performance is achieved is never explained and is apparently frequently enough that nobody assumes no one at any time.

Theoretically, it is impossible that something in the universe with the mass exceeds the speed of light, no matter what this speed travel with hundreds of times.

Time dilation does not exist, except if this is the case

A common science fiction puzzle is Time dilationMaybe the most famous in the film Interstellar. Simply expressed, the closer you get to the speed of light, the more time the time seems to be coming forward. It is not foreseeable how much this would have been influenced by Jan, but it does not seem to have had any effects on the mobile basis nor on earth.

Jan, who was just under the speed of light about 266 years, give or take, Would have passed on earth. Lena would not be questioned. It is possible that breaking the light speed barrier also makes time dilation, but that should be explained in the universe of the game.

The scientist mentions time dilation in the discussion of temporal anomalies, so we know that it exists at least as a concept in Jan's World.

Whose idea was it to use a huge Monowheel?

The mobile base has a cool design, but to be honest, it is amazing that it is still standing when Jan achieves it – no matter at the end of the game. It must have carried out a kind of preliminary survey on the planet before he sent people there if it was in no way to know what kind of deliveries the crew would need. If the Ally Corporation can send people, you can send drones.

The rocky, unequal terrain of the planet means that everything is a potential obstacle to the base Twenty-storey Monowheel design. Even worse, the planet has an atmosphere that can produce clouds and rain, and that means that wind is blowing against A flat surface with a high focus, So it risks the whole thing. The design of the base may be conveniently modular, but it is a disaster that is waiting to happen.

What exactly are the ages made of?

Rapidium does not create people from the whole fabric; Rather, it Accelerates the natural growth process of organisms This raises the question of what the changes are actually built from.

It makes sense that the ship has sheep embryos on board to test potential rapidium that it would have found. that is Exactly what Jan doesWhich leads to the birth of Molly during the prologue. It makes much less sense that there would have been human embryos on board for some reason. let alone up to seven, Especially since the creation of ages was never part of the original plan, even for Maxwell.

It is possible that with progress in medical technology, all of the uterus actually needed some stem cells that the sick party could have at hand to improve the limbs and organs for emergencies, but that is Only our best guess. Maybe it is better not to know in this case.

Is nobody being concerned that the planet proves the existence of extraterrestrial life?

If your jaw did not hit the floor when the game told you that he should “collect organic organisms on an alien planet”, you have not careful in science lessons. Organic matter by definition, must come from living or formerly living organisms. Jan spends the entire game surrounded by irrefutable evidence of life that exist in a place other than the earthAnd nobody mentions it once.

The only explanation is that the discovery has already been made and taken into account, And it is simply accepted. Otherwise there is no reason why the basis would be Run on fossil fuels And expect that the crew will bore for you after your arrival. Still you would think that The answer to one of the most fundamental questions in the entire human existence Could have earned a line somewhere.

The scientist is enthusiastic to discover living microorganisms in the rapidium oasis at the end of his action, but also not nearly as excited as he could expect if he had been the first to discover the living aliens. This promotes the theory that alien life is rare, but not unknown in the universe of changes.

The quantum computer could cause the end of humanity

The quantum computer is a tech brother dream. A AI model that can create a fully functional, sensitive human intelligence based on available data. Not just that, it can Plan and carry out the development of a human brain from fetal level to adulthood, fully, Designing and building one of the most complex structures that are known to science with (comparatively) limited side effects.

This kind of power and intelligence is scary; The quantum computer is even able Develop theories from thrown away dataLike the scientist's nanomechanical research and works into the developing brain in his networked mother module. The changes can then learn and develop from these implanted memories and knowledge groups. That means that it has the ability to Create an intelligence greater than yourself The trademark of technological singularity.

Technological singularity is a theoretical end point where artificial intelligence can adapt, update and improve faster. There is no way to say what the actual consequences will be until it happens, but that's the only thing that is safe We will no longer have any control. If the quantum computer in the universe of changes recognizes what it is capable of, only humanity hopes that it is benevolent.