CHAPTER 442: CHAPTER 441: BOSE SECT AND FERMI SECT

Near the Heavenly Nebula.

The Bose Alliance and Fermi Alliance, originally in a standoff, ultimately erupted into war.

As communication between the two civilization alliances’ headquarters deteriorated, the declaring civilizations responsible for frontline defenses also began to have verbal conflicts and frictions.

Among them, the Lu’en Civilization was in charge of frontline defenses for the Bose Alliance, while the Jike Civilization was responsible for the Fermi Alliance. Both these declaring civilizations reached Level 4 Civilization status with the technical assistance of their respective alliances. As the crisis of the Universe’s halted expansion erupted, both the Bose and Fermi Civilizations realized they needed stronger and more numerous allies, leading them to sign the Technology Agreement with their partners. This leveraged their technological edge to help their allies attain Level 4 Civilization.

Of course, this was not without a cost. According to the Technology Agreement, henceforth, all scientific research divisions and related work of these declaring civilizations would be transferred to the unified management of Bose and Fermi Civilizations, to achieve maximum resource utilization and technology distribution. In essence, the Technology Agreement stripped the declaring civilizations of the rights to one hundred and thirty major scientific research projects, forbidding them from establishing their own scientific research divisions.

The reason for this was primarily a safeguard for both the Bose and Fermi Civilizations.

After all, they also worried that if they shared their best technology with their allies, what would happen if the allies grew strong and turned against them?

Thus, they came up with this brilliant solution. In the past era, it may have been an economy-first world where controlling the economy meant controlling the power of development. However, in the age of the Universe, science and technology reign supreme. So long as they maintained control over the apex of science and technology, Bose and Fermi Civilizations could always suppress their declaring civilizations scientifically and technologically, ensuring their own absolute leadership position would not be threatened.

Despite being natural-born archenemies, it must be admitted that the Bose and Fermi Civilizations did share common ground in some areas. Although the technical agreements they provided differed in detail, the general intent was similar. Their declaring civilizations, considering that to survive the Cosmic Crisis they had to fully commit to a powerful civilization, along with ongoing ideological indoctrination, eventually led the declaring civilizations to believe in and agree to their terms.

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At this moment.

Upon learning of the deteriorated communications between the two headquarters, the Lu’en Civilization, deployed on the front lines, couldn’t help but send a message to the opposing Jike Civilization: "Honestly, your Fermi Alliance communications department is shamelessly brazen to spout such lies!"

"Your Bose Alliance is the shameless one. It’s clear that you are the liars, a bunch of brainwashed waste!" countered the Jike Civilization.

"Who are you saying is brainwashed?"

"I’m not pointing fingers at you specifically. I’m saying that all civilizations that have pledged allegiance to the Bose Civilization have been brainwashed into trash. I really can’t understand how you could believe the Bose Civilization’s retarded homotopy state rhetoric, even thinking of forming a homotopy social system. Only idiots would believe in such a system that eradicates individuality."

"And here I thought it was something serious. You actually have the nerve to come here and flaunt your sense of superiority. Those who are truly brainwashed are you people who believe in the Fermi Civilization’s theory of emphasizing individualistic incompatibility. To believe in such an obviously selfish and backward system, I urge you to abandon individualism and join our Universalism instead!"

"No thanks, I have no interest in eradicating my own individuality. If you want to be dogs, that’s your business. I’d rather die than submit. Besides, your Bose Alliance only focuses on bosons. Honestly, bosons only have integer spins and are purely energetic in form; they will eventually vanish from the Universe, which is your inevitable fate!"

"You think you’re so heroic? You’re nothing but brainwashed trash by the Fermi Civilization. Spare us the jokes here. Let me tell you, bosons are the only truth in the Universe and the sole path to our endpoint. From the Four Basic Forces of the Universe to the unified force they all prove the importance of bosons. It’s only your Fermi Sect’s focus on fermions that believes bosons will disappear. I see it’s the fermions that will surely vanish in the end. According to certain theories about the Universe’s birth, fermions will eventually convert into bosons."

"Bullshit, it’s your Bose Sect’s bosons that will disappear. According to the entropy increase law, the Universe will eventually enter the era of the Great Heat Death, when only matter will exist, and all bosons will be converted to low-energy state fermion matter."

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As the two declaring civilizations launched attacks on each other, it also slightly revealed the thinking differences between Bose and Fermi Civilizations.

The so-called Bose Sect and Fermi Sect they mentioned actually refer to the alliances led respectively by the Bose and Fermi Civilizations. Each civilization within their alliance camps is utterly convinced of their scientific direction, believing that either bosons or fermions are the sole truth of the Universe’s existence.

It is precisely because of this typical fanatical religious thinking that they were jokingly referred to by the opposing side as the Bose Sect and Fermi Sect.

Universalism and Individualism represent the fundamental worldviews of Bose and Fermi Civilizations, respectively, and they are also the civilizational systems they propose and implement.

If one hopes to thoroughly understand the fundamental reasons for the difference, even opposition, between Bose and Fermi Civilizations’ thinking, one must first know what bosons and fermions are and the fundamental differences between them.

Bosons and fermions were originally terms used to describe basic particles, that is, the smallest indivisible microscopic particles as defined by science are basic particles. Basic particles are divided into two categories based on their properties, and only two categories: one is bosons, and the other is fermions.

The scientific method for differentiating basic particle types is by the spin multiple of basic particles. According to the spin multiple of basic particles, they can be divided into integers and half-integers, with integers being spin multiples of 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on, and half-integers being spin multiples of 1/2, 3/2, 5/2, and so on. Since particle spin multiples are either a full circle or a circle and a half, there are only two categories of basic particles, just like there are only even and odd numbers in numerals. Among them, basic particles with integer spin are bosons, while those with half-integer spin are fermions.

The above is the scientific definition of bosons and fermions among basic particles.

This definition is not arbitrary by scientists but is based on a set of strict scientific logic because particles with different spin multiples all follow completely different rules.