I’m afraid there won’t be that opportunity.… Well, you might as well just forget I said anything. One more thing: To derive a basic picture of cosmic sociology from these two axioms, you need two other important concepts: chains of suspicion and the technological explosion.
Second: Civilization continuously grows and expands, but the total matter in the universe remains constant. First: Survival is the primary need of civilization. The factors of chaos and randomness in the complex makeups of every civilized society in the universe get filtered out by the immense distance, so those civilizations can act as reference points that are relatively easy to manipulate mathematically. The mathematical structure of cosmic sociology is far clearer than that of human sociology. Over and over again he recalled her words: Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. What mattered was the instruction that Ye Wenjie had given him, so that’s where Luo Ji’s mind was stuck. “The aborted research project wasn’t important in and of itself. In the face of madness, rationality was powerless. If humans obtained mastery over one of those other forces, the world might be vaporized in a moment. Compared to those forces, a thermonuclear bomb was nothing but a tiny candle. She knew also that the universe had even more terrible forces: black holes, antimatter, and more. She knew this was a power that should belong only to the stars. As an astrophysicist, Ye was strongly against nuclear weapons. A single Lafayette- or Yankee-class submarine held enough warheads to destroy hundreds of cities and kill hundreds of millions, but most people continued their lives as if nothing was wrong. Nuclear missiles capable of destroying the Earth ten times over could be launched at a moment’s notice, spread out among the countless missile silos dotting two continents and hidden within ghostlike nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines patrolling deep under the sea. “The insanity of the human race had reached its historical zenith. AA, who had always been looked down on, saw her status greatly elevated among the committee members. All the committee members congratulated Cheng Xin and AA. “A subtle and sophisticated system,” a PIA specialist said admiringly. Viewed by itself, the bearing coordinate seemed meaningless, but once combined with the dual-layer metaphor, it resolved the inherent ambiguities in literary language. Thus, this single-layer metaphor was also called the bearing coordinate. If one viewed the stories as a two-dimensional plane, the dual-layer metaphor only provided one coordinate the supporting single-layer metaphor provided a second coordinate that fixed the interpretation on the plane. In the current example, the curved snow-wave paper and the ironing required to flatten it served as a metaphor for curved space, confirming the interpretation of the soap-driven boat. After a dual-layer metaphor, a single-layer supporting metaphor was added to confirm the meaning of the dual-layer metaphor. The two-dimensional metaphors were a technique used to resolve the ambiguities introduced by literary devices employed in conveying strategic intelligence. Previous attempts at decipherment had failed largely due to people’s habitual belief that the stories only involved a single layer of metaphors to hide the real message. The paper boat, in turn, pointed to curvature propulsion.
In the current example, the princess’s boat, the He’ershingenmosiken soap, and the Glutton’s Sea formed a metaphor for a paper boat driven by soap. The tenor of this first metaphor became the vehicle for a second metaphor, which pointed to the real intelligence. The dual-layer metaphors in the stories did not directly point to the real meaning, but to something far simpler. He employed two basic methods: dual-layer metaphors and two-dimensional metaphors. “Equally important was the fact that the interpretation provided the model for how Tianming had hidden his message in the three stories.
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