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Human beings have existed for over 100,000 years. For most of that time, you weren't so different from apes. How long did it take you to discover agriculture? Why don't you cut the shit and tell us? It took you 90,000 years to get from hunter-gatherer to farmer. After that, how long did it take you to become industrialists? About 10,000 years. Atomic power? Two hundred years. Computers? The information age? Fifty years.
And how long do you think it took us to get from hunting to farming, and farming to industry, and industry to atomic power? A lot longer. Our planet is stable. Our catastrophes aren't really catastrophes. We've never had to start over. But they do. Every time they get wiped out.
It will be 400 years before we reach you. By the time we do, you will have long surpassed us. You will destroy our fleet and then come back and destroy our world to make sure we never threaten you again. This is not a conquest. It is a funeral procession. Unless you figure out a way to disarm us. To keep us from moving forward. Have you?
Yes. We are going to kill your science. [Jin sighs] We will do it with our Sophons. What is a Sophon? [woman] It's a proton. One we have turned into a sentient computer. You can't make a computer that small. It's impossible. Impossible for you.
The universe has more dimensions than the three we occupy. They are hidden, folded up far too small for us to see. But we have the technology to unfold them. [energy thrumming] [woman] We summon energies you cannot imagine and focus them on a single proton. [energy blasts] [woman] When we unfold its higher dimensions… even a tiny proton becomes something very large indeed. [energy reverberates] [ominous music pulsing] [low rumbling] [woman] We make a mind as large as a world. [Jin gasps] [circuits humming] Sophon, are you awake? [female voice echoing] Awake and aware. I understand my purpose. I am ready to return to my original size. [woman] Please proceed. [loud whooshing]
We used all our resources to make four Sophons. Two pairs of two. Each pair is entangled, connected on the quantum level. Two remain with us. The other two, we've sent to you. Everything they see and hear, we see and hear at the same time. Even when they are light-years apart. [energy pulsating] [woman] A proton has virtually no mass. Accelerating them to nearly light speed is easy. Even you can do that. They entered your solar system months ago. We sent them to your planet, to the places where your best minds explore reality at its most fundamental level. [machinery humming] [woman] And we will destroy the science that could defeat us. [energy crackling]