The
human civilization (we) had occupied this planet and become the supreme specie
of planet Earth. We are the master
species of this planet and top of the food chain. We made an unbreakable
advancement from Stone Age to the modern world. These 2.8 million years had
harbored us as the most advanced civilization in prospering our civilization
into as superior as we can. What will happen if this continues in the future?
How far can we advance in technologies and everything?
To
help with those questions, we have a method to calculate. That is Kardashev
scale
As we all
know, when a civilization grows larger and larger, it will also advance the
technological advancement in a rapid stage. It will also lead to increase
energy demand due to the likely population growth. We require energy for the
technological advancement and for the stability of a growing civilization.
In 1964,
Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev designed a state of cultural method
for calculating the technological advancement level achieved by a civilization.
The method was mainly build in the basis of two factors Energy and Technology.
Then, this scaling method was named after him as “KARDASHEV SCALE”.
According to
the theory, a civilizations development is a product of energy and technology. The
determination of a civilization was made by the technological use to harness
and manipulate new forms of energy. As the civilization lean’s on the amount of
energy, it can harness for its technological advancement and stability of its
social system. Dr. Kardashev originally came up with first four types or
categories based on the scale, to classify the advancement of a civilization. Then
later other scientists added type four and type five civilizations on the hypothetical
basis.
The types of
civilizations are;
·
Type
0-Subglobal culture:
They need
to harness its energy from crude organic-based sources such as wood, coal, and
oil. This type of civilization will use chemical based propulsions and they
have not yet to achieve their global unity, a civilization at this level would
be confined to its home planet. Unfortunately, we are at this stage.
·
Type 1-Planetary civilization:
This civilization
would be slightly more advanced than us. When a civilization reaches its
capability of utilizing all available resources on their home planet it
achieves the Type 1 planetary culture. They should also achieve Global
planetary unity and can reach all corners of their world. The harnessing energy
output should be of an entire world (10^15 watts). We need more than 100-200
years to reach this type of advancement.
·
Type 2- Stellar civilization:
This type of
civilization is still far beyond our reach. It may take more than few thousand
years to reach for us. Probably the homosapia’s will evolve into different
types of species based upon the planet colonies they live. They could reach
every part of our solar system and have many multiple outposts on any habitable
planet .Such type of civilization would be able to harnesses all the energy of
its native star (10^26 watts if it’s our sun). The Dyson sphere may encompass
the star to achieve its energy needs.
·
Type 3- Galactic
civilization:
This civilization
would be able to harnesses the energy output of a galaxy (10^36 watts).They
have the capability to colonized the entire galaxy itself by extracting energy
from hundreds of billions of stars, traveling across interstellar
space, and populating
numerous amount of planets. The species will achieve a galactic empire, age of
space war and even may hold the key to life itself.
·
Type 4-Universal civilization:
This would be the
birth of an intergalactic civilization, extending through the far reach of the
Universe. They would travel across the cosmos, commanding the power of a
billion trillion suns. This type of civilization is most likely to control
everything that has been created. They can even create an artificial planet and
has the capability to destroy any galaxies. They may even attempt to achieve
the immortality, cyborg, black hole creators, universal communicational link,
multispecies of different planets may live together.
·
Type 5- Multiverse civilization:
They are most likely to be
achieving the state of Gods. This civilization will have unlocked the origin of
universe. They can even create a new universe; create a new life, jumping
between multiverses .It would be capable of universe-scale manipulation even
Space-Time structure, physical embodiments. A civilization such as this would
be home to beings of unimaginable power.
Even this scalar method can change or
new type form in the up course of technological achievements. Let’s all hope
that humanity can achieve this achievements.
“Civilization is not by any means an easy thing
to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by
being cultured, the other by being corrupt”.
Article contributed by Johith Gandhi
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