Starting from a top student and marching towards the sea of ​​stars

Chapter 569 The Real Problem

The conditions required for the formation of a black hole often require extremely huge gravity and density, and the huge energy generated when antimatter annihilates with matter just meets the prerequisite for the formation of a black hole.

Moreover, through continuous collection over the past few days, Star Technology has accumulated a considerable amount of antimatter, which can fully support the implementation of this extremely energy-intensive project.

With these technologies and resources, Ning Chen continued to plan the project and finally reached a final complete plan.

The investment in this project can be said to be the largest in the history of Star Technology. Although it seems that this project is far less complicated than the aerospace mothership project, the value of the antimatter resources invested alone is hundreds of times that of all the aerospace motherships on Blue Star.

In order to create a small or even micro black hole from scratch, the antimatter needs to annihilate with the positive matter strictly at the speed and direction designed by Ning Chen.

If any of the steps goes wrong, it may lead to the failure of the final experiment.

In this plan, the technical problem is not the most difficult one. What is more difficult is choosing the location to create the black hole.

After all, this is in the solar system, creating a black hole out of thin air. Even if the scale of this black hole is very small, it will definitely have a certain impact on the surrounding situation.

After very careful calculations, Ning Chen finally successfully selected a suitable experimental location. If the experiment was conducted at this location, the impact of the black hole could be minimized.

After completing all the preparatory work, Xingchen Technology officially launched this project.

In fact, the process of creating a black hole is very fast, and it can be formed in less than a blink of an eye. However, due to the great significance of this project, the project team members came to the control center early to pay attention, for fear of missing any details in the process.

Ning Chen is the most important staff member in the entire project team. Although the final process of black hole generation will be controlled by the set artificial intelligence program, Ning Chen needs to monitor the situation at the experimental site in real time to determine whether it is necessary to change the program settings.

After Ning Chen completed the last analysis with a frown, he finally pressed the button to start the program.

In an instant, the antimatter prepared by Star Technology annihilated with the positive matter, releasing extremely huge energy in a short period of time.

Just when others hadn't reacted yet, the corners of Ning Chen's mouth quietly curled up slightly.

"It worked... We successfully created a black hole!"

Using the quantum array arranged nearby, Ning Chen learned the news at the first opportunity and informed other members of the project team.

Upon learning of this joy, all the staff at the control center celebrated excitedly.

"Great! This is just our first attempt at creating a black hole, and we have achieved such a perfect result. The center of the entire black hole, mass, radius and other specifications are exactly the same as what we required before!"

"This is another historic moment for Blue Star civilization! We used to think that black holes were just a concept in our imagination, but now, we have the ability to create them."

"Academician Ning is truly the top scientist in the universe. There is nothing he cannot do as long as he wants to do it."

After observing calmly for a while, Ning Chen determined that the creation of this black hole did not cause any obvious impact on the surrounding situation for the time being, so he continued to complete his plan with peace of mind.

In fact, Ning Chen’s core goal at the beginning was not just to create a black hole. The reason why he created this black hole first was to achieve the result of space folding.

With this small black hole as a basis, creating the phenomenon of space folding is a natural thing.

Ning Chen doesn't even need to do anything now. As long as he lets this small black hole naturally affect the surrounding space, he can observe the phenomenon of space being folded.

Following this idea, Ning Chen monitored the space environment around this small black hole and soon observed a relatively obvious phenomenon of space folding.

In fact, this so-called "obvious" is not really obvious enough to be easily observed with the naked eye. Only with the most advanced instruments can such a very slight change be detected.

However, this degree of space folding has completely met the definition of space folding. As long as Ning Chen is willing, he can create a larger black hole, thereby creating a more obvious space folding effect that is fully application-level.

The success of this experiment allowed Ning Chen to confirm the existence of this technology. However, because the research on this technology cost too much, Ning Chen could not continue to invest more resources in the research of larger black holes. He could only use some existing experimental data to conduct research on this technology under simulation conditions.

Fortunately, Ning Chen has also made considerable achievements in the field of simulation. The current data alone are enough to support Ning Chen to continue his research.

After a period of research, Ning Chen finally had a deeper understanding of the space folding technology, and could also more accurately evaluate the level of folded space created by this "space civilization".

Analyzing from the size of the black hole alone, the black hole created by this "space civilization" is indeed much larger than the black hole created by previous experiments of Star Technology. However, as long as Ning Chen is willing, he can also create a black hole of the same size.

In other words, at least when Ning Chen observed the appearance of this space folding state, this space civilization had not yet mastered this technology to an extremely powerful level, and at most was only in the initial stage of research and development of this technology.

Moreover, because the space folding technology consumes a huge amount of energy, it is not as easy as it sounds to use this technology to achieve instantaneous transportation over ultra-long distances. This is also a serious limitation of this technology. "If this is the case... Song Xiyun should not have reacted so strongly at the time. This 'space civilization' is obviously not a threat to the existence of Blue Star civilization in the short term, and it is not even more dangerous than the alien civilization a few light years away from us..."

After figuring this out, Ning Chen couldn't help but become nervous. If there was nothing wrong with Song Xiyun's special ability, then Ning Chen himself must have missed some key information, and this was the real crisis that the Blue Star civilization was facing.

Realizing that this matter was of great importance, Ning Chen immediately began to carefully search through all the information he had learned about Xingchen Technology.

In fact, Ning Chen had repeated this work several times before, but this time the level of detail of Ning Chen's search was much stronger than before.

In addition, during this period, Ning Chen's brain power index improved a bit compared to before, which allowed Ning Chen to finally find the anomalies in the robot civilization.

This anomaly is extremely difficult to detect, so theoretically speaking, it is not an anomaly at all. Even if someone pointed out the direction for Ning Chen from the beginning, Ning Chen might not be able to find the problem.

"Some abnormal blank segments appeared in the programs of some robots. There must be some important reason behind this, which caused this abnormal phenomenon..."

Normally this phenomenon is not abnormal. It may be because these robots are in a dormant state, which leads to the appearance of blank program fragments. However, combined with Song Xiyun's uncomfortable feeling, Ning Chen feels that this may be the key to the matter.

Immediately, Ning Chen focused his search on this blank program fragment. Soon, Ning Chen received a detailed report on this data.

"At the beginning, only one of the robots had this phenomenon of blank program segments. After that, more robots showed this phenomenon. In addition, there were quite a few robots that had blank program segments before, but later completely returned to normal..."

This is an event that has never occurred in the history of robot civilization. Ning Chen believes that all this may have come from a very meticulous plan, which is dangerous enough to threaten the safety of Blue Star civilization.

In addition, Ning Chen also discovered a more unusual problem, that is, most of these robots that have always maintained blank fragments of the program are robots with stronger capabilities in this robot civilization. This situation can better explain the problem.

However, apart from the blanks in these program fragments, these robots did not have any other abnormalities, and the entire robot civilization behaved very normally, showing no strong threatening tendencies at all.

This kind of contradiction between appearance and reality also made Ning Chen a little confused about what the root cause of this phenomenon was.

After some thought, Ning Chen still did not make any further progress on this issue, so he had to find Song Xiyun and explain his latest findings.

After listening to Ning Chen's story, Song Xiyun also looked puzzled, but Ning Chen's discovery made Song Xiyun basically confirm that this was the thing that Song Xiyun was most worried about before.

"Ning Chen, my intuition tells me that this is the real reason why I felt so uncomfortable before. If I am not mistaken, this robot civilization is preparing for some dangerous action, a move that is enough to put the entire Blue Star civilization at risk of extinction."

"But... this abnormal phenomenon of blank programs is indeed difficult to explain easily. Even though I am the one who created these robots, I still haven't figured out why..."

As they talked, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun couldn't help but fall silent.

It is indeed not an easy task to figure out the problem. Even though Ning Chen and Song Xiyun both have extremely powerful computing abilities, when this is not a purely computing problem at all, this computing power seems to be useless.

After the two of them were silent for a while, Song Xiyun seemed to have finally figured something out and slowly said to Ning Chen:

"Ning Chen...you said that the reason why these robots have blank segments in their programs is that they have entered another dimension?"

Hearing Song Xiyun's incredible idea, Ning Chen was stunned for a moment, then said to Song Xiyun in confusion:
"Another... space? Could it be that these robots have the ability to travel through time and space?"

"Since the technology of folding space has been proven, time travel is not impossible. However, this so-called time travel is not as magical as we imagine. For example, the behavior of human beings dreaming can be understood as a 'simplified version' of time travel..."

The concept proposed by Song Xiyun also made Ning Chen feel very novel. Song Xiyun has always been a woman with some strange ideas, and sometimes she would think of things that even Ning Chen could not imagine.

Following Song Xiyun's hint, Ning Chen gradually thought of the possible reasons behind this problem.

"In that case, these robots may indeed have entered another space, but this is not a physical space, but a virtual space. In this space, these robots do not use normal robot programs, but a completely different program from the existing robot programs..."

After having a clearer idea, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun could finally analyze this problem carefully.

"Ning Chen, the information you got is that at the beginning, there was a robot that first had this kind of blank program fragment. So what is the specific information of this robot?"

"This is a robot programming expert on Titan. When we first cracked the robot life limit, it made a very important contribution. It can be said that it is the robot that is best at programming technology in the entire robot civilization."

"In this case, all our previous analyses and guesses are correct. We can assume that this robot expert was the first to develop this technology and was able to actively travel between real space and virtual space. After that, this robot continued to promote this technology, allowing more robots to have this ability."

(End of this chapter)