Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1026 You Will Understand Then
"The potential generated by the protons, and how the electrons jump from a high energy level to a low energy level as they emit a photon, we introduced the concept of potential very early on, which allowed us to rationally bypass the discussion of how protons and electrons communicate, and that allowed our science to move beyond those discussions."

In the microcosm of the Shenju civilization, in a virtual conference hall where human civilization is located, a scientific research team composed of hundreds of scientists is discussing the microscopic phenomena of some particles.

Their team was studying the Precursor rhombus crystals, the warp enhancement device on the Lyra, and the topic of discussion was the problem of quantum macro-tunneling.

They have been trying to make humans understand that phenomenon, but they have been trying for many years with little success. However, they are unwilling to give up.

At this moment, they had just used the Lyra's consciousness link equipment to conduct a microscopic observation of the diamond crystal, hoping to further understand its composition.

Doing so is equivalent to using the awakener's unique technological products to observe the pioneer's unique technological products.

It has been confirmed that the Pioneers' unique technological products are capable of achieving quantum macro-tunneling, so the diamond-shaped crystal currently standing in the engine room of the Lyra naturally became the object of observation.

Yes, for now.

Because in future plans, according to convention, humans must build a new flagship. Of course, this requires that many technologies at the sixth-level civilization level are mature.

For example, some space-related technologies, dark energy technology, more powerful tachyon detection, communication technology, finding more types of functional tachyons, new weapons, more powerful warp technology, etc.

The most important thing is the mastery of distinctive technologies. Humankind has now clearly defined its distinctive technological direction. As long as it is mastered, it will certainly be implemented on the flagship, no matter how difficult it is.

We have only now mastered the principle of the annihilation reaction between dark matter and dark antimatter, but the effect on increasing the warp speed does not seem obvious. Therefore, many scientific teams have turned their attention to dark energy. Of course, they are also working hard to improve the manufacturing process and optimize the warp engine design.

In the process of doing these studies, humans gradually discovered that after reaching the sixth level of civilization, the warp speed level of civilization seemed to change from step-by-step growth to curve growth. In other words, all the sixth-level civilizations that they encountered at the beginning were basically old-fashioned sixth-level civilizations, and they were all sixth-level civilizations that pushed their warp speed level to a very high level.

Pioneers, awakeners, divine civilizations, and even the famous sixth-level civilizations in the Milky Way. If we had not encountered these civilizations, there might really be a sixth-level civilization with a warp speed of 150. It is for this reason that for a long time, humans believed that as long as they mastered dark matter technology, they could increase the warp speed to 213 times the speed of light.

The level of civilization is something artificially defined by advanced civilizations based on the qualitative changes caused by the mastery of certain technologies. It is not an objective thing. There must be one, two, or three levels of civilization in the universe.

Therefore, the warp speed level increases linearly, which is not too abrupt.

On the contrary, it makes humans realize the pressure of Level 6 civilization, or that Level 6 civilization has really reached the point where there is no further progress in basic science.

In the past, the Awakeners always told humans: When you reach level six civilization, you will naturally understand why you need to make a great voyage and where you are going.

Now it seems they were right.

After further exploring the technologies related to detecting dark matter and the theories related to dark energy, humans have a deeper understanding of the meaning of "you will understand it when the time comes."

During this period, human scientists have conducted many experiments related to dark matter and the Casimir effect, and found that in the dark matter environment, there seems to be some unknown factor affecting the Casimir effect. Because the location has not changed, humans have not figured out what the factor is.

But human civilization knows what it is without having to investigate it clearly, because the Shenju civilization has told humans and the Daya civilization before. That is, when far away from the dark matter environment, the Casimir effect will be more obvious, but the changes perceived by the Shenju civilization are also very small, after all, they are all in the Milky Way.

Therefore, they told humans that they planned to verify it again on the way to other galaxies after starting the great voyage. If they were correct, then the destination of the great voyage must be the Big Void.

Because according to this trend, only by reaching the large void can we minimize the impact of certain matter waves emitted by dark matter on the experiment.

This is the only glimmer of hope that all level six civilizations see. Although the Great Voyage may seem grand, it is actually just a way for level six civilizations to struggle for survival.

After humans and the Daya civilization mastered dark matter-related technologies, they probably gained the recognition of the Shenju civilization. So later, the two civilizations learned a lot of information about the overall environment of the universe from the Shenju civilization.

As an ancient sixth-level civilization, the Shenju civilization knows a lot of different things.

As for the Great Voyage and the cosmic environment, they told humans and the Daya civilization that there might be many star fields and even galaxies where the physical rules had been modified along the Great Voyage.

Humans know that the Milky Way is actually one of them. Pioneers have said that a long time ago, the Milky Way was able to carry out quantum entanglement and long-distance communication.

The rest of the human race doesn’t know.

For example, some star fields have macroscopic four-dimensional fragments, two-dimensional space areas, etc. According to the Shenju civilization, these may be caused by wars between some level six civilizations with special dimensional technologies, or they may be dangerous areas caused by level seven civilizations.

Like the vacuum decay area that the Shenju civilization once learned about in a certain civilization relic, it is said that it is impossible to extract vacuum zero-point energy from the space after vacuum decay.

In general, according to the Shenju civilization, the universe is already riddled with holes, and one day some disaster may spread to the Milky Way.

If you want to know the secret, you need to reach a higher level, otherwise you will end up trapped in the galaxy.

Some of this information was learned by the Shenju civilization through archaeological excavations of certain civilization ruins, and some was brought by some civilizations from extragalactic galaxies a long time ago.

After hearing these words, countless insiders of human civilization couldn't help but think of the Awakener and the pioneers who had already embarked on the great voyage.

Perhaps the Awakener has encountered the dangers mentioned by the Divine Moment civilization, and the Pioneer seems to play a similar role to the Awakener in other galaxies.

In fact, it is not just the experimental phenomena that made humans realize the reason for the great voyages; the further improvement of the Theory of Everything also pointed out this problem.

After the theory of everything can be used to explain dark matter and dark energy, some scientists have drawn the inference that one must be far away from the dark matter environment in order to observe the emergence of large-scale vacuum zero-point energy in experiments.

(End of this chapter)