Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1033 Vacuum Decay
After putting forward the concept of vacuum decay, the Shenju civilization also told humans and Daya civilization about their speculation about the disappearance of level seven civilization and their conjecture that many civilizations are trapped at the level of level six civilization.

The Shenju civilization believes that the disappearance of the seventh-level civilization is related to the vacuum decay of the universe. It was the uncontrolled use of vacuum zero-point energy by a large number of seventh-level civilizations in ancient times that led to the vacuum decay of the universe. This decay may have occurred in one or more places in the universe and is spreading to the entire universe.

Scientists from the Shenju civilization said that after the decay, the universe will become a true vacuum, where the huge energy of the vacuum zero-point energy will turn into an energy-absorbing reaction, and the entire universe will fall to a lower energy level, and all the energy in the existing universe that can be provided to civilization will no longer exist.
All intelligent life based on existing physical rules will perish as a result.

The disappearance of those level 7 civilizations or even those above level 7 is to find a way to solve these problems. They may be in a corner of the universe, trying to extend the life of the universe. Of course, it is also possible that they are trying to transform themselves into life forms that adapt to the laws of the universe after decay.

In this process, there may be many conflicts and war is inevitable.

It is conceivable that a war between civilizations of that level would be devastating. The scientific community of the Shenju civilization speculated that the failure of long-distance communication based on quantum entanglement in the Milky Way was likely the product of war in that era.

Since the uncontrolled use of vacuum zero-point energy will cause vacuum decay in the universe, it means that there is a high possibility that some civilizations advocate something like the "Vacuum Zero-Point Energy Non-Proliferation Treaty."

With such claims, there will naturally be other claims, and conflicts of ideas are most likely to lead to wars. It is very likely that this is how the universe was destroyed in the early years.

Following this line of thought, the Shenju civilization believes that the reason why it is impossible to break through to the seventh-level civilization in various galaxies may be the result of some cosmic civilizations actually implementing the "Vacuum Zero-Point Energy Non-Proliferation Treaty."

It is very likely that for convenience, they used some powerful regular weapons to carry out large-scale regular weapon strikes on entire galaxies, galaxy groups, and even galaxy clusters, which are the most likely places for the birth of civilizations.

The reason why the target of the Great Voyage is the Great Void in the universe is that there are almost no galaxies there, and it is believed that it is difficult for advanced civilizations to be born there, so it may be ignored by the cosmic civilization that implements the treaty.

Of course, this is just the conclusion drawn by the Shenju civilization from its observation of the universe. Before the completion of the great voyage, they did not know whether these speculations were correct. Moreover, in the Shenju civilization, this is just one of the arguments about the great voyage, and the other argument is natural factors.

Just as humans learned from the awakeners and pioneers back then, it is the dark matter environment and its certain radiation characteristics that make it impossible to obtain correct results from vacuum zero-point energy experiments near galaxies.

Both theories have their own supporters within the Shenju civilization and have existed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Humans and the Daya civilization were glad that they had heard another version of the speculation. Although it was just a guess, it greatly increased the two civilizations' awareness of the dangers of the great voyage.

However, human scientists believe that the most valuable information is about dark energy. The Shenju civilization's hypothesis that dark energy is false energy perfectly avoids the contradictions in previous human theories and is indeed a hypothesis that seems to be correct at present.

If such a hypothesis is put forward among human scientists, it will have a large market and many supporters, and then inevitably many people will devote themselves to research in this area.

Thus, one more research direction has been added to the vast ocean of human civilization.

On the other hand, cooperation between civilizations also allowed humans and Daya civilization to maintain a very high level of technological development for a long time after they were promoted to level six civilizations.

Of course, some guidance from the Shenju civilization is also indispensable.

Also in the microcosm of the Shenju civilization, the two civilizations were able to develop peacefully during the period of civilization level improvement, avoiding many dangers from the macrocosm. Under such circumstances, the construction plan of a new flagship for mankind was also put on the agenda.

Although the special technology has not been fully determined, the relevant research has now been done. It only needs to reserve the equipment installation position when designing the warship. Moreover, after many meetings and confirmations, the human interstellar government has obtained a more definite answer.

Even with the current research progress of special technologies, once the construction of the new Tianqin frame is completed, the research and development will be almost completed.

The progress can almost be said to be synchronous.

As for shipbuilding technology, humans have accumulated rich experience, and building a civilization-level flagship is no problem. For human civilization, the difficulty of building a civilization-level warship is not in the manufacture of the warship, but in the special technology.

Compared to humans, the new flagship of the Daya civilization is not that complicated. According to their plan, the construction of their flagship will start at about the same time as humans' new Lyra, but it will be completed about two thousand years earlier than humans.

In naming the new flagship, the Daya civilization followed the humans and they also used the previous name, still called it Daya. Although it was not equipped with special technological products, as the flagship of the Daya civilization, they still used all their top technology to build it as if it were a wonder.

To use the words of the Daya civilization: Even though our combat capability is far inferior to that of the Lyra which possesses special technology, our flagship can at least single-handedly fight against a human consciousness-linked warship.

Actually, the size of a civilization-class battleship is not exaggerated. Because of the volume of various weapons, it is indeed larger than a star-class battleship, but only about twice as large.

As for the star-class battleship, it does not need to be eliminated when it reaches the sixth level of civilization. It is already large enough and only needs some modifications, creation upgrades, etc., and it will be a regular sixth-level civilization battleship.

In fact, humanity’s new flagship plan should have started long ago, but because of the visit to the neutron battle star of the Shenju civilization, many people also had the idea of ​​"our human civilization should also build a battle star." This idea obviously also received a lot of support, but when discussing the technology, there were too many problems that could not be solved.

Humanity's new Tianqin project will take five thousand years to complete. The frame is still made of strong materials, and the armor is still made of quark self-repairing materials. There is no change in this.

Five thousand years is no different from creating a wonder, but because of the existence of unique technology, everything is worth it.

The speed of the new Tianqin will reach an astonishing 256 times the speed of light. The existence of the Pioneer warp enhancement device allows humans to have a speed that breaks the upper limit. But correspondingly, when the highest warp mode is turned on, its energy consumption level will also increase.

This problem has always existed and is reasonable, so it’s not a big deal.

The conventional speed is fast, but it only has an advantage over conventional fleets. Compared with the special movement methods of electronic battleships or neutron battle stars, it is still not enough.

Therefore, while human scientists are exploring the application of special technological weapons, they are also putting a lot of energy into the application of short-distance transportation methods. They also hope that human civilization can have a more flexible way of transportation.

Humans are very courageous because this idea is completely in line with electronic battleships and neutron battle stars.

(End of this chapter)