Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1195: Crossing the Star Gate
Of course, that's just a visual effect.

Each warship and each ship can still contact each other through their own communication equipment, but it is not tachyon communication, but quantum entanglement communication.

Yes, after entering the star gate, the civilizations discovered that the tachyon communication, which was very convenient and fast in the past, had failed. The tachyon generator of the tachyon communication could still work normally, but every beam of tachyons emitted was like a drop in the ocean with no feedback.

The tachyons that were used for communication in the past seemed to have been transmitted to who knows where by this strange space-time tunnel after being launched. They also seemed to have become short-distance communications and were reabsorbed by space-time itself and returned to the fast world.

Even the scientists of the Galactic Center Civilization, who are most proficient in communication technology, find it difficult to determine the reason for this strange phenomenon.

As for this phenomenon, humans are reminded of what the pioneers encountered in the past, that is, quantum entanglement super-distance communication has not failed a long time ago. Of course, we are talking about super-distance communication, and quantum entanglement light-speed communication can still be used.

After entering the star gate and finding that tachyon communication was useless, everyone used quantum entanglement communication to communicate. It worked, but only at the speed of light. The long-distance fleet was very large, so the communication efficiency became very low.

However, because quantum entanglement communication can be used at the speed of light, scientists from many civilizations have a feeling of time confusion, because they find that when the front ship that entered the star gate communicated with quantum entanglement communication, it sometimes takes longer than communicating with warships that are farther away.

It should be obvious that the time should be shorter when the distance is closer, but such a counter-intuitive phenomenon occurs, which is really puzzling.

Also, there seems to be something wrong with the scientific definition of time.

Scientists have discovered that on the ships traveling through the star gate, the time originally defined by the number of oscillations of cesium-13 atoms seems to not match that of one ship.

When scientists encounter such situations, they immediately realize that it seems that the speed of time has changed, or it would be more accurate to say that the speed of time has changed.

As we all know, the speed of time flow in different space-times in the universe is different. For example, in the distorted space-time near a black hole, the time of objects there goes slower than that in other places.

What is being talked about here is the object's own time.

The difference in the speed of time has been proven as early as the Earth era. There is nothing to say. The time of satellites in space is different from the time on Earth. The time difference between the two must be accurately calculated in order to have satellite navigation and satellite communications. These are scientific theories that have been applied.

The theory of relativity also proves that an object's time is related to its state of motion. The closer it is to the speed of light, the slower its time.

However, it should be noted that the close to the speed of light here does not mean moving at a constant speed of light, because no matter how fast the object's conventional speed is accelerated, the speed of light measured with it as a reference system remains unchanged. So in theory, the speed of any object moving at a constant speed relative to the speed of light is zero.

This statement may seem contradictory, but it is not actually contradictory. It is just that humans have an inertial illusion of cognition due to the living environment. To put it bluntly, the so-called slowing down of time when the speed of an object approaches the speed of light actually does not occur after the acceleration is completed, but during the acceleration and deceleration stage.

The time changes in the twin paradox actually also occur during the rocket's acceleration and return stages.

Based on the theory that has been proven to be correct, scientists continued to collect and organize the parameters and data of time changes, and finally came to this conclusion.

They believe that the space-time inside the star gate does have a "downhill" process, and that the large long-distance fleet that has entered the star gate is now in a very fast warp acceleration process. However, it is very likely that due to the rapid flow of space-time inside the star gate, the detectors on the ships can only detect that they are sailing at the highest warp speed of a level six civilization because the reference frame is also in relative motion.

This feeling is like riding a water slide, the boat is one speed, the water is one speed, and the slide itself is another speed. Of course, the situation of the Star Gate is definitely much more complicated than the content of this metaphor.

To this end, human scientists also used the third-person driving mode of Tianqin to observe the surrounding situation, and something magical happened.

According to the scientists' description, after entering the third-person perspective, they can immediately see the ships around the Tianqin, and even the ships of other civilizations that are far away can be "seen".

At the same time, they also told other civilizations that the Great Voyage Fleet was not actually on the "downhill road" at this stage, but was in the "uphill road" stage, and everyone was deceived by their underdeveloped detection level.

In the entire Great Voyage Organization, only the Awakener believed this, because they also "saw" it. Oh no, there was also a Silver Core Civilization that was skeptical, because they also seemed to have discovered the problem.

I can only say that this is indeed a civilization with expertise in detection.

Sure enough, a few years later, scientists from the Galactic Center Civilization announced that they had discovered the current status of the Great Voyage Fleet, and the conclusion was the same as what humans and the Awakeners said a few years ago. The Great Voyage Fleet is currently in the "ascending stage" of the Stargate Tunnel, and the Galactic Center Civilization has also discovered the source of the power for the ascent, which is the central black hole of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Based on this, the Galactic Center Civilization concluded that it would not be long before the Great Voyage Fleet would be led to the "highest point of potential energy" by the movement of space-time itself, and then begin to rush towards the other end of the star gate at a faster speed.

At the same time, scientists from the Galactic Center Civilization said that the warp speed of the Great Long-distance Fleet relative to the normal space-time of the universe is definitely more than 213 times the speed of light. It will definitely be much larger than this number, but they don’t know how much larger it is.

The level seven civilization that created the star gate seemed to have nested and bound the black hole at the center of the Andromeda Galaxy and the star gate in a way that no one could understand. They actually turned the black hole's power to distort space and time into the force that drives the star gate to keep running.

Many scientists believe that this may be the force that pulls matter towards the singularity after the supermassive black hole draws it into the event horizon.

Such great power is beyond the reach of the twenty-one civilizations of the Great Voyage Organization and is astonishing.

Just from some of the data detected during this period and the tip of the iceberg we have seen, we can feel the majestic figure of the unknown seventh-level civilization that built the star gate.

Based on this, scientists from many civilizations are wondering, since the star gate uses the central black hole of the entire galaxy as its driving force at one end, then is the exit at the other end also near a black hole, and is it also driven by the central black hole of another galaxy?

Scientists who have obtained some data have even made a model of the star gate they imagined. The model looks like two gears driving a chain that is constantly rotating, except that the gears here are the central black holes of the two galaxies, and the chain is the shuttle route of the star gate.

If this model is correct, then today's great long-distance fleet is like a group of passengers sitting on a rotating chain.

That is a galaxy millions of light years apart, yet it was connected together by a civilization using technological power.

Science, what a great power it is.

(End of this chapter)