Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1363 What Kind of World Would That Be?

It exceeded the limits of cognition and touched the limits of wisdom.

The Awakeners once told humanity that one of the purposes of their great voyage was to seek to break through the limits of wisdom. Perhaps only by breaking through the limits of wisdom could they understand things beyond the reach of human cognition.

“In such a world, light probably wouldn’t exist either!” The leader of the Daya civilization sighed in the virtual hall.

"It certainly doesn't exist anymore. The propagator of electromagnetic force is the photon, and light is both a particle and a wave. If electromagnetic force doesn't exist, electromagnetic waves naturally won't exist either." A scientist gazed into the void, his words filled with endless sighs: "I just don't know, in what form would such a world exist?"

Yes, if electromagnetic force no longer exists, how could anything related to electromagnetic force still exist?

As this scientist said, after the Star Defenders confirmed that the so-called fourth phase transition strike was an electromagnetic phase transition, people couldn't help but imagine such a world.

Many scientists have already taken this time to develop models based on their existing knowledge.

First of all, the brilliant stars no longer exist.

Scientists from human civilization have combined previous observational data on the affected areas with some seemingly reasonable speculations. They believe that after the electromagnetic phase transition, electricity and magnetism will emerge.

The universe will evolve from an era of four fundamental forces to an era of five fundamental forces.

The propagators of electricity could be electrons, or there could be entirely new propagators. New matter could also include positively charged and negatively charged objects. These could be naturally occurring matter in the universe. Charged objects could also have electric fields, but these electric fields are different from the electric fields we know today. They only interact with positive and negative charges.

Similarly, magnetism may also have its own propagators.

A new type of magnetic matter may emerge in the universe, which may cause magnetic matter to split in two, and magnetic monopoles may become naturally occurring matter.

Magnetic poles, magnetic charge, magnetic moment, and other related physical quantities will not be the same as before; they will become unfamiliar. Intelligent life will have to start studying them from scratch if it wants to understand their properties.

That kind of universe could be considered a truly new world.

In that new world, everything is new. There may be a planet in the universe that is entirely composed of positive charges, a planet that is entirely composed of negative charges, and magnetic monopolar planets may also be a common type of planet.

The reason it is called a planet is because the Divine Ju civilization has already told everyone that there is still a gravitational response in the area that was hit by the fourth phase transition.

Mass remains, and gravity will pull matter together.

So, if the Pauli exclusion principle, which is not one of the four fundamental forces, still applies, then unknown new objects will still form planets.

However, the matter that makes up planets is no longer the matter that people know; all the elements that are the same as those in the current universe no longer exist.

However, it is important to understand that the absence of elements in the periodic table does not mean that there will be fewer types of matter in the new world. After the four fundamental forces become five fundamental forces, the types of matter in that new world are likely to be more numerous and abundant.

If life can emerge in the new universe, its life forms may be even more wondrous. Of course, wondrousness refers to a universe based on the four fundamental forces.

So, in a universe based on the five fundamental forces of gravity, strong force, weak force, electricity, and magnetism, could life forms born there also observe the stars?
Listening to the speculations put forward by human scientists, every intelligent life in the virtual hall couldn't help but let their imaginations run wild, after all, such a universe did not contain photons as we know them.

No one knows for sure. But some scientists have offered reasonable hypotheses based on existing knowledge.

In particular, the scientists and awakeners of human civilization are the only two groups in the Great Voyage Organization that have "seen" matter after the fourth phase transition.

Therefore, their reasoning is relatively convincing.

Scientists of human civilization believe that intelligent life, composed of electrically neutral matter, might be able to see electrons directly and perceive the "starry sky" through electrons. Of course, the starry sky they would see would only be of one type: planets composed of matter based on electricity.

Perhaps there are "stars" in the starry sky that discharge directly into the void of the universe, if the electricity, which uses electrons as propagators, is a long-range force.

It is conceivable that such intelligent life would not be able to see planets composed of magnetic matter.

Conversely, life forms composed of magnetic materials would not produce any visible electric planets. Of course, there may also exist "stars" in the cosmos that continuously emit "magnetic waves" into space.

However, these are just speculations by scientists. It is also possible that during the phase transition, one of the forces, electricity or magnetism, may become a short-range or medium-range force.

For example, magnetism becomes a medium-range force, and the effective range of a magnetic field may be limited to the planet itself, or tens or hundreds of kilometers, while electricity becomes a long-range force because electrons are propagators.

Thus, the universe presents a completely different picture.

In such a universe, if civilization were to emerge, they might begin by observing the physical phenomena around them and gradually discover the laws governing them, such as the attraction and repulsion of like charges and attraction of opposite charges. They might then slowly learn to use this principle to create various things.

Then, with the support of creation, a certain "extreme environment" was created, and it was discovered with surprise that electricity and magnetism were originally the same force.

As a result, the unified electromagnetic theory was proposed, and new substances based on electromagnetic forces may be created in the laboratory.

Perhaps, under the wondrous hand of nature, such a universe would also evolve into a colorful universe, a magnificent universe.

But for civilizations in the vast universe, such a universe would be a place of destruction.

That being said, it cannot be said that the speculations about human civilization and the awakener civilization are completely useless, because such speculations have led people to think of a possibility: the civilization that possesses the means to strike the fourth phase transition may really want to turn the universe into that kind of thing.

They may have already planned their own path when they launched this attack.

"If we turn the vast ocean into a desert, fish certainly can't survive in the desert, but as long as I, a fish in the water, evolve into a terrestrial creature before the ocean becomes a desert, wouldn't that be enough?"

The thought of this possibility sent chills down everyone's spines.

Everyone stared at the area struck by the fourth phase transition, and everyone realized that the process might have already begun.

The fourth phase transition in the universe!

So, how many such regions are there in this universe?
How much time do we have left?
(End of this chapter)