Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1429 Unpretentious
Based on this, some research teams in human civilization are now using the Casimir effect as a starting point to study the zero-point energy of the vacuum.

Standing on the shoulders of their predecessors, they began to analyze the zero-point energy of vacuum using simple experimental equipment such as metal plates or plane mirrors.

This is research based on traditional methods, and there are also research methods derived from traditional methods.

For example, the research base that Yue Yuan is currently at uses one of the derivative methods for research. Yue Yuan knows the leading scientist of the research team, named Mu Shite.

In the laboratory, Yue Yuan saw a massive experimental device. According to Mu Shite, it was a device composed of many large, fully reflective mirrors. They had replaced traditional metal sheets and mirrors with fully reflective materials.

Yue Yuan glanced at the equipment's structural description and found that although the basic principle of this thing was based on the simple Casimir effect, the design was ingenious. The gap between every two total reflection mirrors could be regarded as a cavity. With the clever arrangement of the total reflection mirrors, these cavities were connected to form a resonant chamber with an electromagnetic field.

Scientists manipulate magnetic fields to generate different input frequencies and test the relationship between different multiples of half-wavelength and cavity space. They investigate how different ratios of input half-wavelength to cavity space affect vacuum fluctuations, under what conditions vacuum fluctuations are suppressed and when they are amplified, what the specific values ​​are, and whether there are any underlying patterns.

Many of the studies here, although they existed in Earth's time, were conducted under conditions where certain rules of suppression existed. Now that we've entered a theoretically feasible environment, many of the experiments we did before need to be repeated.

By comparing the old and new versions, we can see what changes have occurred. If we can find a pattern, it might even advance human civilization's research into vacuum zero-point energy.

Of course, this is just one research direction.

Once fully engaged in research, human civilization has discovered that this is not the only research method.

For example, there is a super particle collider in the void a few hundred astronomical units away from this laboratory.

The super particle collider, in appearance, is far smaller than the one that human civilization built to advance to a Type IV civilization, but its power is many times greater than that one, which is a direct manifestation of the advancement of technological power.

The collider's acceleration module uses a super-force field, and its energy level is the strongest currently available to a Level 6 civilization, making it completely different from previous colliders.

According to Yue Yuan's understanding, the collider is currently conducting tachyon collision experiments.

This is certainly not an ordinary tachyon collision. If it were an ordinary tachyon collision, human civilization at level four could do it, as could other civilizations. Therefore, the so-called tachyon collision here is much more complex than people realize. Its purpose is not to produce new particles like previous colliders, but to find ways to reduce the speed of tachyons.

The team of scientists leading this research project believes that some zero-point fluctuations in quantum mechanics are very similar to the tachyon birth mechanism. They want to study tachyons and work backward to find the laws governing vacuum quantum fluctuations.

It may only be part of the laws governing vacuum quantum fluctuations. The phenomena observed through this method may only be the tip of the iceberg of the laws governing vacuum zero-point energy. However, it is necessary to do anything that can promote human understanding of the truth about vacuum zero-point energy.

Research on slowed-down tachyons can not only reveal the laws governing vacuum zero-point energy, but also deepen human understanding of the fast world.

When the concept of the collapse of the fast world was first heard, human civilization gained a preliminary understanding of it, realizing that the mechanisms and secrets of the wide-area attack capabilities possessed by themselves and other civilizations were hidden within the fast world. As everyone knows, after reaching Level 7 civilization, the factor determining a civilization's strength is actually its understanding of the laws of physics. So what is this understanding of the laws of physics? Where does this understanding come from? Clearly, it is developed bit by bit through research during the course of civilization's development.

For example, a civilization that understands the physical laws of the fast world would not be afraid of other civilizations disrupting the physical laws of the fast world in their region, because they have enough understanding of the physical laws of the fast world to correct the chaotic physical laws of the fast world according to their own understanding, in order to prevent their area-of-effect attack capabilities from being "sealed".

Therefore, even if the research findings on the fast world have nothing to do with vacuum zero-point energy, humanity cannot give up.

If you have the opportunity to learn more about it, then do so; you never know when you might need to use these research findings.

Moreover, regardless of whether the answers obtained from these studies are right or wrong, they all represent the foundation of a technological civilization.

Moreover, from the perspective of string theory, a relativistic string has a negative square mass in its lowest energy quantum state, and the string in this state is called a tachyon.

Tachyons are born from the void and will also disappear into the void. Their birth and disappearance mechanisms are related to the fast world and quantum fluctuations, and string theory connects them together.

Many seemingly simple experiments actually involve all aspects of a technological path; they only appear simple on the surface.

What ordinary people see is only its outer shell, while the outer shell of scientific equipment is often a common, painted alloy container.

That said, the scientific experiments being conducted by human civilization are diverse, and while they may be physical, they are not limited to physics.

Scientists in other fields are also quietly working in their own areas, even though sometimes they don't know how their research has anything to do with the vacuum zero point.

For example, mathematicians are constantly advancing in their fields, proposing hypotheses and then racking their brains to prove them.

Their research topics seem to have nothing to do with the study of vacuum zero-point energy, and sometimes even they themselves don't know what the use of their research is.

But who knows, at some point, a physicist might have a flash of inspiration and use a mathematical formula they've never seen before to pave the way for scientific progress.

Yue Yuan doesn't know the current situation of other civilizations, but he is very clear about the situation of human civilization. At this moment, that group of mathematicians are tinkering with some kind of proof, and the leader of them is a genius mathematician, that is, a mathematician who can understand the unique technology of humankind.

This is a life-or-death research project, and every civilization is giving it their all. Every so often, scientists from different civilizations gather in a virtual world to share their research progress.

Thus, ten thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)