Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1433 Day after day, year after year

Thinking about these things now might seem like overly ambitious, but people always like to fantasize about things that don't exist. Perhaps this is desire, or curiosity.

Back in the era of Callisto, no one could have imagined that human civilization would one day reach the center of the Great Hollow in Boötes, let alone that humanity would achieve such a feat!
At this stage, no one cares about Yue Yuan's wild thoughts, but as long as human civilization can break through to the level of cosmic civilization, then many, many people will be like him, imagining the future and what a higher level of civilization would be like.

Can't stop.

Because that seed was planted when mankind first looked up at the stars.

Even if no one tells a person about the tradition of gazing at the stars, when they look up at the stars, they will awaken that yearning for the stars. That is the curiosity hidden deep in the wisdom of intelligent life, the sail of seeking knowledge.

The research is ongoing.

While the distinctive technological civilization was dedicated to researching vacuum zero-point energy from its own unique technological field, other ordinary Level 6 civilizations did not sit idly by. They used various conventional methods to establish experimental sites in the void and continuously experimented and made mistakes there.

And so, another 100,000 years passed.

However, research on vacuum zero-point energy has progressed slowly. Many civilizations are still at the most primitive Casimir effect laboratory, where they have devised various experiments and measured data on Casimir effect experiments using various materials.

For example, the influence of different parameters such as materials, the spacing between materials, and the structure on the magnitude of the Casimir force.

All data were measured with extreme accuracy, and the various performance characteristics of the vacuum zero point energy in the laboratory were indeed measured.

Every civilization knows that signs of zero-point energy have been observed, but no civilization has been able to utilize them on a large scale, and research has remained in this state.

We know that vacuum zero-point energy is enormous and truly inexhaustible, and we can even detect its existence, but we can't apply it on a large scale, and we can't find a way to use it on a large scale.

Ten thousand years have passed, and people are still helplessly staring at the Casimir effect.

The vacuum zero-point energy measured from the Casimir effect gives the impression that a tiny bit of the vast energy at the bottom of the universe is seeping out from between your fingers.

Knowing full well that the sea is full of water, yet unable to scoop up a single ladleful, and trying every possible way to obtain water, all one can get is a wisp of water vapor from the natural evaporation of seawater.

Originally, all civilizations thought that this phenomenon, which could be observed by lower civilizations, was nothing to a great Level 6 civilization. They believed that the reason they had not found a way to extract vacuum zero-point energy on a large scale was due to the problem of the cosmic environment.

The answer will be found soon if we leave the region affected by some dark matter factor.

But everyone who thought that way was proven wrong.

The two major expeditionary organizations, the Abyss and the Galaxy—or perhaps more accurately, all the civilizations that entered the Great Void of Boötes together—none of them managed to break through.

That's for sure, because if the civilizations that conducted the research earlier succeeded, they would definitely come over to check on the situation of other civilizations, and it wouldn't be as simple as just checking on the situation.

Therefore, the civilizations currently conducting research in different regions are not only racing against the cosmic catastrophe zone, but also against other civilizations. Each civilization is putting in its best effort to master vacuum zero-point energy before the others.

However, the difficulty of this thing far exceeded the expectations of all civilizations. In fact, because there has been no progress for a long time, some civilizations seem to have become incapable of scientific research.

In just 200,000 years, some civilizations have become at a loss. They feel that their civilization has exhausted all the methods they can think of to conduct research and experiments, but still cannot get the right answer. For a time, they did not know how to proceed.

Many scientists who have been dedicated to studying human civilization from the microscopic and higher dimensions have also fallen into confusion. The ocean is right in front of us, and it seems that we can reach out and touch it, but we can only smell the salty sea breeze.

Take a small breath, take a big breath, and you'll feel the sea breeze, the sea breeze that never condenses into water.

Logically, strings are the smallest units that make up everything in the universe, so why haven't we found their patterns even though we started with the most basic unit?
Many bewildered scientists cried out in their hearts, they were not tired, they were still trying, but after 250,000 years of hard work, they still had no way to see the way.

“We have mastered the equations in string theory that describe how strings move, and these equations state that strings will move in spacetime in such a way that the area they trace in spacetime will be kept to a minimum. This motion becomes a set of equations after taking quantum mechanics into account.”

“We have mastered them all. When we started our research, we thought it was the most promising path to success. But they still can’t describe the situation where the vacuum zero point can be extracted on a large scale.”

"Yes, could it be that our theory about the zero-point energy of the vacuum is wrong? Is all our research based on a flawed theory? But if it is wrong, where is the mistake?"

The stagnation of research has forced scientific teams to pause and reflect.

This applies to human civilization as well as other civilizations.

Year after year, however, scientific research seemed to have reached a dead end. Scientific teams from various civilizations found that they could not think of any other way to proceed. Even trial and error and exhaustive search were trapped in a vast and unknown labyrinth, where they kept running into obstacles.

It's like having already exhausted all possibilities, but still finding the wrong answers.

In response, the Awakener civilization offered their perspective, which was also what they told human civilization when they first encountered it.

The limit of wisdom!

They believe that the reason why people cannot find the answer is not because the answer does not exist, but because the way to find the answer exceeds the wisdom limit of all intelligent beings present.

Intelligent life cannot imagine things beyond its own imagination, but the answer lies beyond the imagination of intelligent life.

Therefore, what everyone should do now is not to bury themselves in scientific research, because that will not lead to the answer. What everyone should do first is to break free from the shackles of their wisdom.

First, break through your own limitations and let your wisdom break through its original barriers. Only then can you see a wider world, and finding the answer will be a natural thing, instead of exhausting your wisdom to find the answer as you are now.

It sounds plausible, but how do we break through the barriers of wisdom?
The Awakener civilization was unaware that one of the purposes of their great voyage was to break through the limits of intelligence, yet they had no way to do so, much like a person hugging themselves and trying to lift themselves up.

(End of this chapter)