Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1444 It Still Has to Be the Boss
The latest achievement comes from human civilization. It was completed by the elderly Long Xinglv and his research team, using conventional methods.

Once this finding was confirmed, human civilization directly notified all civilizations to enter the virtual meeting hall and shared the latest research results with them.

At first, the various civilizations thought that human civilization had been accomplished through their own observational talents and were not very interested because they felt that they could not replicate it. However, after listening to Long Xinglv's introduction in the virtual hall, they realized that it was actually a conventional method.

In fact, they didn't know that their initial misconception was correct. Human civilization did discover new phenomena through its own talent, namely the third-person observation mode similar to that of the Awakeners. However, the research team of human civilization then spent another three hundred years using the third-person observation mode to trace the clues and reverse the process from the results, ultimately reproducing the experimental results using ordinary level six civilization technology.

To the delight of all civilizations, the result this time is that humanity has essentially taken the second step into the realm of cosmic civilization, a step it had previously failed to take.

The Awakener civilization's previous discovery opened a hole in the technological barrier, the Divine Curve civilization's subsequent theories and research extended one leg into that hole, and human civilization has now stepped over the barrier with the other leg.

This means that human civilization has found the correct answer for the large-scale application of vacuum zero-point energy. Next, all other civilizations need to do is repeat the experiment themselves according to the methods provided by human civilization, and then summarize the formula for obtaining the correct answer.

Once that stage is reached, the civilization that obtains the formula will have successfully mastered vacuum zero-point energy.

Yes, humanity has not yet summarized the formula because, during the exploration process, human research teams discovered that there seem to be many variables in the data using vacuum zero-point energy. Their existence would cause the "formula using vacuum zero-point energy" that everyone expected to be is not a definite formula, but a formula with hidden changes.

The idea that the formula hides changes is strange, since a formula is supposed to be fixed, right? But data collected by human civilization research teams through third-person observation shows that the process of obtaining the correct answer does indeed come from a variable formula.

It seems to be a hidden phenomenon that would not be discovered without meticulous investigation. The scientific team of human civilization was able to discover it entirely thanks to the third-person observation mode.

They discovered that this change is not a change in the amount of vacuum zero-point energy obtained. The change in the amount obtained should be determined by a variable in a fixed formula. This is also the research result that human civilization wants to share with all civilizations, and it is also the speculation of the human civilization research team on the way vacuum zero-point energy is obtained.

Telling other civilizations this is also so that they can use their own intelligence to verify this conjecture.

If the conjecture is correct, then that hidden formula of change is likely the manifestation of vacuum zero-point energy under different environments. In other words, it could very well be what the Star Guardian refers to as "feeling," considering that the Star Guardian is able to extract vacuum zero-point energy in regions rich in dark matter.

This means that it might be a way to obtain the same enormous vacuum zero-point energy after incorporating dark matter influence parameters.

This falls under the research scope of each civilization and is not part of the treaty on zero-point energy research.

Human civilization has long learned from the guardians of the stars that even civilizations that have mastered vacuum zero-point energy have differences in travel speed. Therefore, after discovering this phenomenon, scientists believe that the underlying factor behind the speed difference may be the depth of a civilization's research into vacuum zero-point energy.

My discovery is likely the result of further research into the field of vacuum zero-point energy.

Just like when they first mastered warp drive, human civilization unconsciously skipped the initial stage, only realizing later that other civilizations were actually slower than themselves that they had skipped the initial stage altogether.

Humans who have had experience before and are no longer novice in the cosmic society are no longer naive.

Perhaps this time, humanity will skip the initial stage of a cosmic-level civilization altogether. If so, after mastering vacuum zero-point energy, humanity will immediately possess a warp speed exceeding 392.5 times the speed of light, surpassing the initial stage of a cosmic-level civilization. They've won at the starting line.

As for what human civilization told other civilizations in the virtual hall, it was the conventional method based on membrane theory, namely the D-membrane annihilation experiment.

Humans can observe the changes in the vibrations of strings and string combinations during the experiment through a third-person observation mode, while normal civilizations can use mathematical methods to abstractly calculate this process, and then conduct tachyon collision experiments using specific scientific equipment to find the corresponding tachyons from the experiment. In the membrane turbulence caused by tachyon collisions, they can find the phenomenon of D0-branes and anti-D0-branes annihilation.

The patterns of the entire process are summarized from these phenomena and written into formulas.

While these processes do involve strings and membranes, cosmic strings are not exclusive to humans. Humans simply understand them more deeply through a third-person observation mode. Many theories about cosmic strings and membranes are also understandable to other civilizations.

This was the second step taken to the other side of the technological barrier, a decisive move by human civilization that propelled the fate of the 84 civilizations in the two great voyages to another peak.

This success of human civilization seems to have been nothing earth-shattering.

But it's not a problem of human civilization, but a problem of people's understanding. People always feel that they must go through countless hardships and overcome one obstacle after another that is about to destroy civilization before they can achieve success, and that is what makes it earth-shattering.

In reality, scientific research has always been a gradual process, a slow transformation from quantitative to qualitative change; success never appears suddenly.

Humanity's current success is built upon the achievements of the Awakeners and the Divine Ruler civilization. While it may seem easy to achieve, it actually involves countless hidden challenges.

Moreover, the prerequisite for all this success and progress has blocked countless civilizations, because it requires you to have the ability to reach the central region of the Great Void, and completing the Great Voyage is the foundation of all this.

Then there was the seemingly easy problem of "fire cannot be lit in water." If it weren't for the message left by the War Immortal Civilization, the 84 civilizations would probably still be stuck in the same place, and in the end, they might have been like many other great voyages before, only to discover the truth at the last moment and then perish.

However, this success for human civilization does not mean that it has truly succeeded, because in the experiment, human civilization has already discovered that it can indeed obtain a large amount of vacuum zero-point energy in this way, but it must be returned to the universe immediately after obtaining it.

In other words, it "can be ignited", but "the income is negative". The input energy is greater than the output energy, and all the effort is wasted on losses. The vacuum zero-point energy borrowed from the universe must be returned in the same amount.

Therefore, after obtaining the formula through subsequent experimental research, each civilization still had to figure out how to deceive the universe so that the universe's rules could not reclaim the energy they had intercepted.

This process is not simple, because human civilization has discovered that it involves microscopic quantum tides.

It is worth mentioning that after the Awakener civilization obtained the data on the progress of scientific research shared by humanity, they also discovered this phenomenon.

Regarding this latest research progress by human civilization, the Daya civilization says: We're still number one!

(End of this chapter)