Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1445 Rule-Based Law

The Awakener civilization also possesses a third-person observation mode; whatever humans can observe, they can also observe, provided they are given the data.

Therefore, in the research of vacuum zero-point energy, they are the closest to human civilization in terms of progress to date, followed by the Divine Mole Civilization.

These are the three civilizations that are currently at the forefront.

All the great progress in civilization today is driven by these three civilizations.

Of course, other civilizations also made contributions, but their contributions were mostly the accumulation of quantitative changes.

From then on, 84 civilizations officially entered the next stage, which was also the final stage of the study of vacuum zero-point energy—how to be a cosmic deadbeat.

"I never expected that we would have to study how to become a deadbeat. But how exactly do we become a deadbeat? Debts must be repaid. The universe's ability to collect debts is too strong. We can intercept that powerful energy, but we can't keep it at all."

Inside the research base for human civilization, Long Xinglu and Dao Baiqi were exchanging their recent research findings in the base's office. Dao Baiqi was the one speaking.

She is the daughter of Dao Heiqi's grandson, and awakened at the age of 530,000 years old. Considering the current lifespan of human civilization, she would be considered a young woman. Of course, "young woman" is merely a way of identifying her life form; she is actually a genius scientist.

Although according to the definition of kinship in the interstellar era of human civilization, she has no relation to Dao Heiqi anymore, in a sense, she did inherit the will of the great scientist Dao Heiqi and became a genius scientist of human civilization through her own talent and hard work.

“Yes, the problem is that we can’t retain it. Our experimental team has captured vacuum zero-point energy millions of times, but we still can’t figure out how to retain it!” Long Xinglu shifted his gaze from Dao Baiqi’s beautiful face and raised his hand to pinch his already graying beard.

Long Xinglv is over a million years old when he awakens. According to current human life science technology, he has reached the end of his life. However, even so, he is still working at the forefront of science, and his physical condition has not weakened due to his gray beard.

Human civilization has developed the technology to maintain a person's peak physical condition from adulthood to death, and there is no disease.

"Perhaps we should return to the study of strings and look for answers in superstring theory."

When faced with a dilemma, she resorts to quantum mechanics. Dao Baiqi is a staunch supporter of superstring theory. She pointed to a hologram on her desk and said, "My team and I have tracked the amplitude relationship of the dual membranes corresponding to different string vibrations in a third-person observation mode. We are very clear that the spatial dimension in string theory can be changed."

"They come, they go, they shrink and they grow. We've discovered that the ultimate relationship between strings and the universe involves extra dimensions. When dimensions are small, spacetime is only an approximation. A correct description of the universe might be related to four major dimensions." "Over the years, our perspective seems too limited, perhaps constrained by conventional thinking. We only focus on four major dimensions, believing that problems should be considered from the perspective of three-dimensional space and the pervasive dimension of time. But quantum fluctuations should be events that cover all dimensions. Our action of extracting energy from space may seem to act only in the macroscopic dimension, but in reality, it acts simultaneously at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels."

"Because we discovered that during the process of extracting vacuum zero-point energy and being forcibly taken back by the universe, there are changes in the microscopic higher dimensions. We believe that as long as we find those changes and grasp their laws, we can find a way to borrow without returning."

Long Xinglv nodded, signaling her to continue.

Dao Baiqi tapped a few times to display a series of microscopic six-dimensional images on the holographic image. Then, pointing to several of the changes, he said, "Look, this is a phenomenon we discovered through our research on S-dual strings. It can smoothly change the intensity of string interactions, which we consider the operating string. The other set of strings is the transmission string, and this is the result of their oscillations on the T-dual membrane."

Long Xinglv listened quietly, while keeping his eyes glued to the various parameters changing on the holographic screen.

He knew that this was actually the way the Tianqin spacecraft dealt with the quantum tide that appeared out of nowhere when it was making a microscopic high-dimensional leap. It was to treat it as a kind of "sail booster" to push the Tianqin spacecraft from the microscopic high-dimensional world to a suitable exit and back to the macroscopic world to complete the leap.

Upon hearing this, Long Xinglv already understood what Dao Baiqi meant.

Sure enough, after saying a lot, Dao Baiqi brushed his bangs that were hanging down his cheek behind his ear and continued, "Based on this, we were thinking, is it possible that we don't need to consider preserving vacuum zero-point energy at all? Instead, we just need to use it up before the universe reacts and takes it back!"

“We know this is difficult because it may be on the Planck timescale, which is why we have always believed that it must be preserved first. However, we have also been considering skipping the preservation stage, but unfortunately there has never been any material that can store the so-called vacuum zero point energy.”

After a pause, Dao Baiqi continued, "Well, regarding the preservation of vacuum zero-point energy, the Silver Heart Civilization believed three hundred years ago that such materials did not exist, and that there was only one way to preserve vacuum zero-point energy, which was through rule constraints."

“We must create a rule cage to imprison the extracted vacuum zero-point energy inside. When we need to use it, we just need to open an opening and use it where we need it to do work.” Dao Baiqi pointed to the boiling vacuum quantum fluctuation simulation diagram in the hologram, raised her hand and wiped away a group of quantum fluctuations that were in the peak state. After the peak state she wiped away disappeared, it immediately returned to its original state, but a device labeled 'Energy Confinement Device' showed an increase in energy density.

After this simulation, Dao Baiqi blinked her beautiful eyes and continued, "Like this, we can extract the zero point of the vacuum, but the universe replenishes it in an instant—no, not a Planck time. This was originally taken from the energy we extracted, but the energy we extracted has been constrained by the rules and isolated by the rules. Therefore, the universe can only replenish it from other places through some kind of internal mechanism."

“We constantly extract energy, and the universe constantly replenishes it. This should be a fundamental mechanism of the universe. We don’t know how it works, but we now know that when this compensation mechanism becomes large enough, a certain place in the universe will experience an energy drop because too much energy is spread out by the universe’s mechanism itself. This is vacuum decay.”

(End of this chapter)