Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1467 Degeneracy Strikes 2
The immense energy accumulated was used to disrupt the Pauli exclusion mechanism. When the strike was delivered, the rule that no two or more particles can be in the same state in a system composed of fermions was changed.

At this moment, all the laws that were originally obeyed by all particles with half-integer spin within the strike range became invalid.

If we can observe at a microscopic level, we can see that in a structure of "atomic nucleus and outer electrons", electrons that originally could not occupy the same quantum state are frantically piled together. The more electrons are piled up, the greater their mass becomes. At the same time, the atomic nucleus also moves closer and closer due to the disappearance of electron degeneracy.

After losing the support of degeneracy, all objects are squeezed inward under the effect of their own mass. The pressure quickly breaks through the repulsive force between like charges of charged particles. Electrons seem to become cloud-like masses like photons, and atomic nuclei also stick together because there is no degeneracy force.

Negatively charged electron clusters and positively charged atomic nuclei attract each other due to opposite charges, merging into indescribable neutron-like clumps.

It is called a neutron-like substance because after losing the degeneracy force, the neutron formed by the electron entering the atomic nucleus is no longer a particle-shaped neutron, because the neutron degeneracy force is also gone, and the neutrons fuse into a clump without any pressure.

It is not neutron-degenerate matter, but a completely new type of matter that has never existed in the natural world of this universe, a matter that exhibits electrical neutrality.

This substance no longer has particle properties because it has completely fused together due to the disappearance of degeneracy forces; perhaps it can be described as a neutron soup.

However, this substance is merely a product of the process of change; it does not last long. Because of the disappearance of degeneracy, it will continue to contract, stack, and shrink under the influence of its own mass effect. Since the degeneracy between quarks is also gone, it will not become quark-state matter. Instead, it will continue to collapse and compress inward, becoming an indescribable substance that appears to be Fermi-state matter but possesses the infinite stacking properties of bosons.

As a result, all matter within the strike range changed, starting with their microscopic structure.

Wherever the new rules go, everything melts away.

Spaceships, warships, mountains and rivers, planets, stars, neutron stars—all technological creations and all natural matter seemed to melt away at this moment, turning into indescribable clumps of matter.

But that's not all. Because the mass effect still exists, all objects in the starry sky continue to be compressed inward. The result of infinite inward compression is obvious: highly concentrated mass will break the spacetime boundary and form a point that falls infinitely inward at the center of infinite compression of matter. That is a black hole.

However, the objects that are hit do not silently accumulate into a black hole. After the Pauli exclusion principle is changed, the objects falling infinitely inward will experience a series of chain reactions due to the instantaneous transition between the original and new rules.

For example, matter falling infinitely inward will generate fusion energy during its fall due to the Bose transformation of Fermi matter. During the release of this fusion energy, a transition will occur under certain quantum laws.

As countless quanta jump, they fall into infinitesimally small locations in space, and some photons will be released during this process.

The reason why the shape of the unknown civilization's silver warship is not fixed, and can change from a rigid body to a fluid, is also based on this principle. It is the unknown civilization behind this warship that has eliminated the Pauli exclusionary forces between the fermions that constitute its own warship, but without turning them into a chaotic and disordered group of particles. Thus, the flowing light phenomenon that appears when it teleports occurs.

If you look closely at the changes in its composition, you'll see that when the unknown silver warship teleports, the particles that make it up are modified by the Pauli exclusion principle. It's as if the inherent physical properties of fermions have been transformed into the inherent properties of bosons. Since bosons can be stacked infinitely, this is why the unknown silver warship's shape turns into a stream of light.

From this perspective, the degeneracy attack by the unknown civilization was merely an application of their research into degeneracy forces, because their warships changed shape but did not collapse and fall indefinitely inward.

After the degenerate strike is launched, from a macroscopic perspective, the stars in the sky that were not originally luminous will suddenly glow, and each star will look like a lamp emitting a hazy cold light, lighting up in the vast universe.

Looking into the distance, one can see countless points of light appearing from nothing around each bright star, making the entire starry sky seem like it's filled with spheres of light. Due to the speed of light, an observer cannot see all the stars shining at once, but these lights will eventually spread to every part of the sky. If someone can wait until then to see the entire starry sky, they will surely witness a dreamlike and beautiful cosmos.

Countless stars in the starry sky will suddenly appear, then adorn the original stars, together forming a beautiful and fleeting star map.

Yes, it was beautiful, but fleeting.

Because matter was falling infinitely inward, these stars quickly lost their light and soon turned into black holes of varying sizes.

All matter, all stars.

Even a meteorite can turn into a small black hole.

Therefore, after the dazzling light, the starry sky will turn into darkness, complete darkness, and the stars will lose their light in an instant. Because there is no degeneracy force, all stars will turn into black holes in a very short time, but no matter how massive they are, they will not explode as supernovae.

This is because the matter that collapses inward has lost its degeneracy, so there is no "collision" and without collision, there will be no supernova explosion.

Such a physical process does not occur in nature; it is the power of civilization that has brought about this situation in this galaxy.

Under such an attack, the entire galaxy would turn into a black hole. And because the formation of the black hole would happen so quickly, at the moment when all the stars and spaceships were compressed into black holes, gravitational waves would ripple from every star and every spaceship that was hit due to the spacetime collapse caused by the black hole.

First came a hazy light, then a symphony of gravitational waves.

The effect of the attack was so beautiful, but the result was incredibly cruel.

The warships of countless civilizations under the Starry Sky Grand Expedition Organization were instantly reduced to ashes under this wave of attack; only the gravitational waves of varying sizes could prove that they had ever existed.

The attack covered a vast area, encompassing almost the entire Xuyu Galaxy, and countless fleeing warships vanished in an instant.

Caught completely off guard, all two thousand-plus neutron war stars of the Divine Matrix civilization were wiped out. Lacking any special reinforcement against degeneracy laws, they collapsed faster than any other planet. Those supposedly most defensive neutron war stars were transformed into bizarre black holes under their own gravity.

Of course, if the Divine Cube civilization had realized what was happening, they could have used gravitational shielding technology to prevent the neutron star from turning into a black hole, but they didn't expect that a civilization would possess such a method of attack.

However, even if the neutron star's own gravity is shielded to prevent the matter from collapsing indefinitely, the matter will still turn into a mess due to the impact, a blob of Bose-Fermi matter without degeneracy, and then dissipate as light under a series of quantum interactions.

It seems that after suffering a setback, the neutron war stars of the Divine Mole civilization will need to be patched again.

(End of this chapter)