Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1570: One Last Step Left

Upon arriving at the virtual venue, the four civilizations discussed the matter of entering the pixel space. The discussion was mainly conducted by the scientific teams of the four civilizations, while Yue Yuan mostly listened from the sidelines.

Professional people do professional things.

Although all four civilizations have mastered the technology of proportional spatial scaling, the effects of the same technology vary in the hands of different civilizations. Even though they have the same research results, some civilizations still create more powerful artifacts.

If we make a simple comparison, human civilization has the most mature application of spatial scaling technology, followed by the Galactic Center civilization, then the Awakeners, and finally the Daya civilization.

This meeting also allowed everyone to sit together for a horizontal comparison and then work together to solve the technical challenges of entering pixel space.

Yes, mastering the technique of proportional scaling in space does not mean that you can directly enter the pixel space; it also depends on the degree of mastery of the technique.

After some discussion, the first thing everyone can understand is that in order to enter pixel space, the creation must be shrunk to the pixel level.

The problem is that, like spatial folding technology, spatial scaling technology needs an outer shell to realize its function, and this outer shell is the smallest form that spatial scaling technology can shrink to.

Simply put, it's a "spatial ring" where the interior space is compressed proportionally, but its "ring shape" is its smallest possible form because the materials that make it up cannot compress the space they occupy.

In other words, the direction of the proportional scaling of space is the interior of the object or creation, rather than the creation itself.

After comparing the advantages and disadvantages of their respective technologies and their level of mastery, the four teams of scientists from different civilizations discovered that the smallest creations made by humans were still the ones made by humans. However, even with the technology of proportionally scaling space, the container could only be made to the size of a medicinal capsule.

However, a pixel in pixel space is much smaller than a capsule. After many years of exploration, it has been found that the size of a pixel in pixel space is about 0.001 cubic nanometers.

This requires that the four civilizations create an object smaller than a nanometer, and that this object must also have the functions of a probe spacecraft or even a comprehensive warship.

In reality, with the current technology of the four civilizations, it is not difficult to create such small nanoscale creations. After all, they all mastered true nanotechnology when they were at the third level of civilization. However, those were creations with simple functions. It would be almost impossible to explore the pixel space with a single creation of such a small individual.

Therefore, this path is definitely not feasible.

In summary, compressing the space occupied by a warship into such a small unit is the best choice, and a flagship is even better, because the flagship of each civilization is a comprehensive ship, and the various equipment it carries undoubtedly represents the highest level of technology of that civilization.

Unfortunately, none of them could shrink themselves.

It is possible to use external equipment to compress the space where the warship is located to the size of a capsule, but once the equipment stops working, the space will immediately return to normal.

Based on this fact, the four civilization teams discussed for a long time in the virtual meeting room, but still couldn't come up with a good solution.

Oh, actually, there are ways to solve this.

Based on human civilization's technology in the microscopic realm, the Galactic Center civilization suggested that the human civilization flagship directly abandon the technology of proportional spatial scaling, and use quantum exile to exile itself to the microscopic world, and then enter the pixel space from the microscopic world.

It must be said that the suggestion from the Silverheart civilization was quite good.

Quantum exile can indeed banish warships to the quantum world, but the problem is that human civilization has long discovered that after performing quantum exile in outer space, it's impossible to enter the pixel space. While the location of the pixel space can be detected from the microscopic world, a mysterious spatial barrier separates the two. The Dream Lyra secretly tested this long ago and found no way to enter, as if there were an air wall with mysterious rules. Human scientists have analyzed this, and many quantum scientists believe there is a way to cross that mysterious air wall—quantum macrotunneling technology.

Well, it's like saying nothing at all.

That thing was a pioneering technology that human civilization once possessed, but unfortunately it's long gone.

The distinctive technologies of a Level 6 civilization are the technologies of a Level 7 civilization. Once a Level 7 civilization is reached, it can basically achieve mass production of the original distinctive technologies, but it must first possess the corresponding distinctive technologies at the Level 6 civilization level.

So this path is basically impossible.

Then, the only option left is to shrink oneself as well.

In response, a team of scientists from four civilizations proposed an idea: to reverse the original device that only had the function of scaling internal space and install another set of it, so that the creation could not only scale its internal space, but also its external space.

The idea is good, and it is theoretically feasible.

However, it requires extremely high technical skills and is very complex because the external environment is open. It is said that it is possible to install the equipment in reverse, but in practice it is extremely difficult.

The application of force fields in open spaces and enclosed interior spaces is completely opposite.

Of course, there are difficulties, but everyone is confident that they can overcome them.

In fact, the four civilizations are only one step away from achieving their goal. Once they can understand the application of various force fields in open space and combine it with the technology of proportional scaling of space, they will be able to realize the technology of shrinking warships themselves.

As Yue Yuan listened to the four scientific teams from different civilizations discussing and exchanging various technical details in the virtual meeting room, his eyes suddenly lit up.

It wasn't that he had a sudden burst of inspiration and discovered the key to realizing this technology, but rather that he realized this technology was actually one of the prerequisite technologies for his previous idea of ​​"the transformation of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends".

This is because the technology can shrink itself.

Isn't this one of the essential functions of those magical treasures in mythology? Things like shrinking flying swords and putting them into the body, magical treasures growing in the wind, the Ruyi Jingu Bang (Golden Cudgel), basically all magical treasures that can enlarge or shrink on their own are like this.

Thinking about this, Yue Yuan felt strange. He even had an absurd idea: those magical weapons in myths and legends might just be a technological product.

This idea is indeed absurd, since Earth has already exploded. But if those myths and legends were recorded by ancient people after they saw the real thing, wouldn't that mean that a cosmic or even god-like civilization once visited Earth?
"It's not impossible, but the probability is too small." Yue Yuan shook his head and muttered to himself. Then he suddenly thought of the red gas. As it stands, the red gas he inhaled must be something that only a cosmic-level civilization could create, and one that has done a lot of research on anti-entropy technology.

While daydreaming in the conference room, Yue Yuan stroked his chin and said, "Tsk, what a coincidence! It must be a coincidence, a coincidence! Those things are just the imagination of the ancients, and we are just turning those imaginations into reality!"

The four-party meeting ended with Yue Yuan taking a break, and the four civilizations returned to their respective homes to continue their research on the technology of proportional scaling of space.

Once they complete their research, the "Ruyi Jingu Bang" will be truly built, and entering pixel space will be just one final step away.

(End of this chapter)