Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1571 Hitting a wall
It must be said that human civilization is fortunate. Together with three other civilizations, they completed the development of spatial scaling technology before the stable rules of the Rebooters affected them. Although they could not enlarge or shrink the container itself, it was still a great technology.

The emergence of this technology brought about earth-shattering changes to all four civilizations. Many items that were originally considered large were now stored in proportionally compressed containers.

In terms of ships, this obviously greatly increases the internal volume and living space, making the living environment of the spacecraft more comfortable.

In terms of human civilization, the storage rooms inside all ships have now been renovated, and all kinds of spare instruments and equipment have been sealed in capsules and fixed on rows of shelves like medicine racks.

In fact, the technology of scaling space proportionally is much more difficult than the technology of folding space, especially the final step that the four civilizations are currently working together to research.

This research would be impossible to achieve in any conventional cosmic civilization.

It is incredibly difficult. For hundreds of years, all four civilizations have devoted all their scientific research resources to it, yet progress has been slow.

However, slow progress is better than no progress at all. This may be the benefit of joint research and development by multiple civilizations, where each civilization shines in its area of ​​expertise.

In this final step of the research, the Galactic Center civilization made outstanding contributions to the definition of open space, and through their efforts, a clear definition of the scope of "the space outside the container" was established.

After countless years of experimentation, research, and data analysis, the Silver Heart Civilization finally delivered a satisfactory result. They presented their research process at a science and technology seminar and explained it to the other three civilizations.

It must be said that the "external space of the container" defined by the Galactic Heart civilization is very reasonable. They limit it to the range of electromagnetic interaction, which is very short, that is, the range of pressure felt by the hand after touching an object in daily life.

From the perspective of everyday life, this is simply the object itself.

Over the years, looking back at the final step of the research process, this is the only progress we've made, which is why everyone feels that progress has been slow.

However, what the research teams did not expect was that after the Galactic Center civilization completed the definition of external space and gave a perfect mathematical expression, the subsequent research suddenly went smoothly.

First, the Daya civilization's scientific team spent over a decade calculating the force field distribution in external space. Second, the Awakeners conducted numerous experiments in a dream-created environment using dream-building technology, and then spent over a hundred years successfully finding a proportionally reduced formula for the relationship between the four fundamental forces within the force field range of external space.

Finally, there is the realm of the microscopic world, which is the responsibility of human civilization. With its advanced microscopic technology, human civilization successfully found the corresponding string mechanism based on information and experimental data provided by the other three civilizations. Based on this, it took thousands of years to finally integrate various elements and create the core operating system that everyone has been dreaming of for so many years.

The combined research findings of the four civilizations ultimately led to the successful implementation of the proportional scaling technology of space that Yue Yuan had envisioned.

The research has reached this point, and theoretically it can be considered a success, but it's unclear how successful it is to what extent.

Therefore, in order to obtain actual data, the four civilizations eventually joined forces to create some experimental prototype machines to verify the reliability of their creations.

The result was a mixed bag.

The good news is that in repeated experiments, the experimental sample machine was indeed successfully shrunk, along with itself, and the reduction range far exceeded the size of the capsule, but it still did not meet the requirements for entering pixel space. The bad news is that not only did it fail to meet the requirements, but the time for shrinking was also very limited.

Yue Yuan had also witnessed the experimental process. In the blink of an eye, the creations, along with their containers, which had been shrunk, returned to their original state.

The time was too short to meet the requirements for the probe spacecraft to enter.

Because in such a short time, other probe ships simply cannot jump into the pixel space. Currently, only one warship from the four civilizations can jump in in such a short time, and that is the Dream Lyra.

However, no one knows what the situation is in the pixel space right now. Even if he could instantly shrink the warship to a size that allows it to enter the pixel space, Yue Yuan doesn't want to take the risk.

This situation continued for another five hundred years.

When time reached this point, the proportional scaling technique still failed to shrink the object to the point of entering pixel space, and it was also time-limited, meaning it would immediately return to its original state in an instant.

In other words, in the past five hundred years, there has been no progress at all in terms of the duration of maintenance.

This situation has put everyone in a dilemma, especially the Galactic Heart civilization. They want to install the equipment on the Lyra Dream and then let the Lyra enter, but they are worried about the opportunities that humanity might encounter if it exclusively enjoys the pixel space. However, if they don't let the Lyra Dream enter, the technology has stagnated in terms of durability.

So should we give up exploring the pixel space? After all, we've been here for so long, it seems like we really can't get in.

After so many years of research, the four scientific teams even suspect that this spatial scaling technology is actually something that only a race with talent in this area could research at this level, or that only they could develop spatial scaling technology to enter pixel space.

And now, the scientific teams of these four major technological civilizations, after so long, can only manage to shrink objects to the size of a needle at best, and the timeliness is even worse; they shrink to the size of a needle and then shrink back to the original size in an instant.

Similarly, in terms of minimizing the scope, the level of the embroidery needle was the limit, and there was no further progress for many years afterward.

Therefore, everyone feels that even if there are improvements in time persistence in the future, it will still be impossible to enter pixel space.

The four civilizations were deeply disappointed by this conclusion, as it signified the failure of their research objective. They had not achieved their goal of exploring the pixel space together; their technology was inadequate, and they could not enter.

Undeterred, the scientific teams continued to persuade their respective civilizations' leadership to stay for another five hundred years, but this time it brought them both joy and despair.

Five hundred years of research allowed them to successfully overcome the problem of durability. They successfully developed a technology that could shrink an object to the size of an embroidery needle. However, when it came to further shrinking the space in which the object was located, the four civilizations seemed to have hit a wall, which they could not break through no matter how hard they tried.

(End of this chapter)