Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1611 Research on Limiting Dimensions
Based on the accounts of both, one of the unknown super stargates that humanity passed through back then was the super stargate of the Divine Creation Micro-Element. That fleeting glimpse was the Divine Creation Micro-Element scanning human civilization and its fellow civilizations through some means.

It's unclear whether the third-person perception mode of the human and the awakener has been detected by the other party.

Of course, human civilization doesn't know that thing is called God Creation Micro-Element.

Humanity is currently still navigating through the void, exploring dimensions alongside the Galactic Heart Civilization, the Daya Civilization, the Awakener Civilization, four-dimensional life forms, and the Star Guardians, primarily focusing on the extreme low-dimensional realms.

The four-dimensional life form revealed its understanding of the dimensional realm, greatly benefiting humanity and other civilizations. Although the four-dimensional life form was not a technological civilization, and its words did not follow the usual record-keeping style of technological civilizations, it focused more on its understanding of how to adapt to various dimensions.

However, technological civilization always finds a way to transform this knowledge into something it can understand, and then conduct research on it.

Humans, the Daya, the Silver Heart, and the Awakeners all regard this as an important learning opportunity, and some scientists even believe that this knowledge may be of great help to everyone in advancing to a god-like civilization.

After all, the four-dimensional life form's summary of dimensional knowledge also includes zero-dimensionality.

The study of zero-dimensionality clearly touches upon one of the secrets of the universe's infinite vault, because zero-dimensionality represents a particle without the concept of space. This statement is strange, even grammatically incorrect, but it truly represents an infinitely small space, a point where no distance exists.

In a physical sense, it doesn't even exist.

It is merely a mathematical calculation result.

The concept of zero dimensions is so contradictory that it shouldn't exist in physics, so under normal circumstances, life cannot explore it.

Because if zero dimension represents zero, then it would not exist in the universe. However, based on the concept of dimension, an infinite stack of zero-dimensional space extends to form a one-dimensional line, an infinite stack of one-dimensional space translates to form a two-dimensional plane, and an infinite stack of two-dimensional planes translates to form a three-dimensional space.

But if zero dimension is zero, then no matter how it is stacked and extended, it should still be zero.

Therefore, in the physical concepts of a cosmic civilization, zero dimension should not exist. There are only infinitely close to zero dimension, but there is no real zero dimension. This is just like how absolute zero cannot be reached.

However, zero-dimensionality does exist in the universe, because according to this reasoning, zero-dimensionality can be considered an omnipresent point in the vast universe.

It exists eternally, yet it also does not exist eternally.

How can we explore something like this?

It must be said that the path of a god-level civilization is indeed extremely arduous. Even humans who can enter the Calabi-Chu manifold do not know where to begin with this problem.

During the research process, some scientists in human civilization also tried to find answers from various fundamental strings using the old methods. Their approach was to conduct a dimensionality reduction experiment on a certain space.

In short, it involves reducing three dimensions to two dimensions, two dimensions to one dimension, and then working on the one dimension to zero.

Unfortunately, humanity currently only possesses the technology to reduce space from two dimensions to one dimension, which was learned from the paper-based civilization. Although we have some ideas on how to manipulate one-dimensional threads with the help of four-dimensional life forms, it seems that we still need to continue to study how to find the corresponding string.

If this is the case for humans, other civilizations are even more clueless; they can't even reduce space from two dimensions to one.

Most worryingly, during the research process, human scientists discovered that it seems increasingly difficult to reduce the dimensionality of space, not only requiring more energy but also revealing some unprecedented situations.

Logically, discovering something unprecedented in an experiment should be a good thing, since unknown phenomena represent discoveries. However, the phenomenon discovered this time is that the speed of falling space slows down after the space is reduced in dimensionality.

This phenomenon made the research teams of humans, the Galactic Heart, Daya, and the Awakeners realize that the rules of this universe are indeed changing, and they are changing in a more stable direction.

This is because it was previously discovered that warp efficiency was increasing. According to the original warp rules, when a ship applies such a large amount of energy to warp space, space should have been warped into an artificial black hole long ago. This is why warp has a limit. However, now not only has space not been warped into an artificial black hole, but the spaceship has also entered a completely new warp realm.

Since the discovery of warp speed changes, the maximum warp speed has continued to change. It was only about three thousand times the speed of light at the beginning, but it has now increased to six thousand times the speed of light, and this change has not stopped.

If it were just this one rule change, people would think it was an isolated case, but the spatial rules are also starting to become more stable.

If this trend continues, in the near future, dimensional reduction attacks may stop spreading, and the fall into lower dimensions may no longer expand indefinitely. In other words, the cosmic catastrophe caused by dimensional reduction may be contained.

After noticing this change, the various civilizations within the Great Voyage Organization realized that a powerful figure must have made a move. After all, they had all traveled nearly 10 billion light-years through the super stargate of the Great Evolution Civilization, and this change in the rules was continuing to affect this distant region.

Everyone realizes that this change could be on a cosmic scale, and the only thing that can affect the rules of the entire universe is a god-like civilization. Nobody knows who else has such capabilities.

There are only three god-level civilizations that everyone knows: the Great Evolution Civilization, the Rebooters, and the Returners.

"Perhaps they are the Returning to the Void, or perhaps the Great Evolution Civilization!" Some scholars have made this judgment. They have heard that the Returning to the Void were going to conduct some kind of Returning to the Void experiment, and they also know that the Great Evolution Civilization went to measure the universe.

Therefore, I subconsciously thought that the commotion was caused by these two civilizations.

Due to the significant information gap, these scholars perfectly avoided the correct answer.

Of course, these fallacies are harmless, because the truth will eventually come out.

Time passed gradually during the voyages and research, year after year, decade after century, century after century.

Thanks to the accumulation of pixel space and the generous sharing of knowledge by four-dimensional life forms, humanity has accumulated more and more technology and theories in the zero-dimensional field. Quantitative change eventually turned into qualitative change on the right day.

Humanity has finally found the string that connects the one-dimensional thread.

Furthermore, many experiments were conducted based on this, namely, continuous dimensionality reduction experiments.

Despite knowing that these experiments could cause cosmic catastrophe, no civilization could resist the temptation of the secret of the infinite safe.

Humans conducted experiments time and time again, and the results improved over time. But just when everyone thought victory was in sight, a despairing truth emerged.

Humans have successfully reduced one-dimensional filaments to zero-dimensionality, but in the end, no matter how hard humans try, zero-dimensionality never appears; only a point space that is close to infinitesimal appears.

It approaches infinity, but will never reach it.

Nature has created a chasm between the infinitely small and the point of no size for human civilization.

This seemingly thin line is like an insurmountable gap, much like how a human string-based computer appears to be only a tiny fraction away from infinity, yet feels like an insurmountable divide.

This made humanity and several other civilizations realize that they are still within limitations, and that all of civilization is bound by those limitations.

The secret within that Infinite Safe has never even been seen by anyone.

(End of this chapter)