Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 653 Gravitational Potential Well Technology

Although humans and the affiliated alien races do not live in the same residential spaceship, they are on the same network. The network inside humans is the main network, and the other alien races use the human sub-network. Because all the residential spaceships are in the same starry sky, although the network has some delays, it is still acceptable.

Since they have become appendages of humans, sovereignty and the Internet must be dominated by humans.

For ordinary people, the relationship between the human network and the networks of several alien races is equivalent to the internal and external networks. Some humans often browse various websites of other races through the network. Things like human videos that appear on the networks of other races are transmitted by these people.

These people's original intention was to see how aliens communicate with each other, how their behavior and thoughts differ from humans, etc. They also often take some videos from other races and post them on the human Internet to achieve the purpose of entertainment.

In fact, these are all spontaneous cultural exchanges that can broaden human horizons and knowledge, and the new government welcomes this.

While ordinary people are still immersed in the success of the grand unified theory formula, human scientific teams have already set their sights on the farther future.

The first is the improvement of the warp engine. After mastering the grand unified theory, humans once again upgraded the warp engine they made. Starting from the principle, they produced a higher quality warp engine.

At the same time, research in other areas is also continuing. With the grand unified theory as the cornerstone, mankind has formally challenged various applied technologies, such as warp navigation technology research, tachyon communication technology research, force field manipulation research, and the research on the three related basic forces under the grand unified framework, and the derivative technologies that may be born from this.

Human beings are well aware that under the framework of the grand unified theory, many derivative technologies will definitely be born, just like the realization of controlled nuclear fusion in the past.

The first breakthrough among these studies was in tachyon communication technology.

In the second year after mastering the formula of the grand unified theory, humans created the first tachyon detector based on the principles of the grand unified theory. After installing this tachyon detector on an astronomical-grade particle collider, they successfully detected the tachyons generated during the collision experiment.

This discovery is equivalent to proving the correctness of the previous related tachyon theory.

On this basis, humans successfully built a tachyon generator in the second year, and succeeded in the communication experiment in the laboratory in the second half of the same year. Then in the third year, humans built the first mass-produced tachyon communication device.

After various actual communication tests at both ends of this space, humans discovered that the delay of tachyon communication is very low, with a delay of less than 1 millisecond over a distance of more than ten light years. Later, it was discovered that this delay was actually caused by the reaction speed of humans' own electronic devices. In other words, tachyon communication within a distance of more than ten light years can be said to be almost instantaneous and real-time.

Why do we say almost? Because many scientists believe that although the speed of tachyons is faster than the speed of light, it has not reached infinity. From the concept of speed, it still has a speed. At least this is the case for the tachyons that humans currently have for communication. It's just that humans cannot currently measure the breadth of the spatial scale on which delays will occur.

At the same time, some scientists believe that there is more than one type of tachyon, and there are speed differences between them, just like photons and other particles, but humans have not yet discovered other hypothesized tachyons.

Based on this, the Academy of Human Sciences has classified tachyons as a major branch of science and technology, a path of science and technology system, called tachyon technology. Currently, under this science and technology system, only tachyon communication technology discovered and applied by humans is marked, and other applications and discoveries of tachyon technology are still in the speculation stage. For example, the discovery of other tachyons that can be used for weapons has been studied by relevant scientists.

If we were to say that apart from tachyon technology, the most exciting technology that has emerged after humans mastered the grand unified theory is, it would undoubtedly be gravitational potential well technology.

Human scientists have discovered that they can modify the input energy ratio through the grand unified equation, affecting the effect of electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, and weak interaction force after fusion under a specific environmental background, just like the warp bubble and warp displacement effect, so as to produce a space effect similar to gravity, which they call the gravitational potential well effect. And this technology is called gravitational potential well technology.

What is gravitational potential well technology? As the name suggests, humans can create a device that produces a gravitational potential well effect. The gravitational potential well effect is easy to understand. It means that objects in the gravitational potential well are subject to an effect similar to gravity.

For example, if a force is applied to an object suspended in space, it will easily move around due to the force, just like touching an object in a zero-gravity environment. However, if a gravitational potential well is applied to the location of the object, the effect will be different.

The object will be firmly fixed in this area, and even if it is poked with force, it will bounce back to its original position like a spring, just like a small ball placed in a funnel.

And this invisible funnel is the gravitational potential well.

Objects will tend to move toward the center of the gravitational potential well as if they were pulled by gravity.

This is a great technology, a great technology based on the grand unified theory, because its emergence will bring about earth-shaking changes to human civilization.

First, in terms of antimatter. The existence of gravitational potential well technology has made it possible to store large quantities of antimatter. Humans can use gravitational potential well technology to safely place large quantities of antimatter in containers made of matter without worrying about antimatter colliding with matter and causing annihilation reactions.

The second is spaceships and warships.

The emergence of gravity potential well technology will completely change the form of human warships and residential spacecraft. Especially for residential spacecraft, humans will say goodbye to drum-type residential spacecraft. Because it can be foreseen that after gravity potential well technology is widely used, humans will no longer need to use the centripetal force generated by the rotation of the large disk of the spacecraft to simulate the gravity effect, but can directly use gravity potential well technology to simulate.

This means that human habitation spacecraft will no longer need various rotating structures, which will make the habitation spacecraft more solid and the available space will become larger, because human living area on the habitation spacecraft will no longer be limited to the outer circle of the rotating disk.

After that, the interior of the living spacecraft can be a multi-layered structure like a cruise ship. Similarly, human warships will bid farewell to the era of magnetic boots, and the rotating structure of the internal office and living areas can be omitted, which will free up a lot of space for other uses in the warships.

In other words, humans can finally feel the existence of gravity on the warship again, just like on Earth.

Technology has indeed changed our lives.

Some people may say that humans are too obsessed with the gravity environment, and that it would be better to live in a weightless environment after going into space. However, the Earth's gravity environment is an environment to which all functions of the human body have adapted for billions of years, and it is definitely the most comfortable environment for humans.

Besides, the humans who have mastered the gravitational potential well technology are not stupid enough not to set up a switch.

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