Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 655: The Journey of Level Civilization

I believe everyone is familiar with what strong interaction material is. It is the material used in the water drop detectors made by the Three-Body Civilization in the novel "Human Earth Era".

Of course, novels are different from reality after all. The strong interaction material described in the novel uses a special force field to eliminate the electromagnetic force between particles, so that the strong force becomes dominant, pressing the protons and neutrons firmly together, turning it into a material with zero surface friction coefficient, indestructible, no particles vibrating, and a temperature infinitely close to absolute zero.

It is a light-reflecting material.

However, scientists in human civilization have now discovered through the grand unified field equation that the electromagnetic force cannot be eliminated through the grand unified field equation in theory. The existence of the four fundamental forces is objective, and the grand unified theory describes three of them in a unified way. Therefore, it is impossible to eliminate one of the forces in the equation, not even in theory, and it is even more impossible in actual research and experiments.

However, it is possible to change the force range and interaction range of a certain kind of creation to a certain extent through force field manipulation, for example, by swapping the range and force range of strong force and electromagnetic force, so that strong force becomes a macroscopic apparent force. Of course, this force field manipulation process must be supported by powerful energy. As for how to operate it specifically, scientists and engineers are still studying experiments. Generally speaking, it is to manipulate the three basic forces in creation through some kind of force field probe based on the grand unified force field equation to achieve the desired results for humans.

It is worth mentioning that this operation process cannot be carried out in any environment, but must be carried out under the background conditions of a grand unified force field. In other words, if humans want to produce strong interaction materials, they have to build corresponding material manufacturing factories.

There is no doubt about this.

As for how strong the strong interaction material is, we can only know it after it is actually produced and tested. However, this kind of material that can only be produced by a fourth-level civilization is undoubtedly a crushing existence for the creations of a third-level civilization.

Humanity's own strong interaction material detectors will appear sooner or later.

Strong interaction materials are one type, but force field manipulation is a general direction, and the branch technologies born from them are more than just gravitational potential wells and strong interaction materials. During the preliminary research process, a scientific research team used the No. 2 alloy that humans currently have to conduct relevant firm experiments. They found that this alloy material, which was determined to be a quantum material at the time, actually showed a certain shadow of force field manipulation, but not much.

It is a quantum material, yes. But from the perspective of the grand unified force field equation, it is also a special electromagnetic force material. Its force field structure shows a field distribution different from that of ordinary objects, like a physical property that appears after some kind of microscopic quantum interweaving of electromagnetic force and weak interaction force.

From this perspective, it is indeed a quasi-level IV civilization material. When humans created alloy No. 2, they did not have level IV civilization technology. The probability of being able to create it was extremely low. It was a case of a blind cat catching a dead mouse.

In terms of force field manipulation, humans have discovered that the branches of technology that can be studied include not only material technology, but also some optics-based technologies, such as optical invisibility.

Optical invisibility is not visible light invisibility, but full-band optical invisibility.

Scientists have discovered that, in theory, they can start with force field manipulation and adjust the way the electromagnetic force field behaves, so that the surface of the object being acted upon is covered with a layer of peculiar electromagnetic field. This electromagnetic field has no other effect but the effect of fully refracting light.

Regardless of the wavelength, any light that enters this special electromagnetic field will be affected by the special magnetic field, refracted, and then bypass the object along the direction of the magnetic field. Just like water passing over a duck's back, there will be no reflected light, no diffuse reflection, and no diffraction.

Scientists call this special electromagnetic field an invisible electromagnetic field, because light that penetrates the invisible electromagnetic field will go around the electromagnetic field and then be emitted from the other end of the object in the same direction as the incident angle, so from the perspective of an optical observer, the object is completely invisible. All optical means cannot detect the object, which is truly invisible.

However, it is obvious that from a theoretical point of view, this kind of invisibility can be detected through gravitational technology, such as gravitational wave detectors, but the required gravitational wave detectors must be very accurate, and special "particles" such as tachyons can also be used as detectors.

From this perspective, this invisible electromagnetic field seems to be useless and indeed useless. After all, there is no Level 4 civilization that does not master the tachyon detection technology. However, it is not completely useless. For example, a battleship equipped with electromagnetic field invisibility is invincible to civilizations below Level 4. Without high-precision gravitational wave detection and tachyon detection, such a battleship cannot be discovered at all.

It can be said that if humans are willing, they can create a detector with electromagnetic field invisibility, and then hang it on the mother planet of a level 3 civilization to observe them all the time without worrying about being discovered, unless by chance it hits a spacecraft in orbit during operation.

The advantage of a higher-level civilization over a lower-level civilization is so outrageous that any technological creation of a fourth-level civilization, whether it is a strong interaction material or an invisible electromagnetic field, is enough to crush a third-level civilization.

So are there any other derivative technologies in the field of force control? Of course there are. After mastering the grand unified theory, scientists have already had a lot of ideas. They think that force field control can also be used on the shields of warships. Based on the grand unified theory, force field control is used as a means to construct a grand unified force field.

Scientists call this shield, which is still only in the theoretical demonstration stage, a force field shield. If successful, it will be the main defense shield for human warships in the future.

As for the research on related new weapons, humans will naturally not fall behind. Not only that, after mastering the grand unified theory, many experts have already been doing research on new weapons.

First of all, it is the reverse of force field control technology. The experts immediately thought of gravity bombs. They thought that they could create a powerful bomb that could cause force field turbulence based on gravity potential well technology. Yes, anyone with a discerning eye can see that gravity bombs are weapons specifically designed to destroy force field shields.

The competition of contradictions still exists even in space and among the stars.

On the other hand is the application of antimatter. Since the fourth-level civilization uses antimatter as its core fuel, it must have the ability to produce antimatter on a large scale, so humans naturally cannot ignore antimatter-related weapons.

The emergence of weapons such as antimatter bombs and antimatter warp missiles is a foregone conclusion.

In addition, some weapons experts who believe that great power can bring about miracles also believe that the electromagnetic cannons that are already mastered by the third-level civilization have a lot of room for improvement. They can be further upgraded with the fourth-level civilization technology, changing the electromagnetic structure that starts it to a grand unified force field drive, and then directly replacing the electromagnetic shells with antimatter.

While the weapon is still in the conceptual design stage, these weapons design experts who believe in using great force to create miracles have declared that this is a powerful weapon that combines the advantages of extreme kinetic impact force and antimatter destructive power.

(End of this chapter)