Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 836: Flying across the sea of ​​stars to the other side of life

To this end, humans have conducted many experiments to simulate extreme conditions in the universe in an attempt to explore the traces of gravitons, but unfortunately nothing was discovered.

This is research along the lines of the Standard Model.

There is also research on the quantization of gravity. Scientists stand on the shoulders of their predecessors to continue exploring the unknown, or creating new theories from scratch, or patching up old theories, or trying to open up a new route, such as the exploration of extra dimensions, new symmetry theories, new particle collapse, and so on.

Every scientist hopes to produce some results that exceed expectations.

Unfortunately, this time, humans didn't get a pillow whenever they wanted to sleep like before. Even though scientists in various fields worked tirelessly, they still couldn't find a solution. Many scientists even turned their attention to the debris of the Level 5 civilization exploration spacecraft, trying to reverse engineer the warship to find clues to the Theory of Everything.

However, this time humans did not have such luck. Even though the Level 5 civilization had spent countless hours researching the wreckage of the spacecraft, all they got were sighs.

The barrier of the fifth-level civilization is like a natural moat, making everyone feel as if a mountain is pressing down on their hearts.

Of course, human scientists have not given up their ideas. They have become more and more courageous and even prepared to devote their entire lives to the field they are studying, just hoping to contribute to the realization of the theory of everything for mankind.

Negative energy, negative matter, matter disintegration cannon, warp 4, reality shield, theory of everything. These are the terms that appear most frequently in human society in this era, whether online or in conversations after dinner.

It can be said that the scientific wave of human civilization during this period was very high, and it also brought the other member civilizations of the Star Alliance into the scientific wave.

Unfortunately, the development of other civilizations cannot catch up with that of humans. They would like to participate in the scientific wave that is impacting the fifth-level civilization, but they do not have the strength to do so.

Although the member civilizations of the Star Alliance have benefited from humans and their spaceships and warships are equipped with third-generation warp speeds and have many fourth-level civilization technological applications, many of them are ultimately directly using the fruits of human development, and they do not even fully understand the principles and processes.

In this way, there is naturally no way to truly keep up with the pace of human progress.

Other civilizations do have some individuals who have reached the level of top scientists at the fourth level, but at this stage, the development and progress of civilization is no longer an era where a genius scientist can lead. The reason is that there are too many disciplines in science and technology, and a person's energy is limited. A genius scientist who can master two or three fields is already one in a million, and the science and technology branches derived from the theories at the fourth level of civilization are more than thousands.
Science ultimately requires collective wisdom.

And so, decades passed.

The human-led Covenant fleet sailed for more than 400 light years during this period, and this time the target of human docking is the yellow star in front of them.

It is a very rare single star system.

Through simple spectral detection and stellar evolution model simulations, humans soon knew its current age, which is about six billion years old.

For humans, this age seems like eternity, and immortality is just like this. However, for this star, this is only its middle age. If nothing unexpected happens, it can maintain this state for another 6 billion years.

Many people who understand stellar evolution can roughly know from its age that it is a star slightly smaller than the sun, with a smaller mass and radius than the sun, so its lifespan is longer than that of the sun.

The smaller the star, the longer its lifespan. This is common knowledge in astronomy. Single star systems are less common than binary star systems in the universe, accounting for only about 20%. Of course, they are not rare. The most common star systems humans have seen along the way are binary star systems, followed by single star systems. No star systems with more than four stars have been seen, which is consistent with previous human observations of the starry sky.

So although this star is a single star system, it is not rare, and humans do not expect to encounter anything new here. After all, judging from the direction of the starry sky, it is just an extremely ordinary star.

But what humans didn't expect was that there was intelligent life here.

Yes, the information sent back by the advance exploration team is very certain, even though they have not yet entered the interior of the star system.

It's not that the advance exploration team's detection technology is so strong that it can discover the situation on the inner planets at the outer edge of the star system. That's impossible. Instead, the advance exploration discovered a group of signals from the outer edge of the star system, which are obviously signals sent by intelligent life.

Because the frequency of its electromagnetic waves is really obvious.

Of course, the form is definitely different from the electromagnetic wave signals of the human Earth era, but humans are knowledgeable enough to judge the technological level of the device that continuously emits electromagnetic waves into the nearby space based solely on the signal form.

It is definitely a low-level civilization, and it is very likely that this low-level civilization is now in this star system. However, it is currently impossible to determine where they are exactly, nor can it be determined whether they are a wandering civilization or a settled one.

"I hope it's a settled type, so that I can get a lot of biosphere resources for research!" Yue Yuan waved his hand to turn off all the screens, thinking to himself.

Then, he raised his hand and clicked on another holographic display screen, and operated it a few times. It turned out that Yue Yuan designated a docking location for the fleet. He only said: "Let the exploration team investigate carefully, and the large fleet will dock in this area first."

What Yue Yuan was referring to was not a planet, but an area.

It is a region filled with asteroids, which is located at the outermost edge of this star system, 41 astronomical units away from the main sequence stars.

Further in, the planetary system of this main sequence star orbits. The planet farthest from its main sequence star is here, about 32 AU away, a gas planet similar to Saturn.

Further in, there are five planets, four solid and one gaseous. The types of planets are distributed from the outside to the inside according to their orbits: gas, solid, solid, solid, gas, and solid.

The outermost area is a dense elliptical cloud disk-shaped concentration of small celestial bodies, numbering in the billions.

According to this layout, if the unknown low-level civilization was born here, then the farthest gas planet should have silently blocked countless destructive blows for their safe growth. It mainly used its own gravity to block many various space meteorite impacts from the area with dense small celestial bodies.

However, what surprised humans was that according to the conditions for the existence of liquid water, the habitable zone of this star system is actually a gas planet located in the second orbit.

Could it be that the so-called intelligent life was born on a gaseous planet? Seeing this situation, some people can't help but wonder.

(End of this chapter)