Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 872 Negative Energy Experiment

Fortunately, when the three exploration spacecraft arrived, humans had already gone far away, and the wake left by the warp speed navigation was also erased by nature over time, otherwise humans would have been discovered this time.

At this moment, humans, who were unaware that they were almost discovered, were still immersed in the journey of searching for natural wormholes. Although they had not found any, they encountered some structures such as multiple star systems in the process, which improved human understanding of stellar evolution.

We also encountered some beautiful nebulae, gas molecular clusters, and a neutron star whose rotation speed exceeded all previous human records. We encountered even more celestial bodies like white dwarfs, but we never encountered the legendary brown dwarfs.

Along the way, humans have seen many celestial bodies, even a star system without planets, which was a four-star system.

After a long period of observation and calculation, human astronomers concluded that the planets in the four-star system were all swallowed up by the four stars due to the gravitational environment.

It can be said that the fatigue of human beings in failing to find natural wormholes for a long time has been greatly alleviated by these discoveries, at least there is no gain at all.

During this period, scientists who were dedicated to the theory of everything did not sit idle because they could not find natural wormholes. They also worked diligently in their respective fields, trying to find other ways to master the theory of everything.

For example, those scientific teams that want to start from the direction of negative energy have been working hard in this regard, trying to create negative energy through existing human technology. Well, creating it may be too radical for them now, so many people think that as long as they can prove the existence of negative energy in the laboratory, it is already very good. Of course, their efforts are still directed towards creation.

Humans do know about the existence of negative energy, but this was not discovered through experiments, but rather told by pioneers.

As we all know, science is an experiment-based discipline. When someone tells you that something exists, it just gives you a clue, but that's all.

If you want to understand it or even master it, you have to get real data in experiments, otherwise it will be equal to zero.

So although these studies may seem to have made little progress, they are definitely not useless.

Take the scientific research team led by Zheng Jiuyuan for example. During this period of time, they have been tinkering in the laboratory with only one purpose - negative energy.

As early as the Earth Age, humans had a certain understanding of negative energy and had come up with several ways to produce negative energy. Zheng Jiuyuan's team made improvements based on those understandings and tried to turn those ideas into reality.

It’s true, during the process of continuous experimentation, they actually found some negative energy experimental data.

At the beginning, Zheng Jiuyuan's research team conducted Casimir effect experiments, and they tried to create negative energy through Casimir effect. This method is not a problem in theory, but when they actually did it in the experiment, they found it very difficult. They didn't even know whether negative energy was generated after completing the experiment again and again.

Detection means is one aspect, and the other is that the negative energy created by the Casimir effect is too little and too weak. With human beings' current understanding of negative energy, there is no such precise detection technology at all. Therefore, after countless repeated experiments, they can only find other ways.

This method was only thought of in the Earth Age, but in this era, human technology can help scientists actually do it in experiments. In the Earth Age, physicists proposed that negative energy could be produced by using a fast-moving mirror, but unfortunately, this mirror must move at a speed close to the speed of light. Unfortunately, even if this method succeeds, the negative energy created is the same as that created by the Casimir effect, which is very small.

But it is still an experimental method.

Just do it if you have the ability, give it a try whenever possible, maybe you will succeed!

It just so happens that humans now have this level of technology.

So this experiment was really planned. In order to cooperate with this experiment, the Lyra Star Destroyer Cannon was used. After all, this is the only cannon that humans have the ability to quickly accelerate massive objects to near the speed of light.

The experimental scientists' idea is this: first of all, the so-called mirror must not be an ordinary mirror, so it must be the most advanced mirror currently used by mankind, that is, a full-surface mirror made of strong interaction force materials.

They have persuaded the industry to produce such a mirror for the experiment, and have reached a consensus with the military that the mirror can be fired by the main gun of the Tianqin. At the same time, some detection equipment installation positions must be reserved during the manufacturing process of the mirror to facilitate their observation during the experiment to see if there is really a negative energy reaction.

Yes, humans now have methods to detect negative energy, and this may be the only technological advancement in recent years.

Probably, we first create a polaron and a Bose-Einstein condensate, and then observe whether they can be accelerated in the opposite direction under certain conditions, that is, the polaron and the Bose-Einstein condensate move backward when they are pushed forward. In this way, we can determine whether negative energy exists.

The theory of this method has actually been proposed in the Earth era, but humans are now using advanced technology to turn it into a real creation. The process is not simple, it requires a civilization to have extremely precise operation levels in the field of micro-technology, as well as advanced material technology.

In fact, there is another way to detect negative energy, which is predicted by quantum field theory. At an extremely small scale, space always produces so-called "virtual particles". These virtual particles are constantly generated and annihilated in the form of particles and antiparticles. In this process, they may temporarily have negative energy.

This phenomenon is reflected in the Casimir effect, that is, when two metal plates are close enough, the virtual particle pressure between them will be less than the pressure outside the plates, thus generating attraction. This phenomenon is also considered to be indirect evidence of the existence of negative energy.

However, compared to the first method, the detector made using this principle is not as accurate and is only possible indirect evidence. Even if it can be detected, it will only be regarded as another Casimir effect experiment, which is definitely not as intuitive and certain as the first method.

Scientists install such a detector on a mirror made of strong material, and then shoot it out with a star destroyer. If this method can really create negative energy, then the reaction transmitted back by the detector will be that polaritons and Bose-Einstein condensate matter are reversely accelerated by the thrust, otherwise not.

As for experiments, they certainly cannot be done only once, so in the following period of time, the factory was busy producing mirrors made of strong materials.

(End of this chapter)