Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 874: Not Yet Time to Be Happy

After giving the reasons, these scientists also considerately listed a large number of formulas using the changes in time and space and the detector's own perspective, which poured cold water on the experimental scientists who were still working hard on the experiments.

However, human technology today is no longer comparable to that of the Earth era. Things that were impossible back then are no longer a problem now.

The scientists who support this correct experimental path also have their own reasons. They simply proposed to conduct a one-way light speed measurement. In the past, there was no superluminal communication, but now there is, so this experiment can be carried out.

Obviously, they want to turn the assumption of the constancy of the speed of light into an axiom, thereby indirectly proving that negative energy can appear in their experiment.

So they actually did it, and the results made them very satisfied. The speed of light was further measured accurately, and it was consistent with the assumptions of relativity, further proving the correctness of relativity.

However, the results of their experiment could not affect the negative energy experiment after all. The negative energy experiment was still a failure.

However, this commotion did provide an idea for scientists who supported the correctness of the "strong material mirror" experiment, so they began to improve the experiment.

Probably the experimental detector was divided into two parts, one part was placed on the 'strong material mirror', and the other part was placed in the acceleration part of the Tianqin's star destroyer cannon.

After this idea was proposed, those who participated in the experiment or paid close attention to it knew what these guys were doing. Those who knew naturally understood that doing this was their last effort, but it aroused strong dissatisfaction from the military.

Because doing so is no different from dismantling the main gun of the Tianqin, which is definitely not acceptable. Although it seems that humans are floating at a constant speed in the starry sky without any danger, what if, what if they encounter some evil alien civilization, then they will still need the combat power of the Tianqin, which is the most powerful warship currently owned by humans.

Without the Tianqin, I really don't feel safe.

One was an experiment for humans to climb to higher peaks, and the other was for human safety. The two sides could not reach a consensus and finally threw the issue in front of Yue Yuan.

Yue Yuan was straightforward. The main gun of the Tianqin must not be used, but this seemingly bottomless scientific experiment had to be done. It was easy. He just had to build another accelerator specifically for this experiment.

It was equivalent to building a new Star Destroyer Cannon. If you want both, then this is the only way.

Everyone just decided to build it.

Just building this kind of accelerator is a huge project. After all, it is actually a small-caliber star destroyer cannon, but it does not need to be placed on a spacecraft. Its structure still needs a lot of strong materials for support, otherwise it will fall apart after one shot.

So, after the decision was made, the Covenant fleet led by humans entered warp speed again and rushed towards the nearest star system.

Of course, they had to mine and build experimental star destroyers, and also find a reliable and suitable gun mount. The star destroyer gun mount could not be placed on warships other than the Lyra, which used strong materials as the warship frame, so this experimental star destroyer could only be placed on a planet.

As for why they didn't build another Lyra when they already had cannons, it's not that humans don't want to, but it takes at least a thousand years to build a spaceship like the Lyra, which is too time-consuming, and humans don't dare to stay in a star system for that long.

Therefore, it is most cost-effective to build an experimental accelerator and place it on one of the planets for experiments. Human engineers estimate that it will take about a few decades to complete.

If they can accomplish thousand-year projects like astronomical-grade particle colliders, then decades-long projects are certainly not a problem. After all, today’s technology is more powerful.

So, after humans arrived at this nameless star system, they conducted a routine exploration and then chose a planet with a diameter of about 2210 kilometers to start. As time went by, a long, rectangular object with a relatively small caliber gradually appeared on the surface of the planet. Because of its smaller caliber, its acceleration field was not as strong as the main gun of the Lyra, so its length was much longer than the main gun of the Lyra, reaching kilometers.

It is equivalent to one tenth of the length of the Great Wall.

The first 430 kilometers are the real grand unified force field acceleration section, while the second half is filled with negative energy detection devices.

When completed, viewed from the sky, it will look like a stick lying across a sphere.

Humans also used the time to build this experimental accelerator to create many of its 'mirror shells', and thus the experiment, which had been interrupted for decades, was restarted.

This time it has attracted everyone's attention.

The scientists involved in the project also stared intently at every experimental result, looking forward to new discoveries.

There are two differences between this thing, which is specially used as an experimental accelerator and a real star destroyer. First, it has a much smaller diameter and a much longer length. Second, in addition to the grand unified force field accelerator components, the majority of it contains detectors based on polarons and Bose-Einstein condensate matter.

At the same time, there is also a detector on the 'mirror'.

The purpose of having two positions is that scientists want to know whether negative energy really appears on the "mirror" surface and whether negative energy is really related to relative speed.

This is easy to understand. The detector on the near-light-speed 'mirror' represents the observer relative to the 'mirror', while the detector at the rear of the accelerator represents the observer with a near-light-speed difference relative to the 'mirror'.

The experiment is in full swing. Humans are firing "mirror" shells into space one by one, just like in the starry sky, and then collecting data through detectors and conducting data analysis.
The experiment was continued in this way for about seven years. During this period, as usual, humans did not find any signs of success in the experiment or any changes in the detector data, that is, no negative energy was detected.

This made more and more scientists disappointed with the future of these experiments. However, at this moment, the expert group of data analysis discovered something that excited everyone - the detector responded!

Scientists and researchers immediately found out which experiment and which batch of experiments it was, and then repeated the test using various parameters of that batch of experiments to see if the detector still responded.

If there is a reaction, it means that humans have indeed discovered negative energy. If there is no reaction, it means that the detection data is wrong.

The result was encouraging because according to the data, the detectors did respond. However, when some scientists were cheering for the success of the experiment, they found that some scientists were still depressed and even had despair on their faces.

Among these scientists, there are outstanding scientists from top teams, as well as scientists who lead a team and can support a single research direction.

The experimental data clearly shows that the experiment was successful, so why are these scientists still like this?
The cheering scientists and researchers immediately calmed down and carefully examined the experimental data. It didn't matter much, but it made them feel very disappointed.

Because they just noticed that the detectors that responded were all those located on the ground at the rear end of the accelerator and were stationary relative to humans, while none of the detectors placed on the 'mirror' and moving at nearly the speed of light relative to humans responded.

How could this be?
At this moment, the scientists who understood what was going on felt only bitterness in their hearts, and they didn't even have time to be happy.

(End of this chapter)