Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 876 Three Elements of Negative Energy
Spending this time to find out that a scientific research path is not feasible is valuable, at least it allows human scientists to turn to other scientific research paths.

Humans must find ways to extract negative energy in order to study its properties and thereby gain clues to the theory of everything.

And under the popular "mirror" experiment, there is a path that scientists have previously disdained to even look at, namely the simple high-energy laser beam, which now seems to be the last hope for mankind.

There is a theory that there is a 'compressed state' in the energy state of lasers where positive and negative energies coexist. Of course, not all lasers have this state; it must be a special high-energy laser.

However, this state is difficult to operate. For humans today, it is more difficult than accelerating a massive object to near the speed of light.

It's difficult to operate.

According to the data from this theory, a typical negative energy pulse can only last for 10^-15 seconds, or 10 to the negative 15th power of seconds, before it is engulfed by a positive energy pulse.

The theory states that it is possible, although extremely difficult, to separate positive and negative energy states.

However, there are two difficulties. One is what kind of "laser compression state" meets the conditions, and the other is how to separate the positive and negative energy in the laser compression state.

The former requires a lot of resources and time to research, while the latter requires humans to have the corresponding technology; neither is indispensable.

Now human scientists are working hard to find the answer. They are experimenting with various materials and various high-intensity lasers in the laboratory to try to find suitable optical materials.

Because theory holds that when a powerful laser pulse hits a special optical material, it produces many pairs of photons in its wake. These photons will alternately strengthen and suppress quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, thereby releasing positive and negative energy.

But in order not to violate human physical theories, human scientists believe that the sum of these two energy pulses is always positive energy on average.

Of course, the key is how to find them. The previous group of scientists who insisted on this direction are still working hard, and now, more scientists have joined this project.

If this approach works, then humans can extract negative energy from a device that remains stationary with themselves, and the negative energy problem will be perfectly solved.

This is a very challenging scientific research project.

Its research is based on three laws about negative energy:

1. The total amount of negative energy in a pulse is inversely proportional to its spatial and temporal extent, that is, the stronger the negative energy pulse, the shorter its duration.

So if humans find that special optical material, and then use this laser method to create a beam of negative energy, and then use this burst of negative energy to open a micro wormhole, then it can only last for a very short time.

The second point is what Yi Kai and Zheng Jiuyuan mentioned before on the Tianqin, that a negative energy pulse is always followed by a positive energy pulse of a larger magnitude.

So their sum remains positive, and the laws of physics are not violated.

The third is that the longer the time interval between the positive energy and negative energy pulses, the larger the positive pulse will inevitably be.

These three theories support all of human research on negative energy, including the previous "mirror" method and the Casimir effect method. Under these physical theories, human scientists believe that humans can use quantitative methods to measure the conditions required for lasers or Casimir plates to produce negative energy.

First of all, the team of scientists dedicated to this research proposed that they could try to shine a light beam into a box. This light beam must meet all the conditions of the high-energy light beam mentioned earlier, and there must also be satisfactory optical materials in the box.

Then, we need to find a way to create a shutter that can isolate positive and negative energy, so that after positive and negative energy are generated in a special high-energy laser, the shutter can be quickly closed to separate the negative energy pulse from the following positive energy pulse.

In this way, it is possible to allow only negative energy to rush into the box, thereby obtaining negative energy.

In principle, this method can obtain huge negative energy, because the following positive energy pulse is separated from the shutter. In order to obtain a large amount of negative energy, it is necessary to ensure that the interval between the two pulses is very long, and the interval is as long as the positive pulse.

Theoretically speaking, this method does seem to be the most reasonable one at present.

But the difficulty lies in what kind of optical material is that? How to make the "box" that binds negative energy and what materials to make it with? What materials and principles are there for the so-called shutter? And how to deal with the subsequent positive energy pulses?

These problems must be solved, otherwise it will be impossible for humans to obtain negative energy. These all require the efforts of human scientists to solve.

And even if these problems are solved, there is another problem that everyone must consider with this method - the problem of driving the shutter.

That is, each closing of the 'shutter' generates a second pulse of positive energy in the box, so unless more careful and effective measures are taken, the resulting negative energy will be completely eliminated.

Humans must solve this problem, must think of a solution and have the corresponding technology, and must have the ability to disconnect the powerful negative energy pulse from the positive energy pulse that follows it, without generating a second energy pulse that completely offsets the negative energy.

In order to complete this operation, which currently only exists in the plans of scientists, it is necessary to possess the most advanced microscopic technology.

Because the key to the problem has been pointed out in the reports of these scientists.

First of all, scientists envision that once all material problems are solved, they will require humans to establish a frequency band of approximately 10^-22 meters to confine negative energy.

This is the negative energy required to open or maintain a one-meter-sized wormhole. Such a small frequency band is equivalent to one millionth of the size of a proton. It must be created by a civilization with extremely high achievements in the microscopic field, because it requires this civilization to operate on an incredibly small scale or at an incredibly small time interval.

This technical difficulty is greater than building a star destroyer.

Humans have not yet reached that level of microscopic technology, but they have not given up. Instead, they have great confidence in their own technology.

Now that the 'mirror' route has been denied, it seems that this is the only way left for humanity. Under such heavy pressure, it is not impossible to accomplish it.

Even Yue Yuan was quite confident about this. Just like when the First Fleet was trapped in the Pioneer Universe, there was pressure and motivation. He believed that humans had such potential.

Before natural wormholes are found, this is the most likely way for humans to come into contact with negative energy, and it is also the way for humans to produce negative energy themselves in the future.

(End of this chapter)