Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 880 Luck is also a part of strength
In a hurry, humans rushed around in the starry sky for another few decades.

Since mastering the third-generation warp technology, humans have reached the peak level of the fourth-level civilization. Although there have been no spectacular wars, humans have also realized the power of the technology they have mastered. Until now, it seems that they have pushed the existing technology to the extreme.

Well, it is the limit that humans themselves think they can achieve. People also know that some technologies that they currently think have no room for improvement may not be the limit of all level-four civilizations. After all, there are always some special life forms that can develop incredible technologies in a unique way.

Of course, humans have also tried to get the top scientists from the civilizations of the Star Alliance to participate in research projects in various branches of technology, attempting to find some directions that humans themselves cannot see in this way, but the results have been minimal.

In this situation, humans finally made a decision after several meetings to look for black holes.

Since natural wormholes are nowhere in sight, let's take a chance and find a black hole. We can study it to see if we can find the negative energy field in the theory and complete the puzzle of the theory of everything.

As an extreme celestial body, black holes are definitely much easier to find than natural wormholes. Over the past many years, human sky survey telescope arrays have discovered quite a few black holes. Therefore, as long as you decide to explore, you can directly choose one from the star map.

This is exactly what humans do. The black hole selected by humans has a mass of about 10 times that of the sun and is about light-years away from where humans are currently. The predecessor of this type of black hole should be a supernova explosion of about times the mass of the sun, and its core collapsed.

Its mass is not particularly large, and it is relatively safe for humans. It has no jets and is a quiet black hole. Humans discovered it through gravitational lensing.

After making the decision, humans replenished their supplies in the nearest star system and then set out on this 1,800-light-year journey. This was not too far for humans today, and if we took into account the time for stopovers and replenishment, it would probably take 50 to 60 years to get there.

However, this journey of mankind has proved a strange phenomenon, which is what people often say: when you look for it, you can't find it, but when you stop looking for it, it inexplicably appears in front of you.

After the Covenant fleet led by humans had traveled about three hundred light years, they suddenly received information from the probe team, saying that the negative energy detector had responded.

This news made everyone excited. Yue Yuan, who received the news, immediately ordered the fleet to exit warp speed and then deployed a sky survey telescope.

The results are very encouraging: there are no black holes in this star field!

In other words, the so-called negative energy reaction may come from a natural wormhole, and its location may be near the detection spacecraft team that sent the information.

The Lyra immediately used the tachyon relay communication stations deployed by the fleet to contact the exploration spacecraft team, and finally determined the location of the exploration spacecraft, which was about 7 light years away from the large fleet.

After obtaining the specific location coordinates, humans immediately dispatched a scientific research ship to the destination. The Lyra also left the Covenant Fleet with the First Fleet and went ahead to conduct preliminary exploration with many scientific research ships.

As long as it is confirmed that there is no danger and it is indeed a natural wormhole, the Covenant fleet will follow.

That location is a void and dark space, which belongs to the interstellar environment. The nearest star is about 5.4 light-years away, and the next few stars are about 6.7 light-years to 8.2 light-years away.

Humans have never seen what a natural wormhole looks like, but they have roughly understood from various physical theories that it should be a strange space structure. When the Tianqin arrived at the star field where the detector responded, the exploration ships had already found the specific location of the detector's response, which was less than 0.1 astronomical units away from one of the exploration ships.

During the detection process, the Red Flame people on the detection spacecraft told humans that the detector responded within a distance of about 0.086 astronomical units from the center of the reaction target, which is approximately million kilometers when converted into kilometers, a little less than ten times the diameter of the sun.

After reading this report, humans finally understood why they had not been able to find the so-called natural wormhole for so many years. It turned out that it was because their detection technology was too backward, so that it would only react when they got so close.

It was sheer luck that I found it.

After arriving near this unknown place, human scientists immediately conducted a more detailed exploration of the target point, and all scientific research ships were sent out.

Many scientists on Tianqin also participated in the detection.

Before long, they sent back some of their latest discoveries to Tianqin, such as a full-light segment scan of a suspected natural wormhole at the target location, a tachyon detection display, as well as their positioning of the target and speculation on the mechanism of the detector's response.

Scientists generally believe that this is indeed a natural wormhole, but they currently don't know where the other end of the wormhole leads to. According to various detection data, the diameter of the opening of this natural wormhole is about 7 million kilometers, and the detector senses a reaction distance of 13 million kilometers, which is almost twice its diameter.

Scientists believe that the reason for the detector's reaction should not be a negative energy reaction, but a negative energy field reaction. That is, the negative energy field generated by the negative energy that maintains the stability of the natural wormhole, and the negative energy reaction should only be within the diameter of the wormhole.

Of course, there are different opinions. Some scientists believe that it is not negative energy but the negative energy field that stabilizes the wormhole. Because if negative energy exists just like that, it would violate the theory that a negative energy pulse must be followed by a positive energy pulse, unless this theory is wrong.

Judging from the detection results, this wormhole is not a pocket-like opening, but a sphere without front or back, which means it is the same no matter which direction you enter from, just like a black hole.

There must be similarities between the two in terms of spatial structure.

From an optical point of view, it is a space sphere. Scientists have found that its surface does not bind photons like the event horizon of a black hole to form a photon layer. On the contrary, it is more like a harmless space bubble that is colorless, transparent, and has no gravitational reaction.

It looks harmless, but humans dare not explore it recklessly. After all, this strange thing has just been discovered, and they can only look around it cautiously.

Scientists plan to first conduct some scientific experiments where the detector reacts, and then slowly approach it, touch it, or even let the detector enter it to see what the reaction is. They have to experiment with its physical properties step by step.

Scientists predict that if natural wormholes are really the key to mastering the theory of everything, then many phenomena that cannot be explained by existing theories will definitely be seen in the process.

(End of this chapter)