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The suggestion of this speculation caused an uproar in the human scientific community. Because this speculation implies a possibility: the transmission speed of dark force particles may be reduced to below the speed of vacuum light!

In early theoretical deductions and research, it has almost become an undoubted truth that "the transmission speed of dark force particles cannot be reduced below the speed of light, just like the movement speed of conventional materials cannot exceed the speed of light."

Now, this speculation has challenged this truth.

The specific content of his speculation is that the speed of dark force propagation in different media is different. What is insurmountable is just the speed of light in a vacuum.

In other words, the transmission speed of darkrons in vacuum cannot be reduced below the speed of light in vacuum. But in other media, it is not impossible to reduce the speed of light to less than the vacuum speed.

However, anarkon is actually also a general term, and there are many kinds of anarkon. Among them, there is a particle called "dark force α", whose moving speed is considered to be the slowest. There is no slower dark force particle in the vacuum.

But in some media, the speed of other types of dark forcens may be slower than the dark force α, just like in pure water, the speed of neutrinos may also exceed that of photons in pure water. The speed is the same!
The former will lead to a phenomenon called "Cherenkov radiation", and the latter, when the speed of the remaining dark forces drops below the dark force α, will also lead to something similar to the Cherenkov radiation. Phenomenon.

If this kind of radiation can be observed, it will undoubtedly prove the existence of darkrons and prove that our guesses about the properties of darkrons are correct.

For a time, this speculation triggered a lot of discussions in the human scientific community and led the trend of thought in the scientific community for a period of time.

The paper written by the team that proposed this speculation has received the most rigorous scrutiny. After several years of discussion, research, and improvement, the scientific community has basically reached a consensus.

However, the team that can complete the preliminary work and finally come up with the guess is already unique.

Any genius idea or breakthrough theory may seem to be proposed by one person or a team, but without many unknown peers, real breakthroughs cannot be achieved.

The person or team who can complete these tasks and finally come up with the guess must have received extremely rigorous and complex scientific training, and must also possess extremely outstanding qualities.

“This is the scientific research foundation of a civilization.

However, ordinary graduates from the top 1000 universities in all civilizations can find pretty good jobs in society and receive relatively generous treatment.

Although it is impossible to determine whether this paper is correct, at least it is elegant in terms of mathematical models and physical derivation.

However, those speculations were all rejected during the subsequent review and evaluation, and did not enter the stage of subsequent verification at all.

Han Yang also saw that when early research encountered difficulties and the human scientific community was looking for new routes, many scientific teams put forward far more speculations than this one.

It seems to be just a simple guess, but in the scientific community, the so-called guess is actually not just a wild idea.

Under Han Yang's order, a team of frontline scientists located around the neutron star immediately began preparations for the second round of experiments.

After finally coming to this conclusion, Han Yang sighed in his heart.

According to statistics, it takes an average of more than 8000 research teams before one team finally proposes a guess for subsequent review and review.

This has the value of further verification.

In fact, at the same time, the total number of various speculations and models proposed reached more than 10,000. And behind every guess, there is one or more extremely outstanding research teams.

Just as I expected before, as long as I can lay this foundation well, there will be people in the civilized scientific community who will climb to the top of the tall building and harvest the most brilliant results. "

So, what conditions do an ordinary human need to meet to join such a mediocre research team, a research team that cannot even come up with its own guesses?
The answer is that in middle school, he must be qualified to be recommended to the top 1000 universities in the entire civilization. After entering the top 1000 universities, he must stand out again and get the qualification to be admitted to a master's degree and a Ph.D.

Now, human scientists have presented this brilliant result to Han Yang.

For a tall building, the most important thing is not the towering spire, but the silent and unnoticed foundation.

Otherwise, the proposed guess is just a guess and does not have any value for inquiry.

These conjectures must be proven by rigorous and complete mathematical derivation, and they must be self-consistent with other physical theories. If they are not self-consistent and violate other theories, then the proposer must prove that the other theories are Wrong, or at least incomplete.

After graduating with a Ph.D., I studied with my mentor for several years, and finally formed my own team, completed several small projects independently, and proved my research ability. Only then was it possible, just possible, to join such an ordinary research team. among.

Even if this guess and this theory are correct, there is still a problem. That is, the intensity of this radiation is predicted to be extremely weak. The radiation level of neutron stars is extremely violent.

So, how to accurately find this radiation under so many interferences?
A team of frontline scientists continuously transmits detailed data about neutron stars back to the human main fleet. The research team located in the main fleet, especially the experimental physicists, immediately began to design experimental equipment with corresponding capabilities.

During this process, a team of frontline scientists prepared a round of extremely large-scale neutron star collision tests.

Neutron stars have too much gravity and strong radiation, making them almost inaccessible. In order to design observation equipment that is suitable for the actual situation of neutron stars, it is necessary to conduct extremely detailed observations of neutron stars, understand its detailed internal structure and movement patterns, and master every parameter of it as much as possible.

In this case, manipulating objects to directly impact neutron stars and obtaining detailed data about neutron stars by artificially creating neutron star earthquakes has become the only option.

Because during the collision, the entire neutron star will undergo corresponding changes. Although this change is subtle, it can reveal the deepest secret of the neutron star.

This process lasted about three years. Three years later, experimental physicists divided into two groups, going in two directions respectively, and came up with experimental observation devices that followed two different ideas.

One of them takes the route of improving observation accuracy. No matter how weak the radiation is, as long as my observation accuracy is high enough and my ability to eliminate interference is strong enough, I will be able to find this radiation.

The second route takes the indirect influence route again. This school of experimental physicists believes that the intensity of that radiation is so low that it is impossible to separate it from interfering radiation with the current level of technology. In this case, it is better to change your thinking.

Some theoretical physicists and research teams believe that the particles released by this kind of "dark force radiation" will have a certain impact on neutrinos and cause neutrinos to show some changes.

So, instead of directly observing this radiation, we instead observe neutrinos. If neutrinos do undergo this change, it would prove that this radiation does exist. After thinking about it, Han Yang finally decided to launch both plans together.

As a result, huge construction began again around the neutron star.

The first to be constructed is the array neutron telescope.

Han Yang has built a total of 106 large telescopes to detect neutron stars in a flat attitude at a distance of about 800 million kilometers.

When these telescopes in a flat layout are combined, the observation effect can be compared to that of a single telescope with an aperture of 100 million kilometers.

It was like a huge magnifying glass, aimed at this small neutron star, trying to detect the most subtle changes in it.

As for another idea, Han Yang built a huge neutrino telescope.

To observe neutrinos, the human scientific community has always had a very mature observation idea, which is nothing more than collecting enough pure water, building a large enough pure water tank, and installing enough photomultipliers.

What is different from the past is that this neutrino telescope is particularly huge at this moment.

The main body of the telescope is spherical, with a radius of 1.2 kilometers, and the mass of pure water stored inside reaches 72.3 billion tons.

If released on the planet, the water could fill a huge lake with a depth of two meters and a width and length of 60 kilometers each.

And with so much water, the total mass of all the impurities in it is only no more than one kilogram.

The front-line scientists were also divided into two teams, operating the observation equipment built according to the two ideas, and once again conducted observations of the neutron star.

Observations took a total of ten years. In total, thousands of observations were made, generating trillions of gigabytes of data.

The entire human civilization and scientists from all professions are devoted to analyzing these data.

Han Yang also allocated a large amount of computing power to analyze the data himself.

But the final result once again disappointed everyone.

These two observation devices, which have almost reached the limit of human observation accuracy, still cannot find evidence of the existence of dark force radiation.

At this time, doubts about dark force radiation speculation gradually arose within the scientific community. After all, our observation accuracy is already so high and has met the requirements of theoretical predictions, but we still cannot find evidence. This is obviously an error in the theoretical system.

In this regard, more research teams have invested in further research. Some people try to revise this theoretical system, and some people try to propose new theories.

In the end, the plan to revise the dark force radiation theory attracted Han Yang's attention.

The revised theory believes that the original theory did not take into account the influence of subtle changes in density caused by microconvection inside the neutron star, so there was an error in estimating the intensity of dark force radiation.

Now after adding this effect, the final estimated intensity of dark force radiation should be about 80% to 90% lower than the original estimate.

This correction has shown certain value in both mathematical calculations and physical derivation, and it seems worth trying.

But this means one crucial thing: if the intensity of dark force radiation is really that low, then the accuracy of the two previously designed observation schemes, the dark force radiation telescope and the neutrino telescope, cannot be achieved.

Humans must develop observation equipment with higher observation accuracy before they can hope to truly see evidence of the existence of dark force radiation.

Under the joint advancement of multiple routes, another scientific research team proposed a somewhat crazy observation plan.

At the current stage, the main obstacle restricting the accuracy of human observation is the too strong radiation and gravity of neutron stars, which makes it impossible for humans to observe closely.

Human observation equipment simply cannot get too close to a neutron star. Because once it gets too close, it will be destroyed by the neutron star.

In this case...can we build a one-time observation equipment? For example, building an observation satellite, throwing it directly onto a neutron star, and using the extremely short period of time before it hits the neutron star and is destroyed to make observations?

The observation time a detector can perform may be only a few microseconds or even a few nanoseconds. But if we could build thousands of such detectors and continuously throw them into neutron stars, would the observation time be enough?

Han Yang began to think carefully about the feasibility of this detection method. In the human scientific community, many scientific teams have also begun to explore this plan.

Among the several obstacles to this plan, the huge gravity of neutron stars does not need to be considered.

Because the detector is in free fall, it will be in a weightless state, and there is no need to consider gravity.

Tidal gravity doesn't have to be considered either. Compared with natural stars, the detector can be regarded as a rigid body and will not be torn apart by tidal gravity during free fall.

Radiation and heat require careful consideration. The key to the success of this plan is whether materials can be produced that can resist the radiation and heat of neutron stars and protect the normal operation of observation instruments.

Secondly, the issue of observation accuracy also needs to be considered. Because this kind of detector cannot be too large. If it is too large, any defects will be amplified by the harsh environment of the neutron star, eventually making the project unfeasible.

But humans must also ensure sufficient observation accuracy. Otherwise, even if you throw it on a neutron star, it will be useless.

How to achieve high enough defense capabilities and high enough observation accuracy within a limited volume and mass?
This is a difficult problem.

Under Han Yang's unified arrangement, the scientific research forces of human civilization were once again fully mobilized and launched a charge against this problem. (End of chapter)