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The neutron star impact test finally officially began.

To this end, the front-line scientific research team has specially allocated 3500 transport spacecraft to be responsible for the launch of the neutron- detector.

After they fetched the detector from the space carrier, they flew to the vicinity of the designated neutron star and dropped the detector strictly according to the plan.

It simply won’t work without a strict plan. The reason is that neutron stars are too small and the surrounding space is too "crowded".

The radius of this neutron star is only 10 kilometers. Based on this calculation, the surface area is only more than 1000 square kilometers.

In order to eliminate the interaction between detectors, scientists have divided a fixed release area of ​​about one square kilometer for each detector.

Only in this way, during the process of falling towards the neutron star, they will not cause errors in observations due to collisions and mutual influences.

And because the detector will explode with powerful energy when it falls on the neutron star, and this energy will also interact with each other and interfere with the detection of dark force radiation, the distance and time interval of the release also need to be specially regulated.

In this way, the entire neutron star is divided into 1200 release areas. In each release area, the interval between two detectors is 3 minutes.

Calculated this way, 2.4 detectors are released per hour.

It will take a total of about 77 years to launch all the 37 billion detectors planned. Add some redundancy and the time comes to 40 years.

At this moment, the first batch of 1200 detectors was launched.

They began to fall toward the neutron star in free fall in different directions and at the same distance.

Under the previously confirmed release time and release coordinates through precise calculations, these 1200 detectors hit each impact zone of the neutron star with an extremely even distribution at almost the same time.

At this moment, the energy equivalent to the simultaneous explosion of tens of trillions of tons of TNT exploded violently from the neutron star.

Unfortunately, the outside world was basically unaware of the impact of such a violent explosion.

Because the original radiation energy of neutron stars is extremely high, far exceeding this number. The increased energy at this moment is like an extra ant on an elephant, and will not be felt by the outside world at all.

Three minutes later, the second batch of 1200 detectors arrived, following the route of their predecessors, and accurately hit the predetermined impact zone again.

During that extremely short observation window, these detectors completed the only mission for their existence. They took a very brief look at the planet, collected some extremely rare data, and then were shattered into pieces.

The pictures they took of the neutron star show that in front of them is still a flat land filled with fierce and hot white-blue light.

After many times of extinction, the scientists truly saw that the land was as flat as an absolute plane, with no bulges or depressions on it, and it was completely a whole.

Moreover, the different places are almost the same, and there is no difference from the surrounding environment at all.

And people clearly remember that just three minutes ago, an 8.15-ton detector hit here, releasing energy equivalent to the explosion of tens of billions of tons of TNT explosives.

But now, everything is gone.

No debris from the probe, no traces of the explosion, nothing.

The materials that made up the detector were under unimaginably high pressure. Not to mention the chemical structure, even the atomic structure could no longer be maintained.

They have been completely integrated into this neutron star and become part of the neutron star.

After the second batch of detectors came the third batch.

Batch after batch of detectors hit it non-stop, as dense as raindrops, and unusually long-lasting.

So far, this series of collisions has continued for a full year. A total of more than 200 million detectors were buried on it.

But in the vast space, this neutron star is still floating quietly, maintaining its previous appearance and posture, and its orbit and speed have not undergone any perceptible changes.

The violent energy released by the detectors made by humans hitting it was like ants eating a mountain, without any effect.

At this moment, the total observation time has slowly accumulated to about 9000 seconds. A large amount of data was generated and underwent the most rigorous analysis and testing in the human scientific community.

Unfortunately, so far, there is no evidence of the existence of dark force radiation.

People are undeterred.

There are still a steady stream of detectors being transported from the nearby galaxy. Around neutron stars, the frequency of 3 collisions every 1200 minutes remains unchanged.

No matter what the future holds, as long as we continue to collide, continue to collide, and continue to collide, it will be fine.

After a full 35 years of impact, the neutron star finally produced some changes that could be detected by the outside world.

It was observed that the neutron star's radiation in the gamma-ray and X-band bands was enhanced by about one percent. At the same time, its magnetic field has also undergone some changes.

With the observation accuracy of a level 500 or even level civilization, it is enough to detect these changes within a range of light years. At that time, they will know that some unnatural changes must have occurred around the neutron star.

Because this change is obviously not caused by the neutron star itself.

Based on this speculation, it may be possible to conclude that a certain civilization is conducting a very large-scale impact test near this neutron star.

But it doesn't really matter. The human scientific research fleet has no intention of covering up these traces.

Because people know that there is no intelligent life within 500 light-years of this neutron star. The nearest civilization is 986 light years away.

By the time the light carrying these changes reaches that civilization, humans will have already completed the detection mission and left long ago.

Time is still passing slowly. In the blink of an eye, 40 years have passed as promised, and a total of 77 billion detectors have all hit neutron stars.

But the expected evidence of dark force radiation has still not appeared. But this is normal. After all, it was only half of the expected detection time at this moment. From a probabilistic perspective, the probability of discovery and the probability of not being discovered are equal to half.

In this case, just keep hitting.

In the nearby galaxy, countless factories roar day and night. Large transport ships and giant space carriers kept shuttling back and forth, still transporting detectors over in a steady stream.

In the 66th year of the impact plan, after humans have impacted a total of 125 billion detectors, a team of scientists who have been analyzing these data for decades released a piece of news that shocked everyone.

They believe they have found evidence of the existence of dark force radiation!
This research team found that during a certain impact test, the gamma ray energy in the neutron star radiation captured by the detector deviated from the normal value by about 5%.

This anomaly appeared by chance. Only one case has been found so far, and it has not been found in the detection data of other detectors. But after a series of derivation and calculations, the research team believed that this was because the detector's detection window happened to catch up with certain convection movements inside the neutron star.

After detailed analysis, a large number of scientists agree with this view. So the subsequent impact plan was immediately adjusted accordingly.

Monitor the convection model inside the neutron star and wait until such convection occurs before impacting!
According to theoretical predictions, after making this special adjustment, the probability of catching this anomaly in future impact tests will increase to about one in a million.

In other words, on average one out of 100 million detectors will capture this anomaly.

Subsequently, people conducted tens of millions of detector impact tests. The data generated were again tested and analyzed by scientists.

In the end, multiple scientific research teams simultaneously announced that they had detected a total of 9 abnormal events in this sample! Basically consistent with theoretical predictions!
At this time, the entire human scientific community was boiling.

What does it mean to agree with theoretical predictions? It means that we can be sure even at this moment that our theories about dark matter and dark energy are correct!

If the theory is incorrect, how could such a coincidence happen? How can the prediction be so accurate?
The entire civilization was greatly inspired by this incident. Countless scientific researchers have once again devoted themselves to follow-up research with fuller enthusiasm and high morale.

Yes, confirming the existence of anamiron is indeed an extremely significant gain, and can even be called a milestone gain.

But it's not over yet. There is still too much follow-up research to be done.

However, with this harvest, people can once again develop existing theories on this basis, and the experiments conducted will be more targeted.

Impact tests are still continuing, but the frequency has been reduced to about 600 per hour, and the impact methods are no longer as fixed as before, but are diverse, with different impact areas and angles.

Scientists are studying the types and properties of darkrons in this way.

In addition to impact tests, a variety of new methods for studying dark particles have been proposed by scientists based on existing theories. So large-scale construction began again around the neutron star.

Humanity's theories about dark matter and dark energy have entered a stage of rapid development.

In the blink of an eye, another few decades have passed. During this period, with the all-out efforts of Han Yang and the entire human scientific community, the mysterious veil covering the dark force was lifted layer by layer, finally revealing its true face. .

A magical particle that has a non-zero mass but always runs in the universe at super-light speed. The farther it travels, the faster it travels. The rules they follow are different from any matter in the universe that people can directly see.

At this time, people are still facing the last hurdle.

At present, the existence form of annaron has been basically confirmed, and a theory specifically used to describe the operating rules of anharon has been proposed and has withstood the test of experiments and observations.

So, how can the theory describing dark force particles be unified with the existing theory describing apparent matter?

After all, the universe is unified, and the underlying physical rules it follows should also be consistent. It is impossible for the same universe to require two sets of theories to explain it.

People know very clearly that this is the fundamental theory that determines whether a civilization can be promoted to level five, the secret force theory.

At this moment when the understanding of dark particles is developing rapidly, scientists have quickly put forward many conjectures. Moreover, people are a little surprised to find that compared with the difficulty of unifying the strong interaction force and gravity, unifying the dark force does not seem to be that difficult.

The biggest difficulty in unifying the basic force of dark force into the current theoretical system seems to be initially confirming the existence of dark force, studying the properties of different dark force, and constructing a theory to describe them.

After completing these preliminary tasks, the follow-up becomes simple.

This seems to be the exact opposite of the strong interaction and gravity.

People have long confirmed the existence of these two basic forces and developed theories to describe them, but it is extremely difficult to unify them later.

At this moment, discovery and research are very difficult, but unification is simple.

But whether it is simple or not is also relative. It is simple for a human civilization that is developing vigorously, has a strong scientific research foundation, and has Han Yang, but it may not be the case for other civilizations.

Under the leadership of Han Yang, the human scientific community quickly integrated multiple conjectures about the dark force theory, continued to iterate and improve, and finally integrated a mathematically complete, logically self-consistent, and able to integrate with other theories. A unified theory of physical theory fit.

Many famous scientists are very optimistic about this theory.

“It’s so beautiful and perfect, how could it be wrong?”

Not only scientists, but also Han Yang feel this way.

However, I feel that after all, there is no way to count, and everything still has to be judged by experimental data.

It is not difficult to test this theory, at least not for human civilization. All it takes is to build a particle collider that is huge enough and has a high enough energy level to create a black hole with a mass energy of more than one gram.

At this moment, the main human fleet has once again parked at the edge of a galaxy, where it will be supplying for about 100 years and accumulating supplies for the next voyage.

It just so happened that we took advantage of this period of abundant supplies to build this unprecedentedly huge particle collider.

In the end, after millions of scientists and engineers participated in the design and manufacturing, and Han Yang dedicated 1.5% of its computing power to it, it took 26 years to finally build this super giant machine that met the requirements. The particle collider was built.

The experiment is about to begin. (End of chapter)