With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 515 Time Frame

Listening to Lin Yang's words, Chen Fan was completely stunned.

"Just a difference of 1 Planck time?"

He looked at the cracked interstellar wall outside the porthole in disbelief, then turned to look at the picture of the peacekeeping fleet on the holographic interface: "Can it produce such an... awesome effect?"

"Yes."

Lin Yang showed a bitter smile on his face: "Unlike space, the gap in time, even if it is only the most basic 1 Planck time, is an insurmountable gap that can never be touched."

"Just like... a ghost fleet." Isa's murmur came from beside me.

"cough!"

Wang Jing, who had remained silent, coughed lightly and interrupted Isa's words: "Let me correct you. The ghost fleet and this giant scorpion are still somewhat different."

"The most straightforward point is that the Ghost Fleet is in the future, while the Giant Scorpion is in the past."

"…Is there any big difference between the two?" Isa shook her hood and blinked her recently repaired mechanical eye. "Isn't it just the difference in timelines?"

“No, no, no, the presentation may be similar, but in actual operation, the two are completely different.”

Wang Jing frowned slightly, as if thinking about how to explain this complicated timeline issue to Chen Fan and the other three in an easy-to-understand way.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"Let's talk about the ghost fleet first."

"We can think of a normal timeline as a movie played at a constant speed, and each frame of this movie is actually a quantum sketch of the universe at each Planck time."

Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully.

This is not difficult to understand.

For animation and movies, a frame is a still picture, but in reality, the smallest unit between time quanta is Planck time. The still picture of the macroscopic unit of the universe naturally falls on Planck time.

"It's good if you understand."

Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

She thought for a moment, raised her hand and called up a holographic interface, on which a holographic "movie" was playing.

The double-pyramid Genesis Fortress glowed slowly, and next to it, two dust-like starships were slowly revolving around it.

Chen Fan was stunned for a moment, but soon recognized the source of this holographic "movie" - a real-time panoramic holographic image shot and generated by a scientific research vessel.

On the other side, under Chen Fan's gaze, Wang Jing raised her hand and lightly tapped the holographic image.

Swish.

The moment the image paused, densely packed still images instantly appeared just below the image, looking like the progress bar of this holographic movie.

only……

The density of this progress bar is obviously too exaggerated.

"Although the observation accuracy of the Human Union has reached the Planck time, considering that the magnitude of this thing is too small, I will set the time of each frame to 0.01 seconds."

While explaining, Wang Jing stretched out her hand and dragged the progress bar formed by countless images.

This moment was like a movie. As Wang Jing's fingers moved back and forth, the pictures changed rapidly.

Suddenly, the rapidly changing picture stopped.

In the picture, the Genesis Fortress is emitting dazzling light.

That was what Genesis Fortress looked like dozens of minutes ago when it released its first rule attack.

"Let's assume that this moment is now." Wang Jing's voice continued to come, and at the same time, her finger pointed to the very end of the progress bar, "And there is the future where the Ghost Fleet is located, which is the moment when the Genesis Fortress begins its second warm-up."

As Wang Jing's voice fell, an illusory fleet that did not exist in the real world quietly appeared on the screen at the end of the progress bar.

This is the image synthesized by the ship's main brain.

"Just imagine if the future ghost fleet wanted to make itself appear at the moment when Genesis was first activated, what would it need to do?"

Listening to Wang Jing's words, Chen Fan frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he looked at the still images frame by frame.

After hesitating for a long time, an idea suddenly came to his mind and a guess emerged in his mind.

Chen Fan murmured in a low voice: "Rewrite every frame temporarily and add yourself in?"

Wang Jing raised her eyebrows, seeming a little surprised by Chen Fan's answer.

“That’s half the answer.”

"However, without any systematic study, it is quite good to be able to think of this."

"I didn't expect you to have some talent in this area..."

Wang Jing raised her finger and tapped the holographic interface in the air: "Rewriting every frame of the picture is not difficult to do in holographic movies, but for the real world... I'm afraid it's not that easy."

"Whether it is the universe in a narrow sense or the universe in a broad sense, it is actually an extremely sophisticated device."

Wang Jing chuckled: "Just think about it, what would happen if I suddenly stuffed an extra set of kidneys into your body?"

An extra set of kidneys?
Damn it?

And this good thing? !

Then he won’t have to panic if he encounters a kidney problem next time!
"Is it true..."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and he looked at Wang Jing expectantly: "Academician Wang, if we do this... I'm afraid it doesn't conform to the rules of the People's Association, right?"

Wang Jing's eyes twitched.

She turned her head silently, selectively ignoring Chen Fan's words: "In short, temporarily adding parts to this tight equipment is definitely not a good thing. If nothing else, it will at least destroy the laws of conservation of matter and energy in the local area."

"You should have some idea of ​​the consequences of breaking the rules."

As he spoke, Wang Jing pointed to the distant universe and said, "Although I haven't done any experiments, I can roughly estimate that if the ghost fleet really did this, the node universe and the anti-universe would have become ruins long ago."

Chen Fan took a breath and a drop of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead.

"Then...then what can we do to avoid this influence?"

"Interpolate."

Academician Lin Yang, who had just remained silent, interrupted the conversation: "The Academy of Sciences held many discussions and finally decided on a plan that seems feasible."

"We speculate that the ghost fleet can insert its own frame into the previous frame, thereby achieving disguised travel without affecting the original timeline and universe rules."

As Lin Yang spoke, images of countless ghost fleets suddenly appeared, evenly inserted into every frame of the progress bar.

At the same time, as Wang Jing's fingers moved again, the previously stopped picture started moving again.

"I go……"

Looking at the ghost fleet that suddenly appeared in the holographic image and flew freely, Chen Fan subconsciously exclaimed.

Because each frame is so short, the problem cannot be detected by naked eye.

"Since this temporarily inserted frame exists independently, it does not need to consider the stability of the original frame, and will not affect the operation of the original frame."

"Not only that, since these frames are independent of the original frames, we in the original frames cannot observe their existence at all, whether it is gravitational waves or any other observation methods." "Unless... the other party uses information flow technology to interfere with the original frame."

Chen Fan suddenly realized.

It’s right, everything is right - the ghost fleet cannot be observed by normal means. The only visible light band is the effect of information interference.

only……

Chen Fan suddenly realized a very critical question: "Isn't Planck time the smallest time interval? How can the ghost fleet achieve interpolation within a Planck time?"

"This involves another problem." Lin Yang smiled gently, "Interpolation, interpolation based on the Planck time scale, this is undoubtedly an extremely huge workload."

"So, in order to reduce the workload, the ghost fleet may cut itself out of that frame alone, and then..."

Lin Yang moved his fingers slightly, and the originally doubly dense progress bar became loose again, but there was no change on the screen.

Chen Fan took a closer look and quickly discovered the secret - the frame of the ghost fleet had overlapped with the original frame.

"Attaching this extracted image to the original frame is like two layers that overlap but do not merge with each other." Lin Yang's voice continued, "In this way, not only a lot of tedious work can be avoided, but also the difficulty of Planck time being indivisible can be avoided."

Now, Chen Fan understood completely.

"So, if the Ghost Fleet wants to show up, it must tamper with every Planck timeline?!"

Chen Fan couldn't help but shudder: "This workload... is too terrifying."

No wonder the ghost fleet only appears for a very short time each time.

It turns out that there is not enough funding!

1 Planck time 1 frame, this is...

No one can handle such a big production!
Wang Jing interrupted Lin Yang and said, "Things about time... The Human Union doesn't even have theoretical knowledge at the moment."

"So none of us knows exactly how the ghost fleet operates."

"All this is purely conjecture by the Academy of Sciences."

"Let's talk about the giant scorpion." Wang Jing glanced at the giant scorpion still covered by artillery fire calmly, "Although it is also a guess, the guess about the giant scorpion is relatively reliable. After all, we have some key observation data."

"In theory, in the same universe, the timeline of every region is synchronized and flows in the same direction."

Wang Jing continued, "But the giant scorpion's timeline is one frame slower. It's actually very simple to do this."

Chen Fan's eyes moved and he quickly shifted his attention back to Wang Jing.

She just flicked her fingers lightly, pulled out one of the frames at the bottom of the holographic image, and threw it aside.

“…Is this done?”

After waiting for a long time, Chen Fan looked at Wang Jing who had not responded yet and asked blankly, "No other operation?"

"What else?" Wang Jing spread her hands helplessly, "If we temporarily remove the current frame, the other party's timeline will naturally be one frame slower, which is one Planck time."

"Since only one frame is missing and the rest of the frames are running on the original trajectory, we can still easily observe the other party's existence, but... it will be a beat slower than normal."

"The principle is so simple, but in practice..."

“No one knows what to do.”

It turns out that the operation of the ghost fleet is to insert frames infinitely and superimpose layers, while the operation of the giant scorpion is a simple and crude frame extraction...

No wonder Wang Jing said earlier that there is an essential difference between the two.

Don’t tell me, it’s really fucking true!
Putting aside other things, at least the "funding" consumption of the two is completely different!

The former was aiming to bankrupt everyone, while the latter just spent a tiny bit of pocket money at most.

Just as Chen Fan was silently complaining in his mind, the communication channel suddenly fell silent.

Wang Jing stared blankly at the unrecognizable holographic image in front of her, as if she had thought of something.

"I seem to...understand."

"Understand?" Lin Yang looked at Wang Jing in surprise. "What do you understand? Hasn't this theory been recognized by most academicians?"

"No no no..."

Wang Jing shook her head repeatedly. She turned to look at the giant scorpion being bombarded in another holographic interface and murmured in a low voice: "What I mean is, I think I guessed the reason why the giant scorpion only took the beating and didn't fight back..."

"What?!" Lin Yang looked serious and asked hurriedly, "Why?!"

"..."

Wang Jing was silent for a moment, and then spoke after some consideration: "If our theory is correct, then the giant scorpion should still be extracting frames."

“But time is fluid.”

"In order for its own timeline to run normally, it also needs to put this temporarily extracted frame back into the timeline."

Wang Jing raised her hand and quickly pulled out a frame from the progress bar below the holographic image, then reinserted it after waiting for a moment. During this process, the image was still running normally without being affected at all, but it was slightly slower than the normally played image.

"I understand what you mean, but..."

Lin Yang frowned: "What does this have to do with the giant scorpion not fighting back?"

"It's a big deal!" Wang Jing's voice suddenly rose. "Think about it, if your position suddenly changed dramatically during a Planck time, what would happen?"

Lin Yang's expression changed slightly in an instant.

The difference in coordinates and the difference in time, combined together, is the change in acceleration.

When time is reduced to an extreme, and the coordinates of displacement are large to a certain extent...

That terrifying force is probably enough to tear the giant scorpion into pieces! !
"I understand……"

Lin Yang was a little excited, and said repeatedly: "It's not that the giant scorpion won't fight back, but it's just that it can't move or fight back now!!"

"Just like the shield overload function equipped on a battleship, while improving defense, the maneuverability of the battleship will also be greatly reduced!"

Wang Jing was relieved: "Now that you put it that way, it does look a bit like it."

"But that's not the point right now."

"Since the giant scorpion's method of using time difference to evade attack has flaws..."

Wang Jing's eyes sparkled: "Perhaps, we can solve it through this defect!"

After a brief thought, she had already made up her mind.

"first……"

"The guns can't stop!!"

"Since it can't move now, let's blow it up until it is forced to move!"

"I just don't believe that it would not consume any time when extracting the time frame!"

"At worst, I'll just fight a protracted war with him!!"

ps: This chapter is a bit difficult to write... the number of words is a little less QAQ
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