Abnormal crossing

Chapter 50 Ancient Tower Model
Man-made?

Man-made?!
At this moment.

Looking at Jin, who was leaning casually against the wall with her arms folded across her chest, Gu Wei's heart was filled with "Fuck it".

Oh my god.
This hub that can travel across star systems and even galaxies is actually man-made?

To know.

If a tool wants to be applicable in the real world, in addition to reasonable mathematical logic, various physical parameters cannot be ignored.

For example, the Alcubierre metric mentioned earlier.

Its principle does not violate any known laws of physics, but in reality, humans are simply unable to produce the electromagnetic field required to create a warp bubble, or even if they can, there is not enough energy to drive it.

It is obvious that this inter-galactic hub is man-made. There must be some new physics that Gu Wei cannot imagine.

Then Jin looked at Gu Wei and said to him, "The concept of a jump point is complicated, but it is also very simple - have you ever seen a building like this on Earth?"

As Jin spoke, he drew a line in front of his face with his finger, and a [∧]-shaped conical building appeared in front of Gu Wei.

Gu Wei nodded immediately.

Although Gu Wei had never seen an exactly identical original, he had seen buildings of similar style quite often - the ancient towers in China looked pretty much like this.

Of course.

The top of the building in the Jin diagram is sharper than that of most ancient towers. If I have to give an example, it is more similar to the Baochu Tower in ZJ Province.

The pointy head.jpg.

I saw Jin marked the letters A and B on both sides of the bottom of the [∧] and asked, "So Gu Wei, under normal circumstances, what is the shortest route from point A to point B at the base of the tower?"

"The shortest route?" Gu Wei blinked. This could be considered a question for an elementary school student: "If it's on a plane, connect the two points. If it's a curved surface, it's a geodesic."

"Very good." Then Jin pinched the two sides of the building and put points A and B together. "If the ground can be bent in half like a fool, then the two points can be infinitely close. This is the wormhole you mentioned before."

Gu Wei hummed.

A wormhole can indeed be understood as folding two points on a piece of paper together, but the feasibility of this scheme has been rejected by Jin - at least wormholes are not suitable in conventional scenarios.

The purpose of her giving this example should be to pave the way for subsequent content.

Then Jin suddenly changed the subject and brought up a scenario that Gu Wei had never considered: "What if I don't walk on the ground, but go through the higher floors?"

"Higher floors?" Gu Wei immediately frowned: "Wouldn't that be more troublesome?"

The general meaning of "瑾" is to take the stairs from point A to the second floor, cross the second floor and then walk down the stairs on the other side to reach point B. The trajectory is almost like a trapezoid without the bottom.

This method reduces the amount of ground you walk on, but increases the number of stairs you have to climb, which saves neither time nor effort.

But soon.

Jin then said something that made Gu Wei fall into complete silence: "What if there is a force that can lift you up and jump from the ground to the second floor in an instant, and then return to point B on the other side of the second floor in an instant?"

Then she looked at Gu Wei meaningfully and continued to ask, "What if we arrive at the third floor, fourth floor, or even higher?"

"." Gu Wei was silent for half a minute this time, and then he spoke with a hoarse voice: "The higher the floor, the shorter the distance I have to walk. After reaching the seventh or eighth floor, I only need to take a small step to get from A to B."

"If it were higher, it could even coincide with the vertex. Then A would be B and B would be A."

Jin clapped her hands: "Congratulations, the answer is correct."

"But what about the principle?" Gu Wei took a deep breath, his doubts not diminished at all: "Jin, there are no stairs to climb in reality, right? And where does that power come from? The power that can allow people to go up and down the stairs instantly must have a cost greater than the physical energy you consume by walking up the stairs."

"This involves the issue of space," Jin pointed to the ancient tower model in front of him, "In addition to the trajectory, this ancient tower model also represents the Xinghai civilization's understanding of the spatial level - you can understand it as a dimension, but it is actually different from a dimension. I will explain this to you when I have the chance."

"And the jump point is the entrance to the 'Ancient Tower'. Every time you go up a floor, you actually enter a higher space - a certain area in it is the highest point of the Ancient Tower. Once you reach there, you can instantly go to where you want to go."

"As for the power that allows the spacecraft to jump, this involves knowledge that is more complicated than space. Not many people in the entire galaxy know its essence. Regarding this power, you only need to remember three things."

Gu Wei: "Which three things?"

"First, the name of the power," Jin raised a finger, "It's called polarized rift energy. It's the highest level of energy currently controlled by Xinghai Civilization. Generally speaking, we can just call it rift energy."

Gu Wei nodded and silently memorized the name in his heart.

Polarization crack energy.
It sounds very special.
"As for the second thing, it can be regarded as a small patch of knowledge." Then Jin raised a second finger: "That is the unknown domain that you were curious about before. It is inside certain jump points."

This time, Gu Wei was not too surprised.

Jin had mentioned before that the territory of the Star Sea Civilization is divided into three parts, namely the known domain, the exploration domain and the unknown domain.

The first two are the star regions that have been developed by the Star Sea civilization, and the areas outside the civilization territory that have yet to be explored. Both of them basically cover the known universe.

In this case, an unknown domain is also separated, so it is most likely not in the same space as the previous two.

Therefore, when Jin mentioned the ancient tower model, Gu Wei vaguely guessed a possibility - the unknown domain should be related to the "floor" above.

Considering the technological level of the Star Sea civilization, coming into contact with space is inevitable.

So Gu Wei looked at Jin again: "What about the third thing? What is it?"

"The third thing?" Jin hesitated for a while before saying, "The use of polarized rift energy has a price."

Gu Wei's eyes narrowed: "Price? What kind of price?"

Jin waved her finger again, and the image in front of Gu Wei turned into a wave composed of a large number of fragments:

"The discovery of polarization rift energy can be traced back to hundreds of thousands of years ago, but for a long time, polarization rift energy or transition points were forbidden to be opened at will."

"Because the interior of the 'Ancient Tower' is not empty. Whenever the people below use the polarization rifts to complete the transition, the 'Ancient Tower' will also give some feedback. When this feedback accumulates to a certain level, a creature called alien life will appear."

Alien life?

Gu Wei tilted his head slightly.

If he remembered correctly, when Mee Mee introduced the Polna Exploration Team, she seemed to have mentioned how many alien life forms Polna had destroyed.
"Alien life forms are numerous, and they are not just uncontrollable physical destruction," Jin said, looking at Gu Wei, who showed no emotion, and said, "What they bring is..."

"Cold and lonely."

(End of this chapter)