Road to science and technology

If it is a planet, then some instruments and equipment can be placed on the surface of the planet or underground. This is no problem, because these equipment can operate normally.

Although the Shenzhou civilization's deformed capital ship is as big as the moon, it is not a planet after all. Many of the equipment are on the spacecraft itself, and there is no problem with the placement of the equipment.

Planets are different. Planets are fine, but if they are white dwarfs or even neutron stars, it will be even more difficult. Take a neutron star as an example. The gravity of this kind of celestial body is so strong that any device on its surface will be torn apart and turned into neutron star material, which is a degenerate neutron flow.

So mounting equipment on its surface is not feasible.

It is true that the Shenzhou civilization has gravitational knot technology, but if you want to create a gravitational knot that can shield the internal gravity of a neutron star, it must be almost a knot in Planck space. The Shenzhou civilization has not been able to micro-manage the gravitational knot to this extent. kind of degree.

So now the only way Shenzhou Civilization can think of is to use the Grand Unification Force. The small ball in front of Shui Wangqiu is the product of Mother Box Technology plus Shenzhou Civilization Grand Unification Technology. The status of the four forces is quite lower than the 3+1 form.

3 is the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces that have been integrated into the grand unified force. 1 is the gravity that participates in it through the grand unified model. In theory, the force created by this pattern can withstand the pressure of the neutron star.

From this point of view, it is certainly correct to say that this small ball is a weapon. To be more precise, it is the core prototype of a weapon.

But Yue Yuanzhou actually knew that there were still many unresolved problems with this thing, such as how to put the ball inside the planet.

Although the Shenzhou civilization could place this small ball inside the planet from the four-dimensional space, the difficulty lies in it just by imagining it.

For example, there is a circle on a piece of paper. The circle is filled with black to represent a solid planet. Now the ball in front of Shui Wangqiu is equivalent to a hollow circle.

The most direct difficulty is how to put this hollow circle inside the solid circle. After putting it in, you have to make sure that the inside of the hollow circle is still hollow and not filled with the black color of the solid ball.

Because this ball was made with deformation technology, Shui Wangqiu's idea was to make it smaller, place it inside, and then let it gradually grow larger, so that a space could be opened inside the planet.

This is the squeezing method he just mentioned.

But Yue Yuanzhou actually felt that it was not very reliable. After all, if he did this, he would have to shrink the ball to a very small point. Wouldn't that mean it would collapse? If it was only reduced to a certain extent, how could it be squeezed in for so long? The problem of squeezing solid matter apart.

If it were ordinary matter, it would be easy, but if it were placed in a neutron star, the difficulty would be exponentially multiplied.

How to operate in a planet that is rotating at an extreme speed, or to stop the planet from rotating, how to stop the planet from rotating, etc., are all civilization-level problems.

But even if the ball is successfully squeezed into the planet, there will still be bigger problems, such as how to drive the planet, what weapons to use, etc.

It is definitely impossible to put it on the surface of the planet. Then all the equipment will be placed in the space created, and the space must be large enough.

Yue Yuanzhou actually supports the development of any weapons, including transforming planets into battle stars. Ordinary planets are of course useless, because a capital ship is stronger than ordinary planets, so the Shenzhou civilization was heading towards very extreme celestial bodies from the beginning.

It seems that the Shenzhou civilization has a special liking for spheres.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuanzhou recalled how the Shenzhou civilization fell in love with spheres step by step, but found that it was his own fault.

The things people make are all boxy, such as the Rubik's Cube, the Mother Box, etc., but the Shenzhou civilization is better, everything is spherical.

In the past, all battleships were balls, as were celestial computers, sophons and neutrons were still balls when they were expanded in low dimensions, and the prototype of the core of the weapon floating in front of us was still a ball.

"Take this slowly, things can't be solved overnight."

Yue Yuanzhou raised his arm as he spoke, and then the ball flew to his palm and floated. After looking at it for a while, he changed the topic, "By the way, what do you have about the vacuum zero-point energy thing I told you last time?" No?"

“(⊙o⊙)…”

Shui Wangqiu was just about to sit down when he heard these words and immediately stood back. Hey, daddy said: "We have been studying this. Currently, it is believed that the energy source of vacuum zero-point energy is vacuum quantum fluctuations."

"anything else?"

"Even if the temperature drops to absolute zero, the particles are still vibrating, and this energy still exists. It must be vibrating, otherwise once it stops, the position and dynamics of the particles can be accurately measured."

Yue Yuanzhou: "Huh?"

Shui Wangqiu immediately understood what it meant. What he said had already been proven. Yue Yuanzhou didn't have time to listen to him talking about this, so he considered it and said: "Oh, the spontaneous fluctuations of quantum quantities will constantly have virtual phenomena." The energy contained in the creation and annihilation of particle pairs is vacuum zero-point energy. By the way, some civilizations also call it cosmic energy."

"Um."

Yue Yuanzhou couldn't comment, and then asked: "What about Dirac's Sea? What progress has been made?"

"As far as we know, the Dirac Sea is a sea of ​​negative energy particles composed of the zero-point energy of the quantum vacuum. In short, the countless positron and negative electron pairs produced by the annihilation of matter and antimatter are the so-called Dirac Sea."

Yue Yuanzhou hummed again, and then continued what Shui Wangqiu said: "The electron is a boson, which obeys the Pauli exclusion principle, so your explanation can indeed explain the existence of positrons, and it is also a proven theory. Antibosons also exist here, and using quantum field theory to reinterpret the meaning of the Dirac equation can also solve the problems of antibosons and antifermions."

When Yue Yuanzhou said this, he paused. He glanced at Shui Wangqiu and asked, "All the above were determined tens of thousands of years ago, but I would like to know your explanations for some other unknowns. For example, At the bottom of Dirac's Sea, how do you explain the statement that vacuum has infinite energy?"

"this"

Shui Wangqiu didn't know how to answer for a while, because since Yue Yuanzhou gave the prompt, the Academy of Sciences has basically not made much progress in the Dirac Sea and vacuum zero-point energy. So now, although the Shenzhou civilization has mastered the vacuum zero-point energy , but most scientists believe that this is already the greatest use of energy.

Shui Wangqiu was also like this originally, but he remembered what Yue Yuanzhou said at that time and knew that the problem was not that simple. It was just that his research on this aspect over the years made him feel like there was no way forward.

"It seems that you are still good at studying the four basic forces!" Yue Yuanzhou sighed, and then threw the ball in his hand back to Shui Wangqiu.

Then he continued: "The engineering team said that it will connect to the new universe soon. I have asked Wen Mang to go there, so you can go to his place and see the new universe together, see different civilizations, and experience some collisions of ideas. "

Shui Wangqiu nodded, concentrating on studying the four basic powers was what he wanted in his life.

He was silent for a while before asking: "As for the true face of Dirac's Sea and the question of how infinite the vacuum zero point can be, leader, do you have an answer?"

"You're still very curious, that's good." Yue Yuanzhou said appreciatively,

He thought Shui Wangqiu didn't ask. If he didn't ask this question, then the president of the Academy of Sciences could be replaced.

"You know now that without the guidance of theory, the road ahead for technology is like being blocked, right?"

"Yes, it's like a blind person." Shui Wangqiu agreed deeply. This is the current state of the Academy of Sciences' research on the problem of infinite vacuum zero-point energy.

"Whether it is Dirac's Sea or vacuum zero-point energy, the establishment of this theory has already appeared in the age of the earth. In other words, in fact, the Shenzhou civilization lighting up this technology was actually used on the earth tens of thousands of years ago. Theory, and when this technology is mastered, you will have no clue.”

Yue Yuanzhou continued: "Basic theory is the basis of scientific progress, Lao Shui, don't forget this. Okay, I won't tell you more, you just need to remember that future superpowers may also need to establish another Only by applying theory can it be realized.”

"As for the problem of infinite vacuum zero-point energy, it is actually not a problem, but a key. Knowing this secret can take civilization a big step forward. If a civilization that has mastered vacuum zero-point energy is a super civilization, then This question is the key to a super civilization moving towards a god-level civilization.

Fortunately, our Shenzhou civilization now has this key, and by turning it on, we can obtain truly huge energy. The utilization rate of the vacuum zero-point energy we use now can only be described as an order of magnitude difference in the face of this energy, but This requires a new set of theoretical guidance. "