Road to science and technology

"Rule?!" Chu Yan suddenly stood up and exclaimed.

"Order!"

Decisively, he immediately issued an order to each capital ship: "All capital ships immediately enter a communication silent state, turn on optical invisibility, turn on their own gravity shielding function, and enter a first-level war preparation state."

"Order the Taotie, Purple Fish, and Metal Civilization fleets to separate into squadrons based on their own combat formations at a distance of 10 light years, and disperse them across the starry sky. Pay attention to turning on the concealment mode."

Chu Yan believed that Zhuo Wen's judgment was not wrong, so he decisively ordered to hide himself no matter what.

Following his order, the entire fleet took action immediately.

After hiding, weapons, engines, and logistics were quietly on standby, Chu Yan sent this message to the rear.

There is the first fleet of the Shenzhou civilization in this universe. He wants to send back the current data and his guesses so that the first fleet can also be prepared.

After doing all this, Chu Yan continued: "Zhuo Wen, immediately provide technical support to the detection team at the edge of that space to detect the physical laws of that star field."

"Understood!" Zhuo Wen responded.

Chu Yan looked at the busy team of fleet science officers, took a deep breath, and then walked in the command room.

If the physical laws of that space really changed, then the matter would be serious.

Because the Andromeda Galaxy was originally located there, what changes in physical laws could cause a galaxy with a diameter of more than 200,000 light-years to disappear without a trace?

Chu Yan can't imagine it now. He thinks that even if certain physical laws are changed, it shouldn't destroy the entire galaxy.

He comes from a scientific background, so he knows a lot about this aspect.

"This is obviously not a natural formation, but which civilization would be so bored as to destroy the Andromeda Galaxy?" Chu Yan pondered.

"No, no, everything has a purpose. No civilization can be so boring."

Destroy? ? ! !

"That's right, destroy it!"

Chu Yan stopped and used his hand to push the multifunctional deformable glasses on the bridge of his nose.

A ray of light flashed on the lens.

"No civilization is so boring, but what about the war between two civilizations! In other words, this is likely to be the battlefield relics of two civilizations!"

Thinking of the battlefield ruins, Chu Yan felt a little unreal.

Because whether he was on Earth before or later joined the Shenzhou Civilization, the battlefield relics he heard about were basically the remains of battleships floating around.

As the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Chu Yan has of course watched some science fiction movies, which were of course shot within the Shenzhou Civilization. The battlefield remains in most of them are nothing more than broken galaxies except for the wreckage of battleships. There is nothing left.

Although he could not imagine it subjectively, objective analysis showed that this was probably the case.

At this time, the detection results came out, and Zhuo Wen raised his hand to push an illusory projection towards Chu Yan, and said: "Captain, the experiment was successfully completed, the data and analysis are out!"

"Look, here are the various physical parameters at the edge of space. Comparing the 'Light of Taihu' database, we know that this is the outermost edge of the original Andromeda galaxy. We took several data collection points in various directions in this area, and finally got We conclude that the physical laws of this star field have indeed changed."

Zhuo Wen continued to explain, and the precise data made his tone very confident: "To be precise, the change in this star field should be a formula."

"The mass-energy equation!" Chu Yan said.

"right!"

Zhuo Wen nodded, and then pointed at the illusory projection in front of Chu Yan. Following his movements, a model of the Andromeda Galaxy suddenly appeared in the illusory projection of several subsequent test points.

In this model, the origin of the X, Y, Z three-dimensional coordinates is the central black hole of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Chu Yan saw that the data of the experimental point changed with the distance from the origin of the coordinates. The closer to the inside, the lower the energy released by the mass loss. Most people cannot understand these changes, but Zhuo Wen classified and summarized these changes, and then came to the conclusion of changes in the mass-energy formula.

"E=M/C"

Zhuo Wen pointed to the formula displayed on the screen and said: "According to the data, the formula we came up with is this."

Zhuo Wen fell silent after saying this. When he spoke again, his tone became very respectful and bitter, as if he was trapped in his own shocking imagination of this series of formulas:

"Remove the square and turn multiplication into division. Not only that, but it can also act on reality. What kind of technology is this!

Not only that, they can only change this one formula, leaving the others unchanged. This is the real difficulty. It’s simply terrifying. Is this a god-level civilization? No, the meticulous operation is simply beyond the divine level. It’s like, like.”

As a captain with good scientific literacy, Chu Yan took Zhuo Wen's words and said: "It's like Sima Guang smashing a vat, using an awl to make a hole in the bottom of the vat, and then only allowing the water inside to flow out of the bowl he had prepared. ."

Chu Yan's metaphor is certainly not accurate, but it can illustrate the problem.

The physical laws of the universe itself affect the whole body. It can be said that as long as even a little physical parameter is changed, then the universe will probably no longer have life.

Every physical law is closely connected. If one of the physical quantities is changed, all physical quantities will change.

But now this battlefield ruins show that there is a civilization that can change the formula at will, and it also affects reality. Not only that, it does not affect other physical parameters.

"Yeah, this Sima Guang is a bit powerful." Seeing Chu Yan's metaphor, Zhuo Wen also joked.

After saying this, he relaxed a lot.

Chu Yan nodded, and then said with some luck: "However, this method seems to be less effective the further away from the trigger point. From this point of view, we do not have no means of evasion, as long as we have a corresponding early warning mechanism."

"Zhuo Wen, I have uploaded the detection results to the leader. You will also think about it later and write a technology assessment report that may be involved in the early warning from a scientific perspective, and attach an assessment of the possibility of its realization. Come back. I will hand it over to the leader, and I believe he will make corresponding arrangements with the Academy of Sciences, the General Staff, etc."

Zhuo Wen nodded, but then shook his head and said: "Captain, the evaluation report is my job, and you don't need to tell me. It's just that I'm afraid. It's not that the farther away it is, the worse the power is, as you think.

According to Mo Zhai's analysis of the parameters of the universe, I believe that the parameters of the large universe also have the same properties. That is to say, within this range, the power of changing the formula is actually the same, but as time goes by, those parameters that have been changed It’s just being gradually re-assimilated by the universe. "

Chu Yan thought for a while and said: "Well, it is indeed possible. But how to explain that all matter has disappeared?"

Zhuowen replied: "We have detected some discrete pions."

Chu Yan became thoughtful after hearing this. He was waiting for Zhuo Wen to explain further. Although he came from a scientific background, he had been the commander-in-chief of the fleet for so many years, so of course he put his main focus on the fleet. Some very detailed scientific knowledge was taken for granted. It’s impossible to cover everything.

But then Chu Yan suddenly saw a communication access prompt, and he saw that it was Yue Yuanzhou. He answered immediately.

As a result, the illusory projection changed and appeared in front of him in the form of Yue Yuanzhou.

After Yue Yuanzhou appeared, he first asked Chu Yan and Zhuo Wen to tell them all the data and speculations. When Zhuo Wen said again that he had detected some discrete π mesons, he seemed to have thought of something.

He murmured: "All matter has disappeared, and there are still remaining pions. Could it be the decay of protons? It seems that this is the only explanation."

The answer is obvious. This is the place where the Demon Eye Civilization and the Zero Returners discussed matters after Yue Yuanzhou escaped from the Trisolaran Universe.

But the key is that no one, including Yue Yuanzhou, knew about this, let alone the occurrence of something like proton decay that exists in theory but has never been seen before. So they could only guess step by step what happened here through observation. .