Road to science and technology

Yue Yuanzhou was considering the scope of the attack.

Naturally, the Infrastructure No. was not idle either. As the black passages that should have been invisible appeared in the void, the Infrastructure No. also moved in the universe as if teleporting.

This method of movement used to be called stellar leapfrog, but since the Shenzhou civilization has long been able to move without relying on stellar energy, it is now basically called a space-time jump.

It achieves the purpose of rapid movement by locating the coordinates of the destination, and then using powerful energy to distort time and space, pulling the time and space of the two places together.

There is a very vivid metaphor. To move from any point on a piece of paper to another point, the shortest path is not to connect the line segments between the two points, but to fold the paper in half so that the two points coincide.

The current mobile method of infrastructure accounts uses this principle.

In a universe where warp speed is limited to the speed of light, this is undoubtedly the best method of movement that the Shenzhou civilization can choose at present.

Because it is an unfamiliar galaxy, the Infrastructure has no clear destination. It did not even dock at the nearest star system before. Instead, it jumped to a position a few light-years away from it, released the detector, and then continued to start the jump. Repeatedly sending a large number of detectors to the vast galaxy.

These detectors not only have to perform detection tasks, but also go to the appropriate galaxy, copy themselves and then build star gates.

The universe is vast and boundless. Although this galaxy cannot represent the entire universe, it is still 60,000 light-years in diameter. For the Infrastructure, which jumps more than 190 light years and stops for a while to release the detector, it cannot complete the detection at once, so this kind of navigation and exploration is actually quite a waste of time.

However, no one on the infrastructure car cared about it. After all, no one had to worry about lifespan, and it didn’t matter how long the ride lasted.

In this way, as the exploration progressed, time slowly passed, and the detectors began to spread into the starry sky. However, since quantum over-distance communication is not available, if the gravitational wave transmission alternative is used, the speed of information transmission is the same as that of electromagnetic waves, which is the speed of light, so it must wait tens or even hundreds of years before the information can be transmitted back.

At this moment, Yue Yuanzhou felt the vastness of the universe again.

In the following days, he also experienced another characteristic of the universe again, which is desolation, deathly silence and loneliness.

"In such an active galaxy environment, there is probably no life!" Yue Yuanzhou shook his head, turned and walked towards the research institute.

In this environment, Yue Yuanzhou devoted his time to the study of dimensions and time and space. The infrastructure has a complete database and has been synchronized with the data of the Shenzhou Civilization Academy of Sciences. Therefore, he can continue to study on the basis of the results of the Academy of Sciences. He is not used to the lack of ultra-long-distance real-time communication.

As soon as he walked near the research institute, he heard Gongsun Xing, who had already started working, said crisply: "From the information we know, the spatial structure of this universe has a stable constant, which is similar to this universe. When it is distorted, When the force of space-time does not exceed this stability constant, space-time is a stable and normal four-dimensional space-time.

Once exceeded, space-time will undergo a series of chain reactions, or rupture, extreme distortion or even collapse, and an extremely strong gravitational potential energy state of space-time will appear. Finally, a black hole-like destructive force will appear, causing the curvature bubble to burst. This is the curvature of the universe. The reason why the speed cannot exceed the speed of light. "

In addition to Gongsun Xing, there are many researchers in the institute now listening to her speech.

I saw Gongsun Xing continue: "So warp speed navigation can only be infinitely close to this limited value, and it is impossible to reach or even exceed it. Because the warp speed itself is carried out by dragging the warp bubble through space. As you can imagine, it is just like the speed of light. The same as the limit, the warp speed can only be infinitely close and cannot be reached or surpassed.

In such a universe, the only way to break through the speed of light is through wormholes and star gates, just like ours now. Of course, there is also dimension jumping. Based on this information, now we will discuss the issue of dimensions and communication, and try to find the problem earlier than the old guys at the Academy of Space Science! "

Having said this, Gongsun Xing raised her long legs and slammed them on the chair, shouting like a pyramid scheme: "Do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" the researchers replied.

"A group of men haven't eaten? Answer me, do you have confidence?"

"have!!!"

"very good!"

"..." Yue Yuanzhou, who had not yet shown his face, was speechless. He did not expect that Gongsun Xing actually had such a side, and he did not know where he learned it from.

At this moment, Yue Yuanzhou, who was about to continue walking, suddenly stopped, and then heard Long Lin's voice ringing in his ears through the communicator.

"Boss, our ship has discovered a star with an abnormal spectrum. Its luminosity has significant changes in light and dark patterns. Preliminary analysis shows that the star is frequently blocked. The infrastructure has switched to a giant optical telescope for observation."

"oh?"

Yue Yuanzhou paused and continued to observe the situation of the research institute for a while. He felt that it would be okay if he did not participate, so he turned and walked towards the bridge.

When he came to the bridge, the specific observation results had already come out.

So he looked towards the illusory projection, but when he saw it, Yue Yuanzhou was stunned: "Um, what is this? Dyson sphere?"

It’s really, oh, it should be said to be Dyson Cloud, why would any civilization be so bothered to build this thing!

He is very interested, and there is a saying that goes well: Civilizations without Dyson spheres long for Dyson spheres, and civilizations that can build Dyson spheres do not need Dyson spheres.

Isn't it? The so-called Dyson sphere refers to the way that technological civilization uses means to build a giant artificial structure to wrap the entire star in order to obtain most or all of its energy output.

But because the mass of a star often accounts for about 99.8% of the star system it is composed of, it is impossible to have enough material in the star system to build a Dyson sphere surrounding the star.

Then it can only be built by transporting materials from other galaxies, but since they can already travel to other star systems, there is no need for this civilization to use stellar energy in one place. There are so many stars in the universe, and for those who have the ability to large-scale interstellar For a civilization that travels far, there is definitely no shortage of energy.

Few civilizations built Dyson spheres like this.

Dyson spheres are certainly impractical, but Dyson clouds are feasible.

For example, humans in the 21st century already have the technology to build Dyson clouds, and there is no need to add new theoretical breakthroughs. Orbiting satellites or solar sail technology can be used to build Dyson cloud structures.

Utilize the powerful industrial capabilities of technological civilization to build densely packed independent structures that surround stars, similar to clouds in the sky. Countless solar sail-like clouds form a huge ring-stellar structure.

The advantage of this is that it can be modularized, easy to build gradually, the material requirements are much lower than that of Dyson spheres, and the sizes of various 'clouds' can be selected by yourself. But there is a downside, such a 'cloud' of stellar energy collectors would change the intensity of light the star system emits into the universe.

In this way, it is easy to be exposed to the eyes of civilization hidden in the depths of the universe.

Just like the current civilization, it was discovered by Infrastructure.