Star Empire

"Technical barriers... if you take it literally, it means that the application technology has reached the extreme of its current applicable scope??"

"Yes, from a material science perspective, chromatic nuclear materials are the best rigid materials we can create. In the military system, space annihilation bombs are the highest-ranking, most effective, and most powerful weapons we can create— —they themselves represent limits.”

Cavinriel shook his head slightly.

"What we are making progress is just the use of some black boxes that are difficult to crack and even empirical formulas are difficult to use - the Federation has made new progress compared to tens of millions and hundreds of millions of years ago, but they all come from that accelerator Explosion - the limits of our cognitive theory have not changed at all, the rules of the world are indestructible to us, and we can no longer dig out anything."

"Wait a minute, isn't it already quite simple to change the speed of time and the speed of light? In comparison, although the destructive power of the space annihilation bomb is high, but -"

"General, don't measure these based on visual reality." Cavernell shook his head and interrupted the general's doubts. "The space annihilation bomb uses extremely high-density energy to forcibly expand some microscopic dimensions and uses some high-dimensional laws to Launch an attack, and the attack range includes the measurable main universe and high-dimensional areas that exist on other levels - it can directly tear apart space."

"...In contrast, things like low-light speed traps just simply and crudely slow down the relative flow of the reference system. It does not modify the cosmological constant, but only uses some laws of space. The microscopic vacuum speed of light is not affected. Low light speed The area can dissipate on its own within tens or hundreds of years without direct aggravation."

"If this method is really used to trap the opponent, then if the enemy suddenly enters a range of low light speed areas, it will be directly affected by the slow clock effect. Even if there is no stable slot that is now a black box technology, this kind of phenomenon will occur due to changes in the spatial structure. The "macroscopic low light speed" trap of the outside world will generally dissipate on its own within a few decades, and for the outside world, the trap of tens or hundreds of years will be released in an instant."

Cavenriel looked at the general, "To put it far, in the era of river system expansion, how normal is it to fight a war for ten thousand years? Your military history database should be richer than mine, right? Looking closer, with the Zerg and Theodal How long was the hostility?”

"To give an inappropriate example, let's take metal - when metal is in different states of matter, it will have different physical properties. Although they are somewhat different, space also has similar properties. We just make the space structure produce Change, and make use of this changed system of laws - essentially, nothing is essentially changed."

Before the surprised general could say anything else, Cavinrel's words continued: "Changing the cosmological constant is not easy. Everything we do now is making use of the existing laws of the universe. It just depends on the laws of use. It’s just a deep layer or a shallow layer. The speed of light in vacuum is 300,000 kilometers per second. It is very difficult for us to change it. Only information computers will occasionally directly and truly change the speed of light in vacuum during working conditions... If it is not the federal system By spreading neutralizing fields widely to combat real-life pollution, such small changes are actually difficult to monitor.”

"The most important thing is that the premise of change is that it is controllable, otherwise it cannot be called "change" but "mutation."

"So that's it." The general thought for a moment after hearing this, "That is to say, those fighting methods related to the laws of the universe or the cosmological constants insert some rough conditions and use lower-level and more basic laws to temporarily suppress shallow It’s just a layer of rules, it’s not about making any substantial changes to these rules or constants, right?”

"That's right." Cavernell said as he opened the holographic window. What emerged inside was a bright silver, slowly rotating arc-shaped plate.

"This is the color core material. Of course, the current color core materials are directly arranged according to the requirements and then integrated into the printing mold. The color core material uses the quark confinement of hadrons in principle. The quarks are described in the hadrons. Will not exist alone. Due to the strong force between the color nuclei of different "colors", the quarks with color charge are restricted to other quarks, making the total color charge zero. The force between quarks increases as the distance increases Increased, therefore quarks cannot be found alone, and their own energy levels make it almost impossible for them to naturally escape from confinement."

"... Of course, we have no right to directly think that black box technology is inferior - the application of fire is almost as long as civilization. However, as a plasma, its properties have been fully studied by us, but in the interstellar era..."

After a slight pause, Cavinrel's voice continued, "We were lucky enough to find a way to split hadrons at a critical moment, thereby creating independent quarks, and then using the color force to separate them. By controlling the quark arrangement of different "colors", we have created micro-elements that can be infinitely extended and have a total color of zero. For this purpose, we have selected a micro-element that can not only enhance the strength of the strong nuclear force, but also avoid density. is too big."

"The strong force is transmitted through the absorption and emission of gluons. Through lepton perturbation, these "medium" gluons will become active. This is the basic principle that the color core material partially conforms to our partial observations and mathematical models. Now Although the color core materials still use lepton perturbation, most of the processing no longer follows traditional processes, but is handed over to information computers as black boxes—it can also be called unstable processing machines."

"Wait a minute, there are many problems here." Kalost couldn't help but ask, "Don't you think that hadrons are non-physical substances? And in this process, how did you break the quark confinement? Can it move freely? You also said that quarks cannot be spontaneously generated because of quark confinement, how do you operate them??"

"...I don't know how to explain it. The threshold and model for transforming from uncertainty to relative certainty from micro to macro have never been fully established - the empirical constants have always been wrong."

"But... hadrons are indeed not like atoms in some properties. Under the most precise observation, they also have a material structure that can be detected. For the observation of hadrons, we use a range of accelerated time fields and photon projections to display It is realized by micro-equipment. If we have to talk about the structure of hadrons, the results obtained by the current physical observation methods can be described as an extremely thin probability string that vibrates at a high speed. Only through combination and superposition of these strings can we Forming an atomic structure that can be observed, but this is only a rough observation... The more detailed the observation, the harder it seems to be to observe the hadron structure..."

"Cavenriel?" A white-gloved hand waved slightly in front of the science officer.

"...Well, it's nothing. The chromatic core armor only uses the strong interaction force to restrain hadrons. In fact, there are some other levels of enhancement. It's not that the chromatic core armor block is just a large proton or medium Son. As for how to break the quark confinement, the method is actually within our technical system, but it requires the use of violence." Cavinriel opened another holographic display window, and inside it was the image of a space annihilation bomb.

"The high-dimensional space jump only allows the aircraft to show certain high-dimensional properties to bypass the structural obstacles of the three-dimensional space." Cavernrel enlarged the space annihilation bomb display window and split the screen, and displayed on the other side He said, "The higher the dimension, the better. In fact, three dimensions are most suitable for the existence of the macroscopic material environment. In addition, on this basis, as the dimension decreases, the energy concentration increases; as the dimension increases, the form of energy operation becomes more many."

"In the fourth dimension, the structure of macroscopic objects will be greatly reduced, because ordinary electromagnetic force can no longer bind atoms together, and the atoms themselves are no longer stable, because the strong nuclear force as a result of the overflow of color force will also have considerable Part of it spills into that other dimension. If the dimension is higher, the chromatic core force that constrains hadron stability will also leak seriously. In this case, the chromatic core armor that loses its binding force will naturally disintegrate."

"...That's why there are so many safety regulations for the four-dimensional space connection communication system." Kalost said, "High-dimensional space simply does not support the existence of large-sized macroscopic objects, so when connecting to the four-dimensional space communication channel, it must be The area is separated to prevent the four-dimensional fragments that escape during activation from causing harm to personnel or equipment, and the terminal uses an information computer for this reason, right?"

"Basically correct, but not that serious. As I said, just four dimensions is not enough to disintegrate the color nuclear force, so this area is not a complete macroscopic material forbidden zone. However, now that its nature is known, then It is necessary to take the best possible precautions.”

"This means that if the space annihilation bomb wants to effectively damage the color nuclear armor, it must create a five-dimensional space and above?"

"Not 'made,' General. You see, in our macroscopic world, space can be described in terms of dimensions."

"Yes, that's right." Carlos nodded.

"Each dimension is related to its related lower dimension, and within the scope of such a path, they can merge downward to a considerable extent - the gap between them is reflected in many aspects, but it can be roughly summarized as... high There is an almost infinite gap between low and low dimensions.”

"High-dimensional space has a strong ability to accommodate and merge low-dimensional space. Taking advantage of this property, we extremely distort and compress a small area of ​​space, and then use a force field that can slow down time to fix it in this location. A state of extreme squeezing, this state is similar to a warped closed space, but it is more thorough and more constrained by the laws of nature.”

"During the distortion process of this material space, the "coordinates" of various points within the space will continue to overlap. This state of violation of natural mapping laws is not recognized, and the structure of the space itself will be destroyed due to self-conflict. Disintegrate, General, you should be able to imagine what the consequences will be, right?"

"Space collapses due to its own existential conflict...the sea of ​​vacuum collapses. Will this core release vacuum zero-point energy?"

"This is the energy source of the space annihilation bomb." Cavernelle nodded slightly, "Space is not nothingness, it is a kind of existence, and it also contains energy, so we will never find absolute zero. The zero point energy of vacuum The energy density is far greater than the density of energy released by mass-to-energy conversion. The density of this energy is very high and it also has some peculiar properties."

"If this energy is released directly in a small range, it will break through the dimensional barrier and temporarily expand the high dimensions in the onlooker state in a small range. Currently, according to the results we have observed, this expansion can reach up to ten dimension, as for higher dimensions, it cannot be done.”

"Why is this?" Kalost was somewhat puzzled by this point. "According to basic theory, the universe should have a total of twenty-six dimensions. Why can't we continue to open up the connection with higher dimensions?"

"Because of virtual space." When mentioning this, Cavinrel became a little less indifferent, "This is a property of ten dimensions, and it is also the most troublesome part of the current mathematical research system... When the dimensions reach ten dimensions, The virtual space structure that can only exist in the extremely microscopic and unmeasurable will be able to truly exist in the main material structure. In some higher-level laws, virtuality and reality are in a fuzzy hedging relationship. These two different states If there is a collision, their rules will not agree with each other... In fact, I personally may think that it is more like some kind of short-lived mathematical concept..."

"Then, can we understand it this way - the main universe cannot be compatible with two sets of laws in one area, just like the installation package of a computer that can be compatible with one system and another system, but cannot be compatible with two systems. The result of such a conflict is annihilation. This annihilation process will create more vacuum zero-point energy explosions, as well as damage to the micro-structure of matter. However, the scale of this annihilation is very small, and the power of the universe has the ability to smooth it out. The aftermath of , right? Also...this is the second barrier in technology?”

"Yes, the two technical barriers ultimately boil down to the limits of our understanding of the world - this is also the final barrier. With our technology now, even if we rely on information computers, we can only go so far, and beyond that, we There is currently an abyss that cannot be identified and we do not have the ability to try. We do not have stronger materials, stronger energy, and no effective means to continue to explore more advanced cosmic structures..."

"Even if there were, I don't dare to imagine what would happen if I did it rashly. Take the dimensions as an example. The temporary and extremely small temporary ten dimensions are enough to shock. As for the ten dimensions above, even what they describe It’s hard to know, if you are reckless, oh..."

When he said these words, Calost truly felt for the first time the deep awe of nature hidden in the heart of the chief scientific officer.

"So you are also afraid of research? I really didn't expect this." After watching the popular science class and exiting the highly logical mode, Kalost looked at Cavernrel with a half-smile.

"I'm not afraid of research, I'm afraid of arrogance and recklessness." Cavernell spread his hands and looked up at the ceiling through the suspended layers of self-disciplined holographic windows. "I like high-energy research, and I don't mind what happens in my laboratory." There will be a big explosion due to new technologies or new experiments, but I don’t like arrogance and recklessness, and I don’t want to blow up my own house because of those two attitudes that scientists should not have.”

"You scientists are terrible."

"Hey, those research requirements were put forward by your superiors, and the main users of the finished products are still you. Why are we suddenly blamed now?"

"That seems to be the case, but there seems to be something wrong..."