Voyage of the Stars

Yue Yuan's words made Yu Nanfeng frown. He was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the experimental thruster that had turned off: "Isn't this possible? In the eyes of the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body', we were a company with controllable cores." It is a civilization that has not yet achieved fusion, but it is a majestic creation of a Level 3 civilization, a strong artificial intelligence with self-awareness. There is no reason to lie to us in describing the propulsion technology of a Level 3 civilization!"

Yu Nanfeng was a little confused. As an engineering scientist, he focused exclusively on developing new thrusters and didn't think much about other aspects.

If some scholars heard what Yue Yuan said, they would probably be able to analyze a lot of arguments.

After a pause, Yu Nanfeng pursed his lips and looked like he was thinking, and then said again: "Is it possible that the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' doesn't know the propulsion technology of the third-level civilization? After all, it is just a specialized machine." Using artificial intelligence consciousness for mining.”

Even Yu Nanfeng himself probably didn't believe what he said, but except for the research route mentioned by the Silver Mist Consciousness Body, he couldn't think of any form of power used by the third-level civilization for the time being.

Thinking of motivation, Yu Nanfeng frowned even more.

The development history of mankind emerged in his mind, from primitive man to the Stone Age, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, to the Iron Age, and then bid farewell to the cold weapon age and entered the firearm age, the atomic energy age, and the information age.

Finally, we entered the starry sky, experiencing nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, and then cold and heavy nuclear fusion.

Stage after stage, either the energy utilization or the controllable energy level were improved, but when it reached the third level civilization, it turned into true nanotechnology.

It is true that after mastering real nanotechnology, mankind has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes in all aspects. After receiving the blessing of true nanotechnology, the efficiency and performance of the original thruster have become more powerful.

However, the foundation of power technology is still that of the second-level civilization, and the energy level has not been fundamentally improved. Human beings are still unable to obtain greater thrust to push the battleship to a greater speed.

It is true that after accelerating to 30% of the speed of light, the plasma thruster can continue to accelerate the spacecraft to reach a higher speed. However, the thrust of the plasma thruster is too small. If you want to continue to increase the speed of the spacecraft at 30% of the speed of light, it will consume a lot of energy. Time can almost kill countless turtles.

But apart from the hybrid power composed of the annihilation of positrons and negative electrons mentioned by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' and the propulsion technology of the second-level civilization, is there any way or route to obtain greater thrust?

Yu Nanfeng stared blankly at the thruster outside the separation wall. He felt that this thruster had been successful. It had achieved a stable annihilation reaction of positrons and negative electrons in the thruster. Judging from the data feedback, At most, the thrust obtained can make mankind's current propulsion technology more advanced and accelerate to 30% of the speed of light faster. It simply cannot meet the standard of being able to quickly push larger warships and spaceships to 50% of the speed of light.

Is this route really unworkable? Is all this really intentional by the ‘Silver Mist Consciousness Body’? Deliberately leading human civilization into a dead end of development?

But at that time, when human beings had not yet reached the first-level civilization, how could the 'Silver Mist Consciousness' think so far forward? How could it be sure that human beings would definitely develop into the second-level and third-level civilization?

Looking at Yu Nanfeng who was a little sluggish, Yue Yuan seemed to feel that he was in a state of confusion.

After working so hard for who knows how many years, and then suddenly accepting that the path I took was wrong, it is really uncomfortable.

"Old Yu, don't think too much. Isn't this the case for all scientific research? Maybe we have been misled by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body', but it doesn't matter. We still have a lot of time, and we may have to start all over again."

Hearing Yue Yuan's voice, Yu Nanfeng pulled himself out of his deep heart: "Shuai Yue, I'm really sorry. I lost my temper a little."

Taking a deep breath, Yu Nanfeng suddenly felt that accepting this fact was not a bad thing. At least deep down in his heart, he accepted that this road was a dead end. On the contrary, he felt that his eyes suddenly became brighter.

It's not that Yu Nanfeng immediately thought of other research routes, but he completely let go of his own thinking. He no longer felt that the route mentioned by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' was the only correct route, and then immersed himself in it.

This feeling is like finding yourself in a corner and suddenly wanting to relax.

Immediately, Yu Nanfeng, who was relaxed, introduced the various parameters of this experimental thruster device to Yue Yuan in detail.

After listening to Yu Nanfeng's introduction, Yue Yuan also felt that there was a 90% probability that the route mentioned by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' would not work.

But what kind of route is the correct route for three-level civilization thruster technology?

He felt sad. It was strange that humans could be so sure of what an enemy said. Even though he was neither a scientist nor a technician, Yue Yuan couldn't help but ask himself at this time.

Perhaps, there is no third-level civilization propulsion technology at all? The power system of the third-level civilization is still the same as that of the second-level civilization?

Is it possible that level three civilizations are significantly more powerful than level two civilizations, and that the only technology that can form a crushing situation is a polarization shield and a swarm of nano-robots?

According to the theory, the first-level civilization, the second-level civilization, and the third-level civilization are classified as aerospace-level civilization, and only the fourth-level civilization can be called an interstellar-level civilization. Is this the reason?

Well, the division between aerospace-level civilization and interstellar-level civilization was affirmed by the Awakener. Yue Yuan believed that it was correct. He now regrets why he believed so much in the description of the third-level civilization's propulsion technology by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body'. So much so that when I met the awakener, I didn't confirm it with the awakener.

Although according to the purpose of the Awakener, it is not necessarily true to tell humans clearly, but if the advanced civilization answers a few words casually, humans may be able to deduce the answer.

I don’t say it directly or give it to technology directly, but as a top civilization, a casual word can save mankind a lot of detours.

Nowadays, human beings are no longer just fleeing in the past. They know that there are many possibilities for the development of science and technology. However, the discovery of some iconic technologies and theories is what science and technology civilization must master to jointly move towards a higher path.

Just like the grand unified theory and the theory of everything.

Although humans have not mastered or realized it yet, from some of the words of the original awakeners, humans can guess that these two theories must be the theories that must be mastered for the advancement of scientific and technological civilization at a certain stage in the future.

Just like Maxwell's equations that humans must master to enter the electromagnetic era, mass-energy equations are necessary to enter the atomic energy era.

These are all advances in basic theory and basic physics. Only with progress in theoretical physics can civilization tap into various application technologies from theory.

Does that mean that the navigation technology of level three civilizations also has a set of physical theories as a basis? Just like the mass-energy equation of controllable nuclear fusion, and the cold nuclear fusion fuel of secondary civilizations involve the quantum state condensate theory.

If so, what is that theory?

After Yue Yuan left the No. 3 scientific research spacecraft, the news that propulsion technology had reached a dead end quickly spread in the scientific community. In the next few days, almost all relevant scientists were talking about this matter.

To this end, a technology seminar was soon held in the next few days.

At the meeting, as a leader in propulsion dynamics, Yu Nanfeng first gave a detailed introduction to the thruster route he had studied for many years, and showed the results and conclusions to all participating scientists one by one.

Afterwards, Yu Nanfeng became the focus of the meeting and answered some scientists' questions about hybrid propulsion technology.

In this way, with Yu Nanfeng's detailed discussion and answers to questions, those scientists who had not believed that human propulsion technology had reached a dead end also changed their views, because the real data given by Yu Nanfeng could not deceive people.

Even some scientists who did not believe in evil were still at the conference, using their own methods to calculate the data with the help of implanted chips, and the results were self-evident.

After this meeting, many scientists have characterized this route, that is, the 'Silver Mist Consciousness Body' lied, and the hybrid power that combines positron and negative electron annihilation propulsion with secondary civilization propulsion technology is a dead end. This There is simply no way for humans to achieve higher navigation speeds.