Voyage of the Stars

Fortunately, when the three exploration spacecraft arrived, humans had already gone far away, and the wake left by the warp speed travel was also erased by nature with time, otherwise humans would have been discovered this time.

At this moment, humans who didn't know that they were almost discovered were still immersed in the journey of finding natural wormholes. Although they couldn't find them, they encountered some structures such as multi-star systems in this process, which could improve human cognition of stellar evolution.

They also encountered some beautiful nebulae, gas molecular clusters, and a neutron star with a rotation speed exceeding the previous human record. There were more celestial bodies like white dwarfs, but they didn't encounter the legendary brown dwarfs.

Along the way, humans can be said to have seen many celestial bodies, even star systems without planets, which was a four-star system.

After a long period of observation and calculation, human astronomers concluded that the planets in the four-star system were all swallowed by the four stars due to the gravitational environment.

It can be said that the fatigue of humans who couldn't find natural wormholes for a long time was diluted by these discoveries, at least it was not without any gains.

During this period, scientists who are committed to the theory of everything did not do nothing because they could not find natural wormholes. They also worked diligently in their respective fields, trying to find another way to master the theory of everything.

For example, those scientific teams who want to start from the direction of negative energy have been working hard in this regard, trying to create negative energy through the existing human technology. Well, creating it may be too radical for them now, so many people think that as long as they can prove the existence of negative energy in the laboratory, it is already very good. Of course, their efforts are still in the direction of manufacturing.

Humans do know the existence of negative energy, but it is not known by experiments, but by pioneers.

As we all know, science is an experimental-based discipline. Others tell you that this thing exists, just to give you a bottom line, but that's all.

If you want to study it clearly or even master it, you have to get real data in the experiment, otherwise it will still be equal to zero.

So these studies seem to have no progress, but they are definitely not useless.

Take the scientific research team led by Zheng Jiuyuan as an example. They have been tinkering in the laboratory during this period, with only one purpose - negative energy.

As early as the Earth Age, humans had a certain understanding of negative energy and had given several ways to produce negative energy. Zheng Jiuyuan's team made improvements based on those understandings and tried to turn those ideas into reality.

It's true that in the process of continuous experiments, they really found some negative energy experimental data.

At the beginning, Zheng Jiuyuan's scientific research team conducted Casimir effect experiments, and they tried to create negative energy through the Casimir effect. This method is theoretically fine, but when they really did it in the experiment, they found it difficult. They didn't even know whether negative energy was generated after completing the experiments again and again.

The detection method is one aspect, and the other is that the negative energy created by the Casimir effect is too little and too weak. With the current understanding of negative energy by humans, there is no such precise detection technology at all. Therefore, after countless repeated experiments, they can only find other ways.

This method can only be thought of in the Earth Age, but in this era, human technology can help scientists really do it in experiments.

In the Earth era, physicists proposed that negative energy could be produced by a fast-moving mirror, but unfortunately, this mirror must move at a speed close to the speed of light. Unfortunately, even if this method succeeds, the negative energy created is as small as that created by the Casimir effect.

However, it is still an experimental method.

Anyway, if you have the ability, just do it. If you can, try it. Maybe it will work!

It just so happens that humans have this level of technology now.

So this experiment was really organized. In order to cooperate with this experiment, the Tianqin Star Destroyer Cannon was used. After all, this cannon is the only one that humans have the ability to quickly accelerate a large mass object to near the speed of light.

The experimental scientists' idea is this: first of all, the so-called mirror must not be an ordinary mirror, so it must be the most technologically advanced mirror of mankind, that is, a full-mirror reflection mirror made of strong interaction force materials.

They have persuaded the industrial sector to produce such a mirror for the experiment, and then reached a consensus with the military, requiring that the mirror made can be fired by the main gun of the Tianqin. At the same time, some detection equipment installation positions must be reserved during the manufacturing process of the mirror to facilitate their observation during the experiment to see if there is really a negative energy reaction.

Yes, humans now have a method to detect negative energy, which may be the only technological progress in recent years.

Probably, a kind of polaron and Bose-Einstein condensate is first created, and then by observing whether they can be reversely accelerated by thrust under certain conditions, that is, polaron and Bose-Einstein condensate are pushed forward but move backward, so that it can be judged whether there is negative energy.

The theory of this method has actually been proposed in the Earth era, but humans are now using advanced technology to turn it into a real creation. The process is not simple. It requires a civilization to have extremely precise operation levels in the field of microscopic technology, as well as advanced material technology.

In fact, there is another way to detect negative energy, which is predicted in quantum field theory. At a very small scale, space always produces so-called "virtual particles". These virtual particles are constantly generated and annihilated in the form of particles and antiparticles. In this process, they may temporarily have negative energy.

This phenomenon is reflected in the Casimir effect, that is, when two metal plates are close enough, the virtual particle pressure between them will be less than the pressure outside the plate, thus generating attraction. This phenomenon is also considered to be indirect evidence of the existence of negative energy.

However, compared with the first method, the detector made by this principle is not so accurate, and it is only possible indirect evidence. Even if it can be detected, it is only regarded as another Casimir effect experiment, which is definitely not as intuitive and certain as the first method.

Scientists install such a detector on a mirror made of strong materials, and then shoot it out with a star destroyer. If this method can really create negative energy, then the reaction sent back by the detector is that polaritons and Bose-Einstein condensate matter are reversely accelerated by thrust, otherwise not.

As for experiments, they certainly cannot be done only once, so in the following period of time, the factory was busy producing mirrors made of strong materials.