Voyage of the Stars

It is worthwhile to spend this time trying to find out that a scientific research path is not feasible, at least it allows human scientists to turn to other scientific research paths.

Humans must find a way to extract negative energy, so as to study the properties of negative energy and then capture the clues of the theory of everything.

Under the popular "mirror" experiment, there is such a path that scientists have disdained in the past, that is, the simple high-energy laser beam, which now seems to be the last hope of mankind.

There is a theory that there is a "compressed state" in the energy state of the laser where positive energy and negative energy coexist. Of course, not all lasers have it. It must be a special high-energy state laser.

However, this state is difficult to operate. For humans today, it is more difficult than accelerating a mass object to near the speed of light.

It is difficult to operate.

According to the data of this theory, a typical negative energy pulse can only last for 10^-15 seconds, that is, 10 to the negative 15th power of seconds, and then a positive energy pulse will engulf it.

The theory points out that although it is extremely difficult to separate the positive energy state from the negative energy state, it is possible.

However, there are two difficulties. One is what kind of "laser compression state" meets the conditions, and the other is how to separate the positive and negative energy in the laser compression state.

The former requires a lot of resources and time to study, and the latter requires humans to have the corresponding technology, neither of which can be missing.

Now human scientists are trying to find the answer. They are experimenting with various materials and various high-intensity lasers in the laboratory to try to find suitable optical materials.

Because the theory is that when a strong laser pulse hits a special optical material, it will produce many photon pairs in its wake. These photons will take turns to strengthen and suppress quantum fluctuations in the vacuum, thereby releasing positive and negative energy.

But in order not to violate human physical theory, human scientists believe that the sum of these two energy pulses is always positive energy on average.

Of course, the key is how to find them. The previous group of scientists who insisted on this direction are still working hard, and now, more scientists have joined this project.

If this path works, then humans can extract negative energy in a device that remains stationary with themselves, and the negative energy problem will be perfectly solved.

This is a very challenging scientific research project.

Its research is based on three laws about negative energy:

First, the total amount of negative energy in a pulse is inversely proportional to its spatial and temporal range, that is, the stronger the negative energy pulse, the shorter its duration.

So if humans find that special optical material, and then can use this laser method to create a beam of negative energy, and then use this burst of negative energy to open a microwormhole, it can only last for a very short time.

The second is what Yi Kai and Zheng Jiuyuan mentioned before on the Tianqin, that a negative energy pulse is always followed by a positive energy pulse of a larger order of magnitude.

So their sum remains positive, so that it does not violate the laws of physics.

The third is that the longer the time interval between the two pulses of positive energy and negative energy, the larger the positive pulse will inevitably be.

These three theories support all human research on negative energy, including the previous "mirror" method and the Casimir effect method.

Under these physical theories, human scientists believe that humans can use quantitative methods to determine the conditions required for lasers or Casimir plates to produce negative energy.

First, the team of scientists who were dedicated to this research proposed that they could try to irradiate a light beam into a box. This light beam must meet all the conditions of the high-energy light beam mentioned above, and the box must also have the required optical materials.

Then, they would try to create a shutter that can isolate positive and negative energy, so that after the positive and negative energy are generated in the special high-energy laser, the shutter can be quickly closed to separate the negative energy pulse from the positive energy pulse that follows.

In this way, it is possible to only allow negative energy to rush into the box, thereby obtaining negative energy.

In principle, this method can obtain huge negative energy, because the positive energy pulse that follows is separated from the shutter. And if you want to obtain a lot of negative energy, you must ensure that the interval between the two pulses is quite long, and the interval is as long as the positive pulse.

In theory, this method does seem to be the most reasonable method at present.

But the difficulty lies in what kind of optical material is it? How to make the "box" that binds negative energy and what materials to make it with? What material and principle is the so-called shutter? And how to deal with the subsequent positive energy pulses?

These problems must be solved, otherwise it will be impossible for humans to obtain negative energy. These all require human scientists to work hard to solve.

And even if these problems are solved, this method still has another problem that everyone must consider - the problem of driving the shutter.

That is, each action of closing the "shutter" will generate a second positive energy pulse in the box. Therefore, unless more cautious and effective measures are taken, the negative energy obtained will be completely eliminated.

Humans must solve this problem, must think of a way and have the corresponding technology, and must be able to disconnect the strong negative energy pulse from the positive energy pulse that follows it, without generating a second energy pulse that completely offsets the negative energy.

And to complete this operation that now only exists in the scientists' plan, it is necessary to have the pinnacle of microscopic technology.

Because the key to the problem has been pointed out in the reports of these scientists.

First of all, the scientists' idea is that after all the material problems are solved, they require humans to have a frequency band of about 10^-22 meters to confine negative energy.

This is the negative energy required to open or maintain a one-meter wormhole. Such a small frequency band is equivalent to one millionth of the size of a proton. This must be created by a civilization with extremely high achievements in the microscopic field, because this requires this civilization to operate on an incredibly small scale or at an incredibly small time interval.

Such technical difficulty is greater than building a star destroyer.

Humans have not yet reached that kind of microscopic technology, but humans have not given up. They have great confidence in their own technology.

Now that the "mirror" route has been denied, it seems that humans only have this one way left. Under such heavy pressure, it is not impossible to do it.

Even Yue Yuan is quite confident about this, just like when the First Fleet was trapped in the Pioneer Universe, there is pressure and motivation. He believes that humans have such potential.

Before natural wormholes are found, this is the most likely way for humans to come into contact with negative energy, and it is also the way for humans to produce negative energy themselves in the future.