Voyage of the Stars

Humanity has been running around in the starry sky for decades.

Since mastering the third-generation warp technology, humans have reached the peak level of the fourth-level civilization. Although there have been no spectacular wars, humans have also realized the power of the technology they have mastered. Until now, it seems that they have reached the limit of the existing technology.

Well, it is the limit that humans think they can do. People also know that some technologies that they think they have no room for improvement may not be the limit of all fourth-level civilizations. After all, there are always some special life forms that can develop incredible technologies in a unique way.

Of course, humans also tried to let the top scientists of the Star Alliance civilizations participate in the research projects of various branches of science and technology, trying to find some directions that humans themselves cannot see in this way, but the results were minimal.

In this case, humans finally made a decision after several meetings, that is, to look for black holes.

Since natural wormholes are far away, let's take the risk of finding a black hole and study it to see if we can find the negative energy field in the theory, so as to complete the puzzle of the theory of everything.

As an extreme celestial body, black holes are definitely much easier to find than natural wormholes. In the past many years, human telescope arrays have discovered many black holes, so as long as you decide to explore, you can directly choose one from the star map.

Humans do this indeed. The black hole selected by humans has a mass of about 10 times the mass of the sun and is about 1,800 light-years away from where humans are currently. The predecessor of this type of black hole should be a supernova explosion of about 50 times the mass of the sun, and its core collapsed.

The mass is not particularly large, and it is relatively safe for humans. It has no jets and is a quiet black hole. Humans discovered it through gravitational lensing.

After making the decision, humans replenished a round of supplies in the nearest star system, and then embarked on this 1,800-light-year star journey. It is not too far for humans now. Counting the time for stopovers and replenishment, it will probably take 50 to 60 years to get there.

However, this trip of mankind has proved a strange phenomenon, which is what people often say: you can't find it when you look for it, and when you stop looking, it will appear in front of you inexplicably.

When the Star Alliance fleet led by humans went about 300 light years, they suddenly received information from the probe team, saying that the negative energy detector had reacted.

This news made everyone excited for a while, and Yue Yuan, who received the news at the same time, immediately asked the fleet to exit the warp speed and then launch a survey telescope to detect.

The result is very gratifying: there is no black hole in this star field!

In other words, the so-called negative energy reaction may come from a natural wormhole, and its location may be near the detection spacecraft team that sent the information.

Tianqin immediately used the tachyon transfer communication station deployed by the fleet to contact the detection spacecraft team, and finally determined the location of the detection spacecraft, which is about 7 light years away from the fleet.

After obtaining the specific location coordinates, the human side immediately sent a scientific research ship to the destination. Tianqin also left the Star Alliance fleet with the first fleet and went to do preliminary detection with many scientific research ships first.

As long as it is confirmed that there is no danger and it is really a natural wormhole, the Star Alliance fleet will follow.

That location is a void and dark space, belonging to the interstellar environment. The nearest star is about 5.4 light years away, and the next few stars are about 6.7 light years and 8.2 light years away.

Humans have never seen what a natural wormhole looks like, but they have probably recognized from various physical theories that it should be a peculiar space structure.

When the Tianqin arrived at the star field where the detector responded, the several detection ships had found the specific location of the detector's response, which was less than 0.1 astronomical unit away from one of the detection ships.

During the detection process, the Chiyan people on the detection ship told humans that the detector probably responded within a distance of about 0.086 astronomical units from the center of the reaction target, which is about 13 million kilometers in kilometers, less than ten times the diameter of the sun.

After seeing this report, humans finally knew why they couldn't find the so-called natural wormhole for so many years. It turned out that their detection technology was too backward, so that they could only respond when they were so close.

It was sheer luck that they could find it.

After arriving near this unknown place, human scientists immediately conducted a more detailed detection of the target point, and all scientific research ships were driven out.

Many scientists on the Tianqin also participated in the detection.

Not long after, they sent back some of the latest findings to the Tianqin, such as the full-light broadcast segment scanning map of the target location suspected to be a natural wormhole, the tachyon detection display map, and their positioning of the target and the mechanism of the detector's reaction.

Scientists basically believe that this is indeed a natural wormhole, but it is not known where the other end of the wormhole leads to. According to various detection data, the diameter of the mouth of this natural wormhole is about 7 million kilometers, and the reaction distance sensed by the detector is 13 million kilometers, which is almost twice its diameter.

Scientists believe that the reason for the detector's reaction should not be a negative energy reaction, but a negative energy field reaction. That is, the negative energy field generated by the negative energy that maintains the stable existence of the natural wormhole, as for the negative energy reaction, it should only be within the diameter of the wormhole.

Of course, there are different opinions. Some scientists believe that it is not negative energy but negative energy field that stabilizes the wormhole, because if negative energy exists, it violates the theory that a negative energy pulse must be followed by a positive energy pulse, unless this theory is wrong.

From the detection results, this wormhole is not a hole like a pocket, but a sphere without front and back, that is, it is the same no matter which direction you enter, which is the same as a black hole.

There must be similarities in the spatial structure of the two.

From an optical point of view, it is a space sphere. Scientists have found that its surface does not bind photons like the event horizon of a black hole to form a photon layer. On the contrary, it is more like a harmless space bubble, colorless and transparent, and has no gravitational reaction.

It looks harmless, but humans dare not detect it recklessly. After all, this strange thing has just been discovered, and they can only look around it carefully.

Scientists plan to conduct some scientific experiments at the place where the detector reacts, and then slowly approach it, touch it, or even let the detector enter it to see what the reaction is. They have to test its physical properties step by step.

Scientists predict that if natural wormholes are really the key to mastering the theory of everything, then in this process, many phenomena that cannot be explained by existing theories will definitely be seen.