Voyage of the Stars

Shaking his head and putting these distant future things behind him, Yue Yuan turned his attention back to the present.

It has been more than two hundred years since humans came to this starry sky. Judging from the current research progress, I am afraid that they will have to stay here.

The negative matter production experiment has been going on for a while. Perhaps because the road is right and the technology has been achieved, the experiment has been a complete success. Humans have completed the transformation of negative matter from experiment to mass production in just two and a half years. However, because the theory of everything has not been fully mastered, humans still have no way to create a device that can store negative matter.

So at this stage, either it can only be used directly in the form of negative energy for experiments after it is built, or it can be stored in the form of negative energy. For this reason, humans have also built several spaceships specifically for storing negative energy and used them as oil tanks.

As we all know, the emergence of a technology will inevitably infer the technological progress in the field related to the technology. The emergence of negative energy is also the same. In order to build these "oil tank" spaceships, humans can be said to have racked their brains and tried every possible way, and finally achieved a breakthrough in material technology with continuous efforts.

That is, the production and processing technology of fermion condensed matter related to negative energy transmission and storage. Humans have officially developed this material from quantum shutter manufacturing in the microscopic quantum field to a practical macroscopic conduit.

As we all know, the basic particle type that makes up what we call matter is fermions, because they obey the Pauli exclusion principle, which requires that there cannot be two or more particles in exactly the same state, so that matter can be formed.

Therefore, this condensed matter composed of fermions can itself form matter like what we see.

Unfortunately, this fermion condensed matter, which calls itself a negative energy passage conduit, cannot exist stably in a normal temperature environment. It can only exist stably below minus 200 degrees Celsius and under a characteristic pressure. This is indeed a disadvantage for them to be used as pipelines, but it is not difficult to solve for current human technology.

In fact, the more difficult part is the process of making negative energy conduits using Fermi condensate matter. It requires that there will be no positive energy pulses in the conduit passage to drown out the negative energy. Therefore, this conduit is not really a pipe like a water pipe, but a grid-like interior designed based on the detection results of the wormhole negative energy field.

It can effectively allow the negative energy passing through to form a magical turbulence when filling the grid. This turbulence can not only avoid the appearance of positive energy pulses, but also speed up the transmission efficiency of negative energy.

The emergence of such materials has enabled humans to truly have the foundation for utilizing negative energy, just like humans have created the first electric wire.

With this conduit material, many scientific research teams have set their sights on the fourth-generation warp engine technology.

At this time, humans are certainly continuing to explore the theory of everything, but there are more than one or two scientific research teams. There are those who explore the theory of everything, and naturally there are also those who engage in scientific research in other directions.

The improvement of science and technology is a comprehensive improvement, and naturally different disciplines must go hand in hand.

Therefore, humans have been researching warp engines, and now the maturity of negative matter production technology and the emergence of negative energy application technology have put the research of the fourth-generation warp engine on track.

Planetary warp engines, everyone is yearning for it.

But as time goes by, scientists in the field of dynamics realize that the existing warp engine framework seems to be incompatible with negative energy, and it seems impossible to upgrade the original warp engine structure.

After realizing this problem, scientists conducted multiple feasibility analyses and finally concluded that the original framework cannot carry the negative energy system. If you want to create a fourth-generation warp engine, you must start from scratch and build a warp engine suitable for the negative energy framework.

It is equivalent to starting from scratch. For a while, dynamics experts were also confused and didn’t know where to start the first step.

However, with collective efforts, some smart people always come up with a solution, and the solution is simple, which is to start from the properties of negative matter and negative energy and the structure of the Fermi condensate conduit.

At first, engineering experts believed that the fourth-generation warp engine was very different from the previous ones. It should be an engine driven by negative energy based on the framework of the universal theory. However, as the research deepened, although humans understood more and more about negative matter, negative energy and wormholes, they realized that they were wrong.

Negative energy can indeed be used as a driving energy, but negative energy alone cannot meet the requirements of driving a planet. When they saw the calculation results of mathematicians, they thought the reason was just like the fourth-level civilization, with the first-level warp speed just entering the fourth-level civilization, and then the second-level and third-level warp speeds.

But the continuous correction of experimental data and precise mathematical solutions told them that this was not the case.

Negative energy alone cannot drive a planet.

If humans did not think anything when they did not know that the fifth-level civilization had the ability of planetary warp speed, they might continue to go down this road to the end, but humans have known this for countless times.

Now, the mathematical solution based on the prototype of the Theory of Everything framework clearly tells human scientists that it is indeed not feasible. It is absolutely impossible to drive something as massive as a planet. Warships are fine, but the warp speed is definitely not 100 times the speed of light.

The answer appeared after human cognition of negative energy and the optimization of the Theory of Everything model were further achieved.

Theory tells humans that if they want to master planetary warp technology, negative energy alone is not enough, and they must also add the traditional warp engine technology that uses positive energy. Of course, this traditional technology must now be established under the framework of the universal theory.

The principle can be summarized in four words: "pull in front and push in the back".

It is well known that the operating principle of the warp engine is the curvature of space-time. Under the action of the force field, a distorted space-time bubble is formed outside the spacecraft, also called a warp bubble. Then, through the different warp force fields at the front and back ends, the front space-time is extremely distorted and the back is stretched to achieve warp navigation.

In the past, only the force field formed by positive energy distorted the space-time in front of the warp bubble, but now it is necessary to add the negative energy field. The negative energy field is responsible for the stretching of the space-time in the back, because the negative energy field itself has this property, which is why they can maintain the stability of the wormhole.

The front and back force field adjustment needs to be established under the framework of the universal theory, because only the super force field under the universal theory can perfectly manipulate the force field formed by the positive and negative energy fields to avoid the positive energy swallowing the negative energy, thereby achieving planetary warp.

Now mankind has finally come to a profound understanding of why the Theory of Everything is the hallmark of Level Five Civilization.