Voyage of the Stars

The Covenant finally set sail, but it did not go far, because the Covenant at this moment had not completed the upgrade of the fifth-level civilization creation, so the destination was actually a star system seven light years away.

There are seven rocky planets there, as well as more than 80 rocky satellites and thousands of asteroids. Humanity plans to hollow out the place, and then first use the planet-class battleships, residential spaceships, and biosphere spacecraft that it currently has. After the engine upgrade of the largest battleship is completed, construction of stellar battleships will begin.

Human beings are already familiar with the matter of upgrading creation. As the leader of civilization, Yue Yuan is the coordinator of the entire plan, but he only controls the general direction. There are dedicated experts responsible for the detailed details of each matter. The so-called skills have That's what specialization is.

As time went by, the Covenant gradually turned this star system into a busy construction site, and the Lyra was responsible for the early mining operations of each planet - Star Destroyer Cannon mining.

Every rocky planet here has to be hit once, and then after it is torn into pieces, various subsequent resource mining spacecrafts swarm up, and Xiao Hui follows behind to face the planets that are divided into large pieces. Eat the broken pieces.

The rock blocks eaten by Xiao Hui were broken down into piles of various metals, and then transported by transport ships to the processing plants in the void. Metals, non-metals, and all substances are useful, and they are all in the Covenant. With advanced technology, they are turned into products and by-products, followed by secondary and tertiary processing. These resources eventually become various things needed for creation.

The entire star system is filled with spacecraft coming and going, just like a busy interstellar construction site.

In the outer reaches of the star system and even nearby star systems, there is the world of exploration spacecraft teams. They are either staffed by the member civilizations of the Covenant or humans themselves. They perform vigilance missions there, just like scouts, monitoring what they are doing. An area with a radius of 2.5 light years in the center.

Due to security needs, the Covenant has dispatched a large number of detection spacecraft teams with high frequency, completely regardless of energy loss. No matter what kind of trouble is detected, they will not escape their eyes.

With them, the Covenant can develop in the star system with peace of mind.

As time goes by, the creation upgrade plan is also changing the power of human civilization little by little, but the research on real shields still has little effect.

Another day passed, and particle physicist Liu Miyan came out of the research institute a little later than usual. It was another day of progress for him, but he seemed to be thinking about something.

The person who walked out of the research institute building with him was a woman who looked to be only twenty years old. She exuded the scent of youth, but human age cannot be judged by appearance. She was wearing a military uniform and walked to Liu Miyan's right. He turned aside and said at the same time: "Academician Liu, I have delayed your get off work. You have also read the report. I want to hear your opinion."

"Just a few minutes is nothing." Liu Miyan replied as he walked: "The electron cloud speculation mentioned in the report is indeed very insightful, but we need to conduct experiments to know how to do it. It's just that the experimental design is a problem. I was thinking just now, what should we do? How can we achieve what is stated in the report?

Although the study of electrons also belongs to the field of ion physics, at present we don't seem to have any means to make electrons behave like the phenomenon mentioned in the report. Moreover, even if what the report says is correct, the problem of whether the shield can only get out or not is not Not resolved.

Academician Ruan, as far as I know, the real shield is a one-way shield. It can block all attacks from the outside in, and when it is turned on, attacks from the inside out can ignore it without any hindrance. It exists. The electronic cloud in the report does not seem to have such a function. We can’t turn off the shield every time our warship is attacked.”

Academician Ruan nodded and said with some reluctance: "This problem does exist. This is also the purpose of my coming here. The real shield technology research project is now in a difficult situation. The above has given enough resources, but... hey, now the star-class battleship is about to be built. It is hoped that we can complete research and development before the completion of the first batch of 10,000 stellar-class warships, and achieve large-scale production before the completion of the second batch of warships. The time is tight and the tasks are heavy. This time, Academician Liu can join our R\u0026D team as a technical consultant. I can’t thank you enough.”

"They are all working hard for the development of civilization, so there is no need to be polite, Academician Ruan." Liu Miyan said with a smile.

There are 1,137 shield research teams like Academician Ruan in human civilization. They hold a scientific and technological seminar every year to exchange knowledge and enhance the exchange of ideas.

What Academician Ruan showed him just now was a research report on real shields. It was a phased achievement achieved by the research team led by Academician Ruan in the field of real shields, but it was not yet known whether it was feasible or not.

An experiment still needs to be designed to verify it. The look on Liu Miyan's face just now was that he was thinking about how to design the experiment.

He read the report carefully, and it was about electron clouds.

The report believes that a real shield is a shield that uses an electron cloud as a barrier. It is a shield formed by concentrating the range of the electron cloud in some way.

Liu Miyan also read the principles explained in it, and they seemed to make sense, so he agreed to join the scientific research team as a consultant.

The principle is roughly this.

Those who know about particle physics know that there is no real contact between everything we see. Even if we touch or hold an object with our hands, it is not that we do not really touch it. Instead, the electrons outside the nuclei of the atomic nuclei that make up our hands and the electrons outside the nuclei of the material we touch produce a repulsive force between each other.

It begins to manifest as the interaction force of electric charges, which satisfies the inverse square formula of distance, that is, Coulomb force. When two objects are dense objects and squeeze each other, it is a repulsive force based on Pauli incompatibility, which is the well-known electron degeneracy force.

The existence of this force makes it impossible for two or more particles in the system composed of fermions to be in exactly the same state.

The idea in the report is to divide the spherical area where the shield occurs into microscopic nodes, and take each microscopic scale node as a group of shared electron pairs with opposite spins. Countless such electron pairs together form a fermion network.

The shield generator located on the battleship is the atomic nucleus of this electron network, which generates opposite charges to maintain the electrical neutrality of the entire system, and the force that compresses the electron cloud into a shield net curtain is completed by the super force field.

According to the description in the report, such a shield, because it is made of fermions, can block all attacks like real matter, and the Pauli exclusion principle obeyed by fermions allows it to withstand any attack below the electron degeneracy force.