Voyage of the Stars

Even though Yu Nanfeng's team has made many scientific reports and elaborated on many relevant viewpoints, in the coming period, the human scientist team will still not focus all their energy on exploring existing theories.

If you want to find a new theory, there are generally two ways. One is to let mathematicians accidentally come up with a formula that they don't even know what it is used for, and then wait for physicists to discover that this formula can still be used in this way. The second is to use a particle collider to conduct collision experiments, and then find out the secrets of a certain system hidden in the microcosm, and then find out new physical laws through summary.

The mathematician's direct calculation of the formula is an extremely rare event, which has not happened many times in the history of human scientific development. Therefore, the scientific research team working on the new theory naturally pins its hopes on the particle collider.

Ever since, in the following time, it can be seen that the work of the space multi-point particle collider that has been assembled has almost never stopped.

In the experiment, some gold and lead atoms were stripped of all their electrons in the collider, and then they were allowed to separate protons and perform proton-proton collision experiments.

Scientists have raised the collision energy level again and again, trying to find some strange phenomena from this collision.

Speaking of which, the so-called collision experiment also means trying your luck. After all, humans have used colliders to conduct various collision experiments before, but no strange phenomena were discovered.

However, no discovery does not mean that there is none. After all, the probability of detecting strange phenomena or new particles from particle collider is very small. Just like when humans searched for the Higgs boson, it took about one trillion proton-proton pairs. It takes a collision to detect the Higgs boson once.

Therefore, these scientific research teams are still very patient. They also know that sometimes new scientific discoveries are completely accidental.

Of course, it is not a completely aimless collision. Scientists will have a set of design plans and relevant theoretical expectations before conducting collision experiments.

For example, the scientific research team currently using a particle collider first found possible answers through calculations, believing that in heavy ion collisions, protons and neutrons may merge into their components. , the quarks and gluons would then form a fluid in the process, which would expand, cool, and eventually recondense into particles.

These particles will be observed by detectors and scientists call them quark-gluon plasma.

What this scientific team mainly wants to find is a black hole with supersymmetric properties of quark-gluon plasma. Well, it is not the black hole that people usually think of, because in theory, this kind of supersymmetric black hole does not exist in people's lives. not in a four-dimensional space-time, but in a curved five-dimensional space-time.

So it can be seen from this that the basic theoretical guidance of this scientific research team's experiment is actually string theory.

They want to find this kind of supersymmetric black hole that does not exist in four-dimensional space-time in the laboratory, and then find ways to use this kind of curved five-dimensional space-time black hole that can be created by humans to be used as engine power.

This thing is actually not yet clear, but this scientific research team is quite confident because they have obtained the direction of the rotation axis of the quark-gluon plasma dual black hole in their calculations, although so far it is still a mathematical calculation result.

They think they can use this kind of black hole curled in five-dimensional space-time, and the four-dimensional space-time direction jet that appears when swallowing microscopic quanta as the power of the engine.

The power of black hole jets is much more powerful than nuclear fusion, and it sounds like it may become a source of energy for greater thrust. After all, five-dimensional space-time black holes are also black holes.

It's just that this is string theory, it's a curled-up space-time higher than four-dimensional space-time, and it's fed by microscopic quanta. It sounds very mysterious, but in the eyes of these professional scientists, it's not mysterious at all.

There are so many mysterious things in the universe, mysterious things, and things that make people feel incredible or even counter-intuitive.

The so-called exploration research does not only explore in one direction, because humans currently do not know what technology is the navigation technology of a third-level civilization. Therefore, when this team wants to find answers from supersymmetry and five-dimensional space-time black holes, another The team turned their attention to symmetry breaking.

When it comes to symmetry breaking, the first impression that usually comes to people's minds is that parity is not conserved. This is also true. Parity non-conservation describes the spontaneous symmetry breaking under weak interaction.

In weak interactions, left-handed and right-handed particles decay at different rates, which breaks the parity symmetry. The weak interaction force only acts on left-handed ions and not on right-handed particles, which also breaks the parity symmetry. The weak interaction violates the conservation of parity, and the initial and final states of a process have different parity quantum numbers, which also destroys the symmetry of parity.

The reason why this scientific research team wants to start from this aspect is mainly because they believe that since they want to find the answer from the electroweak unified force, they must further understand the weak interaction force.

They want to truly understand and clearly calculate the process by which the symmetry of the weak electric force breaks and turns into the weak interaction force and the electromagnetic force. They want to find the answer from here or in that environment.

But what does these studies have to do with thruster technology?

Of course, no matter what thruster technology it is, it is simply the interaction process of forces, whether it is rocket generation, electric thrust, cold nuclear fusion thrust, heavy nuclear fusion thrust, or the imaginary five-dimensional space-time black hole facing Four-dimensional space-time jets are all action and reaction forces.

So since they are all forces, what is force?

There is a saying in the scientific community about this issue. One, force is generated by the exchange of discrete energy packets called quanta. Second, different forces are caused by different quantum exchanges.

Take the weak interaction force, for example, which is caused by different types of quantum exchanges, called W particles. The propagators of the weak force are W bosons and Z bosons.

Likewise, the strong force that tightly binds protons and neutrons together inside atomic nuclei is caused by the exchange of subatomic particles called pions. Of course, humans have long found fragments of W mesons and pi mesons in accelerators and verified their correctness. Finally, humans call the subnuclear force that binds protons, neutrons, and even pions together gluons.

This group of scientists or scientific research teams hope to find a way to generate energy that is more powerful than heavy nuclear and cold nuclear fusion through the study of force interactions, especially the analysis of weak mutual forces and electromagnetic forces, so that humans can achieve higher levels of energy. speed.

Everyone is working hard, and everyone hopes that humans can quickly master faster navigation technology.

However, scientific research does not guarantee that the direction of research must be correct. Therefore, even though many scientific teams at the forefront of science and technology have emerged during this period to participate in research and exploration, several years have passed, but there is still little progress.

However, this situation has not discouraged those scientists. After all, everyone who does research knows that it is normal to have no results.

Of course the new government also knew this, so it did not stop these various research projects because they did not produce results. Instead, it increased investment in resources and talents year by year.

In short, in the few years since a research project was launched, almost the entire human society has learned that mankind has now encountered another technological barrier.

This technological barrier is different from the past. In the past, such as true nanotechnology or heavy nuclear fusion, there are still traces to follow. At least we can see where the target 'mountain' is. But now, facing the new navigation technology, human beings are just like in the dark, looking around at a loss.