Voyage of the Stars

There is a saying: If quantum theory violates our common sense, it is only because nature does not seem to care much about our common sense.

Therefore, in scientific research, scientists are not afraid of experiments or theoretical descriptions that are inconsistent with common sense. After all, the so-called inconsistent with common sense is just human common sense and does not mean it is wrong.

As far as mankind knows so far, some things that humans think are contrary to common sense may be normal to Nair people, Kuntai people, and kobolds.

The laws of the universe are there, but they are difficult for humans to understand and feel counterintuitive.

The same is true for many magical phenomena.

And today, many years later, a scientific team has found a way to create something with magical phenomena. Oh no, it seems more appropriate to call it a physical existence.

A scientific research team specializing in the field of Bose-Einstein condensed matter rediscovered this physical existence, and used the superb means of human true nanotechnology to create the first stable physical existence in eight years.

This physical existence has a beautiful name, called Alice Ring.

Why do you say it was found again?

The answer is very simple and very sad. That's because as early as the earth's era, human scientists created the Alice Ring. Although it only existed for 84 milliseconds, it was a breakthrough from scratch.

However, these data were swept away with the cosmic dust along with the earth when the solar system was destroyed, and the original Callisto base was not established as a comprehensive database, so the Callisto base did not create Alice at all. Scientific data on rings.

There weren’t even any scientists who were researching in related fields, which resulted in people never hearing the name. Some lay scientists only learned about the magic of Alice Ring during their studies. Other than that, , very little is known about the manufacturing method and discovery method of Alice Ring.

There is no accurate scientific data at all.

Later, after the surviving humans set foot on the stars, due to the sparse population, the new government was committed to focusing all scientific research efforts on technological exploration that would allow humans to survive in the stars.

Although mankind has been lucky enough to survive in the stars, and some technologies have developed over a long period of time to surpass the age of the earth, there is still a lot of scientific data, research stage results, etc., which have disappeared in history.

The relevant scientific research information on Alice Ring is one of them.

So when the scientific research team announced that they had successfully created a stable Alice ring, many scientists didn't know what it was for a while.

After all, the name sounds like a certain ring of a girl named Alice.

When the news was released, many human residents thought at first glance that someone made a bracelet and gave it to a woman named Alice. At the second glance, these people saw the message from the physics agency and realized Seems like a physical achievement.

On the contrary, the leader Yue Yuan reacted as soon as he heard the news and knew that it was a magical thing in the physical world. Of course, he didn't know exactly how magical it was at the time. After all, he had only heard about the Alice Ring a few times from Yi Kai, a post-00s generation.

As for Yi Kai, his major is biology. He only remembers hearing some news about the Alice Ring at a certain time. He doesn't understand the technical parameters and manufacturing methods.

This can be regarded as a lack of technology after losing the earth.

So what is an Alice ring?

It starts in 2023 AD. At the end of that year, Finnish scientists created a strange quantum object for the first time by manipulating hundreds of thousands of extremely cold atoms. They named it the Alice Ring. An Alice ring is a ring-like topological defect object that has the property of changing quantum objects that pass through or see through it.

At that time, scientists first put 250,000 rubidium atoms into a vacuum chamber, and then used lasers to irradiate these rubidium atomic gases prepared in a non-magnetic state to slow down their natural movement.

In this case, all rubidium atoms behave as a large quantum object, and because these rubidium atoms themselves have the quantum property of spin, this large quantum object is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields.

And under such extreme conditions, they observed monopoles.

Well, it is a monopole, not a magnetic monopole. It is a pole with only a single charge.

The Alice Ring has an obvious feature. Looking out from the center of the ring, everything is mirrored, as if the ring is leading to the antimatter world. Any monopole passing through it will be converted into the opposite magnetic charge.

Fantastic.

Its theoretical basis is the spontaneously broken non-Abelian gauge theory.

So now that human scientists have rediscovered and created a stable Alice ring, what is its use?

Regarding this issue, the current researchers are introducing it to Yue Yuan who came over to understand the situation.

"General, this Alice ring is actually a strange ring created by the Bose-Einstein condensate. It is a special vortex ring. Its essence is a ring formed by a closed cosmic string. It acts as a 'mirror' for charge conjugation."

"Yes!" Yue Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood, and then motioned for the researcher to continue.

"Electromagnetism is inseparable, and electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity." The researchers continued: "Our research team believes that this property of Alice's ring may be related to the phase transition of the early universe. The black holes we know in the macroscopic environment of the universe and singularities are macroscopic manifestations of a single magnetic pole.”

"After obtaining a stable Alice ring, we conducted various test experiments on it, such as passing a magnetic pole through it, passing one Alice ring through another Alice ring, etc. These experiments provided us with information about Alice Massive data of Silk Ring.

After many years of research, we believe that it may be possible to use this characteristic of the Alice ring to create some kind of magnetic propulsion engine based on magnetic field interaction. "

"Magnetic push?"

"Yes!" the researcher replied: "The Alice ring is an unusual topological defect. It can transform a monopole into an anti-monopole, just like a mirror image. It can also instantly transform a magnetic field into a Opposite magnetic field.”

"It means that two opposite magnetic fields can be used to form reverse thrust?" Yue Yuan thought.

"That's true!" answered another researcher.

"But. If this method is feasible, then where is the focus of the magnetic field that is used for boosting? You can't step on the left foot and the right foot to lift off." Yue Yuan was a little confused.

In his concept, the so-called thruster must have something sprayed out from the thruster nozzle, so that it can provide forward power for the spacecraft connected to the thruster. And this magnetic push cannot push the magnetic field backward!

But what about the magnetic field? Can the magnetic field be pushed? No, it is not a thing, it is a field.

And opposite magnetic fields attract each other, right? Is it possible to install the thruster on the head of the spacecraft, or to make some design for the thruster structure based on the Alice ring?

Yue Yuan looked at the scientific researchers in front of him suspiciously, as if to confirm whether they were joking. In short, the first impression given by this statement is that the left foot steps on the right foot and ascends to the sky.

Very counterintuitive.