Voyage of the Stars

As we all know, energy and energy are different, so I won't go into details. Humans naturally know this very well.

Just like the antimatter fuel used by Tianqin and other level 4 civilizations, it is just a high-level energy utilization. The production of antimatter requires more energy than the energy contained in antimatter, and the source of this energy is stars.

It is for this reason that the dynamic picture civilization at that time needed a Dyson sphere of one-sixth size as a factory, and the energy source was still stars.

Energy spontaneously transfers from high-temperature objects to low-temperature objects. This is one of the basic laws of the second law of thermodynamics. It is an empirical summary of the irreversibility of all physical and chemical processes related to thermal motion in limited space and time.

This law is not wrong, but it also has a scope of application. It can only be applied to systems composed of a large number of molecules and macroscopic processes within a limited range, but not to a small number of microscopic systems. As for whether it is correct to extend it to the entire universe and then say that the end of the universe is heat death, humans do not know it at present.

But now humans can be sure that even level 6 civilizations cannot violate the second law of thermodynamics, and they cannot reverse this process.

Therefore, although the energy level they are applicable to is much higher than that of humans today, the ultimate source of energy is still the heat energy generated by the process of increasing entropy in the universe, or the process of heat spontaneously transferring from a high-temperature object to a low-temperature object described in the second law of thermodynamics.

In this process, heat cannot be converted 100%, and there must be losses.

This is not the same concept as the 100% energy efficiency of antimatter that people often say. Antimatter annihilation is the 100% conversion of matter into energy, but there is no natural antimatter in the universe, otherwise antimatter would be a form of energy rather than energy storage.

Having said that, after observing the large diamond crystals left by the pioneers for a while, humans also began to explore this small universe, and countless detectors were released. Humans have detected it clearly. After all, the test of the diamond lattice maze is actually very obvious. If the dynamic picture civilization and the orange star civilization have enough potential and deep scientific and technological background, they may also come in, but in other areas.

Humans must make sure whether there are other civilizations entering here, because this small universe is too big. Its diameter is definitely thousands of light years. If such a large space is placed in the traditional fantasy continent, it is enough to create various realms with layers of code and division.

It is so vast that I really don’t know how the pioneers created such a large small universe.

Now humans know what happened to the abnormal trajectory of the stars observed in the big universe. It must be that the mass of this small universe is too large and has a gravitational effect on the area where it is located.

In this way, humans sent a large number of unmanned warp detection spacecraft to explore the small universe, and on the other hand, they are also actively studying the stars wrapped in large diamond crystals.

The star is a red dwarf, it is still burning itself calmly to shine for the world, and the energy it generates.

From a period of observation, human scientists speculate that it should be used by these large diamond crystals, at least except for the monochromatic light refracted through the translucent prism. Perhaps these refracted colored lights are also for the purpose of achieving some function, but humans are not sure what it is.

Similarly, humans believe that the energy absorbed by the large diamond crystals is also used for a certain function, but they don't know where it is used.

Some people think it is used to support the existence of the entire microcosm, some think it is used to maintain the operation of the diamond lattice maze, and some think it is used to maintain the operation of the things left by the pioneers.

What they said is quite reasonable and can stand up to scrutiny.

Someone must have mentioned that humans used warships to try to push the solid diamond lattice but it didn't move at all. After seeing that the large diamond crystals now use the energy generated by stars to do something, they immediately thought of this.

Maybe it is really used to maintain the microcosm, and those diamond lattices in the maze, in addition to transmitting information to the incoming civilization, also have the function of supporting the microcosm, so the action of humans using warships to push the diamond lattice is like lifting themselves up, or pushing the entire microcosm.

This is definitely impossible to succeed.

Also, according to the pioneers, their time in the Milky Way is three billion years away from that of humans today. In three billion years, stones will decay, not to mention other creations. If creations are not constantly updated, they must have been erased by time.

As a great writer said: Carve words on stones.

That is the sense of oppression brought by time. In the description there, civilization has gone through countless springs and autumns, can create black holes, can accelerate particles to the speed of light, and can expedition to the Milky Way, but in the end it is found that in the hands of time, which is the real power, leaving footprints is more difficult than creating the world. At the end of civilization, they can only do what they did in the ancient baby era: carve words on stones!

What a suffocating sense of oppression and despair.

But facing the eternal existence of the universe, which civilization can face it easily!

The pioneers are undoubtedly very powerful in the eyes of humans, but in the face of the power of time, they can only choose to use the simplest way to preserve information.

Of course, they are indeed more powerful than humans imagine. If humans today want to preserve information for as long as possible, then the only option is probably to "carve words on stone."

But the Pioneers' drifting bottles have undoubtedly proved their strength. Things from three billion years ago can be preserved to this day, which has surpassed the level of engraving words on stones. Although some information has been lost due to age, at least it can still work, which is something that humans cannot imagine.

It is hard to imagine how much effort the pioneers made to leave information for the new generation of civilization.

Putting aside the sighs in their hearts, humans once again shifted their attention to this small universe itself. Now that they have come in, the next thing is to find what the pioneers left behind.

Human time is still limited, because as of now, the detectors have detected large diamond crystals wrapped around stars, and no rocky planets have been found. In other words, humans still do not have enough supplies to maintain long-term survival here.

Of course, if they really reach the end of their rope, humans may be able to get together with large diamond crystals, and then use their own photovoltaic panel technology to absorb the pitiful energy in the remaining light like holding a match to keep warm in the cold winter, so as to survive.

That is the worst outcome.