Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 646: Warp Bubble
In the following period, the scientific team did as they said, conducting experiments on an astronomical particle collider according to the methods they described, and then used their own methods to analyze the experimental results.

They are trying to figure out whether warp speed travel requires the distortion of space-time as people know it, and where does the power of distorting space-time come from, is it caused by mass? Or energy? Where is its root, and how can humans master it? Also, how are tachyons actually operated, how can tachyons be directly identified, and how can tachyons carry the information that humans want to convey.
This scientific team did not attempt to write the grand unified theory equations for humanity in one step. Instead, they went straight for the technologies that only a fourth-level civilization possesses. In other words, they found ways to allow humanity to achieve technologies that are said to be mastered only by a fourth-level civilization. Then they looked back at the principles behind these methods and, after summarizing these principles, they arrived at the grand unified theory.

Their thinking is different from traditional research, and it is more like conducting research in reverse order.

After repeated experiments, they found a very realistic problem in their research path: black hole.

From the perspective of string theory, the interaction between the combination of D0-branes does have the effect of distorting space-time, but black hole solutions are inevitable. Even though the team has tried their best to avoid the generation of black hole solutions, they are very clear that the generation of the event horizon means a black hole.

And the facts clearly tell everyone that warp travel cannot be achieved by the warp engine generating a black hole and then dragging the spacecraft forward. Although humans have not reached the fourth level of civilization, they have picked up a warp engine, so humans are very clear about this.

However, according to string theory, there is indeed a black hole solution, so many times, scientists on this team suspect that string theory is not completely correct, or that it is not applicable in certain fields.

Black holes mean strong gravity, and humans have clearly known that even if a civilization has completed a grand unified theory, they will not be able to manipulate gravity, because the grand unified theory is only the complete unification of the three fundamental forces: strong interaction, weak interaction, and electromagnetic force, and does not include gravity.

However, no matter from which direction humans explore warp travel, it is inseparable from gravity, which is puzzling to various scientific teams.

It's very contradictory, but I have to face this problem.

To this end, after obtaining data from many collision experiments, this scientific team proposed a correction to string theory. They believed that there was another interaction between D0-branes, which was controlled by a massless particle that was neither a photon nor a graviton. They called it the inflaton.

The dilaton is not an actual particle, but a physical concept particle, it has no spin, it was introduced by the team into the study of warp drive theory, the purpose is to prevent the warp drive from producing black hole solutions. Of course, it is not introduced out of thin air, if it is not necessary, they still know that entities should not be added, in fact, the dilaton is not added by them, but a concept in string theory itself, they just explained it with a slight modification, they believe that all kinds of interactions between D0-branes, including attraction and static force, are the effects of the dilaton.

On this basis, they are studying whether the D0-brane will still vibrate like an atom when it is behind the event horizon. This is very important because it is related to the generation of black D0-brane. In the eyes of this scientific team, the black D0-brane is a state before the black hole event horizon, perhaps the warp bubble state.

They believe that as long as the process is studied clearly, humans will most likely know how warp speed is achieved after the electromagnetic force, strong interaction force and weak interaction force are combined into one.

After many years of experimental research, human scientists have determined that a large cluster of D0-branes will have extra energy, which corresponds to extra mass. The next step is to use vibrating D-branes to give an accurate description of black D-branes, and then apply it to the study of warp bubbles, thereby providing humans with an accurate mathematical solution to warp bubbles.

They need to find this solution and then use physical methods to implement it in the real world to provide theoretical support for human exploration of warp speed navigation.

If this can be achieved, then humans can create a small warp bubble under laboratory conditions and then start the long-dreamed-of warp experiment.

Yes, that's right. Humans have completed astronomical-grade particle colliders for more than a century, but research on warp speed is still in the stage of exploring principles. This stage cannot be completed by simply saying "the principle is space distortion", but requires precise and accurate mathematical calculations.

The biggest difference between the power of thinking and science is that the former may cause the possessor to lose superpowers due to various idealistic problems, but the latter will not. Once the latter is mastered, it will never be lost.

Similarly, what humans want is something that can be mass-produced, not something that cannot be reproduced by chance. Isn't the purpose of scientists working so hard on research to make progress for the entire human civilization?

As far as Yue Yuan knows, in the research of this scientific team, their goal is not only a mathematical solution, but also a geometric solution. There is a difference between the two. If the former can accurately calculate how much energy supply is needed to cause a warp speed, then the latter calculates the coverage and shape of the warp bubble.

At present, the research progress in this direction is very encouraging, but we don’t know when the final goal can be achieved.

As time went by, many scientists saw the progress of research in this direction, so more and more scientists and scientific teams joined this track. However, they did not focus their main energy on warp bubbles like this scientific team. Instead, they focused on tachyon research, which this team did not have the energy to take care of for the time being.

For the first time, mankind has seen horizontal development in scientific research on the road of exploring the grand unified theory. Before that, it was all about in-depth exploration, but now there is a feeling of derivative technology branching out.

Such development has made human civilization have more and higher requirements on the quantity and quality of scientists. After obtaining approval from the new government, many top scientific teams of the Chiyan civilization, the Nair people, and the Kuntai people have also joined the process of human scientific exploration.

This may not be what those humans who are extremely hostile to aliens want to see, but they cannot deny that this model is really beneficial to human scientific exploration.

(End of this chapter)