Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 647 Disassembly of the Warp Engine

In an atmosphere where human technology is supreme, one human science team or alien team after another is shining in their respective fields. They either focus on warp bubbles or on tachyons, as well as other related directions, such as the mass change caused by string vibration, the study of environmental problems caused by the Higgs mechanism that erases experimental changes, and the physical manifestations of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces in a specific environment during astronomical particle collisions. And so on.

Scientific research has expanded in breadth, allowing many teams to participate in various types of projects, including several scientific teams that were originally studying the boundary of this space more than ten light years away.

After learning about the current progress of mankind in the exploration of grand unified theories, those scientists are also trying to use other theories to explain the boundary problem of this space in an attempt to crack the secret.

Of course, after all, it was a creation of the sixth-level civilization, so they didn't succeed in the end, but it gave them a new idea. For example, they believed that there should be a kind of magical membrane at the boundary of this space. This membrane is the edge of space-time, and it is where space itself ends.

This point has been supported by many scientists. In fact, in string theory, space cannot end. It cannot end without D-brane, but it is actually a very successful theory.

There are contradictions in various theories. For example, string theory mentions 26 dimensions, but superstring theory only has 11 dimensions. The universe cannot have both 26 and 11 dimensions, so one of the two theories must be wrong. However, being wrong does not mean that it should be completely denied, because it also has some correct descriptions of the universe.

Since scientists opened up new perspectives, mankind has finally ended its long period of scientific silence and entered an era of lively debate over various theories and predictions.

The arrival of this era will undoubtedly be of great benefit to human research, regardless of whether each new theory or prediction is right or wrong.

Sure enough, after another half century of hard work and countless astronomical-level particle collision experiments, mankind has finally taken another step forward in the research of grand unified theory.

A scientific team has discovered a phenomenon called mass potential well, which is a physical phenomenon based on the concept of D-brane and the Higgs mechanism. Researchers have found that in the experimental environment of astronomical particle collisions, a mass potential well effect will occur.

This effect is based on the Higgs mechanism and has a great relationship with the black D-brane process. They believe that the mass potential well is the reason why the space-time distortion appears in the formation process of the black D-brane. It will not show the same large mass as celestial bodies because it is itself a phenomenon equivalent to the energy potential well.

This discovery has led human scientists to generally believe that humans have discovered the secret of warp travel.

Based on this discovery, scientists even designed their own warp engine, well, a conceptual version. In order to turn the conceptual version into reality, scientists jointly proposed to dismantle the warp engine that has been stored in the human warehouse for many years, that is, the warp engine that humans obtained from the unknown alien civilization spaceship at the Callisto base.

It is a shame to say that this engine, which has been obtained for who knows how many years, has been carried around by humans since the primitive civilization stage, and even after reaching the third-level civilization, we still have not figured out what the structure inside it is, let alone replicate it.

Scientists and engineers have long proposed to dismantle it for research, but they have all been rejected by the new government. Because before this, humans knew too little about the warp engine, and it would be a waste of time if they couldn't understand it after dismantling it.

But now it’s different. Although humans have not officially developed a grand unified theory, they have miraculously made unexpected progress in warp research. They have even developed a conceptual version of the warp engine at this point in time.

Under these circumstances, the new government will certainly not stick to the old ways.

Therefore, after the application was submitted, the warp engine that had accompanied mankind for countless years was finally pulled onto the test bench, and then, in full view of the public, under the expectant eyes of countless scientists and engineers, it was disassembled bit by bit. Humans now have a different perspective than they did back then. This warp engine, which was only guessed at in the past, is now basically certain to be a Level 4 civilization. In other words, the civilization behind the alien civilization spacecraft that crashed on Callisto was a Level 4 civilization.

Level 4 civilization was once beyond the reach of humankind, but now humankind has already made an impact towards this level.

Relying on the technology and theories at the pinnacle of the third-level civilization, plus thousands of years of human understanding of the warp engine, dismantling the warp engine did not encounter too many difficulties, at most it was just a little troublesome.

As components were removed one by one by humans using various methods, the internal structure of this creation from a level-four civilization finally came into humans' view little by little.

"How clever! It's actually like this."

"I see!"

"Incredible, this structure is simply ingenious!"

"The energy transfer unit of the matter-antimatter annihilation chamber. Hmm, could this be the warp bubble generator? Strange, can warp bubbles be generated separately?"

"It's so clever. This structure and this design idea, why didn't we think of it?"

During the disassembly process of the warp engine, a group of scientists and engineers expressed their heartfelt opinions. The warp engine was also directly broken into parts amid such exclamations and exclamations, as well as discussions about its structure and various components.

Time has left indelible marks on this warp engine. Originally, human engineers thought it was still usable, but after disassembling it, they realized that this warp engine would definitely not start. Not only the warp engine itself, but also the fuel storage tanks that looked intact on the outside were probably no longer effective.

Time corrodes everything.

However, humans do not feel regretful, because humans can still learn a lot from this warp engine, such as its structure, layout and the design concept behind it.

With the completion of the disassembly and in-depth research on its various components and layout structures, humans once again felt the difference between the concept engine they designed and the real fourth-level civilization creation. Even though this engine is full of traces of time, it still allows humans to feel what is exquisite and what is mechanical.

Compared to this creation of the fourth-level civilization, the conceptual engine developed by humans themselves is simply shoddy and completely incomparable.

(End of this chapter)