Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 648 Warp Experiment in the Laboratory

Of course, this is something to be happy about, because people can learn a lot from this warp engine, and being able to learn something means that humans have really reached the level of understanding the structure of the warp engine. This may seem like sudden understanding, but in fact it is a manifestation of human progress.

It was the emergence of astronomical-grade colliders that enabled humans to truly stand on tiptoe and look out the window at the warp scene inside. At the same time, thanks to mechanical expertise, human engineers had sufficient level to understand the various structures, layouts and design ideas of warp engines.

Nothing happens by chance.

From another perspective, human analysis of this warp engine has also laid a very solid foundation for human future navigation technology.

If humans were to slowly develop from their own conceptual engine and develop their own warp engine without any reference, it would undoubtedly take a lot of time to gradually perfect it. If they want to achieve a higher level of navigation technology, humans will need to optimize the warp engine for a long time.

However, things are different with this warp engine as a reference. Engineers conservatively estimate that after absorbing the craftsmanship, structural layout, and design concept of this warp engine, humans can at least struggle a few thousand years less.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as humans master the Grand Unified Theory, they can directly skip the primary stage of Level 4 civilization in terms of navigation technology. With this engine technology, as long as humans successfully reach the level of Level 4 civilization, they will at least be faster than other primary Level 4 civilizations.

This is all foreseeable.

However, at this stage, humans still need to study warp engines down to earth. Of course, we need to continue to do collision experiments, and at the same time, we need to continue to explore the grand unified theory down to earth, and study tachyons. All technologies need to go hand in hand.

Finally, it is the twelfth year since the dismantling of the warp engine. In this year, humans developed the first warp engine based on their understanding of the warp engine and their level of mechanical manufacturing. Well, the first crude warp engine in the laboratory.

Things in the laboratory are not necessarily small. On the contrary, this warp engine is very large. It is easier to build a larger one than a smaller one. The entire engine can occupy the area of ​​three football fields no matter where it is placed. This is already the smallest warp engine that humans can make.

Now, this warp engine is placed in a spacious and specialized experimental site, surrounded by various detection equipment, including various laser rangefinders and displacement test units. There are also groups of engineers who are swimming around the warp engine like fish in water, relying on the power of their own clothes.

"Captain, the warp test is about to begin. The engineers are now conducting the final safety test on the engine."

In the command room, an experiment leader pointed to the engineers walking around the site with relevant equipment in their hands to check the warp engine and introduced the experiment to Yue Yuan.

"This is the drive component. This is the energy transmission device of the engine's fuel combustion chamber. And this is the core working area of ​​the engine. It is the area that can truly make space produce a mass potential well effect. It is also the core part of the warp engine. The entire engine body is made of No. 2 alloy material. Compressive strength and high temperature resistance are not a problem."

Yue Yuan did not say anything. He just listened to the introduction of the experimental physicist named Qi Huo while looking at the huge warp engine through the window.

After listening to the introduction, Yue Yuan's mind gradually emerged with the general situation of the experiment, including the steps, purpose, etc. Now that the various parameters of the warp engine have been set, we can start the warp experiment after the final test is completed.

Because we have not yet mastered the grand unified theory, humans do not have the ability to mass-produce antimatter, so this time in the warp speed experiment in the laboratory, humans can only use the existing energy system for power. There is no other way, and for this reason, many scientists are not optimistic about the results of the experiment.

They thought that using the energy system of a level 3 civilization to drive the creations of a level 4 civilization would most likely fail to drive them, as the energy level was not high enough to reach the point where the warp engine could produce a space distortion effect. However, many scientists did not believe in it, and there was no other good way at the moment, so they just tried this first. After all, no one expected that humans would be the first to come up with a grand unified theory and come up with an experimental version of the warp engine.

Just then, the final check was completed.

The voices of staff or systems reporting were also heard in the experimental command center.

"The first warp drive experiment of human civilization has officially started!"

"Energy system supply is normal, connecting to the engine input."

"The warp loading object has been determined. The warp bubble parameters have been adjusted to the target. The three-dimensional space parameters of the warp bubble have been determined. The warp bubble shape function loading is complete."

"Countdown to warp drive ignition 10, 9, 8, 7"

Humans are still self-aware, so the target object for this first warp engine experiment was not the warp engine itself, but a very thin platinum sheet with a mass of only 0.1 grams. The so-called three-dimensional parameters of the warp bubble space and the shape of the warp bubble in the voice broadcast were all targeted by this platinum sheet that was less than the size of a fingernail.

If we only look at the parameters, the warp bubble produced by this warp engine can indeed be set up to wrap around the entire warp engine, but the energy required to drive an object of the warp engine's mass to move is so huge that it is unimaginable, and it is simply impossible to do so with the current energy technology of humanity's third-level civilization.

Therefore, we can only choose smaller and lighter platinum sheets.

This piece of platinum, which was used as an experimental object, was placed at the interruption point of the huge warp engine. This location was a warp loading area specially set up for the experiment.

The platinum sheet has already been placed here and is positioned by a series of laser beams to keep it still.

The experiment becomes simple after this step. Just start the warp engine and then see if the platinum piece moves to determine whether the experiment is successful or not.

As the countdown reached zero, the warp engine in a vacuum environment suddenly lit up with a deep blue light. That was the color formed by the many indicator lights after the machine was officially turned on. Looking from the window of the laboratory command center, it seemed as if one saw a faint blue light of technology.

The light lasted for ten seconds before being shut down amid a series of alarms indicating insufficient energy supply to the system.

Obviously, the engineers realized that the first experiment had failed, but they still took a look at the displacement parameter of the platinum sheet and found that it was zero.

(End of this chapter)