Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 652 Mastering the Grand Unified Theory
At this time, humans have mastered the manufacturing process of warp engines, and of course they also understand the driving principle of warp navigation, but they still don’t understand the interaction of various forces in the warp engine. This is like knowing how to make various things, but not understanding the force analysis of these things.

It is obvious that the next step for humans is to understand the mechanism, to figure out what happens inside the core driving components of the warp engine during the process of warp navigation, and how the various forces inside drive the distortion of space-time.

Human scientists believe that the principles of the grand unified theory are hidden here.

There is certainly nothing wrong with working in this direction. Of course, there are also various experimental data provided by astronomical-grade particle colliders. Humanity believes that at this point, as long as we continue to move forward, it is only a matter of time before we discover the grand unified theoretical knowledge.

It can be said that it is just around the corner.

When the successful experiment of the warp engine was announced, the human race began to look forward to it. Humanity is just one step away from becoming a Level 4 civilization, and ordinary people are naturally happy.

Because this is a matter for all mankind, they all know that every time the level of civilization is elevated to a higher level, it will bring about earth-shaking changes to the entire human race, and the so-called earth-shaking changes will definitely include all human individuals.

Even the entire social structure, social relations, living standards and lifestyles of human beings may undergo tremendous changes, just like the upgrade from level 2 civilization to level 3 civilization. The full use of true nanotechnology has made everyone a superhuman existence, and everyone has gained the super transformation of "overclocking mode".

This is the real enhancement that technology brings to individual human beings.

This is the case for the third-level civilization. When it reaches the fourth-level civilization, even if the individual physical strength is not enhanced, it will be reflected in various tools, and many foreseeable technologies will appear in people's lives.

For example, superluminal communication and warp speed travel, these two things alone will change the previous human mode. Humans will no longer have to worry about communication delays. It is conceivable that the scope of human activities will inevitably expand, and interstellar travel will truly become commonplace.

By then, ordinary human individuals can even drive their own spaceships away from the great fleet of civilizations to travel or explore nearby planets without having to worry about communication delays leading to loss of connection. This will greatly enrich people's lifestyles.

The enrichment of life is also a way to improve the spiritual civilization of human individuals. For people who stay on the spacecraft all year round, they are also eager for new changes. Some people have begun to imagine that after humans step onto the fourth level of civilization, they will develop their own new lifestyle.

In this way, in people's eager anticipation, mankind has gone through another half century of accumulation, and finally a set of self-consistent theories of various data brought by experimental data and research on the working principle of the warp engine has emerged. And it is this self-consistent theory that allows humans to see the background environment of the astronomical particle collider during the collision process and analyze the interaction of the three fundamental forces in this environment.

After the efforts of countless mathematicians and physicists, these analyses finally converged into a formula expressed in humanity's own mathematical language.

This formula includes strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetic force, as well as symbols describing changes in space and time and superluminal factors. They are linked together through a series of mathematical symbols to form an equation.

After obtaining this formula, scientists substituted various input data of the previous warp engine into it and found that they were all self-consistent. Even the size and shape of the warp bubble could be reflected in the formula.

It is worth mentioning that this formula has many variants, that is, derivations of certain aspects, which are mainly used to express the three basic forces with different emphases. This formula perfectly unifies the three basic forces and perfectly explains the fact that the electromagnetic force, strong force, and weak force are one force under certain conditions. Humans have finally found the formula of the grand unified theory and finally mastered the theory of the symbol of the fourth-level civilization.

This formula looks so simple. When it is published, every human being can write it down easily. However, behind every symbol and every letter of this simple equation composed of mathematical symbols, there are countless human scientists’ firm beliefs and struggles.

The emergence of the mathematical expression of the Grand Unified Theory is not the result of the wisdom of a single mathematician, but the result of the joint efforts of human scientific teams behind the scenes. If it were not for the hard-working engineers who put in the effort to design the astronomical particle collider, if it were not for the determination of the new government, if it were not for countless scientific teams who climbed up from failure again and again, and if it were not for batches of scientists who continued to try and fail, there would be no such formula.

Therefore, he belongs to the entire human race, is the progress of mankind at the pinnacle of science, and is the progress of human civilization as a whole.

At this moment, all human beings can shout: "Level 4 civilization, here we come!"

There was originally no division of civilization levels in the universe, and the logic behind the division of civilization levels was not a rigid rule, but was determined by a certain theory or technology that was extremely difficult to implement. Once a civilization acquired this theory or technology, it could gain absolute power over civilizations that did not have this theory or technology.

The essence behind it is the depth of understanding of the laws of the universe.

Later, some kind-hearted civilizations divided these barriers more clearly, which were then recognized by later civilizations, thus forming the civilization hierarchy that circulated among the civilizations of the universe.

Just as the pioneers of ancient times divided the levels of civilization differently, if we follow that classification method, what humans now master is the necessary theory to step into the threshold of interstellar civilization.

Today's level one, two and three civilizations are all aerospace-level civilizations, level four, five and six civilizations are interstellar-level civilizations, and as for level six and above, the pioneer era called them cosmic-level civilizations, but even the pioneers themselves have not reached that level.

Having said that, after the mathematical expression of the grand unified theory was announced, the news that humans had mastered the grand unified theory spread quickly throughout human civilization and even to several other dependent races.

At this moment, all human beings and intelligent life groups that depend on human civilization were in an uproar. Countless humans spontaneously celebrated in various ways, and every residential spaceship became extremely lively.

Happy humans gathered together to open champagne, drink beer, cook some strange foods, wear their favorite clothes, and gather in groups of three or five, paying tribute in their own way to every scientist who has silently contributed behind the formula.

At this moment, the human race seemed to be united as one, and everyone was proud to be human. After seeing some of the human videos being reposted to the Chiyan Civilization, the Nairs, the Kobolds, and the Kuntai groups, and then seeing the praise comments posted by these aliens under the videos, these ordinary humans were even more proud.

(End of this chapter)