Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 765: Years

As we all know, energy and energy are different, so I won’t elaborate on them, as humans naturally know them 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 civilization at that time needed a one-sixth Dyson sphere 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 that all physical and chemical processes related to thermal motion within limited space and time are irreversible.

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 currently do not know.

But now humans can be sure that even a level 6 civilization 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 thermal energy generated by the process of entropy increase in the universe, or the process of spontaneous heat transfer from high-temperature objects to low-temperature objects described in the second law of thermodynamics.

In this process, it is impossible for heat to be converted 100%, and there will definitely be losses.

This is different from what people often say that antimatter has a 100% energy production efficiency. 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.

In other words, after observing the large diamond crystals left by the pioneers, humans began to explore this small universe, and countless detectors were released. Humans detected clearly that the test of the diamond lattice maze was actually very obvious. If the dynamic picture civilization and the Orange Star civilization had enough potential and deep scientific and technological background, they might have come in, but in other areas.

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

It is so vast that I wonder how the pioneers created such a large microcosm.

Now humans know why the stellar orbits that were observed in the larger universe were abnormal. It must be that the mass of this small universe is too large and thus has a gravitational effect on the area where it is located.

In this way, while humans sent a large number of unmanned warp exploration spacecraft to explore the small universe, they were also actively studying stars wrapped in large diamond crystals.

The star is a red dwarf, yes, it is still burning itself quietly to shine for the world, and the energy it generates.
Based on observations over a period of time, human scientists speculate that it should be used by these large diamond-shaped crystals, at least except for the monochromatic light refracted through the translucent prisms. Perhaps these refracted colored lights are also for the purpose of achieving some function, but humans are not clear what it is yet.

Similarly, humans believe that the energy absorbed by the large diamond-shaped 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 say 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. After seeing that the large diamond crystals are now using the energy generated by the stars to do something, they immediately thought of this.

Perhaps it is really used to maintain the microuniverse, and those diamond lattices in the maze, in addition to transmitting information to the incoming civilization, also have the function of supporting the microuniverse. Therefore, when humans use warships to push the diamond lattices, it is like lifting themselves up, or pushing the entire microuniverse.

This is bound to be impossible to succeed.

Also, according to the pioneers, their time in the Milky Way is three billion years away from the present time of human beings. In three billion years, stones will decay, not to mention other creations. If the creations were not constantly updated, they would have been erased by time.

As a great writer once said: carve the words in stone.

That is the sense of oppression brought by time. In the description there, civilization has gone through countless spring and autumn seasons. It can create black holes, accelerate particles to the speed of light, and expedition to the galaxy. But in the end, it is discovered 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 ancient times: carving words on stones!
What a suffocating feeling of oppression and despair.

But faced with the eternity of the universe, which civilization can take it easy!
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 preserve information in the simplest way.

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. Something from three billion years ago can be preserved until now, which has surpassed the level of carving words on stone. 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 put in to leave information for the new generation of civilization.

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

Humanity still has limited time, because up to now, all the probes have detected are large diamond-shaped crystals wrapped around stars, and no rocky planets have been found. In other words, humans still do not have enough supplies to sustain long-term survival here.

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

That's the worst possible ending.

(End of this chapter)