Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 786 The Fish Trying to Get Ashore
In fact, the message left by the pioneers was not long, but the information density was extremely high. Even after reading it, some people would study the possible hidden information in each sentence.

For example, the pioneers said that there is only a glimmer of hope if we go to the Big Void, and they also said that it is because of dark matter.

This short information is enough to give humans a great understanding of the plight of Level 6 civilization. First of all, humans already know that the symbol of the technological system of Level 6 civilization is the breakthrough of the dark matter-related technology tree.

This means that level VI civilization succeeded because of dark matter, but was also trapped at this level because of dark matter.

There are also some theories about dark matter. Although humans are still very far away from the dark matter-related technology tree, we do have some theories, or conjectures, about dark matter.

The pioneers' words confirmed some of humanity's conjectures about dark matter.

Although this confirmation is not based on actual scientific data, if the pioneers did not lie, it will undoubtedly help humans avoid many detours in future research.

Dark matter does accumulate within the large gravitational scale of galaxies, and the rarer the galaxies, the less dark matter there is.

Or it should be said the other way around: the initial driving force for matter to initially gather into galaxies was dark matter. It was the combined gravitational force of dark matter and matter that caused galaxies, galaxy clusters, and superclusters to appear one after another in the starry sky.

As for how dark matter first appeared and why it is so much more than matter, humans don’t know. Perhaps even humans’ theory of the proportion of dark matter is wrong. These are all things that humans need to explore on their own in the future.

From another perspective, humans and even other intelligent life forms actually live in dark matter. After all, the entire Milky Way is wrapped in dark matter.

Based on the reasons for the pioneers' great voyages, this is indeed the case, and this conclusion is also consistent with the explanation of the speed of rotation inside and outside the Milky Way.

So, does this mean that... in fact all civilizations are like fish, living in a universe with dark matter as water?
Fish like the Pioneers have actually evolved to be strong enough to give them some ability to come ashore to breathe.

After going through untold hardships, life finally mastered the technology related to dark matter, but in the end, it was discovered that the technology it mastered was just like a fish in the water mastering the use of water as a reverse thrust to move forward. The fire that wanted to evolve civilization could not appear in the sea no matter what...

Looking at the short message left by the pioneer, the more people thought about it, the more nervous they became.

Humanity remembers that the Awakener said that the sign of a cosmic civilization should be the true mastery of inexhaustible energy. That energy is also the necessary force to pry open the laws of physics, that is, vacuum zero-point energy!
Humans have theories and experiments to prove the existence of vacuum zero-point energy, but that's all. Humans cannot use it, let alone turn this energy that must be borrowed from the vacuum into a way of using it without returning it.

Combining the information obtained from the Awakener and the Pioneer, it is not difficult for humans to speculate on some of the relationships between dark matter technology and vacuum zero-point energy technology.

The trace of vacuum zero-point energy confirmed by human experiments is like the trace of vacuum zero-point energy leaking from the dark matter-covered area in the universe, or like the instantaneous explosion phenomenon that occasionally occurs at the bottom of the ocean due to extremely high temperatures.

Just as one must go to land to obtain fire, one must also go ashore if one wants to fully master the power of vacuum zero-point energy.

But for a fish living in water, it is not easy to go ashore. Not to mention whether it will die from lack of oxygen, even the possibility of going ashore is very slim.

From this perspective, the large voids in the universe are actually pieces of land, or islands in the ocean of dark matter.

If a fish living in water wants to go further, it has to desperately go ashore, only then it has a chance to obtain the power of "fire" and become a being that can fly in the sky with the power of fire. If all civilizations are fish living in water, then what does the KBC Great Void mean?
Is it a big fish pond?
According to current human observation data, the KBC void is a huge void with a diameter of 2 billion light years. It is the largest void known to humans so far, and encompasses a large area including the Laniakea Supercluster and the higher-level Pisces-Cetus Supercluster complex. The Sun and even the Milky Way are located not far from the center.

So what is the civilization here, just a group of fish kept in a pond?
If it is a fish pond, who is raising the fish? The legendary cosmic civilization?
This is definitely a dark conspiracy theory, I hope it’s not true... Thinking about it, people couldn’t help but feel a chill in their hearts.

If this is the case, then this universe is too dark. At this moment, everyone told themselves in their hearts that all of this is the result of the natural development of the universe. Whether it is superclusters or large voids, they are all the results of the evolution of the universe. They are natural, not the work of a certain civilization...

Come to think of it, such a large-scale cosmic structure cannot possibly be the work of a certain civilization!

But if not, where have all those cosmic civilizations gone?
The Laniakea Supercluster is large enough. It is impossible that all cosmic civilizations are hiding. The universe is 93 billion light-years away. Where are they?

Are fish that have come ashore no longer fish?

Curious, eager...

At this moment, human curiosity and thirst for knowledge are completely aroused, but no one can tell humans the answer, not the awakener, nor the pioneer.

Because these things are definitely beyond their cognitive abilities. Perhaps only if they truly succeed in landing and becoming a cosmic civilization will they know the answer.

Not to mention those who have fallen into endless thoughts, while everyone was still thinking, Yue Yuan received an application for the start of modification of the engine room of the Lyra.

He took one look and approved.

The First Fleet of Humankind now only has more than 2,900 warships, and they cannot take risks. Because once humans get out, the warships of the other two civilizations will also be freed, and if they meet at that time, it will be troublesome.

So before that, humans must complete the modification of the Lyra.

If a conflict really occurs at that time, then the Lyra, which has a faster speed, will be humanity's trump card.

The instructions for how to modify the vehicle are all in the user manual, and humans just need to follow suit. Engineers have calculated that the modification will take about three years.

Once completed, all you need to do is connect the device to the human engine system and start the device.

With the experience of installing consciousness linking equipment for awakeners, this kind of thing is pretty familiar to humans.

Humans don’t need to think about how it works or what the principles are. Even if they want to study it, they won’t be able to understand it anyway.

It’s definitely black technology!

(End of this chapter)