Fifty light seconds Even for sophons that have begun to slow down, it only takes a few minutes to arrive, and what awaits them is an overwhelming network. Controllable high-energy particles can already be penetrated by the macroscopic world at this scale.
It had quite an impact.
If the huge web in front of us suddenly gathers together, it can become a strong interaction material with a radius of 100 meters, and if the energy is sufficient, it can even accelerate to the speed of light in a very short time.
And now they are ready to gather at the location where the sophons are discovered and form a strong interaction material to swallow up the sophons.
In order to ensure that the capture and destruction process goes smoothly enough, Lanno requires the grid and the sophon to move in the same direction this time, reducing the relative speed between the two parties as much as possible.
In this way, when facing the oncoming sophon, you can have enough reaction time to operate. After all, it is the person and the program that perform the operation, which requires a certain amount of reaction time.
And if they intersect with each other at a relative speed close to the speed of light, then given their tiny size, interleaving time, or even Planck time, it is impossible for any person or program to be able to react.
Therefore, after the big net advanced for a certain distance, it began to reverse in the direction of the four-dimensional space, gradually accelerating and maintaining a speed slightly slower than the sophon, waiting for the other party to crash into its own net.
Observed from a high-dimensional perspective, the number of sophons is only ten. Correspondingly, there are more than 50,000 secondary sophons. This is actually similar to the configuration on the earth. At this order of magnitude, as long as the fleet is searched,
It can delay the fleet for several years. This period of time is enough to launch enough secondary sophons to make up for the consumption of interference accelerators in the process.
The number of targets is only ten, which greatly reduces the difficulty of the task. The overwhelming net begins to shrink. In the three-dimensional world, it is difficult to observe a proton, let alone capture and destroy it.
But from a high-dimensional perspective, sophons that have been enlarged by more than twenty orders of magnitude are already very obvious in the three-dimensional world. The huge network begins to shrink into ten small networks, and the distance between high-energy particles is also greatly reduced.
More than half of them are controlled by Lan Nuo personally, and the remaining half are controlled by the Nirvana people in cooperation with each other. Everyone present can't help sweating on their foreheads at this time, and they must complete the attack on Tomoko at almost the same instant.
Destroy, if the Trisolarans discover the controllable high-energy particles they use, they may be reminded of the controllable high-energy particles that will appear on the earth in the future.
"Fifteen seconds until the collision begins! Grid deformation!" While giving the order, Lan Nuo was already controlling his controllable high-energy particles and arranged them into a different formation from the previous grid.
Since we want to destroy Tomoko, we naturally have to use the formation that gives him the most nowhere to escape, which is the spherical shape.
Previously, the grid moved forward in a circular shape on the plane, but as it approached the target, the circle began to gradually deform, like a bag closing forward, wrapping the sophon inside.
After being wrapped, the sphere composed of controllable high-energy particles is also constantly shrinking.
As the number of particles around the ball gradually increases, it gradually becomes difficult to escape. All ten sophons have been enveloped in such a prison, and it can be said that there is almost no chance of escape.
As Lan Nuo gave the final order to capture, the ten spheres shrank rapidly. From the original diameter of several thousand meters, it shrunk to less than one meter in diameter in an instant.
At this moment, the originally transparent and invisible surrounding circles suddenly turned into silver, fully reflective spheres.
They are spheres made of materials with strong interaction force. Within such a spherical shell, even sophons have no way to leave. Theoretically, sophons can enter a closed three-dimensional space, but in the final analysis, it is not the use of high-dimensional space.
, but he himself is too small, and the distance between atoms is enough for him to penetrate easily.
But now the protons are tightly attached to each other, and there is no gap for him to escape.
At the same time, among the ten wrapped spheres, the controllable high-energy particles released the antimatter they carried, aiming at the sophon trapped in the center.
Everything happened in the blink of an eye. Annihilation occurred instantly inside the sphere. There was no explosion. In just an instant, the sophon lost all structure and was then converted into energy.
As for the huge energy produced by the mutual destruction of matter and antimatter, it cannot be seen here. On the one hand, the antimatter that humans can produce now is too little, and on the other hand, the mass of sophons is also too small.
, the energy converted after collision with antimatter is not even enough for people to see an electric spark.
The trap that has been carefully prepared for months actually takes effect in just a split second.
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At the same time, news of the collective loss of contact between the Trisolaran Planet and the Sophons was passed back.
"Did we lose contact again? This time we lost contact at the same time?" The Trisolaran scientist frowned: "It's another sophon blind spot, and this time it actually appeared so close to the earth. It seems that the universe is far bigger than ours.
It was much more crowded than expected.”
Another Trisolaran scientist put forward a hypothesis that made them uneasy: "If other aliens really destroyed our sophons, would they discover our location? Find our location from the sophons.
information."
"It's very difficult. To achieve this, the technology must be at least several levels higher than ours. It's even technology that we can't even imagine now. If I have to say it, I'm actually worried about humans." In the laboratory.
One of the most respected scientists sighed.
"You mean...it was humans who destroyed our sophons?"
The Trisolaran scientist shook his head: "Although this possibility is not zero, the possibility that a fleet hanging alone in space suddenly explodes in technology and surpasses ours in technology is so small that it is almost unnecessary to consider it.
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When I say that I am worried about humans, I am saying that I am worried that humans have exposed the location of the earth. We have communicated with the earth, and even communicated quite frequently. If there are alien civilizations with advanced technology, they will not even need to be more advanced than us.
If you are developed, you will be able to detect the communication between us, and then discover our location together.
If aliens can destroy our sophons, they will definitely be able to discover the human fleet. Therefore, it is easy to obtain the location of the earth from the fleet.
This is what I am most worried about. Even if humans do not carry out dark forest deterrence, our galaxy is no longer safe. Prepare to evacuate, take away as many resources on our planet as possible, and then leave this cradle and go to the depths of the universe.
We are looking for places where we can really spread our wings.”
The Trisolarans have never doubted that all of this was done by humans. After all, the previous sophons were destroyed at almost the same time. For the Trisolarans, this is even a technological crush. No matter how developed human beings are,
Even if they were fast, they wouldn't be able to suppress the Trisolarans in such a short time, so all the blame was placed on the unknown aliens.
Because of this, the actions of sending sophons to that star area were stopped. The Trisolarans are also afraid. They are afraid that their planet's position will be exposed. They are afraid that their weak nature among the major civilizations in the universe will be exposed.
If you continue to send sophons, you might really be captured by aliens and extract important information about the Trisolarans.
The production base located in the four-dimensional space is now completely safe and will no longer be discovered by the Trisolarans.
Nowadays, the scale of the production base has become larger and larger, and has expanded from the three-dimensional world to the four-dimensional world. With an additional coordinate axis, the number of production lines that can be installed has increased geometrically. The ecological roller provides energy and performs remote control.
Due to regulation, the daily output can now be calculated in grams. Perhaps in the first half of the year, the output can be calculated in kilograms.
However, this kind of power is still only temporary. After observation, they have been able to determine that the four-dimensional space is constantly shrinking. Although it is not as exaggerated as shrinking at the speed of light, it will only take about three hundred years. This space will be completely
If it dries up and disappears, then humans will have to find their own way to produce such controllable high-energy particles, or find other four-dimensional spaces, but this depends on luck.
While organizing production, Lannuo has never forgotten the exploration of this area. There is life and even civilization in the four-dimensional space. Although this is a small puddle that is about to dry up, according to the original work
description, there is at least one individual from a four-dimensional civilization living here.
The fleet sent a large number of controllable high-energy particles to search in this four-dimensional space. However, their efficiency is not very high. It is like a two-dimensional line. If it is swept across a two-dimensional plane, it can
It is possible to completely scan the two-dimensional world, but if you want to scan the three-dimensional world with a single line, you have to scan it countless times. Even so, what you can get are only sliced images.
In order to increase the efficiency of the search, the controllable high-energy particles had to be arranged into a huge cube, with a side length of hundreds of astronomical units, jumping repeatedly on the fourth coordinate axis, gradually expanding the search range.
In fact, they didn't know what they were searching for. Most of the time, they thought they were searching for four-dimensional debris in the universe, and then converting it into matter that they could use.
And when they gradually searched for this four-dimensional space, which was theoretically at the center, a shocking scene appeared.
Although it is in a four-dimensional space, what they are used to seeing is three-dimensional things in a four-dimensional space. Except for those "minerals", they have never really seen four-dimensional matter.
Until they saw the behemoth in front of them, in the field of vision fed back by controllable high-energy particles, what they saw was a ring-shaped building constructed of regular geometric figures, which was full of mathematical beauty.
If this is a three-dimensional object, then Sophon only needs to change its angle slightly to enter its side and directly see its internal details.
However, the one in front of them is obviously different. When the observer adjusts the angle, the building they see is like a kaleidoscope, which begins to change rapidly. It is still a beautiful geometric structure, as if it was built by humans in the three-dimensional world.
The buildings, viewed from any angle, appear to be regular geometric figures.
The buildings built by civilizations in the four-dimensional world are obviously like this. When projected into the three-dimensional world, they are beautiful geometric shapes at any time.
This time, it is obviously impossible to directly enter the interior of the building by changing the angle. The building built by the four-dimensional people can naturally be sealed in the four-dimensional space.
Otherwise, it would be like humans drawing a square box on the ground and saying this is their house. This is obviously impossible.
However, although this space is closed, controllable high-energy particles can penetrate it. As long as they put away their four-dimensional expansion, they can return to the volume of microscopic particles here. In this case, even if it is a closed space, there is no special design.
Shields can also be penetrated by them.
Facts have proved that the scientists' guess was correct. The interior of this four-dimensional building is hollow, and here they observed a more complex three-dimensional structure. The shape of this three-dimensional structure is changing no matter from any angle.
Yes, even if you observe it at a constant angle, its shape is constantly changing, and this change is irregular.
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On the scientific research spacecraft, the scientists watched this scene with great excitement: "This must be a four-dimensional creature. He may even be not only a creature, but also a member of a four-dimensional civilization. The previous building was full of geometric beauty. There is a high probability that it is a four-dimensional creature."
It is constructed by civilization.
It's a pity that the gap between their bodies and our sense of space is so great that we have no way of understanding the structure of their bodies."
Lan Nuo did not interrupt, but was meditating. He could actually see something. For him, if he only understood the other party's image in the four-dimensional space, the mathematical model he had constructed for the thinking space was already
He could barely do it, and he was now trying hard to imagine the other party's image.
"Let's try communication. We are so close to each other. Maybe he has discovered us. Even if the other party shows hostility, if we retreat directly to the three-dimensional space, what the other party can do will be minimal." Lan Lan.
Nuo's decisive proposal surprised the scientists at the scene.
After all, they are still considering whether the four-dimensional creatures in front of them are dangerous? The Trisolarans have brought a huge psychological shadow to mankind, and they have always harbored the worst malicious assumptions about aliens.
Lan Nuo had read the original work and knew very clearly that the remaining thinking creature here was very gentle.
"It is indeed possible to try to communicate with him, but how should we make him understand what we are saying?" someone couldn't help but ask.
