When a star with a mass eight times the mass of the sun evolves to the end of its life, the fusion reaction at its core will stop.
It just so happens that if the overall mass of its core is more than 3.2 times the mass of the sun, then an extremely terrible gravitational collapse will occur.
After the collapse, it has successively experienced degenerate states and neutron states. If the core of the star is still unable to resist the huge gravitational collapse from itself, a primary black hole will be generated at the center of its mass.
Once a black hole is born, it will immediately swallow all matter within the horizon.
During the swallowing process, the outermost matter will be violently thrown out, and the matter close to the event horizon will be sucked by the black hole and fall toward it in a spiral form.
During this process, the material will be heated and release a large amount of infrared rays and electromagnetic radiation, eventually falling into the event horizon and being swallowed.
Similarly, if the mass does not meet the above standards, aging stars that have reached the end of their lifespan will collapse after a supernova explosion due to gravitational collapse to form a kind of star between a white dwarf and a black hole - a neutron star.
Therefore, neutron stars are the densest stars in the universe except black holes.
Although the density of white dwarfs is high, it is still within the maximum density range that normal matter structures can achieve.
But the pressure of a neutron star is so great that even electrons will be compressed into the nucleus, neutralize with protons and become neutrons. The electrons will escape, and the atomic volume will collapse hundreds of billions of times and become composed only of neutrons.
The entire neutron star is formed by countless neutrons placed closely together.
It can even be said that a neutron star is a huge atomic nucleus, and the density of the neutron star is the density of the atomic nucleus.
Under such circumstances, the pressure at the center of the neutron star will be incredibly strong, hundreds of millions of times more terrifying than the core of the sun.
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Generally speaking, the protons and neutrons that build the nucleus of ordinary matter are composed of three quarks.
The proton is (u, u, d), which is composed of two up quarks (u) and one down quark (d).
The neutron is (u, d, d), which is composed of one up quark (u) and two down quarks (d).
However, in the core of an extremely high-density neutron star, in that terrifying environment that is beyond the scope of human intelligence, neutrons will be completely crushed by the terrifying pressure, resulting in a (ud→su) quark phase transition, thus forming
A group of (uds) quarks composed of a large number of up quarks, down quarks, and strange quarks.
The s here refers to strange quarks, so (uds) quark groups are called strange matter.
This kind of high-temperature quark fluid, which is accidentally produced in extreme environments, has extremely huge gravitational negative pressure, which can even exceed its own energy density (gravity).
In other words, the gravity of strange matter is so repulsive that it can even cause the surrounding space to be strangely and violently distorted.
It is because of the dangerous characteristics of strange matter that can greatly change the curvature of space and time that warp navigation that breaks through the speed of light in vacuum is possible.
And at this moment.
Exuding ultra-high temperature and ultra-high pressure, just a small piece of this strange mass of material could cause the destruction of the entire Blue Star, but it lay quietly on Mu's pale and slender palm, completely unable to show even a trace of its violence. p>
"Wonderful power."
Mu Cang narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the strange mass of material emitting blazing light in the palm of his hand. He gently inserted a trace of spiritual thought into it and began to study it carefully.
He wants to study the underlying operating mechanism of strange substances and then perfectly reproduce it by manipulating basic forces.
After possessing the four basic powers, Mu Cang has increasingly felt that this is a universal power.
As long as you understand the principles of operation of substances and phenomena that exist in the universe, you can reappear them at will.
At the same time, following Mu Cang's move, the surrounding space and time of a hundred thousand miles also suddenly changed.
Sometimes it expands, sometimes it collapses.
Sometimes it spirals into bundles, sometimes it condenses into circles.
With the emergence of these complex changes, a large number of high-energy rays carrying unknown energy emerge from the surrounding space and space out of thin air and explode in all directions every minute and every second, polarizing the already sparse material particles around them into large groups of lattice-like particles.
The dazzling electric clouds and the dim sky with a radius of 100,000 miles are like a fairyland.
But no one knows that this seemingly beautiful and gorgeous fairyland is actually extremely dangerous.
If a planet accidentally moves here, under the influence of countless chaotic space-time turbulence, it will rapidly collapse and disintegrate from the most basic level of matter in an instant, turning into a large asteroid belt containing countless high-energy charged particles.
However, Mu Cang, who is located in this vast space-time turbulence, does not care about this.
Ten minutes later, he had fully understood the operating mechanism of various physical effects of strange substances. At the same time, because of his inherent profound knowledge of space, time, curvature, and dimensions, he used this as a portal to decipher and seek knowledge, and finally fully mastered the knowledge of curvature.
The entire physical operation process of speed sailing.
"The first is the Casimir device used to provide negative energy."
After waving his hand to disperse the strange substance in his palm, Mu Cang raised a finger and gently tapped into the void in front of him.
Buzz——
The surrounding space and time shook violently, and trillions of high-energy particles emerged out of thin air.
As soon as these particles appeared, they spontaneously gathered together. Under his will, countless particles around him quickly built a circle from the microscopic level that was so complex and precise that it was unimaginable. Once it was born, it bloomed violently with blue and white light and translucent equipment.<
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"Then, simulate the physical effects produced by the exotic matter and connect it to the Casimir device to generate a warp bubble."
The surrounding space suddenly expanded with ripples visible to the naked eye.
Amidst the rolling waves, a twisted space with a diameter of ten meters appeared, emitting wisps of soft light, completely surrounding Mu Cang.
If you look at it normally, it looks like it is just wrapped in a Lorentz manifold 'bubble'.
But if you look at it from a higher-dimensional perspective, then around Mu Cang, who is in a 'thin' three-dimensional world like a calm sea, suddenly there are the same 'thin' but extremely regular circles that are convex in the front and concave in the back.
Arc-shaped waves.
This circle of waves that completely enveloped him was the warp bubble.
Compress the front space and expand the rear space.
The axis connected by the front and rear is the sailing direction.
The 'bubble' is a flat space, and Mu Cang inside it does not really move, but is moved by the warp bubble.
Therefore, during warp speed navigation, objects in the 'bubble' will not be affected by any inertia.
The 'fuel' consumed to realize this process is the negative energy extracted from the strange matter.
"It's time to start."
Mu Cang looked at the vast starry sky in front of him, and felt a rare fluctuation in his heart.
Because this time, there is no faster-than-light travel in the spirit world.
It was the true faster-than-light travel that he had been thinking about for a long time.
Buzz——
The warp bubble carrying a large ball of negative energy in front of him and tightly wrapping Mu Cang started immediately, leaving Pluto and speeding towards the blue star billions of kilometers away.
