At the level four civilization stage, Xiao Yu had already discovered traces of tachyons in experiments, but he just didn't know it at the time.
According to the normal process of technological development, with the development of science and technology, Xiao Yu gradually summarized the rules of this phenomenon, put forward his own hypotheses, and then verified them one by one. After a long time and countless studies, he was able to obtain
The conclusion is drawn that this is a tachyon.
This process is also accompanied by the development of other technologies, such as energy technology, antimatter, and dark matter-related research. This is an advancement in the entire technological level.
But now, Xiao Yu's other related technologies have not advanced enough, and he has already known in advance that this is because of tachyons, so there is this inexplicable increase in mass. This is a good thing, which means that Xiao Yu can do less
Take many detours and greatly speed up your technological progress.
Through this, Xiao Yu once again realized a truth. That is, the development of civilization's science and technology is gradual. If Xiao Yu is still in the third-level civilization stage, then the information obtained so far will not matter to Xiao Yu.
It's not of much use. For a civilization that doesn't even have a grasp of curvature navigation or a unified theory, even if it knows the existence of tachyons, what use can it make of it?
In the universe at this stage, there is no natural negative matter, they are all artificially created. This is clearly recorded in the scientific and technological documents of the Merian Civilization.
The increase in matter caused by tachyons is a very interesting process. In this process, a paradox occurs. That is, since the total matter of the universe is always conserved, which is the law of conservation of mass and energy. Then, the negative matter composed of tachyons
, annihilate each other with positive matter, causing the mass of positive matter to disappear from the universe. How to explain this phenomenon?
You must know that the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged. So, if you create negative one kilogram of negative matter and then use it to react with positive matter, causing the total amount of matter in the universe to decrease by one kilogram, can this phenomenon be solved?
occur?
The answer of the Molian Civilization is that this phenomenon cannot happen. In the process of annihilation and destruction of positive and negative matter, the total amount of matter is still conserved on the scale of the universe and the macroscopic time scale.
The answer is very simple. If you create one kilogram of negative matter, you will also harvest one kilogram of positive matter. The total mass of one kilogram of negative matter and one kilogram of positive matter is exactly zero, so the process of creating negative matter does not destroy it.
Law of conservation of mass and energy.
Moreover, negative matter cannot be preserved for a long time, and will react with ubiquitous positive matter in a very short period of time - regardless of the positive matter it reacts with, the positive matter it accompanies, or the positive matter in the universe.
Regardless of the positive matter in other places, in short, after it is produced, it will always react with other positive matter.
This characteristic of it allows it to be used to make weapons. For example, those giant cannons built on the surface of the planet. Those giant cannons are negative matter cannons. Xiao Yu has already seen their power. That is
It is a huge power that can completely annihilate a provincial spacecraft equipped with four protective covers in an instant.
Xiao Yu already knows the operating principle of that kind of giant cannon. First, a large number of negative mass tachyons are created in the ground equipment. After accumulating to a certain extent, they are shot out at the target. Because it is faster than the speed of light.
, so it is unstoppable and cannot be warned. If the power of negative matter cannons is strong enough, they can even annihilate a star in an instant.
What a majestic divine power it is to make a star disappear in an instant without any warning or movement!
Moreover, from the characteristics of negative mass tachyons, Xiao Yu also noticed an amazing possibility. That is, unlimited extraction of matter from the void.
The principle is very simple. Since every kilogram of negative matter produced will be accompanied by one kilogram of positive matter, can we launch the negative matter immediately after it is produced and put the associated kilogram of positive matter into the decay engine?
In this way, wouldn’t you have unlimited energy?
This inference made Xiao Yu excited. If this idea was really feasible, Xiao Yu would no longer have to worry about the source of energy. However, Xiao Yu's excitement only lasted for a moment and then disappeared. Because, Xiao Yu immediately
I thought of the common sense mentioned in the Encyclopedia of the Galaxy that the real reason why civilizations of level six and below are restricted to the river system and unable to sail across the river system is still energy limitations.
Even the powerful Taihao civilization had to follow the Magellanic Stream from the Large Magellanic Cloud to the Milky Way, relying on the material supplement of the Magellanic Stream along the way to survive the distance of hundreds of thousands of light years.
As for the Milky Way, the nearest other galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, is more than two million light-years away.
It can be inferred from this that since the fifth-level civilization has mastered negative matter tachyon technology, the sixth-level civilization will naturally have deeper research on this. However, the sixth-level civilization is still trapped in the river system, which proves from another aspect
Xiao Yu's speculation is not feasible.
Xiao Yu continued to browse the scientific and technological documents from the Molian Civilization, and soon found the answer: "In the process of creating negative matter, for every kilogram of matter obtained, it is necessary to invest more than converting all one kilogram of matter into
Energy of energy.”
"So that's it." Xiao Yu became annoyed. It's like you can't extract the heat contained in a cup of water at 15 degrees into another cup of water at 30 degrees without consuming extra energy.
It is impossible to obtain endless energy through this kind of technology, because in this process, the input must be greater than the output.
This is the negative matter tachyon. And dark matter is also introduced in detail in the scientific documents of the Merian Civilization.
Xiao Yu only now knows what dark matter is.
Dark matter is still matter, but it is not ordinary matter. In the age of the earth, humans have been puzzled by this problem for a long time. At that time, humans discovered a phenomenon by observing the movement speed of galaxies in large galaxy clusters.
Inside, galaxies are moving too fast. According to observations, the mass of these large galaxy clusters is simply not enough to bind these high-speed galaxies, unless their mass is a hundred times greater than it is now.
Then there is an obvious question. What are those unobservable substances? They can contribute gravity, but they do not emit electromagnetic waves of any frequency band, nor do they react with any electromagnetic waves. It seems that, except for gravity
, they do not contribute anything else.
In short, it is because of the discrepancy between the observation results and the calculation results that humans became aware of the existence of dark matter.
Now, Mo Lian Wenming has answered this question for Xiao Yu.
The answer of Molian Civilization is that dark matter is a special form of positive matter. Within the basic particles that constitute dark matter, there are no strong interactions, no weak interactions, and no electromagnetic forces, only gravity.
Without the strong interaction force, quarks cannot aggregate into basic protons, neutrons and the like, and matter cannot be formed. Dark matter is entirely composed of quarks, which are "clouds" formed by quarks. Without electromagnetic force, photons can
Penetrating them without any hindrance, that is to say, they are invisible and cannot be seen through radiation in any frequency band. The presence of gravity means that they can still bend light, causing a gravitational lens phenomenon, and thus be detected by humans.
Dark matter is ubiquitous in the universe. However, they do not have the characteristics of strong interaction force and electromagnetic force, which determines that they cannot participate in the decay of elements and convert them into energy, that is, they cannot be used. Because the basic principle of element decay is through
The longitudinal strong interaction force and the electromagnetic force cause collisions between quarks, thereby generating energy.
Dark matter seems to be incompletely evolved matter. During their evolution, they seem to have only evolved gravity, but not the other three basic forces.
This conclusion makes Xiao Yu feel a little regretful. If these ubiquitous dark matter in the universe can be used, then the energy problem that restricts millions of light-year voyages across the river system will be easily solved.
The scientific and technological documents of the Molian Civilization also show that there is some magical connection between dark matter and antimatter, and negative matter serves as the link of this magical connection. When negative matter and ordinary matter meet, they will both be annihilated, and when negative matter and antimatter meet
, then after part of the mass of the antimatter is annihilated, the other part of the mass will be converted into "incomplete" matter such as dark matter.
"The four kinds of matter in the universe turned out to be like this... If I didn't have these scientific and technological documents from the Merian Civilization, and I was just doing my own research, it would have taken me at least a thousand years to obtain this knowledge.
It seems that war and plunder are indeed the best ways to promote the development of civilization."
Among the mechanical storage devices of the Molian Civilization, there is not a lot of information on science and technology, and most of them are incomplete. As a result, although Xiao Yu can grasp these conclusions, he is unable to know the derivation process, various formulas, etc. These things
, it just points out a way forward for Xiao Yu, so that Xiao Yu can save thousands of years of development time. Xiao Yu has to do the specific research work himself.
For example, before Einstein appeared, giving the formula e=mc^2 to the scientists at that time and explaining the meaning of this formula clearly would not have much meaning in promoting science because there is a lack of derivation process of this formula.
."Why is this result" is much more important than "What is the result".
But this can at least point out a research direction for those scientists and save them a lot of energy and time, just like Xiao Yu now. To be continued.)