255: Chapter 255 Technological Explosion

Gao Yuan looked solemn.

All of humanity was waiting for this moment to arrive.

No one knew what would happen when the Ideal Star broke the speed of light.

Gao Yuan recalled the loneliness he felt during his previous faster-than-light voyage in Subspace; he was a bit nervous now.

He didn't want to experience that again—where everyone else was asleep while he alone remained awake.

The numbers on the light screen were changing bit by bit.

999.0001%, 999.0002%, 999.0003%, 999.0004%, 999.0005%, 999.0006%, ...

The Ideal Star was inching closer to the speed of light.

Gao Gan was also sitting beside Gao Yuan.

"Gao Gan, will this time... be different?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"It is indeed different. The Ideal Star is massive and will compress the surrounding space into a curved surface. Theoretically, we can perform warp navigation, and faster-than-light travel is feasible! With the protection of the Star-Eating Beast matter, the Ideal Star can withstand such pressure..."

"And after exceeding the speed of light...?"

"Who knows! But I remain optimistic about it!"

The Ideal Star continued to accelerate...

At this moment, the surrounding stellar storms became gentle.

...

Three months later, Gao Yuan saw that the numbers on the light screen had reached 99.9999%! Breaking the speed of light would happen in this one stroke.

Gao Yuan didn't know what would happen after breaking the speed of light.

At this point, the thrust of the Ideal Star's engines had decreased significantly.

Suddenly...

Gao Yuan felt as if everything around him had come to a standstill.

The number on the light screen turned to 100%!

Startled, he looked at the sky, which seemed to enter a new world in that instant.

All kinds of glares, stars, and White Dwarfs hung motionless in the sky.

The surroundings of the Ideal Star began to grow quiet.

The entire area around the Ideal Star was very bright; light would never escape.

Gao Yuan looked at the other staff members.

Unlike last time, they could still move.

This gave Gao Yuan great comfort.

"How are the instruments?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"Marshal, it's very strange right now. Our various experimental instruments seem to have... stopped!"

"Can we conduct experiments?"

"Yes... we can even assemble various particles for experiments at will!"

"Is it a good thing or a bad thing?"

Gao Yuan asked.

"Of course it's a good thing. This way, we can understand various substances more deeply and perform unprecedented modifications on matter. The difficulty of experimentation has decreased to an unprecedented level!"

"You mean we are about to usher in a great technological explosion?"

"Theoretically, yes!"

Gao Yuan fell into deep thought.

Could this also be due to the civilization factor?

He had eliminated the Star-Eating Beast, which was theoretically much more difficult than eliminating a low-level civilization. The combination of the civilization factor and faster-than-light travel had directly put humanity on the technological fast track...

Gao Yuan's guess soon came true.

First was the breakthrough in the Grand Unified Theory.

The so-called Grand Unified Theory, also known as the Theory of Everything, provides a unified explanation for the four fundamental forces in basic physics.

The four fundamental forces: first is the Electromagnetic Force—protons are positively charged and electrons are negatively charged, and they interact through the Electromagnetic Force; second is the Universal Gravitation between all matter; third is the Weak Interaction Force that binds most elementary particles together; fourth is the Strong Interaction Force that binds particles within the atomic nucleus.

These four fundamental forces form the foundation of human physics.

The original form of matter should be very simple, just like a computer uses binary permutations and combinations to compile programs. Now, the breakthrough in the Grand Unified Theory means we can search for the essential nature of matter without being affected by many phenomena.

Scientists raised the precision of microscopic physical equipment to a new level.

They discovered a new particle...

The source of all forces is this extremely tiny new particle.

This particle is much smaller than protons and neutrons and can undergo continuous collision movements between different particles...

Force is caused by the collisions of these tiny particles.

The breakthrough in the Grand Unified Theory theoretically provided a convincing answer for faster-than-light travel.

The mass of the Ideal Star creates a curved surface in the surrounding space, which causes space to collapse; thus, when traversing space, faster-than-light navigation can be achieved.

With this theory...

The Academy of Sciences proposed a new concept: using the Grand Unified Theory to achieve the conversion between Electromagnetic Force and gravity. Space collapse is actually the effect of a gravitational field...

This kind of faster-than-light travel is different from the previous Subspace travel.

Subspace is a space between three dimensions and four dimensions.

Whereas current faster-than-light travel directly compresses the curvature of Four-dimensional Space.

Gravitational fields can not only be used to create faster-than-light engines but can also be used as weapons.

Gravitational Bombs can create an ultra-strong force field within a certain area. Any spacecraft within that range would be directly torn apart by the massive force field...

Just as a spacecraft entering the gravitational range of a White Dwarf would be torn apart by its gravitational waves.

In addition to the breakthrough in the Grand Unified Theory, scientists also researched dark energy and Dark Matter, successfully building the first dark matter warship.

dark matter warships, combined with the power of the Grand Unified Theory, can easily break the speed of light in the universe...

Moreover, dark matter warships are almost a dimensional reduction strike against existing Four-Dimensional Civilizations...

Breakthroughs in the field of technology continued.

Ten years later, the Academy of Sciences even had preliminary theories on dimensional transformation.

The foundation of the universe is actually particles.

Different dimensions are also different ways of superimposing particles.

While studying the Grand Unified Theory, scientists discovered an even smaller world of particles, which are called infinitesimal particles.

So far, there are three types of infinitesimal particles! The first type is called the gao-on, named in honor of Gao Qiu. The continuous collision and movement of gao-ons are the origin of force fields.

The second type of infinitesimal particle is the ganon, discovered by Gao Gan, so he named it after himself!

The ganon is a chargeless, massless particle that serves as the basic framework of this world.

The ganon has a characteristic called infinite projection.

When all projections are in the same position, the world is two-dimensional...

When the projections are located on a straight line, space gains a three-dimensional scale.

When the projections of ganons form a plane, the four-dimensional world is created...

So theoretically, humanity can now ' manufacture' a five-dimensional world!

But influencing the arrangement of ganon projections requires a massive amount of dark energy. The energy needed to create a five-dimensional world exceeds the sum of all dark energy in the Milky Way.

Therefore, a five-dimensional world is impossible to achieve, at least within the Milky Way...

But Gao Yuan and the others can now achieve the three-dimensionalization of a four-dimensional world within a certain area, or the two-dimensionalization of a three-dimensional world...

They can also four-dimensionalize a three-dimensional world.

But increasing dimensions consumes dark energy, while reducing dimensions releases it!

If the Milky Way were to be five-dimensionalized, it might shrink to the size of a fist!