Ye Ming's nervousness was naturally not because of worry, but because of excitement.
Strange matter... initially only referred to stable quark matter. Later, as the boundaries of science continued to expand, its meaning continued to be amplified. Especially now, after the explosion of dimensional theory, strange matter has become a multi-dimensional matter. A synonym for hypothetical substances of different dimensions.
But in a strict sense, the scientific community is still very restrained. Especially after obtaining some information about the "Slanqi substance" of the Blue Planet people, the human scientific community began to officially define "Slanqi substance" as a strange substance. .
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As for what its essence is, the Blue Planet people have not given an accurate answer. Currently, the Blue Star people only use the "Slanqi substance" in two areas. One is to change the outer space of the spacecraft. curvature, and the second is to use slow-release technology to obtain energy.
This is consistent with Ye Ming's assumption that this thing may belong to high-dimensional space matter.
But what exactly it is, and what it can do besides the use of the Blue Planet people... requires further research - this is one of the reasons why the Blue Star people finally agreed to provide strange substances to humans. After all, , if humans develop new uses, they will share the results with them.
The transport ship carrying the car slowly took off and then accelerated. It didn't take long to reach the Earth-Moon L4 Lagrange point.
The l4 Lagrange point is located on the "side" of the Earth-Moon system, exactly one Earth-Moon distance from the Earth, 384,000 kilometers.
In the past, due to the arrival of the crisis, the space observatory turned into the construction command and dispatch center of the space dock. Space researchers simply occupied a spacecraft - to be precise, they "occupied" the Yaoyue. And stopped at the l4 Lagrange point for a long time.
Normally, the space observatory stops at L4 to observe and conduct experiments. When it needs supplies and rest, it goes directly to the moon base... In short, one word stands out, leisurely.
But these people who are engaged in astronomy are still unwilling to be so "inactive" after all. With the country having no time to take care of it, a group of scientists at the observatory showed their talents and solicited sponsorship from all over the world, coupled with Ye Ming's intentional or unintentional help. , they really built a small experimental base in L4 - all kinds of instruments and equipment were collected from everywhere.
As the transport ship arrived at its location, the Yaoyue also started its attitude engine and temporarily left the place, leaving only a simple steel structure experimental center.
Of course, the center cannot take people.
At this time, Professor Li Lei's voice sounded in the hall: "Mr. Ye, we have given up our position, and the communication of various instruments and equipment has been offline. You can take over directly."
"Well, thank you." Ye Ming smiled and held the microphone: "I'll wait for you at the command center of the space dock."
"Then..." Li Lei's aggrieved voice sounded in the hall: "That was originally our territory!"
"Hahaha! Yes, yes, I will build a bigger one for you in the future!"
The call was hung up, and bursts of laughter could be heard in the hall.
Not long after, the transport ship stopped steadily at the position where the Yaoyue stopped before, and then the hatch opened.
The car that had been equipped with an attitude engine slowly drifted out of the hatch.
Ye Ming breathed out lightly, held the microphone, and said in a deep voice: "Aita, activate the high-dimensional detector, activate all microwave detectors in the world, activate all L4 frequency band electromagnetic wave detectors, activate the ground gravitational wave detectors Ligra and Geo800 …”
"Start up the neutrino detector super k, icecube, Sudbury, Jiangmen."
"Start the dark matter detector..."
"Received, starting task execution..."
With Etta's voice, all advanced detectors from various countries around the world were activated at the same time.
All scientific eyes are focused on the L4 Earth-Moon Lagrange point.
Time passed by, and when all the observation equipment was completely ready, Ye Ming took a deep breath: "Unboxing!"
After the words fell, the car slowly opened. Immediately afterwards, the lights in the car rose, and the camera focused on the internal environment on the big screen.
There are a total of six golden one-meter-square cargo boxes, with Arabic numerals marking their order.
"Open box number one."
"Received, open box number one."
Aita's voice fell, and in the car, a mechanical arm slowly fell down, and then landed accurately on the No. 1 cargo box.
After entering the password silently, the golden cargo box vibrated slightly. Immediately afterwards, the robotic arm used the gentlest movements to slowly open the four sides of the container.
Ye Ming gritted his teeth gently, and then held his breath.
There was silence throughout the hall.
Everyone's eyes were filled with shock and excitement - yes, it was so beautiful.
It was like a gem that could not be described in words, floating above the force field generator out of thin air, releasing a dreamlike mist of light.
Those dense rays of light turn it into a "burning" gem, just like a flame that is constantly beating, as if it is alive.
However, he was trapped in space due to the constraints of the force field and could not break free.
In the silence, footsteps sounded softly.
After a moment, a palm gently fell on Ye Ming's shoulder.
Ye Ming turned around and saw Professor Huo Laien looking at him.
"It's ready to be released."
"Well!" Ye Ming took a deep breath, then his eyes flashed, he held the microphone and said in a deep voice: "Engineering robot, prepare to release."
Following his command, two engineering robots flew out of the transport plane and then flew into the car.
Immediately afterwards, the two robots carefully moved the gem and its base out of the car.
"freed!"
The robot presses the control switch on the base.
The next second...
Without any warning, the entire space turned into darkness.
There was nothing on the base.
That extremely beautiful and strange substance disappeared before human eyes.
The hall was quiet again, and at the same time, there were low sounds of regret and sighs.
Even Ye Ming showed deep regret in his eyes after seeing such a beautiful substance disappear.
However, he soon looked to the side of the big screen.
He is not here to "release animals"!
He is here to do an experiment of directly canceling restraints!
At this moment, Aita's voice sounded.
"Dimensional wave signal detected, strength 13."
"Gravitational wave signal detected..."
"Curvature change detected..."
"Neutrino detected..."
Looking at the dense data popping up on the screen, Ye Ming clenched his fists instantly.
After a moment, he turned to look at Professor Huo Laien, who stretched out his hand, and the two high-fived!
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Ten minutes later, Ye Ming appeared in the conference room next door.
"Okay, let's make a brief summary."
Before Ye Ming could sit down, he started the meeting directly: "First of all, we can confirm that strange matter disappears through space dissipation."
"Look at the images here."
While talking about the playback of the ultra-high-speed camera, Ye Ming picked up the water cup and took a sip: "The dissipation speed is very fast, and there is no energy fluctuation around it, nor does it produce the black hole that we are worried about, swallowing up the energy in the space. Phenomenon."
"What does this mean? It means it went directly across dimensions."
"Here are the detector data. No electromagnetic waves were detected - it didn't even affect the two engineering robots."
At this time, a scientist from Ni Country raised his hand and said: "But it released neutrinos..."
"Yes, a neutrino was released, but that does not affect our judgment of its nature."
Ye Ming said and looked at everyone, especially Professor Huo Laien: "I still stick to my previous guess. It is a substance from the high-dimensional world, so it has natural spatial regression."
"And in the space regression, it will release neutrinos and change the curvature of space at the same time - you see, this curvature value is quite limiting."
"From this, we can speculate that when it returns to space, it completes it in the form of inward collapse, or in other words, this can also be seen from the slow-release technology used by the Blue Star people. It has been verified that the Blue Planet people use it as a long-term energy source. Well... a controllable short-distance strong gravity source can indeed be used as a power source."
"So, what can we do?" Ye Ming looked at the others with burning eyes: "It can't be used as energy, right?"
Everyone laughed together.
"The most important question now is to figure out how to obtain it besides intelligent brain technology, right?" Professor Huo Laien said with a smile: "And if it is really matter in high-dimensional space... then isn't it? Can we put it into a high-dimensional space and do experiments?”
Ye Ming nodded, but immediately asked: "Well, yes, but the observation angle of high-dimensional space is limited. How to solve this problem?"
"You have to let me think about it..."
"Haha, don't worry." Ye Ming supported the table with both hands and glanced at the others one by one: "And I still have a question."
"what is the problem?"
"That is, how many dimensions does it come from?" Ye Ming gently touched the table: "Four dimensions? Five dimensions? Six dimensions?"
"When it is directly exposed in three-dimensional space, it has regression properties. So can we use technology similar to two-dimensional expansion... to also perform low-dimensional expansion on it? After expansion, will it return and disappear directly?"
"And then, what does it look like when it's unfolded?"
Ye Ming's eyes were bright: "If three dimensions are expanded into two dimensions, it will have an unimaginable spatial scale. If it is matter in high-dimensional space, how big will it be after unfolding?"
Following Ye Ming's voice, everyone looked at each other, stunned and speechless.
Good guy! If we really follow the current dimensional theory, if this thing is a five-dimensional or six-dimensional substance... wouldn't it be able to hold the entire universe after unfolding?
A voice that obviously took a breath of cold air sounded: "Isn't this the Infinity Stone?"
Ye Ming smiled slightly: "Whether it is an infinite gem or something else, how to use it is the main topic and direction of our future research!"
"And only by understanding where it comes from can we figure out how to 'catch' it!"
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After the meeting, Ye Ming quickly returned to his office.
He needs to think carefully now and have a serious discussion with Yinta.
However, just when he called out Yinta, Uda's communication request came.
As a last resort, Ye Ming had to hold back his excitement for the time being and connect Uda's signal.
"Have you received the goods?" In the video, Uda had a smile on his face.
"I've already opened one." Ye Ming looked at the other person. He knew that this guy might be a bit "asking for credit", and wanted to show off with an attitude of "it's all trivial", but his mood really couldn't be deceived, so he had to smile and said :"Thanks."
"You're welcome, only you can do such an experiment. Our dimensional wave detector is not accurate enough, and it is related to the brain... It would be a shame to waste it."
"...In fact, many times, scientific research is wasted." Ye Ming sighed a little, and then said seriously: "But it is not in vain. Through a variety of observations, we can determine its spatial regression, and it is also through self- It is completed in the form of collapse, from which it can be determined that it should come from high-dimensional space.”
"Well..." Uda hummed softly: "Actually, we have always had this speculation."
"So you haven't thought about developing other uses? For example, dimensionality reduction expansion?" Ye Ming looked at each other curiously.
Hearing Ye Ming's words, Uda immediately looked at Ye Ming, with an expression on his face that he didn't know how to describe.
"What's wrong?" Ye Ming asked.
"It's nothing..." Uda Dalysi was silent for a few seconds, and then the smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again.
He has been dealing with Ye Ming for not just a day or two, but for two years!
He knows too well... Brother Ye Ming... sometimes does not care about other people's thoughts and actual situations.
For example... dimensionality reduction expansion.
What is dimensionality reduction expansion? How to reduce dimensionality and expand?
Just because humans can... doesn't mean that people from the Holy Star can!
"By the way, there is one more thing." Uda changed the subject. Although he wanted to talk more about the properties of strange substances with Ye Ming, Ye Ming was obviously just thinking about it now and couldn't come up with anything to talk about. , might as well get down to business.
"What's up?"
"We received information from the pirates and established communication with them."
Uda looked at Ye Ming quietly until surprise appeared on the latter's face again.
"Then what?"
"Then, they need your long-distance communication technology."
Ye Ming was stunned for a moment, then raised his brows!
"Wait a minute! Why do they need our long-distance communication technology? And who are they?"
"They are a civilization called Tara, located in the SVC-28 galaxy." Uda looked at Ye Ming and said solemnly: "They are in the midst of rapid interstellar colonization and expansion. The only difficulty that hinders their expansion is , which is real-time over-distance communication technology.”
Staring at Uda, Ye Ming's eyebrows gradually relaxed.
He felt that he suddenly couldn't understand Uda - this young scientist was so innocent at the time. He could even talk to him about technology for three days and three nights without sleeping.
But now... I don't know if it was an illusion or something, but he always felt that the technical aura of Uda was gone.
Of course, he didn't think Uda was lying.
After all, long-distance communication is indeed the basis for an interstellar civilization to expand to tens of millions of light-years away.
But no matter how he thought about it, he felt that Uda was deliberately dragging humans into the water - turning his own race's affairs into human affairs.
