In the four-dimensional space, everyone spent a long time to collect all the remains of the sophons that Lan Nuo had left the coordinates with before. In the four-dimensional space, the sophons have a macroscopic form. Naturally, it can also leave behind visible debris.
However, although these wreckage can be seen, they are basically intangible because its mass is only the size of a proton, which is almost equivalent to having no mass.
Human beings can only study it through observation methods, but it is difficult to study it through physical contact.
Even so, the inspiration it brought to the team on the spacecraft was huge. The fleet had a total of five scientific research spacecraft modified with accelerators. They were connected to each other in the four-dimensional space and docked to form a larger acceleration ring.
Next, they will stop sailing, park in this special space, and conduct their scientific research experiments. The accelerator can continue to operate even in the four-dimensional space. In the absence of external forces, regular accelerator operation does not work. Will push the particles in the direction of the fourth coordinate axis.
In this special space, high-energy physics collision experiments can be carried out without interference. Compared with the outside world where you can see some experimental phenomena visible to the naked eye.
Normally, at the moment of collision in a particle collider, nothing can be seen even if it can be observed with the naked eye. High-energy particles are so small that even seeing sparks is considered extremely lucky. There happens to be flying particles hitting your retina.
But in this four-dimensional space, some macroscopic structures will be produced after the collision. Although it is basically just a moment, you only need to switch the perspective of the fourth coordinate axis. You can see the macro structure.
“This may be a phenomenon similar to the four-dimensional expansion of sophons. In the collision of particles, certain conditions may be met to allow high-energy particles to complete high-dimensional expansion.
It is not difficult to judge from the frequent occurrence of this phenomenon. The technical difficulty of this kind of expansion is much lower than that of two-dimensional expansion.
We can try to analyze the remains of sophons. In this special space area, we can complete the four-dimensional expansion of matter, and then process it on the macroscopic structure to give them special physical properties and controllability. Like Tomoko. "As the absolute leader of the fleet, Lan Nuo has set the main tone for the next scientific research direction.
Most of the subsequent scientific research work will be left to other members of the fleet. Lan Nuo will focus more on the construction of mathematical models of the high-dimensional world.
This mathematical model can be used in most worlds. It is also one of the main purposes of Lan Nuo coming to this world. After obtaining such a model, his ultimate goal of traveling through this time has been achieved. half.
Once you have the model, you can build your body in high dimensions and gradually transform yourself into a high-dimensional creature.
The high dimensions of most universes are not as fragile as those in the Trisolaran world. Of course, there is also the possibility that the super civilization of the Trisolaran world has developed to a level that is too powerful. In their view, ordinary high-dimensional creatures are not as fragile as those in the Trisolaran world. is also extremely fragile.
The difficulty of constructing a four-dimensional model in a four-dimensional space can be said to be greatly reduced, especially since they also found some four-dimensional matter in this space.
Although it is difficult for them to move the position of these materials, they can observe them. For this kind of material with an extra coordinate axis, just observing it is enough to subvert human beings' three views.
You can also obtain a large number of high-dimensional mathematical models from this process. The focus is not just on obtaining mathematical models, but more importantly, on understanding this model yourself.
It's like everyone knows the formula of an ellipse, but if we only look at the formula, most people will be confused and have difficulty understanding the composition of this shape. They can only describe it as having both ends fixed at two focal points. Only when the line is tightened and drawn in a circle can people understand the appearance of the figure relatively intuitively.
Lan Nuo also needs to transform those data-based formulaic things into a structure that is tangible and visible to him and can be automatically made up in his mind.
This is obviously not an easy task. For this reason, he needs to start rehearsals frequently and with the help of his companions, he can clearly understand the specifics of these four-dimensional objects that are constantly changing shapes in the three-dimensional world. Shape.
While he continued to improve his mathematical model, scientists from the deep space expedition team also achieved some results in high-energy physics experiments.
The physical breakthroughs made by humans on Earth have been emitted in the direction of the fleet through electromagnetic waves. The fleet is currently not too far away from the solar system, and the communication delay between them is only about ten days. On the human side of Earth, The technological breakthroughs achieved can be clearly received and utilized by the fleet.
It is precisely because of the mutual confirmation of the data from both sides that the scientists of the scientific expedition team were able to find a way to expand microscopic particles in four dimensions in such a short period of time.
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"Are results achieved so quickly?" Lan Nuo was implanting a chip into his brain when he heard that members of the scientific expedition team had made breakthrough progress.
The four-dimensional space is too complex for the human brain. Some auxiliary computing systems must be implanted to have enough computing power to understand such a space. Even the computing power that nanomachines can bring is not enough. Implant some additional hardware, or borrow external computing power through network connection.
The scientists who reported the results seemed very excited, and some were dancing and talking about their findings: "It is much easier to expand protons in four dimensions in four dimensions than we imagined.
As long as neutrons are used to hit the fourth coordinate axis in the four-dimensional space perpendicular to the three-dimensional space we are in, it can be expanded in four dimensions.
To do this, we rotate our ship ninety degrees toward the fourth axis.
Now on the fourth axis, we see the ship intact, but if we go back to our three-dimensional world. You can only see the cross-section of the spacecraft, which is the cross-section of the spacecraft after it passes sideways.
The four-dimensionally expanded proton still appears as a microscopic particle in the three-dimensional world, but if we move a certain distance on the fourth coordinate axis, we can see its macroscopic structure, and moving at different distances, the macroscopic structure The size will also change according to a function.
At present, we have found the angle that allows its macroscopic structure to be enlarged to the maximum. At this coordinate angle, we can theoretically process sophons.
Although we cannot cover the entire sky with sophons like the Trisolarans and perform such meticulous processing, it is still very simple if we just make some structures appear on it that we can control.
Using lasers, we can perform micro-withering on four-dimensional structures. As for how to build hardware similar to logic circuits in four-dimensional structures, the remains of sophons have given us a lot of inspiration. I believe that we will be able to develop it in a short time. The first controllable proton belonging to humans was released. "
Lan Nuo did not expect these scientists to make such rapid progress, but if you think about it carefully, it is actually quite normal. According to the physical rules of the three-body world, every microscopic particle actually contains ten dimensions, but in the three-dimensional Within the world, structures other than three dimensions can only be huddled in the microcosm.
In the fourth dimension, of course, the structures of four dimensions and above should be curled up in the microcosm, and the fourth dimension should be able to expand in the first place.
Lan Nuo temporarily stopped his calculations on the mathematical model and participated in the preparation process of the relevant control system. Compared with other scientists, who did not have a deep understanding of the four-dimensional mathematical model, Lan Nuo joined the team. Afterwards, many problems can be seen through at a glance, and it also corrects the errors of fixed thinking caused by many scientists in the team who have lived in the three-dimensional world for too long.
And we came to the conclusion that the state of the proton in front of us is not actually a four-dimensional expansion. To be precise, it should be restored to the state after the four-dimensional was photographed into a three-dimensional state.
It may be a bit abstract to say this, but it is easy to understand by analogy. When the original work is about to end, the solar system is exposed to two-dimensional foil, and all the spherical planets are photographed into round cakes, and the diameter of these round cakes , which is many times larger than the diameter when they were still spheres. The same is true for atoms. After being photographed from a three-dimensional structure to a planar structure, it will look very large in the plane.
The same is true for four-dimensional objects. In the process of being photographed into three-dimensional objects, the volume presented in the three-dimensional world will also expand. Originally, they were just the projection of a cross-section appearing in the three-dimensional world. The volume is almost the same as the basic particles of the three-dimensional world. Similarly, after being flattened, all their details are presented as a flat surface in the three-dimensional world. This makes protons extremely macroscopic and can even be seen directly with the naked eye.
This also explains very well why the sophon after the four-dimensional expansion is not a four-dimensional structure, but a hollow sphere. This shows that it is not fully expanded, but only releases all the four-dimensional structure into the three-dimensional space. Otherwise, Even when observed in the three-dimensional world, a proton will still be a proton, and it will still be a microscopic particle that cannot be observed by conventional means.
After correcting this mistake, the scientists' minds instantly broadened and they also thought about how to use this spherical structure. Compared with the Trisolarans who just carved on the surface of this hollow sphere, there is no doubt that such a space is The structure is too wasteful. In fact, the interior of a hollow sphere can also be carved with structures, and the volume it occupies is much larger than the surface layer of a spherical one.
In this way, even if they cannot operate on such a large plane like a two-dimensional expansion, they can still build their own operating system in a three-dimensional space.
Lasers can distort the spatial structure displayed after the four-dimensional expansion of protons. Following the logic of the Trisolaran people in building hardware systems, scientists began to build an operating system for intelligent particles from the simplest logic gates.
With the experience of building a computer, this process is not difficult. The manipulation of the proton macrostructure through laser is much less difficult than imagined. Although the current processing is all millimeter-sized, which seems very crude, but in terms of macrostructure When expanded to its maximum, the proton's spherical structure can be expanded to a radius of fifteen meters. This seemingly crude processing on a huge volume can still build a relatively complex computing system.
Lan Nuo and other scientists did not originally intend to reach the sky in one step. To be able to rival sophons and be used as a controllable high-energy particle is already very surprising in itself.
After half a month of modification and debugging, mankind's first controllable proton was produced. The functions it can achieve are actually very limited.
It can only record audio and video and serve as an auxiliary computing unit. In addition, it also has the ability to fly at high speeds, almost reaching the speed of light. This is the most important technology the scientific research team learned from the Trisolaran sophons.
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That is to say, borrowing energy from the vacuum. Every basic particle can borrow energy from the vacuum during its fluctuation, and then return it when it decays. The more popular term in this world is quantum fluctuation.
Sophon can accelerate itself to a speed close to the speed of light without relying on external forces. It uses constantly borrowing energy from the vacuum. As for this energy, it needs to be returned before it decays. As for the energy it returns when it decays, Nor does it need to be provided by the manufacturer.
The scientific research team reverse engineered part of this technology on the remains of Sophon, allowing the controllable protons they created to have similar capabilities, so that they could fly close to the speed of light.
However, so far, the scientific research team has not broken through the quantum transmission technology of Trisolaran information. It seems that this is also one of the top technologies for the Trisolaran people. It requires the simultaneous transmission of two protons in a state of quantum entanglement. processing.
The team is not yet able to do this, but even so, controllable protons can still play an extremely important role and can fly close to the speed of light, allowing them to achieve effects similar to quantum communication on a planetary scale.
After monitoring the content that the user wants to shoot somewhere, they can fly back at sub-light speed, and then transmit the captured content to the computing device through micro-level sensors to achieve real-time monitoring of the target. Flight between the target and the user will undoubtedly cause a certain delay, but on the scale of the planet's interior, this level of delay is almost negligible for humans.
Of course, this also means that it is difficult for this kind of controllable sophon to be very effective in long-distance operations in space, but this is not without a solution. Human beings are still unable to grasp the technology of quantum communication. There is no way, but there is an activity in the human body that is at the quantum level.
[To be continued]
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