Chapter 515 Time Frame

Chen Fan was completely stunned after listening to Lin Yang's words.

"Just a difference of 1 Planck time?"

He looked at the cracked interstellar wall outside the porthole in disbelief, and then turned to look at the picture from the peacekeeping fleet in the holographic interface: "Can it produce such...awesome effect?"

"Yes."

Lin Yang showed a bitter smile on his face: "Unlike space, the difference in time, even the most basic 1 Planck time, is an insurmountable chasm that can never be touched."

"Just like...a ghost fleet." Isa's murmur came from the side.

"Ahem!"

Wang Jing, who had remained silent, coughed lightly and interrupted Isa's words: "Let me correct you. There are some differences between the ghost fleet and this giant scorpion."

"The most straightforward point is that the ghost fleet is in the future, while the giant scorpion is in the past."

"...Is there any big difference between the two?" Isa shook her hood and blinked her mechanical prosthetic eyes that had just been repaired not long ago. "Isn't it just the difference in timelines?"

"No, no, no, the manifestations may be similar, but in actual operation, the two can be said to be completely different."

Wang Jing frowned slightly, as if thinking about how to explain this complex timeline problem to Chen Fan and the other four in an easy-to-understand way.

Suddenly, her eyes lit up.

"Let's talk about the ghost fleet first."

"We can regard a normal timeline as a movie played at a constant speed, then each frame of this movie is actually a quantum sketch of the universe at each Planck time."

Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully.

This is not difficult to understand.

For animation and movies, a frame is a still picture, but in reality, the smallest unit between time quanta is Planck time, and the still picture of the macroscopic unit of the universe naturally falls on Planck time.

"It's good to understand."

Wang Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

After a little thought, she raised her hand and called up a holographic interface, in which a holographic "movie" was playing.

The double-pyramid Genesis Fortress glowed slowly, and next to it, two dust-like starships were slowly rotating around it.

Chen Fan was slightly stunned, and soon recognized the source of this holographic "movie" - a real-time panoramic holographic image shot and generated by a scientific research ship.

On the other side, under Chen Fan's gaze, Wang Jing raised her hand and lightly tapped the holographic image.

Swish.

The moment the image paused, densely packed still pictures instantly appeared directly below the image, looking like the progress bar of this holographic movie.

It's just...

the density of this progress bar is obviously a bit exaggerated.

"Although the observation accuracy of the Human Union has reached the Planck time, considering that the magnitude of this thing is too small, I will set the time of each frame to 0.01 seconds."

While explaining, Wang Jing stretched out her hand and dragged the progress bar formed by countless images.

At this moment, it was like a movie. As Wang Jing's fingers jumped back and forth, the pictures in it also changed rapidly.

Suddenly, the rapidly changing picture stopped.

In the picture, the whole body of the Genesis Fortress exuded a dazzling light.

That was the appearance of the Genesis Fortress after releasing the rule attack for the first time dozens of minutes ago.

"Let's assume that this moment is now." Wang Jing's voice continued to come, and at the same time, her finger pointed to the very end of the progress bar, "And there, is the future where the ghost fleet is, which is the moment when the Genesis Fortress begins the second warm-up."

As Wang Jing's voice fell, an illusory fleet that does not exist in the real world quietly appeared in the picture at the end of the progress bar.

This is the picture synthesized by the shipboard main brain.

"Imagine, if the future ghost fleet wants to make itself appear at the moment when Genesis is first activated, what does it need to do?"

Listening to Wang Jing's words, Chen Fan frowned, and after thinking for a long time, he looked at the still pictures frame by frame.

After hesitating for a long time, a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and a guess emerged from his mind.

Chen Fan murmured in a low voice: "Temporarily rewrite each frame of the picture and add yourself in?"

Wang Jing raised her eyebrows, seeming to be a little surprised by Chen Fan's answer.

"It's half right."

"However, it's good to think of this without systematic learning."

"I didn't expect you to have some talent in this area..."

Wang Jing bent his fingers and tapped the holographic interface in the air: "Rewriting each frame of the picture is not difficult to do in holographic movies, but for the real world... I'm afraid it's not that easy."

"Whether it is the narrow universe or the broad universe, it is actually a set of extremely sophisticated equipment."

Wang Jing chuckled: "Think about it, what will happen if I suddenly put an extra set of kidneys in your body?"

An extra set of kidneys?

What the hell?

There is such a good thing?!

Then he won't have to panic when he meets a bad guy in the future!

"Really..."

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and he looked at Wang Jing expectantly: "Academician Wang, if we do this... I'm afraid it doesn't conform to the rules of the People's Union, right?"

Wang Jing's eyes twitched.

She turned her head silently and selectively ignored Chen Fan's words: "In short, temporarily adding parts to this set of tight equipment is definitely not a good thing. If nothing else, at least it will destroy the laws of conservation of matter and energy in the local area."

"You should have some idea of ​​the consequences of breaking the law."

As she spoke, Wang Jing pointed her lips at the distant universe: "Although I haven't done any experiments, I can roughly estimate that if the ghost fleet really did this, the node universe and the anti-universe would have become a ruin long ago."

Chen Fan took a breath of cold air, and a drop of cold sweat slowly slid down his forehead.

"Then...what can we do to avoid this effect?"

"Interpolation."

Academician Lin Yang, who had just remained silent, interrupted the conversation: "The Academy of Sciences has held many discussions and finally determined a seemingly feasible plan."

"We speculate that the ghost fleet can insert its own frame into the previous frame, so as to achieve a disguised crossing without affecting the original timeline and the rules of the universe."

As Lin Yang spoke, countless images of the ghost fleet suddenly appeared and were evenly inserted into each frame of the progress bar.

At the same time, as Wang Jing's fingers moved again, the previously stopped images moved again.

"Oh my..."

Looking at the ghost fleet that suddenly appeared in the holographic image and flew at will, Chen Fan subconsciously exclaimed.

Because the time of each frame is too short, it is impossible to detect the problem with the naked eye alone.

"Since these temporarily inserted frames exist independently, they do not need to consider the stability of the original frames, and will not affect the operation of the original frames."

"Not only that, because these frames are independent of the original frames, we who are in the original frames cannot observe their existence at all, whether it is gravitational waves or any other observation methods."

"Unless... the other party uses information flow technology to interfere with the original frame."

Chen Fan suddenly realized.

It's right, everything is right - the ghost fleet cannot be observed by normal means, and the only visible light band is the effect of information interference.

But...

Chen Fan suddenly realized a very critical problem: "Isn't Planck time the smallest time interval? How can the ghost fleet insert frames within a Planck time?"

"This involves another problem." Lin Yang smiled gently, "Interpolation, inserting frames based on Planck time, this is undoubtedly an extremely huge workload."

"Therefore, in order to reduce the workload, the ghost fleet may deduct itself from that frame alone, and then..."

Lin Yang's fingers moved lightly, and the originally double-dense progress bar became loose again, but the picture did not change at all.

Chen Fan took a closer look and quickly discovered the secret - the frame of the ghost fleet had overlapped with the original picture.

"Attach this extracted image to the original frame, like two layers superimposed on each other but not fused together." Lin Yang's voice continued, "In this way, not only a lot of tedious work can be avoided, but also the difficulty of Planck time being indivisible can be avoided."

Now, Chen Fan completely understood.

"So, if the ghost fleet wants to show up, it must tamper with the timeline of every Planck time?!"

Chen Fan couldn't help but shudder: "This workload... is too terrifying."

No wonder the ghost fleet only appears for a very short time each time.

It turns out that there is not enough funding!

1 frame of 1 Planck time, this...

no one can handle such a big production!

Wang Jing interrupted Lin Yang and said, "Things about time... Human Union doesn't even have theoretical knowledge at present."

"So none of us know how the ghost fleet operates specifically."

"This is all just a guess by the Academy of Sciences."

"Let's talk about the giant scorpion." Wang Jing glanced at the giant scorpion still covered by artillery fire calmly. "Although it is also a guess, the guess about the giant scorpion is relatively reliable. After all, we have some key observation data."

"In theory, in the same universe, the timeline of each area is synchronized and flows in the same direction."

Wang Jing continued, "But the timeline of the giant scorpion is one frame slower. It's actually very simple to do this."

Chen Fan's eyes moved, and he quickly turned his attention back to Wang Jing.

She gently moved her fingers, pulled out one of the frames at the bottom of the holographic image, and threw it aside.

"... This, it's done?"

After waiting for a long time, looking at Wang Jing who had not responded, Chen Fan asked blankly: "No other operations?"

"What else?" Wang Jing spread his hands helplessly, "Temporarily remove the current frame, and the opponent's timeline will naturally be one frame slower, that is, one Planck time."

"Since only one frame is missing, the rest of the frames are running on the original trajectory, so we can still easily observe the existence of the opponent, but... it will be slower than normal."

"The principle is so simple, but in actual operation..."

"No one knows how to do it."

It turns out that the operation of the ghost fleet is infinite insertion and superposition of layers, while the operation of the giant scorpion is simple and crude frame extraction...

No wonder Wang Jing said earlier that there is an essential difference between the two.

Don't say, it's really fucking true! Putting

aside other things, at least the "funding" consumption of the two is completely different!

The former is heading for bankruptcy, and the latter is at most using a little insignificant pocket money.

Just as Chen Fan was silently complaining in his mind, the communication channel suddenly fell silent.

Wang Jing stared blankly at the unrecognizable holographic image in front of her, as if she had thought of something.

"I seem to... understand."

"Understand?" Lin Yang looked at Wang Jing in surprise, "What do you understand? Hasn't this theory been recognized by most academicians?"

"No, no, no..."

Wang Jing shook her head repeatedly. She turned and looked at the giant scorpion that was bombarded in another holographic interface, and murmured in a low voice: "What I mean is, I seem to have guessed the reason why the giant scorpion only took a beating and didn't fight back..."

"What?!" Lin Yang looked solemn and asked hurriedly, "Why?!" "

..."

Wang Jing was silent for a moment, and after some consideration, she spoke: "If our theory is correct, the giant scorpion should still be extracting frames."

"But time is flowing."

"In order for its own timeline to operate normally, it needs to put this temporarily extracted frame back into the timeline."

Wang Jing raised her hand and quickly extracted a frame from the progress bar below the holographic image, and then reinserted it after waiting for a while. During this process, the picture was still running normally without being affected at all, but compared with the normally played image, it was slightly slower.

"I understand what you mean, but..."

Lin Yang frowned: "What does this have to do with the giant scorpion not fighting back?"

"It matters a lot!" Wang Jing's voice suddenly rose, "Think about it, in a Planck time, if your position suddenly changes dramatically, what will happen?"

Lin Yang's face changed slightly.

The difference in coordinates and the difference in time, the combination of the two is the change in acceleration.

When time is reduced to an extreme, and the displacement coordinates are large to a certain extent...

That terrifying force is probably enough to tear the giant scorpion into pieces! !

"I understand..."

Lin Yang was a little excited, and said repeatedly: "It's not that the giant scorpion doesn't fight back, but it's just that it can't move or fight back now!!"

"Just like the shield overload function equipped on the battleship, while improving the defense, the maneuverability of the battleship will also be greatly reduced!"

Wang Jing was relieved: "What you said is indeed a bit like it."

"But the focus is not here now."

"Since the giant scorpion's way of evading attacks by using the time difference has defects..."

Wang Jing's eyes flashed: "Perhaps, we can solve it through this defect!"

After a brief thought, she had made a decision in her heart.

"First of all..."

"The gun can't stop!!"

"Since it can't move now, then we will bomb it until it has to move!"

"I don't believe that it will not consume any time frame when extracting it!"

"At most, we will fight a protracted war with it!!"

ps: This chapter is a bit difficult to write... The number of words is a little less QAQ

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