Chapter 223 Order and Nothingness
"This is the real universe..."
Chen Fan stared at the breathtaking scene outside the porthole and couldn't help but exclaimed.
Under his gaze, the thick cosmic membrane on the surface of the giant bubble floated slightly, reflecting the brilliant starlight.
"The starlight you see now is basically the light emitted by the supercluster composed of countless stars and planets." Yi's voice came from his ear again, "You can't see regular starlight on this scale."
Chen Fan was stunned, and a bit of horror gradually appeared in his eyes.
He knew the concept of supercluster - above the star system is the Milky Way, a large number of Milky Ways form galaxy clusters, and a large number of galaxy clusters form galaxy clusters. One by one, galaxy clusters gather together and finally form a supercluster.
This is a huge macro structure that he has never imagined!
But from a high-dimensional perspective, a supercluster that an ordinary person cannot visit in his lifetime is just a small light spot in the universe. It was not
until this moment that Chen Fan finally realized why the Human Union set the yearning for the starry sky as an important criterion for judging the potential value of civilization.
Nearly endless resources are quietly lying above everyone's head. If no one is willing to look up at the starry sky, and even fight for the meager interests in front of them, then this civilization will surely disappear in the long river of time.
Chen Fan turned his head slightly, looking beyond the large cosmic bubble and looking further away.
At the end of his sight, several large cosmic bubbles floated on the surface of the hyperspace membrane, with bright spots of light flashing on them.
These spots of light connected with each other, forming a series of gorgeous light bands that he had seen in resonance. It was completely different from the feeling during resonance. Under the protection of the five-dimensional information filtering barrier carried by the starship, he did not feel much strangeness when looking directly at these gorgeous light bands.
"Those small bubbles..."
Beside him, Isa also asked with a look of surprise: "Are they all small universes?"
She still remembered the previous introduction to the small universe: "Are they all pulled by advanced civilizations?"
"Of course."
This time it was Mochi's voice that sounded.
The Lothar panda man, whose body was covered with fine fur, looked at the bizarre five-dimensional space in front of him with a serious and even somewhat pious look: "This is the beauty of the five-dimensional space. You can clearly see the true structure of a huge universe, and you can also see how many advanced civilizations exist in it."
Chen Fan once again cast his eyes on the large cosmic bubble not far away.
With just a rough glance, Chen Fan saw no less than a hundred small cosmic bubbles of different sizes.
These small cosmic bubbles were scattered on the surface of the large cosmic bubble. Some places were relatively dense, while others were empty. There was even an area where only three or four small cosmic bubbles could be seen.
According to Yi's explanation, this sparse and uneven situation is quite normal - the resources in the universe are unevenly distributed, and the density of civilizations is naturally uneven. Correspondingly, the density of advanced civilizations will also vary.
"But..."
Moshu's voice continued to come, and compared with before, his voice this time carried a bit of confusion and bewilderment: "The structure of this cosmic bubble is indeed different from other cosmic bubbles."
Chen Fan's eyes moved, and he quickly cast a surprised look at him: "Why do you say that?"
"As far as I know, most cosmic bubbles are lightly attached to the hyperspace membrane." Moshu frowned and said softly, "This cosmic bubble is wrapped in the hyperspace membrane, and it looks like it is about to be swallowed by the hyperspace membrane."
Chen Fan couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "This statement is quite novel, but will the hyperspace membrane really swallow the cosmic bubble?"
Moshu laughed happily.
"It's just a metaphor. The hyperspace membrane is not a living thing. How can it swallow the cosmic bubble?"
Chen Fan shrugged and casually said, "The Academy of Sciences seems to be conducting corresponding research, but no key conclusions have been drawn so far."
"Forget it, let's not worry about things that the Academy of Sciences can't figure out." Mochi quickly retracted his gaze upon hearing this, and turned his head to look at the logistics ship that had just entered the fifth dimension on the other side, "Lin, are you ready?"
After receiving a positive answer, Mochi operated on the console in front of him.
An electronic prompt sounded in the cockpit:
"The phase engine has completed the switch, and the current output power is 50%."
"The order field output power is 35%, and the carrier-borne main engine load is 80%."
"Start five-dimensional cruise!"
...
"Phase engine?"
Chen Fan was stunned and cast an inquiring look at the smart terminal on his right hand: "What is this?"
"What do you think is outside the universe?"
Yi did not immediately answer Chen Fan's question, but asked him a question in return.
"A vaster space?"
"No."
"There is nothing here." Mochi, who was sitting in the main driving seat, denied Chen Fan's words, "This is a void."
Chen Fan was stunned. Nothing
?
A void?
How is this possible? !
Chen Fan rubbed his eyes hard and looked out the window again.
The bizarre world came into his eyes again, the hyperspace membrane, the cosmic bubble... everything seemed so real.
"They are just strings of scattered information."
"Just like diffused light."
Sensing the confusion in Chen Fan's heart, an electronic synthesized voice sounded in his ears: "You can understand it as a blind person with a brain-computer interface installed, and the images of the outside world are constantly transmitted to the blind person's brain in the form of electronic data."
"Are the pictures that appear in the blind person's brain really the world he sees?"
"No, he didn't see the real world, what he saw was just a virtual image condensed from countless information."
"The scene you see is based on the same principle, except that these scattered information went directly into your brain."
"The reason why starships entering the five-dimensional cruising state have to install information filtering barriers is because this information is too redundant and huge. If it is not filtered and shielded, the information that pours in in an instant is enough to burst the thinking organs of any intelligent creature."
A voice paused slightly: "Except you, the alien."
"Don't ask this machine, this machine doesn't know how you did it. Academician Wang Jing has been waiting for you for a long time. When you report to the administration, there should be many inspection items waiting for you."
Chen Fan opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopped.
"In addition, the five-dimensional space is called space only to make it better understood by most intelligent creatures." Yi continued to add: "When the starship ascends to the fifth dimension, the starship will spontaneously break away from the limitations of the cosmic bubble and enter the nothingness outside the universe."
"In nothingness, there is no concept of space or time."
Hearing this, Chen Fan's expression couldn't help but be stern:
Damn, the technological version of ascension?
Looking at the time slowly passing by in the holographic projection, he suddenly realized something: "Then why is there a concept of space and time in the starship?"
"Good question."
Moshu sighed while operating the starship: "This is a major modification of the five-dimensional cruise function, which cost me a lot of credit points."
"The order field device in the phase engine, the full name should be the void order field self-generation and stabilization device. I heard that it was developed on the basis of [Genesis]."
"This thing can form a stable order field in nothingness. You can simply understand it as an extremely small temporary universe."
"Once the order field disappears, the starship will be swallowed up by the surrounding nothingness."
Chen Fan swallowed subconsciously: "What will happen if it is swallowed by nothingness?"
"Disappear, disappear in the true sense."
Yi's voice came again: "Whether it is an intelligent creature or a technological creation, in the latest material information theory, it is actually a string of order information."
"After losing the protection of the order field, the order information will dissipate at an extremely fast speed."
"To put it simply, it is automatic disintegration."
Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully: "Then how do the hyperspace membrane and the universe bubble exist in the void?"
"These two things are special landscapes in the void."
Yi quickly answered: "There is also a naturally generated order field around them, so they can retain their own entities in the void."
"According to the latest research data released by the Academy of Sciences, the hyperspace membrane is still growing, relying on the naturally generated order field to continuously transform the void into its own territory."
"Then what about the phase engine?" Chen Fan turned his attention back to the starship's engine, "Since there is no concept of space and time in the void, how does it make the starship move?"
There are two most basic concepts of object movement.
Time can describe the continuity of material movement; and space can describe the extensibility of material movement.
In other words, without time and space, there is naturally no concept of material movement.
"This has to start with the way the hyperspace membrane grows."
"The order field around the hyperspace membrane continues to extend outward, thus giving the void the concept of space and time, and then the hyperspace membrane itself begins to expand and extend."
"This is also the working principle of the phase engine."
"Continuously analyze the surrounding void, and generate the corresponding order field through extremely large calculations, so that the starship can continue to move forward in the order field."
"Therefore, there is a considerable difference between five-dimensional cruising and navigation in the conventional universe."
Yi called up a holographic image in front of Chen Fan: "In the universe, the flight speed of a starship mainly depends on energy and engine power."
"More fuel and more powerful curvature engines can naturally increase the operating speed of the starship."
"But five-dimensional cruising is different."
"In the void, the flight speed of a starship mainly depends on the extension speed of the order field."
"The onboard host analyzes the void and calculates the corresponding order field generation plan. The phase engine then creates the corresponding order field and drives the starship forward."
"In the whole process, the calculation of the onboard host accounts for more than 80% of the credit."
"In other words, the speed of five-dimensional cruising mainly depends on the computing power and performance of the onboard host."
(End of this chapter)
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