Chapter 412 Research Going Astray

Yue Yuan's words made Yu Nanfeng frown. He was silent for a moment, turned his head and looked at the experimental thruster that had been turned off: "That can't be true. In the eyes of the 'Silver Mist Consciousness', we were a civilization that had not even achieved controlled nuclear fusion, and it was a dignified third-level civilization creation, a strong artificial intelligence with self-awareness. There was no reason to lie to us in describing the third-level civilization propulsion technology!"

Yu Nanfeng was a little confused. As an engineering scientist, he put all his thoughts on the development of new thrusters and did not consider other aspects too much.

If some scholars heard what Yue Yuan said, they would probably be able to analyze a lot of arguments.

After a pause, Yu Nanfeng pretended to think with his lips pursed, and then said: "Is it possible that the 'Silver Mist Consciousness' does not know the propulsion technology of the third-level civilization? After all, it is just an artificial intelligence consciousness body specially used for mining."

I guess even Yu Nanfeng himself didn't believe this, but apart from the research route mentioned by the Silver Mist Consciousness, he couldn't think of any form of power used by the third-level civilization for the time being.

Thinking of power, Yu Nanfeng frowned even more.

The development process of mankind emerged in his mind, from primitive people to the Stone Age, from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, and then to the Iron Age, and then bid farewell to the cold weapon age and entered the firearms age, the atomic energy age, and the information age.

Finally, he entered the starry sky, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, and then cold nuclear heavy nuclear fusion.

Each stage is either an improvement in energy utilization or an improvement in the masterable energy level, but when it comes to the third-level civilization, it has become true nanotechnology.

It is true that after mastering the real nanotechnology, mankind has indeed undergone earth-shaking changes in all aspects, and the original engine thruster has become more efficient and powerful after being blessed by true nanotechnology.

However, the power mode is still that of the second-level civilization, and the energy level has not been fundamentally improved. Humans still cannot obtain greater thrust to push the warship to a greater speed.

It is true that after accelerating to 30% of the speed of light, the ion thruster can continue to accelerate the spacecraft to a higher speed, but the thrust of the ion thruster is too small. If you want to continue to accelerate the spacecraft at 30% of the speed of light, the time consumed is enough to kill countless turtles.

But apart from the hybrid power composed of positive and negative electron annihilation and secondary civilization propulsion technology mentioned by the "Silver Mist Consciousness", what other methods and routes can obtain greater thrust?

No, perhaps this road can no longer obtain greater thrust

Yu Nanfeng looked at the thruster outside the isolation wall in a daze. He felt that this thruster was already successful. It had achieved the stable annihilation reaction of positive and negative electrons in the thruster. However, from the data feedback, the thrust obtained can only make the current human propulsion technology more advanced and faster to accelerate to 30% of the speed of light, and it can not meet the standard of quickly pushing larger warships and spacecraft to 50% of the speed of light.

Is this route really unworkable? Is all this really intentional by the "Silver Mist Consciousness"? Deliberately leading humans into a dead end of development?

But at that time, humans had not yet reached the first level of civilization. How could the 'Silver Mist Consciousness' think so far? How could it be sure that humans would definitely develop to the second and third levels of civilization?

Looking at Yu Nanfeng who was a little dazed, Yue Yuan seemed to feel his confusion. After working hard for so many years, it was really uncomfortable to accept that the path he took was wrong.

"Old Yu, don't think too much. Isn't scientific research like this? Maybe we were really misled by the 'Silver Mist Consciousness', but it doesn't matter. We still have a lot of time. At worst, we can start all over again."

Hearing Yue Yuan's voice, Yu Nanfeng pulled himself back from his deep heart: "Yue Shuai, I'm really sorry, I lost my composure."

Taking a deep breath, Yu Nanfeng suddenly felt that accepting this fact was not a bad thing. At least the moment he accepted that this road was a dead end in his heart, he felt that the scene in front of him was suddenly clear.

It’s not that Yu Nanfeng immediately thought of other research routes, but he completely let go of his own thinking constraints, no longer thinking that the route mentioned by the ‘Silver Mist Consciousness’ was the only correct route, and then he immersed himself in it.

This feeling is like finding that he has been stuck in a dead end, and suddenly he is relaxed.

Then, Yu Nanfeng, who was relaxed, introduced the various parameters of this experimental propulsion device to Yue Yuan in detail.

After listening to Yu Nanfeng’s introduction, Yue Yuan also felt that there was a 90% probability that the route mentioned by the ‘Silver Mist Consciousness’ would not work.

But what route is the correct route for the third-level civilization propulsion technology?

He felt sympathetic, and it was strange that humans were so sure of the statement of an enemy. Even though he was not a scientist or a technician, Yue Yuan couldn’t help asking himself at this time.

Perhaps, there is no third-level civilization propulsion technology at all? Is the power system of the third-level civilization the same as that of the second-level civilization?

Could it be that the third-level civilization is more powerful than the second-level civilization, and the technology that can form a crushing situation is just a polarization shield and a group of nanorobots?

According to the theory, level one, level two, and level three civilizations are classified as space-level civilizations, and only level four civilizations can be called interstellar civilizations. Is this the reason?

Well, the division between aerospace-level civilization and interstellar-level civilization was confirmed by the awakener. Yue Yuan believed that it was correct. He now regretted why he believed the description of the third-level civilization advancement technology by the ‘Silver Mist Consciousness’ so much that he did not confirm it with the awakener when he met him.

Although according to the purpose of the awakener, it is not necessarily true that humans are told clearly, but humans may be able to infer the answer from the high-level civilization’s casual answer.

Not directly saying or giving technology directly, but as a casual word from the top civilization, it can save humans a lot of detours.

Now humans are no longer the time when they just fled. They know that there are many possibilities for the development of science and technology, but at the same time, the discovery of some iconic technologies and theories is what science and technology civilization must master to move towards a higher path together.

Just like the Grand Unified Theory and the Theory of Everything.

Although humans have not yet mastered or realized it, from some of the words of the awakener at the time, humans can also guess that these two theories must be the theories that must be mastered in the advancement of science and technology civilization at a certain stage in the future.

Just like the Maxwell equations that humans must master to enter the electromagnetic era, and the mass-energy equations that are necessary to enter the atomic energy era.

These are all advances in basic theoretical physics. Only when theoretical physics advances can civilization dig out various application technologies from the theory.

So does it mean that the navigation technology of the third-level civilization is also based on a set of physical theories? Just like the mass-energy equation of controlled nuclear fusion, and the quantum state condensate theory involved in the cold nuclear fusion fuel of the second-level civilization.

If so, what is that theory?

After Yue Yuan left the No. 3 scientific research spacecraft, the news that the propulsion technology had reached a dead end quickly spread in the scientific community. In the next few days, almost all relevant scientists were talking about this matter.

For this reason, a scientific and technological seminar was soon held in the next few days.

At the meeting, as a leader in propulsion dynamics, Yu Nanfeng first gave a detailed introduction to the propulsion route he had studied for many years, and also showed the results and conclusions to all the participating scientists one by one.

Afterwards, Yu Nanfeng, as the focus of the meeting, focused on answering some scientists' questions about hybrid propulsion technology.

In this way, with Yu Nanfeng's detailed discussion and answers to questions, scientists who did not believe that human propulsion technology had reached a dead end also changed their views, because the real data given by Yu Nanfeng could not deceive people.

Some scientists who did not believe in evil even used their own methods to calculate these data at the conference site with the help of implanted chips, and the results were self-evident.

After this meeting, many scientists have made a qualitative assessment of this route, that is, the "Silver Mist Consciousness" lied, and the hybrid power combining positron-electron annihilation propulsion and secondary civilization propulsion technology is a dead end. This road has no way for humans to achieve a higher navigation speed.