Chapter 434 Clock

The huge human fleet set sail again. At the same time, the preliminary research on the dark force theory, which determines whether a civilization becomes a level 5 civilization, has also begun in full swing.

When humans were still in the solar system, they once tried to conduct a preliminary research on the dark force theory. However, that time it was blocked by external forces and could not continue. Therefore, until now, the technological level of human civilization is still at about level 4.7.

Fortunately, this time the dark force theory is attacked again, and there will be no external forces to interfere.

Some initial research is actually not around neutron stars, and it can be carried out without large scientific research equipment. It is nothing more than some purely theoretical exploration. In extreme cases, a scientist plus a pen and a piece of paper can do it.

What human civilization is doing at this moment is purely theoretical forward-looking research, exploring the theoretical existence form and possibility of dark matter and dark energy, and the way to unify the existing four fundamental forces.

More than 1 billion scientists have participated in this theoretical research. In addition, scientists in other disciplines are not idle either.

Under Han Yang's unified arrangement, they also carried out a lot of applied research.

After all, even if basic technology does not make progress, there are still a lot of applied research that can be carried out, such as more advanced materials, more reasonable mechanical structures, and more advanced propulsion systems.

However, it is still a bit inconvenient to carry out various research while traveling at superluminal speed.

The most important point is that during the process of superluminal travel, materials and personnel cannot be circulated between spacecraft.

Although Han Yang has tried his best to gather scientists of the same discipline on a spacecraft, and then built scientific research facilities for scientists to use on this residential spacecraft, such as material laboratories, stamping laboratories, and metallurgical laboratories, there is still a situation that cannot be avoided.

Some scientists have some ideas or needs temporarily, and need to use the equipment on another spacecraft, or some scientists need to form a team in reality, but because of the superluminal travel at this moment, they cannot go, so they have to delay it temporarily.

Faced with this situation, Han Yang and the ruling committee members immediately adjusted the current navigation mode and decided that every year, the human fleet would leave the superluminal speed navigation once and stay in the interstellar space for a month.

During this month, the channels for the flow of materials and personnel were all opened. Not only can scientists move freely, but ordinary civilians can also use this time window to complete some things such as traveling, visiting relatives and friends, and moving.

Many spacecraft also took advantage of this time to carry out some inspections and maintenance.

Therefore, every time the parking month comes, the entire human fleet will really become lively.

Countless small spacecrafts shuttle back and forth between a total of more than one million large spacecrafts. People happily take advantage of the holidays to leave the spacecraft they live in and go to other spacecrafts to appreciate the beauty of other spacecrafts.

A large number of spacecraft specialties, handicrafts, mountain delicacies and seafood also take advantage of this time window to circulate. Later, the parking month became a carnival month that swept the entire civilization.

People who have worked hard for a year just took advantage of this month to rest and have fun. People who have been away from their home spaceships and working on other spaceships for a year also took this opportunity to go home and visit their families.

After discussion, the members of the ruling committee simply set the time of the "Spring Festival" in the anchorage month, and took advantage of this festival from ancient times to give people a holiday.

The human fleet, which has transformed into a starship civilization, stopped and started like this, moving all the way to the edge of the Milky Way.

Hundreds of years have passed in the blink of an eye. During these hundreds of years, both the dark force theory and other applied research have accumulated a lot of results, and large-scale scientific experiments are urgently needed to verify them.

At this time, because of the recovery of all mankind and the large-scale increase in resource consumption, the original reserve of materials has also been reduced to about half of the peak period.

Therefore, the ruling committee made a decision again that the next anchorage will be anchored around the galaxy and stay there for about a hundred years. While completing the supply, all the experiments that need to be carried out will be completed.

Although the ship has begun to stop and has left the state of superluminal navigation, and can circulate materials between spacecraft at any time, the "Spring Festival" custom formed by the previous hundreds of years of navigation has been preserved and has become a fixed festival.

Every Spring Festival, in addition to holidays, reunions, and celebrations, people generally hold large-scale remembrance and commemoration actions. During this period, newborn children will also learn from their parents, elders and teachers that our civilization originated from a beautiful planet, but was forced to leave later because of some things.

At that time, the earth will still have four seasons. In winter, the earth is frozen, and in spring, everything revives. In order to celebrate the arrival of spring and the revival of all things, the Spring Festival was created, and it has continued to this day.

The elders will also encourage children to study hard, master scientific knowledge as soon as possible, and contribute to the strength of civilization. Only when civilization is strong can the things that have been lost be taken back.

Under this long-term and short-term stop mode of long-distance navigation, thousands of years have passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the ruling committee finally made a judgment after careful research and combined with the opinions of many top scientists from the Academy of Sciences.

After such a long period of pre-research and preliminary theoretical reserves, the time to truly launch a charge towards the dark force theory has finally matured.

Therefore, Han Yang plans to recruit millions of relevant scientific researchers within the civilization, with more than 10 million dummies controlled by himself, as well as millions of dummy warriors and warships, and then allocate three large aerospace motherships, fully loaded with personnel, materials and equipment, to the selected relatively close neutron star.

According to Han Yang's estimation, at this stage, the number of neutron stars in the entire Milky Way is about 1 billion.

The Milky Way is vast, and even with the technological strength of the creator civilization, it is unlikely to bring all of these approximately 1 billion neutron stars under control. However, Han Yang still responded to the highest level of vigilance for this action.

After these scientific researchers set off for the vicinity of the neutron star on the aerospace mothership, the huge human fleet also set sail at the same time. And the direction of the voyage will not be informed to those scientists.

If the research fleet is attacked by external forces and the approximately 10,000 warships it carries are unable to resist, then these scientists can only accept the fate of death.

Because the main fleet is too far away, it is impossible to come to rescue them. And... even if they can be rescued, the main fleet will not rescue them.

And unless the civilization level is upgraded to level 6, the research fleet will never return to the main fleet. And the most optimistic estimate is that it will take at least tens of thousands of years for human civilization to be upgraded to level 6.

The reason for this is that Han Yang must rule out the possibility that the research fleet is targeted by potential threats and follow the clues to eventually find the human main fleet.

The main goal of this research fleet is to conduct research related to the dark force theory. When there is a breakthrough in the dark force theory research and human civilization is promoted to level 5 civilization, their mission is completed, Han Yang will destroy all the dummies and arrange all the real scientists to hibernate, waiting for the civilization to become a level 6 civilization one day and no longer fear any external threats.

At that time, Han Yang will wake them up and welcome them back to civilization.

Humans have never tried hibernation for tens of thousands of years. It is foreseeable that there must be too many risks and unknowns.

It is really impossible to predict how many people will wake up successfully in the end. Maybe once you fall asleep, you will never wake up again.

But... for the safety of civilization, this part of the scientific researchers are destined to make sacrifices.

Before departure, Han Yang announced all the relevant consequences. But even so, the number of scientific researchers who came to sign up still exceeded Han Yang's expectations.

There are a total of about 1.05 million places, and the number of people who came to sign up is as high as 10 million. Han Yang had to conduct further screening, eliminate most of the people, and finally finalize the list.

When all personnel, materials, equipment, aerospace motherships and various types of spacecraft were ready, all the ruling committee members came out and personally came to the edge of the fleet to see off the people participating in this scientific research mission.

A total of more than one million scientists, scattered in thousands of venues, saw the figure of President Liu Yuan with their own eyes and heard the voice of President Liu Yuan with their own ears.

The figures of more than one million scientists also appeared in front of almost every human being through ubiquitous camera equipment.

"Based on the safety needs of civilization, we all know in our hearts that this separation will be a farewell in a sense.

But even knowing this, these brave people in our civilization still stood up without hesitation, chose to shoulder the burden of civilization development, and bravely rushed to the battlefield of technological advancement.

I, Liu Yuan, on behalf of the entire civilization, salute you."

All the ruling committee members bowed at the same time.

At this moment, I don’t know how many viewers burst into tears.

Liu Yuan stood up, and Han Yang looked at the solemn, dignified and sacred people in front of him through Liu Yuan’s eyes.

His heart was full of emotion.

These faces, old and young, male and female, are different. But no matter tall, short, fat or thin, male or female, old or young, at this moment, everyone’s heart is the same.

For civilization, regardless of the cost, not afraid of sacrifice.

"If I can replace you with a dummy controlled by me, even if it will slow down the progress of scientific research tasks, I will not sacrifice you in exchange for the advancement of civilization.

It's a pity that for intelligent life, remote observation can never replace being on the scene in person. Although I don't have this limitation, I can't make a breakthrough in the theory of dark force by myself.

The advancement of civilization requires not only me, but also all of us to go all out.

I promise you here that I will do my best to lead human civilization to the sixth level of civilization. Once promoted, even if there are thousands of difficulties and dangers, even if you don't survive tens of thousands of years of hibernation, I will bring you all back and welcome you... home."

Han Yang secretly made up his mind.

"I order the scientific research fleet to set off and set sail!"

With Han Yang's order, three large aerospace carriers slowly separated from the human main fleet and then entered the superluminal navigation state at the same time.

The human fleet also set sail at the same time and headed for the unknown distance.

In the blink of an eye, several decades passed. At this moment, the scientific research fleet is nearly a thousand light years away from the main human fleet.

In the vast starry sky, around a very small, but very bright, and very powerful star, accompanied by a burst of light and shadow changes, three huge aerospace motherships appeared.

In the hibernation room, under the control of Han Yang, more than one million real scientists and engineers in hibernation slowly opened their eyes.

So they knew that the test field that determines whether human civilization can be promoted to a level 5 civilization has arrived.

This is a starry sky that looks ordinary to the naked eye and is no different from other places. There are no extremely bright stars that can even break away from the point structure and have a disk structure.

Everything shows that it is still far away from any macroscopic star at this moment. But the powerful radiation that fills this entire space makes people know that the real situation is not what they see.

At this distance, a star that appears extremely dim in the visible light band, but the overall radiation is unusually strong, and the distance is only a few tenths of a light year away is their destination.

Switching to the conventional propulsion phase, the three aerospace motherships moved forward at the same time, and the preliminary preparations began.

Like the soldiers who were about to enter the battlefield, every human member of the scientific research fleet was full of fighting spirit and confidence.

Here, we will personally uncover the mystery of dark matter and dark energy that has troubled mankind for tens of thousands of years. And by solving this mystery, we will personally help human civilization to step onto the peak of level 5 civilization and lay the foundation for subsequent climbing to another peak.

To this end, no matter what the price is, no matter how great the risk is, we will move forward and never stop.

Under the fierce radiation, the three aerospace motherships finally advanced to a place only 10 million kilometers away from the star that had no number before and was now numbered TG-A36.

A large number of special research ships and engineering ships transported many people wearing special space suits and began to build facilities needed for subsequent experiments under the fierce scorching of the neutron star.

These facilities mainly include two bases in the early stage. The two bases are powered by independent quark fission power stations. The most important equipment is two highly accurate clocks.

The accuracy of this clock has even reached the point where it can continuously time 5 billion years with an error of no more than one second.

In the current theoretical research system of dark matter and dark energy conducted by human scientists, this clock will become the most powerful weapon to explore the mystery of dark force. (End of this chapter)