Voyage of the Stars

Theories are not necessarily correct. People think they are correct only because they can explain the observed phenomena. When they can explain the phenomena without them, they are likely to be wrong.

Occam's razor principle says that entities should not be added unless necessary. It also makes sense in physical theory.

Based on their own observations, humans estimated that dark matter accounts for 25% of the mass of the universe, dark energy accounts for 70% of the total mass of the universe, and the remaining 5% is visible matter, that is, the bright stars in the sky.

But with the advancement of science and technology, dark energy, which humans used to regard as equivalent to mass and estimate it in the total mass of the universe, does not seem to account for that much.

The root cause is that with the advancement of science and technology, human civilization has detected more and more unknowns, and the "dark" in dark energy actually means unknown and invisible. In other words, dark energy is something that cannot be seen or touched and only exists in theory.

The same is true for dark matter.

With the advancement of science and technology, many things that were originally defined as dark matter have been given names. For example, tachyons were once considered by humans to be a kind of hot dark matter. However, after reaching the sixth level of civilization, humans found that this view was wrong.

Tachyons are not in the dark matter system.

As for dark energy, it is even more mysterious. After discovering some dark matter reaction laws, humans realized that the universe does not seem to need so much dark energy.

Visible matter accounts for more than 5% of the total mass of the universe, and dark energy does not reach 70% of the total mass of the universe. However, the calculated result of dark matter is still close to 25%. The new theory of cosmic evolution believes that in the vast universe, the material world is composed of dark matter and visible matter, while the mass occupied by dark energy is somewhat empty. It is more like a certain characteristic of space itself. It is not energy in the traditional sense, and intelligent civilization cannot use it as a drive, but it is closely related to the expansion of time and space. Scientific and technological civilization can master it through scientific and technological means and use it to affect the changes of time and space.

The latest research results show that dark energy manifests itself as spatial repulsion in space, which is a tearing repulsion of space itself. However, in the process of tearing space, dark energy will immediately dilute to the same energy density as the environment. At least the dark energy observed by humans at present is uniformly distributed.

However, the observation result of uniform distribution is irreconcilable with the theory of space medium, because uniform distribution means that the entire universe is full of uniform dark energy. Isn't this saying that dark matter is another version of ether in a roundabout way?

Ether does not exist. This is a proven fact. The Michelson-Morley experiment has told humans that ether does not exist. In this case, it should be wrong that dark energy is evenly distributed in the universe, otherwise it will become another medium in the universe, that is, alternative ether.

In this regard, many human scientists believe that dark energy is just a strange energy, a kind of energy with certain spatial characteristics. It is not evenly distributed. It is the cosmic evolution theory of human civilization that is wrong. The culprit of cosmic expansion is not dark energy, but the aftermath of the Big Bang itself.

If this theory is correct, then dark energy can be called a strange energy with spatial characteristics. However, even the research of Daya civilization shows that they have indeed detected the existence of dark energy, and all data show that dark energy is the culprit for tearing apart time and space.

Contradiction, humans and Daya civilization have discovered irreconcilable contradictions in the exploration of dark energy.

Dark energy seems to have become an empty talk at the level of sixth-level civilization, but the magical thing is that based on its application, it is used in the warp engine's speed-enhancing technology. In addition, it seems to have various contradictions in other theories.

On the contrary, all the characteristics of dark matter have been confirmed by both civilizations, such as it has mass performance and only manifests itself in gravitational interaction in long-range forces. Only gravity-related technology has discovered dark matter. Second, dark matter is not a substance. Like matter, it is composed of dark matter of different properties.

The mining and separation of dark matter deposits have allowed the two civilizations to understand it more and more deeply, but the research on dark energy seems to have just begun to make some achievements and then stagnated.

For a long time, the Shenju civilization often acted as a teacher for humans and Daya civilizations. Therefore, the difficulties encountered by the two civilizations would be raised to this teacher from time to time. Although in many cases, they would not get direct answers, they could get a lot of inspiration from it.

This time, the research on dark energy was also the same. At a certain scientific and technological exchange meeting, the two civilizations each explained their own progress in exploring dark energy and the theoretical contradictions they found. The purpose of this was naturally to hope that the scientists of the Shenju civilization present could comment on it.

However, this time, the scientists of the Shenju civilization who attended the meeting were uncharacteristically. They did not show their usual confidence, but told humans and Daya civilizations in sighs that they did not have an accurate answer to the question of dark energy.

They told humans and Daya civilization that they had come to the conclusion in their long-term observations that dark energy is a false energy, but this falsehood seems very real in some aspects. For example, the improvement of warp technology must be accompanied by the addition of some dark energy theories, so that the correct results can be calculated and the warp technology can be improved.

But its application is limited to this, at least the Shenju civilization itself cannot find other ways to apply it.

In addition, the Shenju civilization also explained the meaning of false energy. They said that according to their observations of the universe for millions of years, dark energy is likely to be just a projection energy, a false projection of vacuum zero-point energy in the apparent universe, and the phenomenon related to the mass of the universe observed by many low-level civilizations is just a calculation result, a concept added to make their calculations of the mass of the universe correct.

But it must be said that those calculations are not wrong, they just don't understand the truth.

After reaching the sixth level of civilization, advanced technology allows civilization to observe dark energy, but in fact, what is observed is not real dark energy, but the projection of the energy potential well formed by the huge vacuum zero-point energy in the universe.

That energy potential well is so huge that all civilizations think that it is the missing part of the universe's mass in the calculations related to the theory of cosmic evolution.

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Speaking of this, the scientists of the Shenju civilization also told humans and Daya civilization that the reason why vacuum zero-point energy is considered to be a symbol of the seventh level of civilization technology is because its energy level is so incredible that relying on its power, technological civilization can pry the laws of cosmic physics.

In the end, the Shenju civilization also gave their own speculation, saying that the large-scale application of vacuum zero-point energy might cause a vacuum decay catastrophe in the universe.