Voyage of the Stars

After the destruction of Kuntai civilization, humans were not in a hurry to leave Aldebaran. Instead, they returned to the orbit of the two rocky planets and began to mine resources, build spaceships, and climb the technology tree again.

After encountering the Kuntai civilization, humans also understood a truth, that is, although it is dangerous here, the road is also dangerous. Instead of rushing to sail on the road, it is better to calm down and digest the technology of Kuntai civilization, and then break through to the second level of civilization.

As for the fight between gods and goddesses on the Galactic Axis Alliance broadcast, I can only pray for luck.

After learning from the Kuntai Civilization Database about the speed at which the Quill Civilization attracted the Galactic Alliance, humans already know that those advanced civilizations are in this star field, and their speed is frighteningly high.

In the face of such a civilization, whether it is an extra 100 light years or 200 light years, it is actually the same.

Of course, you still have to run, but it is best to do it when you are strong. Otherwise, if you encounter another civilization next time, you will have to fight another war with an uncertain future.

Time passes slowly in development and construction.

Fifty years flew by.

However, these fifty years are just like the slogan that mankind shouted to achieve controllable nuclear fusion in the 20th century. After fifty years, although many relevant technological breakthroughs have been made in heavy nuclear fusion, they still have not become a reality.

Scientists say it will take another thirty years.

Heavy nuclear fusion has not been realized, but another technology has made a theoretical breakthrough, and the first experimental equipment has been built.

Today, Yue Yuan arrived at the headquarters of the Engineering Department to participate in this experiment. When he arrived at the scene, it was already filled with scientists and researchers from all walks of life.

As soon as Yue Yuan and his assistant walked into the door, they walked towards the scientist in charge of the project: "Where is the detection target?"

The scientist who is in charge of this project is not an old acquaintance from before, but a new generation who has been promoted to the new generation based on his own talent and learning. He is a young man who is only over a hundred years old. He is a physicist, communications expert, and project leader in the detection field. His name is Dao Heiqi, and it is rare to see people with the surname Dao.

This Dao Heiqi is also the chief scientist of mankind for the past fifty years.

In order to prevent old ideas from becoming useless, humans have institutionally stipulated that the position of chief scientist should be selected once every fifty years.

The last one was Yi Kai, and this time it was Dao Heiqi.

Dao Heiqi looked very happy to be able to achieve results during his term of office. He turned around and saw Yue Yuan coming. He immediately said hello with a smile on his face, and then replied: "Shuai Yue, the target is Aldebaran. The back side of A, and the location of our experimental detector is here."

Dao Heiqi turned around, raised his hand and pressed the remote control in his hand, making a small circle on the screen displaying the star map.

Yue Yuan looked up and found that the location of the detector was exactly two planets away from the detection target. One was naturally Aldebaran A, which is an orange giant, and the other was a giant gas planet.

There are two planets between the detector and the detection target. This experimental method is obviously very special. Precisely because it is special, anyone with some knowledge of physics knows that this must be an experiment about a neutrino detector.

Detectors, not neutrino communications.

The difference between the two is that the former uses neutrinos to detect and identify unknown targets, while the latter relies on two neutrino transmitting and receiving terminals for communication.

Neutrino communication has been available to humans before. It was the technology given to us by the Moks. But at that time, humans only knew how to create things and didn’t understand the principles.

And now that the experiments on neutrino detectors have come out, there is no doubt that the so-called theoretical breakthrough of mankind in the past fifty years has been about neutrinos.

As for what is at the engineering department headquarters, it is not the detector itself, but the control end of the detector. The detector body is located where Dao Heiqi circled on the screen just now, and it is mounted on a detection spacecraft.

The detection targets are a Shan-class and several Callisto-class battleships.

After Dao Heiqi's introduction, Yue Yuan also understood the outline of the entire experiment. Next, he asked a few more questions about the detection experiment, such as whether the preparations were appropriate, whether he was sure, and when to start.

As a leading scientist, Dao Heiqi is naturally familiar with these issues.

However, after hearing that there was still some time before the experiment, Yue Yuan became curious about its principles. He was curious about how neutrino detection was achieved.

Because according to common sense, neutrinos have very strong penetrating power and will not be reflected back even if they penetrate stars.

The so-called conventional detector detection is obviously the same as radar, which requires reflection to detect the target.

He had doubts in his heart, so Yue Yuan asked this question.

Facing Yue Yuan's question, Dao Heiqi didn't seem to need to think, so he opened his mouth and said: "This is actually a detection method based on microscopic quantum effects. Neutrinos are also microscopic particles, and microscopic particles are With quantum effects.

Well, just as we call photons also called light quanta, photons themselves have quantum effects, as do electrons and neutrinos."

Listening to Dao Heiqi's words, Yue Yuan nodded secretly.

He knew that the microscopic particles Dao Heiqi mentioned did not refer to all microscopic particles, but to indivisible microscopic particles.

Quantum is a concept that means that if a physical quantity has the smallest indivisible basic unit, then the physical quantity is quantified, and its smallest unit is called a quantum. Instead of a real quantum like photons and electrons.

Therefore, quantum effects naturally refer to macroscopic effects manifested on various microscopic particles, or the overall quantum phenomenon presented by a macroscopic system composed of a large number of microscopic particles.

Yue Yuan's scientific literacy is not bad, so when Dao Heiqi said this, he got a general idea.

Precisely because of this, Yue Yuan understood that Dao Heiqi did not get to the point, so he then pricked up his ears and listened carefully.

Sure enough, the next moment, Dao Heiqi continued: "The theoretical basis is the law of non-conservation of parity. Twenty years ago, we studied this issue based on the Yang-Mills theory, and later discovered the electric neutrino. Muon neutrinos and tau neutrinos will produce a magical quantum effect in a certain weak force field."

"This magical quantum effect allows us to obtain pairs of neutrinos with entangled properties by using certain equipment just like obtaining light quanta.

We found that these neutrinos with magical quantum effects will change their spin directions to varying degrees when passing through different materials."

"So, we can emit neutrinos with quantum entanglement properties, and then through the instantaneous quantum collapse effect on the corresponding entangled particles of the electron neutrinos in the detector in the weak force field, we can roughly understand , the neutrino beam we emitted passed through something.

If this process is described from the perspective of quantum electrodynamics, something very interesting will happen when neutrinos propagate in space. They will transform from one flavor to another, which is somewhat similar to the flavor of quarks. Change, this process is called neutrino oscillation. "