The research process was extremely difficult.
In the blink of an eye, the four civilizations had already spent nearly a thousand years in this starfield, yet they still had not completed their research into proportional spatial scaling technology.
But not a single scientific team from any civilization had ever thought of giving up, because the research had not ground to a halt.
Nearly a thousand years of experimental research had given all four civilizations a wealth of related data, and they had even successfully compressed an object in the laboratory. Unfortunately, after the object was successfully compressed, it did not last long before returning to its original state, and there had also been cases where chaotic physical laws caused it to turn into dust.
Even so, it had allowed the scientific teams of the four civilizations to truly see hope.
Because the scientists had all realized that this kind of failure was not inevitable. Moreover, they had already succeeded in shrinking space by a fixed ratio, and that alone was an enormous success.
After all, before this, although all the spatial shrinking experiments had also succeeded in tugging at space, the scaling ratios across the space occupied by the object had all been different, causing the experiments to fail outright.
So this time, what looked like failure was in fact an unprecedented success.
Each scientific team only needed to continue repeating the experiments, collect more experimental data, analyze why proportionally shrunken space could not be maintained for very long, and then keep improving it bit by bit. Then they might truly master this technology.
However, even if they really stabilized the successfully scaled space, they would still need to test it and find where the scaling ratio limit of this technology lay.
In short, the research into proportional spatial scaling