The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 241

Traveling

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Yue Yuan and many scientists wanted to ask the Awakeners how to use the Warp Engine in the human warehouse, especially how to crack the Intelligent Program on the fuel pack, but the Awakeners ignored them after saying that.

However, while ignoring the language, they also did not directly throw humans out of the Warp Bubble.

Based on this, Yue Yuan subsequently established a temporary working group specifically responsible for observing Warp Bubble.

At the same time, he also put Man Yuemei in charge of sending some detectors to observe the Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism up close.

Of course, before sending out the detector, he took the initiative to send a message to the Awakeners to say hello. Although he did not receive a response, Yue Yuan took it as the Awakeners's agreement.

Hmm, maybe it's because they don't care.

"Chief, based on our observations over the past few days, and combined with what the Awakeners said earlier about their journey of more than one million light-years taking more than seven thousand years, we estimate that the Warp Bubble we are currently in should be at about two hundred times the speed of light."

Almost a month has passed since the Awakeners stopped paying attention to humanity. Today, Yue Yuan, as usual, held a discussion meeting with the temporary working group every other week.

However, this meeting had more military personnel than the previous ones, all of whom were in charge of observing the Golden Ratio Rectangular Prism.

There was no special venue, since it was just a routine meeting for a temporary project, so Yue Yuan set up this small meeting directly in the main hall of the Command Center.

So everyone gathered some Magnetic Force stools and got together to discuss it.

The person who just Liu Miyan, a physicist who had been transferred from the Academy of Sciences to serve as the temporary team leader. After saying this, he opened his Personal Terminal and began to introduce the progress of the temporary working group to the attendees.

There weren't many people present, only about a dozen.

"Although we cannot observe the Great Universe from the Warp Bubble, we can find some clues from the distorted starlight." Liu Miyan placed his terminal on the conference table in front of him, then tapped a few times with his fingers, seemingly to retrieve research data.

He continued, "However, because the distortion is so extreme, and this is the first time we've observed this phenomenon, there's not much data to refer to. Therefore, we can only briefly analyze the Warp Bubble from the spectral changes."

As everyone listened to Liu Miyan's introduction, they all nodded in agreement.

They all understand physics. According to the principles of physics, the so-called Warp Engine is a way of traveling by changing the curvature of a spaceship.

How to change it, what technology to use to change it, what form of energy is needed, and how much energy is required to make a change—these are all unknowns to humankind.

Humans do not have the ability to directly probe space itself, so they can only explore Warp Bubble indirectly.

During nearly a month of observation, the temporary team used a central Supercomputer to reconstruct the distorted starlight into stars based on spectral changes, and then compared it with star maps in the Human Database to confirm where the starry sky observed inside the Warp Bubble is from and which stars are passing over the 'surface' of the Warp Bubble.

This is not easy, because the farther away a star is from the Warp Bubble, the slower it will move on the Warp Bubble. In addition, it is necessary to ensure that the Human Database has specific data on the star, such as its type, spectrum, metallicity, size, and so on.

This will test the richness of stellar data in Human Database.

It was this temporary project that made some people who didn't understand why humans would send out a large number of probes to explore the Main Sequence Star of every Star System they visited understand the significance of doing so.

The more stellar data we have, the more accurate our star map will be. In contrast, this means we can calculate our current position and speed of movement more precisely.

"Besides spectral analysis, we also discovered some clues from the Gravitational Wave Detector, namely that the Gravitational Wave Detector did not receive any spacetime fluctuation signals." Liu Miyan continued, "However, the absence of a signal is also a signal. It is precisely because the Gravitational Wave Detector has no signal that we can confirm that our current Warp Speed Travel is indeed encased in a certain 'bubble'."

We believe that this 'bubble' is what isolates the faint Gravitational Wave that cause spacetime distortions; you can probably imagine that.

It's easy to imagine that although humanity is only Level 2 Civilization, it is ahead of the curve in various theories, even though we cannot yet determine whether those theories are correct or not.

In the context of Warp Speed Travel, humans often use the analogy of a paper boat coated with soapy water.

Although the real universe is not so simple, it is very vivid, so everyone knows that a small boat coated with soapy water will create ripples when it moves.

And this ripple should also exist in the universe and spacetime, since it involves the movement of distorted spacetime. Since spacetime is distorted, there must be Gravitational Wave.

However, the human-made Laser Interferometer Space Antenna array did not detect it, which means that the space region inside the Warp Bubble was not affected by the Gravitational Wave generated by Warp Speed Travel.

To be honest, humans haven't learned much from observing Warp Bubble, but no one thinks it shouldn't be done.

After Liu Miyan, it was Man Yuemei's turn. She mainly talked about the observation of the Awakener Warship. If there were no major discoveries, the work meeting was basically just a work report.

Therefore, such meetings are not long.

After the main person in charge finished speaking, other participants spoke and discussed, and finally Yue Yuan summarized. The whole process took more than an hour.

After the meeting, Yue Yuan left the Command Center and went to the porthole to look out. The huge rectangular prism was reflected in his pupils.

The Awakeners was very close to the Lyra and could see its hull with the naked eye. Although the granite-like exterior was not visible, it did not affect Yue Yuan.

At this moment, what appeared in Yue Yuan's mind was the close-up photo of the Awakener Warship's exterior that the Man Yuemei Working Group had shown at the meeting.

They thought they could determine its material through the spectrum, but to their surprise, every time they photographed and observed the Awakener Warship, they obtained different spectral patterns.

Despite all appearing to be granite, these variations occur, and the spectra obtained each time are different, showing no discernible pattern.

Aside from equipment malfunction, some even suspect that it was intentional on the Awakeners.

Although humans didn't expect to know the material of the Awakener Warship through observation, it was still somewhat frustrating to get nothing.

The Materials Technology of Level Six Civilization is completely beyond human comprehension.

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