Warp Engine

"Yes, the field control device." Yu Nanfeng nodded and walked towards the component he called the field control device.

"This thing," he pointed, "is what we didn't know what it did at the beginning."

"Later, after we dismantled the broken one and combined its structure with its possible function, plus our speculation about this alien civilization, we suspect that this engine is a Warp Engine, and this device should be a Warp Field Generator."

Yu Nanfeng turned to face Yue Yuan and Liu Miyan, continuing to speak eloquently, "If we are right, if our theory is correct, then the warp bubble or warp field is generated by this thing, although we don't know how it generates the warp field."

"Didn't you say that you're judging based on whether our theory is correct? How can you not know?" Yue Yuan asked strangely, isn't that a contradiction?

Yu Nanfeng patted the outer wall of the engine, "Because our theory cannot fully explain it. Our theory's explanation of warp navigation is not perfect, so we can only guess. If we want to determine whether this engine is a real Warp Engine, we can only know by actually trying it."

Being able to disassemble and replace parts, but saying they can't explain it, made Yue Yuan even more unwilling. So he took two steps forward and scanned the huge engine, "Can we... can we copy it according to its structure?"

"No!" Yu Nanfeng answered very decisively, without any hesitation.

Seeing Yue Yuan about to speak but stopping, Yu Nanfeng seemed to understand something, so he explained, "Chief, we disassembled the nozzle part, and the replaced parts were also damaged parts of the nozzle. As for its core components and precision mechanical structure..."

At this point, Yu Nanfeng sighed deeply and pointed to a corner not far from the basement.

Yue Yuan followed his finger and looked over, only to see a pile of mechanical components, circuit elements, and various unknown alloy components.

Slowly approaching and taking a closer look, he found that there were quite a lot of things piled up, but they were arranged a bit messily.

"What is this?" Yue Yuan asked, turning his head.

"The engine." Yu Nanfeng replied, "The broken engine we dismantled. We originally wanted to put it back together, but we found that after putting it back together, there were always some parts left over..."

Hey! Is this the legendary disassemble but can't put it back together?

Yue Yuan's face darkened. When he was a child, he had heard of such a thing, saying that a guy who thought he was very good at hands-on work had a broken phone and disassembled it to repair it, but after disassembling it and putting it back together, he found that there were actually a few extra parts.

He thought this kind of thing was just a legend, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes today.

"Didn't you use a computer to record when you disassembled it?" Yue Yuan asked curiously.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this. With the current Human Civilization's technology, using a camera to record it and adding scanning technology, a 3D model of the object can be completely constructed. How could there be leftover parts?

Yu Nanfeng spread his hands, indicating that they weren't that stupid, "Those were originally parts that fell off due to fracture and deformation. We don't know where they should be placed. As for copying according to its structure as the chief said, that's even more impossible. We don't have that kind of industrial capability at all, like wanting to copy something but not having a pen."

"Okay. You said just now that we can only know by trying it. How do we try it?" Yue Yuan asked again. He was thinking that if this thing could really be started, then maybe it could be installed on a spaceship.

They can't build it, they can't copy it, but they can still use it!

Just like an ordinary person getting a gun, although he can't manufacture it, he can still use it after exploring it a lot.

"There's no way to try it." Yu Nanfeng pointed to a disc-shaped object next to the platform where the engine was placed and said, "This thing is its fuel storage device, an unknown structure we have never seen before, a non-completely mechanical structure, with a self-control system on it. We don't know the operating mechanism of this system at all now, so we don't dare to forcibly disassemble it."

"Does that mean we have to decipher its control system first?"

"Yes."

"Have Li Zenglu and Chen Haiyu looked at it?"

Li Zenglu is the most professional quantum computer expert among the surviving humans, and Chen Haiyu is a leading figure in traditional computers and AI, so Yue Yuan asked this.

"It's not quantum computer technology." Yu Nanfeng replied, "Dr. Chen said that this system is not a highly intelligent AI, but because it uses algorithms completely different from our computer systems, we can't crack it in a short time. But he said last time that this thing doesn't actually need to be cracked, just figure out how to use the system. He should be looking for its operating code during this time."

"This thing is more than 20,000 years old, does it still have electricity?" Yue Yuan muttered, looking at the protruding part on the big iron cake that was about seven or eight meters high.

This part should be where Yu Nanfeng said the system was located.

"Yes, maintaining its electrical signal doesn't require much power." After a pause, Yu Nanfeng showed an admiring look, looked up at the big iron cake-shaped object, and continued, "We suspect that there is still fuel inside, but we don't know how to use it. More than 20,000 years, this thing has been running for more than 20,000 years, it's really unimaginable."

It is indeed hard to imagine.

Just a system on a storage device, the running time is actually longer than the history of Human Civilization. How high technology is needed to do this!

For a time, the three were silent, all immersed in the shock of imagination.

"You said just now... this thing is a fuel storage device, have you figured out what fuel it is?" Yue Yuan patted the big iron cake again, but it was like patting a solid wall, without any echo.

"If we guessed correctly, it should be Antimatter." Yu Nanfeng didn't speak, but Liu Miyan answered instead.

"Guessing?"

Liu Miyan casually pulled a piece of iron plate and sat down, "Yes, with our technology, we can't break this damn thing at all. We can only guess what's inside. According to our current theory, the minimum energy level to drive a Warp Engine is at the Antimatter level."

"And if we want to preserve Antimatter, in our theoretical framework, we must at least realize the grand unified theory. That is to say, the civilization to which this spaceship originally belonged was at least a civilization that mastered the grand unified theory, so we don't know what technology they used to manufacture this fuel storage device."

It seemed the idea of installing this engine on the spaceship was a pipe dream. Yue Yuan sighed inwardly.

In theory, Human Civilization does indeed have the ability to create anti-charged particles, but true Antimatter is impossible to produce, because even if it were created, it couldn't be stored.

Just as Liu Miyan said, a unified field is needed to truly preserve Antimatter, because Antimatter is uncharged and cannot be confined by a magnetic field.

Magnetic fields can confine anti-charged particles, such as positrons and antiprotons, which are separate particles.

Should I invest? Almost at a hundred.