Alice Ring

There's a saying: If quantum theory violates our common sense, it's only because nature doesn't seem to care much about our common sense.

Therefore, in scientific research, scientists are not afraid of experiments or theoretical descriptions that do not conform to common sense. After all, what does not conform to common sense is just common sense and does not mean that it is wrong.

As far as humans know, some things that humans consider to be contrary to common sense may be normal to the Nair People, Kuntai People, or Dog-Headed People.

The laws of the universe are there, but humans find them difficult to understand, which is why they seem counterintuitive.

Many amazing phenomena are like this.

Many years later, a scientific team has found a way to create something with amazing phenomena—or rather, to call it a physical existence.

This physical entity was rediscovered by a Research Team specializing in Bose-Einstein Condensate, and using advanced True Nano Technology, they spent eight years creating the first stable physical entity of this kind.

This physical phenomenon has a beautiful name: the Alice Ring.

Why do we say it was found again?

The answer is simple yet tragic: it's because back in Earth Era, human scientists created the Alice Ring, which, although it only lasted for 84 milliseconds, was still a breakthrough from nothing to something.

Unfortunately, this data was swept away by cosmic dust along with Earth when the Solar System was destroyed. Furthermore, the original Callisto Base was not established as a comprehensive data repository, so the original Callisto Base did not have any scientific data for creating the Alice Ring.

There wasn't even a single scientist who had researched the relevant field at the time, which resulted in people never having heard of the name. Some lay scientists only learned about the wonder of the Alice Ring during their studies, and knew very little about its manufacturing method or discovery process.

There is absolutely no accurate scientific data available.

After the surviving humans set foot in space, due to the sparse population, the New Government devoted all its scientific research efforts to exploring technologies that would enable humans to survive in space.

While this allowed humanity to survive in space and even surpass Earth Era in some technologies over a long period, much scientific data, research findings, and other information have been lost to history.

The relevant research data on the Alice Ring is one of them.

So when the Research Team announced that they had successfully created a stable Alice Ring, many scientists had no idea what it was.

After all, the name sounds like a ring from a girl named Alice.

When the news was released, many human residents initially thought that someone had given the bracelet to a woman named Alice. It wasn't until they saw that the news came from a physics institution that they realized it seemed to be a physics achievement.

On the contrary, Yue Yuan, the leader, reacted immediately upon hearing the news and realized it was something amazing in the field of physics. Of course, he didn't know exactly how amazing it was at the time, since he had only heard about the Alice Ring a few times from Yi Kai, Zero Zero Generation.

As for Yi Kai, his major was biology, and he only remembered hearing some news about the Alice Ring at some point, such as its technical parameters and manufacturing methods, but he didn't understand it.

This can be considered a technological deficiency resulting from losing Earth.

So what is the Alice Ring?

That story begins in 2023. At the end of that year, Finnish scientists, by manipulating hundreds of thousands of extremely cold atoms, created for the first time a peculiar quantum object, which they named the Alice Ring. The Alice Ring is a ring-shaped Topological Defect object that possesses the property of altering the properties of quantum objects passing through or perceiving it.

Back then, scientists first placed 250,000 Rubidium Atom into a vacuum chamber, and then used lasers to irradiate the Rubidium Atom gas prepared in a non-magnetic state, thereby slowing down their natural movement.

In this case, all Rubidium Atom behave as a large quantum object, and because these Rubidium Atom themselves possess the quantum property of spin, this large quantum object is extremely sensitive to magnetic fields.

Under such extreme conditions, they observed monopoles.

Yes, it's a monopole, not Magnetic Monopole; it's a type of pole with only a single charge.

The Alice Ring has a distinctive feature: when viewed from the center outwards, everything is a mirror image, as if the ring were a gateway to the Antimatter world. Any monopole passing through it is converted into its opposite magnetic charge.

That's amazing.

Its theoretical basis is the theory of spontaneously broken non-Abelian norms.

So what is the purpose of scientists rediscovering and creating a stable Alice Ring? Researchers are currently explaining this to Yue Yuan, who has come to learn more.

"Chief, this Alice Ring is actually a strange ring created through the Bose- Einstein condensate, a special kind of vortex ring. Its essence is a ring formed by the closure of a Cosmic String, which acts as a 'mirror' of charge conjugation."

"Hmm!" Yue Yuan nodded, indicating that he understood, and then gestured for the Research Personnel to continue.

"Electromagnetism and magnetism are inseparable; electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity." The Research Personnel continued, "Our research team believes that this property of the Alice Ring may be related to the phase transition in the early universe. The black holes and singularities we know in the macroscopic universe are macroscopic manifestations of single magnetic poles."

"After obtaining a stable Alice Ring, we conducted various tests on it, such as passing a magnetic pole through it, passing one Alice Ring another, and so on. These experiments provided us with a wealth of data about the Alice Ring."

After years of research, we believe that this property of the Alice Ring might be used to create a Magnetic Propulsion engine based on magnetic field interactions.

"Magnetic Propulsion?"

"Yes!" the Research Personnel replied. "The Alice Ring is an unusual Topological Defect that can transform a monopole into an antimonopole, like a mirror image, and can also instantly transform a magnetic field into an opposite magnetic field."

"Does that mean we can use two opposing magnetic fields to create a counterforce?" Yue Yuan pondered.

"That's absolutely right!" came the reply from another researcher.

"But if this method works, where is the point of force of the magnetic field that is being used to propel it? It can't just be like stepping on its own two feet to lift itself into the air, can it?" Yue Yuan couldn't quite understand.

In his view, a thruster must have something ejected from its nozzle to provide propulsion for the spacecraft connected to it. But this "Magnetic Propulsion" theory couldn't possibly involve pushing a magnetic field backward! But what's the point of pushing a magnetic field? Can a magnetic field be pushed? No, it's not a thing; it's a field.

Moreover, opposing magnetic fields attract each other, right? Does this mean they're going to mount the thrusters on the nose of the spacecraft, or perhaps they need to redesign this Alice Ring -based thruster structure? Yue Yuan looked suspiciously at the Research Personnel in front of him, as if trying to confirm if they were joking. In short, this explanation gave the initial impression of being a recipe for disaster.

That's counterintuitive.