Great Science

This time, humanity obtained data on nearly all the relevant Void Lattices and Solid Lattices. After all the sub-fleets completed their rounds, the data was compiled together.

Clearly, it was an enormous amount of data.

Humanity could travel at nearly ten times the speed of light, and the journey had taken nearly two years. Since the area had been explored carefully, they could not maintain maximum speed throughout. After completing the exploration, they discovered that this region of space was roughly a sphere with a radius of ten light-years.

But clearly, it was not a spherical space. It was a space folded in some unknown manner. Not only was it folded, but its beginning and end were connected. Regrettably, even after humanity had traversed the entire region, they still did not know its folding structure. It felt like being in the midst of a mountain and unable to see its true shape.

And within such a vast space, there was a Rhomboid Lattice roughly every 0.5 Astronomical Units.

A data system composed of so many zeros and ones was undoubtedly enormous. Moreover, a Void Lattice might not represent only one zero, nor might a Solid Lattice represent only one one. Thus, what lay before humanity was a vast array of numerical permutations and combinations.

But arranging and combining them was ultimately nothing more than brute-force enumeration. As long as the computers were powerful enough, they could calculate possible results in a short time.

As for what counted as a possible result, there were countless possibilities.

First, it might be a digital image like the one left behind by the Dynamic Image Civilization. Since information had to be transmitted to the New Generation Civilization billions of years later, using the universally available sense of sight to convey it was possible. Second,