Shaking his head and casting these matters of the distant future aside, Yue Yuan turned his attention back to the present.
Humanity had been in this starry expanse for more than two hundred years now. Judging by the current pace of research, they would likely have to remain here for some time yet.
The negative matter production experiments had been underway for quite a while. Perhaps because they had found the right path and their technology had caught up, the experiments had achieved complete success. Humanity took only two and a half years to transition negative matter from the laboratory to mass production. However, because the Theory of Everything had not yet been fully mastered, humanity still had no way to create devices capable of storing negative matter.
Thus, at this stage, they could either use it directly in experiments in the form of Negative Energy after producing it, or store it as Negative Energy. To that end, humanity had even built several spacecraft specifically for storing Negative Energy, using them like oil tanks.
As everyone knew, the emergence of a technology inevitably drove progress in related fields. The appearance of Negative Energy was no exception. To build these "oil tanker" spacecraft, humanity racked its brains and exhausted every possible method. In the end, through unceasing effort, they achieved a breakthrough in materials technology.
That breakthrough was the production and processing of Fermion Condensate Matter for Negative Energy transmission and storage. Humanity had formally developed this material from Quantum Shutters manufactured at an almost microscopic quantum scale into practical macroscopic conduits.
As everyone knew, the Elementary Particles composing what people called matter were Fermions. Because they obeyed the Pauli Exclusion Principle, which required that no two or more particles could occupy exactly the same state, they could form matter.
Therefore,