"I did it! I did it!!!" Academician Li Youwei shouted wildly in the Academy of Sciences.
" Academician Li, did he really do it?"
"Yes, it's true, come and see."
One by one, the academicians gathered around and examined the magnetic field lines through a microscope.
" Academician Li, is this... is this real?"
"That's incredible."
"Congratulations, Academician Li! Go tell Academician Zeng and the General; they'll be very happy."
"Okay, I'll contact Academician Zeng and the General right away—no, I'll go myself! Haha."
Academician Li ran out of the laboratory in ecstasy.
" Youwei, what's making you so happy that you came all this way to see me and the General?"
"I bet Academician Li has made a major breakthrough," Hu Yu said with a smile.
"Yes, General, Academician Zeng, I have successfully reversed the process of converting pure energy into matter!"
"Okay, okay, okay! Tell me quickly, how did you do that!"
"Academician, General, it's like this. After Academician Liu converted matter into pure energy, he handed this project over to me. Academician Liu believed that since elementary particles can have their perfect Basic Energy Perfect Structure broken by magnetic field lines and become pure energy, then pure energy must also be able to be ordered to present Perfect Structure again and form matter. Over the years, I have been studying the order of pure energy and understanding the various ways in which Perfect Structure can be combined."
"Because the number of Basic Energy that make up elementary particles is so vast, I have been working on sorting these Basic Energy for over 1,500 years. Until recently, I finally completed the sorting of all the elementary particles and gained some understanding of the Perfect Structure of the Basic Energy."
"To give an example, we initially started converting matter into energy with quarks. There are several types of quarks, so there must be many kinds of Perfect Structure composed of Basic Energy. When other fundamental particles are added, the variety of Perfect Structure becomes even greater."
"But no matter what kind of particle it is, the Basic Energy after transformation is the same, at least from our current perspective. Destroying the Perfect Structure of a fundamental particle will turn it into energy, which will repair the damaged part, or use other Basic Energy to reassemble the structure. The Basic Energy will restore the Perfect Structure, and the original fundamental particle will reappear."
"A few months ago in the lab, I completed the Perfect Structure arrangement of pure energy. Sure enough, the instant the arrangement was completed, the combination of Basic Energy underwent a material reaction and acquired mass."
" Youwei! You've spent over 1,500 years completing this great work. Congratulations!"
"Yes, Academician Li, thank you for your hard work."
"General, Academician, don't rush to praise me, I haven't finished yet."
"Oh~ there's more to come, haha, okay, continue."
"Well, because the Perfect Structure of different particles are not the same, I suspect that there must be more ways in which Basic Energy has Perfect Structure. The particle state it presents is certainly not the elementary particles we have already discovered. It may be a completely new particle, a completely new kind of matter. So while I am studying the Perfect Structure of elementary particles, I am also studying a new way in which a Perfect Structure can exist."
"Just now, I did it! I created a completely new substance!"
"What is 'Youwei)? What are its particle properties?"
"Academician, this substance is no longer a particle. Look, this is what I transformed. It's entirely composed of Basic Energy and has no more basic particle structure."
Academician Li Youwei spoke, he took out a small black ball, about the size of a glass marble.
"What? That can't be right."
"Yes, Academician, I also think it's impossible. All macroscopic matter is composed of various elementary particles, but the matter I transformed is different. It doesn't have an elementary particle structure. I call it the Reversed State."
"Wait, Youwei, slow down, I don't quite understand."
"Haha, even Academician Zeng doesn't understand, so I understand even less. Academician Li, why don't you explain in more detail so that I, a layman, can learn something?"
"Yes, General."
"Come, sit down and talk. Sit down and talk. Adjutant Xing, pour Academician Li a glass of water."
"Thank you, General. Here's the thing: after I figured out the Perfect Structure of a certain elementary particle, I wondered if I could directly scale up this structure, like this cup. This cup is made up of silicon dioxide molecules arranged in a certain order. If I scale up the arrangement of silicon dioxide molecules, the macroscopic manifestation is that the cup becomes bigger."
"After I amplify and sort this Perfect Structure of Basic Energy, Academician, you should be able to guess what it's like."
"It's Reversed State, this little ball!"
"That's right, this is it. It's composed of pure energy and represents a new, Perfect Structure."
"Impressive, impressive! I'm truly gratified to have such promising young talents like you."
" Academician Li, could you tell me what's so special about this Reversed State ball?"
"Yes, General. This Reversed State —it's actually better to call it matter. Although it and others are amplified from some kind of Basic Matter particle, after amplification, it loses many of the characteristics of the fundamental particle, such as spin and charge. Moreover, there is a very strong force between the two Reversed State, comparable to the strong nuclear force, but not quite. This force does not disappear as the distance decreases; instead, it increases like gravity, but is many times stronger than gravity. Strangely, this force disappears when the two spheres are slightly far apart. I still haven't figured out what this force is. It might be the spatial force that Academician Liu hypothesized. General, if we use this Reversed State to build armor for warships, its strength will definitely be comparable to that of degenerate matter."
" Academician Li, this kind of Reversed State would also have very strong gravity and a very large mass, right? Although I don't quite understand, it takes 100 million tons of matter to transform into an energy sphere with a diameter of ten meters. Your reverse transformation must involve a dense combination of Basic Energy. A sphere with a diameter of ten meters, when reverse-converted into matter, would also weigh 1 billion tons. It would be questionable whether our spaceship could even move."
"General, there's no need to worry. There is gravitational attraction between the Reversed State, but there is no gravitational attraction between the Reversed State and other matter. Furthermore, although this Reversed State exhibits mass, it is nowhere near the mass of neutron star matter; in fact, its mass is negligible."
"What, negligible?"
"Yes, that's the wonder of the universe. When I was studying Perfect Structure, I discovered that the mass of elementary particles is actually unrelated to the Basic Energy inside the particles, but only to the Basic Energy on the surface. So, the Reversed State sphere I created, although it is countless times larger than a regular elementary particle, still has a mass at the particle level."
" Youwei, how do you know its defense is comparable to degenerate matter?"
"Academician, back then, in order to find the secrets of the atom, we used a particle accelerator to make particles collide with each other, reaching an energy level as high as 10^15 electron volts. Why? Because particles are very dense. The Reversed State I created has the same characteristics, but after all, it is larger, and its stability is not as good as that of microscopic particles. However, it is still more than ten or a hundred times, or even more, than any alloy currently used in our warships. I haven't had time to compare the specific values yet."