Academician Liu also conducted in-depth research on the two-dimensionalization of warships. By laying Two-Dimensional Basic Space on the surface of warships, the warships will be two-dimensionalized. Three-dimensional warships can move freely in four-dimensional space, and two-dimensional space can also move freely in three-dimensional space. In battle, warships can cut into enemy ships like a cleaver cutting a radish and then destroy them inside the enemy ships.
While three-dimensional beings can peer inside two-dimensional objects, the two-dimensionalization of a warship only changes its appearance; the warship itself remains three-dimensional. It is merely that its exterior has become two-dimensional, and it is still very different from a true two-dimensional object. Therefore, three-dimensional beings cannot peer inside the warship.
In another way, if we make a four-dimensional warship three-dimensional, it is still a four-dimensional structure. Only its appearance is three-dimensional, which is equivalent to hiding one dimension. Therefore, a three-dimensional warship seen by a four-dimensional being still cannot see its internal structure, while a three-dimensional warship can use the fourth dimension to run into the interior of a four-dimensional warship and cause damage.
All civilizations are now moving towards higher-dimensional research, Academician Liu is going against the grain. This seems extremely irrational to other civilizations, but Academician Liu believes that sometimes the simplest things are the most effective. He thinks that equipping warships with the sharp blade of two-dimensional space will surely make them invincible.
Extracting the Two-Dimensional Basic Space remains a challenge, but Academician Liu has already developed some basic ideas. However, this will only be possible after the fleet reaches the Great Star Region Civilization and can operate in the fourth dimension.
Academician Zeng spent three days and three nights without rest to finish reading this book on multidimensional space geometry, which is hundreds of thousands of words long. The content involved in it truly shocked Academician Zeng. Now, not to mention the part about the ancestors, even if this part of the technology were released, it would cause quite a stir. No civilization has ever thought of the idea of two-dimensional warships.
Moreover, this attack method will be extremely bizarre. Three-dimensional space has a very strong capacity to contain two-dimensional space. Just as a three-dimensional warship can travel freely in four-dimensional space, four-dimensional beings can enter the interior of a three-dimensional object through the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional objects can also enter the interior of a four-dimensional object through the fourth dimension. The same principle applies to reducing dimensions to three-dimensional and two-dimensional.
If there truly were a two-dimensional being, when it floated in three-dimensional space, it could easily blend into our bodies because it is two-dimensional. Two-dimensional space has no thickness, and it could move freely in three dimensions without any hindrance. The distance between atoms would be like the distance between the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy to a two-dimensional being.
If the warships were to be two-dimensionalized, the current Reaper would become less effective, and new warships would have to be rebuilt. While the internal structure of the warships would remain unchanged after being two-dimensionalized, all their attack methods would be altered. Moreover, this would be a true warship of Great Star Region Civilization, capable of traversing the fourth dimension at any time.
Academician Zeng, without taking a break, drank a cup of strong tea and immediately went to find Academician Zhou Xiaohua, who was working overtime late into the night. Academician Zhou had been researching the fourth dimension for many years, but still had not found a way to locate in four-dimensional space.
" Xiao Zhou, is there still no solution?"
"We have some clues, but it's still not quite there yet. Locating in four-dimensional space is relatively easy, but locating the coordinates of three-dimensional space in four-dimensional space is extremely difficult. The three-dimensional universe and four-dimensional space complement each other, yet they are also independent and closed spaces, just like finding a note with our name on it in a cardboard box with our eyes closed."
"Our entangled photons... now our photons are spread throughout the entire Milky Way."
"Entangled photons can only jump between three dimensions, such as from one point in the Milky Way to another. However, if we are fighting in the fourth dimension, photons in the three-dimensional universe will be useless."
"That's true. Once we enter the fourth dimension, it's impossible to find any trace of the three-dimensional universe. Locating it is indeed extremely difficult. What are your thoughts now?"
"I've considered many methods, but the only feasible one right now is to establish a coordinate base station in four-dimensional space. This base station can maintain contact with the three-dimensional universe, so when we want to return to the three-dimensional universe, we can simply find a nearby coordinate base station."
"This would require a huge number of coordinate base stations, and once those base stations are destroyed, our fleet would never be able to return to the three-dimensional universe."
"Yes, but we can't work or conduct research in the fourth dimension right now. If we can use this as a springboard to settle down in the fourth dimension first, we'll be able to obtain more useful information about fourth-dimensional space, and then we can look for other methods of positioning in the fourth dimension."
Are there any mature solutions for building coordinate base stations?
"It will be completed soon, within a hundred years."
"Thank you for your hard work, but I still need to urge you to finalize the plan as soon as possible. We don't have as much time as other Small Star Sector Civilization, so we can't increase the number of warships. Therefore, we can only make up for the lack of numbers by continuously improving our technology."
"I will try my best."
The fleet has returned to normal, but the publicly visible Reaper fleet is now down to only 30 billion. Of the 120 billion Reaper, Wen Zhonghua has reduced them to less than a hundred. However, it was all worth it. The technology brought by Academician Liu is worth it, even if it were 1.2 trillion ships.
A new generation of warships is already in the design phase. The fleet technology is relatively mature in terms of adaptability to dimensional reduction attacks and space travel. The only thing lacking is four-dimensional positioning, but this does not affect the design of the warships. This time, Academician Zeng personally led the warship design work.
Many of the designs were quite strange and no one understood why they were done that way. Only Academician Zeng understood and comprehended these designs. There were also many voices opposing these designs. In the end, Hu Yu had to step in and do everything according to Academician Zeng's wishes, and only then did the opposition subside.
However, this design is useless when the warship is not two-dimensional. Only after the warship is two-dimensional will these designs show their significance. However, in order to make the fleet two-dimensional, it must work in the fourth dimension to extract the Two-Dimensional Basic Space, so for the time being these designs seem very abrupt and strange.
The fleet can now synthesize various substances using energy extracted from the fourth dimension without consuming planets. This is faster, the substances are purer, and many stars and planets can be spared from being decomposed. The fleet's construction speed has also been greatly improved.