The Basic Space that make up space are not perfectly fitted together. Imagine that the Basic Space are equilateral triangles, cubes, and spheres. No matter how these three Basic Space are combined, there will always be gaps. Academician Liu Bo calls these gaps "Void," Academician Liu still has no accurate conclusion about this Void.
Academician Liu and Academician Zeng have discussed this kind of Void many times, believing that it is the same type of Void as the Void produced by spatial collapse. Both may be Anti-Space, or Positive Space based on the distortion of a certain dimension, just like the Möbius strip, where a two-dimensional plane is flipped based on three-dimensional space.
However, this kind of Void is different from the flipping of a Möbius strip. Three-dimensional space can also be twisted like a Möbius strip, which can be done in the fourth dimension. But this kind of Void flipping is definitely not based on the fourth dimension, but on another unfamiliar dimension.
The proportion of Void and Basic Space is basically the same throughout the Milky Way. However, in the empty areas on the outskirts of the galaxy, the proportion of Basic Space is smaller. This is because the galaxy is rich in matter and energy, and has a high spatial density. A high spatial density means that there is more Basic Space.
The spatial density of the Eagle Nebula is even greater, twice the average density of the Milky Way galaxy. However, in some places, the ratio of Basic Space to Void is reversed. Academician Zeng and Academician Gao immediately began large-scale sampling and observation. Although the space in most places was normal, they still found that this reversed phenomenon existed in many places.
" Old Zeng, you know a lot about these things, what are your thoughts?"
"We have always believed that this Void belongs to another dimension. The Void between the spatial fragments of the Secondary Universe, the collapse of space, is a kind of reversed space. This Void may be the intersection of another dimension's space and our space, like two pieces of paper joined together. The places where they connect are this kind of Void."
"Let me think about it." Gao Zhengyang pondered.
" Old Gao, do you think these extra substances might have come from some unknown dimension?"
"If other dimensions, or even other spaces, exist, the rules of the two spaces would definitely be different. If it came from another space, why haven't we found any anomalies after analyzing so many matter particles? This doesn't make sense. Mr. Daozi said that the matter increased for no reason, not the spatial density. Besides, Mr. Daozi might not even know what spatial density is. He made it very clear that it is matter."
"You're right. There's another issue. The old man said that this is the only place in the entire galaxy where Nebula Consciousness Entity has appeared. Although we don't know if nebulae in other star systems have this problem, it's certain that this is the only place in the Milky Way where this issue has occurred. What exactly caused the appearance of Nebula Consciousness here? This is something worth investigating."
"Let's keep searching. It seems we'll be staying here for quite a while. By the way, what's Old Xiao busy with? Calling Old Xiao over would be very helpful," Academician Gao Zhengyang asked. If a top-tier academician specializing in research came over, perhaps they could uncover some clues.
"This old fellow, I was planning to have the general summon him, but the general said he was recently invited to the Tree Race, with your female academician Zheng Kaiping. You know, we owe the Tree Race a great debt of gratitude. The Tree Race has been recovering all these years, and the fact that they suddenly invited Old Xiao and the others over must mean that it's a critical moment."
"I know the Tree Race is a remarkable race and a trustworthy friend. Let's take it slow here, starting with spatial aspects. We can deal with the consciousness aspects after Lao Xiao and the Old Xiao finish their work. We can't let our friends down."
"Sigh, speaking of the Tree Race, we really owe them too much. If they were a technologically advanced civilization, we could make amends. But in all these years in the Secondary Universe, they've never made any demands on us. I think they must know we're in a tense situation and don't want to cause us too much trouble. I wonder what state they've recovered to now. We just can't understand this special race."
"Once they recover, I definitely want to get to know this Ninety-Seven properly."
"If there's a chance, let's continue."
The two continued to explore step by step, but the Eagle Nebula was simply too vast. At their current pace, completing a search of the entire Eagle Nebula would be more difficult than an ant crawling from Earth to Barnard's Star. In order not to affect the base's scientific research work, the two only brought a research team of less than 500 people this time.
Let alone 500 people, even if there were 5 million people, trying to complete the investigation of the entire Eagle Nebula would be like filling the entire Pacific Ocean with a single syringe.
However, Youwei. The fleet had reached a point where every step forward was extremely difficult. Even a small improvement was incredibly challenging because everything that needed to be perfected or improved had already been done countless years ago. Everything was now in a perfect state, except for cutting-edge technology.
At the Planet-Level level, technological advancements occur every day. At the Star-Level, the development of each new technology can be measured in years. After the Star System Level, major scientific progress takes thousands or tens of thousands of years. In Small Star Region, it is not surprising that a breakthrough in an important technology may take hundreds of thousands of years. In Large Star Region, it becomes even more difficult, and a breakthrough may not be possible even in millions of years.
It's not that scientists aren't working hard enough, but rather that they lack the resources. The things they need to study are becoming increasingly fantastical and illusory. Many things are just concepts or ideas. To turn these concepts and ideas into reality, scientists often can't even find the right path and can only try their luck.
In the Planet-Level stage of Earth's era, if one wanted to pluck the moon, there might have been all sorts of ideas, such as airplanes, spaceships, space elevators, and Earth cannons. If it were primitive humans wanting to pluck the moon, they wouldn't even know about airplanes, spaceships, or space elevators, let alone how to even think about it. This is the dilemma faced by scientists in the Large Star Region era, just like the ancients trying to pluck the moon. Of course, scientists wouldn't rely on gods.
Humanity's current warfare technology has reached the mid-stage of the Galaxy-Level. This stage was achieved after integrating the technologies of the Snow Tribe, Luo Zhigao Tribe, and others. Among these, the Snow Tribe's technology is dominant, while other technologies are still at the Large Star Region level. If other technologies do not catch up, it will be difficult for humanity to make new breakthroughs in conventional military technology in the short term.