Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 789: Super Acceleration

Xiao Yu’s current location was on the outer side of the Small Magellanic Cloud, within a young and vigorous globular cluster. Many, many stars were being nurtured inside this stellar factory. Matter here was abundant. Vast gas clouds gathered together to form a massive, dim planet. When the pressure and temperature grew high enough to ignite fusion reactions in the planet’s core, a star was formed. Powerful stellar winds began blowing from its surface, like an efficient cosmic hair dryer. While it formed, other particles were also gathering matter around it. But it completed accumulation first, ignited nuclear fusion, and blew out stellar winds, and so the other particles lost the ability to continue gathering matter.

Depending on how far they had progressed in gathering matter, they would form rocky planets or gaseous planets of various sizes.

This globular cluster had already been observed by people in the ancient Earth era, and in the New General Catalogue (NGC) it had been assigned a number, NGC 602.

Traveling through dense gas clouds, Xiao Yu’s mind was exceptionally calm. The starry universe seen from here was different from elsewhere. The beauty of the universe presented itself to Xiao Yu from another angle.

“There may also be life in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and even high-level civilizations at peak Level 5 or preliminary Level 6. The collision experiment I’m conducting here might affect them. But there’s no time to care about that. Everything depends on your luck.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “NGC 602 is a suitable place. I’ll conduct my experiment here.”

The enormous super particle collider slowly extended out of the small universe like a venomous snake emerging from its hole. The power instruments mounted on it would place it into a suitable posture. It would present an extremely straight line with minimal error. Only in this configuration would the experiment achieve the highest precision.

Here, Xiao Yu would for the first time explore the most fundamental mysteries between space and matter. This would determine whether Xiao Yu could become a Level 7 Civilization.

“Each galaxy in this universe is like a small pond. The endless universe is the ocean. In the history of the Milky Way Galaxy, it’s very likely that other Level 6 Civilizations ultimately became Level 7 Civilizations, otherwise the Level 7 Civilization ruins in the Milky Way Galaxy would be difficult to explain. Becoming a Level 7 Civilization is like a carp transforming into a dragon, you break free from the limits of the small pond and gain the qualifications to roam the sea. Now I too have stepped onto this path.” Xiao Yu murmured.

The slender super particle collider was adjusting. This process would take some time. Taking advantage of this time, Xiao Yu dispatched a massive fleet outward in all directions. These spaceships were tasked with gathering materials. After some time, they would transport back at least ten stars to place beside Xiao Yu, guarding against any accidents.

Xiao Yu wanted to ensure that after any accident occurred, he would immediately obtain sufficient material replenishment.What consequences the super particle collision experiment would bring, Xiao Yu did not know either. In Xiao Yu’s prediction, the worst result would be space detonating like a bomb, ultimately leading to the destruction of a star cluster, or even an entire galaxy. If that happened, Xiao Yu would be blown to death without exception. However, the probability of such a situation was not high. Still, to be safe, Xiao Yu placed the towing spaceship into a mode where it could enter curvature space at any time, always ready to flee.

The preparation phase took Xiao Yu one year. Up to now, all preparations had been completed.

Xiao Yu’s gaze turned toward the Milky Way Galaxy. From this place, the Milky Way Galaxy was much dimmer than a full moon, but still brighter than Venus. Looking at that familiar image, Xiao Yu felt countless emotions. That was the place that had birthed him. In that place, he had fought his way from a preliminary Level 2 Civilization to the current peak Level 6 Civilization.

Xiao Yu’s gaze shifted, looking in the direction of the Ursa Major II Dwarf Galaxy. From here, if relying on human naked-eye vision, it could not be seen. It was too small and too dim. If the Milky Way Galaxy were compared to the Sun, then the Ursa Major II Dwarf Galaxy would be like a dim little asteroid in the Kuiper Belt.

“The Pegasus Civilization is there, and my kin is there.” Xiao Yu thought silently. “I will return. Aya, my younger sister, I will take care of you for an entire lifetime. Pure humans have already been reduced to only you. I will protect you, extend the bloodline of our human civilization, extend the radiance of our Earth Civilization.”

“I order, begin the experiment.” Xiao Yu silently issued the command.

At the initial end of the super particle collider, a stream of particles was fired out. Microscopic particles generally possessed high speed, but that was at the microscopic level, not the macroscopic level. What Xiao Yu needed to do now was make them move at the macroscopic level.

Within this fired particle stream were negatively charged electrons, positively charged protons, neutral neutrons, as well as neutrinos, pi mesons, W bosons, Z bosons, Higgs bosons, and many other particles. Because Xiao Yu did not know which particle was easiest to react with space, Xiao Yu had no choice but to include all particles contained in the Standard Model, as well as many particles he discovered later, into the experimental scope.

These particles were single particles selected through Level 6 Civilization technology. It was also because of their high-speed motion that they could maintain independence and not combine with each other to form other particles.

At the initial end, their speed had already been accelerated to 99.9% of the speed of light. Over the remaining one trillion kilometers of distance, the hundreds of billions of particle acceleration devices existed only for one purpose, to eliminate as much as possible the 0.1% gap between them and light speed.

Starting one collision experiment required consuming at least two Sun-sized stars. The entire mass of those two stars was converted into energy, solely to accelerate these microscopic particles whose total mass was less than one ten-millionth of a drop of water. Even so, Xiao Yu still could not accelerate these particles to a speed equal to the speed of light.

In conventional motion, the speed of light could not be surpassed. Even a Level 6 peak civilization could not break this.

And precisely because of this, conducting one super particle collision experiment required more than thirty days of Xiao Yu’s time. Because the super particle collider was about 0.1 light years long, and crossing 0.1 light years at nearly the speed of light would take that long.

The closer the speed approached light speed, the harder it was to increase. So the closer it was to the rear end, the greater the power of the particle acceleration devices.

This particle beam had already set out, embarking on its long journey of more than thirty days. Of course, those thirty-plus days were only from the outside perspective. Because their speed was extremely high, relativistic effects would be very obvious, so from their perspective, time was not that long.

It was also because time changed that some particles that could exist only for a very short time could smoothly complete the entire experiment.

Inside the particle accelerator, an extremely high-purity vacuum was maintained, even reaching the level of only one atom per cubic kilometer on average. In such a high-purity vacuum, the probability that Xiao Yu’s emitted particle beam would be disturbed by other particles was close to zero. Of course, Xiao Yu could not avoid vacuum fluctuation phenomena, but the particles produced by vacuum fluctuations could exist only for time measured at the Planck scale, and their possibility of interfering with these particle beams was still very low.

The entire interior of the particle accelerator was kept in absolute darkness. Because if it were not kept dark, the appearance of photons would also interfere with the trajectories of these particles.

These particles were advancing at extreme speed. After passing through the first particle accelerator, a nine was added after their speed. Before being accelerated, their speed was 99.9% of light speed. After being accelerated, their speed was 99.99% of light speed.

After passing the second particle accelerator, an eight was added after their speed. After the third, their speed increased by yet another fraction of light speed. The faster their speed, the harder it was to accelerate them, and the higher the energy they carried.

In fact, under ideal conditions, these ultra-high-energy particles after more than thirty days of acceleration, if not disturbed by other particles, would be enough to destroy the entire Neutron War Star if they directly collided into it. Because although they were small, they carried upon them the total energy converted from two stars.

However, that was under ideal conditions. In reality, such a thing was impossible.

Ten days had already passed. These particles had been accelerated by tens of billions of particle accelerators. The farther toward the back, the greater the power of the particle accelerators, yet the smaller the acceleration effect they could produce. The first particle accelerator could accelerate these particles by 0.001 times the speed of light. The hundreds of millions and tens of billions of particle accelerators afterward, combined, did not match the acceleration effect of the first.

Up to now, this particle beam had been accelerated to a level of light speed with more than thirty million nines after the decimal point. But their speed was still increasing. These particles were like bullets, continuously accumulating energy, preparing to ultimately pierce the fabric of cosmic space.

Time passed slowly, and at last, the thirty-fourth day arrived. These particles passed through the second-to-last particle accelerator. And after being accelerated by the final particle accelerator, in Xiao Yu’s expectation, the changes sufficient to trigger a space reaction would arrive.