In the space above five dimensions, the elementary particles are expanded to one dimension. This principle can be compared with the human senses that see the four-dimensional space from a three-dimensional perspective.

Because humans are three-dimensional creatures, in a complex four-dimensional space, the objects we see are actually countless objects that extend side by side, and we can see every detail inside the object!

If we look at the transition from high to low dimensions, we can also use more corresponding analogies to understand it.

For example, to expand a three-dimensional object into two dimensions is to transform the three-dimensional into a flat surface. We can imagine a piece of frozen beef, evenly sliced by a machine, which is our shabu-shabu beef, and then spread it all out to form a large slice. Of course, in the actual unfolding process, this piece of "frozen beef" will be cut infinitely thin, ordinary shabu beef is simply incomparable, and the area covered by these thin slices is also infinite.

In the same way, when a two-dimensional object unfolds in a one-dimensional direction, it cuts the plane into infinitely extended lines.

So, if we fully unfold an elementary particle in space above five dimensions, what kind of effect can we get?

In the theoretical model, when the viewing angle reaches more than five dimensions, the complexity of the internal structure of an elementary particle is almost equivalent to that of a miniature universe.

Therefore, some scientists have speculated that in every elementary particle, there may be a microscopic cosmic civilization. Perhaps some microcosmic civilizations have been able to fully use the matter and energy of their entire "small universe" and use it to form grand patterns and chapters.

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Since the outbreak of the war, Yuan Haochen has boldly speculated through a series of studies that the "ghosts" released by the Annihilation Alliance this time, that is, the "gray area", are actually countless [Etching Elementary Particle Robots] with self-replicating abilities.

Although the vast majority of civilized worlds in the Salvation Alliance are able to create sophisticated femtome-level robots, these femtometer-level robots are absolutely not comparable to the [Etching Elementary Particle Robots].

This is because elementary particles that expand into one dimension in space of more than five dimensions will have a near-infinite space to be transformed and programmed accordingly. As a result, the Annihilation Alliance released and restored a certain elementary particle in the microscopic dimension, so that the elementary particle had a new structure on the microscopic level, and then built a "ghost" that devoured all things on this basis, that is, the [Etching Elementary Particle Robot].

As a result, these Etched Elementary Particle Robots are not only capable of infinitely replicating themselves, but are also capable of moving at terrifying speeds close to 2,000 times the speed of light.

However, that's not the most impressive.

In Hara's research report, he deduced that the [Etching Elementary Particle Robot] could enter higher latitude space at least five dimensions or more.

This is the fundamental reason why when the coalition fleet engages in the "gray area", the enemy combat units are not visible, and the means of attack are not visible.

From this point of view, the statements of Yuan Haochen and the scientists of the Supreme Academy of Sciences of the Alliance are all right, and they are not all right.

After a complex and detailed comprehensive assessment, the space scientists of the Alliance's Supreme Academy of Sciences have made a very positive conclusion: the Annihilation Alliance will not have the ability to send fleets into space above five dimensions for a long time.

But for the sake of peace of mind, Yuan Haochen insisted on opening the door that had been proven by the Supreme Academy of Sciences of the Alliance to be empty.

After a lot of hard work, he finally persistently pushed the door open, and saw the "ghost" hidden behind the door with his own eyes!

It is true that the Annihilation Alliance does not have the ability to enter the higher latitude space above the fifth dimension, but they have really sent a "ghost" into the fifth dimensional space that even they can't control.

In addition, in Hara's research report, the range of this elementary particle is roughly locked: at least the elementary particles below the quark level.

In other words, the "ghost" released by the Annihilation Alliance is very likely to be the [Etched Quark Robot]!

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A quark is an elementary particle and the basic unit of matter. Different quarks can combine with each other to form a composite particle called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, which are the basic units that make up the nucleus.

For example, all neutrons and protons are made up of three quarks, the difference is that protons are made up of two upper quarks and one lower quark, and neutrons are made up of two lower quarks and one upper quark.

Because the vast majority of matter in our universe is made of protons and neutrons, whether it is a huge star, a planet, or a tiny interstellar debris and isolated various atomic molecules, they will be broken down into quark-level elementary particles by the [Etched Quark Robot] and become the basic raw materials for recombination and replication.

As a result, the [Etched Quark Robot] can theoretically live for two, two for four, and even to infinity. However, Yuan Haochen's research data shows that the [Etched Quark Robots] must have some kind of flaw, because their actual growth rate is only close to the quadratic curve, and cannot be fully reached.

Although Yuan Haochen didn't know what the flaw was, and he didn't have a chance to figure it out at the current moment of life and death, he believed that the scientists of the Supreme Academy of Sciences of the Salvation Alliance would definitely have the ability to unravel this mystery and finally defeat the enemy and save the [Gate of Time and Space]!

In fact, there are many types of quarks, and the mass of upper and lower quarks is the lowest of all quarks. Heavier quarks quickly turn into upper or lower quarks through the process of particle decay.

The process of decay of these quark particles is a process of transforming from a high-quality state to a low-mass state, which will release energy, coupled with a large amount of energy generated by the [Etched Quark Robot] in the process of devouring and decomposing the atomic nucleus of matter due to the partial disappearance of the mass of matter, it is these processes that provide enough energy for the high-speed movement of the [Etched Quark Robot] and infinite replication. The energy generated in the whole process was almost absorbed and utilized by the [Etched Quark Robot], so the reconnaissance fleet that saved the alliance could not observe any energy source during the battle, and the only gain was only between the minus 43rd power of the 6~9 * 10 before the attack fleet "melted", a significant mass jump was observed (Yuan Chen speculated that it was the process of the invasion of the [Etched Quark Robot]), that is, it increased significantly and then decreased rapidly, until the final "melting" disappeared.

In the model established by Yuan Chen, after the [Etched Quark Robot] was awakened by the Annihilation Alliance and sent into the five-dimensional space, it was able to use the advantages of high-latitude space to enter the atomic structure of any object at will.

Because the [Etched Quark Robot] is still a quark in nature, its appearance immediately breaks the quark balance inside the nucleon (proton or neutron), resulting in the proton or neutron being completely exploded and disintegrated into various quarks. The [Etched Quark Robot] then devours the energy generated in the process, and uses the quark raw materials to copy a new [Etched Quark Robot].

This conjecture comes from Hara's association with the process by which microorganisms break down a piece of fresh meat and provide raw materials and energy for its own reproduction.

Of course, there are also a few points in this model that puzzle Hara.

The first puzzle is "quark confinement", the so-called "quark confinement" phenomenon, which means that quarks cannot be directly observed, or separated, but can only be found in hadrons. Just as electromagnetic interactions require electric charges, quarks are subjected to a strong force known as a color charge, and the color charged quarks are confined to other quarks (two or three make up one particle) such that the total color charge is zero.

Therefore, when these etching elementary particle robots are locked at the quark level, there will be a theoretical contradiction, which is the important data that Yuan Haochen needs to re-determine in the last five seconds of observation when he shouts "a little bit close" and personally takes an exclusive spacecraft.

As it turned out, the Annihilation Alliance did, and they managed to solve the problem of "quark confinement" in a high-dimensional space!

Second, even more confusing are the hydrogen atoms and neutrinos left behind in the universe where the engulfed celestial bodies are located.

However, this problem has been successfully solved by Yuan Haochen earlier.

In his experimental theoretical model, not all stars, planets, and interstellar matter have been completely devoured and copied into new Etched Quark Robots. There are also some quarks that have been blown out of protons or neutrons that end up in three-dimensional space and quickly recombine into new protons or neutrons.

As we all know, neutrons do not exist stably in the universe, so these recombined neutrons undergo β decay, that is, a neutron decays into an electron, a proton and a neutrino through weak interactions.

And in the next process, all the protons are converted into hydrogen atoms (the nucleus of the hydrogen atom is actually a proton).

So in the end, around the universe where the devoured stars and interstellar matter are located, only traces of hydrogen atoms and neutrinos remain.

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