Chapter 215: Supercooled Water and Supersymmetry (Part I)

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"Explain it in three sentences."

Looking at Lawrence, who was still waiting for her response, and listening to the words from the shipboard AI in her consciousness communication, her eyes moved, and the time and space of her surroundings immediately fell into a state of stagnation.

[It's not possible unless you don't let me punctuate it.] 】

Zai AI's answer was a rare surprise, and the latter was speechless for a while when he heard it: "Then explain to me in easy-to-understand language, what is quantum vacuum state technology, and what is the situation of this technology, how can it destroy the universe?"

[It is not to destroy the universe, but to destroy the cosmic sector that was born after the outbreak of the singularity.] 】

I don't want the shipborne AI to open the first sentence is not an explanation, but it corrects a conceptual error in Bai Ye's words: [Many universes in the multiverse have completely different birth methods, and the birth method of the Big Bang is one of the more common birth methods, but the Big Bang can't blow up an infinite universe, it doesn't make sense either technically or logically, there are actually countless singularities in the universe, and in fact, the Big Bang is not the only one, At the beginning of the birth of the universe, there were infinite singularities in the universe at the same time when they were infinitely far apart from each other, and each big bang gave birth to a cosmic structure, which is called the cosmic sector. 】

[But for primitive civilizations, the cosmic sector born from the Big Bang of a cosmic singularity is already an infinite universe in their cognition. 】

"So what?"

Bai Ye held her hands in her arms, and she also knew that the Big Bang Theory in her previous life was a powerful speculation on the birth theory of the universe in the mainstream of human civilization in her previous life, and now it seems that she has also obtained a certain correct solution.

[Don't talk about how countless cosmic singularities detonate at the same time in the case of infinity, you just need to know that information is equal to matter in the performance of materialization but the essence is equal to the universe itself, according to the theory of great unification, there is a huge amount of energy in the quantum vacuum, and according to quantum physics, even in the empty space, there must be a huge zero point of energy. 】

[There are countless virtual particles in this virtual space, which is difficult to observe and can only be proved by various theoretical calculations, and they are constantly floating around like ghosts, deriving and annihilating again under the limits of Heisenberg, thus releasing huge energy. 】

[But for primitive civilizations, even if the reality of the quantum vacuum is proven, this energy cannot be used and observed.] 】

The shipborne AI got down to business, and began to explain what the vacuum state was with the simplest scientific logic to Bai Ye: [Because it can't be used and observed, this has led to many civilizations that have just observed this phenomenon to subconsciously think that this is just a hypothesis that exists in theory, a mathematical model that seems to be perfect.] 】

"Well, I guess I understand, so what?"

Bai Ye still has that expression, as for whether she understands it or not, that's another matter, even if her brain is amazing, she really hasn't been exposed to this kind of knowledge.

I don't know the real imperial people, I'm afraid it's really simple for those imperial people to understand these things, but I'm just a black household who has just crossed over for less than a year, and the knowledge I know is only based on my own needs.

[But anyway, it's there.] 】

The shipboard AI didn't seem to care whether its own captain really understood it or not, but continued to explain; [There is indeed a lot of energy in the quantum vacuum, and there are related technologies that can extract it from the vacuum, but this kind of technology is not something that primitive civilizations can master. 】

"A perpetual motion machine of science?"

Hearing this, this idea immediately popped up in Bai Ye's mind.

For today's imperial technology, not to mention the perpetual motion machine of science, even the perpetual motion machine of civil science is an extremely backward and primitive thing, and any traditional definition of physics has lost its meaning at the height of being able to distort, create or destroy the laws of the universe itself.

Perpetual motion machines, you want several, say!

But for these civilizations, they don't feel that this is a subversion of science, but a new scientific system replaces the old scientific system, in a sense this is a philosophical problem, scientific discovery is not simply drawing a map, science is a method created by scientists to explain, scientists understand the thinking of their predecessors, what scientists see, and what they observe is also the result of their observations.

In other words, how to really create a perpetual motion machine that subverts the law of conservation of energy is only established under the newer scientific and technological system, not out of thin air.

Scientists deny perpetual motion machines not to deny perpetual motion machines per se, but to deny your disrespect for science in terms of attitude.

[Pretty much, but this perpetual motion machine will also wear out, will be damaged, and the energy obtained is also borrowed from the universe, but borrowing real numbers from infinity itself is easier to become a philosophical problem than mathematics.] 】

[This is where the question arises, and this philosophical question raises another scientific question......]

"What's the problem?"

[Spontaneous symmetry breaking.] 】

"What?"

[In the physical definition of primitive civilization, the vacuum is nothing, if you can borrow a part of the energy from the vacuum, no matter how small the energy is for itself, you don't even need to calculate it, but in the physical definition, the vacuum will become a pseudo-vacuum, and if you substitute it into the mass-energy equation, then it will be easy to have a big problem. 】

[The vacuum shortly after the Big Bang was also empty, but the energy level was much higher than it is now, and through the process of spontaneous symmetry breaking, part of the energy was converted into mass, and in this process, the universe gradually became what it is today. 】

[It is precisely because of this process that the energy level of the vacuum is much lowered.] 】

"Ugh...... So what?"

Bai Ye was directly stunned, she felt that she should take the time to learn scientific knowledge when she had time, as an imperial noble, she didn't understand these things, and it was because the shipborne AI was not someone else.

She felt that she had now entered the wisdom of the grass god, and that she was only left in the state of Abba Aba.

[Here's an example.] 】

The shipborne AI saw Bai Ye's appearance and knew that she didn't understand it at all, and directly moved a more suitable enlightenment explanation from the imperial network; [Suppose there is a glass of water that is completely free of impurities, in which case the glass of water has perfect symmetry, and from a quantum point of view, the probability of finding another water molecule in any direction around this water molecule is the same.] 】

[So the question is, if this glass of water with perfect symmetry is constantly cooled, will it freeze after it is below freezing?] 】

[Answer: No.] 】

Speaking of this, the shipborne AI continued: [This glass of water will only become a cup of supercooled water after it is below zero, because the symmetry of ice is much lower than that of water, and the water molecules are asymmetrical in different directions from a microscopic angle, and some are along the crystal axis, while others are not, in this case, pure water will not be able to choose a crystallization direction from it, and naturally it will not be able to crystallize. 】

[But if you put a debris in it, even if it is an insignificant piece of dust, you will see that this glass of supercold water will condense into ice in an instant. 】

[This process is called explosive crystallization, which is symmetry breaking.] 】

"You mean, there is symmetry in the vacuum, just like this hypothetical cup of perfectly symmetrical water?"

Hearing this, even a fool can understand what concept the shipboard AI wants to express, Bai Ye thought about the various logics and came to his own conclusion.