Chapter 166: String Bell, Mobius Ring World Back

"There's another prerequisite for genetic modification."

"Your body must be able to withstand such modifications, Yan Xia."

"So you must first protect your body with the latest type of armour to ensure that your body doesn't collapse due to radiation during the modification process."

Ella changed into a sailor outfit and walked in front of him like a schoolgirl.

She held a little fox in her arms, and the fox had a long tail, which was currently rubbing against Ella's palm affectionately.

"What has changed with the armour?"

Yan Xia knew that the Federation's armour had improved slowly over the years, and powerful armour technology had never appeared to improve individual combat capabilities.

This was partly due to the limited size of the biological body and partly due to the need for liquid metal to enter the body.

Small biological bodies meant that they couldn't wear oversized armour, like the Gundam, which was too large for the biological body to control actively. Instead, they could only control it passively.

For example, pressing a button would cause the armour to make a predetermined movement, or controlling it through brain-computer interaction, which couldn't be compared to small armour like the Iron Man suit. The cost was high, the space utilisation was low, and it was still the same problem as with ordinary spaceships; the cost-effectiveness was pitifully low, and it was still being beaten by spaceships.

The problem of liquid metal entering the body was also very troublesome, and the armour might be larger than the biological body wearing it, which also limited the armour.

There were also energy problems, calculation problems, speed problems, and so on.

The previous armour had improved the application of armour, but the improvement hadn't reached a terrifying level.

"The new armour form has changed a lot."

"You'll see, Yan Xia."

Yan Xia and Ella were now in the interior of the Mobius Ring World, and Yan Xia saw a huge circular device inside and asked, "What's that?"

"String Bell!"

"The old-fashioned photon bell could no longer provide us with the precision we wanted. More than 20,000 years ago, we replaced it with a neutrino bell, but neutrinos are virtual particles, and we can't observe them. Although their precision is greater than that of the photon bell, their reliability still needs to be improved."

"After a lot of research, about 18,000 years ago, the Federation developed the string bell."

"In the 21st century, the Earth used the resonance frequency of atoms to calculate time, and correspondingly, strings also have resonance frequencies. Strings create various fundamental particles through the strength of resonance, and our current string bell chooses the top quark, and the string forms the specific resonance frequency of the top quark to accurately time. The string bell basically has an error of one second every 133.27 billion years."

The bell is a ruler for measuring time.

In the modern era of high precision, the Civil Federation must unify the length of time. If it cannot be unified, then when a piece of information is transmitted, there will be a deviation, and this deviation may be reflected in the daily life of citizens, but it is fatal in high-precision calculations and other research.

Let's take a simple example.

At the microscopic level of physics, the simplest difference is that you are studying how many times an electron revolves around the atomic nucleus every second, and your time and other people's time have errors. The result of the test is two results.

Because your second may be 1/100,000 longer than someone else's, the seventh or eighth digit after the decimal point may be the same as someone else's using another time device to measure one second.

The macroscopic universe is also like this. If you and someone else agree to measure the position of a celestial body tens of billions of light-years away at exactly 12 o'clock, and you are one millisecond late, your 12 o'clock is their 12:00:00:001, so when you measure, the position of the celestial body has already deviated, and because of the long distance, this deviation may not be 1 millimetre, but 1 light-year.

Therefore, the time within the Federation must be completely unified.

And considering the differences in the size of the gravitational pull and the strength of external radiation in each star system.

What the string bell must achieve is to isolate the influence of the four basic forces, use a nearly similar internal structure, and ensure the accuracy of time.

"Every 100 years, the Water Commission will contact other star systems through tachyon communication to compare the time and adjust the time."

"The string bell here is not the main bell. The main bell is in a 10-light-year-wide cosmic void, with basically no large gravitational sources and radiation sources around it to interfere."

"In fact, it's more accurate to lower it to absolute zero and then detect the change in vacuum zero-point energy."

"But that way, it can't be matched with other string bells, after all, other string bells can't achieve that extreme."

"We are now researching a cross-dimensional clock. Most of the matter and energy in the universe cannot penetrate the cosmic membrane, which means that there is less energy in other dimensional universes, and space-time is more easily disturbed. This cross-dimensional clock is still in its initial stage, and we haven't even taken half a step."

Yan Xia nodded.

At first glance, the string bell seemed small, but when Yan Xia and Ella rode the orbital car at a speed of 40km/s, Yan Xia found that after an hour, the string bell in his field of vision had not become larger or smaller, and even the viewing angle had not changed much.

"Actually, if you go a little further, Yan Xia, you'll know the specific size of the string bell."

"Its diameter is 127,000 kilometres."

When Yan Xia heard Ella say this, he was stunned for a moment. The diameter of the Earth is about 12,742 kilometres, which means that the diameter of the string bell is ten times that of the Earth, and the surface area is 100 times that of the Earth.

It's not that he hadn't seen anything so big; the Mobius Ring World was much, much bigger than this. But when he thought that this thing was just a bell, it seemed a bit outrageous.

"Actually, it's so big because it's mainly used to isolate external influences. The real core is a little smaller than a human fist."

Ella always looked at the front of the orbital car, and there was already some light there.

Yan Xia also saw it.

That was their destination.

Soon they left the position of the string bell, and when Yan Xia looked back, he found that the string bell was inside a huge pimple on the back of the Mobius Ring World.

And they had also arrived at the back of the Mobius Ring World.

It wasn't quiet here, but there were countless robots working here. For every square kilometre of soil, the number of robots exceeded 100,000.

"There must be a dirty place behind the glamour."

This was the dirty place of the Mobius Ring World, where countless robots maintained the entire Mobius Ring World, making this giant structure stable and long-lasting.

"Ella, can you say 'thank you for your hard work' on my behalf?" Yan Xia said.

This was an idea that was born from his heart, although it was just a robot that Ella hadn't given much computational power to and only understood simple operations.

Ella nodded.

"Of course!"