Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 243 Energy Shield!

Technologies related to ultra-long-distance communication are developing rapidly.

At the same time, as Li Qingsong's understanding of the phenomenon of quantum entanglement became more and more profound, Li Qingsong also realized a problem.

The ultra-long-distance communication technology based on quantum entanglement actually has some limitations.

This limitation is related to distance.

Of course, it is not quantum entanglement itself that is affected by distance - even if it is on opposite sides of the universe, quantum entanglement is still real-time and takes zero time.

But Li Qingsong observed that once the distance is too far, the quantum entanglement itself will be subject to greater "interference".

Li Qingsong is not sure where this interference comes from at this stage, but he temporarily suspects that it may be related to dark matter and dark energy.

This interference makes it difficult to interpret the data. In other words, although the information is transmitted, if the distance is too far, the data cannot be interpreted.

Improving the ability to interpret is related to another extremely important subject.

math.

"Perhaps, with the advent of long-distance communication technology, I'll open up a new branch of mathematics. Hmm... maybe it could be called quantum mathematics?"

Li Qingsong discovered that the level of development of quantum mathematics is closely related to the level of its overall scientific system, and is also closely related to the data interpretation capabilities of quantum communication.

With Li Qingsong's current level of mathematics, the maximum communication distance he can afford is about 10 billion kilometers.

If it is longer, it will be basically impossible to interpret the complete information due to the high error rate and data loss rate.

Of course, Li Qingsong can also extend the communication distance through relaying, that is, by deploying a long-distance communication transfer station every 10 billion kilometers.

Even with the relay model, however, the error and loss rates accumulate. After nine relays at most, the message becomes completely unintelligible.

Therefore, with Li Qingsong's current level of mathematics, the limit of long-distance communication he can afford is about 100 billion kilometers.

"100 billion kilometers? That's enough for now. After all, more than 99.9999% of a star system's mass is concentrated within a radius of 100 billion kilometers."

Li Qingsong thought secretly: "No wonder I saw that the Omnic Scourge Fleet was unable to communicate between star systems.

Their mathematical skills are probably much higher than mine, but I estimate that they can only withstand a communication distance of two or three hundred billion kilometers at most, while the distance between star systems is often tens of trillions of kilometers.

But developing mathematics, even developing quantum mathematics specifically... is so damn hard."

Faced with the huge mountain of mathematics, Li Qingsong couldn't help but feel fear and couldn't help but swear.

Mathematics is an abstract science.

The simplest way to describe nature is with numbers, such as two apples, three oranges, etc. This is the first level of abstraction. At this level, people use numbers to replace physical objects.

The second level of abstraction is symbolic algebra. At this level, mathematicians use characters instead of numbers, entering the equation stage. The third level of abstraction is the abstraction of operational rules. Mathematicians realized that symbols are not necessary, and operational rules are the most important. They abstracted these into universal axioms, laying the foundation for further mathematics such as groups, rings, and fields.

At the fourth level of abstraction, mathematicians further summarize the operational rules into mathematical structures with common properties, satisfying closure, associativity, identity element, inverse element, linear structure, continuity abstraction, etc. They no longer focus on specific objects, but define systems that satisfy specific axioms.

The fifth level of abstraction, which is a further step based on the fourth level of abstraction, begins to study the interactions and mapping relationships between different mathematical structures, and develops concepts such as category theory and number theory that make ordinary people feel overwhelmed when they hear them.

At this moment, the quantum mathematics developed by Li Qingsong, according to this set of rules, is probably at the seventh level of abstraction.

At this level, Li Qingsong couldn't even use more common language to describe what he was researching.

It's like a question. Regardless of the answer to this question, Li Qingsong cannot simply describe the question itself.

It was a collection of extremely abstract and complex concepts. Although the Blueprint people had undergone several rounds of genetic modification, and their brain abilities had greatly improved compared to before, there were currently less than 7 Blueprint mathematicians out of approximately 100 million who could understand this problem.

There are only 20 blueprint mathematicians left who can research the answer based on their understanding of the problem.

"Hey……"

Li Qingsong sighed deeply.

"Fortunately, my computer technology has made great progress over the years, and the performance of quantum supercomputers has been greatly improved. I now have the right tools to conduct quantum mathematics research.

Otherwise, even if I could control 100 billion clones at the same time and make their heads explode with thought, it wouldn't make any progress at all."

Because of the importance of long-distance communication technology, Li Qingsong mobilized the brainpower of 100 million clones, asking them to either operate supercomputers or do nothing but think all day long, devoting themselves to the research of quantum mathematics.

Li Qingsong continued to invest the remaining 14 billion consciousness link shares in several other extremely important research projects, always maintaining the rapid advancement and development of the overall technology.

Time continued to slip by. As Feixing's large bag of "dry food" continued to shrink, Li Qingsong finally achieved another monumental technological advancement.

On the No. 1 test bench, Li Qingsong dispatched several Mercury-class battleships and used electromagnetic cannons to bombard them with all their might.

Test bench number one would have been ripped to pieces immediately. But before the high-speed projectiles could reach it, a pale yellow light shield appeared out of thin air around the test bench, completely enveloping it.

Gluon plasma controlled by magnetic field and connected by strong nuclear force!

They were extremely thin, only a few microns thick, yet incredibly tough. Even though the electromagnetic cannon projectiles Li Qingsong was firing at him now were traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second, each one was powerful enough to split mountains and crack rocks.

But it could only create ripples in this layer of gluon plasma shield which was only a few microns thick, and was completely unable to penetrate it!
Li Qingsong had finally mastered the energy shield technology. While its performance was still far inferior to that of the Omnic Scourge Fleet, that didn't matter. He could continue iterating and optimizing it!
At this moment, the fleet's main energy source, deuterium, is running low.

The current usage is not even enough to support the fleet's deceleration and entry into the star system to obtain supplies.

But this is not because Li Qingsong made any omissions or mistakes during the material collection stage.

This was a special arrangement by Li Qingsong because he reserved more of the reserve for ordinary hydrogen, or protium.

And now, after the breakthrough in energy shield technology, there has also been a breakthrough in protium fusion reactor technology!
(End of this chapter)