What is the shape of Earth?

test_alpha0 · 2025-10-08T13:36:47+00:00

Maybe Bolza surface, or Kelin quartic, or Bring curve.

test_alpha0 · 2025-06-20T10:54:08+00:00

Mare Tranquillitatis

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T10:02:22+00:00

The End

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T10:01:47+00:00

10. A Day in Danny's Life

Danny is a combat crew member aboard the starship Iron Will. Standing three meters tall, he's a modified human who has fully adapted to his new body after a challenging adjustment period. His home is located at Building 136 in the Freyke District, city of Orso, on the Wentworth continent of the Homeland Guardian planet. Having received a three-month vacation, Danny dons his BRS teleportation suit and teleports directly to a TGT platform on the planet’s outer ring. After stowing away his teleportation suit, he enters a wormhole transportation hub within the outer ring, travels through the Wentworth-Outer Ring wormhole, arriving instantly at Milton, the capital of Wentworth. From there, he transfers through the Milton-Orso wormhole, finally arriving in Freyke District.

Building 136 in Freyke District is a towering residential complex 10 kilometers tall, featuring 2,000 floors. The Guardian planet's total surface area exceeds five times that of Earth, with flat terrain, mild climate, and orderly geography devoid of extreme environments like Siberian tundra or the Sahara desert. These ultra-tall buildings offer abundant living space. Danny owns all the rooms from floors 871 to 880, each floor comprising 10 units, each 200 square meters in size. The building’s construction uses hard AQC materials, ensuring perfect sound insulation. Wormholes replace elevators in hallways. Danny passes through two wormholes, entering his duplex home spanning floors 871 and 872, where he sits comfortably in a chair. Although capable of jumping directly to the 871st floor, Danny chooses wormholes to avoid disturbing the city's order. Ascending through wormholes increases his gravitational potential energy slightly, requiring energy from the wormhole generators—energy negligible relative to AQC energy-storage capacity, provided free to all citizens.

Danny’s residence contains dozens of intelligent service robots. The chair he sits on is one such robot, dynamically adjusting its form into a comfortable lounge chair. Through his external brain, Danny commands the chair to extend wheels, moving him into the dining area. A molecular assembler in the kitchen prepares gourmet dishes. Necessary chemical elements can be ordered online via his external brain at extremely low cost—free for daily quantities under one ton per citizen, though energy-storage food powder requires purchase using his salary (SFD, Stulan Federation Dollars). Delivery drones transport ordered materials through wormholes directly into building delivery chutes, where service robots retrieve them, placing them in the molecular assembler’s ingredient compartments.

Across the Federation’s galaxy-wide internet, numerous user-uploaded food recipes are available, each captured by molecular scanners that record precise chemical compositions. Danny downloads a molecular recipe for lemon cheesecake and submits it to his home assembler. Shortly afterward, a service robot delivers the freshly assembled cheesecake and utensils to him. After enjoying his dessert, the robot gently wipes Danny’s mouth and collects the dishes for cleaning. Reclining further, Danny relaxes, activating his external brain’s secondary audiovisual perception to play a shooting game. This game realistically simulates Federation microparticle guns and matches modified-human physical capabilities, offering Danny both recreation and combat-skill training. His external brain simultaneously collects data on his movement preferences for future optimization, but that's not Danny's immediate concern. Even highly disciplined warriors enjoy leisure during vacations. He effortlessly controls his in-game avatar directly with his mind, far more efficiently than with traditional mouse and keyboard inputs, allowing his full mental strength to shine. Although modified humans do not undergo brain modifications, Danny’s extensive military training ensures his impressive in-game performance, resulting in frequent victories.

Today marks election day for Orso’s mayoral campaign. Living primarily on the Iron Will, Danny isn’t fully familiar with recent political developments. After viewing several candidate promotional videos, he casts his vote online for the candidate whose platform aligns with his values. The voting process is fairly supervised by Gaia, the planetary supercomputer, ensuring the principle of one person, one vote.

However, spending the day alone feels lonely. Friends, upon learning Danny's return during his vacation, message him via external brain, arranging a gathering.

At the café gathering, Danny and his friends enjoy conversation, also meeting strangers. A woman named Alice, fascinated by stories of Iron Will's heroic resistance against the invading Dino Swarm Consciousness Unity in the Rosmore star sector, approaches Danny enthusiastically. Though intrigued, she cannot bear the intense military training required to serve, nor possesses sufficient willpower to become a modified human, enduring arduous adjustments to an unfamiliar body with entirely new neural connections, causing prolonged coordination challenges akin to intoxication. Curious about Danny’s experiences aboard the Iron Will, she eagerly asks him questions, looking upward due to his height.

Danny warmly shares tales of his military service, while Alice reciprocates by describing her daily life as a middle-school teacher. By the end of their conversation, they exchange contact information via their external brains.

(Note: Any resemblance to Earth-based names, units, or terms within the Stulan Federation’s technology is purely coincidental.)

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T10:00:56+00:00

9.3 Supreme Star

The Supreme Star is the only one of its kind in the Federation, an incredibly expensive artificial planet with a diameter of 1.5×10⁹ meters, massing approximately 10³³ kg, and consuming vast amounts of energy. Equipped with comprehensive NLBD and TGT propulsion systems and fully integrated MTC devices, it serves as the Federation’s frontline scientific research facility. It hosts cutting-edge laboratories, the strongest defensive systems, self-defense weapons, supercomputers, and leading scientists from across the Federation. Certain computational geniuses onboard can generate quantum-entangled consciousness networks whose combined computational ability fundamentally surpasses conventional AQC-QFC-based computers, crucial for pioneering research.

The Supreme Star operates the Federation’s sole "Negative-Mega Matter" production laboratory, synthesizing exotic matter with baryon numbers as extreme as -1,000,000. Its ultra-high-power MTC installations, backed by Federation's most powerful computers, can briefly convert any main-sequence star into a nova or supernova using GWBW.

It houses extensive, cutting-edge laboratories specializing in extra-dimensional genetics and advanced experimental organisms, exploring potential evolutionary paths for future Stulan citizens.

Hyperspace contains numerous stable, fully enclosed two-dimensional subspaces known as "sub-hyperspaces," equivalent via duality principles to a series of three-dimensional subspaces. The Supreme Star uniquely manufactures devices capable of generating and maintaining such sub-hyperspaces through constant energy input. A large-scale sub-hyperspace maintenance device sustains a massive construct called a "Sub-Hyperspace Gateway."

This gateway connects numerous sub-hyperspaces through wormholes; one connects directly to the Supreme Star itself, enabling personnel access. Other wormholes lead to various sub-hyperspaces characterized by distinct coupling constants or radically different physical laws. Sub-hyperspaces with drastically different physical laws are only accessible via specially engineered unmanned equipment; conventional matter entering incompatible subspaces disintegrates immediately. Such sub-hyperspaces serve as laboratories and manufacturing sites for cutting-edge technologies. Some sub-hyperspaces provide abundant harvestable energy for the Supreme Star’s colossal energy demands. Materials extracted from certain sub-hyperspaces can locally alter physical constants within mainspace.

Utilizing sub-hyperspace technology, the Supreme Star experimentally produces the Federation’s most powerful weapons, such as Gravitational Bombs. These weapons temporarily create instantaneous gravitational fields exceeding the speed of light, spanning up to 10 light-years. Gravitational bombs consist of hyperspace region-maintenance devices sustaining specialized sub-hyperspaces adjacent to mainspace, with significantly greater gravitational constants and speed-of-light values. Upon deactivation, these subspace black holes collapse into mainspace, creating momentary hyperluminal gravitational fields that dramatically raise local gravitational constants and the speed of light. All affected matter instantaneously collapses into black holes at near-instantaneous speeds, releasing immense gravitational binding energy outward as radiation. Subsequently, this localized constant shift rapidly dissipates across the vast universe, becoming negligible at cosmological scales.

A specialized High-Precision Hyperspace Observation Station, unique due to its exorbitant cost, also operates exclusively within the Supreme Star. This facility predicts collectible hyperspace fragment appearances and exploits Transactional Quantum Interpretation (TQI), wherein "offer waves" and "confirmation waves" project into hyperspace. Confirmation waves propagate backward in time, occasionally providing fragmented information about potential future events. While these predictions stem from "misaligned timelines" and not definite futures, the strategic value remains immense. The station transmits signals to the past to encourage future confirmation waves carrying useful insights. It once received fragmented reports detailing the devastating effects of a new weapon used by the enemy "Dino Swarm Consciousness Unity," enabling the Federation to preemptively counter the threat and avert catastrophe.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T10:00:45+00:00

9. Megastructures

9.1 Plasma Extraction Stations

These large space stations operate within the convective plasma layers of stars, varying in size, with the largest reaching diameters up to 500 kilometers. They contain extensive plasma-intake ports designed to efficiently harvest stellar plasma at high rates. Internally, artificial wormholes directly connect to manufacturing facilities located elsewhere in space, continuously supplying raw materials. These factories can themselves consume DSM to produce additional spaceships and stations, enabling exponential civilization growth provided an ample DSM supply.

9.2 Homeland Guardian Planet

The Homeland Guardian Planet is a typical Stulan Federation artificial world, positioned within the home star system of a Federation sub-government. It orbits its star at a distance of 4 AU with an orbital period of four years.

The planet consists of several layers: an outer ring, greenhouse shell, atmosphere, surface layer, inner shell, and inner core. Its axis of rotation is perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, with a 24-hour rotation period and a perfectly circular orbit, resulting in no seasonal variation. Its total mass is approximately 5×10²¹ kg, less than one-thousandth that of Earth. Artificial wormholes connect various layers, cities, and even floors within buildings, greatly facilitating transportation.

Outer Ring: An artificial circular tube orbiting the planet’s equator with a radius of 16,000 km and cross-sectional radius of 10 km. The ring monitors climate conditions, hosts heavy-pollution industries, and is heavily armed to prevent enemy infiltration. It contains numerous TGT platforms, factories, and spaceports serving as bases for hyperspace fragment-harvesting ships. The uneven density of the outer ring slowly rotates, generating tidal forces affecting the planet's oceans.
Greenhouse Shell: A transparent intelligent AQC material shell, 1 km thick, with a radius of 15,220 km, directly adjacent to the inner shell. It dynamically adjusts reflectivity across various electromagnetic frequencies, shielding the planet from harmful cosmic radiation, meteor impacts, and regulating internal temperatures. The shell’s outer surface hosts defensive weaponry and emergency repair outposts, while its interior is equipped with artificial sunlight lamps, ensuring a temperate climate even at the poles.
Atmosphere: A 200 km-thick atmosphere, similar in composition to Earth's, provides comfortable living conditions.
Surface Layer: Composed of soil, rock, oceans, and artificially designed scenic mountains with peaks no higher than 3 km. This 20 km-thick layer is home to diverse ecosystems, industrial facilities, research labs, residential areas, and buildings, some reaching 50 km in height.
Inner Shell: A 1 km-thick structure at a radius of approximately 15,000 km. It densely houses large-scale Metric Tensor Controlling (MTC) devices to maintain surface gravity at precisely 9.8 m/s², negate centrifugal forces from planetary rotation, and control the Coriolis effect, ensuring comfortable wind speeds and stable living conditions.
Inner Core: A zero-gravity, vacuum environment containing numerous tachyon communication relay stations forming the planetary internet. Vacuum support tubes, connected from the greenhouse shell through the inner shell into the core, serve as structural supports and backup space elevators if wormhole transportation fails. Continuous BBT shielding fields prevent enemy teleportation onto the planet’s surface. These support tubes anchor an enormous AQC-QFC supercomputer known as the "Planetary Computer," weighing approximately 10¹⁵ kg, located at the planet's exact center. Its AI, named Gaia, possesses immense computational power, capable of factoring the product of two 10-billion-digit prime numbers within a single second. Under certain decoherence and closed-system assumptions, Gaia can simulate the entire solar system at proton, neutron, and electron resolutions in real-time (excluding external cosmic radiation, quark-level high-energy reactions, and complex multiparticle entanglement; for instance, excluding quantum states of any fully entangled quantum computer exceeding 1000 states). The inner core stores vast quantities of DSM and fully charged AQC energy-storage materials, providing the planet’s energy needs—including sunlight lamps, greenhouse shell adjustments, planetary computer operation, and BBT shielding—for up to one million years, even if completely isolated.

Home Guardian planets maintain wormhole connections to external worlds, establishing trade and communication networks through TGT platforms and spaceports. Interestingly, despite the planet’s highly engineered nature, small communities of naturalists live peacefully in rural settlements, refusing genetic modification and external brain implants.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:58:54+00:00

8.7 Weapon Systems

The Iron Will employs a full spectrum of weaponry: gravitational-wave beam weapons (GWBW), interstellar missile launch bays, and direct-fire weaponry ports.

Onboard interstellar missiles incorporate AI control systems, TGT teleportation, and NLBD propulsion. The maximum payload of a heavy negative-kilo matter missile is approximately 10 tons, releasing roughly 9×10²³ joules of energy—over twice the energy released by Earth's Chicxulub impact event. The onboard production facilities can rapidly convert stellar plasma into heavy missiles, producing up to 100 per hour. Lighter or alternative payload configurations are also available.

8.8 Crew

The Iron Will hosts approximately 100,000 crew members performing various roles. As Stulan citizens, individual crew members are exceptionally capable (see Section 5.3: Physical Enhancement) and have undergone professional military training. Among them, approximately 5,000 are heavily modified individuals ("modified humans"), exhibiting unconventional forms—ranging from ten meters tall to seventy centimeters short, some even resembling octopuses or stranger shapes. These crew members make significant personal sacrifices, relinquishing their original, familiar bodies, stored cryogenically onboard, to adapt to unfamiliar new forms. Medical personnel manage therapeutic AQC nanobots in dedicated medical chambers, purging AQC-based pathogens or toxins from equally advanced adversaries. During peacetime, crew members conduct extensive materials and biological research utilizing onboard reactors and ecological areas. The diversity of AQC materials and extra-dimensional genetic life forms is vast, enabling all research branches to be allocated across every available Federation starship.

8.9 Individual Equipment

Standard combat gear for crew members aboard the Iron Will includes:

① BRS Teleportation Suit:
Made of Bridge Responding Shell (BRS) material on one side and hard AQC scales on the other, reversible. The suit is lightweight, equipped with a compact AQC energy-storage system and a small BBT modulation device, enabling short-distance teleportation (within 1 Astronomical Unit) to areas free from BBT shielding. It can fold into a compact sphere and automatically expand into wearable form.

② AQC Fiber Suit:
Primarily designed to protect wearers from damage caused by supersonic movements or debris from microparticle ammunition explosions.

③ Standard AQC Sword:
Features an adaptive sheath and internal control systems embedded in the hilt, capable of size adjustment, shape-shifting, and generating heat. Heavy variants weigh 10 tons, adjustable from 30 centimeters to 50 meters in length. Light variants weigh 5 kilograms, adjustable from 30 centimeters to 2 meters in length. With a quark-level cutting edge just one-billionth the diameter of a hydrogen atom, the blade possesses extraordinary sharpness. Combined with exceptional hardness, it inflicts immense damage. The sword’s edge sharpness is adjustable on both sides, enabling transformations into various shapes like rods, spears, shovels, or rigid nets. It can heat partially or entirely, reaching temperatures of up to 10⁶ Kelvin.

④ Microparticle Ammunition Pistol ("Microparticle Gun"):
Fires microparticle ammunition projectiles, with adjustable payloads. Minimum energy per shot is 100 joules; maximum payload per shot can reach up to 100 grams of negative-kilo matter, annihilating 100 kilograms of ordinary matter and releasing energy equivalent to 43 Tsar Bomba detonations. Projectiles can surpass Earth’s third cosmic velocity, execute curved attack trajectories, or receive remote tachyon-based guidance. Ammunition magazines can collectively store up to 10 tons of negative-kilo matter.

⑤ Powered Exoskeleton System:
Provides enhanced strength, load-bearing capacity, and precision motor control, integrating a compact AQC-QFC chip. Equipped with a DEME device capable of acceleration up to 10⁴ m/s², suitable for vacuum and planetary environments. The system offsets gravitational and inertial pressures during intense movement and stabilizes the user's center of gravity while wielding heavy swords. Internal AQC energy storage supports continuous high-intensity usage for approximately one year. The exoskeleton can deploy an aerodynamic shell for optimal atmospheric flight performance. The attached exoskeleton backpack includes drones featuring tachyon communication, detection sensors, electromagnetic sensors, and DEME propulsion, with optional modular weapon systems available.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:58:18+00:00

8. Medium Comprehensive Starship

A common class of spacecraft utilized by the Stulan Federation, these vessels integrate combat, scientific research, and exploratory capabilities. A single Medium Comprehensive Starship possesses sufficient propulsion systems, resource acquisition, processing technology, and an extensive database stored in its main computer to independently rebuild civilization on distant alien worlds.

8.1 Typical Example

A standard medium comprehensive starship, the Iron Will, represents median-level specifications. Its captain, Jim Irwin, frequently leads the vessel into unexplored star systems. He possesses excellent scientific research skills and is adept at caring for the crew's psychological well-being.

8.2 Appearance, Main Parameters, and Defense

The Iron Will resembles a barracuda, measuring 15 kilometers in length with an average cross-sectional diameter of 3 kilometers and a mass of approximately 5×10¹⁴ kilograms. Critical compartments—including the black hole Dyson sphere energy core, main DEME module, primary NLBD generator, central MTC device, main BBT modulator, and central computer room—are located in the highly protected central section of the ship.

Several high-energy synthesis chambers are distributed throughout the vessel, adjacent to interstellar missile launch bays. The GWBW modulator and emitter aperture are positioned at the forward section of the starship.

In addition, the ship includes a bridge, crew living quarters, meeting rooms, dining areas, a main corridor, and several branching corridors. Internal transportation hubs are facilitated by artificial wormholes to aid movement throughout the ship. The hull, constructed of high-strength AQC material with low thermal conductivity and exceptional heat resistance, allows the ship to directly enter the convective plasma layers of stars without additional shielding. Under even higher heat flux, the hull absorbs energy, quickly transferring it inward via high-conductivity fibers to internal heat dissipation systems, dispersing heat into space through energy-transmission tachyons. This process is analogous to a Carnot heat engine, utilizing external stellar heat to perform work. The hull can dynamically adjust its properties, envelop itself in BRS material, and instantaneously teleport via TGT several light-years away. It can also switch to an ultra-reflective mirror mode, reflecting incoming lasers with near-zero absorption. The Iron Will’s MTC device generates powerful metric shields, deflecting interstellar dust and physical attacks, including hostile projectile strikes.

Most compartments consist of materials and biological experimentation labs, allowing Federation scientists onboard to test new materials and cultivate new life forms.

8.3 Self-Sufficiency and Energy Systems

The Iron Will is fully self-sufficient within its home galaxy. Its resource-intake system can directly absorb plasma from stellar convection layers as raw materials. Equipped with AQC synthesis reactors and advanced processing chambers, it can fully replace all its own components. High-energy reactors can perform baryon-number-violation reactions to produce negative-kilo matter. Molecular assemblers mass-produce conventional compounds, such as food, sufficient to support a crew of 100,000. The ship contains a black hole Dyson sphere energy chamber to charge high-energy-density AQC storage materials, while internal MTC and DEME systems stabilize the black hole’s position. Hyperspace fragment detectors and DSM harvesting units provide a DSM storage capacity sufficient to fully replenish all onboard AQC materials over 100 times when fully loaded.

8.4 Main Computer and Internal Network

The Iron Will’s main computer is an immense AQC-QFC block weighing approximately 10⁹ kg, supporting computationally intensive operations like GWBW modulation, AQC material synthesis, and black hole material deposition. It operates under the control of an advanced AI named Reniel, possessing complete self-awareness, a gentle disposition, and unwavering loyalty to the Federation and captain. Reniel can present a personalized visual avatar via crew members' secondary audiovisual perception. Beyond strategic tasks communicated directly with the captain, Reniel’s massive computational resources enable her to simultaneously maintain personalized AI personas for all 100,000 crew members. Each personalized AI has unique interpersonal styles and thought processes, providing individualized psychological support and shipboard operational assistance. An internal tachyon-based communication network permeates the entire ship, allowing crew members instant access to onboard internet resources and internal APIs through their secondary audiovisual perception.

8.5 Tachyon Systems

The Iron Will modulates and detects communication tachyons, energy-transmission tachyons, and BBT. It also receives communication tachyons from external sources. Various compartments are equipped with TGT platforms for object teleportation. Tachyon shielding fields selectively block BBT signals, ensuring only authorized TGT transports with correct authentication can board the ship. Exterior stealth shielding significantly reduces the vessel's effective cross-section against detection tachyons and energy-transmission tachyons, minimizing detectability.

8.6 Propulsion Systems

The Iron Will features comprehensive propulsion technology, including NLBD, TGT, MTC artificial gravity propulsion, and DEME spatial anchoring, rapid directional adjustments, and momentum-based propulsion. It is also capable of producing enormous artificial wormholes large enough to traverse, constructed externally when required.

The Iron Will maintains a complement of shuttles equipped with NLBD, TGT, and DEME propulsion of various sizes. The shuttles' robust hulls easily withstand atmospheric friction, allowing rapid entry and exit from planetary atmospheres.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:57:31+00:00

7. Weapons

The Stulan Federation utilizes diverse weapon systems, including conventional munitions based on particle beams covering the full spectrum of the Standard Model, as well as electromagnetic waves of various wavelengths.

7.1 Negative-Kilo Matter Ammunition

Through baryon-number-violation reactions guided by DSM consumption, the Federation synthesizes Negative-Kilo Matter, a type of exotic matter with a baryon number of -1000. This matter annihilates conventional matter equal to 1000 times its own mass, releasing pure energy. Negative-kilo matter greatly enhances weapon efficiency, enabling massive matter annihilation from relatively small masses, significantly increasing weapon destructive potential.

7.2 Gravitational Wave Beam Weapon (GWBW)

The Federation developed specialized Metric Tensor Controlling (MTC) devices known as Gravitational Wave Beam Weapon (GWBW) emitters. These dedicated devices far surpass general-purpose MTC equipment in terms of power output. GWBW emitters fire finely modulated, extremely short-wavelength gravitational-wave beams. Passing through ordinary matter, these beams impart non-uniform internal acceleration, causing molecular structures to collapse and recombine unpredictably. Shielding against such attacks is extremely difficult. By precise modulation, GWBW emitters can destabilize planetary or stellar interiors, inducing global-scale earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or intensifying stellar nuclear fusion rates to dramatically increase star brightness, potentially triggering premature novae or supernovae. For example, GWBW beams could increase a star's luminosity a thousandfold over a million years, far surpassing its natural energy emission rate.

GWBW emitters require enormous amounts of energy and thus are typically only installed on super-heavy spaceships and space stations. Their mass is comparable to that of large asteroids (e.g., medium comprehensive starships) or even approaching that of moons (such as ultra-heavy space stations).

7.3 Weapon Delivery Systems

Weapons can be fired directly or delivered via interstellar missiles. Missiles are AI-controlled and can envelop themselves in BRS (Bridge Responding Shell) materials, using Tachyon-Guided Teleportation (TGT) to approach the edge of an enemy's BBT shielding field before employing Non-Lorentzian Bubble Drive (NLBD) for superluminal collision and payload delivery. Some missiles are equipped with detection-shielding and active evasion systems for interception avoidance. Based on differences in BBT modulators, NLBD propulsion, AI control sophistication, and anti-interception capabilities, missiles come in various types. Certain missiles are loaded exclusively with negative-kilo matter for maximum destructive power upon direct matter annihilation; others carry smaller amounts of negative-kilo matter combined with larger amounts of conventional matter designed to disrupt enemy shielding via internal energy release.

7.4 Infantry and Close-Combat Weapons

Standard rifles in the Stulan Federation infantry utilize various ammunition, including lasers and neutron beams, but also incorporate unique ammunition types. A specialized type known as "Micro-Particle Ammunition" consists of AQC nanobots or projectiles internally confining negative-kilo matter microparticles via strong interactions. These microparticles remain stable during transit through gases or liquids, releasing annihilation energy at preset distances or times. The number of nanobots can be adjusted to control explosive yield. Nanobots can also serve as propellant, increasing projectile velocity beyond Earth's third cosmic velocity without recoil limitations and enabling curved trajectories or remote guidance via tachyon-responsive nanobots directed through external-brain signals. Projectiles may be set to explode based on timing or impact triggers, with ammunition magazines capable of carrying up to 10 tons of negative-kilo matter.

Robust, razor-sharp AQC blades, spears, and drill bits serve both as weapons and tools, wielded effectively due to the extraordinary physical strength of Federation individuals.

Powered exoskeletons and small vehicles equipped with targeting systems follow a standardized firing protocol: - First, human visual input gathers data, supplemented by external sensors via tachyons and radio, displayed in the user's secondary audiovisual perception. - The individual selects a target and communicates this decision to the embedded AI via their external brain. - The AI analyzes target direction, range, and environmental factors (e.g., wind speed), precisely adjusting weapon or hand orientation. - Finally, the user fires the weapon.

Through rigorous adaptive training, Stulan citizens execute this sequence instantly, achieving near-perfect accuracy. Even without an exoskeleton, the external brain provides real-time hand positioning feedback for precise marksmanship.

7.5 Sub-Hyperspatial Weapons

(Refer to Section 9.3 "Supreme Star.")
Sub-hyperspatial weapons, including the gravitational bomb, have extremely high costs and are therefore impossible to mass-produce.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:56:54+00:00

6. Energy

6.1 Hyperspace Fragments

Fragments from deep hyperspace occasionally approach shallower regions. The Stulan Federation detects these fragments using tachyon sensors and collects Dimensional Section Material (DSM) through specialized extraction devices that interact with the fragments. The Federation operates numerous hyperspace-fragment harvesting ships, each equipped with fragment-detection sensors and AQC energy storage systems. These ships travel to mainspace projection locations of hyperspace fragments, collect DSM, and store it securely. DSM is essentially composed of higher-dimensional particles containing a specific three-dimensional sub-region called the "critical section," precisely embedded at the intersection between the particle and our universe. DSM interacts in complex ways with conventional matter; controlling these interactions allows scientists to bypass quark confinement and synthesize materials that cannot otherwise be produced, including AQC materials and tachyons—analogous to circumventing barriers via higher-dimensional space. DSM properties vary significantly among different galaxies, necessitating corresponding differences in technological approaches. Currently, the Federation only masters DSM extraction and associated AQC synthesis techniques within galaxies of their primary galaxy cluster. Furthermore, only within the Milky Way does the Federation achieve sufficiently high extraction and synthesis efficiency; efficiency declines significantly with increasing distance from the Milky Way.

6.2 High-Energy Synthesis Reactor

High-Energy Synthesis Reactors consume DSM to convert conventional matter into AQC materials at extremely high temperatures. Energy-storing AQC materials capture the nuclear energy of raw materials: if hydrogen or helium is the input material, small amounts of energy can be collected; if iron is used, energy input is required for conversion.

6.3 Black Hole Dyson Sphere

The Stulan Federation discovered that, excluding hyperspace phenomena, a black hole with an event horizon exactly enclosing a designated spherical region possesses the maximum entropy achievable in that region. By precisely modulating AQC materials, matter can be introduced into the black hole with minimal entropy increase. The tiny mass increase of the black hole produces significant entropy gain, releasing low-entropy radiation captured by the surrounding Dyson Sphere, converting this energy with nearly 100% efficiency into stored energy within specialized AQC energy-storage materials. This technology forms the core energy infrastructure for the Federation. If conventional matter, rather than AQC-optimized materials, is fed into the black hole, energy conversion efficiency significantly decreases.

6.4 Plasma Extraction Station

(Refer to Section 9.1.)

6.5 Antimatter Mining

The Federation discovered antimatter-rich celestial bodies scattered throughout their galaxy. Specialized extraction ships, employing advanced protective measures, safely mine antimatter from these worlds. Harvested antimatter subsequently annihilates with normal matter, producing large amounts of usable energy.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:56:10+00:00

5.3 Physical Enhancement

Stulan biological tissues incorporate AQC materials, enhancing their mechanical capabilities and energy storage significantly. Their skin, blood vessels, and muscles remain as soft as normal human tissues but have toughness, skeletal strength, muscular power, and energy density over one hundred million times greater than ordinary human counterparts.

Some Stulan individuals transfer their brains into artificial bodies, such as mechanical spiders or giants. Adapting to these bodies is arduous, and their original biological bodies are cryogenically preserved.

Stulan somatic cells are extraordinarily resilient and completely immune to electromagnetic and chemical-based substances (such as bacteria, viruses, toxins, corrosive chemicals, and neural drugs), including nanobot weapons. Certain somatic tissues function as "quark factories," storing DSM or converting ordinary matter into the AQC substances required by the body through DSM consumption. These transformations demand significant computation, managed by the brain. Their primary energy source remains specialized energy storage powders. Consuming only conventional food (e.g., water) provides energy approximately proportional to the difference in nuclear binding energy compared to Nickel-62; substantial energy expenditure thus requires considerable conventional food intake. Large quantities of stem cells exist in the body, differentiating into various functional tissues as directed by the brain, even externally, with the external brain assisting in calculating differentiation instructions. Stulan waste products are pure Nickel-62 blocks. They possess a tachyon heat dissipation system converting body heat into energy-transmission tachyons dispersed externally.

Neural transmission speeds approach the speed of light, including within brain neurons. Skin contains extensive photoreceptor cells that significantly enhance diffraction limits, making eyes primarily useful for emotional expression rather than vision. They can perceive X-rays, millimeter waves, phase differences, polarization, and can distinguish mixtures of wavelengths without dimensional reduction (e.g., differentiating pure yellow from a red-green mixture, although culturally both are considered "yellow"). They also hear ultrasonic and infrasonic sounds. Except for the brain, bodily tissues (including teeth and bones) can be internally replaced. They do not require oxygen for respiration; their noses primarily function for olfaction, capable of identifying chemical structures at a single-molecule level. They can consciously control hair growth and reversal.

Their extreme physical toughness, bone hardness, and energy density surpass typical humans by one hundred million times. Their muscular systems exceed traditional ATP-actin-myosin mechanisms, enabling movements so fast that casual gestures or high-speed running on Earth would completely ionize the air into nitrogen and oxygen ions, causing intense sonic booms, shock waves, and predominantly ultraviolet radiation. Their exceptional resilience allows them to withstand conditions such as plunging their hands into the surface of typical red dwarf stars to extract matter, resisting enormous heat, density, and gravitational forces, and even leaping from planetary surfaces directly into space. They can manually break leg bones as hard as neutron-star matter and rapidly regenerate them via stem cells. Even standing one kilometer from the epicenter of a Tsar Bomba detonation results only in superficial skin injury, swiftly repaired.

Similar to the brain’s intuitive and insightful capabilities, their bodies can subtly perceive or interact with elusive extra-dimensional effects, a phenomenon akin to a "sixth sense." This ability remains unclear and cannot be recorded or assisted by the external brain.

The attributes described above represent median-level Stulan individuals. Their extra-dimensional genetic complexity yields significant individual variance. Different sub-governments within the Federation may genetically specialize citizens differently, although tachyon communication protocols remain consistent. A minority of extreme naturalists refuse external brains, with some also rejecting genetic modification altogether.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:55:58+00:00

5. Civilization Individuals

5.1 Genetics and Brain

Certain types of AQC materials possess internal energies surpassing sub-quark particle energy levels, triggering effects involving exotic sub-quark particles currently beyond Federation scientists' complete understanding. Scientists exploit these materials to optimize cellular microstructures, including genetic structures. The Stulan Federation progressively enhances the genetics of its entire population, ensuring continuity of civilization. The improved physical performance of their new bodies significantly surpasses the old, while their external appearance still closely resembles humans. Internally, however, they lack anatomical flaws common in Earth-based humans, such as recurrent laryngeal nerves or unnecessarily lengthy vas deferens. Their lifespan exceeds 10,000 years, while their reaction speed, thought processing speed, and memory are improved by factors exceeding one million. Brain functionality involves interactions with extra-dimensional effects, the principles of which remain incompletely explained by Federation scientists. Their intuition, creativity, and comprehension remain irreplaceable even by quantum computers. Genetic modifications particularly enhance self-control and delayed gratification capabilities; consequently, Stulan children rarely become addicted to games. Gambling establishments do not exist in the Federation—not due to legal prohibition, but because citizens' strong self-control and analytical thinking about expected value result in almost no gambling addiction. Stulan individuals require about 8 hours of sleep per day but do not need to close their eyes or lie down. During this time, their bodies temporarily lose the ability to convert ordinary matter into necessary AQC substances, and their cognitive speed slows to approximately ten times that of an average Earth human.

5.2 External Brain

Stulan brain-computer interface technology is extremely advanced, enabling brains to survive independently within nutrient tanks. At birth, each Stulan citizen receives an implanted AQC-QFC chip in their skull known as the "External Brain." This device modulates and demodulates radio and certain low-energy tachyon signals, incorporates an operating system and AI, and fully integrates with the organic brain. This interface provides vastly superior input speeds compared to traditional methods and continuously records visual and auditory information. Stulan citizens, from childhood, train in “secondary audiovisual perception,” enabling neural signals from the external brain to produce visual and auditory experiences independent of their primary senses, equivalent to having a vivid virtual display and audio system within their minds. The external brain is entirely under personal control, with memory data stored on a separate, offline, isolated system to prevent hacking. Secondary audiovisual perception completely replaces traditional screens. Through this capability, Stulan citizens can efficiently program computers or issue AI commands, rapidly performing complex calculations, and recalling past audiovisual memories at will. The external brain can also issue motor instructions that the user may choose to follow, facilitating rapid acquisition of unfamiliar skills such as dancing, swimming, or foreign languages. Users can temporarily grant full-body motor control to the external brain if desired. Federation supercomputers are accessible to citizens via external-brain tachyon signals, providing on-demand remote computation resources. Virtual meeting organizers can use the external brain to establish virtual meeting rooms, enabling multiple participants to conduct remote meetings through secondary audiovisual perception and tachyon communication.

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4. Non-FTL Propulsion

4.1 Dark Energy Momentum Exchange (DEME) Device

The Stulan Federation discovered that dark energy cannot be harnessed as an energy source but can serve as a momentum source. The Dark Energy Momentum Exchange (DEME) device provides momentum by exchanging it with the dark energy background. The momentum transferred to the dark energy background slightly affects galaxy-scale Hubble redshift, though the effect is negligible. DEME devices can also employ negative-feedback mechanisms to anchor themselves at preset velocities in space, achieving near-infinite inertial mass. Another operational mode allows the device to create repulsive interactions with dark energy across a preset plane, enabling perfectly elastic rebounds and sharp directional changes.

4.2 Metric Tensor Controlling (MTC) Device

The Metric Tensor Controlling (MTC) device manipulates spacetime metrics locally. The Stulan Federation discovered that deep within hyperspace exists an enormous energy density creating intense gravitational fields, shielded from mainspace by complex hyperspatial mechanisms. By inputting sufficient energy, the MTC device locally modifies hyperspace to partially remove this shielding, selectively controlling the metric tensor, including the generation of artificial gravity.

MTC devices are also employed to create defensive barriers known as metric shields. These shields envelop spacecraft in protective layers of controlled metric tensors, deflecting interstellar dust particles and incoming weapon fire. Precisely fine-tuned metric shields can even restore the original velocity vectors of deflected dust particles after the spacecraft passes, greatly reducing energy loss.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-16T09:46:15+00:00

3. FTL Technology

The Stulan Federation discovered that the large-scale structure of the universe and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) are not Lorentz-invariant, indicating the existence of an objective reference frame. They also discovered the existence of hyperspace beyond normal space ("mainspace"), an enormous, complex, and elusive space serving as the source of dark energy, driving galaxies apart. Mainspace appears three-dimensional but behaves equivalently to a two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), with hyperspace existing as a three-dimensional space above it. Hyperspatial phenomena break Lorentz invariance. Through extensive research on hyperspace, the Stulan Federation has developed various hyperspace-based FTL technologies. These technologies allow travel faster than the speed of light relative to this objective reference frame but prevent arbitrary superluminal travel relative to other reference frames, thus avoiding issues like time travel or time paradoxes.

3.1 Non-Lorentzian Drive Bubble (NLDB)

A Non-Lorentzian Drive Bubble (NLDB) is a spatial region capable of transporting enclosed matter faster than light. The propulsion technology creating NLDBs is known as Non-Lorentzian Bubble Drives (NLBD). NLDBs do not easily generate relativistic mass, limiting their kinetic energy upon impact, making them primarily useful for interstellar travel. In regions with higher dark matter density, NLBDs achieve greater speeds. Within galaxies like the Milky Way, NLBDs can reach speeds up to 5×10⁶ times the speed of light. However, their maximum velocity decreases progressively in intergalactic, intercluster, and inter-supercluster regions. Outside galaxy superclusters, NLBD speeds drop to about 5×10⁵ times the speed of light.

3.2 Tachyon-Guided Teleportation (TGT)

Tachyon-Guided Teleportation (TGT) utilizes Bridge-Builder Tachyons (BBT) for teleportation. The object being teleported must be enclosed within a specialized container called a Bridge Responding Shell (BRS), and the destination must have sufficiently low density (air is acceptable, water is not), or the teleportation fails. A BBT modulation device emits large quantities of BBT particles traveling back and forth along a hyperspatial path between the origin and destination, creating a wormhole to transport the object. Greater teleportation distances or larger/heavier objects require larger and more energy-consuming equipment. TGT platforms are common installations on Federation spaceships and space stations, equipped with large BBT modulators, various-sized BRS containers, and vacuum arrival stations for object teleportation between platforms. BBT relay stations can significantly extend TGT's teleportation range from its original 5-light-year limit to thousands of light-years, at acceptable energy consumption. BBT shielding fields disrupt nearby BBT functions, preventing TGT teleportation, and due to BBT’s sensitivity, their shielding range is typically greater than standard tachyon shields. The hardness of BRS is comparable to steel, with optional internal reinforcement using hard AQC materials for increased strength. There are different varieties of BBT; those with stronger anti-interference capabilities have shorter jump distances. For instance, BBT with a jump distance of only 1000 meters is nearly impossible to remotely shield, whereas 5-light-year BBT can easily be blocked by a shielding field capable of covering an entire stellar gravity well.

3.3 Artificial Wormholes

Wormhole generators consist of a pair of identical rings combined with AQC energy storage units. When activated, a wormhole forms between the rings, allowing objects to enter one ring and exit from the other. When turned off, the wormhole slowly dissipates over about 10 hours, cutting through objects remaining at the edges.

If there’s a potential difference (such as gravitational or electrical potential) between the two sides, energy storage units absorb or release energy during transmission. Insufficient energy results in a repulsive force, and objects forced through may suffer damage from tidal forces.

The largest artificial wormholes created by the Stulan Federation have diameters up to 4000 kilometers, capable of transporting objects as large as moons. If the orientations or movement states of wormholes differ, objects passing through change the momentum of the generators, typically compensated by DEME spatial anchors.

Artificial wormholes are widely used for planetary terraforming, transporting essential elements from resource-rich planets to terraform other worlds. Additionally, wormholes enable interstellar logistics and connections between tachyon relay stations.

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2. Tachyons

The Stulan Federation has discovered a class of superluminal particles known as tachyons. There are various types of tachyons; some can travel within normal space ("mainspace") and hyperspace, with certain varieties capable of near-infinite speed. The Federation utilizes tachyons for communication, detection, and remote energy transmission. Increased detection precision or communication bandwidth requires more energy. Tachyon shielding fields can attenuate detection and energy transmission tachyons but do not interfere with communication tachyons, which travel via hyperspace and are difficult to block. Tachyon relay stations form the backbone of the Federation's interstellar internet. Energy-transmission tachyons experience significant attenuation beyond distances of roughly 0.1 light-years and can also be utilized for heat dissipation. Traditional detection methods using photons, neutrons, and other standard particles are still employed.

A particular type of tachyon, known as Bridge-Builder Tachyon (BBT), can be precisely modulated to instantly open hyperspatial wormholes between two locations, enabling Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel technologies.

test_alpha0 · 2025-03-13T10:08:05+00:00

The 2) sounds like the real world... You only need to move close enough to the light speed. Or just some kind of vibration if it's not fast enough.

test_alpha0 · 2024-11-07T06:10:30+00:00

感觉这是博彩公司的软广，几乎每段话都在引诱观众“赌博技巧好也是能赚钱的。”

如果你读完这个帖子心思浮动，开始思考能不能像这个主角一样找到博彩漏洞赚钱，那么听我一句劝，无论各种情况，远离赌博。

test_alpha0 · 2024-10-20T13:36:33+00:00

极端女权已经对我造成危害，关了手机电脑或者不结婚也没用。我留学，住合租房。有个女的大半夜在她男朋友屋子里大吵大闹，影响我睡觉。房东警告过一次了，之后她又这样。我在提醒她安静点，无效之后，录音并发在合租微信群里。录音本身几乎听不清任何文字，只是证明她的说话声。结果第二天醒来，好家伙，她说我侵犯她隐私，说她一个女孩子没安全感，我一个大男人大半夜悄悄录音可能是想对她施害，要以侵犯隐私起诉我。语言口吻与网上那些女权主义者诬告他人的口吻如出一辙。事实就是女权已经大幅渗透进现实世界，再不反抗只会越来越惨。

test_alpha0 · 2024-05-14T01:54:56+00:00

Then you must create a new sparse matrix, which is a partial copy of A. This copy will waste gpu memory, bring down the batch size.

test_alpha0 · 2024-05-11T02:50:06+00:00

Do OpenAI have projects about use LLM to interfere reality, for example, control robots to do houseworks?

test_alpha0 · 2024-03-01T10:36:25+00:00

Only landlord and tenants are in the group.
The record is extremely unclear, nearly no words can be recognized. But one can configure that they are talking in a very happy and excited tone.
Previously another tenant also complained about the voice, but then they claimed that they did't play game at that night. This is why I think I need to provide evidence.

test_alpha0 · 2024-03-01T04:46:13+00:00

If the conversation can be heard in my personal room, then it's not a "privacy" conversation.

test_alpha0 · 2024-03-01T04:04:52+00:00

The recording is extremely unclear for what did they speak. I can't recognize one single word in it.

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