It's our turn.

Almost the moment the order was given, the entire command room was like a machine, and every researcher and engineer sitting in this machine was like a cog on a clockwork, running step by step.

In the orbit of Mars, tens of millions of kilometers away, two ring-shaped rings around the black metal ball, like a wheel connected to the globe, are propelled by a small electric propulsion engine to control the direction of the ball in the center of the rim.

Finally, a large hexagonal rivet-shaped bulge was aimed at another Z-particle clock floating in geosynchronous orbit tens of millions of kilometers away.

In the center of the rivet-like protrusion, as the side of the shell covering the surface is removed, the complex and delicate optics are violently breached. Exposed in the depths of the air.

At the same time, a solemn and calm command sounded in the ground command center.

"Turn on the high-power laser calibrator."

The order is given.

The signal emitted from the ground command center is received by the α Z-particle clock floating in a synchronous orbit.

Almost at the same time as receiving the order, an invisible infrared light shot straight towards distant Mars from the laser calibrator on the outer side of the fruit dew, and was captured by the β Z particle clock floating in orbit around Mars.

Like a bass biting a hook, two spherical Z-particle clocks around the rim are aligned with each other's launch ports under the guidance of lasers, creating a real bond in the dark and deep sky that cannot be captured by the naked eye.

Looking at the two metal spheres connected by red lines on the large screen, as well as the constantly changing orbit parameters displayed on the screen, and the prompt of [calibration successful], Director Li, who was standing in the command room, almost raised his heart to his throat, and Luo Wenxuan, Edward Witten, and a group of physicists who were invited to the scene not far away also unconsciously clenched their palms.

The critical moment is coming.

Whether Lu Zhou's hyperspace theory is correct or wrong, this is definitely a moment that can go down in history.

Even CERN had never done such an expensive experiment, and even without calculating the cost of those launches, the sum of the cost of the two Z-particle clocks and their accessories alone was approaching the 500 million mark.

If they succeed, they make history and create the future.

And if it fails......

This will probably be the most expensive of all the fireworks in human history.

"Launch port open!"

"Open successfully!"

"Core Ignition Preparation - Ignition!"

With a series of orders, after more than two hundred seconds of waiting, the two Z-particle clocks, which were tens of millions of kilometers apart, trembled slightly at the same time.

The emission array composed of hundreds of thousands of laser sources was lit up in an instant, and the pulsed ultraviolet light containing 13 million joules of energy shot at the ignition target at the center of the sphere from all directions almost without dead ends.

The inside of the huge hollow metal ball was filled with ultraviolet light in an instant. Even the light that did not hit the ignition target was reflected by the 8,000 pieces of titanium-containing phosphate glass, evenly distributed on the inside of the spherical shell, and confined to a single point.

Almost at the moment when the laser array was lit, the shell of the fuel pellet with a diameter of about 5 mm on the ignition target was vaporized instantly, and under the scorching heat of 100 million degrees, it was ignited along with the deuterium-tritium fuel inside.

The energy comparable to that of a star was released in an instant, pushing the lead core inside the sphere to collide, squeeze, vaporize and ionize, and in this continuous friction and collision, the Z particle that swayed in the high-dimensional universe was finally caught by this terrifying force!

In the ground command center, the researcher sitting in front of the workstation suddenly let out an excited shout.

"Gravitational anomaly observed!"

The moment he heard this report, Lu Zhou gave the final order almost without any hesitation.

"Start the photon source!"

"Yes!"

With the help of an electric propulsion engine, two crossed wheels hold the spherical Z-particle clock in place and maintain the alignment of the photon source transmitter and receiver under the guidance of the infrared beam.

At the same time, in the photon source at the front of the β Z particle clock in orbit around Mars, positrons and negatives collide in an instant.

As a string of invisible sparks burst out, entangled photons burst out in an instant.

One of them went straight ahead along its original trajectory, while the other was captured by the gravitational field disturbed by the Z-particle oscillation, projected into the already perturbed gravitational field, and ran to the receiver tens of millions of kilometers away along a trajectory that almost coincided but was not exactly the same.

Time seemed to freeze in this moment.

Looking at the beating timer on the big screen, Lu Zhou's heartbeat was almost synchronized with it.

Equally staring intently at the beating seconds, Director Li's mouth kept muttering something, as if he was praying, waiting for the final results of the experiment.

Behind him, Secretary General Luo, Professor Witten, Professor Wierzek, as well as representatives of the National Councils of the IMCRC and the scholars invited to the scene, all maintained almost the same movements, standing there like sculptures, casting their eyes on the big screen, and sticking to it.

Finally, when the number on the No. 1 timer jumped to 207.1s, the atmosphere in the command center seemed to be frozen, frozen there.

The remaining second was as long as a century.

And when it completely crossed over, the No. 2 timer that continued to beat was like a lei tube that detonated explosives, completely detonating the frozen atmosphere in the command center!

The cheers rang out like a storm, and people clenched their fists in excitement, or waved their fists, or threw their hats, documents, and even pens into the sky.

The boiling atmosphere almost tore the ceiling over.

People of different colors, speaking different languages, left tears of the same excitement and emotion.

Looking at the second timer that continued to beat and finally stopped at [270.7s], Lu Zhou's Adam's apple moved slightly, and a relaxed smile finally soothed on his tense face.

Timer 1 freezes at 207.1s.

In other words, the photons that first reach the receiver travel a total of 65 million kilometers.

Compared to the straight-line distance of about 85 million kilometers between the two Z-particle clocks, this photon "saves" at least 20 million kilometers!

Under the premise of the principle that the speed of light does not change, there is only one explanation for the photon reaching the "end" ahead of schedule......

The homologous photon control group, which then reached the "end", and the 270.7s count on the No. 2 timer, also confirmed his conclusion.

And it's a full 63.6s time difference to prove it!

At this moment, all doubts and arguments were settled in an instant.

The oscillating Z particles, witnessed by everyone, disturbed the invisible but real gravitational bond between the Earth and Mars, and thus changed the curvature of space-time, straightened the folded space-time, and opened a hyperspace channel beyond the three-dimensional space itself.

Maybe it's not the best course.

Even it is as fragile as a child's soap bubble blowing into the sun, and rugged like a mountain path paved with gravel.

In some unseen place, there must be a better way in this universe to create a more stable, "straighter" hyperspace shipping lane, which allows that photon to reach distant Mars in a shorter time, even less than a second, or even beyond the solar system, on the edge of the galaxy.

Yet, its presence is still so dazzling.

It's like a vast and long epic, the first note sung by a poet.

Perhaps in the story woven by the countless notes, there will be countless heroes and great men, but even so, even if they are all combined, they cannot compare to the light that bloomed at the first moment.

Perhaps it's too far away to talk about that.

But one thing is beyond doubt.

That was Lu Zhou, who was standing in this command center, once again proving him and his theory-

That's right!