The night is very quiet.
The snow outside has stopped, and the whole world seems to have fallen asleep. The surroundings are quiet and there is no noise. It is so quiet that you can hear the sound of the flames of the oil lamps dancing in the room.
"Huhu..."
Pandora, who was leaning on the corner of the wooden bed, seemed a little uncomfortable. She frowned and shrank her neck, changed her position, and continued to sleep with her eyes closed.
After Richard looked up, he dipped the tip of his quill pen in ink, placed it on the papyrus paper, and started writing while thinking.
"Swiss, swiss, swish..." The tip of the quill rubbed against the papyrus paper, making a subtle sound, and quickly drew ink marks to form characters.
“After testing, the phenomenon displayed by the iron ring conforms to a series of descriptions of space props in the conventional sense.
The most important attribute is that a certain amount of objects can be put into a storage space. The storage space is isolated from the outside world, has normal passage of time, is affected by gravity, but is not affected by other external forces (the second and third tests proved).
In order to achieve this effect, as far as is known, there are three aspects of technology that can be achieved through development: rapid 3D printing technology, space compression technology and space transfer technology.
Rapid 3D printing technology, that is, rapid prototyping technology, is based on digital model files, using powdered metal, plastic and other bondable materials, and using digital technology material printers to construct objects by printing layer by layer. On modern earth, it has been widely used in jewelry, industrial design, architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), aerospace, firearms and other fields.
It is foreseeable that as technology continues to develop, after breakthroughs in synthetic protein printing technology and atomic recombination printing technology, it is theoretically possible to print all objects in the world, even life.
Therefore, the iron ring can be explained using 3D printing technology: when an object is placed in the iron ring, the iron ring will quickly scan the appearance and interior of the object, perform rapid modeling, and then annihilate the object through technology, leaving only the object's The digital model file is stored to appear as if the entire object has been stored.
When you want to take out an object, the iron ring will quickly 3D print it, and re-synthesize the same object as the original one according to the digital model file of the saved object. It will look no different from the removed and stored object.
However, this technology obviously consumes a lot of energy and material, causing great waste. When storing living creatures, it is not common sense to kill the creature first and then create another creature. In addition, material annihilation technology and unlimited raw material storage technology are obviously higher than 3D printing technology. The most important thing is that this technology will lock all states after the object is placed (scanned), and it will show time freezing, which is inconsistent with the phenomenon observed in the test (the hourglass will flow), which can basically be ruled out.
After excluding fast 3D printing technology, it is space compression technology. This technology uses some means to compress a huge space into a very small volume. That is, the iron ring can be regarded as a cleverly folded box, which can contain far larger objects than normal.
In this case, the substances put into it will not disappear, and the outside world can also affect it. Then the iron ring will become heavier and heavier as more and more substances are put into it. After all, internal objects are affected by all forces from the outside. This is inconsistent with the phenomenon observed in the test (the iron ring has always been very light) and can be ruled out.
Finally, there is space transfer technology, which can also be called space folding technology (different from space compression). According to Einstein's general theory of relativity on modern Earth, it can be determined that gravity can cause space-time to curve, resulting in the fact that the distance from one point to another in three-dimensional space is not necessarily a straight line.
That is to say, even though there is an extremely long distance to get from one location to another, as long as space and time are curved so that the two coincide, you can arrive instantly. For example, this is similar to dropping an object on a high mountain. After passing through a certain folded space-time point, the object falls directly into a sealed box thousands of miles away.
From this perspective, the iron ring is not a space prop, but more like a space door. The storage space it connects to is the real space prop. Putting things into the iron ring does not actually exist inside the iron ring, but there is a storage space somewhere. This inference can basically explain all the phenomena observed in the test.
For example, it is precisely because the iron ring and the storage space are in two overlapping but different spaces that the force on the iron ring will not affect the storage space. The force and mass borne by the storage space will not act on the iron ring. So the Iron Ring is just a door, a door connected to a storage space in an unknown location. "
"Shashasha..."
The movement of his hand stopped for a moment, and he dipped it in ink again. Richard thought for a moment and continued writing.
"The result of this inference is obviously against common sense, but it is consistent with science. In this way, the iron ring can also be used for some purposes other than storage.
After testing (the 13th and 14th tests), it can be determined that the storage space connected by the iron ring has extremely high strength. This may have been purposely made to ensure sturdiness under sufficiently large gravitational forces. And this kind of strength can be used to perfectly defend against all types of flying prop attacks and be immune to their damage.
This is because, as long as it is used properly, the space entrance of the Iron Ring can be used as a defensive shield. Unlike a shield, a shield can only block attacks, while an iron ring can absorb attacks. For example, if an ice gun with a strong impact is shot, it can directly enter the iron ring and be loaded into the storage space. Because of the difference in space, the ice gun will explode with attack power in the storage space. When it is taken out from the iron ring, all the power will disappear and no damage will be received.
This kind of defense is absolute and will not fail at all, but it has certain limitations. On the one hand, it is necessary to ensure that the attack is accurately absorbed into the iron ring. On the other hand, absorbed attacks explode with power within the storage space, potentially damaging objects stored within. If it is just to defend against a ball of acid and let the acid enter the iron ring and corrode the precious materials, it is obviously not worth the loss. It is better to avoid it or use other defense methods.
Therefore, the defense of the Iron Ring is only suitable in crisis situations to deal with unavoidable and potentially life-threatening attacks. After all, life is more precious than stored things. This can be used as a hidden trump card, a hidden 'space transfer-absolute defense' trump card. "
"Shashasha..."
The quill stopped again, dipped in ink, and Richard continued writing.