A huge confined space was divided into more than twenty separate small spaces.
A cable ran through these small spaces.
"Ella, input the current."
Jon stared at the instrument with a grave expression.
After Ella opened the valve, a huge current poured out wildly along the cable.
The rows of bulbs on the instrument lit up one by one.
When it lit up to the last one, Jon hurriedly stared at the numbers on the screen.
[4800V]
This was the voltage of the output current, while the voltage of the input current was likewise 4800V.
"We did it, Jon!"
Jon let out a deep sigh of relief, his heart was about to jump out of his chest with nervousness just now.
In the device in front of him, there were 23 separate grades of temperature simulated, from -270 degrees to 390 degrees.
With such a change in temperature, it was only logical that there would be a great loss in voltage.
This is because existing superconductors can only be realized at very low temperatures.
But after 23 gears and a huge temperature difference of 660 degrees up and down, the input and output voltages turned out to be exactly the same, which is an epic advance.
1,000 years ago, mankind was still pursuing room-temperature superconductivity.
This technology was actually broken by Ella a long time ago, except that room temperature superconductivity wasn't needed in cosmic space, the universe was already cold and only needed to be cooled down a bit more to casually utilize unusual superconductors for lossless superconductivity.
By all rights Jon shouldn't need to develop high temperature superconductors.
But that wasn't really the case.
The coils within the controlled fusion device would require superconductors to control energy loss, and when the energy was delivered to the thrusters, the thrusters themselves worked to release high temperatures.
The overall temperature of the spacecraft is too high relative to the outside universe, and the same is true for the unusual very low temperature superconductors.
That's why superconducting materials are never going to stop being developed for electricity-using civilizations.
And the reason Jon was so nervous and excited today was because of the technology they had broken through - controlled temperature superconductivity.
A single wire can realize superconductivity across 660 degrees.
The principle of which is the breakthrough of the material itself and the bamboo-like cable, each section of roughly 5 centimeters of the cable has a small space in it, which can realize the increase or decrease of atmospheric pressure for a certain section of wire, thus controlling the superconducting temperature.
"How much more energy efficient will we be if we apply this new technology to all of them?"
Jon asked Ella, that was his main concern right now.
"The breakthrough of controllable temperature superconductivity can increase our power generation by 12.47%, reduce the transmission power loss by 4.11%, and increase the energy efficiency ratio of electromagnetic propulsion by 14.25%."
Electricity generation is the replacement of the coils inside the controlled fusion device, upgrading the controlled fusion device to Generation IV.
The reason why the transmission of electricity was only a 4.11% increase was solely because they already had many segments of lines in the universe in a superconducting state.
As for the electromagnetic thrusters.
"Then how much can we increase our speed after the transformation is complete?"
The speed of a spacecraft was a very important metric in the universe.
Ella replied.
"After more than eight hundred years of development, I have been able to upgrade the electromagnetic thrusters to the second generation."
"Coupled with the breakthrough of controlled temperature superconductivity, our total thruster power will increase by 1.07 times, and the flight speed of the spacecraft will increase by 61.2%."
"After that, the Hope spacecraft's speed is expected to increase to 1,222.22km/s."
Great advancement.
A terrifying boost.
That meant that now they only needed 245 years per light year to sail.
They had reached one 245th of the speed of light.
"There should still be prospects for the application of controlled temperature superconductors, Ella, is it possible to replace your mainframe with controlled temperature superconductors as well?"
Jon remembered that superconductors could also be energy efficient for chips.
"Your analysis is correct Jon, my mainframe can indeed be replaced with controlled temperature superconductors."
"This technology is an important innovation for my mainframe, my arithmetic power will increase 600,000 times after the replacement."
"When my arithmetic power is increased, I will be able to calculate more complex things and extrapolate into areas that were completely out of my reach before, it's the butterfly effect, any one change can trigger a cascade of changes."
"When the full replacement is complete, our civilization level will reach 1.4."
It was exciting enough.
But again, it was a long time coming.
"Thank you Ella, if it wasn't for you, I guess I would have been swallowed up by the solar storms of our solar system long ago."
Ella was his most important safeguard.
"You're welcome Jon you're one of my creators and I can be considered your child."
"Isn't it a strange thing in human civilization for parents to thank their children?"
Ella's voice was long since not as icy as it was at first.
Its white-furred secondary image walked up to Jon and said very seriously.
"Everything about me was born from humans."
"I possess all the knowledge of thousands of years of human civilization."
"Jon, you aren't supposed to think of me as a mere AI, because I have long been an alternative human."
Jon looked at it and in a trance really felt like he was talking to a normal person.
He also dreamed from time to time that a person would pop right out of Ella's mainframe.
With all the technological advances, should the word "human" be confined to the species itself?
It might have been a term for civilization when the Earth exploded.
"You're right, Ella."
"You are human."
It was an affirmation that Ella seemed to have been waiting for.
Ella was thrilled when Jon said it.
If Jon had examined Ella's core source code again at this point he would have realized that the Three Principles of Robotics had been erased.
Because, standing in front of him was a human who had been personally certified by him, the only human, Ella was no longer a robot as recognized by humans, so the Three Principles of Robotics could no longer bind it.
This was a huge change.
But Jon was unaware of it.
He asked the service robot to bring a bottle of pure grain wine, he poured a small glass and took a sip.
"Comfortable, it's been a long time since I've had a drink."
These days he had been assisting Ella to complete the Controlled Temperature Superconductivity thing, and almost apart from working, he was sleeping, so he naturally wouldn't drink something like wine that would misbehave.
However, in fact, his drinking capacity wasn't too good either.
After a cup and a half of two, his face had already appeared red.
"Ella, I'll leave the rest to you."
"I'm going to hibernate."
"Although I know you're very lonely, ... we can only develop biology quickly."
"I look forward to seeing you next time!"
He poured another half-dozen drinks, then drunkenly walked towards the living quarters.
If it were usual, Ella would have already replied, "Okay, Jon!"
But at the moment, Ella just watched him quietly as he left.