This peculiar connection method is… quantum entanglement.

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement was discovered as early as the Earth era.

It is a 'ghostly' connection that exists between microscopic particles.

When the state of one particle in an entangled pair is determined, the state of the other particle can also be determined. This process is instantaneous, regardless of the connection between the two particles.

To make a rough, not entirely accurate analogy, it's like having one red ball and one green ball in a pocket.

Two people each take a ball from the pocket but don't know what color ball they have.

Afterward, these two people travel to different planets, for example, one goes to Mars, and the other stays on Earth.

There is then a minimum distance of 40 million kilometers between them. Based on conventional electromagnetic wave communication, the one-way communication delay would be about 133 seconds.

But now, the person on Earth opens his pocket and sees that the ball he holds is green.

Thus, without any delay, he can know that 40 million kilometers away, the ball in the other person's hand must be red.

This is quantum entanglement.

Of course, true quantum entanglement is extremely complex and impossible to understand without sufficiently profound knowledge of physics. But roughly speaking, it is probably this mode.

As early as the Earth era, people dreamed of applying the 'real-time, no-delay' characteristic of quantum entanglement to communication, but they were never able to achieve it.

They couldn't even find the right direction.

However, now, with a huge breakthrough in fundamental physics, Tom finally has hope of achieving this.

At this very moment, the two massive pieces of equipment in the two spacecraft, approximately 30 million kilometers apart, are connected in this manner.

Currently, at the control console of one of the spacecraft, Tom, controlling a clone, enters a string of characters.

The next moment, this string of characters appears on the display screen of the other spacecraft, 30 million kilometers away. Afterward, it is transmitted back via conventional electromagnetic wave communication for confirmation.

After waiting for approximately 100 seconds, Tom received the confirmation message.

Comparing this message with the original information, Tom was startled to see that the information at both ends was basically identical!

At this moment, ecstasy instantly surged in Tom's heart.

Although the current quantum communication technology, or Stellar Communication Technology, is still extremely primitive, its communication terminals have extremely high energy consumption, are extremely large, even requiring a large spacecraft to house them, and have extremely low communication speeds with many uncontrollable errors, none of this affects one thing.

That is, he has truly mastered Stellar Communication Technology!

All that is needed in the future is iterative optimization.

Just like when humans first created the atomic bomb, how far off could the appearance of nuclear fission power plants be?

In the future, when Stellar Communication Technology matures, he will no longer be limited by excessive distances when developing star systems.

Even now, Tom's overall production and research efficiency will be greatly enhanced due to the advent of Stellar Communication Technology.

This is because Tom's fleet is currently too massive. The two furthest spacecraft can be separated by more than 30 million kilometers.

Even if Tom is located in the center of the fleet, there is still a delay of approximately 50 seconds for spacecraft and clones at the fleet's edge.

Even with the support of Hestia AI, this 50-second delay still caused about a 5% impact on overall production efficiency.

Soon, this 5% impact can be eliminated.

Tom invested more research power into Stellar Communication Technology. As a result, related technologies rapidly optimized and iterated.

Soon after, Tom achieved another technological breakthrough.

The development of neural chips suitable for the human body was successful.

This is a chip that can be implanted into the human brain, directly translating brain neuron information into data.

This breakthrough seems insignificant, but when combined with Stellar Communication Technology, it has brought about a huge change in Tom's production and living mode.

At this moment, two clones implanted with first-generation neural chips arrived on opposite sides of the fleet, separated by 30 million kilometers.

Tom's consciousness resided within one of the clones.

The next moment, Tom's heart stirred, and he issued a command to the other clone.

Originally, Tom's consciousness would be transmitted at the speed of light to the other clone through that communication method whose principle was not yet understood, resulting in a one-way communication delay of 100 seconds between them.

But now, the communication mode has changed.

The brain information of the clone where Tom's consciousness resided was first transmitted to the neural chip.

The neural chip sent a signal, which was transmitted to Stellar Communication Technology Terminal A.

Terminal A and Stellar Communication Technology Terminal B are in a state of quantum entanglement and can perform Stellar Communication Technology.

Thus, the information and commands were instantly transmitted to Terminal B.

Terminal B then sent a signal, connecting to the neural chip in the brain of the other clone.

The neural chip in the brain issued a command to the brain of the other clone. Thus, even though they were 30 million kilometers apart, that clone executed Tom's command to 'stand up' only about 0.1 seconds after Tom's main body issued the command.

The communication delay between them was reduced by a thousandfold, from the original 100 seconds to 0.1 seconds at this moment!

Furthermore, this 0.1-second delay is not the delay of Stellar Communication Technology. Because Stellar Communication Technology fundamentally does not consume time.

This 0.1-second delay is the delay in data processing, translation, and signal transmission between brain neurons and the neural chip, and between the neural chip and the Stellar Communication Technology terminal.

Even if the distance between them is expanded to 60 million kilometers, or reduced to 10 million kilometers, the delay will still be 0.1 seconds and will not change.

Moreover, as technology improves further in the future, this delay will continue to shrink.

At this moment, Tom's heart truly surged with excitement.

For thousands of years, Tom has always been limited by the connection speed of clones. And now, with the technological breakthrough, this limitation has also been broken.

Tom seemed to see billions of clones, though scattered throughout the galaxy, separated by tens of billions or hundreds of billions of kilometers, still able to execute his commands in real-time and without delay under his unified control.

It can be confirmed that Tom's industrial capacity, research capacity, and all other aspects of his abilities will skyrocket due to this technological breakthrough!

Now, having truly verified the feasibility of this mode, Tom devoted himself with even greater enthusiasm to the research and improvement of neural chips and Stellar Communication Technology.

He even set a grand plan for this.

Within the next ten years, he plans to implant neural chips into the brains of every clone, completely changing the connection mode between himself and the clones!

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