Although Hawking has left British nationality, the Queen of England and the female prime minister still sent him a letter of blessing, and also sent a letter of thanks to Jiang Chen. www.biquge.info Although relations with Europe were gradually deteriorating, the Mirai Group unexpectedly gained the friendship of the United Kingdom.

Maybe it's because of history, maybe it's because the Rothschilds don't control their home in England as much as they used to be, or maybe it's just because of an old man who is well-known in the scientific community.

Jiang Chen did not charge Hawking for the operation, but in return, he was asked to join the University of Coro as a professor of physics. Although Colo University has recruited a large number of excellent teachers from all over the world under Jiang Chen's money offensive, except for Raphael Leff, the 17th president of MIT, there are really no top professors here who have enough face to stick on the admissions advertisement.

The arrival of Hawking undoubtedly solved this problem. Because of his participation, the influence of Koro University has been forcibly raised by more than one notch.

Of course, curing Hawking's ALS, Jiang Chen is not just to advertise future human creatures and install a signboard for Coro University. These are all secondary, and what he really values is Hawking's achievements in the field of cosmic research.

The day after he recovered, Jiang Chen went to the Koro Central Hospital again to find him, and after asking his wife and children to avoid him, he explained his intention.

"Asteroid mining plan?" Hawking frowned slightly.

"We have taken note of your research on the Bennu asteroid and your prediction that it will collide with Earth in 2135. It would be of great help if you could provide us with research information about this asteroid. Jiang Chen said.

In fact, Hawking's attainments as a prophet are far less outstanding than his attainments in physics and cosmology. Like a series of previous predictions, this prediction that the Bennu asteroid will collide with Earth in 2135 also failed to materialize...... Because as early as the beginning of the 22nd century, this asteroid with a diameter of about 500 meters was mined by NATO.

In terms of aerospace technology, NATO on the post-apocalyptic side has gone a little further than PAC and CCCP, and it is also quite cautious about the secrecy of related technologies.

The Pan-Asian Cooperation's library database does not contain detailed information about the Bennu asteroid, such as its most critical orbit. However, in the database compiled by the technicians of Camp 27, Jiang Chen accidentally discovered the relevant model of asteroid capture technology.

According to Lin Ling's description, the Bennu asteroid was one of the first asteroids to be captured, and it was also one of the easiest to capture. Taking this asteroid is undoubtedly a suitable training tool for the star ring trade, which is in the "embryonic stage" of aerospace technology!

However, after listening to Jiang Chen's plan, Hawking was extremely worried.

"Have you ever thought about the disaster of mining failure?"

"The Bennu asteroid orbits so close to the Earth that we can even 'see' it from Earth every six years as it crosses its orbit. If your mining almost reduces its speed, causing it to be captured by the Earth's gravity, the only result will be a direct collision with the Earth! Have you considered the consequences?" Hawking looked at Jiang Chen and said seriously.

"Of course we have considered it," Jiang Chen said with a smile, "because our plan is to slow it down, and eventually be captured by the gravitational pull of the Earth-Moon system, remain stationary within the Earth-Moon system, and orbit the Earth with the Moon at an altitude below the Moon's orbit." Our scientists have calculated the most suitable orbit to 'store' the asteroid,"

Hawking looked at Jiang Chen wordlessly, and only spoke after a while.

"Either you're a genius or you're a madman. If you miscalculate the decimal point, all mankind will have to be buried for your mistake. ”

"It's an honor to receive this award, but such an accident is simply not possible. Jiang Chen smiled and said, "I swear, my plan is foolproof. ”

His cloudy eyes stared straight at Jiang Chen, and after a long silence, Hawking finally sighed.

"As much as I want to stop you, I'm afraid I don't have that ability at all. If it can increase the success rate of your project, you can take the results of my research on the Bennu asteroid. Also, although spacecraft and mining are not my areas of expertise, if it is a field related to cosmology, if there is anything that can be used by me, you can just tell me. ”

After hearing Hawking's words, Jiang Chen nodded with a smile.

"Thank you for your understanding. Speaking of which, in addition to the Bennu asteroid, I have one more important thing that I need your help with. ”

"What's the matter?"

"In one of our experiments, our scientists accidentally observed a particle from a high-dimensional universe...... We call it the Craint particle. It contains some mysteries related to cosmic phenomena such as time and black holes, but unfortunately, we have very little value for it. If you are interested, I hope you will participate in the research. ”

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As early as the beginning of the year, Jiang Chen had plans to capture this asteroid with unusually rich mineral reserves, although it was not disclosed due to various practical problems, but the relevant preparations have never stopped. For example, the development and construction of mining rockets, the design of capture schemes, and so on......

The asteroid capture program will be divided into three steps, namely landing, weaving the web, and traction.

The so-called landing is to launch a mining spacecraft, accelerate to the same orbit as the asteroid, and then land on the surface of the asteroid to start construction.

The weaving net is to weave a tough enough "net" to wrap the asteroid shell with a diameter of about 500 meters. The material of choice is graphene, of course, which is suitable for weaving this huge web in terms of toughness and strength.

Finally, there is traction, which is also the most difficult and critical part, which involves quite complex mathematical problems. In addition, according to the estimation of the Space Launch Center, to complete the artificial orbit change of the asteroid, slow it down and be captured by the Earth-Moon system into a safe orbit, at least eight RM-320 rocket engines need to be deployed at the end of the trawl and control the asteroid's orbit change trajectory through the ignition and extinguishing sequence and speed difference.

If one is not careful, the asteroid will leave the earth forever, or the asteroid will crash into the earth fiercely, and the ring trade can only reduce the ecological disaster caused by its impact on the earth by blowing up the "Bennu" asteroid.

If it weren't for the quantum computer responsible for data processing, Jiang Chen would not have dared to implement such a complex project.

And even with quantum computers as data processing tools, and a few words about the Bennu asteroid in the end times, there are a lot of uncertainties in this project. As Hawking said, the person who made this decision was either a genius or a complete lunatic.

But the first step is to be taken.

Therefore, after repeatedly reviewing Kerwin's plan, Jiang Chen neatly signed his name on the document and approved the implementation of the plan. In order to avoid unnecessary consequences, Jiang Chen did not report to the United Nations Department for Outer Space Affairs in accordance with the procedures, but launched five mining rockets into space under the guise of building a "large space station".

The Bennu asteroid has already orbited the Earth and will pass through the Earth's orbit at the end of December, which will be the best time to complete the last link of the asteroid capture program, the "orbit change". If you miss it, you have to wait another six years.

In order to seize this once-in-a-six opportunity, the asteroid capture program will be carried out in parallel with the space elevator! )