Chapter 1004: Faster than Light
For a long time, Han. Just then he patted his head and said, "Alexander, do you know that the three of us have actually gone through an extremely wonderful process just now?" The three of us unknowingly proved Einstein's theory of relativity. It is not the kind of academic formula that proves it, but it proves the theory of relativity with reality in real life. ”
Han. With that, Alexander turned back to the future and asked in surprise: "Han, are you saying that we just traveled at a speed close to the speed of light, or reached the speed of light, or even exceeded the speed of light?" Oh buy ga, this is just too exciting, it turns out that what the theory of relativity says is true."
This situation stimulates Alexander to go a little crazy, it is true, Einstein's theory of relativity is extremely profound, don't look at it is just an equation composed of a few letters, but it contains a very profound truth.
One of the derivative principles of the theory of relativity is that when an object moves close to or at the speed of light, time slows down or stops.
In fact, Einstein's theory of relativity has not been fully confirmed until now, and there are still many paradoxes, such as the faster-than-light paradox and the grandfather paradox. The reason why it has not been confirmed is because with the current technology of mankind, there is no way to prove it. Perhaps only after other theories come out will the theory of relativity be completely confirmed.
Just like today, just like just now, the "Nautilus" actually proved the faster-than-light paradox that earthlings have never really been proven. Or, as of today, the faster-than-light paradox can no longer be a paradox because it has been proven.
"Boss, what was our speed just now?" Han. I am also aware of what this trial flight means today.
Tang Feng looked at the data on the console and said: "Just now, the Nautilus was driving with 0.1 percent of the power, and the maximum power output was 0.11 percent, and the maximum speed of the Nautilus reached 1.3 times the speed of light, and the average speed was 1.01 times the speed of light!" ”
Hearing Tang Feng say this, Han. Zheng and Alexander glanced at each other, and immediately shouted excitedly and hugged each other, so excited that Tang Feng was a little inexplicable.
After a long time, the two people who were extremely excited were separated. Zheng said with irrepressible excitement: "Boss, we have inadvertently confirmed a paradox that has plagued earthlings for more than a hundred years, that is, the faster-than-light paradox. ”
"Is this important?" Tang Feng asked with some confusion. Tang Feng really doesn't understand these theoretical things, don't look at him as a dignified undergraduate graduate, but this kind of advanced physics knowledge is really insulated from him.
But Han. Zheng and Alexander are different, both of them have the title of doctor, which is a real doctor's title, so the two of them know much more than Tang Feng.
Alexander said excitedly: "Tyrant, Han is very right, we have just completed an unprecedented verification process, if we release this process, next year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be the three of us." There is no doubt about it! ”
After a pause, Alexander continued to explain: "Tyrant, we just flew 4.2 billion kilometers at the speed of light, do you feel that we only took a few minutes or even a few seconds of our time? ”
Tang Feng nodded.
"But even with light, it would take four hours to fly for such a long time, but why did it take us so long to fly here?"
"yes, why? Is this the kind of faster-than-light paradox you two just talked about? ”
"That's right, Tyrant, we have proved with our practical actions that faster-than-light actually exists, and from now on, the faster-than-light paradox will not exist, and we have solved a big problem."
Han. Zheng smiled and continued to add: "In Einstein's theory of relativity, time, space, and velocity exist in a fixed proportion to each other. Among them, the speed of light is set as a constant, which is constant. For example, anything we see is due to the stimulus of light received by the eye, and if I see an apple on the table, then it can be said that the light from the apple is shining into my eye, and my eye perceives the light. At the same time, the light of the apple is infinitely diverging towards the cosmic space, and if our speed reaches the speed of light, we can be parallel to the speed of light that the apple sends to the universe, then the state of the apple is stationary relative to my speed. That is, time stands still. ”
"In the same way, if we move faster than the speed of light, then we can catch up with the light of what happened and see what happened. This process is only the speed of light relative to another speed, not that time is absolutely going backwards or standing still. It's like if you're looking at the Earth from a light-year away, then what you're seeing means something that happened a year ago. Because it takes a year for the light to get there. And if you can speed at the speed of light, you can see it at the moment of the incident. ”
Tang Feng nodded, he still understood this truth.
Han. "We were flying at a speed of light, so our time was shortened, four hours, in our opinion, was only a few seconds. But for George, or George on Mars, it was a full four hours. In other words, we stole four hours of extra time from the river of time because of the increase in speed. ”
Tang Feng suddenly remembered something and asked, "One day in the sky, one year on the earth?" ”
Han. Zheng laughed and said, "That's right, that's the truth." And this truth has been inadvertently proven by us just now. In other words, if you keep driving at this speed, then when you return to Earth after a year, I'm afraid the Earth has entered the 22nd century. ”
"Holy, so terrifying? If that's the case, I'd rather not fly faster than light, and save me from having to go back and face children and grandchildren who are many times older than me after a few years in space."
Speaking of this, Tang Feng suddenly exclaimed: "Damn, it's only been a few minutes since we were here, but more than four hours have passed between Mars and Earth, and the three of us haven't seen them for so long, do you think there will be a frying pan over there?" ”
As soon as I heard Tang Feng say this, Han. He and Alexander glanced at each other, patted their heads together, and smiled bitterly with a constipated expression.
PS: What, this faster-than-light theory is a little vague, mainly because Xiaomo doesn't understand this kind of advanced theory, so he can only follow the clouds, don't mind the big guys (to be continued.) )