Chapter 181: New Propulsion Technologies and Dyson Membranes
August 26, 3020 A.D.
It can take a 50,000-person super-large space transport ship from the Everest Space Center, which is 1,100 kilometers away from the Daxueshan base, and sail to the transportation hub space station that slowly coils and flies in the far-earth space orbit.
On this spaceship, in addition to the nearly 10,000 recruits who filled the base of the Great Snow Mountain, there were also nearly 40,000 recruits from six other large bases.
Once at the hub, the 50,000 recruits will join millions of other recruits from around the globe and then travel to the fleet coiled in multiple different levels of solar orbit in thousands of small and medium-sized transports.
At present, the whole human attack has nearly a million fleets and tens of millions of warships of different specifications.
After almost exhausting all metals, semiconductors, rare metals, and various elements in the solar system, mankind has built tens of millions of warships of various types.
Each fleet is larger or smaller.
The main battle fleet of Tianxin Fleet's size has thousands of warships of different types.
Motherships, command flagships, main battle cruisers, destroyers, assault combat ships, and ......
Other low-level fleets range from a dozen to more than a hundred.
The million-dollar fleet was not stationed together.
Instead, in the form of legions, they are relatively close together, distributed near the orbits of various layers in the solar system, forming a fleet defense line of three and twelve legions.
Among them, the Urus Region 1 Legion, where the Tianxin Fleet is located, is stationed outside the orbit of Uranus.
"See that pile of starlight? It was the Martian Region 2 legion, with a total of five million spaceships and hundreds of millions of fighters. Over there, that faint light is the Uranus Region 3 Legion, which is similar in strength to the Sector 1 Legion we are in, with 7 million spaceships and a billion soldiers. ”
"At present, all the shipborne offensive and defensive modules of the whole army have just been replaced and installed the year before last. Of the more than 30 billion people of mankind, nearly half are soldiers! The military strength of mankind has reached an unprecedented state of victory. ”
"How? I don't think you have much faith in this war, isn't it a little better now? ”
In the command cabin, Tang Tianxin said to Chen Feng with a smile.
Looking at the starry human fleet in the sky, Chen Feng had to admit that he was indeed a little enthusiastic.
He was working on it himself.
Humanity has never given up.
Tens of billions of comrades.
How can you say that you have no clothes?
After 500 years of development, it can even be said that the army is reckless, and mankind has made too many preparations for the day of the decisive battle.
Chen Feng had not been in space before, and he had not learned about the current situation of troops because of his pessimism, and it was not until now that he saw it with his own eyes that he could experience the silent determination from the shining glow that flew together.
He smiled, "It's a little better, I hope we can fight." ”
"Of course, it's a pity that Ou Qinglan and Dr. Mathilde haven't succeeded yet. Otherwise, we can increase our chances of winning. ”
Tang Tianxin sighed.
Chen Feng is not on a large transport ship.
As early as half an hour before the large transport ship took off, he, together with dozens of other recruits from the Great Snow Mountain, boarded Tang Tianxin's special high-speed shuttle ship and went straight to the outside of Uranus.
At this time, the other recruits were in the cramped and crowded shuttle transport cabin, and their bodies were tightly bound by seat belts.
Chen Feng sat side by side with Tang Tianxin in the spacious command cabin, talking about life and pointing to the starry sky.
The speed of the high-speed shuttle ship is much faster than that of a normal transport ship, and it quickly catches up with and overtakes a medium transport ship in front.
Chen Feng turned his face away and looked at the thousands of kilometers long blue tail flame of the transport ship, but he was full of feelings.
After another leap in human science and technology, today's aerospace science and technology have reached a height that Chen Feng has never seen.
Although the main propulsion method of the space vehicle is still the medium reverse thrust technology, which seems to be the same as the essence of a thousand years ago, it is actually very different.
The blue tail flame was not a real flame, but an ultra-high-velocity plasma stream that carried incredible kinetic and thermal energy.
The plasma inside will be accelerated to nearly the speed of light as it is pushed out of the vent.
According to the core law of conservation of momentum, these near-light-speed plasma streams provide a huge amount of kinetic energy to the battleship.
Each ion with mass can easily propel a huge warship to speed up a lot.
This was not possible before.
The long tail flame looks amazing, but in fact, the mass of media consumed per hour is less than 100 grams, and the total amount of medium consumed to propel the transport ship to Pluto is less than 1,000 grams.
Moreover, the material of this medium does not need to be specific, just collect a meteorite, a piece of space junk in the universe, or remove an old chair and throw it into an atomic modifier to transform it into a usable plasma liquid.
The main energy that powers the spacecraft's engines is still electricity.
The directional movement of a large number of electrons is still the most efficient and widely used medium for human beings.
But the way humans access electricity has fundamentally changed.
In the inner solar system, Dyson membranes, which have the characteristics of space life, convert solar energy into electricity, which is then condensed into a huge biological cell that can be cut open and removed in chunks.
These staggering biobatteries go through a series of transformations in which the energy is transferred to a smaller intermediate carrier, the fusion battery pack, and finally to the various mechanized units that need to be supplied with energy.
When the vehicle is far away from the solar system and enters the deep space of the universe, when there is not enough stellar light, the ubiquitous cosmic background radiation can also be absorbed by the small Dyson membrane, providing the basic energy of the basic power.
Theoretically, humanity now has the ability to roam across the galaxy.
If it has a longer lifespan, stronger construction ability, consumes more resources of star systems of the same level as several solar systems, and can even build a complete space society system suitable for a large number of people, human beings can begin to covet other large galaxies beyond the Milky Way, and sprinkle the entire universe like locusts.
That's a beautiful vision.
After most of the day, the fast shuttle ship passed through the large entrance and exit opened on the Dyson membrane, flew over the orbit of Uranus, arrived at the starry sky where the Tianxin fleet was stationed, and docked with the command flagship.
Tang Tianxin walked into the flagship with a group of people, turned around and ordered: "Except for Chen Feng, Ding Hu and Pang De, the others will go to their respective battleships according to their original posts, and there will be veterans over there to take you to familiarize yourself with the posts." Dr. Ouyang, Scott and other technicians went to the laboratory in the mothership to continue scientific research and be responsible for the daily technical support of the fleet. ”
When the others heard this, they quickly turned around and left.
When he arrived at the fleet, Tang Tianxin seemed to be a different person again, and he seemed more resolute in front of outsiders.
"Ding Hu, you go to the flagship Third Morrowind Column as the captain, and Pang De joins your column, you can go too."
Brother Tiger and Pound are also gone.
Leaving only Chen Feng, he pointed at himself, "What about me?" ”
"You serve as my personal security officer. But most of the time I won't call you, you can arrange it freely. Still, in my time when I need you......"
She blinked and walked away.
She has just returned to the fleet, and she still has a lot of things to deal with.
Chen Feng rolled his eyes wildly, unable to complain.
This blatant encapsulation is really fascinating.
Forget it, it's okay to be idle.
He simply planned to go back to his security officer's exclusive cabin to listen to the song, and by the way, communicate with the project team in Science City.
I don't know if the status of the security officer is really so high, or if he is careless and gives him a privilege, his accommodation cabin is very large, nearly 100 square meters, and all aspects of facilities and space layout are readily available.
He even has a dedicated room for an infinitely wake-up device that is not small.
It's a battleship where space is at a premium.
Sitting in the soft sofa and letting the intelligent assistant soak in a cup of warm atomic synthesis big red robe, Chen Feng glanced at the backlog of many communication applications in his personal communication.
He ignored it all.
After listening to the song for two hours first, especially reviewing the song "Across the Starry Sky" that he liked quite a lot, he got out of the state of wandering in the ocean of music.
"Vivi, remove the vision barrier, and I'll look at the starry sky outside."
His lodging cabin is on the periphery of the flagship and has the best view of the starry sky.
As the projections of the light curtain used to obscure the view slowly dissipated, he saw the scene outside.
The floor-to-ceiling windows of Chen Feng's living room are facing the sun.
Looking back from here, it is difficult to distinguish the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and other planets behind with the naked eye alone, and you can only see the fist-sized sun with a faint halo of colors.
The sun is not dazzling.
Originally, looking back at the sun in the starry sky of the universe would not show a colorful halo.
The reason for this is that the Dyson membrane between the orbits of Saturn and the orbits of Uranus diffuses part of the sun's rays, and when it falls into the eyes of people outside the Dyson membrane, there is such a brilliant and dazzling colorful light wheel like a foam flare.
Chen Feng sighed heartily.
Dyson membranes are truly a great piece of technology.
Your uncle is still your uncle after all.
Sergei 500 years ago, still so strong, at that time he proposed the complete design concept of Dyson film, and more than 200 years later, it was digested by later generations and transformed into reality.
In many science fiction works around the 21st century, both in movies and movies, the concept of a Dyson sphere often appears.
But in fact, with the resources of the inner solar system, it is impossible for humans to have so many metals and semiconductor materials to build a Dyson sphere that is enough to cover the sun.
Even with enough materials, humans don't have that much time to build such massive metal structures.
The time it takes is not measured in years, but in 100,000 years and millions of years.
The genius Sergey came up with an amazing idea.
Since metals and semiconductor materials are not allowed, and human construction capabilities are not allowed, why can't we use biological materials?
We make a membranous life without wisdom and let it grow into a dyson membrane on its own!
What was originally a question of materials science and energy science was suddenly reversed by Sergei and turned into a biological problem.
The root of all ideas is back to the most primitive level.
Plant.
Photosynthesis.
Quantum physics.
Quantum Biology.
Albert Einstein proposed the wave-particle duality of light as early as the twentieth century.
In the cognition of first-level to second-level civilizations, all energy sources in the universe seem to be divided into countless categories, but their essence is waves, and at the same time, when this energy wave shows regular motion, it will be transformed into matter.
Light, radiation, heat, electricity, and all other energy sources are ultimately waves.
Light is one of the most understandable forms of this energy.
It has been 4.55 billion years since the birth of the earth, and it has been illuminated by the sun's rays for 4.55 billion years.
In the long history of the earth, life originated and the cellular structure became complex, forming microorganisms, plants, and animals......
Among them, the plants are the producers.
The meaning of the so-called producer is to use sunlight as an energy source to complete photosynthesis to form organic matter, which is eventually used and consumed by animals and nature, and then returned to heat energy.
This heat energy is constantly diffused through the atmosphere and into the universe.
Assuming that the atmosphere is closed inward, and the heat energy cannot be dispersed, then in fact, the mass of the earth must be increasing all the time.
This increase is the weight of light.
When light shines on the earth, in addition to being reflected back to the universe, it will also be partially absorbed by the earth, so the earth will be affected by the light pressure.
This light pressure may be extremely small, but it exists.
This is precisely the qualitative manifestation of the energy of light.
After the birth of plants, the appearance of chlorophyll has made a qualitative change in the earth's absorption efficiency of sunlight.
Photosynthesis, before mankind mastered antimatter technology, was still the most efficient and incredible way to use energy that mankind has ever seen.
It is full of the mysteries of nature.
It was born like a gracious gift from the universe.
At the moment when the light hits the leaves and throws chlorophyll.
The light is absorbed and converted into a pure period of energy.
This energy transcends the limitations of time and space, annihilates at the level of light, and is born from nothingness at the level of chlorophyll, accurately hits the unpredictable electron, knocks it away, and finally catalyzes a series of reactions to generate ATP.
Sergei's inspiration comes from photosynthesis, from the incredible ultra-efficient quantum transformation that transcends the shackles of time and space in the process of transformation from light to matter.
Sergei absorbed all the knowledge of his predecessors, especially all the results of another great biologist, Lai Wenming, and simulated and designed a man-made DNA sequence.
This is a great life that should not appear naturally in the universe.
More than 200 years later, the generation of experts from the Academy of Life Sciences transformed this DNA sequence from theory to reality, and synthesized two seeds, which were carried by different vehicles to two points corresponding to the north and south poles of space in the solar system.
These two seeds absorb light in the cosmic vacuum, sprout and grow, and grow a huge membrane as thin as a cicada's wings, but able to withstand the solar wind and cosmic radiation.
Decades later, the two membranes finally docked precisely on the ecliptic plane, becoming an olive-shaped dome that covered the orbit between Saturn and Uranus.
It is both a machine and a living being.
It survives in the cosmic vacuum and completes photosynthesis.
Unlike the quantum reactions that take place in a tree, the quantum reactions associated with photosynthesis in the Dyson membrane are even more amazing.
It can be understood that a ray of light hitting the Dyson membrane on one side of the sun's orbit, and the energy that can hit the electron may be born on the other side of the sun's orbit.
In this instant, the energy spanned a distance of three billion kilometers, which is infinitely greater than the speed of light.
Different from ordinary plants, the electrons that are hit on the Dyson membrane will not immediately hit the elements to generate ATP, but will circle and converge into a huge current, circling around the Dyson membrane, and finally forming a huge coil that conforms to Ampere's rule, forming a huge electromagnetic field in the same orbit as the magnetic field of the sun's north and south poles.
The voltage that drives the flow of electricity is, in the current understanding of mankind, infinite.
Human beings use this voltage difference to build parallel circuits on Dyson membranes, and build a huge ultra-long-range microwave transmission network in the space of the solar system, sending current to various planets and space bases to provide energy for human beings.
When Tang Tianxin's fast shuttle went to the outer orbit of Uranus, it changed direction from time to time, just to avoid the microwave transmission grid that was invisible to the naked eye.
On the other side, with a spiral surge of electric current, electrons converge on the biological core of the South Pole of the Dyson membrane.
Here, the flow of electrons is classified, first returning to the original energy and then recondensed into matter.
Quark was born.
Atoms, neutrons, and electrons were born again.
At the south pole of the Dyson membrane, energy directly generates hydrogen and isotopes of hydrogen from the combination of protons and electrons.
These isotopes, like hydrogen in the sun, undergo a violent fusion reaction to form isotopes with larger atomic weights on the periodic table, and eventually grow into huge biological batteries like fruits.
The transformation of mass and energy is brought to the extreme, pure energy, into real matter.
This is equivalent to directly converting solar radiation from energy to matter, and it belongs to a new new energy source that can be used infinitely.
Its production is unlimited.
The sun never goes out, and it lasts forever.
Chen Feng looked at the Dyson membrane quietly, imagining the magnificent current inside beyond comprehension, and took a deep breath.
I can only sigh a word of greatness.