Chapter 458: The Great Interstellar Car Accident
"Ready!"
"Launch!"
From a large-scale macroscopic perspective, an object begins to slowly accelerate in the orbit of the star, starting from the end close to the star.
A series of tiny and fleeting arcs of electricity fill the vicinity of the star track, if someone stands on the star track, they can intuitively see that the accelerated objects in the star track are emitting a faint light from nothing, and the hue of this light light is more and more inclined to tone with the increase of speed, and more and more dazzling, and in the end it will be difficult for people to look directly.
As the observer crosses the position of the observer and travels all the way to the end of the star track, the observer will notice that the dazzling light is weakening, and the light light has turned to a pale red, and as the speed of the object increases, it becomes more and more crimson and dim, as if to blend into the cosmic background.
Looking at the tail from the perspective of the object itself, countless stars are slowly transitioning from the rapid retreat to its rear, and are slowly transitioning to converging in front of it, forming a cosmic rainbow that can only be seen during sub-light speed travel.
The sub-light voyage across the star system begins again!
This time, it is no longer the pitiful kilogram mass of the last time that has reached sub-light speed, but an organism with a mass of thousands of tons!
This time, they are no longer as humble as they were the last time, and sub-light sailing is purely dependent on luck to get through the difficulties!
Extreme speed brings extreme space-time distortion, and the shrinkage effect slows down the passage of time in the organism itself, and in the subjective time of the organism itself, crossing the star system is only a short time, not even a day, which is incomparable to the time consumed by the low-speed navigation inside the planetary system.
Along the way, the sub-light organism is hit by a large number of atoms that hit it at nearly the speed of light, releasing energy no less powerful than a grenade.
This is still good, if it encounters a collision of large molecular clusters, the sub-light organism will only be torn apart on the spot, and the consequences will be extremely serious.
Fortunately, this is not an intractable problem.
As early as the moment it left the star orbit, the sub-light organism spread out in front of itself like petals, allowing several fission reactors in its body to generate a strong electric field and release a part of the anti-hydrogen gas mass.
Under the action of inertia and a strong one-way electric field, these anti-hydrogen gas masses are squeezed directly in front of the sub-light organisms, thus forming a one-way antimatter shield.
With this, sub-light-speed organisms no longer need to worry about encountering large mass of matter when crossing the star system, and the matter will first come into contact with the anti-hydrogen mass in front of it before colliding with the sub-light-speed organism, and then annihilate the positive and anti-matter to avoid the fate of being penetrated.
If it is on a planet, the annihilation of positive and antimatter will cause a violent explosion, but this is not the case in space, but it will release an extremely strong gamma ray beam, the fundamental reason is that the energy released after the annihilation of positive and antimatter has no way to accumulate, that is, it cannot form an explosion.
Just like last time, the sublight-speed organism begins to slow down by the stellar signal emitted before departure, and then fed back from the destination star to the sub-light-speed organism.
Of course, this time the sub-light organisms will not need to slow down with the help of something as unreliable as the light sail on the first voyage, they have another way.
When a large amount of anti-hydrogen gas is annihilated by spraying a small amount of hydrogen gas directly in front of it, the energy is released to form a counterthrust, which can be used to slow down sub-light organisms.
Of course, this is accompanied by a large amount of gamma rays being released.
Then, the Empire's deep-space aircraft carrier suffered an interstellar traffic accident.
"! What just happened? I bumped into something?! ”
The sub-light creature was startled, and suddenly the rate of annihilation of positive and antimatter in front of it intensified, and then it also fell out of the rainbow state after being subjected to extremely high inertia pressure.
Based on this, sub-light organisms can naturally deduce that there is an obstacle of a large mass of matter in front of them not long ago.
But now the sub-light creature can't turn back, its speed is still very high, and it needs to continue to slow down, and it doesn't carry much fuel of its own, so it can't be squandered casually, it must return to the planet of the race as soon as possible, and hand over the full load of antimatter to the race.
"This way! This way! Come over here! ”
The sub-lightspeed organism follows the guidance of the Horde's radio signals in the direction of Twilight, where it will unload hundreds of tons of anti-hydrogen gas mass it carries.
After approaching a distance, the sublight-speed creature sends a radio message.
"I need to slow down! I encountered a large obstacle in transit, and the antimatter in front of me for slowing down was depleted, and now I can't slow it down! External assistance is needed! ”
After this message was sent and the sub-light-speed organism continued to travel some distance, an invisible pull appeared directly behind it.
It's gravity!
Adjusting the angle, the sub-light organism cuts into the fixed orbit of the twilight, and periodically moves around the twilight.
This was the end of the sub-light voyage.
Hogu looked at the subluminal creature that had cut into orbit with Twilight's assistance, and learned about the inner workings of its life structure.
The organism is large, its mass is not high, it is only deliberately inflated, and in appearance, it looks like a flower blooming horizontally, with a very long and slender body, and the front is a wide open reverse arc design that is much magnified, giving the onlooker a feeling of being top-heavy, so it looks like a flower without leaves.
The gas canisters' antimatter containers were attached to the rhizomes of the flower, and some of the antimatter containers were connected end to end, and then to the flower in front of them.
These are usable antimatter, through the adjustment of the electric field inside the antimatter container, after the petals in front of it are charged to repel the electric field, the antihydrogen gas mass in the antimatter container will be repelled by the strong magnetic force out of the container, and accumulated in the petals traveling at sub-light speed, which also forms an antimatter shield.
By design, the antimatter that accumulates in front of it also serves as a deceleration task, spraying a trace amount of hydrogen gas mass to cause the annihilation of positive and antimatter to slow down.
When the velocity drops to a suitable level, the antimatter accumulated in front of it is consumed, and this amount is calculated by the collectors.
Of course, even if the speed of a sub-light organism is zeroed and there is still an accumulation of antimatter in front of it, it will not withstand the annihilation of positive and antimatter, because the anti-hydrogen air mass will be repelled by a strong electric field due to the loss of inertial pressure, and will not harm the sub-light organism.
What a brilliant design!