Chapter Seventy-Six: The Ghost Gate

Yao Bingxia frowned and said, "You mean, there may be danger in the intersection of earth and wood?" Why haven't I heard about it? ”

Pang Xuelin said: "When the earth and wood meet, the shortest distance between the earth and Jupiter is less than 70,000 kilometers, Jupiter's strong gravitational pull is likely to have a significant impact on the earth's crust, which will cause a large-scale shutdown of the planetary engine...... Using Jupiter to accelerate the Earth is actually a big gamble for mankind, and if the bet wins, then humanity will survive the biggest crisis before the helium flash of the sun, and if the bet is lost, ......"

Pang Xuelin didn't continue, and Yao Bingxia also understood what he meant.

If you lose, I am afraid it will be a catastrophe for both the earth and mankind.

Pang Xuelin said: "This news is still in the stage of secrecy, the last time the earth crossed the asteroid belt, human casualties were heavy, the spaceship faction took the opportunity to stir up trouble, caused large-scale riots in many dungeons, and almost took control of several dungeons in North America, and now it has only been a few years since the earth crossed the asteroid belt." If the news spreads now, it is likely to cause panic, and if the spaceship faction jumps out again, the coalition government probably won't have much energy to deal with it...... Now that our scientific team is working on a solution to the crisis that may be caused by the intersection of the earth and wood, don't forget to spread the news! ”

Yao Bingxia nodded and said, "Don't worry, I understand!" ”

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After eating and taking a bath, the young couple communicated deeply for more than an hour like a man and a woman in love, Yao Bingxia fell asleep in satisfaction, but Pang Xuelin couldn't sleep, and looked at the ceiling in a daze with his arms on his pillow.

After working within the Earth Science Committee for so many years, Pang Xuelin has gained a deeper understanding of the Wandering Earth Project and the coalition government.

In the movie, when humans were dealing with the crisis of Jupiter, they looked panicked and disorderly, and in the end, the coalition government even took the initiative to give up the self-rescue operation, but MOSS carried out the Tinder plan and fled directly with the navigator space station.

If it weren't for the recklessness of the protagonists, father and son, there would be no possibility of the earth being rescued.

Pang Xuelin originally thought that this was due to the coalition government's lack of preparation for the crisis that might be triggered by the conjunction of Earth and Jupiter, but when he was really in the middle of it, he realized that the coalition government took this crisis more seriously than he thought.

It is far more difficult for Earth to use Jupiter's gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate than for ordinary probes to accelerate with Jupiter.

The reason is simple, although the Earth is still a small guy compared to Jupiter, a giant system has been formed between the two.

Its massive gravitational effect can have a significant impact on both planets when they meet.

Therefore, humans have to design an extremely precise track.

If the orbital altitude is too high and the acceleration is insufficient, then there is a high probability that the Earth will not be able to escape the range of the solar helium flash.

However, if the orbital altitude is too low, there is a risk that the two will collide.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult to grasp the degree of it.

In fact, research on the intersection of earth and wood began as early as the initial stages of the Wandering Earth project.

Over the years, the coalition government has launched a large number of probes to explore Jupiter in all directions.

There are even attempts to get probes to travel through the interior of Jupiter to detect the operating mechanism of Jupiter's internal structure, but often these probes lose contact completely after 1,000 kilometers deep into Jupiter's atmosphere.

Therefore, at present, human cognition of Jupiter is still quite rough, and only through probe observation, a mathematical model of Jupiter's gravitational field has been preliminarily established.

However, there is a big problem with this mathematical model.

There are many reasons, first of all, Jupiter's atmosphere is not as smooth and quiet as the Earth's atmosphere, once the distance between the probe and Jupiter is shortened to a certain range (within 100,000 kilometers), the air flow from Jupiter's atmosphere will disturb the probe, making the probe drift in the orbit around Jupiter.

If the theoretical orbit of the detector is an ellipse, then the actual orbit of the detector is an ellipse composed of wavy curves.

In addition, the orbit of the probe is also affected by the gravitational field of the sun, Jupiter's moons and other planets in the solar system, and the accuracy of the Jupiter's gravitational field data detected by the probe can be imagined.

Secondly, for both terrestrial planets and Jupiters, their gravitational fields will fluctuate over time.

This is because both the geological movement inside the terrestrial planets and the rotational motion of the fluids inside the Jupiteroids will cause the internal density of these stars to change, so the gravitational field data detected by the probe will also change in different time periods and different locations.

If only these two problems are okay, they are not even a problem for ordinary probes who want to accelerate with the help of Jupiter.

But the earth is different.

Although the volume of the Earth is only 1,300 times that of Jupiter, the gap between the two is not exponential, especially when the distance between the two is only tens of thousands of kilometers, the gravitational field of the Earth will also have a significant impact on Jupiter, causing major changes in the density and distribution of matter inside Jupiter, and then causing changes in the gravitational force between Jupiter and the Earth.

This is also the reason why Jupiter's gravitational pull surges by nine percent when the Earth and Wood meet on the Wandering Earth.

Jupiter's gravitational pull, on the other hand, also has an impact on the Earth's major plates.

In the geophysical community, countless papers are published every year on this research.

In recent years, due to the existence of planetary engines, the earth's crust has been fragile, geological disasters have occurred frequently, and even because of the existence of liquid magma layers between the earth's crust and mantle, the plates have shifted significantly.

Just like the earthquake that occurred in Jiangcheng that year, Shanghai, which was originally in the northeast of Jiangcheng, has drifted to the north of Jiangcheng.

This is also the reason why the protagonist team passed through Shanghai when they went to Jiangcheng in the movie.

Jupiter's gravity will undoubtedly exacerbate this effect, and even trigger a large-scale shutdown of planetary engines.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, the Earth's acceleration with Jupiter is a ghost gate for mankind.

Break through, it's a sea and a wide sky.

If you can't break through, then the whole team will be wiped out.

Until now, both the Scientific Council and the coalition government have been making this big gamble.

As for letting the crisis happen, and then praying that the earth will be finally rescued like in the movie, Pang Xuelin has no hope.

Although the movie "The Wandering Earth" is wonderful, the biggest scientific bug is that at the end, Liu Qi and his son ignited Jupiter's atmosphere, causing the shock wave generated by the mixed combustion of hydrogen and oxygen, pushing the earth away from Jupiter's gravitational range.

No matter how you think about it, this idea is impossible to realize.

Just the little chemical energy produced by the deflagration of hydrogen and oxygen wants to propel the earth, which is as incredible as a person standing on the surface of the earth and letting out a fart that collapses into the atmosphere.

Therefore, if you want to successfully avoid this crisis, you must make sufficient technical preparations before the intersection of ground and wood!