Chapter 365: Gravitational Lensing
While Du Qiu was thinking about it, the ship's artificial intelligence had already helped him find out the properties of the tachyon detector's negative matter, and formed an analysis report.
Du Qiu did not do this before, because he did not understand the principle of the formation of negative matter, and now the modeling conditions are provided to the ship's according to the principle, and the ship's personnel can naturally carry out corresponding analysis.
After seeing the ship's report, Du Qiu realized that negative matter was a general term for a large number of tachyon particles.
In the process of negative matter reacting with positive matter and annihilating each other, there is a class of negative matter that cannot be completely reacted, and it will leave a part of the residual negative matter particles after the reaction, and then this part of the particles will be reflected back by the positive matter that has not been reacted.
Faster-than-light detectors were developed using the characteristics of such particles.
In fact, it is similar to the principle of radar waves, except that it is a wave of tachyon particles of negative matter.
Now that we know that there are various kinds of negative matter particles, the shipbuilder also simulated how such particles were obtained in the analysis report.
Du Qiu memorized all of these carefully, and after waking up the next day, he immediately convened the research team to conduct corresponding experimental tests.
It went very well, and a new tachyon detector was successfully built.
In the first test, we successfully discovered magical technological warships and spaceships that fly faster than light outside the traditional range of the solar system.
On this detector screen, these warships and ships are all displayed, and there is nothing to hide.
Unfortunately, this detector found nothing in the direction of the white spots!
This made all the researchers in the research group a little frustrated, although the probe can indeed find warships flying faster than the speed of light, but this probe was developed for the purpose of discovering dark matter life forms, and now it is useless, which is still very shocking to everyone.
"Don't be discouraged, there are so many types of negative matter particles, maybe this particle can't find dark matter life forms now, but there will be other particles that can find it?"
Du Qiu began to encourage everyone, and once again explained the relationship between negative matter and dark matter, so that everyone could think of ways from this aspect.
Since it is assumed that the unknown enemy is a dark matter lifeform, as long as dark matter can be discovered, it should be possible to find this enemy.
With Du Qiu's encouragement, a group of people regained their confidence and threw themselves into intensive research.
This kind of work of finding a certain particle that can work from a large number of particles is extremely tedious and takes a long time.
Du Qiu has already led everyone to the road of correct research, and naturally will not spend any more time on this, which is the independent creativity that a R&D team should have.
What's more, he also needs to continue to imitate the corresponding warship equipment, weapons and equipment, energy equipment and so on in his dreams.
Only if he made progress in the dream realm, he could further improve the warship combat power of the magical technology fleet in reality.
For dark matter lifeforms, Du Qiu needs to develop targeted weapons as soon as possible.
First of all, he needs to re-understand dark matter, which is a special form of positive matter, and there is no strong interaction force, no weak interaction force, no electromagnetic force, only gravity in the elementary particles that make up dark matter.
This is the conclusion of the study of the grand unification theory.
Since dark matter does not have a strong interaction force, quarks cannot be aggregated into basic protons, neutrons and the like, and matter cannot be formed.
Dark matter is made up entirely of quarks, which are "clouds" formed by quarks. Without electromagnetic force, photons can penetrate them unhindered, i.e., they are invisible and cannot be seen through radiation in any frequency band.
But dark matter has a gravitational pull, which means that it can still bend light, causing gravitational lensing, which can be detected by humans.
When combing here, Du Qiu suddenly patted his head, he really went into a misunderstanding.
To find out if dark matter life exists, all you need to do is look at Barnard's star behind the fleet group at the White Spot.
If there were dark matter life forms in the group, with its ability to compete with the gravitational pull of the solar system, it would inevitably produce gravitational lensing.
In this way, it is only necessary to constantly adjust the viewing angle to draw the shape of the space occupied by the dark matter lifeform, that is, to find it.
As soon as he thought of it, Du Qiu immediately convened a dark matter research team, which was originally a scientific research team that studied the origin of dark matter, and was very experienced in how to choose an observation angle.
Everyone was immediately summoned from the Legacy Fleet, and a month later they all boarded Du Qiu's flagship, the Blue Dragon, the first of the Blue Dragon-class motherships.
Since last year, the space fleet of Wonder Technology has been rotating near Mars, and the reason is that it has begun to carry out faster-than-light transformation.
The space fleet of magical technology has a total of five main fleets, all of which are composed of the Qinglong-class mothership and capital ship mode.
As for the cruisers, they are all warships with daily patrol missions, and they are currently responsible for cruise monitoring tasks inside and outside the solar system.
The Second and Third Fleets prioritized the replacement of third-generation warships, with the Second Fleet being sent to guard the Legacy Fleet, and the Third Fleet replacing the original Fifth Fleet with them stationed near the White Spot.
Duqiu's flagship fleet is the First Fleet, which is directly receiving newly produced warships, while old warships are being sent to the shipyard for renovation.
The Fourth Fleet is now stationed on the Ninth Planet, and the crews of the Sixth Fleet are being trained to receive the modified First Fleet ships and head to the Kuiper Belt to garrison.
After the Fifth Fleet completes the transformation, it will change back to the Fourth Fleet, and after the returning Fourth Fleet completes the transformation, it will directly move forward near the White Spot and form a horn defense posture with the Third Fleet.
At present, the First Fleet has just received 2,000 new capital ships, and although it will take time to reach full strength, Du Qiu and his team are going to experiment this time, not to fight.
With a lineup of one mothership and 2,000 capital ships, even if there is any emergency, it is enough to deal with it.
When Duqiu's First Fleet was flying outside the solar system at a conventional speed of 30,000 kilometers per second, all the personnel on the mothership had already begun to set up the new astronomical telescope.
After 5 days of regular sailing, the fleet is already 87 astronomical units from Mars, reaching a position where it can travel faster than light.
The fleet then embarked on a short 40-speed faster-than-light voyage, and in just 23 days, the fleet was within 0.5 light-years of the White Spot.
The entire fleet got out of faster-than-light flight, began to slow down and gradually stopped.
A total of six capital ships broke away from the group and began to look for suitable observation positions.
Researchers have boarded the six capital ships and placed new astronomical telescopes on them to guide the ships in adjusting their attitudes.
In the command hall of the mothership, Du Qiu, Chen Guangnan of the Institute of Physics, and Best of the Academy of Astronomy were all nervously watching the big screen in the hall.
The imaging displays of the six telescopes are connected to it, and any image observed by the telescope will be displayed.
"Telescope 1 is on!"
"Telescope 2 is on!"
"Telescope 3 is on!"
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A total of six astronomical telescopes were turned on one after another, and gradually began to make final attitude adjustments, and the target all passed through the white spot less than 0.5 light-years to observe Barnard's star in the distance.
In the open space in front of the large screen, a holographic projection displayed the same image as the holographic projection of the inner and outer solar system in the central control room.
After Xinghai's modification of the artificial intelligence in the central control room, all the controls there can now be directly controlled by Xinghai.
In this holographic projection, the Tours fleet at the White Spot position is still the same as ten years ago, and the attitude of all the warships has not changed, except for the loss of dozens of battleships the size of cruisers.
These warships were all agnosticly transformed into meteorite warships by dark matter lifeforms and sent to the energy vortex region of the civilization fortress of the solar system.
Around the battleship group, there was still nothing.
"Doot-doo-"
"Telescope 1 has made a discovery!"
"Telescope 2 has made a discovery!"
"Telescope 3 has made a discovery!"
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A series of reports rang out in the hall, and Du Qiu and the two deans stared at the big screen.
Five of the telescopes chose to observe Barnard's star from exactly five directions from the edge of the White Spot group.
The remaining astronomical telescope passes through the center of the group.
In this way, the area observed by the six telescopes will form a five-pointed star-like shape, covering almost the entire ship group.
At this time, all the sights observed by the astronomical telescope are displayed on the screen.
“MyGod!”
"Oh my God, what is this!"
"It's huge!"
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