Chapter 169: The Centauri α Galaxy
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"There are a few things I want to explain in advance." Yuan waited until everyone was a little familiar with the three scientific research projects, and then continued to introduce quite seriously, "The members of the first research project: the planetary environment research project in the Alpha Centauri system will spend more than half of their time working on the desolate observatory every year, in addition, they will also participate in the construction of the latest Lagrange point extraterrestrial space infrared telescope, space interference telescope, and X-ray space telescope. ”
"Then I'll have to live a life of running around in the future."
"I like to call the world home."
After listening to Yuan Haochen's introduction, everyone in the audience immediately became active.
"The second research topic: the theory and application research project of extraterrestrial artificial gravity field, and the third research topic: artificial black hole experiment and application research are both super-cutting-edge research projects, which are very difficult, full of pressure and challenges."
Indeed, there have been many outstanding senior scientists who have spent a lot of time and energy on these two scientific research projects, but have not made any substantial progress.
"Compared with our predecessors, our advantage is that we have the science and technology of alien civilizations as an aid, which is crucial, and it is better to learn and imitate than to create out of thin air!" Yuan Haochen added.
"Do we have the authority to study the artificial gravity system and the artificial black hole gravity device on the Source of Creation?" Some members asked with concern.
"Of course, although there are many organizations involved in the research of the [Source of Creation], our project team has the right to prioritize research."
After explaining to the project team members one by one, Yuan Haochen continued: "No matter what, I hope that you can have the strongest confidence, hold the greatest hope, and make the greatest efforts in your future research work. ”
"When you go back, you can refer to your own expertise and interests, and think about it for a while, and report your intentions or other related research topics before tomorrow."
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In Hara's plan, there are two priority problems to be solved, one is to find out the current reality of the Alpha Centauri system, the home of the Creator, and the second is to find the most feasible interstellar travel plan.
Although the extraterrestrial civilization project team led by Yuan Haochen will continue to grow year by year in the future, more related scientific project teams will be opened, and the scientific power of the entire Interstellar Exploration Alliance, and even the scientific power of the entire Earth civilization are also working towards the hometown of extraterrestrial civilization.
But Yuan Haochen knew very well in his heart that this task was still an extremely difficult project!!
According to the clues and information obtained by the Mars scientific exploration operation, Yuan Haochen can basically deduce that the known alien civilization comes from the Alpha Centauri galaxy 2.1 billion years ago, and this view has been unanimously recognized by all scientists in the base.
However, the current understanding of the Alpha Centauri galaxy is still in a very rudimentary stage.
Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to our solar system, but its actual distance is also more than 4 light-years.
Although 4 light years is a very short distance in astronomy, it is an extremely long distance for human scientific and technological civilization at this stage.
The Alpha Centauri galaxy is a much more complex galaxy than the solar system.
To put it bluntly, there are three suns in this star system, and the laws of operation are much more complex than those of the solar system.
The three stars are named Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Alpha Centauri C, with Star A and Star B being close together to form a binary star system, and Star C being the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, which is gravitationally associated with this binary star system at a distance.
In the nearly 100-year history of scientific research, many scientists have focused their attention on the Alpha Centauri star system in search of potential extraterrestrial life.
Unfortunately, until now, humans have not been able to truly detect the presence of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of the Alpha Centauri star system.
Based on space telescope observations, scientists estimate that there are not only planets in the Alpha Centauri star system, but also possibly terrestrial planets.
Back in 2012, NASA announced the discovery of a planet in Alpha Centauri B and named it Alpha Centauri Bb (the lowercase b represents the planet owned by the companion star), which has a mass of 113% of Earth.
Unfortunately, many scientists disagree with the existence of this planet, believing it to be a false alarm, and in 2015 they brutally kicked the planet out of the "extrasolar planet database" that could not be confirmed to exist.
In the decades that followed, astronomers detected suspected signals from another planet in the Alpha B star system. Their method of detecting planetary signals is based on the gravitational oscillation method, and the scientists detected a small wobble in star B through telescopes, indicating the presence of planets in its orbit.
In this regard, astronomers believe that the terrestrial planets in the B star system are still controversial, and the scientific community has different theories about the existence of this terrestrial planet.
According to current observational methods, it is difficult for the scientific community to determine the authenticity of the planetary signals in the Alpha Centauri B star system, so the existence of this planet has been questioned, but researchers have no evidence to completely deny the existence of this planet.
It is the complexity of the Alpha Centauri system that contributes to the harsh and variable environmental conditions of this star system.
Although the memory of Genesis Artificial Intelligence 8 mentions that the reason for the creator's departure was a lack of resources, Hara believes that the harsh and changeable environment should also be one of the reasons why the civilized world of the Earth creator was forced to leave the Alpha Centauri star system.
In any case, humanity has now obtained strong evidence of the existence of extraterrestrial intelligent beings and extraterrestrial scientific civilizations, at least once existed in the Alpha Centauri star system.
Therefore, the Alpha Centauri galaxy is bound to become the first stop on human interstellar voyages! (To be continued.) )