After a few days of flying, Deep Space drifted away from the Knicks......

"Report to the captain, the current spacecraft is 3.7 million kilometers away from the Knicks, and the space curvature is 2.7, which meets the conditions for the use of the curvature engine! Please instruct! ”

"Start the curvature engine!" Yu Yifeng said in a deep voice. Ｘ

"Captain's order, start the curvature engine!"

With a command, the ion engine gradually went out, and the curvature engine attached to it began to work.

A thin layer of curvature bubbles appeared around the Deep Space like a soap bubble, enveloping the entire ship.

From the outside, Deep Space began to accelerate at a high "acceleration......

However, this higher "acceleration" does not exert a force on the spacecraft, nor does it increase the kinetic energy of the spacecraft, but proceeds in a physical way of motion throughout space.

As the curvature engine officially activated, the surrounding starlight began to distort, but the detection instruments inside the ship showed that everything was normal.

A scientist behind him smiled and wiped the beads of sweat from his head: "It seems that there is basically no problem with the curvature navigation this time, all the data are normal, and there are no accidents." ”

Yu Yifeng also carefully looked at the parameters on the screen, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Of course, humans can't joke with their lives, and such experiments have been done many times, and it is very natural that they will succeed...... The first voyage of mankind could not directly blow up the spaceship that had been painstakingly built for more than 100 years.

Speaking of the "curvature engine" technology, it is the standard L2 level in interstellar civilizations. In other words, the new human civilization has just debuted, and it has already reached the L2 level in the interstellar civilization!

The reason for this has to be traced back to the prosperity of physics thirty years ago...... A huge breakthrough in theory!

More than 30 years ago, human understanding of the nature of space was still very low, to be precise, it was still in the era of general relativity.

However, one day 30 years ago, something unexpected happened: the Super Hadron Collider finally caught a new type of "heavy particle"!

On that day, the "classic model" was finally broken, and "dark matter" was discovered by mankind!

A series of new theories emerged, leading to the golden age of physics in the following decades.

In fact, the construction of "Nuclear Fusion" and "Deep Space" was completed more than 30 years ago. In the following period, people mainly studied the theory of dark matter and the corresponding "curvature engine technology".

The curvature engine, a new propulsion technology developed based on the theory of "dark matter", is an important milestone in interstellar civilization.

It marks that civilization has bid farewell to the way of kinetic energy propulsion, and can quickly carry out light-year voyages!

Dark matter does not absorb, reflect, or radiate electromagnetic waves, i.e., it does not interact with ordinary matter. Actually, it's more appropriate to use the term "transparent matter" to describe dark matter, because you can't see it, you can't touch it, but it's all around, everywhere.

Dark energy, in the latest theory, refers to a kind of energy that fills space with negative pressure, and the negative pressure brought by this dark energy is similar to an anti-gravitational force at a long distance, and the expansion of the universe is caused by dark energy. It may be a kinetic field in nature, and of course it may be part of the vacuum energy......

This is also the main point of debate among scientists at present, and people still do not understand the essence of these things, but it does not affect the use of them.

And dark matter is even more diverse, there are all kinds of different types.

Scientists were surprised to find that some, with a great gravitational negative pressure, the mass of this substance turned out to be "negative"!

The presence of a negative mass makes it possible to drive curvature.

Because what is needed for curvature drive is a "negative substance"!

"If a spacecraft in space can iron out a part of the space behind it with negative matter and reduce its curvature, then the spacecraft will be pulled by the space with greater curvature in front, which is the basic principle of curvature drive."

"Curvature drive can't reach the destination instantaneously like space folding and wormholes, but it has the potential to bring the spacecraft close to the speed of light, or even beyond!"

"More importantly, the energy consumption associated with the curvature engine has nothing to do with the mass of the spacecraft, but only with the volume of the "curvature bubble" and the speed of sailing. This technology circumvents the relativistic effect at near the speed of light, allowing the spacecraft to consume significantly less energy. ”

With this series of core theories, coupled with the curvature space data obtained when attacking the green light spacecraft, the development of the "curvature engine" took only 30 years......

Then the human race became a serious L2-level civilization...... It can reach about 3 times the speed of light.

Of course, this L2 is very illusory, there is still too little time for human development, and the theory of dark matter is far from being explored.

"So, basic science can't be useless......" Yu Yifeng was in a good mood when he saw the spacecraft sailing smoothly.

"It's just that the cost of the Super Hadron Collider is too high, 10,000 times more powerful than the previous ones on Earth...... No wonder low-level civilizations can't find out. ”

"The curvature engine at the back is even more expensive...... Huge energy consumption! ”

Thinking of this series of scientific developments, Yu Yifeng couldn't help but shake his head, "Even if a low-level civilization happens to discover dark matter, it doesn't have enough energy, so it can't use the curvature engine......"

"Only a strong enough system can be more sustainable in climbing science and technology, which is inevitable!"

However, there are some drawbacks to curvature navigation.

With the current technology of mankind, it is difficult to carry out it in places with high curvature in space, that is, where gravity is high, so it is still necessary to build an old-fashioned ion engine.

Moreover, because of the spatial distortion relationship of the curvature bubble, it becomes very difficult for the spacecraft to observe the outside world, and the computer needs to restore the image.

The faster you fly, the more difficult it is to observe the outside world.

This kind of observation takes the speed of light as the critical point, and when the speed exceeds the speed of light, there is no way to observe the outside world!

"As you know, the target of this voyage is a terrestrial planet numbered GB131, which is about 0.62 light-years away from Nix and is expected to arrive within six months."

"The departments have strengthened their responsibilities in this half year, and I don't want an accident to happen on the first voyage, understand?"

Yu Yifeng kept instructing in the headphones.

"Okay, Minister Xu Yunjin...... And the heads of departments came to my office, and we had a short meeting. ”

After saying this, Yu Yifeng's mood also became active.

People always have to look forward, and when he saw the eager expressions of some scientists in the captain's room, he knew that everyone was basically free from the parting mood with the Knicks.

People choose the planet GB131, which is still in the binary star system. There is certainly a reason for this choice.

The distance of 0.62 light years is neither short nor long, just enough to check the comprehensive performance of the "Deep Sky". There was even a brief period of time beyond the speed of light, and a large amount of detailed experimental data was obtained, which could be used to improve the curvature engine.

Although it is already the L2 level in an interstellar civilization, it is the first time that human beings have carried out an interstellar voyage at the level of light years, and it is impossible to fly tens or hundreds of light years from the beginning.

Taking a step back, if something really goes wrong with Deep Sky, emergency repairs can be made on this planet.

On the other hand, planet GB131 has a large amount of helium-3 resources!

The planet is only slightly larger than the Moon, has no magnetic field on its surface, and is fully capable of spewing large amounts of material from the binary star system.

So over billions of years, it is estimated that there are billions of tons of helium-3 available for mining!

Helium-3, placed throughout the galaxy is also a rare good thing.

At least for humans who have just stepped into the stars, it is truly worth finding, a treasure more important than gold!

Thinking about it in this way, many scientists,