Chapter 21 - The Legend of the Prodigy

Mary's two daughters are enrolled in an English-Chinese bilingual kindergarten in a seaside cosmopolitan city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info One day, in the international children's training class for supernormal intelligence, the teacher inadvertently asked Lucy (Lucy),

What is your sister doing now? Lucy replied casually that she was using a brush to learn Chinese characters. At that time, Licy (Lily) was in the next room, and the teacher went over to see that she was writing one with a brush

The middle horizontal of the word "Ao" is very long, so the teacher came back and asked Lucy, do you know what she wrote? I know that she wrote the word "Ao", with a horizontal feature in the middle. The teacher listened

I was stupid at the time, this is a "prodigy", it's just a little "demon girl".

When Lucy and Lily were four years old, they already had the intelligence of ordinary fourteen years old, and they were intelligent, beautiful and lovely. Like their mother, they have golden chestnut hair, and their big eyes always shine with a spark of wit. As for the eyes of the little sisters, when they are excited, they are a spark of innocence and passion, or when the little sisters hear people tell stories about the evil world of the demon world, and they are righteous and angry. They seem to be interested in all human knowledge. At night, mothers sometimes take their daughters to the seaside observatory where they observe the stars. They often looked up at the sky, as if some voice was calling them in the darkness, and that summer, their parents decided to take them on a space trip.

-- Back in the 70s of the 20th century, Britain planned to build an unmanned spacecraft to travel to Barnard, about 6 light-years from Earth. At that time, the plan was aborted because it failed to solve the technical difficulties of "starting nuclear fusion" and "the ship's hull was too large".

In the middle of the 23rd century, the improvement of the "Yinhe 2" antimatter engine was developed by Chief Engineer Luo and a group of future scientists such as Ling Xiao. Antimatter refers to particles with the same mass and opposite charge as "normal" particles such as protons, electrons, and neutrons that make up matter. The general substance reacts with antimatter, causing the phenomenon of "annihilation", and the mass of the substance is all converted into energy, and its energy release efficiency is 10 billion times that of the hydrogen and oxygen burner used in the space shuttle, 1,000 times that of the nuclear fission reaction of a nuclear power plant, and 300 times that of the nuclear fusion reaction. Antimatter the size of an aspirin pill produces enough energy to cruise a spacecraft hundreds of light-years away, and 100 milligrams of antimatter is enough to replace fuel in the space shuttle's huge fuel tanks and thrusters. Therefore, it is the best choice to build an antimatter engine with high energy and light weight like the "Galaxy 2" spacecraft.

Chief Engineer Luo The antimatter engine design patterns adopted by them are divided into five types: solid core, gas core, ionic slurry core, particle beam core and optoelectronic energy core according to the way of annihilation. The first pattern is an annihilation reaction inside a heat exchanger, using the energy generated to heat up the oxygen propellant and eject it from the vent. The next two patterns involve a direct annihilation reaction between the antimatter and the oxygen propellant, magnetically controlling the resulting charged meon or ionic slurry to eject it from the vent. The final pattern is a direct one-to-one annihilation reaction, which is then magnetically controlled to eject the resulting charged meon from the vent. The advantage of this approach is that only antimatter fuel is required, no propellant is required, and the load on the ship can be greatly reduced. Ships with particle beam core engines can reach sub-light speeds or close to the speed of light at 300,000 kilometers per second. Scientists estimate that it will take as little as 24 hours and up to 17 days from Bardner, about 6 light-years from the solar system, using a particle beam-core antimatter faster-than-light spacecraft. The Galaxy 2 spacecraft went from Earth to Mars in an instant。。。。。。

Yes, with a particle beam antimatter engine, a spacecraft can cruise the solar system with just a few milligrams of antimatter. But if the planets Kepler-22b and M-3 were to go to a distant interstellar space outside the solar system, it would require thousands or hundreds of millions of grams of antimatter, far beyond the production capacity of humans in the 21st century. In fact, the most advanced accelerators of the 21st century can only produce one billionth of a gram of antihydrogen atoms a year; If you want to obtain a large number of anti-hydrogen atoms, you must invest a huge amount of money in the construction of cooling ring equipment that is essential for the production of anti-hydrogen atoms. It seems that a group of future scientists such as Ling Xiao and Chief Engineer Luo will set sail for an antimatter-propelled faster-than-light spacecraft at the Mars Space Launch Base, and mankind may need to wait patiently until the end of the 22nd century to the middle of the 23rd century, when it is possible to realize interstellar travel in curved space。。。。。。

Note: Mars is the fourth farthest planet from Earth. It also has a rocky surface and an iron core, an atmosphere, a climate, four seasons, and a polar ice sheet and a lot of ice. Its day is only 41 minutes longer than a day on Earth. It all looks so similar to Earth. In fact, Mars is also the most Earth-like planet in the solar system. But humans would not be able to survive on Mars without spacesuits: the surface of Mars is an icy desert full of rocks and red gravel; The air on Mars is filled with harmful dioxide, and temperatures are often colder than at the coldest in Antarctica, accompanied by intense dust storms. In such an extreme environment, will there be super intelligent robots developed by us humans to live on Mars? --Mary and his wife told their youngest daughter that the Mars Arctic Space Launch Base is actually a biological robot copied by scientists。。。。。。

While talking, Mary and his wife took Lucy and Lily on the "Galaxy 2" to visit the space

They were also wearing tight-fitting double-layered pressurized spacesuits and a milky white fully enclosed helmet. Shortly after taking off from the Martian Space Launch Base, the spacecraft traveled at sub-light speeds and into the outer space of Mars

inter-orbital station. It was pitch black outside the porthole, and the stars of all sizes shimmered and shimmered, one after the other, densely packed like they had seen on Mars. Looking down, it's a red planet - Mars.

Mom, Dad, look how bright that star is! Lucy said.

The one on top is even brighter, isn't it, Mom and Dad. Lily said.

The two girls stared out of the porthole with curious eyes, and they saw a bright and brilliant star dragging the tail of Changhui, showing a beautiful brilliance in the clear depths of space. But how do they know that this beautiful star is flying through the Milky Way to the edge of the solar system, just like the end of the 20th century - comet hit Jupiter, and once it breaks into the close orbit of the solar system and hits the earth, the disaster will be huge, equivalent to the harm of 10 million atomic bombs ever made by human beings, it can destroy human civilization 10,000 times. In an instant, the "Galaxy 2" spacecraft flew into the orbit of Jupiter. At present, we know that in addition to Mars, there is another planet that has attracted the attention of scientists, that is, Europa, the moon of Jupiter.

From a distance: Europa is slightly smaller than the Moon and is the second closest moon to Jupiter. According to Professor Roland, there is also a lot of water on Europa. However, because Europa is far from the Sun, its surface is covered by a 3-kilometer-thick layer of ice, and liquid water can only exist under the ice. At such a deep bottom of the ice, sunlight does not shine, and it is difficult for plants to photosynthesize. Previously, for this reason, it was thought that there could be no life on Europa. But now, microbes have also been found in the deep sea, where the sun does not shine. As a result, scientists began to speculate that there was likely life in the water beneath Europa's ice – such as underwater monsters and multi-legged ice reptiles。。。。。。

At the end of this short space trip, and as we were about to return, Lucy pointed to the distant globular cluster of Andromeda and said, "Mom, Dad, that's our home." Lily also agreed to point to the other planet, Centauri, that there is also a super-Earth。。。。。。 When Mary and his wife heard this, they smiled and said, "Fool, you two are wrong, it is not the earth, the earth is our home." No, that's our home! We're going to live there. The two children emphasized it very seriously. Yes, there is a planet there - m-3, the latest astronomical research results show

, there may be highly intelligent life forms on it. At the same time, the Mars space station also released information that they have found a "brother" of the Earth outside the solar system - planet "Kepler-22b", which is the first habitable planet outside the solar system confirmed by the Mars space station, and it is also the smallest and most Earth-like planet of all habitable planets discovered so far. It is like the second Earth in the universe. It has a pleasant temperature, not too hot and not too cold, and has 290 days in a year, which is quite similar to Earth, with the only downside being that it is a bit far away, 600 light-years from Earth. It is said that there may be aliens with high IQs?! Mary and her husband are not unaware of these circumstances, and after many years, it may become a new home for human migration, but as children, how can Lucy and Lily know, maybe they read it from books, Mary and his wife have thought about it and forgotten it.

When they returned from their trip, the little sisters became more obsessed with the sky than before, and almost every night, they ran to the seaside park near their home, sat back to back on the lawn, and looked up at the star with an extremely faint light in the night sky. The sisters did not speak, but they could understand each other's thoughts, and they were listening to the highly intelligent community on another planet, 13,000 light-years away (much farther away than the planet Kepler-22b).

Their mothers are very worried. Mary is proud of her children, but she doesn't want them to be tired because of this, she just wants them to be two ordinary children, do more outdoor activities, sing - play ball, skip rope, play with the children, and exercise their bodies well, but the outside media blew them up to the gods, making Mary feel very inappropriate for their age, she thought, I hope they will not be affected too much.

When she went to bed at night, she told Professor Roland about her worries, but Professor Roland was very unimpressed, and Mary, feeling very lost, lay on the bed for a long time and could not sleep. She reluctantly remembered the S Island Monster Lake, remembered the magical light and shadow, and remembered everything that happened in that inexplicable house, in her opinion, it was just a matter of a moment, but when she returned to the hotel, she realized that half a month had passed.

The actions of the two girls have attracted more and more people's attention, and the world's major newspapers, websites, and television can often read or see special reports about Lucy and Lily in those days.