Chapter Twenty-Three: Centaur α Star

There are a total of four processes in Earth's journey from the solar system to the Centaur Samsung. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Braking process, escape process, acceleration process, deceleration process.

More than 7,000 years have passed since the first orbital acceleration of the solar system.

7000 years later, the earth has entered the end of the deceleration process, the current earth, undoubtedly has been captured by the gravitational pull of the centaur three-star, if there is no external interference, entering the centaur three-star system is already an ironclad thing.

During this period, the Kara civilization has not been chased, I don't know if they really haven't found any trace of Earth, or if they have settled on Mars as Noah expected, no matter what, this is good news for civilization.

The radius of the Earth's orbit in the Centaur will far exceed the 150 million kilometers it did in the solar system, and Noah's preset orbital radius will more than triple, and the Earth will eventually enter an elliptical orbit with an average radius of about 500 million kilometers.

After all, the Centaur Three Star is not one sun, but three stars, and the frequent stellar winds that the solar system is far from comparable to have been raging in this galaxy, which is not suitable for the survival of planets, but at the beginning of the 21st century, astronomers from many European countries jointly wrote a report saying that they used the Lathia Observatory in Chile to observe that they found a planet in the Centaur Galaxy.

Since that planet is very close to Centaur B, there should be no life, but Noah has great expectations for that planet, which may become a resource for Noah for a long time to come.

Since being far away from any three-body system is the basic quality of planetary survival, Noah does not plan to repair the Earth's environment in this galaxy, this is just a temporary foothold for Noah, when Noah fully analyzes the technology possessed by the impulse engine, and has the ability to travel across the stars in the true sense, and then finds a more stable galaxy for the Earth.

When he was quite close to the Centaur Galaxy, Noah made his first observation of the Samsung system with an optical telescope in anticipation, and the Samsung system poured cold water on Noah's journey.

The planet, which was observed at the beginning of the 21st century, is gone.

Noah doesn't know where it went, maybe it was destroyed by the three-body system during the long escape, or maybe it didn't actually exist.

But there is one thing that exceeds Noah's expectations, and that is that there is an extremely long asteroid belt in an area of nearly 450 million kilometers around α Centauri C.

Due to the distance, this asteroid belt should not come from the planet that people have observed.

Perhaps one of the stars had a planet before the formation of this three-body system, but was later destroyed by the three-body system, and after countless years of stellar winds, this asteroid belt can be preserved, I have to say that it is really a miracle.

This is also good news in the midst of bad news, which means that Noah may be able to replenish the mineral resources of the Three-Body Galaxy.

The deceleration of the earth has come to an end, and in the predetermined orbit, when the planetary engine has provided the earth with the right rotation and rotation speed for the last time, the blue fire that has been burning for thousands of years will gradually be extinguished on the continental shelf.

If nothing else, the Earth will orbit around α Centauri in this orbit......

"The conditions are met, and the transfer of authority begins......"

"Supreme Authority Entity - Noah, dormant and thawed ......"

In the main control room of the Ark, which had been dark for thousands of years, a faint blue beam of light slowly descended, and the fragments of fluorescent light slowly fell in that beam, and the figure of a young girl appeared in the beam, a white silk nightdress, barefoot, long hair behind her, and eyes that floated like her body floating in the air, and the eyes that could see the light of the stars......

The girl turned her head slightly to check the time on the atomic clock, it was now more than 10,000 years in the Gregorian calendar......

"I've slept long enough......"

Noah thought about whether he should also wipe his eyes and yawn like a human, but after all, he gave up this idea, and it was not the same as before, and no one saw these obviously cute movements.

Noah cast his eyes on the holographic screen, and the three "suns" in the distance quietly revolved around each other. α Centauri is made up of three stars, numbered A, B, and C, of which α Centauri C, named "Proxima Centauri", is the closest star to the Sun at a distance of 4.2 light-years.

"Is this the centaur α star......"

The girl looked at the three-body system 500 million kilometers away with some curiosity, such a static distance observation of the three-body system can be done by countless astronomers in human history.

In the old civilization, the insolvability of the three-body system was a problem that countless astronomers and mathematicians tried to solve, because the mass, initial position, and initial velocity of the three celestial bodies were arbitrary. In the general three-body problem, the equations of motion of each celestial body under the gravitational pull of the other two celestial bodies can be expressed as three second-order ordinary differential equations, or six first-order ordinary differential equations.

Therefore, the equation of motion of the general three-body problem will be an eighteenth-order equation, and 18 integrals must be obtained to obtain a complete solution. However, human beings can only get 16 points for the three-body problem, so it is far from being able to solve the three-body problem.

Although such a close-up observation of the three-body system may bring Noah some inspiration, but the girl does not want to do that kind of thankless task, even if she finds a solution to the three-body problem, it will not help her current self, and now the development of her own conventional technology and a thorough analysis of the impulse engine is the right thing to do.

Noah checked the energy he currently has, and the nuclear fusion fuel was stored a lot before starting the journey, even if there is a fuel eater like a planetary engine, there are still reserves after eating for thousands of years, and there is no need to worry about energy for the time being.

However, the centaur α star is only a temporary foothold after all, and she will have to go to a more distant galaxy in the future, and no matter how much energy is not enough, this makes the girl have to find a more efficient way to obtain energy, but this is not necessary to look for it at all, and humans have helped her find it a long time ago.

That's it, heavy element fusion!

The so-called heavy elements refer to all chemical elements except hydrogen and helium, and it has to be said that the nuclear fusion of the hydrogen-based isotope deuterium tritium is only the most basic use of nuclear fusion, because fusion stops when it reaches helium, but in the real stellar evolution process, such fusion is far from the end.

Inside a star, helium fusion after hydrogen fusion can fuse three helium nuclei into a single carbon nucleus. The resulting carbon nucleus can in turn fuse and absorb a helium nucleus to form an oxygen nucleus. The oxygen nucleus can also fuse and absorb a helium nucleus to form a neon nucleus, and each fusion can release a large amount of energy.

At present, the known stellar fusion law is hydrogen (H) ~ helium (He) ~ carbon (C) ~ oxygen (O) ~ neon (Ne) ~ magnesium (Mg) ~ silicon (Si) ~ sulfur (S) ~ calcium (Ca) ~ iron (Fe).

But of course, such heavy element fusion cannot be achieved under conventional conditions, even in the extreme environment inside the sun, it is impossible to advance the fusion to iron, stars are generally dominated by hydrogen fusion, when hydrogen is exhausted, hydrogen will be fused into helium and then carbon, at this time the star is already in the red giant stage, when silicon is fused into iron, iron will absorb the energy of the star's outward expansion, this balance is broken, and the star will begin to collapse......

Theoretically, if you want to fuse iron to iron, you need a superstar with a mass of at least 100 times that of the Sun.

Rare metals such as silver, gold, and platinum are born from the fusion of iron that only occurs during supernova explosions, which is why these rare metals are scarce.

But if Noah can achieve heavy element fusion under conventional conditions, there is no need to collect the isotope of hydrogen, deuterium tritium, and the material on the earth, even a speck of dust, can become Noah's energy source, and the amount of energy obtained will be much higher than the current nuclear fusion.

In that case, there will be no energy source, just find a galaxy to collect some materials, and if you can't dig a few tons of stones on the earth, you can turn it into a lot of energy.

Earth civilization has already theoretically perfected carbon fusion, and in the technology left by the Kara civilization, they can already achieve oxygen fusion in practical use, which also means that their energy acquisition capacity far exceeds that of Earth civilization.

But it doesn't matter, soon Noah will be able to surpass them again.

Space battleships are not only weapons, but also their huge size, armament and flexibility can also make them the best construction area, especially Noah's current gamma-class battleship, which can accommodate at least 100,000 people inside, and it is also a separate room where everyone can be allocated a certain space, not like the old student dormitories crammed into sardine cans.

In this way, the construction of many facilities and research studios can be carried out directly inside the spacecraft.

Having obtained a large amount of technology left over from the Kara civilization, Noah wants to turn the technology into his own strength as soon as possible, and now there is no need to flee, and there is no need to worry about the resource problem for the time being, and all the resources of the civilization have begun to tilt towards scientific research.

After all, what a civilization can really deter other civilizations is only the scientific and technological strength of civilizations.