Chapter Twenty-Five: The Attacking Ship
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"The warm-up is complete and the magnetic coil is functioning normally. -- Noah's Report
"The curvature test adjustment is completed, and the curvature adjuster is working normally. -- Noah's Report
One message after another was fed back to Noah, and the girl's mood was also a little nervous at the moment, staring seriously at the shuttle equipped with a new generation of engine on the holographic screen, which was Noah's first impulse engine trial operation experiment.
"Try to make machine No. 1, ignition. -- Noah's Report
With the command given, the tail of the shuttle erupted with dazzling blue and white fire, detached from the Ark, the main ship of the Super Gamma class, and rushed towards the other end of the sea of stars.
There is constantly data coming back from the shuttle, and Noah attaches great importance to this test, if the impulse engine trial machine No. 1 can operate normally, then he really has the qualification for interstellar travel.
The shuttle did not make any turns, and kept rushing forward in a straight line, for this experiment, Noah specially prepared a straight runway across the entire Centaur galaxy, for Noah, who has over-distance communication, such a distance will no longer be an obstacle to communication.
"The speed exceeded Mach 1,000. -- Noah's Report
Compared with the energy consumption rate, a trace of joy flashed in the girl's eyes, because the near-vacuum environment in the universe makes there be no air resistance in flight, so as long as the engine keeps accelerating, it can theoretically be infinitely close to the speed of light, but there is a very embarrassing problem.
Due to the domination of the theory of relativity, when the speed reaches the condition of near-light, the speed of time will change, and the mass of the object will also change, and theoretically if it can be accelerated infinitely to close to the speed of light with a conventional engine, the energy consumed will be infinite, and the mass of the accelerating object will also become infinite.
Can you imagine? After a spaceship accelerates to close to the speed of light, just another meter of acceleration consumes much more energy per second than all the previous acceleration processes, and at the same time, the mass of the spaceship will be close to infinity, a spaceship has a planetary mass, due to the volume limitation, the density will be infinite, and the gravitational force will also become infinite, and the entire spaceship will undoubtedly not be able to maintain its original structure, and will become a pile of meaningless elementary particles.
This is the limitation of the theory of relativity, and the speed of light can never be broken under normal conditions.
But under unconventional conditions, people at the beginning of the 21st century put forward a conjecture, what if the object of influence was turned into space-time itself without affecting the spacecraft?
A rowing boat (spaceship) on a flat river (normal space-time). Because the river is flat (equivalent to zero curvature), the boat does not speed up. However, if there is a sudden downward waterfall ahead (the curvature of the waterfall is considered infinity), the boat will quickly reach a very fast speed. This is understandable in the context of such an analogy.
The so-called [curvature vehicle] is to modify the curvature of space-time, so that space-time becomes the carrier of spacecraft, because the change of space is not governed by the theory of relativity, so that it can bypass the limitations of the theory of relativity, and use the loopholes in physics to achieve faster-than-light flight.
The impulse engine is the same, except that it has limited interference in space-time and cannot sail in curvature, but it can bypass the restriction of relativity on the speed of spacecraft in ordinary space-time by modifying the curvature of space-time, and with the use of conventional engines, the spacecraft can accelerate to nearly the speed of light without paying infinite energy and having infinite mass.
"The speed exceeded Mach 10,000 and began to enter the near-light speed range, which is currently 0.01 times the speed of light. -- Mood index up 10 percentage points, Noah reported "
Just when Noah felt that success was in sight, the shuttle that was originally galloping like a wild horse in the distance exploded......
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"The mood index fell by 20 percentage points. -- Noah's Report
The girl shook her head a little depressed, and drove her waterfall-like hair to dance with the white coat, and all the information fed back by the prototype machine No. 1, which had become space junk, appeared in front of Noah, and began to check the reason.
"Sure enough, the relationship between curvature adjustment and forward speed is difficult to grasp......
Noah, who found out the reason, muttered to himself, and then began the commissioning of the trial machine No. 2.
No way, the path of science is inherently bumpy, and this has been proven countless times in the old civilizations.
Just as Noah was still having a headache with the practical application of the impulse engine, on the other hand, a huge project began to be carried out in a synchronous orbit above the Earth's equator: the Circum-Earth Particle Accelerator.
Noah thought that when he could use the technology he digested in practice, his scientific and technological strength would definitely go to a higher level, but it would take a long time, so he put this project, which also took a long time to complete, on the agenda, because at that time, he would no longer simply learn and use the technology of humans and Kara, but also need to explore more new scientific theories.
The Circum-Earth Particle Accelerator was originally one of the scientific research equipment that Lin Xuan proposed to the United Nations that must be built in the old civilization, but it was stranded because of its huge cost.
But now Noah doesn't have to care about any costly problems, as long as the resources are enough, as long as he can promote the progress of his own science and technology, there is no problem in repairing anything.
The asteroid belt 50 million kilometers away has become the main supplier of Noah's mineral resources, and the heavy element fusion technology has just recently made a breakthrough and can already achieve carbon fusion, which means that Noah's energy access rate has been further improved, and it is not too difficult to build a particle accelerator around the earth.
The only pity is that the coveted experimental equipment is available, but the familiar scientific research team is gone.
But Noah didn't think about it emotionally to this step, in addition to the nostalgia for the construction of the Circum-Earth Particle Accelerator, the girl is also very interested in the high-energy particle collision experiment, this is an experiment to explore the absolute truth after all, it will never succeed, and it will never fail, just like a textbook that will never be finished, as long as you don't fully understand the laws of the universe, this experiment can always provide you with new inspiration.
In this experiment, there will definitely be a theorem that surpasses the theory of relativity, surpasses the grand unified theory, and is closer to the truth of the universe than any previous scientific theorem, and this unknown theorem may be able to answer the ultimate question of the universe, why was the universe born? Why does civilization exist? Where did it all start? What is the end point of togetherness?
But Noah didn't care about such a problem, just as someone said a long time ago.
Don't ask, "Who am I?" "This kind of problem that overloads any supercomputer, human beings have spent thousands of years not thinking clearly, what are you a little kid mixed with?"
Noah just wants to get a little inspiration for some new laws from this experiment, and for Noah at present, the most important thing is to develop his own conventional technology, completely analyze the impulse engine, and find a stable galaxy for the earth, and the centaur three-star is really not a place where the planet should stay for too long.
But a stable galaxy is really not easy to find, if a galaxy has ever had life like the solar system, that galaxy is undoubtedly the best choice, after all, the galaxy that can give birth to life, no matter how unstable it is, it will not be unstable. Other galaxies, on the other hand, have no life, and it takes a long time to determine whether they are safe.
Therefore, if you can't find a suitable galaxy, counterattacking the solar system has become Noah's most realistic choice at present, but with a super civilization like the Kara civilization to defend it, the solar system itself is a resource-rich galaxy, the degree of civilization surpasses his own, and there is a solar system as a supply, which makes Noah really feel very powerless.
"It would be nice if the technology was a little stronger. -- Noah's Report