After leaving the quantum radar, these entangled quanta began to spread out at the speed of light, surging out in several specific directions in an instant. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Billions of huge quantum streams quickly swept through the empty cosmic space, and when they encountered obstacles, a small number of quanta were captured by the obstacles, and their states changed, falling from the entangled state.

At the same time, information about the obstacle is transmitted back to the quantum radar database in the form of "over-distance action".

Data continues to accumulate, and in the quantum flood of billions, a three-dimensional spatial model is soon established.

The system automatically eliminated the effects of limited interstellar gas and interstellar dust, and a few minutes later, a model of a space sphere encompassing several nearby astronomical units appeared in front of Zhou Chen and others.

It's just that after seeing the results, Zhou Chen's expressions couldn't help but be gloomy.

"Captain, why is there nothing at the coordinates?" Cao Jiangfeng looked at Zhou Chen, and his eyes revealed an incredible light.

Zhou Chen also felt strange, and was twisting his brows and thinking about it at the moment.

It stands to reason that this place shouldn't be devoid of anything! Since the mysterious man gave them the coordinates, then there must be his intentions, there must be something nearby, otherwise why bother so much?

But judging from the results fed back by the quantum radar, there is nothing around, empty, and there is really nothing!

The effective range of quantum radar is theoretically infinitely far away, but considering that the quantum torrent will become more and more sparse with the distance, the real effective distance should be within 5 light years, and then only a very sparse outline can be seen, which is prone to errors, and there is basically no detection function beyond 10 light years.

But now Poseidon is only a short distance of 280 kilometers from the coordinates, and such a short distance is completely within the high-abundance detection range of quantum radar, and it will definitely not go wrong.

Is there really nothing here? Or is it that after twenty years of sailing, the quantum radar is broken?

Zhou Chen was a little shaken, the quantum radar must not be broken, so could it be that he misunderstood the mysterious man's intentions.

Doesn't this coordinate refer to the existence of a planet or something?

Wormhole!

A very sci-fi word suddenly appeared in Zhou Chen's mind.

In many film and television works or novels, the concept of wormholes is mentioned, so wormholes are also relatively acceptable to everyone.

Of course, from Zhou Chen's point of view, he must abandon the "wormhole" in film and television works, and look at the concept of wormhole purely from a physical point of view.

In the physical world, there are two kinds of wormholes, one is called Lorentz wormhole and the other is called Euclidean wormhole.

Among them, the Lorentz wormhole is a space-time tunnel that can be passed, it is a long-term pipeline that really exists in the universe, we can simply think of it as a passage connecting two places, people can enter it, and then spend a certain amount of time through it, you can go to other universes or jump in this universe, or even go to the past and the future.

In the minds of cosmologists, the early universe had many natural Lorentz wormholes, as well as many pipes to connect to the parent universe. But these wormholes are dead and closed, and it is difficult for humans to use them anymore, and even the existing Lorentz wormholes in the universe are small enough for particles to pass through.

Therefore, the scientific community is pessimistic about whether such wormholes can be used by humans.

And the Euclid wormhole, it is a kind of instantaneous wormhole, as soon as you enter the hole, you will reach the exit, and it does not take time to cross it, but there are too many uncertainties in its appearance, ethereal, uncertain, and difficult for humans to grasp.

Zhou Chen thought that the coordinates left to him by the mysterious man were information about the wormhole, so this wormhole must be fixed near this coordinate.

Then this wormhole is definitely not an instantaneous wormhole such as an "Euclid wormhole".

Could it be that there is a Lorenz wormhole at the coordinate site?

Sadly, Lorentz wormholes may have existed in large numbers at the beginning of the universe, but as the universe evolved, such wormholes either died out or closed, and if they did, they were so small that they could only allow particles to pass through.

Although physicists have come up with a theory that if there is a fixed Lorentz wormhole at the quantum level, then we can find a way to expand it large enough to eventually tear through time and space for us to pass through.

The theory is that negative energy prevents gravity from destroying wormholes, so we can use negative energy for this purpose, but the problem is that the cost of doing so is very high, and the amount of negative energy required is astronomical and cannot be created by humans.

And this theory is too advanced, even a very small amount of negative energy is not something that can be achieved by Zhou Chen now.

In the end, they returned to a dead end, whether it was the Lorentz wormhole or the Euclid wormhole, for Zhou Chen, it didn't mean anything.

Wormhole guess, eliminated!!

"But if it's not a wormhole, then what is?"

The entire command hall fell silent.

After a while, Zhou Chen sighed: "Send a probe to the coordinate location to take a closer look!" He still hasn't given up yet, and he really doesn't want to admit that the Poseidon has worked hard to reach its destination, and it will not gain anything.

"Maybe we should find another way."

Zhou Chen turned his head, looked at the members of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Social Sciences, and said with a wry smile: "Previously, we sent a total of nine directions and mysterious coordinates to the research spacecraft, but now the mysterious coordinates are temporarily 'eliminated', so hope can only be placed in the other nine directions." ”

"Gustav, it's up to you to tell us about the status of the other expedition ships!"

Gustav in Zhou Chen's mouth is a statistical physicist in the provisional committee of the Academy of Sciences, responsible for tracking nine directions.

In the past few years, the fleet's continuous tracking of the research spacecraft has been entrusted to Gustav and his team, and he naturally has the most say at this time.

Gustav nodded and stood up, without going into any extra details, and went straight to the point: "Among the nine research spacecraft, the target of 'Exploration One' is the nearest terrestrial planet 'Proxima B', which is only 4.2 light-years away from us, and the good news is that the spacecraft has arrived at Proxima Centauri B fourteen years ago. ”

"This is a planet with a mass of 1.3 times that of the Earth, it is only 7 million kilometers away from its star 'Proxima Centauri', and the orbital period is 11.2 days, although this distance is much closer than the distance from our Mercury to the Sun, but because Proxima Centauri itself is a red dwarf, with a mass of only 0.123 times that of the Sun, a luminosity of only 1.55‰ of the Sun, and a surface temperature of 2800K, although it is extremely close to the star, Proxima Centauri B is still in the habitable zone."

"The good news is that it only needs a modest modification to become a second home for humans to live in, but the bad news is that it is too close to the solar system to be a long-term planet for humans!" Speaking of this, Gustav couldn't help but shrug his shoulders in a gesture of helplessness.

If it's too close, it's definitely not good, and it's easy to be exposed to the detection of the Ferro civilization.

"But if it's a transit planet, it's very appropriate!" Cai Xiaoxi suddenly interjected.

Zhou Chen nodded slightly: "Indeed, Proxima Centauri B is very suitable as a transit planet, sixteen years ago, Exploration No. 1 began to transform the atmosphere after arriving at Proxima B, and now the transformation has almost been completed, if necessary, you can make Exploration No. 1 go all out to start the accumulation of materials!" ”

"I think it's absolutely necessary!" It was a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, who did not understand scientific matters, but overall planning was their specialty.

There is one more foothold along the way, and you can also replenish the materials, why not?

Zhou Chen nodded, agreeing with his statement.

"Gustav, please keep ......"

Gustav nodded: "Next up is Exploration 2, which targets 'Woolf 359', which is the fourth closest star to the Sun, the 359 star in the Woolf Constellation, 7.7 light-years from the Sun. Although it is a little farther away than the third closest star, Barnard has been judged to be incapable of life, so when we chose the second target, we flew directly over it and selected Woolf 359. ”

"Regrettably, when Exploration 2 arrived at Woolf 359 nine years ago, it did not find a planet suitable for life among the planets around it. As a result, Explorer-2 had to abandon its plan to establish a temporary base in the star system of Woolf-359, and after correcting its direction, it turned to fly in the direction of Nanhe-3, which is 11.5 light-years away from the solar system, and is expected to reach Nanhe-3 in another two years. ”

"The same fate as Exploration 2 is Exploration 5, which was originally intended to be 10.4 light-years away 'Ross 248', which arrived five years ago, and turned to 'Kruger 60' 13 light-years away from the solar system after not finding a suitable planet, and is expected to arrive in three years."

In addition, other research spacecraft such as Exploration 3 and 4 flew to Sirius (8.6 light-years), Ross 154 (9.5 light-years), Tianyuan IV (10.5 light-years), Ea Aquarius (11.3 light-years), Tiancang-5 (12 light-years), Captan (13 light-years) and other star systems.

Among these star systems, the most likely planets suitable for life are Tianyuan IV and Captan 10.5 light-years and 13 light-years away from the solar system.

"The spacecraft of the Exploration Series have arrived at Tianyuan IV, Captan and Tiancang V a few years ago, and have started construction work, but as for the other target stars, no suitable planets have been found."

Speaking of this, Gustav can't help but feel a little regretful, the nine research spacecraft finally started the relevant transformation in only four star systems, and because of the different difficulties of the transformation, Tianyuan IV, Captan Star, and Tiancang V cannot become human habitation planets in a short period of time.

Five more ships will be able to reach the new corrected star system for a few more years due to a change in target.

(To be continued.) )