Episode 16 Chapter 4: Faster-than-light signals

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"It worked! It takes about three seconds to send a signal from one to the other, and the information source is fifteen light-seconds away, which is a huge improvement! ā€

In a cosmic void far away from the new solar system, three huge hope-class space warships are parked here, accompanied by dozens of frigates and more than two hundred small gunboats, this is already a small fleet in the human defense force, and generally the size of the troops used for daily patrol missions in the new solar system is only so, but such a small fleet is gathered in the boundless void outside the new solar system, which is really a rare thing. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

However, if you know the personnel of this fleet, it is a matter of course, and even the size of this fleet is a little smaller.

On this fleet, there are three great scientists of mankind, namely the British astrophysicist Allen in the proto-earth period, the German physicist Silevy in the proto-earth period, and the Spanish-American energeticist Stewei in the proto-earth period. It can be said that this is already a scientific event that is enough to change the history of mankind.

In fact, it is precisely the case that this experiment is related to the layout of human beings for hundreds of thousands of years in the future, and it can really be said to be a moment that changes the course of human history, because the success of this experiment means that human beings have surpassed the speed of light in the speed of information transmission!

The speed of light is a unit of quantity, which has a special position in the universe, and it is almost a huge indicator of whether a cosmic civilization can survive, because the universe is really too big, big enough to make any non-eternal life feel hopeless, for example, the distance between a star system and another star system is as little as a dozen light years or as many as hundreds of thousands of light years, and the distance between river systems is enough to use hundreds of thousands. Millions, tens of millions of light-years, that's an incredibly large astronomical unit.

If a civilization wants to survive in the universe, the first thing it has to overcome is the limit of the speed of light, otherwise a civilization will go from one star system to another, and the movement will be calculated in thousands of years, and what it has eaten and drunk in these thousands of years. Use, energy, materials, and so on can only be used in stock, and if you have less people, you will fall into the monotony of genes, the decline and decline of the spirit, and you will bring too many people. It will fall to the point where the material energy is consumed cleanly, and the entire universe does not know that hundreds of billions of first-level cosmic civilizations have been annihilated at this step.

In this case, the emergence of curvature navigation changed all this, which was the first way of navigation beyond the speed of light invented by all cosmic civilizations, and since then, interstellar navigation has become possible, and cosmic civilization has the possibility of development and progress, and according to the different backgrounds of each civilization, the speed of curvature navigation is about several times to hundreds of times the speed of light. This is, of course, a great step forward.

But this is only an improvement in the speed of navigation, and many of the remaining things are still limited by the speed of light, such as the most important information circulation, when information can only be transmitted at the speed of light at most, the flow of information becomes the second limit that limits the great exchange of civilizations.

In fact, this is even more desperate than the speed of sailing, which can be avoided by a space-like approach like curvature, but what about information? Whether it is light waves or radio waves that carry information. Electron. Even other microparticles, their cosmic speed can only be the speed of light. At least in the current human technology, tachyon particles have not yet appeared, in this case, perhaps the fleet has already set off and returned, and the message sent before its departure has not been received by its target, such a situation is simply unimaginable!

To take the simplest example, if the new solar system suddenly suffers from a large number of third-level civilization raids, then human beings can only receive information when the other party arrives in the new solar system and launches an attack, such a situation is simply unbearable, which means that human beings have no way to predict the arrival of any civilization in advance.

In fact, such a predicament is the same for any third-level cosmic civilization, because after reaching the third-level cosmic civilization, it generally means that this civilization is absolutely safe, after all, the intermediate or high-level cosmic civilization is really too rare, so rare that a low-level civilization will not necessarily encounter one when traveling around the river system, God knows where those civilizations are hiding.

And the third-level cosmic civilization can already be considered to be the strong in the conventional cosmic civilization, such a strong person will generally start to create a refuge, and the existence of a refuge will often cause other refuge civilizations to covet, if every refuge and refuge war, is carried out in the form of surprise attacks and sneak attacks, then really no one can stand it, maybe you just destroyed a refuge one second, and the next second will be destroyed by others immediately.

Because of this, some of the top beings in the third-level cosmic civilization, who can already be said to have touched the edge of the fourth-level cosmic civilization, began to study how to communicate with each other faster-than-light, especially to conduct faster-than-light reconnaissance and scan for enemies in curvature.

In their research ideas, since matter can avoid the speed of light through curvature, can information also be transmitted in the same way? So further, is there some way of reconnaissance that can directly reconnoiter information faster than the speed of light, even if the particles carrying the information itself are still light years away?

In fact, from the perspective of science and technology alone, this kind of faster-than-light reconnaissance technology and communication technology is not out of reach, at least the intermediate level of the third-level civilization has been able to study it, with the breakthrough of new energy, and the innovation of energy technology, the initial stage of the third-level civilization has begun to crack and optimize the curvature navigation, in the primary stage of the third-level civilization, the speed of curvature navigation has reached ten times to fifty times the speed of light.

When entering the intermediate stage of the three-level civilization, the technology of microparticle and micro-control of energy is mature, and the specific technical expression is the maturity of the strong energy beam communication technology in the curvature navigation, in this case, the curvature navigation is completely possible to communicate with each other, and even to reconnoiter the external information.

At the same technical level, as long as the strong energy beam technology is deeply studied and the curvature of its pure energy is made, then this strong energy beam will also exceed the speed of light for information transmission, and the technology of reconnaissance is attributed to the micro-particle and micro-control of energy, as long as the curvature is remotely "grasped" by the basic particles a few light years away, then it can also be reconnoitred beyond the speed of light, in fact, the information itself is still a few light years, tens of light years, or even hundreds of light years away, but through this technology, It will be possible to extract it from scans beyond hundreds of light-years.

These technologies themselves, human beings do not have, but these technologies are transmitted and spread like curvature navigation, human beings have obtained the idea information of these technologies as early as the original space merchant battle, but it was still too far away from these technologies at that time, so they did not think about it, but they just regarded it as a category of inventory information, which has always been dusty.

Until the past two years, when human beings have completely entered the primary stage of the third-level cosmic civilization, the cosmic merchants, or a small amount of information inventory of the third-level civilization obtained on the demon planet, have brought a lot of inspiration and research and development ideas to human scientists, and the most important thing for human society is the defense system of the new solar system, as long as the defense system is absolutely safe, the human beings living in it can be absolutely safe. It has been put on the agenda, since the human race has stepped into the ranks of the third-level cosmic civilization, up to now, a total of nine great scientists have joined the R&D team, and Bo Li has provided a large number of parameters and R&D ideas in terms of energy as a whisperer.

Even so, it took more than two years for humans to finally develop a prototype that could conduct faster-than-light reconnaissance within five light years, explore the existence of any curvature within five light years, and increase the speed of information transmission to about five times the speed of light.

However, this is really the prototype of the embryonic form, because this speed is already the limit that human beings can reach at present, and every time the speed of light is increased by 0.1 times, the energy consumption brought by it is ten times larger, which is ten times that of all the previous energy! Moreover, under the load of this energy, only the superconductor metal produced by alien plants can be carried, and the metal made by human beings themselves relying on the third-level civilization is simply overwhelmed, and at the same time, as long as the analysis function of energy information exceeds five times the speed of light or five light years away, then even artificial intelligence cannot be loaded......

Therefore, with the help of whisperers, although human beings have obtained the technology that can only be obtained at the intermediate level of this third-level civilization, its basic technology is completely unable to load, which is the embodiment of too low a background, just like curvature navigation, even second-level civilization can be used, but it is only a few times the speed of light, compared with hundreds of times the speed of light of the third-level peak civilization...... That's not too shabby.

But in any case, this technological breakthrough has also brought revolutionary changes to the defense of mankind's new solar system, and mankind is no longer blind, but has truly begun to have the ability to observe the universe......

In this way, the small fleet returned to the new solar system with three great scientists and the news of the success of this experiment, and in the next three months, the defense forces had built two ultra-powerful super-optical speed detection devices at the first and second lines of defense with great efficiency, and in the first search for the equipment to be put into use, all mankind was silent......

At a distance of less than four light-years from the new solar system, a ship is traveling at a curvature twenty times the speed of light, and its destination has been calculated to be discovered......

None other than the new solar system!