Chapter 296: The Limits of Technology
As the picture brightens, a huge building reaching into the sky appears on the screen, saying that it is a building, but it is actually more like a wall, because this building is so tall that its specific shape cannot be seen in this huge panoramic lens!
There is no end in sight on the left and right sides of the building. Its massive body can be seen to be made of metal, and it can only be barely seen that the structure should be a giant tower.
This "giant tower" is so tall that its straight body is obscured by thick cumulonimbus clouds high in the sky, and only a small part of its base can be seen from the ground.
The cumulonimbus clouds that blocked the buildings above emitted a light of various colors, as if a giant flashlight was shining on their backs. In the dim environment, the bare outline of the earth looms.
As the music slowly changed from soothing to tense, the cumulonimbus clouds slowly dispersed, and finally, the dark clouds dispersed, and the whole building was displayed on the screen, a huge engine vent facing the sky!
It looks like a cooling tower for a reactor, but tens of thousands of times larger, and the engine's vent is 11,000 meters above the ground, shooting blue plasma into the sky like a huge blowtorch.
It's like a miracle, and the building is an engine of the earth. An engineering marvel unique to this world. Humans are so small in comparison to this behemoth, they are almost like bacteria under a building.
This Earth Engine is just one of a large number of engines of its kind, and it is distributed across the Asian continent and the American continent along with 12,000 other Earth Engines.
The job of these huge plasma thrusters is to stop the rotation of the entire Earth. The Earth is then slowly pushed out of the solar system, eventually reaching the nearest star system.
If it is a qiē shun lì, it will take 2,500 years to complete this process, and the efforts of a hundred generations!
On the screen, the never-ending flames of the Earth's engine vent disperse all the dark clouds in the sky, emitting a dazzling light that illuminates the desolate land beneath your feet. Here the chant finally disappeared, and a qiē returned to silence.
The first shot of the movie ended, and seeing this, Shen Chao smiled slightly. The opening was pretty much what he had imagined. The basic table xiàn was out of his expectations.
The Wandering Earth is a world facing extinction, and the history of the development of the Earth world in this story was no different from that of the main plane before the 21st century, but after that there was a huge difference.
In this world of the 21st century, the world's human beings have discovered that the sun in their solar system suddenly showed abnormal radiation levels in the 21st century. It has caused many secondary disasters on the earth.
After observing the anomaly, human governments launched the last probe to the interior of the sun, and combined technical forces to establish an accurate mathematical model of the sun.
After repeated verification and calculations, they discovered the terrible fact that the Sun was detaching from the main sequence, and the hydrogen fuel for its combustion was suddenly burning faster.
If this continues. Their sun will run out of hydrogen fuel in 400 years, and then a hydrogen flash will occur. At that time. The sun will turn into an exploding supernova!
The solar system, which becomes a supernova, will engulf most of the celestial bodies in the solar system. The Earth will be swept into the sun by the expanding flames, or evaporated in the heat. Human civilization will also come to an end.
In order to cope with this impending catastrophe, the human beings of this world quickly put aside their differences, and several major powers quickly formed a coalition government and began to seek a plan to save themselves.
Immediately after the formation of the coalition government, all the technical talents and technical forces on the planet were integrated, and hundreds of thousands of top engineers and scientists in various fields were brought together to discuss solutions.
These human beings have proposed thousands of self-help schemes for intelligent individuals, and have demonstrated the feasibility of these schemes one by one.
Marginal migration in the solar system, interstellar space escape, hydrogen flash to stay in the solar system...... A variety of proposals were reviewed one by one, and the vast majority of them were eliminated after demonstrating their feasibility.
Soon. People realized that they could only survive without the solar system, and that the solar system after the hydrogen flash would not survive anyway.
As a result, around the escape of the universe, the human beings in this world began to make technological preparations again.
At first, many people thought that four centuries was enough for humanity to leapfrog technology to a very high level, enough for them to safely leave the solar system and find a new home in other star systems.
Even the more pessimistic people believe that a united humanity could build enough generations of spaceships in four centuries. Send everyone out of the solar system to escape.
But it soon became clear to them that this was just wishful thinking, as their tech tree was climbing right. The basic theory is not as far as the main plane to get there.
Therefore, the humans of this plane do not and will not possess faster-than-light technology or theories in the short term, and the fastest spaceship they can build is also propelled by working fluid engines, and the fastest can only reach 0.5% of the speed of light.
While this speed is enormous in the atmosphere, equivalent to 500 times the speed of sound, it is as slow as a snail crawling for interstellar travel.
To make matters worse, according to their observations, there are no planets in all nearby star systems within 85 light-years, and according to their astronautical technology, it would take at least 170,000 years to reach that nearest observed star system with planets.
If they flew straight there, they expected to build the largest generation of spacecraft with a life-sustaining system that would last less than a tenth of the flight time.
There is a famous saying in the past: after ruling out one other possibility, the last remaining possibility, no matter how bizarre and bizarre it is, can only be the truth.
Applying this point, after ruling out the other escape options, there is only one feasible option left. The scheme is so strange and so vast that even God trembles when he sees it.
The ultimate plan proposed by the most brilliant engineers of mankind is this: in the next three centuries, a large number of giant plasma engines attached to the earth's crustal plates will be built, and the entire earth will be transformed into an era spacecraft, and finally carry all mankind out of the solar system......
The amount of work required to build any one of the earth engines in this plan is more than the total amount of human engineering in a century in the 20th century, and the technical difficulty is even more difficult to look up to.
However, humanity has no choice, this is the only way out, so despite the rebellion, although it seems unattainable, the coalition government can only devote all its resources to the implementation of this plan.
Countless scientific research projects have been initiated, and countless legal provisions have been rewritten. In order to survive, humans quickly abandoned something that hindered survival. Humanity is truly united, unleashing all its power for one goal.
On the basis of existing physical theories, mankind has begun to dig deep into the limits of technology. Carbon nanotubes, room-temperature superconducting materials...... A seemingly difficult technical difficulty was overcome one by one.
But there are also some techniques that are so difficult that engineers are forced to switch solutions. But there are two projects that cannot be bypassed: a super-large-scale heavy element fusion reactor and a super-giant plasma thruster.
These two techniques are the key to the success of the escape. The scale and difficulty of the technology were far beyond the technical capabilities of the time, and the efforts of the coalition government led to the development of these two technologies after three centuries and more than a dozen generations.
During this period, the human beings here have completely transformed themselves. Memory genetic technology has made the world full of engineers, even if a primary school student can understand the application of various engineering techniques better than many professional engineers in the main plane.
The people here were physically, mentally, and technically committed to a single goal, and eventually escaped after overcoming numerous difficulties, leaving the solar system with the Earth before the hydrogen flash explosion.
On the screen, the actor is an ordinary person in such a big era, he was born at the end of the brake era, and he has never seen the sun since he was born.
Throughout his upbringing, he and all the other humans were in a race against time, busy studying, busy working, busy dying. Together with other humans, he spent the first half of his life in the horror of getting close to the sun again and again.
But life is not all about precedents and tragedies, even in such difficult times. In an unexpected coincidence, the male protagonist in the film finds the other half of his life and has his own family and children.
The life of the hero and other human beings with a family continues, and human beings are still stubbornly struggling in this era, challenging fate and marching towards the universe.
Driven by the Earth's engine, the Earth approached the Sun again and again, slowly increasing itself to the third cosmic velocity by orbital acceleration.
During this period, various disasters followed, such as the apocalyptic "waves" every time the Earth passed through the asteroid belt, the powerful explosion when the antimatter bomb destroyed the near-Earth asteroid, and the shock when the Earth's orbit grazed Jupiter.
These scenes are vividly and vividly portrayed by the director, and the extreme insignificance and strength of human beings are fully reflected. As if to praise all the good qualities of human beings. However, the plot in the second half of the film takes a sharp turn.
In the second half of the film, the Earth has completed its last acceleration and is about to move away from the solar system forever, but at that point, the Sun seems to be inexplicably back to normal.
The spectrum, volume, and other parameters of the sun look exactly the same as they did four centuries ago. After a brief period of shock and confusion, rumors arose that the sun was okay and that the sun was a hoax made up by the rulers......
This led to a rebellion within humanity. The rebels believe that the previously established mathematical model of the Sun is false or wrong, and that the Sun is still in the main sequence of stars, with billions of years to live......
This view is shared by the vast majority of people around the world, and countless rebels have responded wherever they go. Even the 12 armies of the coalition government defected one after another during this period. The rebellion is unstoppable.
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