In the hall, Aita's voice rang out continuously.

"Lane correction, speed 84.37."

"The course has been corrected, and the acceleration is ...... Speed 353. ”

"The aircraft continues to accelerate, and it will be broadcast every 30 seconds."

"The aircraft has been flying for 60 seconds and has accelerated to 570 speeds."

"The aircraft has been flying for 90 seconds and has accelerated to 930 ......"

The hall was silent, save for the constant sound of Aita announcing the speed of the aircraft - she omitted the units behind the numbers, but everyone knew that it was standard kilometers per second.

At this time, the virtual projection also simulated the Earth-asteroid belt at equal scale.

In the dark night sky, a small point of light representing a grain of rice is approaching the target asteroid from the direction of the Earth.

Time passed minute by minute.

Aita's voice was still calm and calm.

"The aircraft has been flying for 180 seconds and has accelerated to 2990."

As the sound of this announcement fell, a low commotion finally came from the hall.

2990 km/s!

This number means that for the first time, a flying machine created by human beings has entered the realm of percentage speed of light!

But Ye Ming's expression remained the same, he just quietly looked at the small light spots in the projection.

"The distance of the target is 4.8 astronomical units, that is, 718 million kilometers, the electromagnetic wave transmission time needs 2,393 seconds, and the total flight time of rice grains should exceed 8,000 seconds, with 6,000 seconds in between, which is close to two hours of reaction time."

Ye Ming turned his head to look at He Mo, who was still nervous before, but now immediately stared at him: "It seems that the enemy's reaction time is enough." ”

When He Mo heard this, he immediately said: "Can't rice grains be tracked?" ”

"It can be tracked, but the faster the speed, the greater the G-force, and the turning radius will be extremely large."

Ye Ming bit his lip: "It seems that in the future space battle, it will be the focus to release the probe and grasp the coordinates of the target to intercept or pursue it head-on." ”

“…… What about power? ”

"Regardless of its power, no man-made structure or even a non-planetary object can stop it—even if it just crashes into it, it can burst out with devastating energy."

Ye Ming said and smiled: "According to the special theory of relativity, you can know if you do the math." ”

He Mo: "......"

"Hmm...... Although this method is powerful, it is still too primitive, and it is okay to destroy relatively stationary buildings, but it is still a bit troublesome to destroy a fleet with strong mobility ability. ”

As he spoke, Ye Ming closed his eyes, and his eyeballs kept beating under his eyelids.

He Mo and Su Zi glanced at each other, and then waved their hands to the others in the hall who were gradually agitated, signaling everyone to be quiet and calm.

Time passed minute by minute, and when the rice grains accelerated to ten percent of the speed of light, Ye Ming opened his eyes again.

"You guys find me a quiet office, and I'm going to discuss the design of the 2D reactor stack with Professor Horrien and Lao Zhou."

He Mo immediately glanced nervously at the simulated screen in front of him, which had already begun to show the remaining flight time - 6,000 seconds left.

Can't wait for this guy for 100 minutes?

"Two-dimensional reactor stacking? What do you want to do? ”

"I wanted to see if I could achieve curvature of rice grains – only by running faster than the speed of light could I strike first."

Saying that, Ye Ming stood up.

He Mo and Su Zi glanced at each other, and the latter immediately nodded and walked next door with Ye Ming.

"By the way, give me the teacup."

……

After sitting down in the office, Ye Ming took a sip of tea with just the right temperature, and then directly woke up Aita in the room.

"Aita, inform Professor Horion, Professor Tang Ruchuan, Professor Ezio, Professor Zhou Xiangnan, Professor Tao Zegang, um...... There are also Director Niu Jianjun, General Qin Jianguo, and Chief Engineer Gao Min, who said that the meeting will be held in 10 minutes. ”

"Okay, I'm in contact."

"Su Zi, you will make a meeting record later." Ye Ming looked at his wrist as he spoke, and ordered: "Also, report the meeting to the boss, lest he come to me later." ”

Su Zi pursed her lips and smiled, and immediately nodded: "Then now lay out the meeting?" ”

"Hmm." Ye Ming nodded, then closed his eyes, and his mind began to think quickly.

Moments later, a virtual conference room space descends from the office.

Director Niu was the first to join the meeting, and as soon as his virtual projection jumped out, his voice sounded in the room: "I thought you went to the toilet, why are you suddenly going to have a meeting?" ”

"The main consideration is that we can't just go so fast, and now that the 2D packaging has been successful, then we need to start the next step immediately."

"What's next?" In the picture, Director Niu, who is currently at the headquarters of Taiyue Provincial City, was waiting for time with a teacup - he was also watching the command hall remotely in the office - at this time, he was stunned when he heard this, and immediately put down the teacup, his eyes burned: "You want to do faster-than-light?" ”

Ye Ming nodded slowly.

"it...... Isn't that a big step? Have the technical difficulties been solved? ”

"So I'm going to push it and solve it today."

As he spoke, the picture in the projection flashed, and Zhou Xiangnan's figure also appeared, seeing Director Niu and Ye Ming, Zhou Xiangnan was stunned, and then smiled: "Hello Director Niu, I thought it was an academic conference." ”

"Professor Zhou, didn't disturb your rest, did you?" Director Niu looked at Zhou Xiangnan and responded with a smile: "Where are you flying now?" ”

Zhou Xiangnan laughed: "You ask this, I really don't know...... Anyway, I stayed in the spaceship every day, and the whole person was dark. ”

"Well, then when you are triumphant, then we will have a good gathering."

During the small talk, the rest of the group went online, and even Professor Ezio appeared in his pajamas.

But when the experts and professors present saw that Director Niu, General Qin, and the senior chief engineer in charge of general equipment were also present at the meeting, people with a keen sense of smell knew that this meeting was not as simple as an ordinary academic conference.

"Let's get out of the way first." Ye Ming looked at General Qin and Director Niu: "Otherwise, this will not be able to open." ”

Director Niu and General Qin glanced at each other, and then nodded.

The two of them were personally notified by He Mo, so they naturally knew what Ye Ming was in a hurry to call everyone for the meeting.

"I'm on the moon right now, and just half an hour ago, we test-fired humanity's first subluminal missile." Ye Ming looked at Professor Ezio and the others, paused, and said, "In about an hour and a half, this missile will hit a metal asteroid in the asteroid belt 780 million kilometers away. ”

In the picture, except for Professor Huo Laien, the rest of the scientists immediately had surprise on their faces, especially Zhou Xiangnan, who was even more excited.

But everyone still didn't speak, but waited for Ye Ming's next words.

"The power of the grain of rice is undoubted, and the impact of its body alone can directly destroy an asteroid with a diameter of five kilometers. But as a strike weapon, it's still a little too slow. ”

Saying that, Ye Ming took a deep breath: "Maybe some people already know that the enemy we are about to face has a faster-than-light strike weapon. ”

At this time, Professor Horrien said in a deep voice, "Is it a tachyon aggregation beam?" ”

Ye Ming nodded: "Assuming it is a tachyon, then it is a tachyon." ”

"According to the tachyon model, its speed will have the highest energy when it is infinitely close to the speed of light, and it cannot be reduced to the speed of light - then, it is naturally faster than all our weapons, faster than the speed of light, and can even achieve superlight cone strikes!"

As Ye Ming's voice fell, everyone's faces were full of solemnity.

The light cone of time is the foundation for human beings to experience the entire universe.

If there really is such a faster-than-light weapon, then ...... The weapon's energy cannot be discovered by humans until it reaches Earth, or rather, to human warships.

The Super Light Cone Strike will make you die imperceptibly.

"It's a pity that even if they are blue stars, even if they master the strange substance, they can't achieve faster-than-light strikes."

"But thankfully, we actually have a theoretical basis for faster-than-light."

"Curvature."

Ye Ming took a deep breath and looked at Professor Huo Laien and Professor Tang Ruchuan, these two scientists who had made the most achievements in the field of multidimensional space so far.

"We have assumed a spacecraft with curvature before, but the energy required to change the curvature is limited by mass, so the idea is only theoretical."

As he spoke, Ye Ming unfolded the tablet and shared a simple composition into the virtual picture.

"It doesn't need to be very big, or even carry an additional energy source to cause damage, we just need to send it precisely into the designated target - for example, the structure of the spacecraft, and we can rely on its unfolded high-dimensional space membrane to complete the devouring of three-dimensional objects, and then destroy the structure of its spaceship."

With Ye Ming's explanation, Director Niu's eyes suddenly lit up!

Isn't this the upgraded version of rice grains that Ye Ming said at last year's joint conference?

"To achieve faster-than-light curvature changes and displacements, theoretically we need all the curvature of three-dimensional space, and even the slightest inconsistency in curvature parameters can lead to a difference of thousands of miles. This requires a comprehensive understanding of the space in which we are located. Of course, this is not too difficult. ”

"The real difficulty is the energy. I did a quick calculation that if you were to drive a neutron configuration the size of a bottle of mineral water to speed faster than light – assuming twice the speed of light – it would require more energy than two of the most controllable fusion power plants ever produced. ”

"Obviously, it's not realistic to fit two controllable nuclear fusion power stations the size of Shanghai-1 into a two-dimensional membrane – even if we have enough patience to complete the two-dimensional configuration and then make it two-dimensional, the time will be measured in ten years."

Ye Ming said and looked at Ezio and Zhou Xiangnan and the others, who were leaders in the field of two-dimensional materials.

"But if we can stack the reactors in 2D space, or solve all the problems in the 2D reactors, we can quickly build such energy sources."

"Now, there is only one biggest problem in 2D reactors, and that is the problem of heat death in 2D space."

Ye Ming took a deep breath, his gaze swept over everyone one by one, and finally stopped on Zhou Xiangnan's face.

Zhou Xiangnan has been listening carefully since Ye Ming started presiding over the meeting, after all, he is the least senior in this meeting.

But his low qualifications do not mean that his ability is low.

In fact, when he heard Ye Ming talk about rice grains, he knew that Ye Ming might want to engage in superluminal rice grains!

Who is he?

He's the gossip king of the brain-computer center! Ye Ming is doing a lot, he knows a lot!

Otherwise, he would not have shifted his direction to the two-dimensional material realm, and directly aimed at the two-dimensional energy realm!

And when Ye Ming finally looked at him, Zhou Xiangnan's heartbeat instantly accelerated.

He almost blurted out: "Establish a high-dimensional vent in a two-dimensional space membrane!" ”

"Yes!" Ye Ming nodded: "This is also the most effective way to solve the problem of heat death in a limited two-dimensional space that I can think of at the moment - but the only problem is ......"

"Models, we don't have a mathematical model that directly spans two dimensions, we can only try."

As he spoke, Ye Ming looked at Director Niu and General Qin again.

"And because there's no model, if you try it wrong, no one knows what will happen."

……

Facing Ye Ming's gaze, Director Niu and General Qin closed their mouths tightly at the same time.

Even if they don't understand such mystical things as dimensional space theory, they still know it...... Once this thing goes wrong, it may cause an unmanageable situation - opening a high-dimensional space in a low-dimensional space, once it gets out of control, the consequences are even more serious than a man-made singularity!

Now there is more than one academic school of thought that is warning mankind about the direction of science, saying that we should be wary of the use of two-dimensional and high-dimensional space, especially the two-dimensional space membrane, once this thing gets out of control, it is very likely that the entire solar system will be two-dimensional—at the very least, the moon will be two-dimensional.

What does that mean?

It means that the moon will be directly two-dimensional into a picture by the thin two-dimensional space film that looks harmless to humans and animals!

Some scholars have even suggested that this two-dimensionalization, perhaps irreversible, will unfold indefinitely, thus devouring everything it touches.

You said that now Ye Ming proposed to open up a high-dimensional space membrane outlet to the four-dimensional space in the two-dimensional space......

This......

What if?

At that moment, Aita's voice suddenly sounded in the room.

"Received high-dimensional detector information, whether to read it."

Everyone was slightly stunned, especially Ye Ming, his brows furrowed instantly-Aita is very sensible and will never disturb him when he is in a meeting.

What does it mean today?

But immediately, Professor Horrien, who was on the other side, asked in a deep voice, "Is it a multi-space curvature detector?" ”

"Yes."

Professor Hollyon took a breath instantly, the multi-space curvature detector is a detector for the coordinates of the entire detected wormhole network created by his team with the assistance of Uda.

Just a month ago, he was sent into the high-dimensional space.

Its function is simple, it is to detect the gravitational waves of the galaxies where the wormholes are located - if they are emitted near the wormholes, it means that someone has crossed the stargate.

Then, Professor Hollyon's voice trembled slightly.

"Did you detect an anomaly in the curvature of the wormhole?"

"Yes."

As Aita's voice fell, Ye Ming's eyes shrank instantly!

Enemy...... Is it coming?

(End of chapter)