Chapter 16: The Rubik's Cube Starship (1)

True, the Chinese built a Rubik's Cube starship.

The Rubik's Cube starship is a large spacecraft designed and built for the first time after the establishment of the Seventh Academy of Space Technology, and it took 15 years to finally complete the construction in the low-earth high-altitude orbit of the Seventh Region.

In other words, it only takes 8-10 years for other intercontinental starship bases to build a large starship, why did it take the Rubik's Cube starship a full fifteen years?

Why, no other.

Because this Rubik's Cube starship is not ordinary.

First of all, the Rubik's Cube starship is not an ordinary starship, it is an alien ship.

Secondly, the Rubik's Cube starship is not an ordinary alien ship, it is a large alien ship.

Thirdly, the Rubik's Cube starship is not an ordinary large alien ship, it is a Jumbo-class starship.

Fourth, the Rubik's Cube starship is not an ordinary Jumbo-class starship, it is a one-way starship that never looks back.

In other words, the Rubik's Cube is a starship that has been defined at the beginning of its design, and it is an extrasolar immigrant starship that will not return after leaving Earth.

Because of this, it took a full ten years from the initial development and design of this specially defined giant starship, to the official start of construction, and then to the completion of all construction, and the remaining five years are actually waiting.

Wait?

Yes, just waiting.

But what is it waiting for?

There is no other reason, of course, waiting for the human beings on Earth to break through the last speed of light.

That's because, when the Rubik's Cube starship was finally built after a full decade, the humans on Earth did not break through the last speed of light, and breaking through the speed of light is really an extremely long process for the humans on Earth.

When Voyager 1 flew away from Earth in 1977 at a speed of 60,000 kilometers per hour, it took 37 years before it was officially announced by NASA in 2014 that it had left the Kuiper Belt and was heading towards the Oort Nebula.

At that time, this was a very commemorative milestone in the history of human spaceflight.

But in fact, the Kuiper Belt is not the edge of the solar system, and the Oort Nebula that Voyager 1 entered after passing through the Kuiper Belt is an extremely mysterious star field, which is the real boundary of the solar system, and Voyager 1 can only be regarded as truly flying out of the solar system when it flies out of the Oort Nebula. And at the speed of Voyager 1, when it actually flew out of the solar system, it was already 17,000 years later.

Fortunately, human beings on Earth are highly intelligent beings.

When the Parker probe left Earth in 2018, it had reached an average speed of 700,000 kilometers per hour, almost 12 times that of Voyager 1, a milestone in the increase in interstellar speed.

But the human race on Earth is a species that is constantly striving for progress, and it is constantly advancing by leaps and bounds on the road of pursuing interstellar speed, and the results are remarkable. As a result, before the middle of the 21st century, human probes will fly faster and faster off the earth, 1 million kilometers, 2 million kilometers, 3 million kilometers, faster, faster, and even faster.

In this way, more and more human probes are flying away from the earth and into deep space in the process of continuous speed.

In the mid-to-late 21st century, when human beings exceeded the speed of 10 million kilometers per hour for the first time, they began to move forward at a speed of 20 million kilometers per hour and a speed of 30 million kilometers per hour. Then, at the end of the 21st century, mankind broke through the speed of 50 million kilometers per hour in one go, which was a perfect end to the end of the 21st century.

When mankind entered the early years of the 22nd century, that is, in the year 2100, the Chinese scientific community bloomed with the most dazzling light of science and technology.

For the first time, Chinese researchers have successfully developed anti-atomic and antimatter thrusters, breaking through the first sub-light speed that human beings on earth have been waiting for, and shortening the theoretical time for human beings to send out of the solar system to 35 months.

In the same year, three manned starships set off from the interstellar bases in the first, second, and third regions successively, and flew out of the solar system at the first Inavespeed. But unfortunately, these three starships lost contact with Earth after entering the Oort Nebula, and all this happened on the first day they entered the Oort Nebula.

A series of search and rescue operations launched by humans in the solar system can be said to be exhaustive, but these three manned starships are like sinking into the sea, and they have not been traced since.

And five years later, in 2105, Chinese researchers continued to take a big step forward. They succeeded in improving the conversion efficiency of the antimatter thrusters, successfully breaking through the second sub-light speed, and shortening the theoretical time for humans to be sent out of the solar system to 28 months.

So, also in the same year, three more manned starships departed from the interstellar bases in the fourth, fifth, and sixth regions and flew out of the solar system at the second Asian speed. But it is also regrettable that these three starships also lost contact with Earth after entering the Oort Nebula, and all this happened on the first day of the starship entering the Oort Nebula.

Similarly, a series of search operations launched by humans in the solar system are also exhaustive, but these three manned starships have also been sunk in the sea, and they have not been heard from since.

Another 10 years later, in 2115, the Chinese scientific community once again succeeded in breaking through the third sub-light speed, shortening the theoretical time for humans to be sent out of the solar system to 21 months.

As soon as this news was released, the whole planet was overjoyed.

There is no other reason.

Because when the speed of light has broken through to the third sub-light speed, it means that the time for humans to break through the speed of light is just around the corner. Therefore, in order to meet the upcoming light-speed era of human beings on the earth, the seven starship bases on the earth are all actively taking action.

All seven starship bases have begun to design and develop newer, larger, and more suitable super-large starships for out-of-series voyages. The Rubik's Cube starship was developed, designed and built by the Seventh Institute of Space Technology of the CNSA under the background of such an era.

That's right.

The Rubik's Cube starship is a counter-powered starship.

But then again, among the alien ships designed and built by the world's seven starship bases, which starship does not have a shipboard counterpower plant?

However, what makes the Rubik's Cube unique is not just because it is a reactionary starship, nor just because it is the largest giant alien ship ever built by humans on Earth, but because of its unique construction design.

In a word, the ship lives up to its name.

The Rubik's Cube starship is a super giant starship designed and built based on the geometric formula and geometric structure of the Rubik's Cube.

Since the invention of the third-order Rubik's cube in 1947 by Hungarian architecture professor Rubik, countless Rubik's cube enthusiasts have emerged on the earth in the following hundreds of years. Among them, there are many high-level players of professional weight.

And since the British mathematics professor David. After the introduction of the earliest "Rubik's Cube Formula" by mathematical players like Simmates, more and more high-level players from all walks of life and professional fields have joined the research on the high-level Rubik's Cube.

In China, there is also such a group of high-IQ Rubik's Cube players, who are not only high-level Rubik's Cube super players, but also astrophysicists, space physicists, and structural designers of alien ships. These highly professional high-level players designed and built a Rubik's Cube starship based on the artificial celestial theory of the Dyson sphere, as well as the geometric formulas and geometric structures of the Rubik's Cube.

To be sure, when Freeman Dyson, a giant of quantum electrodynamics, proposed the theory of artificial celestial bodies with the Dyson sphere in 1960, he only described the problem of how to collect energy, but did not explain in detail how to build artificial celestial structures.

However, the structural designers of the Seventh Research Institute of Space Technology, who have broken through antimatter driving energy without having to think about how to collect energy, have found the construction principle of the Dyson sphere from the high-level Rubik's cube. Of course, they also refer to and apply other principles as aids.

Then, a Rubik's Cube starship was born.

Moreover, this Rubik's Cube starship is also a thirty-three high-level Rubik's Cube starship.

Since it is a 33-level Rubik's Cube, this means that at the beginning of the design, this starship was strictly in accordance with the basic structure of the 33-level Rubik's Cube, and was divided into several independent hulls for focus fusion design.

These independent hulls of the focus fusion were first numbered with their respective serial numbers, sent to be built, and then sent to the low-earth high-altitude orbit of the seventh region in order according to the assembly procedure of the thirty-three high-level Rubik's cubes, and then assembled the entire seventeen-layer area from the inside to the outside from the very core central area, which can be regarded as completing the basic structure of the entire starship.

The core of the Rubik's Cube starship is the starship's central superbrain master control system, and it is where the starship's antimatter energy conversion and driving system is located. Here, the internal circulatory system belonging to the starship is equivalent to the human brain and heart.

Then, from the inside to the outside, the seventeen-layer hull kit was extended, and the outer circulation system was formed layer by layer, which was equivalent to the five senses and limbs of a person.

This is an extrasolar immigrant starship that was designed to be an extrasolar immigrant starship that had no intention of returning to Earth once it left Earth. At the beginning of the design of the starship, the construction experts have fully considered the various impacts, explosions, damage and detachments that the stars may encounter during extraterrestrial voyages.

Therefore, except for the inner core area of the starship, the other seventeen layers of the starship body are endowed with self-repair functions.

That is to say, when a starship encounters a sudden interstellar disaster or damage, the seventeen-layer hull of the starship has the function of self-repairing deformation and reorganization under the premise of protecting the core layer by layer. Only with such a design and construction logic can the starship not only have the ability to protect the core drive source, but also have the ability to upgrade and evolve itself.

Only in this way can the starship have a long-term existence in the universe and explore extraterrestrial super civilizations. So is the Rubik's Cube starship, which has been built into a behemoth, really similar to an artificial celestial body like a Dyson sphere?

No.

The designers of the Seventh Institute of Space Technology only borrowed and referred to the theoretical logic of the Dyson sphere, because Dyson believed that only super-giant artificial celestial structures could exist in the universe for a long time, and he even suggested that attention should be paid to searching for such artificial celestial structures in order to find extraterrestrial super civilizations.

So, does the Rubik's Cube also resemble a Dyson sphere?

Neither is it.

Although when you look at the Rubik's Cube starship up close, you will see that its hull lines are smooth and rounded, like a large circular sphere. But from a distance, it will be found that the Rubik's Cube starship still maintains the most basic hexahedron of the thirty-three high-level Rubik's cubes and the eight huge water chestnuts.

It's just that the eight right-angled areas with clear water chestnut angles have been polished into eight hemispherical hemispherical corner areas. And the twelve huge rectangular lines of the Rubik's cube have been gradually stretched into huge arcs, which are integrated with the eight hemispherical corners.

But these are not enough to make people look sideways, what really makes people sideways and eye-catching is the outer structure of the starship.

What?

Does this starship have a more striking outer structure?

That's of course.