【Interstellar Time 20090114, Star Journey】

"Do you want them to know that the 'pseudo-civilization' has been destroyed?" Peng Xiaoming sat in the cabin and said with consciousness.

At this point, he felt a sense of unreality around him, and it felt like everything was a strange dream. The interior of the spacecraft is very different from the concept of human design, and they do not seem to have the slightest concept of co-ordination and organization, at least not in the human sense. The starship cabin is particularly chaotic, pipes and other large and small machines and equipment are piled up on the side in a disorderly manner, intertwined with each other, and squeezed each other, as if to free up something, this kind of chaos does not seem to be natural, it seems that someone deliberately created such a chaos, so that Peng Xiaoming is in such a space, and his mind is a mess.

Over time, Peng Xiaoming adapted to the pure consciousness communication with the projection, and the subsequent communication was not as laborious as the first time, and now it seems to be easy. At the moment, the consciousness fields of the two people intersect and vibrate in the same space, needless to say, they are practicing a spiritual dialogue.

"No, I don't have to. They will perceive it themselves. Projection said.

"If you don't notice it, the solar system is so big, for them." Peng Xiaoming asked, feeling thirsty at the same time. The moment I felt thirsty, a hole suddenly appeared on the platform in front of me, as if something was about to erupt, and then, the missing block rose again in a short time, and the rise made up for the gap, and at the same time an extra crystal of gold and silver appeared on it, and inside it was clear and calm water.

The projection sensed Peng Xiaoming's surprise, and he said: "One of the equipment of this starship can achieve small-scale energy-mass conversion, that is, the conversion of energy into mass......"

When he said this, Peng Xiaoming suddenly interrupted him, and this sentence ignited his previous experience of studying controlled nuclear fusion: "Nuclear fusion is the conversion of mass into energy, and I still remember that mass-energy formula." However, the reversal of the qualitative transformation is how you do it, and the transformation is what you want! ”

"Hmm. Energy is mainly to absorb energy from the outside. In fact, matter is a one-dimensional string. Later, it was discovered that energy can also appear in the form of strings, so we also call energy 'invisible matter', but that kind of string never vibrates, and the emission of energy is an extension of the string. In terms of matter, the different types of matter depend on the different vibration modes of the strings, and the energy strings do not vibrate, so as long as they are allowed to vibrate, they will form matter, and as long as they are tuned to the vibration mode of the target material strings, the target matter can be obtained. The projection explained, and then changed the subject, "Drink, this water is fine, it is made entirely according to the composition of the earth's water." ”

"Good. So, do you want to send a message to humans? It shows that the 'pseudo-civilization' has been destroyed. ”

"Yes, if you want to send, there's a neutrino emitting device. Hurry up, the starship will be at the speed of light later. ”

Not long after, a beam of neutrinos with information was sent out of the starship and flew straight towards Mars.

It didn't take long for the star outside the starship to gradually turn into a glowing line, stretching backwards and receding. At the same time, the universe seemed to have turned into a big bowl, and the stars facing the bow of the ship fell to the bottom of the bowl, and there was no doubt that the starship had entered the speed of light!

The starship has entered the speed of light.

An information window popped up, glowing a faint blue.

"Where are we going? What are you going to do? ”

"We're going to take out the 'Ghost' in a starship." The projection emitted an extremely determined figure of consciousness.

"We? I? Are they a civilization or what, or are they an individual? ”

"A civilization."

"But I'm just an individual. And you, although powerful, are only a projection. ”

"But this starship is different, it contains almost all the technology of our civilization, and this starship has all the weapons in it." The projection sparkled and said.

Peng Xiaoming was a little puzzled and a little surprised, he didn't know what a single starship could do to a civilization, and that civilization might have hundreds of millions of warships. From the perspective of human science and technology, just building a starship really can't do anything, and the tens of thousands of warships at the peak of mankind have not completely eliminated the "negative civilization". If this starship is truly victorious, it will be a god. Maybe alien technology is something he can't recognize.

"There's no way, the entrance built can only allow things of this size to enter. When there is a problem, you need help. Projection added.

At the same time, the Starship is getting slower and slower, and it is slowing down all the time.

"Why slow down? Is it bad to stay at the speed of light? Peng Xiaoming said.

"Attention! This is not an order! "Projection says with the greatest vibration of the field of consciousness.

Starship understands.

The information window for feedback information is out.

"It's a long story." The projection said, "We'll have to go to that planetary system for a while, and then let the starship absorb the star's energy." ”

Peng Xiaoming looked at the star, which was very different from the sun, with the most prominent red light, and two stars next to it, which surrounded each other due to gravity, and the three stars were dancing in some kind of space in space.

"Familiar with this star system, right?"

"Proxima Centauri." Peng Xiaoming was immediately surprised, "But it's four .2 light years away from us." ”

"You wonder how you got there so quickly. It only took us ten minutes to get there. This is because of the time dilation effect, the special theory of relativity: the closer an object is to the speed of light, the slower its time will pass. And we were infinitely close to the speed of light just now, so only ten minutes had passed, just using us as a frame of reference. Projection patiently explained. Peng Xiaoming listened, and he was not particularly surprised by this. When I was young, I read Einstein's translation of the Theory of Relativity, where such knowledge was mentioned. But this is the first time that I have not personally experienced this physical effect.

"But it's been four and two years outside. Ten minutes is just relative to us. Peng Xiaoming took it.

"Yes, it seems that you are not an amateur in physics."

Soon, the starship was already interspersed in the irregular orbits of three stars, and all three stars circled. The spectrum of the three stars is reddish, all red dwarfs, red like vermilion agate, and like the "red stone" material in science fiction.

"Alas, there's a planet there." The projection looked at the screen showing the probe and said, "Let's go there." ”

"Good! But the starship doesn't seem to have much energy left. ”

"There is still a little bit of energy left, and this energy can build a small space-time wormhole, although it is small, but the light radiation can pass through. You control the starship and fly in front of the star, and set up a space-time wormhole there, and the wormhole is connected to the planet, and we will go to the planet in a moment. While resting, absorb the light energy of the star at the other end. The projection said, "Come on the rest, I'm tired, and my consciousness field is about to fall into a deep sleep." Immediately the field of consciousness stopped vibrating, and there was no calm of any waves......

After a long time, Peng Xiaoming stood on that planet, and the ground of that planet was cracked and hard, and the cracks were because the surface was too hot, after all, it had three suns. Except for the color and composition of the earth's surface, everything else is the same as Mars, with the same steep hills and the same endless wilderness. Not far from the bright and dazzling earth illuminated by the sun, there was a space that seemed to be broken, and the inside was dark and bottomless, and the contrast with other places was particularly obvious. Peng Xiaoming already knew that the "section" was a symbol of the space-time wormhole, because the other section was far away from the star, and the background of the space night penetrated through the wormhole, causing the phenomenon seen.

Facing the space wormhole, the starship unfolded its sail board to absorb light energy, absorbing the warm energy to its heart's content, and the energy was like a never-ending spring, surging to the starship until it was sucked away by the starship.

"Suck enough." The projection that had just "woken up" said that he was full of vitality again with a vivid green light, "The current energy can already last a day in a space city." ”

While sitting comfortably on the exoplanet, Peng Xiaoming suddenly had a question: "How did you accelerate the starship to infinitely close to the speed of light?!" ”

"Huh." "I've heard that your scientists often accelerate some microscopic particles, but they can also reach the speed of light. ”

"That's not the goal. The acceleration particle is meant to hit the other, and its structure can be observed after it is shattered. ”

"Of course I do. You scientists have been trying to convert different energies into mechanical kinetic energy, and you have used the kinetic energy of water flow, wind energy, gas kinetic energy, and even chemical energy, nuclear energy. But you have forgotten one thing, and that is the energy of space itself. The projection said mysteriously.

"In fact, space is not flat, but has a certain curvature, but this curvature, if you can't feel it in the original space, you can use a two-dimensional analogy to know. And since space has curvature, it means that there is an internal tension on its surface, like water. Under normal circumstances, the tension is balanced in all directions. So as long as the space behind the spacecraft is somehow smoothed out and its curvature is reduced, then this balance is broken. The tension in front is greater than the tension in the rear, and the aircraft is pulled by the tension in front - in this way, the spacecraft can be infinitely close to the speed of light! Projection said proudly and excitedly.

Peng Xiaoming nodded as if he didn't understand, trying his best to capture its meaning.

"Do you know why I'm slowing down?" The projection continued, "Because curvature navigation has a track effect, as mentioned earlier, navigation reduces the curvature of the space behind the spacecraft. In this case, the structure of the space will be changed, and if the curvature ship is traveling in the track, it will need a more powerful curvature engine to sail. In other words, the speed of light in a vacuum is changed. "The effect is easily observable, which is why I just slowed down off the speed of light - the 'ghost' may be able to observe this effect, which is good for it to determine our location." ”

"So, travel at the speed of light less often!" Peng Xiaoming came to a conclusion and replied.

“Bi

go.” The projection said, and then changed the subject: "Hey, it's time to go, the light windsurf is about to melt." ”

Peng Xiaoming used his consciousness to control the starship, and ordered the starship to close the space-time wormhole and retract the light energy sailboard. Starship did so.

"It's an extremely intelligent AI in its own right.

eally。 The projection said happily.

"So...... Where to? ”

"Go where I am out of the big universe. The ghost could be there. ”

"How long? How far"

"Take us as a frame of reference, half a year. If you take the universe as a frame of reference...... A thousand years! "The projection seems to be sighing something.

"A thousand years?!" Peng Xiaoming was stunned.

"Yes. It's a thousand light-years away. We've only walked four .2 light-years of it. The projection said lightly.