Chapter Seventy-Six: Beyond the Cone of Light

When the corresponding particles appeared on the other side of the moon, the world was boiling.

Human beings, who are on the verge of life and death, finally see the light at this moment.

Since then, the speed of light is no longer a barrier for human beings, and even time and space can still be traversed by human beings.

At the moment when the experiment was successful, Qian Lei excitedly opened several bottles of champagne.

The bet was successful!

His ideas and those of his students were recognized by the universe.

The theory of crossing time across latitudes is correct!

He held the wine bottle, sat in a wheelchair, looked at the bright galaxy, and was stunned.

"Elbers, our assumption of multidimensional time and space was correct! There, there is really infinite time and space, and endless possibilities. ”

He poured the champagne on the floor, had a drink with an old friend, and then returned to his research room.

Humans have to teleport more than just a few particles.

It's billions of human beings!

Now, humanity has stood in front of the mountain gate of space-time teleportation.

Next, there are endless mountains to climb.

Qian Lei sighed.

Scientific research is like a game of chess, just pass one level at a time.

So, while all mankind was celebrating, he silently returned to the laboratory and continued his research.

At that level of elementary particles, it is space-time in itself.

That's why Cheng Yan's theory writes that injecting energy is not to let the particles travel through time and space, but to let time and space change their coordinates.

One or two elementary particles can change their coordinates.

But at the macro level...... That's hundreds of billions of ...... Countless particles change coordinates!

Its complexity has increased exponentially.

On the other hand, the individual particles are transported, regardless of the structural stability of the particle system.

Just teleport over.

But to transport humans, the structural stability of the particle system must be considered.

Once a mistake is made, after the person teleports over, it is likely that there will be fewer arms and legs, and it may even be directly scattered into a pile of elementary particles......

Qian Lei is not like someone who lost his kidney inexplicably after being teleported over. So he started a new study.

What exactly does it take to make such a large number of particle systems still structurally stable during transmission?

Spacetime......

He smiled wryly.

Time and space are inherently unstable.

Quantum theory itself shows that the motion of particles is uncertain.

The coordinates of the electron's appearance are not a fixed location at all, but a cloud of probability.

Everything is fraught with uncertainty.

How do you stay stable in a particle system that looks like "teasing you"?

And the particles that make up human beings are moving every minute and every second!

They move each other to form a fragile balance, and that's DNA, that's RNA, that's protein, that's cell, that's bones, muscles, nerves.

That's where humans come in......

In the process of teleportation, it is necessary not only to keep the particle system stable, but also to keep them moving in their original trajectory......

This requires extremely complex calculations.

Calculate the amount of energy required for each particle to change its coordinates.

This is a lot of calculations...... Qian Lei smiled bitterly.

Human beings can't be estimated in a lifetime.

He wanted to perform the math on a quantum computer in the lab, but after thinking about it, it was still possible.

Even if it does, what about it?

There are still so many unknowns in the bottom layer of physics, and no amount of calculations can maintain the stability of the particle system.

An unknown energy, an unknown perturbation, will cause the entire particle system to collapse.

He couldn't help but wonder a little, could it be that he was thinking too complicated?

Maybe there's an easier way.

You don't need many parameters, how many calculations, you can carry out macro transmission!

So what is it?

He flipped through the paper library on his computer and found a clue.

I see.

However, at the moment when he held the pen, a knife pierced him deep in the heart.

What's going on?

……

Another round of death full of confusion and remorse.

The memory scene was flipped upside down, and Ning Yuan also moved forward step by step with the immersive experience.

After about dozens of scenes, through a few words, he understood the ins and outs of the matter.

Resources are strained.

The construction of the lunar base consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and almost all the belongings of mankind.

Everyone was looking forward to the experiment, but Qian Lei postponed it for five years.

In five years.

Because the resources are dedicated to the experiment, there is no excess resource allocation, so that the whole society has been hanging on the tightrope.

Beneath the tightrope is an abyss called famine.

At first, with the full deployment of the state, the society walking on the tightrope could operate safely, but over time, the tightrope also became precarious, and it was difficult to bear the weight of hundreds of millions of people.

As Murphy's Law says, bad things, as long as there is a little probability, then it will happen eventually.

Sure enough, this is a tightrope ...... Broken.

Prices are soaring, disasters are rampant, and countless people who have no money and no food are forced to take to the streets, carrying knives and committing murders to fill their stomachs.

For a while, it was a lot of gibberish.

And the hunger of these people is precisely caused by Qian Lei's experiments, so people transfer their anger to Qian Lei.

For a time, rumors swirled.

A large number of people began to suspect that this particle crossing experiment was nothing more than a hoax.

I began to suspect that this was actually just a means for the upper class to accumulate money.

began to suspect that Chen Anshi and Cheng Yan's theories were wrong from the beginning, after all, there was Zhuyu who blew up half of the continent in front of him, and at this time, everyone began to doubt the truth or falsehood.

As rounds of corrupt officials were exposed, and unidentified sums of money were proven, people began to become angry.

They hated Qian Lei and hated this experiment that deprived them of everything.

So, under the guidance of well-intentioned people, these angry crowds began to storm the laboratory in droves.

If it weren't for the army, this experiment would have ended soon.

But it was precisely the army's obstruction that made the emotions of the whole society more intense.

And Qian Lei, who worked hard in the laboratory, didn't know anything about the outside world.

He didn't know what was going on outside, he didn't know the social upheaval, he just knew ......

This is humanity's last hope.

Five years later.

Although his experiments were fruitful, mankind finally completed the dream of traveling through time and space, and the world was jubilant.

But those who have been robbed of everything by famine do not think so.

They hated Qian Lei and this experiment so much that on a dark and windy night, they broke through the army's barrier and slaughtered the researchers.

What a disaster.

Qian Lei, who was trying to survive for mankind, finally died under the knife of another human who sought to survive.

Ning Yuan looked at the terrifying scenes revealed in the memory space by those researchers, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The entropy of riots increases and eventually destroys all order.

……

In the years that followed, it took decades for humanity to quell the riot.

The riots have led to an even greater strain on human resources, and if it were not for the loss of a large number of people, the disappearance of those to be distributed has dissipated some of the resource strain......

Otherwise, society will immediately collapse.

At this moment, civilization is caught in a kind of dilemma.

Or, human beings seal up knowledge, voluntarily give up advanced technology, return to the early days of industrial civilization, and shrink underground. Wait until the next millennium later, the nuclear radiation dust decays and the earth is reborn.

In this way, humanity can be reborn.

Or, take a final gamble and find a way to cross the universe and reach the other side.

But it's hard to say whether the few resources left can support a new teleportation experiment.

If the experiment fails, everyone expects what to do next.

Humanity will return to the Middle Ages and even more so to the Stone Age.

After dozens of meetings in many countries, a goal was finally established.

If you don't succeed, you will be benevolent.

Start a new round of teleportation experiments.

As a result, the lab was restarted with tighter security and ...... A more thorough resource tilt.

At this moment, human beings are like crazy, vowing to fight to the death with this dark universe.

After all, human civilization has been able to grasp the light of the sun since the first bonfire.

Humanity is reluctant to retreat from civilization.

Who is willing to cut off the root of wisdom and fall into samsara?

That's why there is this crazy gambling fight.

The one who took over Qian Lei's position was a young woman named Guan Ya.

This is the result of passing the buck.

No one wants to carry the burden of the entire human race, so under the mutual shirking, the fate of the human race is on her back.

Guan Ya reluctantly took over the position.

After all, in the entire laboratory, she has the shortest qualifications and no background.

And only she has the deepest research on Qian Lei's theory, and in her college final thesis, she wrote about the expansion of Qian Lei's theory.

"Application Exploration of Multidimensional Spatio-temporal Technology".

At the age of twenty-five, after she took over the responsibility, she was in a hurry for a while.

All along, she was just a nerd.

lived to be twenty-five years old, she couldn't even draw makeup, and she usually had almost no interpersonal interaction except for reading and memorizing materials.

This time, when she was asked to lead and manage such a huge experimental project, she was immediately distraught.

But fortunately, management is not much more difficult than physics, and after a little brain consumption, she began to make a difference.

Qian Lei, at the last moment of his life, had already written down the future direction of time and space travel.

Just like she thought.

Warp speed.

In the general theory of relativity, a spell is proposed.

The maximum speed of matter is the speed of light.

When matter is accelerated to the speed of light, the mass becomes infinite, so no matter can break through the speed of light.

In the same way, there will be no transmission of information beyond the speed of light.

Because information needs material as a carrier.

But it is clear that there is something in the universe that exceeds the speed of light, such as the expansion rate of the universe.

The current observable universe is 46.5 billion light-years, and the farthest galaxy is receding at a speed of 1,074,777.75 kilometers per second under the expansion of the universe, which is about 3.58 times the speed of light.

The expansion of space is much greater than the speed of light!

Hence the concept of curvature flight.

By tightening the space-time in front of you and expanding the space-time behind you, you can create a curved space bubble with negative pressure, and with the help of the movement of space, you can achieve faster-than-light flight.

This theory is more of a science fiction concept than a scientific one.

There are a lot of difficulties that need to be solved.

For example, the energy that bends space-time far exceeds the total energy of the universe, which is beyond the reach of human beings.

However, Cheng Yan's particle transport experiments have proved that vacuum decay can solve this problem.

At the same time, Qian Lei's experiments also show that energy can be borrowed from other space-time.

Not only that, since elementary particles themselves are space-time, there are also solutions to how to bend space-time and create curved space bubbles.

The curvature engine is just around the corner.

But the trouble with warp flight isn't just about bending time and space, there's another big problem.

Since the bent space bubble is traveling faster than the speed of light, the spacecraft operator has no way to send or receive any information as it does in front of it.

This means that there is no way to control the ship at all.

It just so happens that Chen Anshi's theory solves this problem, and humans can transmit information across time and space.

At the same time, in order to ensure the stability of the particle system inside the spacecraft, there must be a stable space-time bubble surrounding the spacecraft.

For this space-time, the spaceship wants to be stationary, so as to avoid the spaceship being torn apart by the accelerated space.

Create a space-time ...... It's almost impossible.

But Qian Lei's theory pointed the way for Guan Ya.

Using high-dimensional space, let the spacecraft hide in another three-dimensional space-time, so as to avoid risks.

Although there are still a lot of technical difficulties to overcome, they are ready to be attacked.

Guan Ya hesitated for a moment, and then submitted a plan for the construction of a warp speed aircraft.

The predecessors have already paved the road, and they just need to follow the road and go to the end.

Soon the humans began to build the first warp ship, even though resources were extremely tight.

After all, across the endless sea of stars, on the other side, there are endless resources waiting for all beings.

Then let's fight for it.

The cold came and the summer passed, and six years passed in a hurry.

Guan Ya has also grown from a novice in management to a man of the hour who can lead a party.

While managing research projects, she has also made considerable theoretical achievements.

In the past six years, she has filled many loopholes in Qian Lei's theory and created a complete theory of warp flight.

According to her theory, the construction of the warp vehicle has gone extremely smoothly, and has been successfully completed so far, and the final acceptance stage is underway.

When the New Year's bell rings, human beings will also break through the barrier of the speed of light, and thus civilization will leapfrog.

This is a moment that humanity has waited too long.

After repeated debugging, the indicators of the spacecraft were consistent with Guan Ya's theoretical data, and as the New Year's zero was approaching, Guan Ya stood nervously next to the launch pad, staring at the aircraft displayed on the screen.

Whether it can penetrate this dark universe and bring infinite sparks to mankind depends on this trembling.

"Academician Guan, are you nervous?"

A colleague asked, handing over a cup of coffee.

Guan Ya stared at the screen and stayed for a long time before taking the coffee and said with a smile: "Of course I'm nervous, after all, this is warp flight, it used to be just a science fiction concept, but I didn't expect it to be created by us." ”

"yes, I didn't expect us to actually make a space-time vesicle." My colleague said with emotion: "During the first phase of the experiment, I was really scared to death, and the things in the vesicles were actually pulled into slender ribbons. ”

"Haha, after the object passes through the high-dimensional space, it is just an afterimage in the three-dimensional space." Guan Ya said with a smile: "Qian Lao's concept of ascension is really shocking. ”

"Yes, it's a pity that Qian Lao ...... in the end" The colleague sighed, and then said: "Don't talk about this, I remember the science fiction I watched when I was a child, the warp engine was powered by dark energy, but I didn't expect us to use it at all." ”

"Dark energy...... Ha ha. Guan Ya chuckled softly: "Who said we didn't use dark energy?" Dark energy is the driving force behind the expansion of the universe, and we must be indispensable for gliding with the help of space expansion. ”

"Yes." "They can't be seen or touched, but they're everywhere," a colleague said. ”

"If the experiment is successful." Guan Ya said excitedly: "We humans have finally transcended fate. ”

"Destiny ......" the colleague pondered for a moment and understood: "What you said ...... Light cones? ”

"That's right, it's the light cone." Guan Ya said: "Warp speed flight, breaking through the light cone, we also break through fate, get rid of the cradle. ”

The two looked at each other and laughed.

Light cone.

The propagation of light is cone-shaped along the time axis, which physicists call the light cone, and it is impossible for people outside the light cone to understand the events that occur inside the light cone.

So, within the cone of light is fate. (From "The Three-Body Problem")

In this cone of light, it contains all the causes and effects of human development, and the entanglement of this information cannot escape the curse of the speed of light, so the cone of light of human beings contains all the fate of human beings.

In the same way, there are too many unknown events in the universe that are flying towards humanity at the speed of light.

But humanity is outside the light cone of these events, so the fate of humanity will not have any intersection with the fate of these unknown events.

If humans complete faster-than-light flight, then humanity will also jump out of their fate.

Beyond the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements.

Beyond the light cone, human beings can see their past selves, and if they can communicate with the past, then human beings also have the ability to change their fate.

Destiny......

Guan Ya and her colleagues thought of the centuries of suffering that humanity has experienced.

If he could go back to time and tell Cheng Yan about the flaws of his theory, then human beings would not suffer.

But it is also possible to cause the grandfather paradox and cause bugs in the world, which is not certain.

The New Year's bell begins to ring.

Guan Ya came to the launch pad, took a deep breath, and pressed the button to start the spacecraft.

This spacecraft is an unmanned exploration spacecraft, and if the warp speed flight is successful, the aircraft will send back information.

With the press of the button, the spacecraft quickly broke through the first cosmic velocity and quickly broke through the Earth's atmosphere under the huge thrust of the rocket booster.

Once in the vacuum, the booster disintegrates, and the ship's warp engine begins to spin.

At this moment, everyone was nervously staring at the screen in front of them, looking forward to the success of the warp engine.

After about a few seconds, the spaceship turned into a slender ribbon and disappeared into the vast universe under the gaze of everyone.

All that was left in place was a twisted circle of stars.

Was the experiment successful......

Just as he was thinking about it, a piece of information came, which made the entire laboratory boil.

The content of the message is a picture.

A picture of the Earth in a cosmic vacuum!

The earth photographed is not the current earth, but the ...... Two years ago on Earth.

When the image was verified by the computer, everyone jumped for joy.

Two years ago on Earth.

This means that the spacecraft has spanned at least two light-years!

Warp speed flying, success!

Humanity has gone through so many disasters and finally found a way out of the cradle.

……

Ning Yuan hid in Guan Ya's shadow, looking at the researcher who was cheering and happy like a child, and couldn't help but get excited.

It's not easy.

How many generations of hard work, how much turmoil society has gone through, before humanity finally came here.

The memory space created by the Demon Cave Military Industry is really vast and profound.

He sighed, but saw that Guan Ya silently stepped down from his position and passed it on to his colleagues.

The unmanned warp flight was successful.

Then the next step is to look at manned flights.

She wanted to take the spaceship in person and see what kind of scenery was beyond the light cone.

Well, in the position of management, it can't be done.

So she was willing to give up the glory of leading manned warp flight to others, resign from her position, and become a soldier of the project again.

While maintaining the completion of scientific tasks, she began to strengthen her body and strive to make her body the standard of an astronaut.

Due to her perennial desk work, her health is very poor compared to that of professionals.

In order to make up for the gap, she carried out quite rigorous devil training, and this training was three years that passed in a hurry.

With the experience of the first warp spacecraft, humanity has become very fast in the construction of the second warp spacecraft, and in just three years, the second ship is waiting on the launch pad.

Guan Ya put on a heavy spacesuit and walked into the cockpit with a firm gaze, and three colleagues accepted the mission with her.

Listen to the roar of the rocket boosters, feel the constant tremor of the spacecraft, and watch the approaching starry sky.

She felt an indescribable sense of relief.

"Chen Anshi, Cheng Yan, Qian Lei, your wishes will eventually come true. Humanity is not trapped on Earth. She smiled and said, "The universe is so big, we can finally take a casual look." ”

Once the spacecraft is in space, the rocket boosters are unloaded one by one and hovering in Earth's orbit.

The curvature engine began to start, and after a roar, Guan Ya saw the starry sky being pulled into countless slender ribbons.

This is a manifestation of the stretching of space.

"What is the scenery beyond the light cone?"

Guan Ya looked forward to it curiously.

After the slender ribbon, the ship entered the endless darkness.

The darkness was like a thick stream of lead, enveloping the ship as if something was constantly squeezing the hull, and the plates made of titanium were constantly crunching.

After a while, darkness seeped through the cabin, and streaks of black water seeped through the cracks in the shell, floating freely inside the cabin.

Guan Ya looked at the water droplets floating in front of her suspiciously, and said suspiciously: "Water? ”

How can there be water here?

Before she could figure out what was going on, the planks burst out of the darkness.

The overwhelming light spilled into Guan Ya's eyes.

At this moment, she took a look at the whole space.

It's an endless black sea, as black as an abyss.

There is a slightly darker beach on the beach, and tall palm trees sway in the wind.

In the midst of the Black Sea, there was a huge and twisted monster, as if it was made of countless tentacles, and on its body, there was an incomparably large javelin, which was emitting bright light.

The monster waved its twisted tentacles, trying to pull the javelin out of its body.

But its outstretched tentacles were too small to move the javelin.

Ning Yuan, who was hidden in Guan Ya's shadow, was extremely shocked in his heart.

Isn't this the eternal night?

How did this happen in memory space?

Guan Ya looked at Yongye's huge body, shocked and puzzled: "This is ...... What? ”

However, before she could finish her thoughts, the ship went out of control, and all the joysticks failed.

The warp ship crashed headlong into the body of the eternal night.

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