Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 537

Zhong Xin explained that the energy consumption of the curvature field interferometer is mainly in three aspects:

One is to increase the distance between two points in three-dimensional space, that is, to increase the actual distance of a superlight flight. 1 million kilometers is still too short, and the actual flight distance may be 1 light-year or longer;
The second is to shorten the distance of the four-dimensional space channel;
The third is to open the size of this four-dimensional space channel.

In fact, it is inappropriate to describe it as a spatial channel, because the curvature field interferometer does not open up the entire channel at the same time.

Instead, just like a person diving in the water, the compressed distance is actually the compressed space, which has a strong self-healing property.

Therefore, the energy consumed to provide a four-dimensional space channel for a space frigate is far from being comparable to that for a space battleship.

To sum up, theoretically, there is no problem in exceeding the speed of light, but in practice, the energy supply method has become the biggest limitation.

Higher speed and longer voyage distance require greater energy input power, but greater energy input power requires more nuclear fusion generator sets.

And more nuclear fusion generating sets need bigger space battleships to load, and bigger space battleships then need more energy input power.

Therefore, before there is a breakthrough in the energy supply method of human beings, deep space navigation is still a one-way journey that takes decades or even hundreds of years.

However, Ye Wenxin and Yang Xi said that they will soon make a breakthrough in antimatter generator technology, but the exact time is uncertain.

The curse that the commercial application of nuclear fusion technology will always take up to 50 years to break through is still vivid in everyone's memory.

Zhong Cheng stated that the manufacturing and testing of superluminal space battleship prototypes can be carried out in advance. He believes that the antimatter generator technology will definitely break through within a year or two.

Not only because of his confidence in Ye Wenxin and Yang Xi, but also because of his own understanding of antimatter.

The concept of antimatter was first proposed by British physicist Paul Dirac.

He predicted in 1928 that every particle should have a corresponding antiparticle, such as an antielectron, which has exactly the same mass as an electron but carries just the opposite charge.

In 1995, scientists from the former CERN created the world's first batch of antimatter-antihydrogen atoms in the laboratory.

On September 2000, 9, the former CERN announced that they had successfully produced about 18 antihydrogen atoms in a low-energy state. This is the first time that humans have produced "large quantities" of antimatter under laboratory conditions.

The research on antimatter has been very in-depth, but limited by the technical conditions and basic physical theory at that time, it is still impossible to apply antimatter in practice.

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2054 4 Month 15 Day.

Zhong Cheng came to Yinghuo City on Mars again, this time for the first super-light flight test in the human world.

The Chaoguang test ship transformed from the Chongming Bird-class space frigate has been completed, and the first test flight is scheduled for [-]:[-] today.

It is planned to fly from the airspace of Yinghuo City on Mars to the sky above Pallas City on Pallas. The straight-line distance between the two is exactly 1 million kilometers at this time.

There are no human drivers and passengers in the Chaoguang. It is operated by a hundred Wukong intelligent robots. A control center is set up in Yinghuo City and Pallas City to supervise and control the flight of the test ship.

Because no one knows what the aircraft and the people on it will encounter in the four-dimensional space channel, the test project team dare not send real people for the first flight.

In the test control center of Yinghuo City, Zhong Cheng, Ye Wenxin, Zhao Wei, Yang Xi, Lin Wei and others were just spectators, and the conductors of this test were Zhong Xin and Liu Hang.

Following Zhong Xin's order, Zhong Cheng saw on the huge monitoring screen in the control center that the Chaoguang sailed away from the starship manufacturing base in Yinghuo City.

The modified Chaoguang has better flight performance than the original one. Within two hours, it reached an ultra-high-speed flight state of 3000 kilometers per second, and sailed to the designated airspace 100 million kilometers away from Yinghuo City.

"Open the four-dimensional channel!"

Zhong Xin calmly gave orders to the intelligent robot on the Chaoguang.

Five seconds later, the Chaoguang number in the void suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Slowly moving the picture on the monitor screen, it can be found that the Chaoguang has entered a passage invisible to the naked eye in the void, because the speed is so fast that people think it disappeared out of thin air.

On the other space monitoring screen, it can be seen that there is a momentary space disorder at the position where the super-light disappeared.

After Chaoguang entered the four-dimensional channel, all monitoring instruments on it lost their signals.

Zhong Xin explained to everyone that communication in the four-dimensional space is still a completely unfamiliar field, and it has been confirmed that the current communication methods of human beings cannot send any signals from the four-dimensional space.

Because the automatic program set up on the Chaoguang will send out test signals in various ways every second, but now the control center can't receive anything.

It is not known what is going on with the Chaoguang now, or whether it has been reduced to dust in the four-dimensional space.

Only when the Hyperlight emerges from the other end, 1 million kilometers away, will it be known.

Theoretically speaking, this time will be very short, only 333.4 seconds or 5 and a half minutes, which is exactly 1 times the speed of light from the standpoint of the three-dimensional world.

The screen of the monitoring screen of the Yinghuo City Experimental Control Center has switched to the void where the Chaoguang may appear, that is, a void that is more than 150 million kilometers away from the Pallas City spaceport on Pallas.

The picture signal was sent to Yinghuo City by the on-site observation satellite through long-distance communication, which ensured the synchronization of time.

In the monitoring screen, 32 space frigates are performing guard missions around this airspace.

They checked the airspace for the last time 10 minutes ago to make sure there was nothing larger than a nanometer.

Because when the super-light signal comes out from the four-dimensional channel, the phenomenon of spatial overlap will occur in an instant, that is, it will overlap with all the objects at the position at the molecular level.

For example, there happens to be a meteorite with a diameter of ten meters at this position, then this meteorite will appear in the hull of the Chaoguang out of thin air, and overlap with the objects in the hull, causing a violent space explosion.

The phenomenon of space overlap limits superluminal flight and cannot be used arbitrarily, and a vacuum state must be guaranteed for the other end to be reached by the aircraft.

If the exit of the four-dimensional channel is opened inside a star, then when the aircraft comes out of the four-dimensional channel, it will directly turn into fly ash.

In order for human beings to realize real interstellar traffic, an interstellar beacon must be established by the advance expedition team, and there must be special navigation space station personnel on duty.

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301 seconds,
302 seconds,
303 second……

Under the tense attention of everyone, more than five minutes passed quickly, and the time to decide the success or failure of this FTL flight test came, and everyone broke into a cold sweat.

332 seconds,
333 seconds,
334 second……

In the monitoring screen, a space battleship suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the empty void!
At this time, the equipment that had been receiving the long-distance communication signal from the Chaoguang also responded at once, and the communication signal from the Chaoguang appeared again!
Chaoguang crossed the starry sky of 5 million kilometers in 1 and a half minutes, and reappeared. The actual speed reached 30.01 kilometers per second, successfully breaking through the speed of light.

The first FTL flight test was a success!

Although it only exceeds the speed of light by a small amount, it breaks the iron law that "the speed of light cannot be surpassed" and becomes a milestone for mankind to enter the universe and starry sky!

(End of this chapter)