Unlike other stories, the universe of Three-Body Problem is very rigorous.
The word speed of light seems so rare and common in other universes.
The Flash in Bruce's universe can even run at this speed physically. Their Kingdom of Light also has some technology that can easily reach the speed of light. But such equipment is of no use in the Kingdom of Light, because Ultraman himself is a particle of light.
Life forms can reach the speed of light on their own!
Interstellar navigation uses space jump spaceships. The distance from the Kingdom of Light to the Earth is three million light years, and it only takes one meal to rush there at full speed.
In the Trisolaran universe, one percent of the speed of light is already a hundred times the fastest space travel speed for humans on Earth.
From the perspective of an earthling, the gap caused by this sense of insignificance gave Hikali a huge feeling of falling.
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[Vide's words silenced a group of scientists. Vader said bluntly: "I know you are all laughing at me in your heart, but there is no problem. Oh, it seems that there is one who has not laughed at me. Cheng, tell me what you think.
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[Cheng Xin put forward her own idea based on the ‘use technology to change the principle’ proposed by Wade: “Bypass the principle.”]
[“The resource that is most likely to be utilized at present is nuclear weapons. In the absence of technological breakthroughs, nuclear weapons are currently the largest energy body of mankind.”]
[Cheng Xin came up with an idea that seemed to a group of experts and scientists in the aerospace field to be fanciful or like a children's fairy tale. That was to use nuclear bombs as the driving force to push the spacecraft forward. 】
"Is this possible?"
"Why is it not possible? Without those ideas that seem like dreams to mediocre people, how could human beings have developed to the present point?" Tony said: "The energy generated when the nuclear bomb explodes continues to push the spacecraft forward, because there will be no space in space.
Air assist, so as long as the spacecraft does not collide with obstacles, the spacecraft will eventually reach a seemingly impossible speed under constant acceleration."
"With the upper limit of technology being locked by sophons, using existing technology to develop horizontally seems to be the only way."
What is the technological level of Trisolaran Earth?
It's not too high for any of them.
The technological level of the Trisolarans frightened them, but the level of the Earth was not good enough.
Civilization on the surface has just taken its first step into the universe.
The most powerful weapon currently is nuclear weapons, which are fine for fighting a civil war, but fighting in space is a joke.
Decades of involution only produced a group of civil war kings.
And there are no magical powers that defy the heavens, not to mention powerful men like Hulk and Awakening Thor who can explode stars alone, and even transformed people like Black Widow do not exist.
It is even less likely that a group of aliens who are working tirelessly for the peace of the universe will come down from the sky to help them get justice.
They can only rely on themselves.
Although they already knew that in the later story, Luo Ji used the laws of the dark forest to establish a deterrent system, forcing the Trisolarans and the people on Earth to talk about it, they still felt worried when they returned to the present.
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[The discussion was ignited. Although these scientists were not as active as Cheng Xin in terms of active thinking, they were all solid in terms of academic level. So when they realized the feasibility of this plan, these people were like a group of hungry wolves encountering a big giant.
A piece of fresh meat.]
[Vadim said after a brief silence: "One of the advantages of this plan is that it is easy to start."]
[Everyone here is a smart person, and they quickly understood the meaning of Vadim’s words: The first step of the plan is to send a large number of nuclear bombs into orbit. This is very easy, there are too many ready-made tools. And three
After the outbreak of the global crisis, all countries have reached a plan to reduce nuclear weapons on a large scale. Rather than spending a lot of time and effort on manpower, material and financial resources to deal with these things, it is better for them to finally make some contributions to the development of mankind.]
[Finally, this plan was named: Ladder Plan.]
[“The radiation sail can be made very thin and light. The only problem now is the detector itself.”]
["Its total weight must be at least two to three tons."]
["No!" Vadim shook his head firmly: "It must be as light as a feather!"]
["Compress the detection function to the lowest level, about one ton. This is a bit too little. I don't know if it will work yet."]
["Then just one ton. With the power of all mankind to push it, one ton is already very light."]
[A week passed quickly. After a week, four preliminary feasibility study reports from four space agencies were sent here. The good news is: the results are very close, and the mass of the radiation sail can be reduced.
.]
[The bad news is: in order to reach one percent of the speed of light, the detector has to continue to reduce its weight. It can only be one-fifth of the original estimate, which is 200 kilograms. Then remove the weight of the sail, leaving only
It’s one hundred and eighty kilograms.]
[Then Vader brought even worse news: "The ladder plan was rejected."]
["Cheng, you are very unhappy." Wade looked at Cheng Xin: "You obviously think that we are going to retreat from the ladder plan."]
[Under the puzzled eyes of a group of scientists, he stood up and said as he walked: "We will not retreat. From now on, no matter it is a ladder plan or any other plan or anything, you can only retreat if I order you to retreat. Before that, you
We can only move forward.”]
[The next second, a roar like a volcanic eruption sounded in the conference room. Wade happened to walk behind Cheng Xin at this time. She felt like a volcano was erupting behind her, and she tightened her shoulders in fear and almost screamed. 】
[He suddenly changed his usual calm and cold tone and roared like a mad beast: "Forward! Forward!! Forward by any means necessary!!!"]
【"What should we do next?"】
【"Send someone away."】
[Vader returned to his cold tone when he spat out these words. It took a long time for others to realize that Vader was not talking about sending a person to a certain place on the earth, but directly sending him to
The cold Oort Nebula is a light-year away to spy on the Trisolaran fleet!】
"madman."
"This plan won't work, it's too crazy."
"But for the humans in that world, they had to either die in silence or survive in madness."
"But what is the point of doing this?"
"There are too many meanings. To the Trisolarans, the Earthlings are like MI6 to the KGB. Transparency alone is a good word. As long as the spies sent can return any bit of information, it will be a great success."