Chapter 536 Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day
One week later.
A small spaceship about thirty meters long and ten meters wide and high slowly landed on the rooftop apron of the Brain Computer Center building.
The exterior of the spacecraft is painted in conventional blue and white. The middle horizontal stripe depicts an earth-moon system centered on Asia. Eight Chinese characters for "Earth Space Defense Convention" are arranged in a ring on it. The entire icon is centrally symmetrical.
shape.
After the spacecraft came to a stop, the ramp was lowered. As the two robot warriors took the first step, Director Niu with a serious face followed closely behind, unable to get down the ramp.
At the entrance of the corridor not far away, Ye Ming kept shaking his head at him with great contempt.
"Why can I only take a helicopter, but you can take a space ship?"
"I'm here to try sailing for you!"
"Well, that's pretty much it." Ye Ming said and was about to turn around and walk towards the elevator, but then he stopped and looked back at the spaceship: "Why don't you go back to the ship to chat? Doesn't this ship have other missions?"
"...Not yet."
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After greeting the flight attendants, Ye Ming walked into the cabin of the spacecraft.
It has to be said that this is mankind's first dedicated spacecraft... It is actually no different from a private jet. It even has a narrower space because it needs to be equipped with a fusion engine.
“The space feels a little smaller.”
"Well, it's mainly for convenience. You can just use him as a helicopter." Director Niu sat across from Ye Ming, and then looked at him with a burning gaze: "Is the plan revised?"
Director Niu took the first "small" spaceship and landed directly in front of Ye Ming today. Of course, it was not to send a special "ship" to Ye Ming - it can be seen from the painting of this spaceship that it actually
It is Taiyue's special business spacecraft. From now on, it will mainly travel between the earth and the moon.
And he himself, before setting foot on the spacecraft, inspected the Guanghan base on the moon.
The reason why he rushed back in such a hurry was naturally because Ye Ming submitted a modification plan for the rice propeller last night.
As the country's highest civilian official stationed in Taiyue and the person in charge of the entire country's central system, he naturally wanted to ask questions in person.
"The experiments have been successful, of course." Ye Ming looked around. He was not the one who led the design of this spacecraft. He only accepted the anti-gravity module, so he was quite curious about the interior decoration: "There are projections on it.
Bar?"
"Yes... can you tell me the truth?"
"Haha, wasn't I talking?" Ye Ming laughed, and then coughed lightly: "Aita."
Aita's voice came from the cabin: "I'm here."
"Show Director Niu the experimental results."
"OK."
Director Niu: "...I've seen it many times, but I just don't quite understand the principle."
"Actually, the principle is very simple. You can understand that we just project the three-dimensional matter into the two-dimensional space according to a certain space conversion structure - don't look at it, it is just a small two-dimensional space membrane, it is only bound by the force field throughout the process.
If you let it expand and expand, it can be enlarged to a very large size..."
"...How old is it?"
"Well... covering the earth?" Ye Ming said and shook his head: "Don't worry about this, and in terms of technological prospects, this time the success of cold nuclear fusion has more signs - it means that we may be able to use two-dimensional expansion
Technology enables more operations.”
"for example?"
"For example, two-dimensional superconductivity, for example, by reducing the scale, we expand it at the atomic level and create atoms that can be freely controlled. For example, we can use this energy transfer technology to transfer energy to high-dimensional space..."
"Of course, the most intuitive thing is that we can achieve miniaturization of energy." Ye Ming said slowly, with a smile on his lips: "In time, once the technology matures, we will be able to create moving artificial singularities.
Mothership - that is the most useful thing. You went to the moon this time and looked at the current planning site for man-made singularities. You know how much space is needed to carry out such a large project, right?"
Director Niu exhaled softly and nodded heavily.
This time he went to the moon. In addition to inspecting Guanghan Base and Taiyue Defense Center, he also went to see the super accelerator project and the plan for the artificial singularity - which was highly coincident with the place where Ye Ming walked.
After all, he is the same as Ye Ming. This is his first time in heaven and he is always curious.
He also knew that in the past six months or even a year, Ye Ming, in addition to promoting dimensional physics theory, had mainly focused his engineering efforts on two areas, super accelerators and artificial singularities.
The former is the weapon system that mankind relies on for survival, and the latter is the key to mankind's expansion of civilizational influence.
Now that all the designs have been completed, and the entire earth's industrial system has been invested, the National Nuclear Corporation has also sent a large number of engineers to the moon to build a helium-3 power station to meet the energy needs of the artificial singularity and the accelerator.
If, as Ye Ming said, the two-dimensional reactor technology matures and can miniaturize two-dimensional cold fusion, then... realizing a moving artificial singularity is no longer a dream—it can even achieve curvature flight.
Just imagine, suppose that a spaceship can fly at super-light speeds with changing curvature, and at the same time, it can also stop and then open an artificial singularity, and continuously transfer materials and even living creatures across hundreds of millions of light-years... How great would that be?
Prospects?
Not to mention space colonization, even if humans engage in "traditional" interstellar trade, this thing is still a big killer!
"Then what is the biggest difficulty now?" Director Niu looked at Ye Ming with burning eyes. He knew that Ye Ming had always been very radical in the application of new technologies. Now that the words "give it time" came out of Ye Ming's mouth,
This means that the current technology still has difficulties and cannot be applied on a large scale.
Hearing the word "difficulty", Ye Ming's expression became cautious. After a few seconds of silence, he breathed softly: "The main problem is heat dissipation."
"Heat dissipation?"
"Well, heat dissipation." Ye Ming pursed his lips and nodded slightly: "Currently we can release energy through engines, and the temperature of the cold fusion engine itself is not high, so we don't have to worry too much about heat deposition.
Problem. But if fusion is to be used as energy, the problem of heat dissipation is very real."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Director Niu frowned slightly: "What will happen if the heat dissipation is not good?"
"You can understand it as heat death - relatively speaking, the two-dimensional space we create is essentially an isolated system, which follows the second law of thermodynamics, and this system is more limited and more complex than the three-dimensional universe.
It is easy to reach the limit of entropy, and when the entropy reaches the limit, there will be heat death."
"Um..." Director Niu looked at Ye Ming carefully: "You have a solution, right?"
"There is no good way yet."
"..."
Ye Ming laughed. He didn't have a good way now. It didn't mean that he didn't have ideas, but everything had to wait until the super accelerator and two-dimensional space membrane generator on the moon were completed, which could make three-dimensional matter with a larger mass two-dimensional.
Verification can only be done later.
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After leaving the spaceship, Ye Ming and Director Niu returned to the office. During their chat, the two of them talked about the fact that the Blue Star spacecraft had set sail, and then inevitably talked about the trade negotiations with the Eyed Stars, or the Kodo people.
question.
In the trade negotiations with Youmu Star, Ye Ming had only one conversation with the Great Elder opposite, and the rest were almost all contacted and negotiated by CNY and Taiyue's business department.
The latest situation that Ye Ming knew was what Director Niu told him last time, and the other party issued a large number of lists.
"The current comprehensive consideration is that when we send a batch of supplies, we will also send some business representatives and diplomats there." Director Niu held the teacup, crossed his legs, and smiled: "I guess the Kodo people feel that they have not seen us.
The real person must be a little uneasy."
"Send someone there?" Ye Ming was startled for a moment, and then he realized: "Yes, the Blue Star people must have made adaptive changes to the environment there. Since the Kodo people can adapt to the environment there, then
Humans can obviously adapt too."
"Well, and according to basic diplomatic principles, if the two sides establish diplomatic and trade relations, they will definitely send envoys to each other. So in addition to sending people to the spaceship this time, we may also send their people there
Come over here a little bit."
Ye Ming nodded, and then laughed and cursed: "Damn, I used to watch science fiction movies, and they were all about aliens driving flying saucers to the earth. After that, humans would either kneel down and lick them, or they would use native methods to fight with people like aborigines...
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Director Niu laughed loudly: "You mean playing music?"
"Hahahaha! Almost! But I didn't expect that the reality is that we run to other people's galaxies and have to pick them up..."
"Yes... and we have to build embassies for people." Director Niu said and took a long breath. He looked back at the data management building of the Earth Community - the building had been repaired at this time, and there were people from hundreds of countries.
Officials and technical staff have already arrived.
"You said, as we come into contact with more civilizations, will we build a dedicated diplomatic city in the future?"
"I think... it can be repaired." Ye Ming squinted, but he was looking at space: "The universe is so vast, and there are so many civilizations... Even the Blue Star people can't reach anywhere they go.
The contingency of the universe - even if there is a so-called habitable zone in the universe during the expansion of the big bang, when humans finish exploring the universe, they will theoretically encounter countless civilizations."
"Haha, is it possible that we will encounter a super awesome civilization?"
Ye Ming smiled and shook his head: "I don't know, anyway, our goal is to become a super civilization..."
Director Niu nodded with emotion, and then looked straight at Ye Ming for a few seconds. It wasn't until the latter became a little confused that he smiled slightly: "Have you never thought about seeing that day with your own eyes?"
Ye Ming was startled for a moment, and he immediately heard what Director Niu said. He immediately coughed: "Old Niu, I definitely don't support the Digital Life Plan."
"Then what if someone else...or future generations succeed?"
"Then it's none of my business." As he spoke, Ye Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly: "Do you know what I admire about the Blue Star people?"
"Huh?" Director Niu was stunned: "What is it about them that you should admire?"
"Even if they face the crisis of annihilation, they still adhere to certain principles - you should know that the Blue Star people, especially the Holy Star people, are better equipped than us to realize the uploading of consciousness."
Director Niu thought for a moment: "You mean uploading consciousness to the brain?"
"Yes. I asked Uda if they could upload their consciousness to the brain."
"Wuda answered in the affirmative, but said that this is not allowed. Similarly, they do not allow cloning - because this will cause the entire ethnic group to completely lose the ability to reproduce naturally, leading to uncontrollable destruction." Ye Ming.
He paused and said, "Of course, I think so. They should still have the ability and hope to reproduce naturally and restore their ethnic group, and they are not facing a desperate situation yet."
"But in any case, they can realize that eternal life is not a good thing in terms of the biological significance of the group. At the very least, time will become no longer precious."
"Time is no longer precious, then...you tell me, what's the point of our pursuit?" Ye Ming shook his head firmly: "Only by continuing hope from generation to generation, pursuit will be meaningful, and so will humanity."
Director Niu nodded after a long silence: "So, we have to move quickly."
"Yes, ten thousand years is too long, you have to seize the day!"
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As a mature political body, the negotiation between the human community and the Antoine people is cautious and takes big steps - this may seem contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory.
On the one hand, human beings urgently need the help of the people with eyesight - even if their "combat power" is better than nothing compared to the executors, it is always possible to support them, or even provide some help! On the other hand,
On the other hand, humans also need to provide buffering time for close contact with celestial beings.
Therefore, in mid-September, the "Community" began to announce various agreements with the Antoine people one after another. These agreements included peace and friendship between humans and the Antoine planet, as well as commodity trade, etc.
At the same time as the agreement was announced, promotional shorts produced by the people with eyes and introductions to their planet and civilization were also spread to the human world through diplomatic robots.
In order to accept a race, of course you must first be familiar with it.
Fortunately, the faces of the Blue Star people had been known to humans a year ago, which gave humans a buffer time for visual acceptance.
Therefore, when the Community finally announced that humans would establish the first ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations with the Eyed Star, the mood of the entire human society was generally high and supportive.
After all... this is a diplomatic cooperation in which humans play a leading role. It is not signed by humans with their heads held down by powerful enemies. It is a diplomacy initiated by humans on their own initiative and demonstrating their influence and will.
In short, this is the embodiment of mankind's "big earth" temperament - some people jokingly call it "big earth chauvinism".
So in late September, a fleet consisting of a Starfinder, a transport ship and a resource ship took off smoothly from Xichang Space City, carrying human commodities and diplomatic missions to the Triangulum Galaxy.
