Chapter 663 Looking for four-dimensional fragments
The space highway within the solar system is a long-term construction project. It is not only necessary to build a space highway, but also to build a more three-dimensional structure relative to the ecliptic plane. The solar system is not a flat surface, and the direction in which Trisolarans can enter
.It is probably outside the ecliptic plane. If there is no acceleration capability in this direction, it will undoubtedly be quite dangerous.
And this means that the amount of the project is much greater. Even if human beings advance the development of science and technology at a high speed and achieve a technological explosion, it will still be a super project that takes hundreds of years to plan.
There are many other plans that also require a huge amount of time, such as exploring deep space. The earlier these plans are implemented, the better. On the one hand, the earlier they set off, the farther away from the solar system they can be, and the impact on related physical phenomena will be greater.
When conducting observations, on the other hand, the universe in the Trisolaran world is already in the process of death. The earlier we start, the better the condition of the universe will be, and the easier it will be to observe some special physical phenomena.
This aspect starts with the setting of the Trisolaran world. In fact, even in the world before Lan Nuo traveled through, many physicists are still troubled by why the speed of light, which represents the highest speed in the vast universe, is so slow?
The universe is like a paralyzed patient. It takes millions of years for nerve signals to be transmitted from the head to the feet of the universe. The speed of light is so slow that the distances in the universe become extremely far and the connections become extremely
difficulty.
Before Lan Nuo traveled through time, scientists had not found the reason. The speed of light seemed to have been that way since ancient times, but in the three-body world that Lan Nuo is now in, there is a definite explanation for this phenomenon.
The universe in the past was not what it is now. The speed of light was very fast, and most areas of the world were not three-dimensional, but four-dimensional or even higher.
It's just that with the wars between advanced civilizations, the environment of the universe became more and more bad, and it gradually evolved into what it is now. The areas where advanced civilizations once lived were naturally high-dimensional, and during the war, technology
Extremely developed, they usually use the rules of the universe as weapons.
One of the most convenient ones was the dimensionality reduction strike, but at that time they were not using two-dimensional foil, but maybe a three-dimensional foil, or a dimensionality reduction strike relative to a higher dimension.
After using this kind of weapon, it is like putting a hole in the balloon. The space of the universe will continue to leak toward this gap, and eventually everything will be converted into the matter of the low-dimensional universe. High-dimensional creatures will naturally
It is certain to die, just like if a human being enters a two-dimensional plane, it is certain to die.
The race that uses this kind of weapon will transform itself so that it can survive in low dimensions. Although it pays a huge price, it is possible to use this method to completely exterminate its life and death enemy.
This is worthwhile for higher civilizations.
As a result, such weapons began to be abused, and the universe was reduced in dimensionality from ten dimensions to only three dimensions and a few four dimensions now, and this weapon continues to be abused.
The two-way foil used to clean up humans in the original work is a manifestation of the abuse of weapons. The damage caused by the use of the two-way foil continues to expand. There is almost no way to restore the three dimensions of the destroyed time and space. This means that the entire universe is actually
It is also gradually becoming two-dimensional.
The speed of light in the universe is also not so low from the beginning. It is also the abuse of certain technologies by intelligent creatures that reduces the speed of light. In fact, the light speed spacecraft is used indiscriminately. The principle of the light speed spacecraft is somewhat similar to the soap in the pool.
Water can push a boat, but soapy water uses the surface tension of water, while warp drive uses the tension of space and time.
He can make the spacecraft fly at the speed of light, and when accelerating, the crew does not need to be overloaded, but it will cause another kind of damage.
After the tension of time and space is used, it is difficult to use it again. It is like putting the same paper boat on the water surface that has been coated with soapy water. The paper boat will not move again.
In the area where the light speed engine has worked, the speed of light will slow down slightly. Under the same parameters, there is no way to sail at the speed of light. The greater the power set for the speed of light sailing, the greater the damage to the space-time tension of the area you sail through.
The more severe it is, the lower the speed of light in that area will be.
This impact can be slowly smoothed out by the surrounding space and time before it reaches a certain level, but this is equivalent to the entire universe sharing the damage equally.
The abuse of such devices has made the speed of light in the entire universe lower and lower. Over countless years, the speed of light, which was once very fast and could travel from one end of the universe to the other in a short time, has now become three hundred thousand.
Turtle speed in kilometers per second.
There is basically no possibility of solving these two problems. It is impossible for civilizations in the universe to stop using light-speed spacecraft. Races in a state of war will not give up the use of dimensionality reduction strikes in order to survive. Many times they would rather transform themselves into low-dimensional creatures.
, we must also use this super weapon to inflict the heaviest blow to the enemy.
However, the dimensionality reduction of the universe requires a process, and dimensionality reduction strikes do not all expand at the speed of light. If humans explore in all directions of the universe, it is very likely to find four-dimensional fragments that have not been completely dimensionally reduced.
And this thing is actually the real purpose of Lan Nuo coming to this world. Although it does not mean that one can understand the four-dimensional mathematical model after reaching the four-dimensional fragment, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the difficulty of establishing the mathematical model.
This is like building a mathematical model of our natural world. When you encounter some problems that are relatively abstract and cannot be understood intuitively, you can directly conduct experiments in reality. When solving geometric problems, you don’t know a certain clause in a certain structure.
To determine what proportion the sides should occupy, you can create such a figure in reality, and then directly measure it. After you get the proportion, you can then back-deduct the possibility, and the difficulty will be greatly reduced.
With reality to refer to, the process of establishing a mathematical model has great advantages compared to completely inferring out of thin air. It can shorten the time by a hundred times for a model that may have taken tens of thousands of years to calculate.
Similarly, such a space is also very important for human scientific research. In addition to understanding the characteristics of the four-dimensional space first, the sophons and water droplets of the Trisolaran people here will also become very fragile. Human weapons can
Easily destroyed.
After all, in such a space, the interior of any structure can be directly reached and touched, the human heart can be directly held, and the fragile structure inside a water drop can be easily destroyed.
Even if the Trisolaran warships appear here, there will be countless design loopholes. Although they can also obtain the same high-dimensional capabilities, if humans take the lead in adapting to this high-dimensional environment, they will undoubtedly have a huge advantage.
, used to dismantle and understand the weapons of the Trisolarans, and it is also a very useful thing.
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At the Planetary Defense Council meeting, Lanno proposed a plan that surprised everyone: "We can conduct a series of deep space explorations, and at the same time, we can also use the huge distance between the long-distance spacecraft to conduct particle acceleration experiments. This way
Experiment after experiment can also attract sophons to follow. As time goes by, as the spacecraft flies farther and farther, the number of sophons catching up must also increase, otherwise these spacecrafts may really start from this
Get the correct data in the process.
At the same time, this does not prevent them from carrying out their mission, which is to explore deep space. The distribution of physical rules in the universe may not be uniform. Even if it is uniform, some places may have physical phenomena that are different from those in the solar system, and even
There may be some special areas where sophons cannot work.
Compared with the vast universe, we are just primitive people who have just stepped out of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa. We have only seen savannas, so we cannot imagine surging rivers, tens of thousands of snow-capped mountains, and vast oceans.
And these are undoubtedly meaningful to us.
This plan takes a long time, but it does not necessarily lead to no return. Compared with the reconnaissance plan, this time we only need to bring enough fuel, enough fuel to accelerate the spacecraft to four times the maximum speed, and then we can accelerate to the maximum speed.
After that, the process of stopping, accelerating in reverse and returning to home and decelerating is completed.
Theoretically, it is still possible for astronauts to return, depending on whether they are willing to return and how long they can stay in the universe. Individuals in my cluster can participate in this project, participate in the exploration of deep space, pilot spacecraft, and
One-tenth the speed of light, flying in any direction outside the solar system.
Maybe in the future we can find a habitable planet, and the Tempter can find a cosmic environment that will decisively change the war between us and the Trisolarans. Of course, this kind of exploration is like finding a needle in a haystack, and it is very likely that our investment will be rewarded at all.
Neither can be obtained.”
Lan Nuo's proposal this time seems a bit strange. If previous plans were closely related to people's livelihood and human development, then this time it seems a bit too idealistic and confusing.
If it is just to attract the attention of sophons and make it easier for humans to win the race between the accelerator and the three-body race, then the reconnaissance ship pair can also do the same. It is nothing more than increasing the size and frequency of the reconnaissance fleet, and combining the spacecraft and human beings.
The elite launching into the boundless void is not an easy thing for humans to accept.
However, with the construction of accelerating orbits around the sun, humans can travel to and from orbits in the solar system relatively easily. The acquisition of a large amount of natural resources and technological advancement have made human productivity far different from what it used to be.
It is not impossible to send out a few interstellar exploration spacecraft.
In the past, humans could send out Voyager, and now humans have no problem sending out some exploration spacecraft.
However, the exploration direction of the spacecraft is also planned, and it is Lan Nuo who will check the technical details in this regard.
The original work described the planet that the Natural Selection went to. Although the Natural Selection was later destroyed, after calculating the location of the solar system and the connection between the solar system and the planet two hundred years later, it was calculated in advance.
It is still theoretically feasible to get on that route.
Lan Nuo made complex calculations about the orbit, and would correct his route in an arc-shaped trajectory similar to a parabola. Eventually, he entered the same route as the Blue Space in the original work, which made them almost certain to encounter each other.
The four-dimensional space described in the original work.
And it may not take too long. After all, the Deterrence Era only lasted for sixty-one years. During these sixty-one years, the Blue Space did not accelerate to its maximum speed and retained a considerable part of its fuel.
Drive towards your destination.
This means that the target area is probably less than six light years away from the solar system, but even if the distance is very close, it is not particularly easy to find him. According to the records in the original book, when the Blue Space spacecraft discovered this four-dimensional fragment
, its radius is only one thousandth of a light-year, which is roughly equivalent to hitting a target the size of a water bottle cap from a hundred meters away.
Moreover, you cannot aim with your eyes when shooting. You can only guess the possible positions through rough calculations. The probability of hitting is indeed there, but the probability of missing is even greater.
Therefore, the number of spacecraft launched in this direction is significantly greater than in other directions.
The Trisolarans also observed this anomaly, but apart from sending sophons to follow them, they had no clue about this phenomenon. Human thinking was an existence they could not understand, especially the choice they made before them made them feel...
It's ridiculous. Trisolarans have done deep space exploration before, and they have even tried it many times, but they have never found any abnormalities.
Although they think what Lan Nuo said is very reasonable, both the Trisolarans and humans are just new civilizations, and their understanding of the universe is only the tip of the iceberg. But maybe they are really unlucky and keep sending out detectors.
They came to search for habitable planets, but until now they have not found a planet suitable for them to live in other than the earth, or an area with special physical rules.
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Lan Nuo chose a total of twenty clones of himself and joined the deep space exploration team in batches. This was also a test of the productivity of the Trisolarans. If a large number of long-distance spacecraft left the solar system,
And it can conduct accelerated experiments to see if the Trisolarans can complete the technological blockade of humans when a large number of spacecraft leave at the same time.
At present, people have gradually been able to distinguish the strength of the sophon blockade on the accelerator. This can be intuitively judged by the difficulty of capturing the sophon. The smaller the proportion of the sophon used for interception, the greater the difficulty of capturing it.
, Trisolarans usually use a ratio of one thousandth. This ratio can make it difficult for ordinary human scientists to intercept, but it will not cause too much loss due to being captured by Lan Nuo himself.
But if this operation really makes the number of sophons insufficient, then the Trisolarans will definitely split the existing sophons into more parts and use them to intercept human accelerators, which can be directly observed
