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Chapter 141 The Three-Body Problem

With the irresistible exposure of the fact that "Vilagash is the biggest traitor", no matter who you are, you can imagine that many interesting things will definitely happen within the Moyunlitar civilization.

People are looking forward to this very much.

But everyone also understands that they can only look forward to this kind of thing. After all, no one can obtain information about the inside of the Moyun Litar civilization again.

Now, the matters related to the Moyun Litar civilization should come to an end and be put aside for the time being. Next, going all out to repair the Yuanhang spacecraft is the most important thing at this stage and the entire human civilization.

With the continuous abundant material support from more than a dozen dwarf planets and the Jupiter system, and the technological support from the Moyunlitar civilization, the repair process of the Yuanhang spacecraft was very smooth. And when the spacecraft repair entered

During the second half of the journey, another extremely important thing was placed on Zhao Changxing's desk.

It's time to prepare the supplies needed for the interstellar voyage that is destined to be long-lasting and dangerous.

This is the first interstellar voyage unprecedented in the entire history of human civilization.

Even a person needs to prepare enough luggage when traveling alone, let alone the interstellar migration of an entire civilization and millions of people.

This matter must rise to the level of the entire civilization. Zhao Changxing will personally take charge of it, and all major academies of science and major institutions will unite to formulate the final list. And the subsequent actual material collection process will consume possibly

Up to hundreds of years.

The destination of this voyage has now been determined.

During the early discussions, combined with the natural conditions such as the composition of the target galaxy, the environment of the main star, and its activity level, as well as considering the possible pursuit by the Moyun Litar civilization in the future, people finally ruled out more than a dozen candidates.

candidate galaxies, and finally the target galaxy was determined to be EZ Aquarius.

The EZ Aquarius galaxy is a triple star system, that is, three stars orbiting each other together.

It is a true three-body galaxy. Because the mass difference between the three stars that make up it is not large, about 0.1/0.11/0.11 times the mass of the sun respectively.

Similar to the star system closest to the sun - the Nanmen 2-3 star system, this kind of galaxy is not strictly a three-body galaxy. Because the mass gap between the three stars that make up it is too large, and the mass gap between them is too large.

The distance is also too far.

The mass of Nanmen A is 1.1 times that of the sun, and the mass of Nanmen B is 0.9 times that of the sun. The distance between the two is only 1.67-5.3 billion kilometers, which is very close.

The star Centauri C, also known as Proxima Centauri, has a mass of only 0.12 times that of the sun and is about two trillion kilometers away from the two main stars.

With such a small mass and such a large distance, the three cannot form a three-body system in the strict sense. Proxima Centauri looks more like a companion star to the two main stars.

The EZ Aquarius is different. Its three main stars are all close to each other and have similar masses. This makes their orbits truly unpredictable and chaotic.

At present, scientists of human civilization have discovered that there are two planets in the EZ Aquarius galaxy - one is a rocky planet with a mass of about 2.7 times that of the Earth, and the other is a gaseous planet with a mass of about Jupiter.

1.6 times.

Moreover, there are abundant satellite systems in this galaxy, as well as many asteroids, comets, etc., so the resources can be considered quite abundant.

Of course, this is just an absolute value. If we talk about relative values, that is, compared with other star systems, it is mediocre, and can even be considered a relatively harsh environment.

After all, not just any civilization can play with the Trisolaran Galaxy. In addition, these three stars are all flaring stars, that is, stars that periodically burst out with radiation, which makes the internal environment of the galaxy even worse.

If there were alternatives, I'm afraid no civilization would choose this star system as its target.

But human civilization chose this place.

This is mainly done to confuse the Moyun Litar civilization and prevent them from tracking us.

Once the destination is determined, the resource abundance of the target star system needs to be taken into consideration. For resources with more reserves at the target, you can bring less resources. For those with smaller reserves, you can bring more resources.

This is a vast luggage list with tens of millions of items.

Resources, spare parts, consumables, energy, food, clothing, housing, transportation, food, etc.

Among these, the most important is undoubtedly energy.

Energy is the most important resource to propel the spacecraft forward, and it is also the most important category to maintain the internal operation of the spacecraft and maintain people's survival.

For the Yuanhang spacecraft, there is no doubt that antimatter should be chosen as the energy source. Just a rough calculation - assuming that the total mass of the Yuanhang spacecraft is 200 billion tons and the maximum sailing speed is 0.08 times the speed of light, that is, about 2.4 times per second.

Calculating 10,000 kilometers, to complete this voyage, the amount of antimatter required to be stored must be at least on the order of tens of millions of tons.

When just one gram of antimatter reacts with positive matter, the energy released is equivalent to the energy of tens of thousands of tons of TNT explosives exploding at the same time. And how much energy is released by the explosion of ten million tons of antimatter?

The calculation result is that approximately 1.8*10^27J of energy can be released. This energy is equivalent to the total solar radiation energy received by the earth in approximately 330 years.

Now, these wind, rain, thunder and lightning, which were originally enough to support the entire earth for hundreds of years, support the growth of all things on the earth, support the prosperity of life, support the endless surge of waves, and support the flow of countless rivers and streams day and night, will all

It is used to accelerate and decelerate the Yuanhang spacecraft, and to maintain the operation of various internal equipment.

Before obtaining the equipment and related technical support of the Moyun Litar civilization, human civilization could only produce antimatter one particle at a time in a high-speed particle collider.

To produce tens of millions of tons of antimatter in this way is undoubtedly a fantasy. Even if the energy of the entire sun is consumed, it is impossible to produce so much.

The efficiency of this preparation is really too low.

Fortunately, the technology and equipment of the Moyun Litar civilization are there.

After the Voyage spacecraft arrived in the solar system driven by Villagash, it was originally planned to obtain enough antimatter in the solar system and then use it to return to the Lalande 21185 system. Of course, they had a complete set of equipment.

The operating principle of this equipment is probably to produce it directly through the fusion of hydrogen. On average, for every kilogram of hydrogen that is converted into energy, about 120 grams of antihydrogen will be produced. It is then controlled by a magnetic field

Equipment, bound and stored in an extremely high-purity vacuum environment.

It should be pointed out that due to the influence of vacuum fluctuations, that is, pairs of virtual particles will constantly and spontaneously emerge in the vacuum, even if the antimatter is stored in a special container in an extremely high vacuum environment that does not come into contact with any object, antimatter

It will also decrease slowly and spontaneously.

The principle is probably similar to the Hawking radiation of black holes.

To this end, people had to increase the original 10 million tons of antimatter reserves by another 10% to 11 million tons. Adding about 20% of the redundant reserves, the total amount of antimatter that needs to be produced is

Up to 13.2 million tons.

Converted, it would take a total of about 1.1 trillion tons of hydrogen to be completely converted into energy to produce it. According to hydrogen fusion, the conversion efficiency is about 0.7%, plus some losses, the total required fusion raw materials are as high as 200

About one trillion tons.

Such a huge project will undoubtedly require the entire civilization to invest, and it will take a long time to prepare completely.

As a result, on Sedna, on other dwarf planets, and in space, fusion factories have been built one after another, trying their best to produce the required antimatter energy. And in order to support the operation of these factories, other planets are moving towards

The transportation of materials here has also reached an unprecedented peak.

The reserve of antimatter energy is only a small part of the huge material reserve plan. In the rest, major grain workshops are rapidly producing rice, flour, grain, oil, salt, sugar, cotton, etc. that are easier to store at a crazy speed.

The food is stored intact in a special storage environment.

Major chemical factories also need to operate around the clock to produce and store numerous chemical raw materials. The rest, various industrial products, as small as a spoon or as large as a mechanical vehicle, are produced as early as possible.

The production of these things also requires energy. It can be foreseen that it is basically impossible for the Yuanhang spacecraft to obtain external resource supplements during its voyage. Therefore, it is best to put the Yuan Voyage spacecraft first while the resource supplements are still available at this moment.

They are produced.

Time passed slowly, and when the resource reserve plan had been carried out for a full hundred years, the repair work of the Yuanhang spacecraft finally achieved initial results.

On this day, under the personal attention of Zhao Changxing, the Yuanhang spacecraft conducted its first propulsion test and achieved expected results.

Hibernation technology has gradually matured over a long period of development.

Time is still passing by, and almost 80 years have passed. The material reserve plan and the spacecraft repair plan have completed the main tasks at the same time. What is left are only some finishing projects.

At this moment, looking at the Yuan Voyage spacecraft that, although it was fully patched, could barely be considered repaired, and looking at the giant factories everywhere on the surface of Sedna, underground and in the sky, Zhao Changxing knew that the real moment to set sail was

, not far away.

A message was sent from Sedna to the Jupiter system at this time.

"Compatriots, prepare to set sail."


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