In fact, under the premise that warp speed navigation is impossible (lack of exotic matter), there are not particularly many options for new human group aerospace technology.
There are only three types: light sail, no working substance, and swimmer.
For example, the new human in front of Mu Cang is still driving a sublight speed ship from the Swimmer series.
But the difference is.
After nearly two centuries and dozens of technological iterations, today's Swimmer spacecraft can propel the hull to 99% of the speed of light in a vacuum.
It would only take a few hours to fly a spaceship at this speed across the starry sky from the Earth to Pluto.
Therefore, in the era of the 88th century AD, the new humans suddenly set foot on all the stars in the entire solar system.
In other words, the entire vast starry sky area starting from the sun and ending with the orbit of Pluto has now become the ‘territory’ of earth-star civilizations.
As for the remnants of the old humans hiding on the edge of the Kuiper Belt, long before the new humans expanded their sphere of influence, they had already fled into the deeper Kuiper Belt depths like frightened birds in a series of unmanned spaceships.
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However, these large armies of old humans cannot last long.
Because, in the future that Mu Cang ‘sees’.
In half a century at most, the new humans, who have been concentrating their efforts on "big things", will be free to rush into the Kuiper Belt and wipe out all the remnants of the old humans.
As for this so-called 'big thing'... it's about wormholes.
To be precise, it is the unmanned exploration spacecraft of the new humanity. It was discovered in the opposite direction of the Kuiper Belt area where the old humanity was hiding... in the empty area deep in the Oort cloud 958 billion kilometers away.
A small wormhole was created.
After discovering this wormhole, the Earth Star civilization sent a large number of personnel to stay there and began various research works on it.
Due to the iron rule of the universe that "effective information cannot travel faster than the speed of light", for half a century, the new humans built dozens of space bases around this wormhole with the function of synchronous backup of consciousness bodies.
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At the same time, in the past half century, relying on a large amount of experimental data obtained from this wormhole, the scientific and technological development of new mankind has also been advancing by leaps and bounds, becoming more and more powerful.
Especially the research on space structure and gravitation has entered an extremely deep level.
But the greatest value contained in this wormhole is time travel.
In the past half century, the new humans have never been able to successfully experiment.
In other words, they have never officially started the shuttle experiment at all.
Because the new humans discovered that compared with this wormhole in reality, all the assumptions they had made about the wormhole... were completely wrong.
For example, the physical properties of this wormhole deep in the Oort cloud are strikingly similar to the legendary black hole at its entrance.
It can even be said that the entrance of this wormhole appears in the form of a black hole with terrifying gravitational effects.
So much so that the space bases built around this wormhole cannot get too close to it.
Otherwise, it will easily be peeled off and torn apart by the powerful gravity of this wormhole, and while releasing a large amount of high-energy radiation, it will turn into countless blazing high-temperature plasmas, surrounding it into a circle of shining 'like objects'.
accretion disk'.
What's even more dangerous is that this wormhole will eject powerful streams of high-energy photons into the void outside at irregular intervals.
Under the impact of this terrifying photon flow, all the materials currently possessed by the new humanity appear to be so fragile and completely vulnerable.
In addition to removing the photon flow, this wormhole will occasionally eject some strange clumps of matter of considerable mass.
The danger of this kind of thing is even more exaggerated. (For details on the setting of strange substances, see Chapter 181)
It can be said that even if a small piece accidentally hits the surface of the Earth, it will definitely return the entire planet to the Hadean era and turn it into a blazing ball of magma.
It is even possible that the entire planet will be wiped out into ashes and become history.
Faced with such an overly dangerous substance, the current new humanity naturally does not have enough technical strength to contain it, nor does it have the ability to properly preserve it.
Even though, what warp navigation technology needs most is strange matter.
In short, facing that 'violent' wormhole, with the current technological strength of the new humanity, there is really nothing we can do.
However, through long-term research and experiments, new humans have also gained a profound understanding of many properties of wormholes.
For example, after a lot of calculations, the new humans discovered that at a mathematical level, the overall energy of the wormhole is calculated to be zero.
Therefore, in theory, even if a fly rubs its claws, it is possible to create a wormhole.
Of course, this possibility is very small, so small that it is almost non-existent.
At the same time, new humans also have a deeper understanding of why the energy of wormholes is calculated to be zero.
But it is only possible because of the powerful negative energy in its internal channels and the 'black hole-like' physical manifestations of the entrances and exits at both ends.
And because wormholes tend to collapse rather than expand on the overall level.
Therefore, based on complicated research data, Earth-Star civilization makes bold speculations.
After any macroscopic positive energy matter enters a wormhole, it is likely to cause the collapse of the overall space-time structure of the wormhole.
If you want to improve the stability of the space-time tunnel inside the wormhole, you may need a large amount of ordered negative energy as a 'support' to do so.
However, this requirement far exceeds the technical limits of the new humans.
Therefore, after nearly half a century, the new human group decided to use subatomic intelligent particles, which currently represent the most advanced technological level of the earth and star civilization, to penetrate into the space-time tunnel inside the wormhole to conduct more in-depth research.
scientific research.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But this risky move triggered a big explosion that can be called the largest, most powerful and most terrifying in the billions of years since the birth of the solar system.
The entire process of this horrific explosion was only witnessed clearly by Mu Cang, who was at the 'scene' in person.
As for the distant civilization on Earth, it took a full year for astronomical instruments to receive optical and electromagnetic signals suspected of wormhole explosions.
When they gathered people to organize an investigation and rescue team, it took them a full year to reach the depths of the Oort cloud. Only when they arrived at the target area did they find...it had suddenly turned into a vast and empty universe where even interstellar dust did not exist.
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And after a month-long detailed survey, the rescue team estimated the specific diameter of this empty area that was suspected to be the 'ruins' of the wormhole explosion.
Approximately...73 billion kilometers.
It is nearly ten times the distance from Pluto to the Sun.
In other words, the size of this blasted area is enough to accommodate thousands of solar systems.
Faced with such a horrific explosion.
Naturally, the dozens of space bases that originally existed in this area, the tens of millions of new human scientific research experts and personnel, and that crucial wormhole have now all turned into boundless heat.
, meaninglessly radiating towards the vast starry sky, never to be found again.
Since then, the plan to use wormholes to travel through time and space at the speed of light has been completely abandoned by the earth and star civilization.
But Mu Cang, who had 'watched' all of this the whole time, had a deeper understanding of this than Earth Star Civilization.
He knows that the time and space of the chord family cluster are different.
In this three-dimensional universe belonging to the cluster of geniuses, wormholes simply do not allow any macroscopic matter with a size larger than that of elementary particles to enter it, let alone using it for time and space travel.
Not only this wormhole, but all wormholes are like this.
Once anything larger than the level of elementary particles enters the wormhole, it will inevitably cause large or small disturbances to the wormhole.
And even the smallest disturbance will cause a large amount of negative energy, strange quark flow, strong photon beam and more dangerous substances that are difficult to understand and recognize to emerge out of thin air in the space-time tunnel inside the wormhole, which will then cause the person to enter.
The destruction of macroscopic things and the collapse of the entire wormhole space-time structure.
In the end, everything will come to nothing in a magnificent big explosion.
There is no other reason for all of this, it is just because the physical laws of space and time are like this.
This universe simply does not allow any macroscopic things to travel through time and space through wormholes.
Therefore, there is no effective way to solve this problem.
In short, there is no help.
Affected by this, in the following years, the new humans who had given up on wormholes had no choice but to pick up the warp engine plan again in order to break through the shackles of light speed.
This time, they suddenly wanted to develop a warp speed navigation technology that could travel through time and space without the involvement of strange matter.
In this regard, I can only say that it is courageous.
In the ADM form of general relativity, space-time can be compared to a blade-like structure composed of hypersurfaces.
Among them, the only constant coordinate is time.
The advantage of warp navigation is that it can exceed the speed of light without destroying the general theory of relativity.
Because it can achieve local low-speed and overall high-speed navigation effects by compressing three-dimensional space.
And the voyagers existing in the warp bubble will not be affected by any so-called acceleration.
It's interesting to say.
So far, Mu Cang has discovered that at least in the space and time of the Jueling Cluster, the general theory of relativity does not have much error.
Even, this space-time is more consistent with the general theory of relativity than the main space-time of the string family cluster.
However, this also means that it will be more difficult to break through the shackles of light speed in this universe than the string family cluster.
After deliberately accelerating the passage of time in the entire universe, Mu Cang saw it 'quickly'.
In just five centuries, the new humans living in such a harsh cosmic environment have overcome numerous scientific research difficulties and successfully developed the so-called zero negative energy warp navigation.
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As the name suggests, this technology can generate a stable Lorentz manifold warp ring without the involvement of exotic matter at all.
However, if you want to generate a macroscopic warp ring that is sufficient for use, even if it is only a ring with a diameter of ten kilometers, you need to stack the overall scale and mass of the warp engine to extremely exaggerated values.
According to calculations and derivation by experts from the New Human Science R&D Department, this value... is 1.8 trillion billion tons.
In other words, if the Earth star civilization wants to create a sufficient warp engine, it will need to dismantle a full three hundred Earth stars to be enough.
Faced with this result, the new humans on Earth were not frightened. Instead, they were inspired to fight with almost as much enthusiasm as fighting against heaven and earth.
They all worked hard and spent five centuries to dismantle Jupiter into countless pieces.
Then it took another half a century to vigorously smelt the 'shards' of Jupiter that looked like the vast ocean in the starry sky into countless billions of large and small parts, components, and structural components. It took another half a century to
In a matter of seconds, a super-giant celestial-level warp engine that fully meets experimental standards was assembled by force.
Therefore, in the 99th century AD, the Earth-Star civilization began its first formal warp navigation experiment.
The experimental site was set in the proto-Jupiter orbit area because it was open enough.
This time around, Mu Cang once again watched the whole process of the super-light speed experiment.
As for the experimental results, I can only say... very tragic.
The word "tragic" is used here because obviously all the engine parameters and simulation data are perfect.
But when the warp engine was officially started, it inexplicably... turned into a 'bomb'.
A 'bomb' that is more powerful... than the 'crazy' wormhole a thousand years ago.
Yes, the warp ring went out of control, and it caused the warp engine to also go out of control.
Finally, in a magnificent big explosion, the entire solar system was severely damaged.
After the explosion, the sun became a dim and ugly incomplete black dwarf star.
Venus, Mercury, Mars, Earth... and other major planets, as well as planetary satellites, were all blown into interstellar dust and plasma.
The New Human Race lost 99.9% of its members in this big explosion.
Only about seven million new human consciousnesses remain.
It was also this terrible explosion, as well as the large amount of data fed back before the warp engine lost control and exploded, that allowed the remaining new humans to understand the truth of the universe.
In other words, the iron law of the universe.
This iron rule is the [timing protection rule].
To put it simply, this rule means that in this universe of time and space, the transmission speed of the law of cause and effect...is the speed of light.
Therefore, in order to 'maintain' the normal existence and operation of the law of cause and effect, the universe will 'forbid' any possibility of super-light propagation and movement of all macroscopic things and all effective information.
Therefore, if you want to exceed the speed of light in vacuum, you must... transcend the law of causality.
