The history of Tianyuan Star has also opened a new page. Starting from today, the military war of Tianyuan Star will officially extend to outer space.
As the two sides issued the order to open fire, not only the fleets were paying attention to the results, but also the rear, Zhang Hao and other high-level officials, and even the people were paying attention to the situation of this 'war'.
Over the years, the superficial confrontation but actual cooperative relationship between the world's three major alliances has become public. So now the people are not worried about a world war, but are more concerned about: Who can grab the satellite called 'Legend'?
But what outsiders don’t know is that the Ocean Group is already quietly making plans for the distant Pluto.
The Pluto of this world (named by Zhang Hao) has a diameter of 30,000 kilometers. According to detection, its texture is similar to that of the "Legend" satellite, with a large water content. The average thickness of the ice layer at the initial detection site is hundreds of kilometers.
But Pluto has even more abundant resources. Mountains as high as tens of thousands of meters have been discovered on Pluto. On a planet with a diameter of more than 30,000 kilometers, there are actually mountains of tens of thousands of meters that have not been crushed by gravity.
This shows that the planet's gravity is low.
In fact, according to current detection, the density of Pluto is less than 3 points, and there is a large amount of solidified carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen, etc. on the surface. However, no atmosphere has been found on Pluto because it is too cold and the atmosphere has solidified.
Moreover, the ice layer on Pluto also contains considerable heavy water content. Moreover, the overall resource development difficulty here is more convenient than that of the 'Legend' satellite.
However, no magnetic field has been found on Pluto, but Dayang Group can build an artificial base. And recently, Dayang Group’s artificial magnetic field technology has matured!
However, the development of Pluto has been arranged, so Zhang Hao can just wait quietly. What is more important now is to pay attention to this space war.
Because a gunpowder weapon is used, you can see the flashing flame from the muzzle when the weapon explodes.
The two fleets have begun to shoot each other crazily. The winner will not only capture the legendary satellite, but also receive generous bonuses.
For this military performance, the three major alliances jointly allocated 5 billion spiritual yuan at the beginning. However, later on, various business groups also participated, and the cumulative funds reached 7 billion spiritual yuan.
Two billion spirit yuan will be used to reward those who performed well in the exercise. But victory itself is the greatest 'excellence'!
Behind the two fleets, there are also three observation and rescue spacecraft dispatched by the United Nations. The spacecraft is responsible for observing, recording, and judging everyone's performance, and will also carry out necessary rescues. However, once rescued, it means that 'on the battlefield'
If you die, you cannot return to the exercise.
Time passed little by little, but after more than twenty-four hours of crazy shooting at each other, everyone ceased fire. Everyone was shocked to find that no one hit the other party! Even once!
In the ASEAN and Ocean Group fleets, Murong Shan frowned deeply. In the past twenty-four hours, there were an average of three hundred attacks per hour! Even if the artillery shells took 14 hours to fly, in the first ten hours, a total of three
More than a thousand cannonballs, no matter how hard they can achieve a certain effect!
You know, today is not the giant ships and artillery that the Ocean Group had when it first developed. At that time, the accuracy of firing depended three points on the battleship and artillery technology, two points on the gunner's ability, and half on luck.
But the current technology is strictly calculated by computers. There is no such complicated and unpredictable weather in space. It is just the gravity of some celestial bodies and so on.
The gravity of celestial bodies sounds very complicated, but as long as the rules are calculated and entered into the computer at the beginning, the computer will automatically correct it.
Therefore, in theory, the hit rate should not be said to be 100%, but 90%.
But now, it turns out to be perfect...no hits!
There is definitely something wrong with this.
So, this serious issue finally fell on the shoulders of Wang Hong, the representative of the scientific advisory team.
Wang Hong is really capable. He quickly determined: "Everything has missed, and it's the same for both of us, so there must be a key factor that has not been taken into account. And this factor should be something we are not currently aware of."
knew!
If it’s just that the shot is inaccurate, with so many attacks, it’s impossible not to hit even once!”
Murong Shan also calmed down and nodded slowly, "Yes, that should be the case. Science does not tolerate sloppiness. So now... let everyone stop attacking and put some distance between themselves and the opponent.
In addition, contact the rear to find out the reason.
By the way, enable laser aiming technology and manually aim. Then compare it with computer data to see where the error is."
As Murong Shan's order was issued, laser targeting was first started. The first set of data was quickly obtained using manual locking:
Within a range of 500,000 kilometers, the deviation actually reached three ten millionths! That is, a deviation of about 150 meters.
As for today's spacecraft, no matter what shape it is, its size is generally only more than 200 meters, and its radius is about 100 meters. So if the error reaches 150 meters, it will be impossible to hit the target!
Soon, the second set of data also came out, which was 3.2 parts per 10 million; then more and more data appeared. The overall deviation was about 2.7 to 3.8 parts per 10 million.
The reason why the error is so large is that the temporary measurement method is not accurate. We have not developed technology specifically for this, but only use laser ranging to measure.
And for more than half a million kilometers, the laser travels back and forth for a million kilometers, so errors are inevitable. Especially now that everyone vaguely understands that although the starry sky looks like nothing, it is not so 'pure' here!
It's just that such a large error makes it impossible for everyone to adjust.
The spacecraft began to gradually move away from each other. However, about half an hour later, when the distance between the two sides increased to about 7,000 kilometers, an alarm suddenly came from a battleship of the Ocean Group that it had been hit!
Everyone was suddenly shocked, but Murong Shan suddenly laughed: "We will do this until the news comes from the rear. We will continue to do the same as before for the attack data, etc. But we will finally aim at the target and bring it closer. It will be closer to three thousand kilometers.
To 10,000 kilometers. Try it yourself.
So now, keep firing!
In addition, the defenders should also pay attention to avoiding the enemy."
Because the artillery shells have to fly for 14 hours, maybe more because both sides are now farther apart.
After 14 hours, the effect finally came out. Solid shells began to fall on the Xuanhuang Group and the ASEAN fleet in large numbers.
Of course, this "large number" is also relative to the previous one. The actual number of hits on the target is still less than one percent. But this is already a huge improvement. Before, it was zero! So, this is a leap forward.
Then Murong Shan asked everyone to count the data of the cannon hitting the target, and began to make adjustments.
An hour later, Wang Hong used a large amount of data to arrive at the first error: 3.312 ± 0.3 parts per million. According to this number, by moving the aiming point closer, the hit rate can be improved.
As for the specific error of several parts per million, it depends on the experience of the attackers. Let’s fight based on feeling!
At this point, Ocean Group and ASEAN's hit rate has increased to 1.7%!
But the other party is not a fool, and has also begun to correct the data. It has gradually caused some damage to the Ocean Group and ASEAN fleets.
Another hour later, Wang Hong corrected the error again, which was 3.307±0.28 parts per million. At this point, the hit power of the Ocean Group and ASEAN fleets once again increased to 1.9%!
Murong Shan decisively ordered to attack one of the opponent's spaceships with fire and collect data.
14 hours and 27 minutes later, one of the opponent's spaceships "exploded". The reason why the explosion is in quotation marks is because... it didn't really explode, but according to the calculation results, the spacecraft should have exploded.
The thin steel plate installed on the outside of the spacecraft has been completely destroyed. This steel plate is a different kind of target.
In our military exercises, we use gunpowder weapons; if it is a real interstellar battle, we use rail guns. Therefore, this thin steel plate is to the artillery what the spacecraft is to the rail gun.
Now the thin steel plate has been penetrated, especially the nuclear island, and the steel plate in the core area of the plasma engine has been penetrated. The computer calculation result is: the spacecraft exploded violently and directly disintegrated. All military supplies were lost by 70%, close to the nuclear island.
, 30% of the crew members of the plasma engine section died, and the remaining 70% were seriously injured.
In addition, due to concentrated fire, based on the attack position of the artillery shells and the positions of the crew members in the spacecraft at the time, 30% of the crew members were reduced and 40% were seriously injured.
According to the judgment of the observation spacecraft sent by the United Nations at the rear, this 'exploded' spacecraft could move 30% of the supplies and dismantle some parts. Those who were judged to be 'killed in battle' would roll off the fleet obediently and arrive at the fleet.
Stay temporarily in the spaceship 'after the explosion'.
These 'exploded' spaceships will not be evacuated, but will continue to observe, learn, and analyze their own shortcomings. According to the plan, they can return in a month with new fighters and spaceships that are equivalent to replenishment.
In the next few days, the hit rate of both sides began to increase, but it was still difficult to break through the 3% hit rate! Wang Hong, the military consultant of Dayang Group and ASEAN, even discovered a problem: the error value is unstable!
"This is wrong!" Wang Hong frowned deeply as he looked at the data of the past few days.
For the data in recent days, because enough raw data has been collected, the accuracy has continued to increase. Therefore, there is no supplement of ‘±’ in the recent data set.
The data before Wang Hong at this time was a series of irregular numbers: the highest was 3.317, and the lowest was 3.106. After connecting all the numbers, and matching the time coordinates, the distance traveled by the fleet, etc., an irregular pattern appeared.
curve.
This curve is like an ocean wave, with large and small waves mixed with each other, and sometimes two consecutive troughs or crests will appear for you, without any rules at all.
However, when Shu Bennan looked at the data, time, and planet rotation together, he exclaimed: "I found it, I found it.
You see, when the first value is large, our position is exactly on the extension line of the sun and Venus.
When the first value is maximum, we are on the reverse line connecting Jupiter and the Sun. Jupiter is on the other side of the Sun.
This error is caused by gravity!"
"Gravity?" Wang Hong thought thoughtfully, "It looks like it, but it always feels a bit forced."
"It's not gravity, it's the distortion of time and space!" Murong Shan suddenly came over, "News just came from behind, and the cause of the error has been found.
In Mr. Zhang’s words: Space-time is not smooth. Affected by gravity, space-time is uneven. However, the unevenness of space-time is not like the bumps on the road, but more like the sea.
Think about it, the density of the sea itself should be uniform. But because of different salt content, different dissolved minerals, and different temperatures, the density of seawater will be different.
Perhaps this difference is very weak, but if the distance is extended to a scale of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, this difference cannot be ignored.
If the density is different, the transmittance, refractive index, etc. will be different.
If we apply this path to the universe, salt is the planet. This planet is not just Tianyuan Star, the sun, etc., but also includes the entire huge galaxy. After all, our galaxy itself is attracted by the large galaxy."
Wang Hong suddenly realized: "I see! But if this is the case, wouldn't the calculation be more complicated?"
"No need. Because the interference from large galaxies to us is basically constant. What really causes changes are the massive planets inside our galaxy.
In the past ten days or so, the scientists at the rear have deduced the rules of space-time distortion.
I have sent the data to your mailbox, please take a look and enter it into the computer."
"Okay!" Wang Hong turned around and left. But after walking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and turned around and asked, "Time and space are not smooth. This is a very good term. Who came up with this? How did you discover it?"
Murong Shan was a little hesitant or confused. He paused for a while and then said: "I heard that Mr. Zhang immediately raised this term after learning about our problem and asked everyone to study it.
The use of seawater as a metaphor for time and space was also proposed by Mr. Zhang. Mr. Zhang even further proposed that gravity is just an appearance; the real reason is the distortion of space and time.
The so-called gravity is our angle in space and time, falling downward.
Well, I don’t understand much about this either. You first input the data into the computer and take a look. If the accuracy rate is greatly improved, it means that the conclusion that space-time is not smooth is correct. These are also a test of the new space-time theory."
"Understood."
Wang Hong quickly found the email, decompressed the data, entered it into the computers of several warships, and then asked the newly upgraded warships to give each other some color.
Fourteen and a half hours later, there were two battleships from the Xuanhuang Group and they sadly left the scene!
Wang Hong immediately counted the accuracy of the cannonball just now, but was surprised to find that the accuracy had increased to... 49%!
"Time and space are not smooth?" Wang Hong's eyes became brighter and brighter. While inputting new data to all the battleships, he looked at the fleet on the opposite side: Maybe, something can be done!