Chapter 181 New Propulsion Technologies and Dyson Films
August 26, 3020 AD.
A super-large space transport ship that can carry 50,000 people takes off from the Everest Space Center, 1,100 kilometers away from the base of the Snowy Mountains, and sails to the transportation hub space station that is slowly circling in the distant space orbit.
On this space ship, in addition to the nearly 10,000 recruits filling the Daxueshan base, there are also nearly 40,000 recruits from six other large bases.
After arriving at the hub, these 50,000 recruits will first gather here together with millions of other recruits from all over the world, and then board tens of thousands of small and medium-sized transport ships to go to the solar orbits at multiple different levels.
fleet in.
Currently, All Human Attack has nearly a million fleets and tens of millions of warships of different specifications.
After almost exhausting all metals, semiconductors, rare metals and various elements in the solar system, humans have built tens of millions of warships of various types.
Each fleet may be large or small.
A main battle fleet of the size of Tianxin Fleet has thousands of battleships of different models.
Mothership equipped with carrier-based swarm fighters, command flagship, main battle cruiser, destroyer frigate, assault combat ship...
Other low-level fleets range from a dozen ships to more than a hundred ships.
These millions of fleets are not stationed together.
Instead, they are in the form of legions, relatively close to each other, and are distributed near the orbits of various levels in the solar system, forming a fleet defense line with a total of three twelve legions.
Among them, the Uranus Region 1 Legion, where the Tianxin Fleet is located, is stationed outside the orbit of Uranus.
"Did you see that pile of starlight? That's the Second District Legion of Mars, with a total of five million spaceships and hundreds of millions of soldiers. Over there, that very faint light is the Third District Legion of Uranus, and the strength of the First District Legion where we are.
Approximately, seven million space ships, one billion warriors."
"Currently, all the ship-based attack and defense modules of the entire military have just been replaced and installed the year before last. Of the more than 30 billion people in the world, nearly half are soldiers! Humanity's military strength has reached an unprecedented state of victory.
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"How is it? I see that you have never had much confidence in this war. Are you feeling a little better now?"
In the command cabin, Tang Tianxin said to Chen Feng with a smile.
Looking at the human fleet that filled the sky like stars, Chen Feng had to admit that he was indeed a little excited.
He is working hard on his own.
Humanity never gives up.
Ten billion colleagues.
How can I say that I have no clothes?
After five hundred years of development, which can even be said to be militancy, mankind has made too many preparations for the day of decisive battle.
Chen Feng had never been to space before, and he had not understood the current military situation because of his period of pessimism. It was only now that he saw it with his own eyes, and could appreciate the silent determination from the clusters of flying glowing lights.
He smiled and said, "It's getting a little better. I hope we can fight."
"Of course, it's a pity that Ou Qinglan and Dr. Mathilde haven't succeeded yet. Otherwise, we can increase our chances of winning."
Tang Tianxin sighed.
Chen Feng was not on the large transport ship.
As early as half an hour before the large transport ship took off, he and dozens of other Daxueshan recruits boarded Tang Tianxin's special high-speed shuttle and headed straight for Uranus.
At this time, other recruits were in the narrow and crowded troop transport compartment of the shuttle, tightly restrained by safety belts.
But Chen Feng sat side by side with Tang Tianxin in the spacious command cabin, talking about life and pointing out the stars.
The speed of the high-speed shuttle ship was much faster than that of ordinary transport ships, and it quickly caught up with and surpassed a medium-sized transport ship in front.
Chen Feng turned his head away and looked at the transport ship's thousands of kilometers of faint blue tail flames, feeling filled with emotions.
After another leap in human technology, today's aerospace technology has reached a height that Chen Feng has never seen before.
Although the main propulsion method of aerospace vehicles is still medium reverse thrust technology, which seems to be essentially the same as it was thousands of years ago, in fact it is very different.
The blue tail flame is not a real flame, but an ultra-high-speed plasma flow carrying astonishing kinetic and thermal energy.
The plasma inside will be accelerated to close to the speed of light when it is just pushed out of the eruption vent.
According to the core law of conservation of momentum, these near-light speed plasma flows will provide huge kinetic energy to the battleship.
Every ion with mass can easily push a huge battleship to speed up a lot.
This was not possible before.
The long tail flame seems amazing, but in fact the mass of medium consumed per hour is even less than 100 grams. To push the transport ship to reach Pluto, the total medium consumed is less than 1000 grams.
Moreover, the material of this medium does not need to be specific. If you collect a meteorite, a piece of space junk in the universe, or dismantle an old chair and throw it into the atomic transformer, it can be transformed into a usable plasma liquid.
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The main energy that powers the spacecraft engine is still electrical energy.
The directional movement of a large number of electrons is still the most efficient and widely used medium used by humans so far.
But the way humans obtain electrical energy has fundamentally changed.
Inside the solar system, the Dyson membrane with space biological properties converts solar energy into electrical energy and condenses it into a huge bio-battery that can be cut into pieces and taken away.
These biological batteries, which contain amazing energy, go through a series of transformations, in which the energy is again transferred to a smaller intermediate carrier, that is, a nuclear fusion battery pack, and finally the energy is transferred to each mechanized unit that needs energy.
When the vehicle moves away from the solar system and enters the deep space of the universe, when there is not enough star light, the ubiquitous cosmic background radiation can also be absorbed by the small Dyson membrane, providing the basic energy for basic power.
Theoretically, today's humans already have the ability to travel across the entire galaxy.
If we have a longer lifespan, stronger construction capabilities, and consume more resources of star systems of several solar systems, we can even build a system suitable for a large number of people to live in, and build a complete aerospace social system. Human beings can start
Coveting other large galaxies beyond the Milky Way, they swarm the entire universe like locusts.
Those are all beautiful visions.
Most of the day passed, and the fast shuttle ship passed through the large entrance and exit opened on the Dyson membrane, flew across the orbit of Uranus, arrived at the starry sky where the Tianxin Fleet was stationed, and docked with the command flagship.
Tang Tianxin led a group of people into the flagship, turned around and ordered: "Except for Chen Feng, Ding Hu and Pang De, everyone else will go to their respective battleships according to their original positions. There will be veterans there to familiarize you with your positions. Dr. Ouyang and
Scott and other technical staff went to the laboratory in the mothership to continue scientific research and be responsible for daily technical support related to the fleet."
When the others heard this, they quickly turned around and left.
Arriving on the fleet, Tang Tianxin seemed to have changed again, appearing more vigorous and resolute in front of outsiders, and he kept his word.
"Ding Hu, you go and serve as the captain of the third Morrowind column of the flagship. Pang De joins your column. You can go too."
Brother Hu and Pang De also left.
Only Chen Feng was left, pointing at himself, "What about me?"
"You serve as my personal security officer. But most of the time I won't call you, and you can make arrangements freely. However, when I need you..."
She blinked and walked away.
She had just returned to the fleet, and she still had many things to deal with.
Chen Feng rolled his eyes wildly, unable to complain.
This blatant support is really annoying.
Forget it, that's fine, I'll be at ease.
He simply planned to go back to his safety officer's exclusive cabin to listen to music and communicate with the project team in Science City.
I don’t know whether the security officer’s status is really that high, or whether he was careless and granted special privileges. His accommodation cabin is very large, nearly 100 square meters, and has all the facilities and space layout.
He even has a dedicated room to house the sizable wireless wake-up device.
This is a battleship where space is very tight.
After sitting on the soft sofa and letting his smart assistant drink a warm cup of atomically synthesized Dahongpao, Chen Feng glanced at the numerous communication requests accumulated in his personal communications.
He ignored them all at first.
After listening to songs for two hours, especially reviewing the song "Across the Starry Sky" that he liked very much, he was able to get out of the state of wandering in the ocean of music.
"Weiwei, lift the vision barrier, let me look at the starry sky outside."
The living room of his accommodation cabin is right outside the flagship and has the best view of the starry sky.
As the light screen projection used to block his vision slowly dispersed, he saw the scene outside.
The floor-to-ceiling window of Chen Feng's living room is facing the direction of the sun.
Looking back from here, it is difficult to distinguish the Earth, Mars, Jupiter and other planets behind us with the naked eye. We can only see the fist-sized sun with a vague colorful halo.
The sun is not blinding.
Originally, when looking back at the sun in the starry sky, it would not show a colorful halo.
The reason for this is that the Dyson membrane shrouded between the orbit of Saturn and the orbit of Uranus diffuses part of the sun's rays, and when it falls to the naked eyes of people outside the Dyson membrane, it appears as brilliant as a bubble flare.
Colorful light wheel.
Chen Feng sighed sincerely.
Dyson membrane is truly amazing and great technology.
Your uncle is still your uncle after all.
Five hundred years ago, Sergey was still so powerful. At that time, he proposed the complete design concept of Dyson membrane, which was digested by later generations and transformed into reality more than two hundred years later.
In many science fiction works around the 21st century, whether novels or movies, the concept of Dyson spheres often appears.
But in fact, with the resources within the solar system, it is impossible for humans to have so much metal and semiconductor materials to build a Dyson sphere that is enough to cover the sun.
Even if there were enough materials, humans would not have that much time to build such huge metal structures.
The time required is not measured in years, but in hundreds of thousands of years and millions of years.
The genius Sergey came up with an amazing idea.
Since metal and semiconductor materials are not allowed, and human construction capabilities are not allowed, why can't we use biological materials?
We create a membrane-like life without intelligence and let it grow into a Dyson membrane on its own!
The problem that originally belonged to materials science and energy science was suddenly changed by Sergey and became a problem in biology.
The root of all ideas has returned to its most primitive level.
plant.
Photosynthesis.
Quantum physics.
Quantum biology.
Einstein proposed the wave-particle duality of light as early as the twentieth century.
In the understanding of first- to second-level civilizations, all energy in the universe seems to be divided into countless categories, but their essence is waves. At the same time, when this energy wave shows regular movement, it will be converted into matter.
The ultimate essence of all energy sources, such as light, radiation, heat energy, electrical energy, etc., is waves.
Light is the form of this energy that is easiest for humans to understand.
It has been 4.55 billion years since the birth of the earth, and it has also been illuminated by the sun's rays for 4.55 billion years.
In the long history of the earth, life originated, cell structure became complicated, and microorganisms, plants, animals...
The plants among them are the producers.
The meaning of the so-called producer is to use sunlight as energy to complete photosynthesis to form organic matter, which is ultimately used and consumed by animals and nature, and then returned to heat energy.
This heat energy continues to pass through the atmosphere and diffuse into the universe.
Assuming that the atmosphere is an inwardly closed existence and heat energy cannot be dispersed, then the mass of the earth must have been increasing.
This increased part is the weight of light.
When light shines on the earth, in addition to being reflected back to the universe, part of it will also be absorbed by the earth. Then the earth will be impacted by light pressure.
This light pressure may be extremely small, but it exists objectively.
This is exactly the qualitative expression of the energy of light.
After the birth of plants, the emergence of chlorophyll caused a qualitative change in the earth's absorption efficiency of sunlight.
Photosynthesis, before humans master antimatter technology, is still the most efficient and incredible way to utilize energy that humans have ever seen.
It is full of the wonders of nature.
Its birth is like a benevolent gift from the universe.
At the moment when light hits the leaves and chlorophyll is emitted.
The light is absorbed and converted into a period of pure energy.
This energy transcends the limitations of time and space, is annihilated at the level of light, and is born out of nothingness at the level of chlorophyll. It accurately hits the unpredictable electron, knocks it away, and finally catalyzes a series of reactions to generate ATP.
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Sergey's inspiration came from photosynthesis, from the incredible ultra-high efficiency quantum transformation in this conversion process from light to matter that can transcend the constraints of time and space.
Sergey absorbed all the knowledge of his predecessors, especially all the achievements of another great biologist Lai Wenming, and simulated and designed an artificial DNA sequence.
This is a great life that should not appear naturally in the universe.
More than two hundred years later, the generation of experts from the Academy of Life Sciences transformed this DNA sequence from theory into reality, and synthesized two seeds, which were carried by different aircraft to two points in the solar system corresponding to the straight lines between the north and south poles of space.
These two seeds absorbed light in the vacuum of space, sprouted and grew, growing into a huge membrane that was as thin as cicada wings but could withstand solar wind and cosmic radiation.
Decades later, the two membranes finally completed precise docking on the ecliptic plane and became an olive-shaped dome, covering the orbit between Saturn and Uranus.
It is both mechanical and biological.
It survives in the vacuum of space and completes photosynthesis.
Unlike the quantum reactions that occur in a tree, the quantum reactions related to photosynthesis in Dyson membranes are even more amazing.
It can be understood that a ray of light shines on the Dyson membrane on this side of the solar orbit, and the energy that can knock away electrons may be born on the other diagonal side of the solar orbit.
At this moment, the energy spanned a distance of three billion kilometers, which is infinite times the speed of light.
Different from ordinary plants, the electrons that are knocked out of the Dyson membrane will not immediately hit the elements to generate ATP, but will spiral and converge into a huge current, spiraling around the Dyson membrane, and eventually form
A huge coil that complies with Ampere's law forms a huge electromagnetic field that is in orbit with the magnetic field of the north and south poles of the sun.
This voltage that drives the flow of current is infinite according to human understanding.
Humans use this voltage difference to build parallel circuits on Dyson membranes, and build a huge ultra-long-distance microwave power transmission network in the solar system to send current to various planets and space bases to provide energy for humans.
When Tang Tianxin's fast shuttle headed for the outer orbit of Uranus, it changed direction from time to time to avoid the microwave transmission network that was invisible to the naked eye.
On the other side, with the spiral surge of electric current, electrons converge on the biological core of the south pole of the Dyson membrane.
The electron flow is classified here, first returning to the original energy, and then re-condensing into matter.
Quark was born.
Atoms, neutrons, and electrons were born again.
At the south pole of the Dyson membrane, energy directly generates hydrogen and hydrogen isotopes composed of protons and electrons.
These isotopes are like the hydrogen element in the sun, undergoing violent fusion reactions to generate isotopes with larger atomic weights on the periodic table of elements, and eventually grow into huge biological batteries like fruits.
The transformation of mass into energy is taken to the extreme here, and pure energy becomes real matter.
This is equivalent to directly converting solar radiation from energy to matter, and it is a new energy that can be infinitely utilized.
Its output is unlimited.
The sun is immortal and will last forever.
Chen Feng looked at the Dyson membrane quietly, imagining the huge electric current inside that was beyond comprehension, and took a deep breath.
