After a few days of flight, Deep Space gradually moved away from the Knicks...

"Reporting the captain, the current spacecraft is 3.7 million kilometers away from the Knicks star, the space curvature 2.7 class, in line with the conditions of use of the curvature engine!"Please give instructions!”

“Start the curvature engine!”The sound of the treach.

“Commit the captain, start the curvature engine!”

With a command, the ion engine gradually goes out, and the curvature engine attached to the upper part begins to work.

A thin layer of curvature bubbles appeared around Deep Space, like a soap bubble, wrapping the entire ship in.

From the outside, Deep Space began to accelerate with a higher "acceleration"...

However, this higher "acceleration" will not exert force on the spacecraft, nor will it increase the kinetic energy of the spacecraft, but will be carried out in the physical way of the entire space motion.

With the official start of the curvature engine, the surrounding starlight began to twist and deform, but the detection instruments inside the spacecraft showed that everything was normal in all parts.

A scientist behind him smiled and wiped the sweat beads from his head: "It seems that this curvature voyage is basically no problem, all the data is normal, there is no accident."

Yu Yifeng also carefully looked at the parameters on the screen and breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, it is impossible for human beings to joke about their lives, such experiments have been done many times, and success is very natural... The first voyage of mankind can not directly blow up the ship that has been hard-working for more than 100 years.

Speaking of the "curvature engine" technology, it is the standard L2 level in interplanetary civilization.That is to say, the new human civilization has just arrived at the L2 level in the interstellar civilization!

The reason is that it has to be traced back to the great life of physics 30 years ago, once... a huge breakthrough in theory!

More than 30 years ago, the human understanding of the nature of space was still very low, and it is still in the era of general relativity.

But, 30 years ago, an unexpected thing happened: the Super Hadron Collider finally captured a new type of “heavy particle”!

On that day, the "classic model" was finally broken, and "dark matter" was discovered by humans!

A series of new theories came into being, bringing about the golden age of physics for decades to come.

In fact, the construction of the nuclear fusion and the Deep Space was completed more than 30 years ago.In the following period, people studied mainly dark matter theory and the corresponding "curvature engine technology".

The curvature engine, a new type of driving technology developed on the basis of the theory of "dark matter", is an important milestone in interstellar civilization.

It marks that civilization bid farewell to the way of kinetic energy promotion and can quickly carry out long voyages at the light-year level!

Dark matter does not absorb, reflect or radiate electromagnetic waves, that is, it does not interact with ordinary matter.In fact, it is more appropriate to use "transparent matter" to describe dark matter, because you can't see it or touch it, but it's distributed around, everywhere.

And dark energy, in the latest theory, refers to a kind of space-filled, negative pressure of energy, this dark energy brings the negative pressure, in the long distance is similar to a kind of anti-gravity, the expansion of the universe is caused by dark energy.It may be essentially a dynamical field, and of course it may be part of a vacuum energy...

This is also the focus of the current debate among scientists, and people do not understand the nature of these things, but it does not affect the use of them.

And dark matter is even more diverse, there are different kinds.

Scientists were surprised to find that some [strange matter], with great gravitational negative pressure, the mass of this material turned out to be "negative"!

The appearance of the "singular material" with a negative mass makes it possible to drive the curvature.

Because the curvature drive needs "negative substances"!

“If a spacecraft in space can iron out part of the space behind it with negative material and reduce its curvature, then the spacecraft will be pulled over by the space with greater curvature ahead, which is the basic principle of curvature driving.”

“The curvature drive can’t reach its destination in an instant like a folding of space and a wormhole, but it has the potential to bring the spacecraft closer to or even beyond the speed of light!”

"More importantly, the energy consumption associated with the curvature engine is not related to the spacecraft's mass, but only to the volume of the curvature bubble and the speed of navigation."This technique circumvents the relativistic effects of the near-light speed, which greatly reduces the energy consumption of the spacecraft.”

With this series of core theories, coupled with the curvature space data that was once obtained when attacking the green spacecraft, the development of the "curvature engine" took only 30 years.

Then humans became the L2 civilization of the right eight times ... probably up to about three times faster than the speed of light.

Of course, this l2 is very virtual, the human development time is still too little, the dark matter theory is far from being explored clearly.

"So, basic science can't be useless ah..." Yu Yifeng saw the spacecraft sailing smoothly, and he was in a good mood.

“But the super-roson collider is also too expensive, ten thousand times more powerful than the previous level on Earth ... no wonder low civilization can’t be found.”

“The curvature engine at the back is even more expensive... the energy consumption is huge!”

Thinking of this series of scientific developments, Yi Feng could not help but shake his head, "Even if the low-level civilization happens to find dark matter, there is not enough energy, so it can't use the curvature engine..."

"Only a strong enough system can we achieve more continuous climbing technology, which is inevitable!"

However, curvature navigation also has some shortcomings.

With the existing human technology, it is difficult to carry out in places with higher curvature in space, that is, where gravity is larger, so the old-fashioned ion engine is still necessary to build.

And because of the space distortion relationship of the curvature bubble, the spacecraft's observation of the outside world has become very difficult, requiring the computer to perform image reproduction.

The faster you fly, the more difficult it is to observe the outside world.

This observation is at the critical point of the speed of light, and when the speed exceeds the speed of light, there is no way to observe the outside world!

“As you know, the goal of this voyage is to have a terrestrial planet number GB131, which is about 0.62 light-years away from the Knicks and is expected to arrive within six months.”

"In the past six months, the departments have strengthened their responsibilities, and I don't want accidents on the first voyage, understand?"

Yu Yifeng is constantly indicating in the ear.

“Well, Minister Xu Yunjin ... and the heads of departments come to my office, and we have a short meeting.”

After saying this sentence, Yu Yifeng's mood also became active.

People always have to look forward, see the eager expression of some scientists in the captain's room, he knows that everyone basically got rid of the separation from the Knicks star.

People choose the planet GB131, which is still in the binary system.There is, of course, a reason for this choice.

The distance of 0.62 light-years, not short or long, just in time to check the comprehensive performance of the "Deep Space".There is even a short period of time beyond the speed of light, and people can get a lot of detailed experimental data to improve the curvature engine.

Although it is already the level of l2 interstellar civilization, it is the first time that humans have carried out an interstellar voyage at the light-year level, and it is impossible to fly tens of hundreds of light-years at the beginning.

Take a step back, and in case there is something wrong with Deep Space, you can also make emergency repairs on the planet.

On the other hand, planet GB131 has a lot of helium-3 resources!

The planet is only slightly larger than the moon, has no magnetic field on the surface, and a large amount of material ejected by the binary system is fully capable of spraying it.

So billions of years down, it is estimated that billions of tons of helium-3 can be mined!

Helium-3, placed throughout the galaxy, is also a rare good thing.

At least for humans who have just entered the stars, it is really worth looking for, more important than gold!

In this way, many scientists and department heads walked into the captain's room with excitement.