Voyage of the Stars

Because lifespan has been greatly improved, during these hundreds of years of navigation, human beings have not hibernated collectively like before. Most civilians live their lives normally in residential spaceships, and the same goes for people from all walks of life.

Hundreds of years have passed, and the measures previously formulated have been fully implemented. Although the population growth rate is very slow due to the life potion, there have been considerable achievements in other aspects.

For example, in the field of nanotechnology, humans have been able to create nanorobots like Silver Mist. During this period, humans have upgraded Xiao Hui with such technology, which has once again improved human resource collection capabilities. More than ten times.

The social level has also shown a healthy development trend due to the emergence of new regulations.

It can be said that the situation is excellent. Except for the so-called relics that have not been found, human civilization has developed to a peak state. All nanotechnology has been fully developed in these hundreds of years, and people's daily lives are more It is filled with nano-products.

It is a real nano product, not a gimmick propaganda created by the Earth Age.

Nano-vehicles, nano-mobile phones, nano-daily necessities, etc. are all nano-products based on the reshaping of nano-structures like Xiaohui. They are nano-products that can truly be assembled from cloud-like substances into individual appliances.

Today's nanotechnology has truly become a part of people's lives.

Of course, not everything can be manufactured by reshaping nanostructures in this way, such as scientific research equipment and heavy industry equipment. The reason is that they have special components, and the parameters of special components have their own various requirements, such as hardness, corrosion resistance, radiation protection, antimagnetic, magnetic flux, conductivity, etc.

But that’s it. After hundreds of years of development, scientists have discovered that mankind seems to have encountered a bottleneck, or technical barrier, in the field of nanotechnology.

The ability to create nanorobots like silver mist has reached its limit. If we want to continue to advance toward the microscopic level, it involves the level of the uncertainty principle. Although humans have some research in this area, it is obviously only preliminary theoretical research.

"In fact, people outside the industry have no idea that our basic physics has been stagnant for a long time, especially in experimental physics. There has been almost no progress in the past two hundred years. In recent years, it seems that many related products have appeared. Our entire civilization is constantly progressing, but it is actually just an extension and expansion of the field of true nanotechnology.”

A voice sounded on a certain sea-level scientific research ship, which is also where one of the branches of the Institute of Human Physics is located.

The Sea-class spacecraft is very large, with a length of 10 kilometers, a width of about 6 kilometers, and a height of 4.5 to 5 kilometers, so its interior is very spacious, with a simulated projected sky, some plants planted on the roadside, and the main work area has a simulated sun rising in the east. The sky that falls in the west also has various types of buildings like a city.

These buildings are especially obvious on the residential spacecraft, which have obvious architectural features of the Earth era. Of course, it is just like, but it is still very different from the architectural model of the Earth era. After all, it is on a residential spacecraft.

They cannot rise from the ground like they are on the ground, but are more like buildings that stand upright like pillars, or buildings embedded in the hull structure. Needless to say, this design must be to adapt to the acceleration and deceleration of the spacecraft.

If it weren't for the weightless environment, people working and living on it wouldn't even feel like they were on the spacecraft.

"Yeah, I don't think we need to do any more collision experiments in the future. Our space multi-point particle collider can't reach that energy level at all. No matter how many collision experiments we do, there will be no results." Another one. The voice responded.

Hearing the conversation between the two people, Liu Miyan, who was the leading scientist on this project, couldn't stand it anymore: "What do you mean there is no need to do it anymore? Since the experiment has started according to the project plan, let's finish it. It is not a good idea to give up halfway. Get used to it, come on, record it, adjust the equipment according to the parameters, and prepare for the 183,377th collision experiment

This time, increase the intensity and let the collider collide at an overclocked power of 10%. Well, the failure to capture abnormal phenomena may also be due to a problem with the cloud chamber. The parameters of the experimental detector should be adjusted according to these parameters. "

Yes, the scientific team headed by Liu Miyan is conducting collision experiments, but the human fleet is not anchored in a certain star system at the moment, but is sailing among the stars. That's right, it's sailing among the stars, conducting collision experiments while sailing.

In the process of searching for the so-called relics of civilization, human scientific experiments have actually been carried out, and the same is true for collision experiments. After the large fleet completed relative acceleration, scientists assembled the space multi-point collider and then conducted various collision experiments.

The stars in this star field are very sparse and the distance between them is very large. No matter how fast it is to go from one star to another, it will take thirty-four years. This time cannot be wasted.

Therefore, during each voyage, the Space Particle Collider will be assembled.

Anyone who knows something about the theory of relativity knows that the slow-down effect actually occurs during the acceleration and deceleration phase, which is the period of time when the fleet is experiencing great acceleration. After the acceleration is completed, the fleet's constant-speed sailing phase is actually no different from stationary.

You must know that what people usually call stationary does not mean stationary relative to the earth.

Although the Grand Fleet is sailing at 50% of the speed of light relative to the star where it departs, as far as the Grand Fleet itself is concerned, it is actually stationary.

As far as the universe itself is concerned, it makes no difference whether you are stationary relative to the planet or star, or whether you are moving at a constant speed, and it will not have any impact on particle collision experiments.

Because the speed of light does not change.

From this perspective, the human fleet using magnetic thrust technology to push the spacecraft forward can continue to accelerate to the speed of light relative to the starting star. It is theoretically feasible. After all, magnetic thrust technology is fundamentally like 'left foot pedaling'. His right foot moved forward as if stepping on the 'relay point' that appeared behind him, but in reality it didn't work.

The reason is that the energy level is not enough, and the energy level that humans have is not enough.

Magnetic thrust is a navigation technology, and its energy source is still hot and cold nuclear fusion. Humans are just using this energy more efficiently, and there is still a problem of thrust-to-weight ratio.

In fact, it is possible to continue to accelerate, but when the time comes to stop, there will not be enough energy to slow down. If you want to have more energy, you have to put more fuel on the spacecraft, which will make the spacecraft heavier. , the heavier the spacecraft, the greater the acceleration and deceleration energy consumption.

This is obviously unsolvable. The volume of the sea-class spacecraft is the optimal solution obtained after calculation. Unless you continue to accelerate, even if you do not consider stopping and accelerating, you will not reach the speed of light relative to the starting point. Still the same problem limitation.

This question is very interesting. After the emergence of magnetic push technology, some interested people have calculated it. The result is: if you want to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light, you must turn the entire system in which the object is located into energy. Only by providing power, but at this time, the mass of the object also becomes zero.

In other words, you have to become light.