From black technology to super engineering

Although the last asteroid capture plan was completed perfectly, there is one thing to say, it is very inefficient, and it is only suitable for the collection and capture of asteroids that escaped to the side of the earth-moon orbit. However, it is really necessary to efficiently collect and utilize the resource-type asteroids in the asteroid belt, especially those asteroids rich in rare and precious elements or even more precious water ice. A bit bad.

Therefore, when the Guanghan base is about to enter 2.0 and start the era of space smelting, it is extremely urgent to find an efficient method of collecting and capturing resource-type asteroids.

The idea put forward by the domestic aerospace department is to build a large artificial gravity capture ring.

Its principle is similar to using a gravity device to "intercept" fighter jets into storage.

After aiming at a target asteroid, first enter its orbit, then speed up to the front, then slow down slowly, wrap the asteroid with a hollow gravity ring, and then start the gravity system, thereby offsetting the angular momentum and gravitational force of the asteroid, and Finally complete the deceleration.

This method is extremely convenient for smaller asteroids.

"Actually, for large asteroids, such as those with a diameter of a few kilometers, if you really want to develop them, you can design a special mining spaceship, which can mine automatically after parking on it."

"But that cost is worse than shipping it from Earth."

"Calculate the orbit, set up a collection group, and then use a large transport spaceship to take it away directly."

After determining the design ideas and plans of the large-scale capture ship, the experts began to chatter and think of other scenarios.

"I think it's okay. The asteroid belt will indeed become a resource zone in the future." Ye Ming took off the VR glasses and connected the screen with a monitor. Try not to use it. Start with the moon, Mars and the asteroid belt, then look at the big moons of Jupiter, and finally go to the Kuiper belt."

Someone immediately asked, "What about the Oort Cloud?"

"Uh...From a strict point of view, we are not sure whether there is such an area before the detector passes by." Ye Ming paused and laughed: "But I agree with it. "

Everyone laughed together.

The Oort cloud is a hypothesis raised in order to find the source of comets.

After continuous development of the hypothesis, astronomers generally believe that the Oort cloud is the remnant of the nebula that formed the sun and its planets 5 billion years ago, and surrounds the entire solar system.

It is the old home of comets.

However, as imagined, its radius is almost one light-year...

If you really want to go there, at least you have to reach 1/10 of the speed of light to make sense.

"Hey, Mr. Ye, what about the curvature engine?" Director Zhang's voice sounded in the conference room at this moment.

Everyone "swiped" and looked at Ye Ming.

The high-dimensional space membrane can also change the curvature at the same time, which was proposed by Ye Ming two years ago-theoretically, the detector wrapped in the high-dimensional space membrane can realize the curvature "fly".

"Don't think about it for the time being, there is not enough energy." Ye Ming shook his head: "Take the Yaoyue as an example, if you want to add a space membrane to the hull of the Yaoyue and enter a state of curvature... Well, to be precise, to achieve 80% of the sub-light speed state, it needs to maintain 400,000 megawatts of energy. If it exceeds the speed of light, 500,000 megawatts..."

"Currently, the power of the Yaoyue's engine is only 10,000 megawatts. Even if super electrodes are added to store energy on a large scale, it won't last long—in essence, the curvature engine still uses energy in exchange for spatial displacement. , it is conserved."

"The space scale here, is it a high-dimensional space or a three-dimensional space?"

"The high-dimensional space membrane is used, and it must be a high-dimensional space scale." Ye Ming smiled and explained: "We can understand that if the spaceship is covered with a space membrane, it is not actually moving in three-dimensional space. , but in the four-dimensional space. It’s just that in high dimensions, you don’t need to follow the principle that the speed of light can’t be surpassed.”

"Well... We can even think that the curvature of the high-dimensional space membrane changes and moves, but it is actually the high-dimensional projection in three dimensions that moves."

Director Zhang laughed: "Well, it's getting more and more mysterious."

Ye Ming also smiled: "Yeah... this thing is not sure yet, and we are just getting a glimpse of it. If we really want to achieve controllable and perfect curvature navigation, we have to wait until the theory is mature and unified. By the way, How is the progress of the flying saucer? Boss Luo came to ask about the progress just now under the guise of Daoxi."

The so-called "flying saucer" refers to the previously designed saucer-shaped transport ship.

Hmm...the kind specially used to take off and land large parts.

In the design, it makes perfect use of the anti-gravity force field structure, which can easily realize the loading and unloading of large pieces of equipment. It is not too convenient to transport those integrated engines and reactor cores.

"It's coming soon, it will be able to ignite and test flight in two months at most."

...

After the meeting ended, Ye Ming walked into the courtyard quickly.

The small courtyard was brightly lit, like daytime.

Qi Yumo, Mo Gu, Li Dongsheng, Zhong Lei and others have already set up a barbecue booth, and Qi Yumo found an apron from somewhere, and was wearing meat skewers while chatting with Mo Gu.

"Wow, I thought you were all done roasting." Ye Ming stood by the grill and put his hands close to the burning solid alcohol to warm up: "It hasn't started yet?"

"I'm just waiting for you." Li Dongsheng flipped the charcoal skillfully, and the primer suddenly lit up: "Can you roast?"

Ye Ming coughed: "I can eat."

Everyone is happy together.

Then everyone started at the same time, and Ye Ming was also wearing strings on the side in a decent manner.

Soon, the smoke rose, and Li Dongsheng turned into a barbecue stall owner, and began to quickly brush up vegetable oil and chili noodles.

While eating barbecue, everyone also asked about the content of Ye Ming's previous meeting, but after hearing a few words about curvature, everyone lost interest, and instead brought the topic back to the black hole detector launched today.

"It's completely boiling on social media now." Qi and Mo held up the phone and handed it to Ye Ming: "Look, there are two completely different attitudes now..."

"Well, I know, it's too risky to say that black hole detection is too risky." Ye Ming glanced at it and smiled casually.

Although he doesn't pay attention to social media, whether it's He Mo, Ita, or other people chatting at the meeting, they will always reveal the current attitude of netizens on social media.

Even, not only netizens, even the scientific community, have objections to this black hole detection plan, and these people are not unknown people, they are still the kind of well-known scientists.

Not only did they publicly state that it is inappropriate for humans to explore black holes at this time, they even wrote a joint letter and sent it to Ye Ming, to the United Nations, and to the Internet—this has also become the basis for those netizens who hold opposing opinions one.

Even some radical netizens began to attack Ye Ming, saying that he was a dark scientist who tried to realize his curiosity and ignored the overall safety of human beings.

It's as if detecting a black hole is about to trigger an alien invasion.

Most of these netizens are from abroad.

Regarding this... Ye Ming just wanted to say that these people had nothing to do when they were full.

"Are you taking the risk?" Qi Yumo stared at Ye Ming with wide eyes.

"Eh..." Ye Ming put down the barbecue stick, and smiled after a while: "Scientifically speaking, any exploration of unknown things is an adventure. But obviously, this adventure is controllable and worthwhile."

"Actually, haven't we done less risky things in the past few years?" Ye Ming looked at the crowd and said softly: "From 22 years to 28 years now, it's only been six years...not only have we completed the moon landing, They even built such a large base on the moon.”

Ye Ming said and looked up at the moon.

Of course, far away, nothing can be seen.

But with the continuous improvement and expansion of the Guanghan base, a little outline can already be seen through astronomical telescopes on the earth. In the next step, the Guanghan base will expand towards the side facing the earth-due to tidal locking, at any time, humans will see the base on the moon on any bright night of the moon.

And that's really nothing.

The real miracle is the first phase of the Space City, which will be launched at the end of the year.

After the space city is built, humans can see it in the sky with the naked eye.

"Including Aita, we actually took the risk to advance." Ye Ming retracted his gaze and smiled: "There is also controllable nuclear fusion... Tell me, which one of us didn't make big strides?"

Paint and Ink hummed lightly.

Just now, when Ye Ming mentioned six years, she realized that she and Ye Ming... also happened to have known each other for six years.

These six years...well...well, it was the six years when I saw his genius.

Fortunately, the country did not disappoint his genius, but instead supported him with all its strength, which led to such earth-shaking changes.

"Sometimes, I really want to knock your brain open to see if there is a supercomputer installed in it." Qi Yumo glanced at Ye Ming, his eyes rolling.

Hearing this, Mo Gu was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously looked at the back of Ye Ming's head.

She remembered it too clearly, a chip was installed in the back of Ye Ming's head, and...she performed the operation herself.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Mo Gu finally couldn't hold back and asked softly, "Are you okay?"

Seeing her touching the back of her head, Ye Ming understood in seconds.

"Of course, of course it's okay." Ye Ming smiled and grabbed a barbecue and handed it to Qi and Mo: "Come, have a barbecue!"

——If you don’t keep your mouth shut, Lacquer and Ink will start asking questions.

...

The next day, Ye Ming and Li Dongsheng returned to the provincial capital - because Academician Pan's team had already arrived at the Provincial Jiaotong University, and the next step was to move the quantum computer.

Although the relocation of the quantum computer has been simulated countless times, the task of Aita’s online launch is no small matter. The computer room that could have been moved in November last year did not dare to do it until the turn of the year.

Moreover, Academician Pan is said to have a surprise for Ye Ming.

Ye Ming returned to the office on the front foot, and Academician Pan and Tang Zhigao rushed over on the back foot.

"Teacher Pan, is this a happy event?"

Seeing Academician Pan's red face, Ye Ming joked with a smile as he looked old and vigorous.

"It should be a happy event for you - the joy of housewarming." Academician Pan turned his head and looked at Principal Tang Zhigao with a smile: "Tell me, is it the joy of housewarming?"

"Yeah, forget it." Professor Tang laughed: "I moved this time, so I won't worry about it in the future."

"Actually, it's okay if you don't move it." Ye Ming smiled and shook his head: "Apart from physical destruction, who else can do anything to Aita?"

——At the beginning, the decision to move the quantum computer underground was mainly due to the signs of inappropriate people on the Laomei side. In addition, the move of the server to the underground also released a domestic attitude of daring to fight, Therefore, it was pushed forward quickly.

Now that Laomei has actually given up hostility, from the perspective of physical security, it doesn't matter whether they move or not.

Of course, the new computer room has been built, so it’s not justified if we don’t move it...

"Actually, I want to hear the surprise you said more than moving." Ye Ming looked at Academician Pan with a smile: "Is there a spectrum for the quantum hard drive?"

"Soon." Academician Pan also looked at him with a smile.

Ye Ming was slightly taken aback.

Soon?

He knew Lao Pan. Although Lao Pan is a physicist, after so many years of working on quantum computers, he has long been a "practical person".

He said "soon", that is really fast!

"To what extent?"

"At present, we have found a new crystal material, and the time of light quantum information can be preserved for about one year..."

Ye Ming was stunned again: "I'll go! So long? No... wait!"

Ye Ming stood up abruptly as he spoke.

He walked back and forth in the office quickly. Academician Pan and Old Tang looked at each other and looked at him with smiles at the same time.

"Well... About one year is enough."

After walking a few steps, Ye Ming stood still and looked at the two of them.

"Although quantum computers are not the same as classical computer architectures, data queuing is still a big problem in our current classical computing."

Academician Pan nodded with a smile.

In order for a quantum computer to complete classical tasks, it needs a powerful translation layer in theory—in the case of Aita, the Aita in the data center computer room is used as the translation layer.

But in the step of translating classical tasks to the computing core of quantum computers, it is actually affected by data queuing.

There are only two factors that restrict data queuing.

One is cache and one is storage.

Well... you can even simply understand that one is memory and the other is hard disk.

Then this kind of light quantum information can be stored for one year, and it can serve as this "memory".

"We have developed a small quantum computer system to assist Aita's data exchange."

Academician Pan looked at Ye Ming and exhaled lightly: "This probably can raise Aita's computing power to another level."

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