Road to science and technology

After Yue Yuanzhou asked Whale Eye to introduce the basic overview of the Yuanxing spacecraft, he no longer hesitated. After turning off the fusion thruster, he allowed the Yuanxing to fly forward with inertia, and then directly started the warp engine, targeting 12.8 light-years away. NWX188 star system.

As the warp engine started, the curvature of space-time around the Yuan Star began to change. The space-time at the front of the spacecraft was compressed or distorted, while the space-time at the rear was stretched.

At this time, the Yuanxing also began to slowly disappear into the visible universe. Yue Yuanzhou, who was in the cab, watched the space at the front of the spacecraft being distorted, as if it had entered an avenue of stars. The stretched or curled starry sky looked very weird.

Yue Yuanzhou seemed to be watching the scenery of the warp voyage. In fact, he was connected to the shipboard computer on the spacecraft through his personal supercomputer at this time, recording the changes in space curvature, gravitational waves, etc. during the warp voyage. , and then use shipboard quantum computers to assist in the calculation of certain special problems.

And this quantum computer has to be said to be the achievements of Asa. Their mature quantum network system was directly picked up by Yue Yuanzhou. Of course, even a quantum computer as mature as Asa has limitations. For some algorithms, it is Conventional computers cannot compare, but some calculations cannot replace conventional computers.

Thinking of this, Yue Yuanzhou couldn't help but said to himself: "It would be great if quantum computers could also be implanted into genes, but it's a pity that it doesn't work. The only positions found are occupied by supercomputers. It seems that certain quantum computers have an absolute advantage." Special calculations can only be done with shipboard plug-ins."

Speaking of plug-ins, Yue Yuanzhou thought bitterly: There are no plug-ins in time travel, but they are not made by me.

At the current warp speed flight status of the spacecraft, it will take almost half a year to reach the NWX188 star system 12.8 light-years away. Although the spacecraft flying at warp speed is in a relatively stationary state in space, if it is intuitively converted into a speed of approximately Twenty times the speed of light.

This is already the limit that current technology can achieve, unless Yue Yuanzhou can improve the optimization engine again.

So Yue Yuanzhou said to the cute little robot ‘Whale Eyes’: “Record: Remind me in ten days to continue upgrading my body.”

"Dudu￥%...! Da" the whale's eyes turned in circles in the air and muttered.

The current upgrade progress of only 10% obviously cannot meet Yue Yuanzhou's needs. Now that the technology has matured, he has to complete this time-consuming upgrade. When all the atoms in his body are upgraded, then he will be the nuclear engine Yue Yuanzhou.

As for how many cores it has, it depends on the supercomputer in the gene. The nuclear engine only provides energy to the supercomputer, and then its ideas are transmitted to the supercomputer, which then mobilizes energy to affect reality.

So it's called a nuclear power engine, a supercomputing core.

Once the upgrade is completed, surviving the physical body in space should not be a big problem.

Yue Yuanzhou sighed, "This is really a long way to go. Forget it, let's continue to upgrade."

In fact, Yue Yuanzhou knew that even if he really arrived on Earth, it would probably be hundreds or thousands of years later, but he just wanted to go back to see if it was the original Earth. However, even the original Earth would probably have changed forever.

Just this thought together, like an obsession, urged him to go back. Why did he come here inexplicably? He didn't know whether it was time traveling or space movement.

He had to confirm this, otherwise wouldn't it be very sad to know that one day he would suddenly change places for no apparent reason.

It was precisely because of this consideration that he felt that instead of passively waiting for the unknown to come one day, it was better to take the initiative to find the answer, and Yuanxing's technology just gave him this confidence.

Yue Yuanzhou shook his hair, which had not been cut for a long time, and walked towards the upgraded equipment. It was like a sleeping cabin, but three or four times larger than a normal single-person sleeping cabin.

Yue Yuanzhou walked to the device and set the relevant data, then lay down in it and started upgrading.

As for the Yuanxing's flight, leave it to Whale Eyes.

During the half-year voyage at warp speed, Yue Yuanzhou woke up twice, mainly to deal with some accumulated faults that occurred during the flight of the spacecraft. There were some things that intelligent robots could not handle.

In the past, Yue Yuanzhou also thought that warp sailing meant swooping into something like a shuttle tunnel, and then swooping out directly to reach the destination, so he would not be affected by the slow clock effect.

The so-called clock slowness effect is a physical phenomenon of time dilation. Simply put, the faster an object moves, the slower time passes. When the speed reaches the speed of light, the object's time will stop. Of course, this is a crude statement, and the time mentioned here is all relative.

Later, after he learned a lot about it, he realized that in fact, after warp sailing distorts space and time, it is equivalent to the spacecraft being stationary while space and time are moving. This avoids the problem of time dilation. However, the movement of space and time also has a "relative speed", and the speed depends on it. The spacecraft's warp drive powered it.

To give a simple example, a mobile phone is placed on a table covered with a tablecloth, and then two forces of different sizes are used to quickly pull open the tablecloth. Of course, these two forces are large enough to keep the mobile phone stationary while the tablecloth is being pulled. It doesn't move, so the greater the force, the shorter the time it takes for the phone to be completely out of the range of the tablecloth.

Or two paper boats with soapy water on their tails are put into an absolutely calm lake at the same time. The soapy water is also used to destroy the tension of the water, thereby making the paper boats move forward. However, applying high-quality soapy water is better than inferior soap. The effect of water is good, which is reflected in the paper boat. The paper boat is faster, but no matter how fast it is, it cannot reach the destination at once.

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Half a year later, Yue Yuanzhou woke up from the upgrade cabin according to the settings. The Yuanxing was about to exit the warp sailing state. He wanted to record the parameters of this state of entry and exit.

Because it is very likely that the secrets of some technical principles are hidden in these appearances.

After a period of space-time distortion around it, Yuanxing finally appeared in the visible universe half a year later, and these parameters of space-time distortion were recorded by Yue Yuanzhou to provide more data for subsequent research.

When Whale Eyes, which had been powered on for half a year, saw Yue Yuanzhou coming out, he immediately circled around him twice, showing a smile-like expression (~￣▽￣)~ and then pressed his sleep button with a curved robotic arm: "Dudu~bye."

This guy can also take the initiative to sleep, which is a bit cute, but Yue Yuanzhou doesn't need it for the time being, so let him recharge it first.

Yue Yuanzhou walked to the cab. At this time, a star far brighter than the surroundings appeared in front of the Yuanxing. This was the star NWX188.

A star that emits yellow light. According to observational data analysis, this star is about 3 billion years old. Its radius is equivalent to 0.8 times the radius of the sun, and its mass is only 0.7 times the mass of the sun. After about 8 billion years, when It ran out of fuel, and eventually inevitably entered the same fate as the sun, turning into a cold iron ball.

It's just that its mass is slightly smaller and its lifespan is slightly longer than that of the sun.

The lifespan of a star is equivalent to an eternity for Yue Yuanzhou's lifespan today.

Yue Yuanzhou looked at the observation data and said to himself: "Based on the fact that I seem to be able to live for thousands of years, the lifespan of a star can indeed be said to be an eternity, but it's okay to know that I can't die now."

After switching back to fusion propulsion, Yuanxing flew towards the fifth planet in the NWX188 star system.

This planet is slightly larger than the Yuanxing, with a radius 1.3 times that of the Yuanxing. The density of the atmosphere is only 0.5 kilograms per cubic meter, and the oxygen content is only 0.56%.

It is about 6.6 astronomical units from the central star. It is indeed a harsh planet for humans.

And Yue Yuanzhou's goal is it, who calls it a mine.