The road to technology

Chapter 24 An Obsession

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

With the start of the warp engine, the curvature of space-time around the star begins to change, the space-time at the front of the spacecraft is compressed or twisted, and the space-time at the back is stretched.
At this time, the Yuanxing also began to slowly disappear into the visible universe. Yue Yuanzhou in the cockpit looked at the space at the front of the spacecraft being distorted, as if entering an avenue of stars. The stretched or curled starry sky looked very strange.

Yue Yuanzhou seems to be watching the scenery of warp sailing, but at this time, he is actually connected to the shipboard computer on the spacecraft through personal supercomputing, and records the changes in space curvature, gravitational waves, etc. during this warp sailing process. , and then use the shipboard quantum computer to assist the calculation of some special problems.

And this quantum computer has to talk about Asa's achievements again. Their mature quantum network system was directly picked up by Yue Yuanzhou. Of course, even such a mature quantum computer as Asa has limitations. For some algorithms, it is Conventional computers can't match, but some calculations can't replace regular computers either.

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 unfortunately it won't work. The only places found are occupied by supercomputers. It seems that some quantum computers have absolute advantages. The special calculation of the ship can only be used as a ship-based plug-in."

Speaking of plug-ins, Yue Yuanzhou thought bitterly: Transmigration doesn't send plug-ins, but it hasn't been made for Grandpa.

At the current warp speed of the spacecraft, it will take almost half a year to reach the NWX12.8 star system 188 light-years away. Although the spacecraft is in a relatively static state in space, if it is intuitively converted into a speed, it is almost the same. Twenty times the speed of light.

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

So Yue Yuanzhou said to the cute little robot 'Whale Eye': "Record: Remind me in ten days to continue to upgrade my body."

"Dudu￥%...! Da" Whale Eye muttered as he circled in the air.

At present, only 10% of the upgrade progress is obviously not enough to meet Yue Yuanzhou's needs. Now that the technology is mature, he will complete the upgrade of the water mill. When all the atoms in his body are upgraded, he will be the nuclear engine Yue Yuanzhou.

As for the number of cores, it depends on the supercomputing in the genes. The nuclear engine only provides energy for the supercomputing, and then his ideas are transmitted to the supercomputing, and the supercomputing then mobilizes the energy to affect the reality.

So he called it a nuclear power engine, a supercomputing core.

After the upgrade is completed, it should not be a big problem for the physical body to survive in the universe.

Yue Yuanzhou sighed, "This is really a long and slow journey. Forget it, let's continue to upgrade."

In fact, Yue Yuanzhou knew that even if he did reach the 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, but even the original earth would have been vicissitudes long ago.

It's just that this thought together, like obsession, urges him to go back, why he came here inexplicably, and I don't know whether it's time travel or space movement.

He had to confirm this matter, otherwise, wouldn't it be very sad that he would suddenly change to another place without knowing it one day.

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

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

Yue Yuanzhou went to the device and set up the relevant data, then lay down and started the upgrade.

As for the flight of the Yuanxing, leave it to Whale Eye.

During half a year of warp sailing, Yue Yuanzhou woke up twice, mainly to deal with some accumulated failures of some spacecraft during flight, some things that intelligent robots can't handle.

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

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

Later, after he understood a lot, he realized that in fact, after warp-speed voyage distorts space-time, it is equivalent to the spaceship being stationary while space-time is moving, which avoids the problem of time-dilation. However, the movement of space-time also has a "relative speed", and the speed depends on The power of the spacecraft's warp engine.

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 the tablecloth. Of course, these two forces are large enough to satisfy the mobile phone when the tablecloth is pulled. It doesn't move, so the greater the force, the less time it takes for the phone to be completely out of range of the tablecloth.

Or two paper boats with soapy water smeared on their tails, when placed on an absolutely calm lake at the same time, also use the soapy water to destroy the tension of the water, so that the paper boats move forward, but smearing high-quality soapy water is better than inferior soap. The effect of water is good. The paper boat is faster, but 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 had to record the state parameters of this entry and exit.

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

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

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

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

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

A star emitting yellow light, according to observational data analysis, this star is about 30 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 80 billion years, when It ran out of fuel, and eventually inevitably entered the same fate as the sun, turning into an icy iron ball.

It's just a little bit less mass, and its lifespan is a little bit longer than the sun.

And a little lifespan of a star is equivalent to an eternity for the lifespan of Yue Yuanzhou today.

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

After switching back to fusion propulsion, Metastar headed toward the fifth planet in the NWX188 star system.

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

About 6.6 AU from the central star, it is indeed a planet with bad links for humans.

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

(End of this chapter)