Ten thousand I am across the heavens

The most shocking part of the original Three-Body Problem is probably the part where the three-body detector destroys the human fleet internationally. , Annihilated [-] stellar-class warships in the human space fleet, so that it was said to be a [-]-gun battle.

But in Lan Nuo's view, the water droplets of Trisolaris are not as strong as he showed. The most important reason why the human space fleet will be wiped out in such a short period of time is that they are arranged in space to meet the water droplets. An extremely dense formation was formed, so that the water droplets that use impact as an attack mode can quickly destroy every warship in a very short time.

If these battleships are distributed in the vast starry sky, even if the water droplets want to destroy it, it will take a lot of time. During this process, humans may not be unable to find a way to deal with this kind of probe.

In fact, long after he knew that the world he came to was the Three-Body Universe, Lan Nuo was already thinking about how to fight against the weapon of water droplets at the tactical level.

Water droplets have strong interaction materials as their shells. Any matter in the solar system is fragile in front of him. Almost all attacks by humans cannot destroy his shells. Atoms and structures that fit tightly together are the existing technology of human beings. unbelievable.

In addition, it has the ability to turn at an acute angle regardless of inertia in a short period of time. Even if it accelerates to a very high speed, it can complete the direction reversal within a very small radius, which makes it more flexible in space. Almost unbeatable.

It also allowed him to destroy one star-class warship after another just by relying on the most primitive impact.

In the process of destroying the fleet, when the water droplets accelerated to the highest speed, it was a full 170 kilometers per second, which already exceeded the third cosmic speed of the solar system.

It seems that human beings have no way to deal with this defenseless opponent. Even if the artillery can lock him, there is no way to really break his outer shell and damage his internal structure.

But Lan Nuo saw the hope of defeating water droplets in nanomaterials. Sometimes the strength of materials is not the only factor that determines the outcome of the war.

Take a simple example.The metal used by the sharp spear is much stronger than the soil, but if the spear is pierced into the swamp, no matter how sharp it is, it will take a lot of effort to pull it out of the swamp. come out.

In terms of strength, nanomaterials are definitely not comparable to strong interaction materials, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a world of difference between the two.

But what Lan Nuo needs is not head-to-head with the strength of the water droplets, as long as he can resist the power of the water droplets is enough.

The reason is very simple, let’s use the simplest analogy. It is also an extremely sharp long spear. After waving it among the water plants for a while, countless water plants will be entwined on it. Relying on the strength of his own swing, he cut off the aquatic plants wrapped around him, and as long as these aquatic plants became more and more entangled, the speed of swinging the spear would also drop significantly.

Space is such an environment with nowhere to rely on. If nanomaterials are made into large nets or thin wires and wrapped around water droplets, then in such an open space with nowhere to rely on, water droplets can Turning at a sharp angle, his smooth outer surface is also difficult to destroy nanomaterials.

As long as there are enough nanomaterials in the space to wrap the water droplets, his flight will become more and more difficult, and the mass wrapped around the outer shell will become larger and larger, and eventually he will lose his ability to fly in space even if he can turn at an acute angle. flexibility in .

At that time, humans can even directly smear cement on the water droplets full of nanomaterials, so that the entangled sphere will become heavier and heavier, reaching tens of thousands of tons in weight. Water droplets are after all detectors, maybe they A fighter jet equivalent to a Trisolaran is already considered a very strong detector, but its power is limited after all. With such a huge mass, its moving speed will become extremely slow.

Warships can capture it and install propellers on it. Relying on the number of propellers, it can completely make up for the power gap with water droplets. In the case that they cannot move quickly, human beings have all ways to break through the strong water droplets. interaction force material.

There is no way to destroy this kind of material on the battlefield, because the conditions of the battlefield are limited. When the target is completely restricted from moving, humans can completely move it to the vicinity of the high-energy particle collider in space and send him a shot of accelerated particles. High-energy particles close to the speed of light can definitely penetrate strong-interaction materials. The only flaw is that this thing cannot be used as a weapon in a battleship.

As long as the outer shell of the water drop is broken, the internal structure is actually very fragile. In the original book, the blue space number and the gravitational number use the fragments of the four-dimensional space to destroy the water droplet from the inside. It can be seen that the blue space number is even just Let the astronauts wear spacesuits and use the simplest individual weapons to instantly destroy the structure of the water droplets from the inside. If high-energy particles penetrate into the interior of the water droplets, it will also cause a similar effect. Even if it cannot be destroyed once, the water droplets have been destroyed. In the case of capture, there is also a chance for a second try.

This is also one of the important reasons why Lan Nuo found Wang Miao. The two chatted happily and exchanged their understanding of nanomaterials.

"Dr. Wang, I hope to develop a high-temperature-resistant nanomaterial, so that after the breakthrough of controllable nuclear fusion technology, I can try to directly guide the energy in the ring of great change and launch it through the propeller.

In this way, although it is not propellant-free propulsion, the reaction force provided by the high-energy particles ejected at ultra-high speed is similar to that of propellant-free propulsion.

But this has extremely strict requirements on the materials of the engine. To withstand high temperatures of hundreds of thousands of degrees, it also needs to have a high enough strength to be able to confine high-energy particles. "

Wang Miao smiled and said, "It's not like your technology can be used on mechas. Even if I successfully develop this kind of material, can your body withstand this kind of acceleration? I think your way of thinking It is very suitable for interstellar warships. Although it is still propelled by working fluid, the consumption of working fluid is already very small and can be completely ignored.

Theoretically, as long as enough water is carried on the spacecraft, there is a great probability of completing the interstellar journey.But no matter where this technology is applied, the technical direction you proposed is worth trying.

In fact, we are also experimenting with various nanomaterials with different properties, among which there are high temperature resistant types, and the above has also sent us related tasks. Future battleship propeller nozzles will need such high-strength materials. Yours Requirements can be fully met. "

"That would be great! I still have some design ideas about nanomachines. You can refer to them. Although our technology is blocked by sophons, there is still a lot of room for development on the road of nanomachines. "

Lan Nuo quickly shifted the topic to another direction. The reason for the need for high-temperature-resistant nanomaterials is that water droplets will generate high temperatures during the process of propulsion. This can be seen from the final ending of Dr. Ding Yi in the original book Yes, if the nanomaterial used as the catch net itself does not have enough high temperature resistance, it is very likely to be burned by water droplets.

However, according to Lan Nuo's experience in developing technology in many worlds, it is not difficult to develop nanomaterials that can withstand the high temperature produced by water droplets. successfully manufactured.

"You see, this is my way of thinking, using biological genes as the operating system of nanomachines. In fact, bacteria and viruses are quite sophisticated nanomachines, but we have no way to control this kind of nanomachines now. , there is no way to make them evolve exactly as we want.

But if we combine biological genes with the shell of tiny nanomaterials, we may be able to produce nanomachines that are completely under our control, which can be manipulated from the outside world through electromagnetic waves or even neutrinos.

These things can be used in medical treatment, warship damage management, and even synthetic food in the future. If we can combine the two branches of nanotechnology, our technology still has great potential for development.

Although the Trisolarans have far surpassed us in terms of theoretical physics, with the same technology, we may not be able to catch up with or even surpass us in terms of technology breadth. Although it is still difficult to defeat the Trisolaran fleet, but..." When Lan Nuo said this, he stopped talking and changed the topic.

"Does Dr. Wang know anything about biotechnology? In addition to longevity technology, one of the topics I am most concerned about recently is the cheapness of organic compound synthesis."

Wang Miao was still very interested in the topic just now, but he didn't want Lan Nuo to stop halfway through talking, but he followed Lan Nuo's train of thought and asked: "The gap between organic compound synthesis technology and longevity technology should be very large. Well, why did you suddenly turn your research and development direction to this?"

Lan Nuo sighed, removed a world map and spread it on the desktop. This world map is not a political map or a topographic map, but a distribution map of animals and plants.

"Although I am not an environmentalist, and I firmly believe that the earth's resources should be used by people, but the earth's government that is in panic now is a bit too aggressive in the use of resources.

You can see on the map that this area of ​​North China was originally covered by relatively dense vegetation, but now it is no different from the Loess Plateau. Although I am not an expert in this area, I can roughly infer that in the next In the next few years, Northeast and North China, the Great Lakes of North America, and the Mississippi River Basin will gradually show signs of desertification.

The degree of pollution in the Ganges River Basin is also gradually serious, and large-scale food production will be reduced in major food producing areas in the world. Facing a great famine.

I don't have much confidence in using my thinking to deceive Trisolarans, but I still have a little confidence in my own brain. I will probably be able to cheapen and popularize organic compound synthesis technology before the next famine comes. Humanization, at least to help mankind survive the immediate crisis. "

Wang Miao looked at the area on the map that was originally a forest, but now it has been reclaimed into farmland and industrial areas, and there are signs of desertification. Judging from the current situation, the deterioration of the environment is indeed quite obvious.

Perhaps the large-scale global desertification will not come as fast as Lan Nuo said, but this is already a major trend and almost inevitable. Under this situation, it can be foreseen that the future of mankind is indeed extremely uncertain. The big possibility is to face a super famine.

In that case, less than half of the nearly 80 billion people in the world could survive.

In fact, the cause of the Great Depression in the original book is the desertification of the land and the massive famine caused by the large-scale reduction in food production.

During the period of the Great Depression in the original book, the human economy has collapsed, but the economic collapse is under military control, and people's basic survival can still be maintained, but the famine has become the last straw that overwhelms human beings.

No job, no repayment of loans, these are all problems that can be solved through political means. They can be solved by changing policies, issuing subsidies, and redistributing social resources.

But without food, there is no way to solve it through political means. If there is not enough food, some people are doomed to starve to death, which is independent of human will. , but an important reason why it completely collapsed during the Great Trough.

Lan Nuo absolutely does not allow the Great Valley to appear again in this world. Only 80 billion people are left after 20 billion deaths. This is simply the biggest failure in human history. If these people can survive, then the future productivity of human beings will still be It can be multiplied several times, and under the condition of targeted tactics, after 200 years, the Trisolaran can only let the water droplets reach the solar system, it is fully capable of defeating the Trisolaran’s detector, and even It is possible to defeat the Trisolaran's detector at a relatively small price.

In that case, even if the technology is blocked and the enemy's detectors are captured, quite a lot of technology can be deciphered from it. Lan Nuo's ultimate goal is to defeat the Trisolarans without deterrence, and the dark forest deterrence is only his last The means used to cover the bottom line.

As for the imminent food problem, Lan Nuo is very familiar with it. When he traveled to the world of biochemical crisis for the first time, he developed and improved various high-yielding bugs and mushrooms, creating enough food sources for refugees in the apocalypse , After crossing one world after another, the technology in this area has become more and more mature. This time it is the turn of the Three-Body World. Lan Nuo believes in himself and can definitely do better.

[To be continued]

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