Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 40 Warp Engine

"Well, the force field control device." Yu Nanfeng nodded, and then walked towards the component he called the force field control device.

"Just this thing," he pointed: "It's the thing that we didn't know what role it played in the beginning."

"Later, after we dismantled the bad one, combined with its structure and possible functions, plus our speculation about this alien civilization, we suspected that this engine was a warp engine, and this device should be Warp field generator."

Yu Nanfeng turned around and faced Yue Yuan and Liu Miyan, and continued to talk: "If we guessed correctly and our theory is correct, then the warp bubble or warp force field is produced by this thing, although we don't know How does it create a warp force field?"

"Didn't you say that our theory is correct? How could you not know?" Yue Yuan asked strangely, isn't this contradictory?

Yu Nanfeng patted the outer wall of the engine, "Because our theory cannot fully explain it, and our theory does not fully explain the warp navigation method, so we can only guess and want to determine whether this engine is really warp speed." Engine, you won’t know until you actually try it.”

It could be disassembled and parts replaced, but it couldn't be explained. This made Yue Yuan even more unwilling. So he took two steps forward and glanced at the huge engine: "We can copy it according to its structure. It?"

"No!" Yu Nanfeng answered very simply and without thinking.

Seeing Yue Yuan hesitate to speak, Yu Nanfeng seemed to understand something, so he explained: "Commander, what we are dismantling is the nozzle part, and the replacement parts are also the damaged parts of the nozzle part, its core components and precision mechanical structure Well."

Having said this, Yu Nanfeng let out a long sigh, and then pointed to a corner not far from the basement.

Yue Yuan followed what he expected and saw a pile of mechanical components, original circuit components, and various unknown alloy components placed there.

I slowly got closer and took a closer look, and found that there were quite a lot of things piled up, but the arrangement was a bit messy.

"What is this?" Yue Yuan turned around and asked.

"Engine." Yu Nanfeng replied, "The broken engine we dismantled, we originally wanted to put it back together, but we found that after putting it back together, there were always some parts left."

Hey!
Is this the legendary saying that it cannot be put back together after being dismantled?

Yue Yuan's face turned dark. When he was a child, he had heard of such a thing. It was said that a guy who thought he was very good at doing things broke his mobile phone and took it apart to repair it. However, after dismantling and putting it back together, he found that there were a few extra parts.

I thought this kind of thing was just a legend, but I didn't expect that today I saw it and believed it.

"You didn't use a computer to record the demolition?" Yue Yuan asked curiously.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't be. With current human technology, it is possible to construct a 3D model of an object by recording it with a camera and using scanning technology. How could there be any remaining parts?

Yu Nanfeng spread his hands and said how could we be so stupid: "Those are the parts that fell off due to breakage and deformation. We don't know where they should be placed. As for the copying that the chief said, that's even less true. It’s possible, we simply don’t have that kind of industrial capability, it’s like trying to imitate the gourd but not having a pen.”

"Okay. Just now you said you won't know until you try it, how do you try it?" Yue Yuan asked again. He was thinking that if this thing can really start, then maybe it can be installed on the spacecraft.

I can’t make it, I can’t copy it, but I can’t use it!

It's like an ordinary person getting a gun. Although he doesn't know how to make it, he can still use it after experimenting a lot.

"There's no way to try it." Yu Nanfeng pointed to a discus-shaped object next to the platform where the engine was placed, and said: "This thing is its fuel storage device, an unknown structure that we have never seen before, and it is not a complete mechanical mechanism. It is also equipped with a self-control system. We don’t know the operating mechanism of this system at all, so we don’t dare to disassemble it forcibly.” “You mean we have to decipher its control system first?”

"Yes."

"Have Li Zenglu and Chen Haiyu seen it?"

Li Zenglu is the most professional surviving expert in the field of quantum computers, and Chen Haiyu is a leader in traditional computers and AI, so Yue Yuan asked.

"It's not quantum computer technology." Yu Nanfeng replied: "Dr. Chen said that this system is not a highly intelligent AI, but because it uses an algorithm that is completely different from our computer system, we cannot crack it in a short time. It. But he said last time that this thing doesn’t actually need to be cracked, it just needs to be figured out how to use the system. He should have been looking for its operating code during this time."

"This thing is more than 2 years old, right? Does it still have electricity?" Yue Yuan murmured, looking at the protruding part of the discus, which was about seven or eight meters tall.

This part should be where the system Yu Nanfeng mentioned lies.

"Yes, it doesn't need to be very strong to maintain its electrical signal." After a pause, Yu Nanfeng showed an admiring look, looked up at the large discus-shaped object, and continued: "We suspect that there is fuel in it, but we don't Know how to use it. It’s been more than 2 years. It’s really unimaginable that this thing is still running after more than 2 years.”

It is indeed unimaginable.

It is just a system on a storage device, and its running time is longer than the history of human civilization. How advanced technology can do this!

The three of them were silent for a while, all immersed in the shock of imagination.

"You just said that this thing is a fuel storage device. Do you know what kind of fuel it is?" Yue Yuan patted the big discus again, but it was like patting a solid wall, there was no response at all.

"If we guessed correctly, it should be antimatter." Yu Nanfeng did not speak, but Liu Miyan answered.

"Guess?"

Liu Miyan casually pulled the iron plate and sat down: "Yes, with our technology, we can't break this thing open at all. Of course, we can only guess what is inside. According to our current theory, the minimum required to drive the warp engine is It’s also the energy level of the antimatter level.”

"If we want to preserve antimatter, in our theoretical framework, we must at least realize the grand unified theory. In other words, the civilization to which this spacecraft originally belonged is at least one that has mastered the grand unified theory, so now we basically I don’t know what technology they used to create this fuel storage device.”

It seemed that the idea of ​​installing this engine on the spacecraft was in vain. Yue Yuan sighed in his heart.

Theoretically, humans do now have the ability to create anticharged particles, but true antimatter is not possible because it cannot be preserved even if it is created.

As Liu Miyan said, a unified force field is needed to truly preserve antimatter, because antimatter is not charged and cannot be restrained by a magnetic field.

What a magnetic field can constrain are anti-charged particles, such as positrons and negative protons, which are separate particles.

　Is there a wave of investment? It’s almost over [-]

　　
　
(End of this chapter)