008 Superluminal Transition
"Do you want to be a cloning pilot? It's good, but it's not yet. To be a cloning pilot, you need to learn a lot of skills and pass the strict physical fitness assessment. The elimination rate is very high. In addition, it also takes a lot of money to buy cloning. Aite, take your time, don't worry."
Nuel is quite kind. Apart from being petty about professional issues, he is careless about other issues. Many times he is just brain-free and just picks up his mouth and says it. But after listening to Hong Tao's inquiry this time, he ponders for a while before giving the answer. He can't say it's completely negative, and he is not optimistic.
"Tsk, you can pass the coffin pulp like you, and you can still be difficult for me?" This was what Hong Tao thought in his heart, and he didn't dare to say it out. But after thinking about it, he felt guilty, not because of life-saving, but because of the brain scanning system in the helmet, for fear that these thoughts would also be swept away by the master's brain.
The spacecraft flew in space again, and Hong Tao finally could see the panoramic view outside, but not through the naked eye. The cab seemed to have a whole large porthole, but in fact it was similar to other parts of the spacecraft. They were sealed by several layers of shells and had no windows at all.
The saying that what you see is what you get has become a fallacy in this era. The porthole and the scenery outside the window are images collected through the camera outside the spacecraft, and then processed by the main brain of the spacecraft, and projected onto the inner shell of the spacecraft in the form of a holographic image. Because the projection is very realistic, it looks like it is real.
However, the details seen by everyone and everyone are different. For example, Nuel does not need to use projection to observe external scenes. The main brain of the spacecraft will directly send all the processed images and sound signals into the corresponding parts of the brain, allowing him to directly see everything in the signal in his consciousness.
How to describe this thing? Hong Tao cannot find a suitable word and cannot try it. Only the brain of the cloned pilot who has been strengthened by external plug-ins can withstand such information.
Nuel gave a more vivid explanation, similar to the neuronal earphones worn on Hong Tao's head. It was a high-tech product of the Self-Esteem Group. It does not have the original sounding parts such as earplugs and ear packs. Instead, it directly maps the music signal to the area responsible for listening in the brain through radio waves, and then transmits it backwards to the ears.
Originally, this technology was used by the Self-Esteem Group to protect the copyright of music. There was no sound to record, and the mapping signals were encrypted, so naturally it was impossible to copy pirated copies.
But after this technology was applied, people discovered other benefits. For example, while listening to music, you can also talk to others without interfering with each other. For example, you can talk to others silently through this type of headphone, just like Hong Tao first heard those conversations from the depths of consciousness, which were sent by the headphones.
In addition to the panoramic view, after putting on the space suit, Hong Tao finally no longer had to passively enter a fainting state when the spacecraft accelerated. At the same time, he also initially figured out the rough flight method of spacecraft in this era, and it was not flying, but jumping!
On this issue, Nuel did not make any explanation, but handed over the right to the spaceship's master's brain. Hong Tao felt that he was deeply despised. Even theories like Nuel who were unwilling to talk about were imaginable at the low level.
The master of the spacecraft was controlling the spacecraft while taking out one-tenth of the computing power and making himself dizzy. No wonder Nuel was unwilling to waste his energy. The gap was indeed a bit too big.
It is said that in the early days of the New World of Eden, that is, the Emma Empire was founded, and with official written records, the spacecraft still could not jump. Even if it was equipped with the most advanced thrusters, it would take several days or even weeks to shuttle between the planets of the galaxy. It would take longer to explore other galaxies, and it would have to be calculated over the years.
In order to increase the speed of the spacecraft, scientists have made generations of efforts, and most of the ideas cannot be realized due to cost and weight problems. The Uruks have developed an acceleration orbit and used magnetic force to accelerate the spacecraft, successfully increasing the speed of the spacecraft and shortening the range.
However, the construction cost of acceleration orbits is too high and it is not flexible to use. As long as the spacecraft speed drops, it is necessary to rely on the orbit to speed up. This technology can be used between two fixed sites and is not fundamentally helpful for exploring unknown galaxies.
Just over 300 years ago, the Emma Empire suddenly invented a device called a transition engine, which fundamentally solved the problem that had plagued them for tens of thousands of years.
After hundreds of years of research and development, the current transition engine has been upgraded many versions and has become a cheaper, more reliable and more efficient mature product. The spacecraft equipped with it can fly superluminal speed without the assistance of external equipment.
The main brain talked about the principle of super-light speed flight, but Hong Tao didn't understand most of it and didn't dare to ask questions, so he could only nod. But he didn't understand it at all. There are a few ideas that can still be understood.
This principle comes from quantum electrodynamics. Hong Tao has no impression of what this discipline is, as if there is no such thing on Earth. However, quantum mechanics has it, and it seems that it is a derivative discipline.
Specifically, it is to create a vacuum state without any energy to wrap the spacecraft, referred to as an absolute vacuum bubble. There is no friction in the absolute vacuum bubble, and any object, including light, is much faster.
The transition engine is not actually installed at the stern of the spacecraft like a traditional drive. It is usually installed at the front and rear ends of the spacecraft, creating two polarities when starting. By repeatedly compressing between the two polar disks, the vacuum bubble is created until all the energy neutrons and quarks in the vacuum bubble are eliminated and the entire spacecraft is wrapped, the spacecraft can reach super-light speed.
However, in the initial experiment, people discovered another big problem. Once the spacecraft enters the superluminal speed state, the original force and reaction force will be completely invalid, and the time is distorted, so the distance cannot be measured at all. To put it bluntly, I just don’t know when it should stop, and the spacecraft cannot control it.
There are always more solutions than difficulties. As long as there is a need, humans will tirelessly search for answers, and in the end this method was really found. It was indeed found, not invented, because the source of the method was not the New Edens, but found from the ruins left over from ancient times.
There is a device called gravity capacitor that is widely used in the operating system of the ancient star gate. Scientists have discovered that it can collect gravitational signals from space after the spacecraft reaches superluminal speed.
In this way, the problem that the transition engine cannot control the start and stop will be solved. Just set the transition target near a fixed gravitational signal. Once the gravity capacitor installed on the spacecraft detects the corresponding gravitational signal, the power of the transition engine will be cut off.
The vacuum bubble could not be maintained, and the spacecraft naturally broke away from the super-light speed state and turned to sub-light speed flight, and was taken over and controlled by the pilot, and flew as much as it should.
As for the source of these gravitational signals, it is too simple. Any galaxy has stars, planets, asteroids and other celestial bodies, which all have stable gravitational values.
In addition, large artificial buildings such as space stations and star gates also have stable gravitational values, and even the spacecraft itself has a fixed gravitational value. If it really doesn't work, some gravitational beacon launch devices can also be used as fixed gravitational values.
Hong Tao understood this. It turned out that the spacecraft did not jump wherever he wanted. The target point must have a known fixed gravity value, such as planets, asteroids, stars, satellites, star gates, space stations, spacecrafts, gravitational beacons, etc.
Without gravitational value data input, the transition engine will not start at all, avoiding entering an uncontrolled superluminal flight state, achieving the purpose of protecting pilots and spacecraft.
"It's so fast!" After Nuel controlled the spacecraft to leave the space station, he quickly entered a jump state. The space twisted into a colorful aurora channel and broke out after a few seconds. At this time, Hong Tao saw a unit that could understand on the mapping screen of his main brain, au, and the jump distance of the spacecraft was exactly 10 au.
In other words, in less than ten seconds, the small spacecraft flew 10 Earths to the sun. Although the three-dimensional three-axis star map looked awkward, it could be seen from it that the distance of this jump was really not short. If you take another ten strokes, you can basically jump out of the galaxy.
Chapter completed!