Human curiosity can be said to be the driving force behind the continuous progress and development of the entire human society.

The ancients thought of taking a look at the land farther away, and began to consciously train horses and rush to invent the wheels; they wanted to cross the ocean and see what was in the sea, so larger and stronger ships suitable for voyage were gradually built. In modern times, after understanding basic astronomical knowledge, countless people turned their attention to the universe, from space stations to various astronomical telescopes, the purpose was nothing more than to satisfy people's curiosity about the universe.

Humans have too many doubts about the universe that supports us in life. The biggest doubt at this stage is whether there are really extraterrestrial life, or even extraterrestrial wisdom life.

As for alien life, human emotions are also very complicated.

On the one hand, many people think that if there is only one intelligent life for humans in such a huge universe, it would be too lonely. On the other hand, humans are afraid of the fact that there are really advanced alien life. Countless science fiction novels invading alien intelligent life, the movie describes this state of mind very thoroughly.

But no matter how you say whether there is life outside the earth or whether there is smart life, it has always been the most curious thing for countless people. Whether it is scientists or ordinary people, they all have such curiosity. Every time the news from the Internet can make a group of people excited, and the discussion on whether there is smart life outside the earth has never stopped. Every time a planet that may be suitable for life will cause great shock in the astronomical world, Europa was one of them.

So even Xiao Yan, a guy who is completely inseparable from science, has become very interested in the information just given by the scientists assigned to his ship.

Releasing the detector is the easiest task for these reconnaissance ships. Even if it is a sparrow-class reconnaissance ship, it will only take minutes to complete such a task. It goes without saying that the subtext is to let them cooperate with the work of Professor Tan on the ship.

This also gave Xiao Yan and other crew members on the ship sufficient reasons to discuss this issue with Tan Zhenwen, or the word "discussion" is not appropriate, mainly to satisfy the curiosity of a group of people.

"I said to Professor Tan, do you really think there are intelligent lives on Europa that are similar to us?" asked the first mate on the boat on the side.

Perhaps because the captain was a fellow Chinese fellow, Tan Zhenwen was not arrogant and shrugged, "I think it's useless, but thank you for your blessing, we can get closer to understand, but the life we ​​talk about is not necessarily smart life. In fact, given the area of ​​Europa's ocean area, there are more suspicions that there are fish and creatures on the bottom of this planet under the water similar to those on the earth. After all, the temperature on Jupiter is extremely low, too far from the sun, and its annual average equator temperature is only -163 degrees, and the two levels have reached about -250 degrees! If this extreme environment can give birth to smart life, then I can only say that this smart life is very strong, at least much stronger than humans!"

"Fish?" A group of people on the ship laughed, and Xiao Yan laughed and said to himself: "It's a good thing to have fish! Speaking of which, I feel like I haven't eaten meat for a long time. I can only eat super nutritious pills on the ship and can't enjoy virtual food. If I can catch a fish on Europa, everyone will be good to open it! I don't know how the alien fish tastes!"

"I don't know whether alien fish are delicious or not, but if we have the opportunity to come into contact with alien non-intelligent creatures in the future, I suggest you don't think about eating them directly! The environment of each planet is different, and all kinds of bacteria and bacteria are even more different. Even if you really encounter alien intelligent life, you must not contact directly. Don't believe in the nonsense of the sci-fi blockbusters that people on earth directly come into contact with alien life. Without a series of tests and research, we can conduct various bacteria analysis on planets with life and research various vaccines, and we must never contact any alien life forms directly."

"If some possible fatal alien bacteria invade our ships and there is no antibodies in our bodies, it will take a long time for more than 100,000 people to be left. As for our current understanding of the universe, it is like the medieval people on Earth's understanding of the earth. You all know that how many people will die in a plague. For example, the Black Death has reduced at least one-third of the population in just four years, not to mention that the population density on the spacecraft is much denser than that of medieval Europe. This is also the reason why we have to strictly carry out various disinfection steps every time we go out of the cabin. It sounds like a lot of people, but in the universe, it is not easier to destroy it!" Tan Zhenwen shook his head.

Well, this is a very heavy topic, whether it is necessary to ban your mouth or the dangers they face. For the people on the ship, the excitement of the expedition and the longing for the future to step out of the Milky Way to explore the vast universe are far greater than the fear of the unknown future. So after Xiao Yan curled his lips, he firmly planned to end the discussion. As a commander with rich experience, he knew very well that in the early stages of the expedition, talking about these unknown risks was a huge blow to morale. Of course, for these scientists, they would definitely not think that there was anything wrong with these pure scientists' pursuit of scientific truth is often much greater than the fear of death. This spirit of not being afraid of death cannot be compared with them. Even Xiao Yan sighed that he was not as good as he did.

"Okay, brothers, we all started working! Our task today is still very heavy. After the radiation detector is reached at the designated coordinates, we have to travel to Europa. It is not close to Europa. It takes at least twenty hours to rush back and forth with our Professor Tan. Not to mention that we have to cooperate with our Professor Tan to complete some experiments. I miss the pre-mixed bartender in the Black Limit. After completing this task, I will invite everyone to have a drink. At that time, I will ask us Professor Tan for some knowledge."

This is obviously an excuse. When I really returned to the ship, these scientists who were guarding the scientific research level had little interaction with these people, but everyone didn't care. They didn't want to get together, but returned to their respective positions.

"Fit your seat belt, ignite the curvature engine, slow push, and distribute the detector. In an hour, we are about to rush to the speed of light!"

In the universe, the tail of the Hawkeye suddenly lit up, and the trajectory of the ejected energy made the space behind the spacecraft seem to be compressed. Then the spacecraft began to gradually accelerate towards Europa.

When leaving Earth, Expedition One only used an ordinary engine to rush to the calculated space folding point at a very slow speed, because it was afraid that the negative energy bubbles generated during the operation of the curvature engine would extend the space-time and space in the direction of the earth. The high-energy explosion of particles produced will affect the magnetic field and trajectory of the earth from the earth, causing unpredictable catastrophic effects. Now it is far away from the earth, and the curvature engine configuration on the Hawkeye is far lower than that of Expedition One. Naturally, there are no restrictions on using it, so it is naturally excellent to use it.

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On Expedition One, Prince Wang settled Yan Xiaoxi and Wang Xinyao and went directly to the R&D layer, found Niels, and was communicating with the developer of the black hole cannon.

The research project of this scientist on Expedition One was to further optimize the space folding technology on Expedition One. This is also the project that Prince Wang attaches most importance to. The current space jump is very high in the safety of the surrounding environment, both safety and success coefficients, but if you encounter some special circumstances, your performance may not be so satisfactory. Therefore, it is naturally necessary to improve during the navigation.

Although Prince Wang did not have the idea of ​​fighting a star war, he knew what would happen if he really left the Milky Way. Not to mention that even without war, the gorgeous universe was full of dangers, such as black holes, large-scale dense meteorite rain, strong radiation rays, unknown black holes, sudden star explosions... There are not too many. The improvement of space folding technology allows Expedition One to jump in various emergencies, but it is the only way to save his life.

As the captain, the prince must be responsible for more than 110,000 people on the ship, not to mention that his family is still on this ship.

"What are you finding out about the leap just now?"

"Of course!" Nils looked at the data refreshed on the virtual screen in front of him without raising his head, briefly answering Prince Wang's question: "You just said that our time is still synchronized with the earth, so I put the videos I had in the jump space before in the virtual environment for calculation! The answer I got was amazing! In the jump space, it was not that time stopped, but that time slowed down!"

“Time has slowed down?”

"Yes, it's just that time has slowed down!"

"The reason why time is not jumping on our instrument is because our timing system is only in milliseconds, but you see here, if we use a more accurate timing system to perform the replay, you can see that in fact, time is still moving when we pass through the transition space, but the entire transition process only took 0.8 microseconds, which is one-two millionth of a second. It is extremely normal for the timer in milliseconds on Expedition One to not respond in such a short time!"

"So my idea is right, so our thinking slows down in the transition space?"

"That's about that, but the most important thing is not these. Look at the patterns we captured in these transition spaces, they seem messy, but they seem to be orderly. It's so wonderful! I can't imagine that there is such a strange space, but there is one thing we seem to be able to prove that even if we exceed the speed of light, we cannot go back to the past! If we really want to invent the time shuttle one day in the future, it seems that it is not possible to consider the super-light speed, and we have to think of other ways!"

The prince was silent, and of course he understood what Niels didn't say completely.

Time is still moving forward in the transition space, which means that the transition space and normal space are still closely linked, rather than the positive and negative space that were completely separated as imagined. They only took less than a subtle time to cross hundreds of millions of kilometers of space, which could be much faster than the speed of light. However, when he contacted the earth, the time on both sides was still synchronized, which probably proved that the theory that surpassing the speed of light could return to the past is untenable.

This is a verification of basic theory. Although I can't see any use to prove this, it is extremely important for humans to understand the universe. After making several more jumps, I found the rules and found them, and if I don't know what's right, I will gain a lot.

Of course, these things are hard to hurry. Fortunately, the journey has just begun and they are still in the solar system. There is no need to worry too much to solve this problem.

However, before the two of them could continue to chat, the caller on Prince Wang's body rang again.

"Captain, please come to the celestial simulation room immediately and make a major discovery!"

This is another video sent by another astrophysicist who stayed on the ship, Eddington Ross of the United Kingdom. His tone was very excited, and it was obvious that he had indeed made a major discovery.

What makes people even more helpless is that after giving up this sentence, the scientist directly hung up the communication, making people want to inquire about which major discovery was not enough.

"Are you together?" Prince Wang looked at Niels beside him and invited.

Niels looked at the virtual screen in embarrassment, and a trace of entanglement appeared on his face. Obviously, this guy was curious about the major discoveries of his peers, and was also a little reluctant to let go of what he was doing now. However, after a moment of curiosity still gained the upper hand. He nodded and said, "Together!"

Niels' Space Transition R&D Center is on the same floor as the Astrophysics Research Center. After going out to take a levitation car, Prince Wang took the Swedish physicist to the ladder simulation room of the Astrophysics Research Center in ten minutes.

"Addington, you'd better have really made a great discovery! Or you're wasting my time, my time is very valuable!"

These scientists usually have connections. As soon as they meet, Niels speaks first without waiting for Prince Wang to speak.

"Ha, Niels, you are here too? But don't worry, our discovery is not worse than the black hole cannon you made in a sense! It can definitely be said to be a discovery across the century! Although it is just a discovery!" Eddington Ross spoke without showing any weakness.

Perhaps the competition between various R&D centers and R&D projects on the earth directly continued to Expedition One, and the dialogue between the two was still full of competitive consciousness.

Prince Wang ignored the two and focused his attention on the virtual Jupiter system that simulated the indoor virtual.
Chapter completed!