Chapter 989: Flying at the Speed of Light
three days later.
The Shenzhou returned to the earth's space port in tatters, as if it had just returned from a death battlefield. The hull was so tattered that it would disintegrate with one more shell.
The Shenzhou was moored at the spaceport, and the personnel on the battleship disembarked one after another.
"How did it happen?" The logistics maintenance team couldn't help asking the question when they saw the appearance of the Shenzhou.
Niu Dazhi, who was the first to get off the Shenzhou, had messy hair and said dully: "God knows what we've been through, Fang Yuan, a psychopath, said he couldn't go any faster, he still had to accelerate……"
10% of the speed of light, this is the final result of the Shenzhou test curvature engine.
For ordinary people, just looking at the numbers will feel that the speed of light has not been reached, and they will not feel the meaning at all.
However, this data is simply a thunderbolt in the mind of scientists.
Only those who really understand physics understand what an exaggerated speed 10% of the speed of light is.
Under the framework of the theory of relativity, matter with rest mass cannot reach the speed of light, and the closer to the speed of light, the greater the energy required, until infinity.
Curvature drive is to obtain ultra-high speed by changing the curvature of the cosmic space.
With the aid of the warframe curvature module, Fang Yuan can only reach 1% of the speed of light.
It is conceivable that Shenzhou tested the curvature engine and reached 10% of the speed of light, how terrifying it is.
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After the curvature engine test, all the data is sent to the curvature drive laboratory.
Yang Yuping led the scientific research team and immediately began to organize and analyze the data.
"Professor, professor..." Fang Yuan wanted to ask some questions.
"What are you doing? I'm busy, let's talk about it in a few days." Yang Yuping waved his hand, not wanting to talk to Fang Yuan, and just stuck his head in the data model.
"The Shenzhou only reached 10% of the speed of light, I feel that the curvature engine of the spaceship of the Palesi civilization should not have such a low speed." Fang Yuan directly expressed the doubts in his heart.
According to the previous speculation on the technological level of the Palesian civilization.
The curvature engine of the spacecraft of the Palesean civilization absolutely has the ability to exceed the speed of light, and it may exceed the speed of light by many times.
However, when Shenzhou tested the Paleser curvature engine, it only reached 10% of the speed of light, which is very unreasonable.
"Professor, is it because you didn't modify the curvature engine properly, which lowered the performance?" Fang Yuan asked.
"Impossible. It's still a bit difficult for us to create a curvature engine. Isn't it possible to transform a curvature engine? The reason why we can't exceed the speed of light is because there are three curvature engines on the Cleaner spacecraft, and Shenzhou only tested one .” Yang Yuping casually answered a reason.
Fang Yuan suddenly thought of a possibility: "Then is there a way to repair the complete cleanser spaceship?"
"This...can be repaired to a certain extent, but it will take a while to restore it to its original integrity." Yang Yuping has not conducted a careful analysis of this issue, so the answer he gave is not very sure.
"It only needs to basically reach the original level of the power engine. If it can fly faster than the speed of light, then it can execute the plan to destroy the Pegasus ε star gate, which will give humans a long buffer time." Fang Yuan Speak your mind.
Yang Yuping has been engaged in scientific research all his life, and he didn't think deeply about it. Hearing what Fang Yuan said, he also felt that it made sense:
"This idea is good. If the star gate of the Palesian civilization is destroyed, it will be difficult for the Palesean civilization to send a fleet to the solar system in a short time. It should focus on repairing the Cleanser spacecraft."
After determining the target.
The Super Science and Technology Laboratory officially established a project to restore the Cleaner spacecraft with all its strength.
With the help of Eve's mechanical bug level ability, the repair work is very fast.
Coupled with the mature technology of strong nuclear force materials, it was also very smooth when repairing the shell of the Cleaner spacecraft.
In the end, it only took more than a month to repair all the Cleaner spacecraft.
"To what extent can it be restored?" Fang Yuan saw the repaired cleanser spaceship and asked a key question.
"More than 80% of the performance must be available. If we only talk about the sailing speed, it can reach 90%." Yang Yuping replied.
The repaired Scrubber spacecraft was renamed the "Repulse" Star Destroyer.
Subsequently, the military scientific research team boarded the Star Destroyer Repulse for a test flight.
Finally, under the powerful curvature engine, it reached 10 times the speed of light.
This is the converted speed under the curvature drive, not the real drive energy speed.
"At 10 times the speed of light, we still can't carry out the task of destroying the Pegasus ε stargate."
After the final curvature speed came out, Fang Yuan found that the speed was still not enough.
Epsilon Pegasus is 673 light-years away from Earth, which means it takes 673 years to travel at the speed of light.
Even if you travel at 10 times the speed of light, it will take such a long time, enough to change many things.
Therefore, even traveling to epsilon Pegasus at 10 times the speed of light, it is difficult to cover such a long distance.
"It's a bit wrong, the cleaner spaceship should be more than 10 times the speed of light." Fang Yuan still felt that something was wrong.
Before, when the Cleaner spacecraft returned to the solar system, it also pointed out where it started from, and it took just over a month to reach the solar system.
The diameter of the solar system is about 4 light-years.
In other words, if the Cleaner spacecraft travels at 10 times the speed of light, it is impossible to fly back from outside the solar system within a month.
Therefore, there must be secrets that have not been discovered.
Fang Yuan saw Luo Hu again, still in that hemispherical building.
"When will the promise of giving me more room for movement be fulfilled?" Luo Hu asked Fang Yuan to fulfill the promise after seeing Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan promised him before that as long as he is willing to cooperate, he will be given more room for movement, provided that the technological strength has reached a reassuring height.
"Don't worry, I still have some questions to figure out. According to calculations, it took just over a month for the Cleanser spacecraft to fly back from outside the solar system. This is simply not something that a curvature engine at 10 times the speed of sound can do." Fang Yuan expressed his doubts.
"It's useless for you to ask me. You only know the curvature engine, but not the curvature generator. Or in terms that are easier for you to understand, the curvature generator is like a slingshot, which can be launched by a spaceship to reach extremely high Speed." Luo Hu replied.
"Curvature generator, it takes time to build, right?"
Hearing his explanation, Fang Yuan immediately understood what a curvature generator is, and at the same time found a loophole in Luo Hu's answer: "Besides, it is definitely not easy to build a curvature generator, and it is impossible to build a curvature generator anytime, anywhere on a cleanser spaceship. Even if there is a curvature generator, how much can the speed be increased? Therefore, it cannot be a curvature generator.”
"If it's not a curvature generator, it can only be a more powerful technology mastered by the Palesian civilization, such as dimension technology, or a wormhole detector, which specializes in finding wormholes naturally formed in the universe, so as to pass through wormholes and span A long distance, reaching the wormhole around the destination." Luo Hu explained again.