Chapter 269 Time Dilation Effect

It took eight hours.

Water Drop 3 spacecraft returned to Blue Star.

After this month of busy work, Wei Ming didn't feel too tired physically, but he was mentally exhausted, so he was still quite tired.

In fact, the so-called mental consumption is almost equivalent to Xiao Hei's consumption.

Without absorbing any matter, it takes energy to continuously accelerate and decelerate an object, and it is a lot of energy. If energy is equated to matter, Xiao Hei may have to consume energy every time he travels to and from Blue Star and Mars. Mass of tens of kilograms.

That's quite a lot, right?

There is also a strange phenomenon.

That is, every time he runs a long distance between Blue Star and Mars, the mechanical watch he wears with an error of no more than ten seconds a day will obviously expand to hundreds of seconds, usually two or three minutes slower.

Scientists explain this as the "time dilation effect", that is, the faster the object and the greater the mass, the slower time will pass.

For example, people who often take airplanes or high-speed trains will feel that their time seems to have become less, their watches will have a more obvious delay, and it seems that a lot of things are happening in the outside world.

In fact, everyone's time is the same. If time is compared to a special wave, faster objects will cause the wavelength to be shortened; the surface of an object with excessive mass will also have the wavelength shortened under the action of the gravity curve. is compressed.

For example, near a massive black hole, due to the nearly infinite gravity, the time wave is also compressed to an extremely short extent. One day has passed near the black hole, and ten days may have passed elsewhere, resulting in different clocks.

Wei Ming suddenly understood.

No wonder, no wonder time slows down so much.

Think about the speed of Water Drop No. 3.

Thinking again that his whole body was wrapped in Xiao Hei's gravitational radius, the gravity there was certainly not that large.

Under the influence of two factors.

The time dilation effect is of course very obvious.

No, perhaps it is more appropriate to call it the "time compression effect", because his time was compressed and shortened. Compared with others, each round trip was nearly a hundred seconds shorter.

Of course, under normal circumstances, human lifespans are similar.

Wei Ming's time has been shortened by hundreds of seconds, which does not mean that his lifespan has been shortened by hundreds of seconds. His lifespan is still exactly the same.

Therefore, with the same lifespan, Wei Ming can witness hundreds of seconds more of the future.

Each time you run, you accumulate a hundred seconds.

After running more times, you will find that Wei Ming is younger and not aging enough.

If the "time compression effect" were more pronounced and the accumulated gap was larger, 300 years might have passed by the time Wei Ming was about 100 years old.

It's like pressing the fast forward button.

This may sound weird, but it's true.

Time is also a physical law, a special "wave" or "field". It is not equal to all people and everything in the world. If time is truly equal and treats everyone equally, then this universe cannot be born. Black holes Nor can it exist.

From a physical point of view, the statement "time is equal" is not true, but only in a philosophical sense.

So Wei Ming was moved.

After returning to Blue Star.

In order to make a verification, he deliberately spent some time to put a smartphone and a mechanical watch without signal on the top of the upper control cabin of Water Drop 3, and then asked Xiao Hei to turn on the gravitational radius, which only acts within a range the size of a basketball. However, Shuidi No. 3, which weighed nearly a thousand tons, was lifted.

The gravitational force concentrated in a small area at the top is at least thousands of G's in size.

In order to prevent mobile phones and watches from being crushed by gravity, Weiming deliberately wrapped them in a uniform gravitational field, then rotated them at high speed, using centrifugal force to offset the pull of gravity.

It hung like this for a whole day (12 hours).

Then I took out my phone and watch and looked at the time they displayed.

Mobile time: 11 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds

Mechanical watch time: 11:55:58

Average the two.

Time was compressed by 4 minutes.

It can be seen that in the case of strong gravity + high speed, the time compression effect is very obvious.

Even considering that today's Xiao Hei can reach a maximum speed of 0.25 times the speed of light, it is not a problem to drag Water Drop No. 3 to fly at 0.2 times the speed of light, and it is not a problem to apply accelerations of hundreds or thousands of G's.

According to Einstein's gravitational expansion formula, under a gravitational environment of 0.2 times the speed of light and thousands of Gs, Wei Ming's aging rate can be slowed down by at least half, that is, the external time is doubled.

Wei Ming spent a hundred years in this environment, and two hundred years passed in the outside world.

"this--"

He didn't know how to deal with it.

If the time error is only three to five minutes, it is still acceptable.

The difference is double, what should we do?

Could it be that he has been wandering around the universe for fifty years, and when he comes back, his wife is scratching his head and he is younger than his son and grandson?

Is this a big deal?

Previously, he had planned to take a good trip in the solar system. He also considered going to a nearby galaxy a few light years away for a long-distance trip.

Now it seems that the faster and farther you run, the greater the chance of killing your family.

With all my family and loved ones gone, is there any point in doing this kind of travel?

Wei Ming felt that this was meaningless. The people he cared about most were gone. Traveling and being alone, referred to as "orphan travel", was more reasonable than the reasons for orphans in a certain orphanage.

There are two solutions:

Either take the whole family on a trip.

Or complete the "Longevity Plan" as soon as possible, so that humans can get rid of the shackles of birth, aging, illness and death as soon as possible, break the limit of life span, go against entropy and achieve immortality.

The resources of the universe are infinitely rich and the space is endless and vast. It is nothing to let humans live forever like cancer cells. The universe is so big, why are you afraid of these "cancer cells"? Don't worry too much. Compared with mere humans, the resources of the universe are infinite and can be developed and taken infinitely. There are more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way alone. Fill up this map first.

So Wei Ming prefers the second option, vigorously developing medical technology and ultimately achieving human immortality.

After all, traveling has to bring all the family members with you. Is that a real trip?

So.

In the following June and July, Wei Ming put most of his energy on the "Longevity Plan" and even got some drugs to test a small number of cells in his body to observe the actual effect of the drugs.

This greatly accelerated the progress of the "Longevity Plan", and breakthroughs were made in many key nodes. The results achieved in just two months may have exceeded those of two years, which surprised countless scientists and boosted their confidence.

However, by the end of July.

The attention of everyone on the entire Blue Planet was still focused on another place - Mars.

Brother Long, Elon Musk, successfully landed on the surface of Mars, representing all mankind and achieving a great feat.

After staying for five hours and taking some soil samples.

The engine of the lander's ascent module malfunctioned and could not take off, and could not rendezvous with the orbital module orbiting above Mars and return to the Blue Planet.

The oxygen was exhausted in 26 hours.

The next ending was death.