Chapter 778 Advanced

If you want to directly accelerate the spacecraft to the speed of light, the energy required is infinite, which is why objects cannot exceed the speed of light.

Therefore, the spacecraft cannot achieve the purpose of exceeding the speed of light by means of direct acceleration.

Although it cannot directly accelerate beyond the speed of light, some ingenious means can be used to bypass the limitations of the theory of relativity, thereby achieving the purpose of exceeding the speed of light.

The curvature guide is produced in this way, and it is also the device to realize the superlight speed flight.

After a spaceship is equipped with a curvature trigger, it can travel faster than the speed of light in space.

Although this seems to violate the theory of relativity, it is indeed a technology that can be realized.

In fact, the curvature index does not violate the theory of relativity, because this is the effect achieved through side means.

The curvature engine may sound very tall, but the truth is actually very simple.

The space in which the entire universe is located is actually not flat, but full of various folds, and the size of these folds is "sixty-seven" as curvature.

When the curvature is zero, the space is completely flat, and when the curvature is greater, the space becomes more wrinkled.

Curvature induction is just a kind of technology of using the space pleats to drive the spaceship.

If we can change the curvature of the space, we can increase the folds in the space, which is equivalent to shortening the distance between two points.

Draw two points on a piece of white paper, the shortest distance is not a straight line between the two points, but fold the white paper directly so that the two points directly touch each other.

Although the curvature induced well cannot make the two points overlap, it can greatly shorten the distance between the two points.

So the curvature index is actually not the real beyond the speed of light, but

The space is folded up, thus shortening the distance in the middle.

To put it bluntly, the curvature engine does not increase the speed of the spacecraft, but only shortens the space in which the capable spacecraft is located.

If a spacecraft needs to reach a place a light-year away, but its own speed is only half the speed of light, it will take two years to reach its destination.

But when the spacecraft activated the curvature engine, the folds of space quadrupled.

For the spacecraft, the original one-light-year journey has become a quarter of a light-year distance.

In this way, it takes half a year for the spacecraft to reach the destination one light-year away.

In general, the speed of the spaceship exceeds the speed of light, reaching twice the speed of light.

In fact, it is not that the speed of the spacecraft has become faster. Its speed is still half of the speed of light, but the distance is shortened to a quarter of the original speed, which makes the overall speed four times faster.

The curvature engine actually shortens the distance in space, so that the speed of the spacecraft exceeds the speed of light.

The curvature inducer is exactly a kind of device that increases the space fold by changing the curvature, and finally increases the speed of the spaceship.

So the curvature index does not violate the theory of relativity, but just bypasses the limitation of the theory of relativity.

Of course, Curvature can do more than that, increasing the speed by four times is not the limit of Curvature.

The better the curvature engine, the bigger the space pleats will be, and the more the speed of the spaceship will be increased at last.

Those super civilizations that can span the entire universe have very advanced curvature inducers.

Their curvature engine can increase the speed by tens of thousands of times, allowing the spacecraft to easily reach several thousand times the speed of light.

However, such an advanced curvature engine Jiang Cheng can't manufacture, it is something that only the top cosmic civilization can play, and the curvature engine that Jiang Cheng wants to manufacture is not so advanced.

The curvature engine that Jiang Cheng is going to research this time can shorten the space by twenty times, that is to say, it can increase the speed of the spacecraft by twenty times.

In the design, the speed of the spaceship made by Jiang Cheng itself is half of the speed of light.

So after installing this curvature engine, the speed can reach ten times the speed of light.

The flight speed of ten times the speed of light is enough for the time being, at least in the solar system.

At that time, it will only take a few minutes to reach the distance between Mars and the Earth. This speed is about the same as having a snack at the door.

Ten times the speed of light is enough for Jiang Cheng to explore nearby galaxies. For example, the closest star to the solar system is only about five light-years away

It takes only half a year to travel this distance at ten times the speed of light.

That is to say, when Jiang Cheng sends a spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, it will only take half a year to arrive.

However, for a spaceship ten times the speed of light, it still takes too long to go to places thousands of light-years away.

But when it comes time to go to such a far place, Jiang Cheng may have a better curvature engine.

Jiang Cheng only needs to develop a better curvature engine to increase the speed of the spacecraft again.

Therefore, the curvature engine is the most important technology of interstellar civilization, which is related to the issue of flight speed.

If you want to increase the speed of the spacecraft, there is only the way of curvature induction, but the speed of the spacecraft itself has no room for improvement.

Basically, the speed of the spaceships of all civilizations is about half of the speed of light.

It's not that this speed cannot be increased, it's just that after the speed exceeds half of the speed of light, the energy needed to continue accelerating is too much.

The faster the speed, the more energy is needed to accelerate, which is an inescapable basic law of the universe.

Accelerating to half the speed of light is the most energy-efficient option, and that's basically how spacecraft are designed.

So what limits the speed of a civilized spaceship is the technology of curvature induction.

When Jiang Cheng decided to develop the curvature guide first, he immediately put into work.

However, Jiang Cheng still needs a lot of manufacturing materials during the research and development of the curvature guide.

The curvature engine requires a lot of materials, many of which are rare materials.

The rarest material among them is platinum, and it takes a lot of platinum to make it.

This is Jiang Cheng's real purpose of mining platinum on Mars, and it is also the material that Jiang Cheng needs the most now.

The biggest use of platinum is to make curvature guides. This material is in great demand even for high-end cosmic civilizations.

That's why Jiang Cheng planned on Mars in advance to mine platinum on a large scale.

In the process of Jiang Cheng's research and development of curvature induction, I am afraid that a lot of platinum will be wasted.

The technology of curvature induction is very complicated, and it may not be successful to manufacture many units.

And once platinum is used in the curvature induction, it cannot be recycled again.

So Jiang Cheng's next experiment was a process of wasting a lot of platinum.

During the development of the curvature engine, things like platinum are consumed.