Chapter 85 Sailing at Curves

Hearing the prompt of the warship's main control of quantum light brain, Fang Xu and the people entered their respective safety compartments in turn, a kind of oblique football-shaped equipment, while thinking of the relevant knowledge and concepts of warp navigation.

The curve navigation was originally derived from the "four-dimensional space" model proposed by Einstein, a great scientist in the Earth era.

As we all know, the plane of two-dimensional space will bend to three-dimensional space, that is, bend towards the y-axis in the three axes of three-dimensional space xyz, and eventually form a sphere.

Einstein's four-dimensional space model points out that the three-dimensional space in which human beings are located will also bend towards four-dimensional space like two-dimensional to three-dimensional bending, of course, towards the fourth dimension, time-dimensional bending.

We can imagine that when the three-dimensional space bends towards the time dimension of the four-dimensional space, it will form a sphere. Of course, this is just imagination, an inappropriate but relatively close metaphor.

Because four-dimensional space certainly cannot be a sphere.

Spheres are only substances that exist in three-dimensional space, but human technology cannot reveal four-dimensional space in the Xinghe era. The essence of life in three-dimensional space is three-dimensional life. In any case, it is impossible to understand the form and meaning of four-dimensional existence.

However, in order to facilitate understanding, human scientists have made such a hypothesis and simulation.

What's more, although the specific existence form of four dimensions is not understood, various data related to it can be calculated through human mathematical models.

This also provides a solid theoretical foundation for the birth of curved navigation.

Back to the beginning.

The theory of turn speed navigation is that the three-dimensional universe where human beings are located will bend to the fourth dimension of time dimension, or timeline, forming a sphere.

If you roughly simulate it, the surface of this sphere can be regarded as the three-dimensional space where human beings live.

Next, it is easy to understand.

Assuming that there are two points A and B in the sphere, corresponding to Planet A and Planet B in the three-dimensional universe, which are 90 million kilometers apart, while the flight speed of ordinary cosmic warships is 100,000 kilometers per second, which is about one-third of the speed of light. Then normal cosmic navigation from Planet A to Planet B obviously needs to spend 900 seconds less.

And warp navigation is to open the space wormhole with enough and powerful energy to enter the second space in the three-dimensional space and four-dimensional space interlayer, which is often referred to as the subspace when the warship takes off from Planet A.

The warship appears at the point of the subspace, corresponding to planet A. For the convenience of understanding, it is recorded as point a.

Attention!

Because assuming that when the three-dimensional space bends to the fourth dimension of time, it will form a sphere, and the time dimension exists as the axis of the sphere, that is, the timeline, so point a is actually inside the sphere and is on the same timeline as Planet A.

and so on the sphere where point a is located, there is also the outermost surface of the same sphere, that is, point b corresponding to planet B in three-dimensional space.

ab is inside the sphere, and AB is in the peripheral sphere, so the distance between ab is far smaller than AB anyway.

Assuming that ab is 18 million kilometers away, it only takes 180 seconds to successfully reach point b from point a warship at a speed of 100,000 kilometers per second.

At this time, the warship only needs to use the same way to enter the subspace, open the space wormhole, and return to the three-dimensional universe again, and then it can appear on Planet B.

At this point, the whole curvature sailing process has been completed.

The actual distance of planet AB is 90 million kilometers, and excluding the time consumed in and out of subspace, the cosmic warship actually only takes 180 seconds to reach star B. Its actual speed can be regarded as 500,000 kilometers per second.

The speed of vacuum light is about 300,000 kilometers per second.

Obviously, during the whole warp voyage, the speed of the warship far exceeded the speed of light, greatly shortening the distance between AB planets.

Of course, the technology in the Xinghe era is extremely developed. Although warp navigation is classified as superluminal navigation, it is more appropriate to call it space jumping in practical applications, because with the development of technology, the more powerful the energy stimulated by warships when taking off, the deeper the subspace level entered, and the faster the speed of warb navigation.

In the theory of speed navigation, three-dimensional space will bend to the time dimension to form a sphere.

In fact, when the technology reaches a certain level, the warship opens the space wormhole and will be able to enter the deepest part of the subspace, that is, the axis of the timeline, assuming the center position of the sphere.

In this way, the warship only needs to enter and exit the subspace once, and can jump from one point to another moment.

In short, this is instantaneous jump, or space transmission.

Of course, with the current human technology, it is far from doing this. The current warship can only enter the shallow subspace, and it also takes a lot of time to navigate in it. Although it is superluminal speed, it is still a long way from the real space jump.

"Unfortunately, the current human beings are only four-level civilization. Although they have reached the peak, the barriers of science and technology are very solid. If they can't break through to five-level civilization, many theories cannot be broken through, and practical applications cannot naturally be achieved. I don't know when the real instantaneous space jump can be achieved." Fang Xu thought.

There are actually different types of superluminal navigation.

One is mevo navigation, and only intergalaxes can conduct mevovo navigation.

The communication between the planets inside the galaxy alone does not require to use the speed of cruising, ordinary superluminal cruise.

This is not only because the space inside the galaxy is relatively limited, but also because with current human technology, the energy required for torve navigation is too large.

If it is not between galaxies or even star domains, sailing at a curved speed is definitely a huge waste of energy.

In fact, in general, once the warp warship enters the subspace and consumes a certain amount of energy to push the warship to a certain speed, it will rely on inertia to continue flying, and then start charging for a long time. When waiting to reach the destination, it will communicate with the external warp base, echoing internally and externally to stimulate huge energy to open the space wormhole. .

The problem of energy is also a roadblock for restricting the technology of curved speed navigation.

In fact, warp warships generally do not push up to the maximum speed that warships can achieve in subspace, because it also consumes a lot of energy, and it is futile to reach the corresponding point of the target in the subspace too quickly. It is futile to open the space wormhole without enough energy.

More often, warp ships rely on internal element decay reactors in the subspace to continuously generate and store energy in order to prepare for leaving the subspace.

As for ordinary superluminal cruise, although it is necessary to open the space wormhole, it enters the shallow subspace, which is almost a layer of different space floating on the surface of three-dimensional space.

In it, all the physical rules of three-dimensional space are not applicable, and the limit on speed does not exist. Only technology is needed to achieve continuous acceleration, and it is easy to surpass the speed of light.

However, with the current human technology, ten times the speed of light is already the limit, and it is impossible to improve it.

And only some of the most advanced space warships, transport ships, etc. have such functions, ordinary superluminal spaceships, that is, five or six times the speed of light.

But even so, it is extremely convenient to fly between galaxies. It takes time to travel to and from major planets, which is about an hour, which is not much different from the earth era by taking various advanced vehicles to and from major cities.

Of course, excluding the problem of energy consumption, superluminal cruise and cruising are still incomparable, and the latter's speed is obviously more excellent.

You should know that the theoretically deduced curvature has a total of ten levels, but the gap between each layer is simply far apart. For example, the first level is the vacuum light speed, but the second level of the curvature is 10,000 times more than the speed of vacuum light, and the third level of the speed is close to 40,000 times the vacuum light speed, which is almost geometric. The number of jumps.

From this point of view, what human civilization will be popular in the future must be curved sailing rather than superluminal sailing.

Once the technology is developed and solves the problem of huge energy loss of curve navigation, the former will certainly replace the latter. Even navigation within galaxies will use curve navigation.

After all, the ten-level curvature is almost 200,000 times the speed of light, and it only takes less than three hours to walk a light year.

And when the curve navigation technology continues to develop and reach its peak, that is, the legendary level of instantaneous space jumping and transmission, light years, a daunting astronomical unit, is no longer terrible.

Because in theory, whether it is more than ten light years, hundreds of light years, tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions or more, as long as the relevant technology breaks through and matures step by step, no matter how far it is, it can travel without obstacles in an instant.

Of course, that was many years later.

At least Fang Xu was the king of ghosts and swords in his previous life. Until the civilized war broke out with human beings and starry aliens, instantaneous space jumping technology only existed in theory.

"The warship is about to take off, and the hypnosis guidance of the safety module begins." A light-brain prompt sound came to his ear, and Fang Xu suddenly came to his senses and immediately calmed down.

The king's state of mind is dominant, his spiritual power fluctuates, and he is completely silent in the depths of his mind in the consciousness space.

When taking off at warp speed, all passengers are required to enter a deep sleep state is that the moment the space wormhole is opened, there will be an extremely horrible violent energy response, especially space energy, which will fill the whole warship.

At this moment, if a person is awake, his spiritual consciousness will be pulled out of the body by the raging space energy, smash it into the void, die directly, and become a vegetative person and a walking corpse.

However, entering a deep sleep state is different. People's souls and spirits will be hidden in the depths of the body, and the empty world will not be disturbed by the material world.

But it is impossible for ordinary people to enter deep sleep at will. At least the master can do this. Therefore, the safety cabin is equipped with high-tech hypnotic guidance equipment to help passengers enter deep sleep.

Of course, Fang Xu is different.

He is a ten-level spiritualist, and he can completely control his own spirit by condensing his sword. There is no problem for his soul to hide into the void, and he can also stay awake and observe many changes in external space energy.

You should know that once human beings are promoted to the king, they have the ability to open the subspace and fly in it, which is comparable to a spaceship. Even with deeper cultivation, they can also enter the subspace and jump in space like a warp warship.

However, it is all based on the understanding of the laws of space and the control of space energy.

Although Fang Xu was proficient in mastering space energy in his previous life, his understanding of the laws of space was limited. Now it is a good opportunity to take a warp-speed warship.

Because the moment you open the space wormhole, the violent space energy will produce many changes, which are obvious and easy to perceive, which is very convenient for understanding.