Chapter 806

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

Therefore, the spacecraft can not achieve the goal of exceeding the speed of light by means of direct acceleration.

Although it can't accelerate beyond the speed of light directly, we can bypass the limitation of relativity by some ingenious means, so as to achieve the purpose of exceeding the speed of light.

This is how the curvature guide is produced, and it is also the equipment to realize the superluminal flight.

A spaceship loaded with curvature fuze can travel faster than light in space.

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

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

Curvature engine may sound very tall, but the truth is very simple.

The space of the whole universe is not flat, but full of various folds. The size of these folds is "607" curvature.

When the curvature is zero, the space is completely flat, and the larger the curvature is, the larger the fold is.

Curvature guidance is a kind of technology to drive spacecraft by using space folds.

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

Draw two points on a piece of white paper. The nearest distance is not a straight line between the two points. Instead, fold the white paper and let the two points touch each other directly.

Although curvature can not make two points coincide, it can greatly shorten the distance between two points.

So curvature is not really beyond the speed of light, but to fold up the space and shorten the distance in the middle.

To put it bluntly, the curvature engine does not increase the speed of the spacecraft, but shortens the space of the spacecraft.

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

But when the spacecraft started the curvature engine, the pleat of space quadrupled.

The original one light-year journey for a spaceship has become a quarter of a light-year distance.

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

All in all, the speed of the spaceship exceeds the speed of light, which is twice the speed of light.

In fact, it's not that the speed of the spaceship has become faster. Its speed is still half the speed of light, but the distance has been shortened to a quarter of the original speed, making the overall speed four times faster.

The curvature engine actually shortens the distance of space, which makes the spacecraft faster than the speed of light.

Curvature guidance is a way to increase the space fold by changing the curvature, and finally increase the speed of the spacecraft.

So curvature quotient doesn't violate the theory of relativity, it just bypasses the limitation of relativity.

Of course, the curvature index can do more than that. Increasing the speed by four times is not the limit of curvature index.

The better the curvature, the more space folds the engine will increase, and finally the more speed the spacecraft will increase.

Those super civilizations that can span the whole universe have very advanced curvatures.

Their curvature engine can increase the speed by tens of thousands of times, making it easy for the spacecraft to reach several times the speed of light.

However, Jiang Cheng can't make such an advanced curvature engine. It's something that the top cosmic civilization can play with. The curvature engine Jiang Cheng wants to make is not so advanced.

The curvature engine Jiang Cheng is going to study this time can shorten the space by 20 times, that is to say, it can increase the speed of the spacecraft by 20 times.

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

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

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

It will take only a few minutes for Mars to reach the earth, which is almost as fast as eating at the door.

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

this distance can be reached in half a year by flying at ten times the speed of light.

That is to say, it's time for Jiang Cheng to send a spaceship to Bilin star. It's only half a year.

However, it will take too long for a spaceship with ten times the speed of light to go to places that are light years away.

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

Jiang Cheng only needs to develop a better curvature engine to improve the speed of the spacecraft again.So curvature engine is the most important technology of interstellar civilization, which is related to flight speed.

If you want to increase the speed of the spaceship, there is only one way to increase the speed of the spaceship, but there is no room to increase the speed of the spaceship itself.

Basically half the speed of light of all spaceships.

It's not that this speed can't be increased, it's just that after the speed exceeds half of the speed of light, there will be too much energy needed to continue to accelerate.

The faster you go, the more energy you need to accelerate. This is a fundamental law of the universe that cannot be bypassed.

Accelerating to half the speed of light is the most efficient choice for energy utilization, and spaceships are basically designed in this way.

So what limits the speed of a civilized spacecraft is the technology of curvature guidance.

When Jiang Cheng decided to go to R & D first, he immediately went to work.

However, in the process of R & D, Jiangcheng still needs a lot of communication materials.

Curvature engines need a lot of materials, many of which are rare materials.

One of the rarest materials is platinum, which needs a lot of platinum to make.

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

The most important use of platinum is to make curvature materials, which are in great demand even for high-end cosmic civilization.

That's why Jiang Cheng planned ahead on Mars to exploit platinum on a large scale.

In the process of R & D, Jiangcheng will waste a lot of platinum.

The technology of curvature indexing is very complex, and many machines may not be successfully manufactured.

Once platinum is used in the industry, it cannot be recycled again.

So the next experiment of Jiang Cheng is a process of wasting a lot of platinum.

In the development process of curvature engine, platinum is consumption.