Vol 4 Chapter 989: Flying faster than light

Three days later.
Shenzhou returned to the Earth Spaceport in tattered condition, as if it had just returned from the battlefield of death, the hull was so tattered that it would disintegrate with another shell.
The Shenzhou was anchored in the space port, and the crew on the battleship disembarked one after another.
"How did this happen?" The logistics maintenance team couldn't help but ask such questions when seeing the Shenzhou.
Niu Dazhi, who was the first to leave the Shenzhou, said with messy hair and a dull face: "God knows what we have gone through. Fang Yuan, the neurosis, said that he can't be any faster, he can't be any faster. accelerate……"
10% speed of light, this is the final result of Shenzhou's curvature engine testing.
For ordinary people, just looking at the numbers, they will feel that even the speed of light has not been reached, and they can't feel the meaning at all.
However, this data is simply a thunder in the mind of scientists.
Only those who truly understand physics understand how exaggerated the speed of 10% light is.
Under the framework of the theory of relativity, matter with rest mass cannot reach the speed of light, and the closer it is to the speed of light, the greater the energy required until infinity.
Curvature driving is to obtain ultra-high speed by changing the curvature of the universe.
With the help of the War Armor Curvature Module, Fang Yuan can only reach 1% speed of light.
It is conceivable how terrible it is that the Shenzhou test curvature engine reached 10% the speed of light.
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After the curvature engine test is over, all data is sent to the curvature drive laboratory.
Yang Yuping led the research team and immediately began to sort and analyze the data.
"Professor, professor..." Fang Yuan wanted to ask some questions.
"What are you doing? I'm busy, let's talk about something in a few days." Yang Yuping waved his hand, ignoring Fang Yuan, and stuck his head in the data model.
"Shenzhou only reached 10% of the speed of light. I feel that the curvature engine of the Palese civilization spacecraft shouldn't have such a speed." Fang Yuan directly said the doubt in his heart.
According to the previous speculation of the technological level of the Palese civilization.
The curvature engine of the Palerce Civilization spacecraft is absolutely capable of exceeding the speed of light, and it may exceed many times.
However, when Shenzhou tested the Palleté curvature engine, it only reached 10% of the speed of light, which is very unreasonable.
"Professor, did you change the curvature engine but didn't get it right, reducing the performance?" Fang Yuan asked.
"Impossible. It is still a bit difficult for us to build a curvature engine. Can we not do it if we modify a curvature engine? The reason why we could not exceed the speed of light is because there are three curvature engines on the washer spacecraft, and the Shenzhou only tested one. "Yang Yuping answered casually a reason.
Fang Yuan suddenly thought of a possibility: "Then is there a way to repair the complete washer spacecraft?"
"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 carefully analyzed this question, so the answer given is not very sure.
"It only needs the power engine to basically reach the original level. If it can fly faster than the speed of light, then the plan to destroy the ε Pegasus star gate can be implemented, which will give humans a long buffer time." Fang Yuan Speak your thoughts.
Yang Yuping has been engaged in scientific research all his life, and he didn't think so deeply. Hearing Fang Yuan say this, he felt very reasonable:
"This is a good idea. If the star gate of the Palestine civilization is destroyed, it will be difficult for the Palestine civilization to send a fleet to the solar system in a short time. It should focus on repairing the washer spacecraft."
After determining the goal.
The Super Technology Laboratory was officially established to repair the washer spacecraft.
With the help of Eve's mechanical BUG level ability, the repair work is very fast.
Coupled with the mature technology of strong nuclear materials, the process of repairing the shell of the washer spacecraft is also very smooth.
In the end, it only took more than a month to repair all the washer spacecraft.
"To what extent can it be recovered?" Fang Yuan asked the key question after seeing the repaired washer spacecraft.
"More than 80% of the performance is definitely there. If only the sailing speed is mentioned, it can almost reach 90%." Yang Yuping answered.
The repaired washer spacecraft was renamed the "Counterstrike" star destroyer.
Subsequently, the military research team boarded the Star Destroyer Counterattack for a test flight.
In the end, it reached 10 times the speed of light under the powerful curvature engine.
This is the converted speed driven by curvature, not the actual speed of kinetic energy.
"Ten times the speed of light, still can't perform the task of destroying the star gate of ε Pegasus."
After the final curvature velocity came out, Fang Yuan found that the velocity was still not enough.
Ε Pegasus is 673 light-years away from the earth, which means that it would take 673 years to travel at the speed of light.
Even if it travels at 10 times the speed of light, it will take 67.3 years.
Such a long time is enough to change many things.
Therefore, even if you travel to ε Pegasus at 10 times the speed of light, it is difficult to cross this distance.
"Something is wrong, the washer spacecraft should be more than 10 times the speed of light." Fang Yuan still felt that something was wrong.
Before, when the washer spacecraft returned to the solar system, it also pointed out where it departed from, and it only took more than a month to reach the solar system.
The diameter of the solar system is about 4 light years.
In other words, if the washer spacecraft was flying at 10 times the speed of light, it would not be able to fly back from outside the solar system within a month.
Therefore, there must be some secrets that have not been discovered.
Fang Yuan saw Luo Hui again, still in the hemispherical building.
"The promise of giving me more space for activity, when will it be fulfilled?" After seeing Fang Yuan, Luo Hui took the initiative to fulfil his promise.
Fang Yuan had promised him before that as long as he was willing to cooperate, he would give him more space for activities, provided that the scientific and technological strength reached a reassuring height.
"Don't worry, I still have some questions to clarify. According to calculations, it only took more than a month for the Cleaner spacecraft to fly back from outside the solar system. This is not something that a curvature engine with 10 times the speed of sound can do." Fang Yuan said the question in his mind.
"It's useless for you to ask me. You only know the curvature engine, but don't know the curvature generator. Or, to put it easier to understand, the curvature generator is like a slingshot, which can be launched by a spacecraft to reach extremely high levels. Speed." Luo Hu replied.
"The curvature generator, it takes time to build, right?"
Hearing his explanation, Fang Yuan immediately understood what the curvature generator was, and at the same time discovered the loopholes in Luo Hui's answer: "Moreover, the curvature generator is definitely not easy to build. The washer spacecraft cannot build the curvature generator anytime and anywhere. Even if there is a curvature generator, how much can the speed increase? So, it is impossible to be a curvature generator."
"If it is not a curvature generator, it can only be the more powerful technology mastered by the Palestine civilization, such as the dimension technology, or the wormhole detector, which specifically searches for naturally formed wormholes in the universe, so as to pass through the wormhole and cross A long distance to reach the wormholes around the destination." Luo Hui explained again.