Therefore, the spacecraft cannot achieve the goal of surpassing the speed of light by means of direct acceleration.
Although it is not possible to directly accelerate beyond the speed of light, some clever means can be used to circumvent the limits of relativity and achieve the goal of exceeding the speed of light.
This is how the curvature guide is produced, and it is also a device that achieves super-light speed flight.
After a spacecraft is loaded with a curvature guide, it can travel faster than the speed of light in space.
Although this seems to violate the theory of relativity, it is indeed an achievable technology.
In fact, the curvature quote does not violate the theory of relativity, because this is the effect achieved through lateral means.
The curvature engine may sound very tall, but the truth is very simple.
The space in which the entire universe is located is actually not flat, but full of various folds. The size of these folds is "sixty seven", which is curvature.
When the curvature is zero, the space is completely flat, and the greater the curvature, the greater the wrinkles in the space.
Curvature guide is a technology that uses space pleats to drive spacecraft.
If we can change the curvature of the space, we can increase the pleats in the space, which is actually equivalent to shortening the distance between two points.
Draw two points on a piece of white paper. The closest distance is not a straight line between the two points, but directly fold the white paper so that the two points directly touch each other.
Although the curvature guide well cannot make the two points coincide, it can greatly shorten the distance between the two points.
So the curvature is not really beyond the speed of light, but
The space is folded up, thus shortening the distance in between.
To put it bluntly, the curvature engine does not increase the speed of the spacecraft, but shortens the space in which the capable spacecraft is located.
If a spacecraft needs to reach a place 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 pleats of the space increased four times.
For the spacecraft, the distance of one light-year has become a quarter of a light-year.
In this way, it takes half a year for the spacecraft to reach its destination a light-year away.
After all, the speed of the spacecraft surpassed the speed of light and reached twice the speed of light.
In fact, it's not that the speed of the spacecraft has become faster. Its speed is still half the speed of light, but the distance is shortened to a quarter of the original, making 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.
Curvature guide is a device that increases the space fold by changing the curvature, and finally increases the speed of the spacecraft.
Therefore, the curvature quote does not violate the theory of relativity, it just bypasses the restrictions of the theory of relativity.
Of course, the curvature guide can do more than that. Increasing the speed by four times is not the limit of the curvature guide.
The better the curvature of the engine, the larger the space fold, and the more speed the spacecraft will eventually increase.
Those super civilizations that can span the entire universe have very advanced curvatures.
Their curvature engine can increase the speed by tens of thousands of times, allowing the spacecraft to easily reach several times the speed of light.
However, such an advanced curvature cannot be made by Jing Jiang Cheng. It is something that can only be played by the top cosmic civilization. The curvature engine Jiang Cheng wants to manufacture is not that advanced.
The curvature engine Jiang Cheng plans to study this time can shorten the space by twenty times, which means that it can increase the speed of the spacecraft twenty times.
In the design, the spacecraft built by Jiang Cheng has a speed of 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 also sufficient for the time being, at least enough in the solar system.
At that time, between Mars and the Earth, it only takes a few minutes to reach it. 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 nearest neighbor to the solar system is only about five light-years away.
This distance travels at ten times the speed of light, and it only takes half a year to reach it.
In other words, Jiang Cheng will send a spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, and it will be there in only half a year.
However, for a spacecraft that is ten times the speed of light, it takes too long to go to places light years away.
But when it takes time to go so far, 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.
To increase the speed of the spacecraft, there is only the path of curvature. There is no room for improvement in the speed of the spacecraft itself.
Basically, the speed of all civilized spacecraft is about half the speed of light.
It's not that the speed cannot be increased, but that after the speed exceeds half the speed of light, too much energy is needed to continue accelerating.
The faster the speed, the more energy is needed to accelerate, which is the basic law of the universe that cannot be bypassed.
Accelerating to half the speed of light is the most energy-efficient option, and the spacecraft is basically designed like this.
So what limits the speed of a civilized spacecraft is the curvature technique.
When Jiang Cheng decided to develop the curvature guide first, he immediately went to work.
However, before developing the curvature guide, Jiang Cheng still needs a lot of manufacturing materials.
The curvature engine requires a lot of materials, many of which are rare materials.
One of the rarest materials is platinum. The curvature of the material requires a lot of platinum to be manufactured.
This is Jiang Cheng's true purpose of mining platinum on Mars, and it is also the material Jiang Cheng needs the most.
The biggest use of platinum is to create curvature. This material is in great demand even for high-end cosmic civilization.
That's why Jiang Cheng will plan ahead on Mars and mine platinum on a large scale.
In the process of researching and developing the curvature guide, Jiang Cheng will probably waste a lot of platinum.
The technology used by Curvature is very complicated, and it may not be successful to manufacture many units.
Once platinum is used on the curvature, 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 the curvature engine, platinum is consumed.
