Zhou Qing stood beside Zhang Jingyuan, quietly observing the exploration situation. Among the expedition team, only Zhou Qing was the most suitable. Let alone anything else, just due to image issues, Lao Yanscar and Wooden Zhuangzi were excluded. Not to mention that Zhou Qing also understands space technology and is a very outstanding representative!
"Crash..." Another batch of detectors was damaged again. After discovering this wormhole, everyone began to compete. This was already the third batch of detectors. There is still no progress in the detection of wormholes. Every time a special distance is detected, the detector will be damaged. This is caused by the huge space pressure and the churning of the space-time vortex.
Exploring a space-time vortex is not easy, and it is not as simple as looking at a vortex. First of all, the universe is inherently dark and lightless, and the space-time vortex itself is also a fluctuation at the spatial level, invisible to the naked eye. Just like the earth's magnetic field, we cannot directly observe it without the help of special instruments and then computer graphics technology.
At this moment, Zhang Jingyuan and others had a three-dimensional projection in front of them, a projection of a wormhole. This projection is marked with a size ratio: 1 centimeter = 1 million kilometers. The current wormhole is more than one meter in diameter, which means its actual influence is enough to exceed 100 million kilometers. In terms of diameter, it is almost equivalent to the diameter of Mercury's orbit. And the height is actually as much as half a meter! It's like a thumbtack, but it's broken in the middle of the tip - here, it hasn't been explored yet.
Because three consecutive waves of detectors were damaged, the subsequent data was also blurred, and manned exploration was temporarily unavailable. We can only wait for the technology department behind.
"Brush..." The teleportation array lit up. In this spaceship that was hundreds of kilometers in size, using the teleportation array was a very convenient way of communication; an old man who looked like he had gray hair came out.
"Principal?" Zhou Qing exclaimed. The person coming was none other than Zhang Qi, the principal of the Empire's Second Space Technology College. He still looks as old as he did decades ago, but if you look closely, you can see that the old man's face is as rosy as a young man!
"Zhou Qing?" Zhang Qi looked at Zhou Qing next to Zhang Jingyuan with a surprised look on his face. This boy's graduation certificate was personally approved by the old principal. "Did you discover this wormhole?"
"No. It was discovered by our team. In fact, at first we just thought it was an ordinary space-time vortex."
"Good! Your portrait will be hung in the college from now on!" the old principal praised. The portrait is not a photo of you, but a person who has made a significant contribution to society. A dedicated national-level painter will draw the portrait himself. And then hung in major colleges. But only one is authentic. The rest are photocopied reproductions; as for the original portraits. Of course, it is suspended among graduate schools. This has become a rule that has not become a rule.
"..." Zhou Qing opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Haha..." The old professor patted Zhou Qing on the shoulder. No more words were said. Then he handed you Zhang Jingyuan and said, "Taizu."
"Are you ready?" Zhang Jingyuan didn't care too much about anything else. After all, this person was also his descendant. Some people joked: Today, one in 10,000 Chinese people with the surname Zhang are related by blood to Zhang Jingyuan; that is, tens of billions of people are related to Zhang Jingyuan. Although this is an exaggeration, it also illustrates the impact of national surnames on social development. There are even some family planets where the entire planet has the same surname! For example, the planet of Zhang Jingyuan’s brothers.
"Ready! Don't worry about me doing my job! Let's go to the laboratory and have a look. There are receiving devices and a perfect computer array there." Zhang Qi chuckled. He didn't look like a majestic principal, but an old naughty boy. But just now, the old teacher was modifying a new detector in the laboratory, a detector made entirely of degenerate materials with a honeycomb structure. As mentioned before, such a material structure is constructed directly from atomic nuclei or even protons, neutrons and angles. However, because of the honeycomb structure, the density of the material is not as exaggerated as tens of thousands, only 15 ( density of water), and its solid performance, crushing diamonds is like tofu. Nowadays, general detectors have failed continuously and have to use such materials; however, not to mention that such materials are difficult to process, their own value is immeasurable.
The laboratory here is located at the center and back of the spacecraft, which is the best for defense. The laboratory itself is designed as an escape cabin inside the ship. Once the spacecraft encounters danger, the laboratory and scientific researchers will be protected first.
The laboratory is thousands of meters long, dozens of meters high, and hundreds of meters wide. The core computer array is a tiny model of the Destiny Computer, covering an area of 200 square meters. Its computing power is far beyond what civilian computers can match.
Soon, new probes were sent again. This time there is only one, but it is ten meters in size. The whole body is made of new materials, and every fragile core, such as computers, etc., is wrapped with degenerate materials, and then the entire detector is protected by virtual physics technology. stand up.
In terms of exploration, China prefers virtual physical protection because it is colorless and invisible, which is conducive to the work of detectors.
The ten-meter-sized detector was so inconspicuous in the universe that it flew unsteadily toward the space-time vortex, and finally flew slowly along the trajectory in front of it.
"Calculating time and space, time is accelerating, accelerating... One billionth, three billionths, two millionths..."
"Calculate the distortion of time and space... unchanged! Unchanged?" A scientist suddenly widened his eyes, "Why is it unchanged? The wormhole is obviously shrinking! Oh, I understand, I understand! It turns out that the space is shrinking at the same proportion! That is Said, although it seems to us that the influence of the upper part of this wormhole exceeds 100 million kilometers, and the entrance at the core reaches tens of thousands of kilometers, and the wormhole continues to become thinner downwards, and the diameter of the places that have been explored is only above Hundreds of kilometers; but the interior of the wormhole is always tens of thousands of kilometers in space
This is a secret of space, the inside is inside and the outside is outside! Wow, if we can crack it and use this technology, we can combine it with small space technology to achieve space compression! Just being able to not crack this technology is enough to take our space technology a step further, and we can compress a space of tens of meters into a portable backpack! ”
Each scientist kept screaming with joy, and everyone was excited about the miracles they saw.
"Everyone, get ready, get ready! The detector is about to cross the danger line!" Zhang Qi shouted.
I only saw that in the virtual wormhole model, a red light point was approaching the death line of the first three sets of detectors. Swipe... The screen is all blurry for a while, and then becomes clear.
"The flow rate of time has reached, uh... one ten thousandth of the time flow rate of standard cosmic space, one hundred thousandth, and is still slowing down... The speed here is so slow. There is nothing around, the detector signal is not continuing, return quickly... late , the detector lost contact”
"Look at the data model!" Zhang Qi shouted in surprise.
At this time, everyone was surprised to find that with the support of a small amount of data, the computer was frantically calculating and deducing. Then a new, asymmetric model appeared!
This model is like two thumbtacks facing each other. The previous death line is the position of the needle tip and the smallest position of the wormhole. But beyond this point, there is another even bigger "pushpin", which is more than ten times the size of this side.
"Wormhole! This is the wormhole!" Everyone cheered, and some even shed tears of excitement.
"In the final detection, the detector signal completely disappeared, and no signal was received within a light-year radius!" Zhang Qi was operating. "The following scans the signals within a 10-light-year radius. A complete scan of the ten-light-year range will take at least three months to complete. It is recommended that the reality is postponed and we explore the current situation first."
"Obviously, this is a different space! Is it another universe?" Everyone was still excited and trembling with excitement as they walked.
"Well." Principal Zhang Qi suddenly walked up to Zhou Qing, "Zhou Qing, what do you think? Come on, tell me. Don't be afraid. Scientists often make mistakes. Mistakes are also the ladder of progress!"
"Ah...Okay, thank you principal. That kid has made a fool of himself.
I think this could be the legendary subspace. I have always had a conjecture that our universe is like a layer cake, but the space and time between each layer are different, and there is even relative movement. This movement is caused by different times and different directions of motion in the universe.
If we could enter another universe and then come back to ours, we would be able to travel across space. In fact, such conjectures have always existed, but no evidence has ever been found.
But this time is different, we found evidence, which is a wormhole. But again, in my opinion, the wormhole itself is a flaw in the space and time of the universe, which may be the result of the relative movement of two universe levels. The existence time of this wormhole may not be too long, but it should not be too short. . But no matter what, we should seize the time to explore! ”
"Good boy, not bad. The idea is very creative. Two-layered universes, moving with each other? Well, if so, that would be really wonderful. Thousand-layer cake universe? Is there any priority in the universe?"
"I think we can't tell for the time being. Maybe it's like a thousand-layer pancake. It doesn't matter the priority. Everyone is very similar, but the position is different. Or maybe it's like an onion, there is an inside and an outside. There are many situations. We need to verify carefully and calculate carefully. , boldly seek verification.”
"Good boy, come and be my assistant." Zhang Qi looked at Zhou Qing with satisfaction. "Ah...Okay, okay! Thank you principal, thank you so much principal." Zhou Qing nodded fiercely. (To be continued...)
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