I can't describe the feeling. It's like seeing a huge crystal concave lens in a dark night with only a little light. It looks transparent and a little distorted. A little light is stretched and separated into dots of colored light; compared to The surrounding space is still somewhat clear and deep.
And such a "hole" began to appear in the center of the huge disk, and expanded rapidly, and finally expanded to a diameter of 100 kilometers, and finally stabilized; but the surface was like a wave, constantly undulating.
At this time, the surroundings of the disc were very strange. From the back, there was nothing. It was still the large disc that was spinning rapidly and had become a colored disc. But from the front, you could see a dark, diameter-sized disc. There are hundreds of kilometers of holes, dark and distorting light like a concave lens; if you look at it from the side, you can occasionally see a funnel-like "bottleneck" in some places.
Success!
All the scientists cheered, even Huang Daoxuan and Yang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief! No matter what happens in the future, at least the first step is successful for now, and for the time being, this is enough.
It’s just that science is rigorous. Although it is successful now, it can only be said to be successful at the beginning. Therefore, the scientists did not cheer, but settled down and continued to work hard; there will be various tests next, some tests, and even... …
"Execute plan No. 1 and transport detectors inward; also prepare nuclear warheads to check the stability of the channel!" Huang Daoxuan quickly calmed down and began to arrange the plan.
Using a nuclear warhead to explode to verify the stability of the channel may sound exaggerated, but in fact there is a reason why it must be done. After all, the empire wants to reach the Andromeda Galaxy through such a space-time undercurrent. The stability here is very critical, and is directly related to the safety of the migration fleet and the energy output during battle.
Said to be a detector, it is actually a fleet of unmanned spacecraft. A hundred unmanned spaceships were just thrown in; the value of these spacecrafts and the instruments on them are at least enough to transform a living planet, but in this moment of race against time, no one is willing to waste even a second of time. ! Trading money for time is the current strategy!
Normally. Of course, we are adding detectors bit by bit and constantly adjusting them based on the last feedback. But now, this is all we can do. Save one day and add a little more research time. The accumulation of this day by day is also very considerable. .
Seeing that the unmanned spacecraft that had been researched at a huge cost entered this dark hole, the scientists also launched crazy research; every returned information, data, etc., had to be analyzed by several research groups and thousands of people. Even tens of thousands of scientists crushed the research.
As for the main persons in charge, Huang Daoxuan and Yang Sheng. But it's the "harvest" season - the two of them can just watch the movie now.
In the general control center, there is a space with a diameter of 3 kilometers. This is inside a large scientific research ship that is hundreds of kilometers long. This 3 kilometers in diameter space is actually a "display screen", which is said to be a display screen. It's not very precise. It should be said that this is a projection space; here, the model of the Milky Way that humans have explored can be perfectly projected. Of course, it can also be used to study the undercurrent of space and time here.
At this moment, the data sent back from the front is being continuously projected in this huge space. But to be honest, things are not very good. Data transfer is intermittent.
The space disturbance is so severe that many signals are lost directly; there are also some places where existing instruments and equipment cannot work properly! A gravity detection instrument, which directly alarms - it's really a mess here!
Anyway, the projection projected into this three-kilometer area is like a mangy dog. In some places, the data is displayed when it is sent back; in some places, no data is sent back, so it is blank; in other places, the data is fuzzy, missing, etc., and will be specially marked in yellow.
Such a three-dimensional projection can be imagined, and the overall shape is long. So it looks like a rotten cucumber, miserable.
But it doesn't matter. The previous investment in so many spacecrafts at once was not without effect. These spacecrafts themselves have launched countless large and small detectors, and the data is being continuously improved.
But the situation was still not good. In less than half an hour, the spacecraft or detectors began to be damaged and unable to work. Some even lost contact directly, and even the final signal was not transmitted back. Half an hour later, the detectors and so on actually just entered the core area!
The speed at which projection is perfected is slowly slowing down.
But even so, the projection at this time can roughly see some of the undercurrents of time and space. At this time, the space-time undercurrent does not seem to be so fixed and stable. It is like a tornado, drifting irregularly. This drift speed is very fast, up to hundreds of kilometers per second! Among natural objects, this speed is almost the ultimate speed of planets; even the revolution speed of many stars is no more than this.
However, this undercurrent of time and space does not move regularly, but sometimes this way and then that way. Perhaps it is not that there is no pattern, but that humans do not yet have the corresponding technology to accurately measure it. Well, what is undetectable means that there are no rules for today's humans!
The undercurrent of time and space looks like a tornado, but the rotating current inside is not wind or water vapor, but "light". All kinds of light are distorted here, tumbling like twists, and entangled together. Some release various colored lights and then disappear; some will suddenly appear, flicker for a few times and then disappear again. At this time, the undercurrent of space and time looked like a kaleidoscope, with the world spinning inside.
It seems that such an existence cannot allow the spacecraft to pass through at all; but the world is always so wonderful, and it is still like a tornado. In the center of the undercurrent of time and space, there is a calm area!
This area is also very weird. It doesn't look big, but actual measurement results show that the central area, which looks less than the width of the tunnel, is actually tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter! Obviously, the space-time inside and outside the space-time undercurrent has been severely distorted, so that various data, etc., cannot be effectively observed without in-depth investigation and only this year's observation from the outside.
Time passes little by little, and the projection of the undercurrent of time and space becomes more and more complete. But some places are always blank. Even if you specifically direct the detector to approach, it will not help! No one knows what the situation is like here, and no information has been returned; and there are indeed many such places; a certain pattern is vaguely present, swirling with the undercurrent of time and space.
In fact, if we make an analogy, the undercurrent of time and space is compared with normal time and space. Just like the ocean and undercurrents, it may be the so-called global ocean current circulation system; they may have certain laws, but the current Chinese civilization obviously does not have the ability to explore such laws.
Beep beep... A yellow alarm came out, the detector loss has exceeded 30%, which shows that the situation is very bad. You must know that it has been less than two hours since the exploration began!
Can such an undercurrent of space and time really allow us to safely reach the Andromeda Galaxy? For a while, some scientists began to ask questions; but no one could give an answer, or the only answer was - we will talk about it after exploring it!
Cutting-edge scientific research has rarely been a one-time success! In most cases, you must firmly believe that failure is your mother!
"Fuck me!" Four hours later. The red alarm sounded, the detector has lost more than 90%!
The scientists have begun to work in groups. One group has found out all the previous detector data and checked them one by one to see which detector has lasted the longest. Then, they can follow the number to find the production company and factory, and even the manufacturer that originally provided the raw materials. Check bit by bit to see what the reason is. Make these detectors last longer.
This is an extremely large, complicated and careful job, even with the help of smart computers. Many places still require manual screening. For example, compare the lifespan of detectors of the same level, different levels, the same type and different types, etc.
It must be pointed out that when China launches exploration, the same detection target will be tracked and explored by at least three different technology detectors. For example. To detect the photospheric temperature of stars, there are radiation detection, direct detection, electromagnetic detection, remote sensing technology, etc., as well as traditional Chinese technology, foreign technological means, biotechnology and other technologies; sometimes in order to achieve a goal, even Hundreds of thousands of detectors are needed to be as accurate as possible.
There are many advantages to doing this. The first is the audition of technology, which is conducive to promoting the progress of China's technology and the absorption of foreign technology; the second is to obtain the most accurate and complete data; and the third is also very important, inputting this relevant data into the computer , then when encountering the corresponding situation, there is no need to perform complicated manual operations, and the computer will determine which technology to use.
It is in this meticulous work and research that Chinese civilization is developing at a high speed; behind the rapid development is the meticulous, almost harsh and boring work of scientific workers day after day.
"Woo..." The black light came on, and all the detectors "died".
The entire exploration process took a total of 17 hours and ended when all detectors lost contact or were destroyed. The scientists temporarily stayed away from the opened space-time undercurrent, and the spacecraft gradually moved away from here; only various unmanned spacecrafts and so on were left on the scene, continuing to monitor the large hexagonal disk that was still rapidly circling - the door to the space-time undercurrent.
After being about 1 billion kilometers away, the fleet stopped and started busy with various detection and screening tasks. This will be a long time of work; but 1 billion kilometers away, the door to the undercurrent of space and time that has been opened is still going crazy. Twisting and circling, although the surrounding detectors can only barely detect some peripheral data and simple data, it is better than nothing; in fact, what is more important now is to detect the stability of the undercurrent of space and time. Regardless of whether this thing can allow humans to pass through, there is at least one prerequisite that cannot be ignored, and that is - stability! If there is no stability, the empire will directly give up, at least give up the current undercurrent of time and space; later it may give up the exploration of the undercurrent of time and space, or it may explore the undercurrent of time and space in another direction; the specifics will depend on the outer space exploration fleet. results!
Invisibly, the outer space exploration fleet and the space-time undercurrent exploration scientific research team have formed a kind of competition! (To be continued...)