Chapter 1057 The greatest discovery in the astronomy world
I have to say that when Xu Chuan’s idea was proposed, Professor Reinhard Gentzer was shocked.
The ripples effect of space-time fluctuations caused by the drag and rotation of the M87 black hole may be a natural curvature engine in the universe, or it may be a "space-time tunnel" constructed by an alien high-intelligence civilization.
Through it, extraterrestrial civilizations can conduct rapid deep space navigation.
Either of these two guesses can be called "a big brain".
Not to mention a scholar who is at the peak of the world and has a rigorous understanding of physics, I am afraid that even those authors who write science fiction novels may not have such a big idea.
Although in the early years, some scholars in the physics community believed that there might be another ‘white hole’ behind a black hole, and the two together form a tunnel that can travel through the vast space and time.
Or it is based on Einstein's general theory of relativity. The huge mass of a black hole can stretch the surrounding space-time structure to its limit, which means that the other end of the black hole is likely to lead to a place that is completely unknown to us, or even another space-time or another world.
But so far, few people in the physics community have thought about it, or have never thought about using black holes to release huge jets when they swallow accretion disks and dark matter to disturb space and create curvature space-time or space-time wormholes that can be used.
But I have to say that this is indeed a very exquisite and theoretically possible idea.
Because the relativistic jet of supermassive black holes is very, very high, and can easily reach 30% of the speed of light, that is, 90,000 kilometers per second, or even higher.
Maybe many people may not have any idea about this speed, but for example, if you fly at a speed of 90,000 kilometers per second, it only takes a little more than four seconds to fly from Earth to the Moon.
The circumference of the Earth's equator is only 40,000 kilometers, and the speed of a supermassive black hole jet can fly around the Earth for more than two laps in one second.
And more importantly, this is just the speed of the black hole jet, not the speed of space-time ripples caused by it distorting space-time.
But for physics, the faster the speed, the higher the energy required.
To accelerate the huge black hole jet to one-third of the speed of light, the energy required for each release is far more than hundreds of times the energy consumed by humans since entering the industrial age to the present.
If such a huge amount of energy can drive the bending of space-time to form ripples in space-time, then the expansion of space-time may reach several times the speed of light, or even faster.
Of course, even if this method cannot achieve the space-time curvature of several times the speed of light, as long as it can cause ripples in space-time, that is, gravitational waves, its speed is enough to reach the speed of light.
This is just the idea of using black hole jets to stretch space-time and constructing a warp engine.
If it is a wormhole that can travel through time and space, then its speed may be indescribable to the speed of light.
Because a wormhole may connect thousands of light years, tens of thousands of light years, or even more distant galaxies.
In theory, this is not impossible.
After all, for the three-dimensional topological universe and space-time, distorted space-time may form any shape that humans cannot imagine.
Like a U-shaped lock, under normal circumstances, it is necessary to cross the entire U-shaped shape from one end of the U-shaped lock to the other end, and the space-time wormhole can directly link two poles with the shortest distance.
If the normal voyage distance is 50 trillion kilometers, then it may only take 50 million kilometers to travel through space-time wormholes, or even shorter.
In the lounge, Professor Reinhard Gentzel took several deep breaths of air conditioning before calming his fantasy thoughts.
He looked at Xu Chuan and couldn't help asking, "Did you expect this possible situation in the universe?"
Xu Chuan shook his head and said, "No, at the beginning, I didn't think about using black holes as the core to construct space-time wormholes. It was the observational data you brought to inspire me."
He did not think about this at the beginning, but he had thought about using the energy released by the fission of dark matter to interfere with space-time, creating curvature engines and building space-time wormholes.
As early as when the Void Field and Dark Matter theory were completed, he had thought of similar theories and conjectures.
But at that time he was more thinking about how to ‘artificially’ provide energy for the manufacturing of curvature engines and architecture of space-time wormholes, rather than using the celestial bodies in the universe to complete these two technologies.
It seems now that if the guesswork for the M87 black hole is correct, then perhaps the black holes in the universe, or the supermassive black holes in the center of the river, may be bridges of time and space.
Those alien intelligent civilizations that are more advanced than human civilization have mastered the dark energy of dark matter and have achieved the ability to use the powerful energy of black holes to pull space and space to build the "highway" in the universe.
Of course, at present, these are just his personal guesses.
Whether it is true is unknown at the moment.
The ripples effect of space-time fluctuations caused by the drag and rotation of the M87 black hole may also be just a natural universe phenomenon.
Thought about it, he looked at Professor Reinhard Gentzel and smiled and said, "Do you need cooperation? Professor Reinhard."
"Cooperation?"
Hearding Xu Chuan's invitation, Professor Reinhard Gentzel was slightly stunned for a moment, a little confused.
Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "Yes."
"If you are interested, you can come to China. I will set up a scientific research project for the special phenomenon of the M87 black hole. If you want, you will be in charge of this project."
"I can guarantee that at least 30 million yuan will be invested in this project every year."
"Thirty million?" Hearing this number, Professor Reinhard Gentzel couldn't help swallowing.
If it is another professional field, 30 million may be nothing. For example, for the material field, any better project can burn ten or 30 million.
However, for the astronomy community, 30 million scientific research funds per year are already an exaggerated number for a single project.
After all, astronomy is a well-known unpopular major in the world, with fewer people, fewer scientific research projects, and fewer scientific research funds.
There is no way. As a highly theoretical and technical subject, astronomy not only requires students' basic knowledge such as mathematics and physics.
And it is still very difficult, and it can even be said that it is almost impossible to transform theoretical scientific research results into ‘application’ results at present.
Not to compare it with popular application fields such as materials, physics, and chemistry. Compared with its fellow disciples, the "aerospace" field, the rear taillights cannot be seen in astronomy.
After all, although aerospace is unpopular, it can be said that it also relies on national financial subsidies to maintain business development, but compared with astronomy, aerospace is relatively more used.
Especially the development of traditional chemical fuel launch vehicle technology, for various countries, a slight transformation is solid and powerful missile propulsion technology.
So investment in the aerospace field can be transformed into achievements in multiple fields such as national defense and high temperature resistance.
Astronomical science is different. What black hole did you detect today, what neutron stars will be detected tomorrow, and what will be the explosion of supernova the day after tomorrow.
You want to transform these achievements into applications with practical value?
What are you thinking?
Pure astronomy and applied astronomy that observes the phenomena of the universe and celestial bodies are completely two different fields.
The latter may also make some applications in aerospace, communication navigation, meteorological prediction, etc., but the former can be completely theoretical, and is more theoretical than pure mathematics.
While a pure theory cannot be transformed into an area where applications bring benefits, the investment and interest of countries in it can naturally be imagined.
So after hearing about the annual scientific research funding of 30 million yuan, Professor Reinhard Gentzer was very moved.
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Frowning, he thought for a while before speaking, "I may need to consider this."
For scholars of his level, the 30 million special scientific research funding is indeed very exciting, especially this project was carried out with the world-famous top scholar in front of him.
But going to work in China is also something that needs to be carefully considered. Other scientific research work and family factors in his hands are difficult for him to make a decision in a short time.
Over the wine table, Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's not just the funds, but also the equipment."
After a brief pause, he picked up the beer in his hand and took a sip, then looked at Professor Reinhard Gentzel and continued.
"A few years ago, I developed a large astronomical space detector from the NASA Aerospace Administration of the United States."
"According to the original requirements, the mirror diameter of this large telescope exceeds fifteen meters, and has various detection methods such as ultraviolet/optical/infrared/ultra-low frequency bands."
"In the second half of this year, NASA stated that the product could be delivered by around March next year at the latest."
Hearing this, Professor Reinhard Gentzer looked over with surprise and asked in shock: "A large astronomical space detector with a mirror diameter of more than fifteen meters?"
You should know that the James Webb Space Telescope, which currently ranks first in the astronomy world and has the most powerful performance, has a mirror diameter of only 6.5 meters.
Fifteen meters, this is more than twice that of the Weber telescope.
Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "Of course, it cost me a total of 3.5 billion meters of gold, and there are some other important resources in addition to this."
The issue of finding NASA Space Administration to customize a large outer space telescope goes back several years ago.
In the context of the space race at that time, after they carried out rescue operations against the American moon landing personnel, the United States and NASA were eager to understand what their space shuttle was.
So he took a deal with them by repairing the James Webb Space Telescope that was damaged by a meteorite impact.
NASA Aerospace Administration promised to help him customize a Weber-like astronomical telescope, and eventually, PerkinElmer, which made the Hubble Telescope and Weber Telescope, jointly took over the huge order.
Among them, it took a full half a year to design various functions of this super-large space telescope.
This is based on the experience in designing various telescopes such as Hubble and Weber, otherwise it will only take longer.
Over the table, Professor Reinhard Gentzel was shocked.
He subconsciously pinched the beer bottle in his hand, looked at Xu Chuan with an incredible look, and asked in shock: "Are you saying that you spent a total of 3.5 billion meters of gold to customize a space telescope with a mirror surface of more than 15 meters?" "What did you pay by yourself? Not China?"
He would definitely believe that China would take out 3.5 billion meters of gold to build a large space telescope.
After all, China is now the world's largest supereconomic, and 3.5 billion meters of gold are not much for China.
But Xu Chuan personally took out a total of 3.5 billion meters of gold and he would really subconsciously doubt whether it was true.
Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, I paid all the funds for customizing this telescope."
"God! Hiss~!"
Hearing this affirmative answer, Professor Reinhard Gentzer took a breath of the cold air conditioning in the winter, couldn't help swallowing, and murmured to himself.
"I must be crazy, you must be crazy, this world must be crazy, 3.5 billion meters of gold! My God! This is terrible, you are really rich."
Xu Chuan smiled, not caring about Professor Reinhard's loss of composure. He continued to throw out the conditions and said, "In addition, in addition to this large space telescope, don't forget that China also has the world's top astronomy equipment such as the FAST 500-meter aerospace spherical radio telescope, the LAMOST large-sky area multi-objective fiber spectral astronomical telescope and other world-class astronomy equipment."
"For me, as long as I need it, these devices can be applied for."
I couldn't help swallowing again. Professor Reinhard Gentzel took a deep breath and said, "Okay, Xu, your conditions have conquered me."
"But I still need to go back to discuss with my family about leaving German to work in China."
Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Of course it's okay, I will wait for your good news in China."
Professor Reinhard Gentzel smiled and nodded, raised the beer bottle in his hand, and signaled, "Then congratulate us on finding the secret of the M87 black hole in the next cooperation!"
Holding the beer in his hand, Xu Chuan smiled and touched Professor Reinhard, saying, "Maybe this may be the greatest discovery in the astronomy world."
(End of this chapter)