"Let's jump to a million years in the future."
Tomcat took a deep breath." Captain, although your hypothesis is in line with the principle of the increase of the law of time and the law of the arrow of time, it also better explains how we discovered this metal fragment!“
" However, up until now, the time jump was only a theoretical existence. Whether it was the M?bius Ring effect or the possible quantum jump principle, it had never been proven!”
Zhao Xiaofeng waved his hand." Tomcat, I know what you're talking about. This mysterious universe will have all sorts of possibilities in the next moment. It's just like Aldebaran. According to our original knowledge, it will take at least a billion years before it explodes!“
" No one can explain why it suddenly exploded the moment we passed by it!”
" Therefore, we don't need to conclude the necessity now. We just need to find evidence to make a judgment based on the three possibilities we have. Which one is closer?”
"Search for evidence? Captain, what do you mean?" Tomcat suddenly jumped up from the bridge."You want to go back to Earth to take a look?"
"Yes!" " Yes." Zhao Xiaofeng nodded." The presence of the Earth's atmosphere hinders our telescope's vision." I think the evidence of the truth we are looking for is on Earth!”
"But…This is too dangerous!" Tomcat anxiously expressed," We're just a spacecraft for research purposes. Furthermore, we're facing a situation where we're running out of ammunition and food!”
"Tomcat, as a robot, you won't understand my thoughts!”
Zhao Xiaofeng's expressionless face suddenly turned desolate.
"As a carbon-based creature that coexists with emotion and reason, human beings have been faced with the contradiction between supply and demand for resources and survival since the day they were born!”
" This is the driving force that drives us to explore the infinite space. In other words, it is to obtain more resources for survival!”
" In my career of space exploration, I have experienced infinite loneliness and countless dangers. Human beings are different from robots. Your brain is just a program that does not have the feelings of fear and loneliness. Therefore, you will never break down!“
"But I'm different... Every time before I hibernate, I would silently pray, hoping that I would be able to see the light of a star exploding the next time I woke up!”
"There's only one reason why I haven't collapsed in the hundreds of years of loneliness. Everything I've done is meaningful. I'm fighting for the survival of the Human Alliance! Every new discovery I make in the sea of stars may benefit my friends, my family, and even my descendants. It's the only motivation that keeps me going!”
"And now, the Human Alliance is gone, no matter what the reason is! It means that everything I've done, including myself, is completely meaningless!“
" You can't understand the loneliness of a human who has lost his mother civilization. This pain is even more terrible than losing his life!”
"So, no matter what, I have to return to Earth to take a look and look for my own kind that might still exist! No matter who is occupying my mother planet, I have nothing to fear!”
" I will not choose to be a lonely space wanderer, struggling to survive. I would rather die together with the enemy!”
Zhao Xiaofeng's expression was solemn. He had made up his mind!
"Tomcat, prepare to separate the spacecraft's main engine!”
Galaxy's main engine was the symbol of the Earth Alliance's pinnacle of technology!
An experimental material engine driven by black hole energy!
Through the effect of the black hole's " Hawking radiation " principle, it devoured matter and released energy!
Other than the scientific research missions to explore the Fairy Galaxy, the most important mission of Galaxy was to test the stability of the black hole engine!
According to the theoretical basis of Hawking radiation, after the black hole's temperature reached the lower limit of a critical point, it would no longer devour matter. Instead, it would convert its own mass into energy radiation.
At the critical point temperature, the amount of energy radiation was inverse to the mass of the black hole.
The smaller the mass of the black hole, the more intense the energy radiation emitted!
And this radiation could be used as a driving force for large spaceships!
A few hundred years ago, the scientists of the Human Alliance had begun their research.
Their final conclusion was that it was entirely possible to use a black hole as a source of power for a spaceship.
This was because the black hole's energy radiation at the critical point temperature was continuous and gradually strengthened.
During the entire process, the mass of the black hole gradually decreased.
The decrease in the mass of the black hole meant that the overall mass of the spacecraft would decrease, which meant that the total load of the spacecraft would continue to decrease.
In other words, as the black hole continued to radiate energy and lost its own matter, the total mass of the black hole engine would decrease!
The acceleration mode of the black hole engine was roughly as follows:
In the initial stage, the black hole's mass was very large, and the radiation was relatively slow. At the same time, because the black hole was installed on the spaceship, the total mass of the spaceship must be very large.
In comparison, the slower radiation might only have a little effect, so the spacecraft could only move forward at a very slow acceleration.
However, as time passed, the total mass of the black hole and the spaceship gradually decreased, while the rate of radiation continued to increase. As a result, the acceleration of the spaceship became greater and greater…
The acceleration provided by the black hole engine was continuous. A super-small black hole with a mass of one million tons could provide energy and acceleration for a spaceship for a thousand years.
Compared to simply carrying 10 million tons of nuclear fusion fuel, the most obvious benefit of carrying a 10 million tons black hole engine was the space savings.
Obviously, the volume of a black hole was countless times smaller than the volume of a million tons of fusion fuel, because the black hole itself was an infinitely small micro-singularity.
This meant that the spaceship did not need to be too big, or the spaceship could save more space for other purposes.
Most importantly, the black hole engine was already a material engine!
As long as the temperature was above the critical point, it could increase its mass (in other words, the energy of the black hole engine) by devouring matter.
Any substance could be his energy source!
It was not easy to obtain nuclear fusion fuel in the open universe.
If they wanted to replenish the fusion fuel in space, the spacecraft controller would have to take the risk of landing on a planet that contained a large amount of hydrogen!
But a black hole was different. Whether it was an asteroid, a comet, or even interstellar dust, as long as it was material, it could be thrown into the black hole to extend its life and serve as fuel.
Under extreme circumstances, the hull of the spacecraft could even be used as fuel!
Of course, his stability had not been tested by long-term space travel so far!
Even so, he was still in the ideal state of an interstellar spaceship's power to provide exploration direction!
A few decades ago, scientists of the Human Alliance finally discovered that black holes could be bound by strong magnetic fields!
According to this principle, a black hole engine weighing more than 20 million tons was invented for the first time!
Its core was a 20-million-ton super-small black hole that was fixed at a certain point in the internal vacuum by powerful magnetic field equipment.
Then, through the adjustment of its internal temperature, the energy radiation produced by the black hole's release of matter was transformed into the power of the spacecraft through the transmission device.
However, a few decades ago, this main engine had some problems, so the backup controllable nuclear fusion engine on the Galaxy started to work.
However, the black hole in the engine still existed.
Zhao Xiaofeng was planning to do so if the enemies on Earth were really powerful and there were no survivors.
Then, he would destroy the main engine and release the black hole.
Starting from devouring the Earth. Let the black hole swallow the entire solar system!
"Separation complete! We can throw this guy out at any time!”
Tomcat quickly replied," Captain, please instruct us on the next step!”
Although Tomcat had deduced Zhao Xiaofeng's intentions, as a robot, despite having reached a high level of intelligence, it still didn't understand the value of life!
Therefore, Tomcat wasn't afraid!
"Send a message to Earth.
Our Galaxy will reach Earth in 16 hours! Please proceed with landing guidance! If you don't cooperate, we will launch a black hole attack!”
"Yes, Captain!"
(Note: The theory of the black hole engine in this chapter comes from the radiation of the black hole. However, the scientist who proposed this theory, Hawking, overturned the idea of the celestial body of the black hole a few years ago! Change it to white hole and gray hole, this article will not summarize them one by one)
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