After joking around for a while, Zhou Xiaozhi suddenly asked Zhou Yang seriously: "Xiaoyang, what are you going to do after graduation? Do you want to continue to remain anonymous?"
Hearing this, Zhou Yang frowned: "I didn't submit my resume, why did I still ask questions knowingly? Dad has other arrangements?"
"Yes, the boss doesn't want you to join the starship? He has arranged a position for you." Zhou Xiaozhi nodded and confirmed.
"No, I won't accept his arrangement!" Zhou Yang frowned and refused without hesitation.
"Don't rush to make sure. Don't you want to hear what the job is?" Zhou Xiaozhi was about to say something when a voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
"Dad! You've finished your work!" Zhou Yang turned around and saw Zhou Xing standing in front of him.
Zhou Xing nodded with a smile on his face, his eyes a little complicated. Time flies. Unknowingly, it has been almost a hundred years since Zhou Yu lost contact. His youngest son Zhou Yang has also grown up. He never wants Zhou Yang to step back. Following in his brother's footsteps.
"What kind of job does Dad hold? Is it more interesting than interning on a starship?" Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Xing curiously and asked.
"Well, the job is not in the group, but in the federal government. I guarantee it will be interesting." Zhou Xing nodded and smiled, promising.
Compared with Zhou Yu, Zhou Yang is not that obsessed with the interstellar commander. As long as the work content is interesting, novel and exciting, it will definitely attract and divert his attention.
"Oh? What do you do?" Zhou Yang's eyes lit up and he asked curiously.
As an academic master who received Zhou Xiaozhi's elite education since childhood, Zhou Yang inherited the superior genes of his parents and was knowledgeable and knowledgeable. However, he did not have the perseverance of his father Zhou Xing to conduct boring scientific research. I am more interested in novel things, especially the universe and alien civilizations.
Zhou Xing smiled, looked at Zhou Xiaozhi and said: "Xiaozhi, please explain the work information to Xiaoyang."
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded. Immediately, a holographic screen was projected from its electronic eyes, and a science fiction experimental base was displayed on the screen.
"Xiaoyang, this is the Federation Interstellar Civilization Exchange Base and a diplomatic center for exchanges between human civilization and alien civilization." Zhou Xiaozhi introduced to Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang's eyes widened and he looked at the holographic screen in disbelief: "You want me to be a diplomat communicating with alien civilizations?"
"No! You are going to be an information officer and gain experience! How about it? Is it interesting?" Zhou Xing asked Zhou Yang with a smile on his face.
"Dad, you won't fool me with your excuses! We haven't communicated with other civilizations." Zhou Yang frowned and looked at Zhou Xing warily.
"Why not? We are about to reach an agreement with the Mogoro Civilization. In the future, they will introduce us to join the Galaxy Alliance. You will definitely have nothing to do if you go." Zhou Xing smiled slightly and looked at Zhou Yang and broke the news.
Hearing this, Zhou Yang's eyes bulged and he looked at Zhou Xing dumbfounded: "Really! You didn't lie to me, did you?"
This news is so scary. The human federal government has already contacted advanced alien civilizations, and it is also necessary to establish diplomatic relations.
How dare you doubt me? Zhou Xing glared at Zhou Yang and asked: "What do you think? The scope of human civilization has reached 50,000 light-years, and nearly one-third of the 200 billion star systems in the entire Milky Way have been explored. You Do you think other alien civilizations are 'blind'?"
Human civilization has only entered the interstellar era for a few years. It is at a time when population, technology, and military strength are exploding. Suddenly, this news made Zhou Yang worried about the fate of mankind.
"No, ah! I just, after they found us, weren't they..." Zhou Yang couldn't accept the breaking news and became speechless.
What is an alien civilization like? Do they have any ill intentions towards mankind? Will a civilized war break out if there is a disagreement in communication? ... All kinds of thoughts rushed out of Zhou Yang's mind.
Zhou Xing waved his hand, smiled and reassured: "Don't worry, it's okay! They were distracted by other things and had no energy to care about us."
"What?" Zhou Yang was slightly stunned and looked at Zhou Xing with a puzzled expression.
"The Dark Zerg broke out in the center of the Milky Way. So far, we have observed no less than 30 large-scale interstellar wars. The Dark Zerg have attracted the attention of a large number of intelligent civilizations throughout the galaxy. Our position is temporarily safe. However, in the near future, We are also involved." Zhou Xing explained solemnly.
Zhou Yang opened his mouth slightly, shocked by this sudden news!
"When did this happen? Why is such a big thing not disclosed to the outside world?" Zhou Yang widened his eyes and looked at Zhou Xing in confusion.
"The time has not yet come. Premature announcement will easily cause confusion. The federal government is arguing with the Mogoro civilization about joining the Galactic Alliance! Do you want to participate?" Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Yang and asked.
"Can I do it! Such a big thing!" Zhou Yu was slightly startled and asked without confidence.
"I'll let you gain experience. If you talk less and do more, you'll still be able to do odd jobs." Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Yu and said with a smile.
"Dad! Aren't you worried at all?" Zhou Yang asked worriedly.
The Dark Zerg are the mortal enemies of human civilization, and information about this civilization has long been included in textbooks. All mankind knows the dangers of this species, and Zhou Yang is no exception. He has been taught since childhood and he knows deeply about the dangers of the Dark Zerg. Horrible, it seems that Zhou Xing's calmness is a sign of confidence in his eyes.
Zhou Xing smiled helplessly and reassured: "Don't think so much, do your own thing first. Do you want to go or not?"
"Go, I'll go!" Zhou Yang looked at Zhou Xing and nodded without hesitation.
"Well! Go find Professor Lem tomorrow! Let him take you." Zhou Xing nodded and ordered.
"Dad, if a war really breaks out, do we have any hope of victory?" Zhou Yang nodded, looked at Zhou Xing expectantly, and asked.
"I don't know!" Zhou Xing took a deep breath and shook his head.
In the battle against the Dark Zerg, technological superiority is the only key to victory. However, the scale of the interstellar wars erupted by the Dark Zerg in the Milky Way is getting larger and larger. The pressure from the Galactic Alliance is increasing, and there is not much time left for humans to develop technology!
Unexpectedly, Zhou Yang didn't know what to say.
"Go find your mother! She hasn't seen you for a long time. Stay at home for a few more days." Zhou Xing looked at the frowning Zhou Yang and ordered.
"Okay." Zhou Yang nodded to his father, turned and left.
Soon, after the father-son conversation ended, Zhou Xing continued to devote himself to the research at hand.
The only thing Zhou Xing can do now is to do his best to develop more advanced applied technologies for human civilization before the civilized war comes.
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Time flies, and a month passes in the blink of an eye.
The project Zhou Xing is researching has finally entered the substantive experimental stage.
The Space Experiment Center covers an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers. In the center of the experimental field sits a hemispherical instrument. The hemispherical instrument is like a "hemispheric camera" that has been magnified hundreds of thousands of times. The robots surrounding it are densely packed like ants. , very spectacular and magnificent.
On the mother planet of the Earth, at the top of the civilization of the Sky City, at the Experimental Command Center, Zhou Xing, as well as a group of experts and professors wearing white scientific research uniforms, stared nervously at the experimental command screen, waiting for the experimental work to be ready.
"The 'Biaco Ball Cup' has passed the third inspection. Can Mr. Zhou start the test?" Professor Lin Hai looked at Zhou Xing excitedly.
"Well! Let's start! Xiaozhi!" Zhou Xing looked at the big screen and ordered Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Okay, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi said on the screen. Immediately, it remotely controlled the Space Experiment Center through signals to conduct experiments.
On the big screen, the huge spherical instrument suddenly started up, and the interior vibrated with a "boom", as if a terrifying energy was about to be released from it, but was trapped inside the restrained instrument.
All the scientists were staring intently at the data displayed on the big screen, waiting for the experimental results to appear.
With the birth of various new theories, human civilization continues to pursue the application of new technologies. The "Biaak Ball Cup" is an experiment for human scientists to pursue an important technology. Once a breakthrough is achieved, it means that human warships will enter the era of super-light speed. .
As the grand unified theory has been confirmed and the theory of achieving super-light speed navigation has been proven feasible, Zhou Xing has never given up on research on this important technology.
The instrument "Biaak Ball Cup" can create huge gravity in a very small space.
After the instrument starts running, a trace of energy is injected into it. Through its conversion, the energy turns into gravity and is emitted. As the energy increases, its gravity also gradually increases.
"Well... the gravity has exceeded ten times of the standard star. Continue to increase the conversion power." Looking at the values displayed on the big screen, Zhou Xing gave the order to Zhou Xiaozhi with a calm face.
The gravitational source created by this "Biaak cup" can only affect a small space, such as a micro black hole, whose total mass is only the size of an atom. Such a black hole is only a few feet away from it. Its strong gravitational pull can only be felt at a scale of meters, and its existence cannot be noticed when the distance is expanded to even one centimeter.
The strength of this gravitational source is now equivalent to the gravitational pull of the white dwarf star material, but its gravitational pull can only exert its power on an extremely close scale. It cannot even exert any influence on the glass wall half a meter away.
Under such a gravitational intensity, it can be known from the data that there is an observable distortion in the space around this gravitational source. This distortion is like the air above a fire.
The "Biaak Ball Cup" is under extremely high pressure and continues to increase the transmission of energy. As a result, the intensity of this gravitational source is getting higher and higher. However, no matter how powerful it is, its scope of influence can never exceed Fifty centimeters.
"The interior has reached the gravitational intensity of a neutron star unit." Professor Lin Hai looked at the big screen and said with a trembling voice.
The effect of this gravitational source is like the effect of placing a few cubic nanometers of neutron star material here. Because the total mass is very small, they are unlikely to affect distant objects, and because the density is extremely high, they are extremely close to them. Around them, they can even cause extremely obvious distortions in space.
"Continue, don't stop!" Zhou Xing looked calm and continued to instruct Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Understood, boss!" Zhou Xiaozhi responded and immediately continued to increase the energy supply.
"Control the gravity intensity on the other side." Zhou Xing stared at the monitoring data on the big screen and continued to issue orders to Zhou Xiaozhi.
"Understood!" Zhou Xiaozhi nodded.
The next second, Zhou Xiaozhi suddenly reported loudly: "Boss, the detector discovered the phenomenon of particle deflection at extremely high speed, and the instantaneous deflection speed reached 3.7 times the speed of light."
"Quick, show the monitoring data!" Zhou Xing perked up and ordered loudly.
Zhou Xiaozhi obeyed the order, and immediately, a large piece of experimental data information was displayed on the big screen.
The scientists' eyes all bulged, staring at the experimental data on the big screen, and they quickly proofread it.
"Ah! The duration is one billionth of a second and the moving distance is 67.7 centimeters. It must be super-light navigation. If the energy intensity is increased...!"
"The gravity intensity value is correct, the force field energy value is correct, yes, everything is correct, the data is all correct!"
"The particle ball disappeared and broke through the vacuum restraint box! The experiment was successful! Haha!"
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The researchers who were staring at the big screen suddenly cheered one after another. The experimental data and the predicted data matched one by one, indicating that this was a successful experiment.
"No! There is a set of data that is wrong, and the theoretical offset exceeds it. What changes occurred during the disappearance? How could this phenomenon occur?" Professor Lin Hai suddenly shouted amidst cheers.
Hearing this, all the scientists were silent and frowned.
The theoretical offset exceeds this phenomenon, which is like a bullet with a diameter of one centimeter penetrating a piece of glass, but the diameter of the hole in the glass is only 0.8 centimeters. So at this time, the question arises. Since the area of the hole is smaller than the area of the impact object, how did it get through
After thinking for a long time to no avail, the scientists all looked at Zhou Xing, expecting to get answers from him.
"Matter relies on space to exist, so the moment a species passes through space, the space is also affected by gravitational bending and becomes curved, which is why this phenomenon occurs." Zhou Xing was in high spirits and explained as he looked at everyone.
Yes, that's it.
The eyes of all the scientists brightened up. This was the best explanation for this phenomenon of experimental deviation exceeding the standard.
If you imagine space as a piece of elastic paper, stretching or squeezing it or making it wrinkled is equivalent to distorting the space. Then when the paper is wrinkled, cut a circle on it, etc. After it returns to flatness, the circle will no longer be a circle, but will become an irregular, curved shape.
This is the prototype of super-light travel - the curvature drive engine.
When it is impossible to use "space-time wormholes" for shuttle flight, using curvature drive engines will be the most efficient solution for human beings to travel across galaxies.