If you want to directly accelerate a spacecraft to the speed of light, the energy required is infinite, which is why objects cannot exceed the speed of light.
Therefore, a spacecraft cannot achieve the goal of exceeding the speed of light through direct acceleration.
Although it is not possible to directly accelerate beyond the speed of light, some ingenious means can be used to circumvent the limitations of the theory of relativity to achieve the goal of exceeding the speed of light.
This is how the curvature guide was produced, and it is also a device that enables faster-than-light flight.
After a spacecraft is equipped with a curvature inducer, it can travel faster than the speed of light in space.
Although this seems to violate the theory of relativity, it is indeed an achievable technology.
In fact, the curvature induction does not violate the theory of relativity, because this is an effect achieved through side means.
The warp engine may sound very fancy, but in fact the principle is very simple.
The space in which the entire universe is located is actually not flat, but is full of various folds. The size of these folds is "607" which is the curvature.
When the curvature is zero, the space is completely flat. The greater the curvature, the greater the wrinkles in the space.
Curvature induction is a technology that uses space folds to drive spacecraft.
If we can change the curvature of space, we can increase the folds in space, which is actually equivalent to shortening the distance between two points.
Draw two points on a piece of white paper. The nearest distance is not a straight line between the two points. Instead, the white paper is folded directly so that the two points directly touch each other.
Although the curvature guide shaft cannot allow two points to overlap, it can greatly shorten the distance between them.
So the curvature is actually not the true speed of light, but the speed of light.
It's just that the space is folded up, thereby shortening the distance in the middle.
To put it bluntly, the curvature engine does not increase the speed of the spacecraft, it just shortens the space where the spacecraft is located.
If a spacecraft needs to reach a place one light-year away, but its speed is only half the speed of light, it will take two years to reach its destination.
But when the spacecraft started its curvature engine, the folds in space increased four times.
The original one light-year journey becomes a quarter of a light-year distance for the spacecraft.
In this way, the spacecraft only takes half a year to reach its destination one light-year away.
In summary, the speed of the spacecraft exceeds the speed of light and reaches twice the speed of light.
In fact, it is not that the speed of the spacecraft has become faster, its speed is still half the speed of light, but the distance is shortened to one-quarter of the original, making the overall speed four times faster.
The curvature engine actually shortens the distance in space, allowing the spacecraft to exceed the speed of light.
Curvature inducer is a device that increases space folds by changing the curvature, and ultimately increases the speed of the spacecraft.
Therefore, the curvature induction does not violate the theory of relativity, but just circumvents the limitations of the theory of relativity.
Of course, the curvature engine can do more than that. Increasing the speed by four times is not the limit of the curvature engine.
The better the curvature engine is, the larger the space folds will be, and the more speed the spacecraft will be able to increase in the end.
Those super civilizations that can span the entire universe have very advanced curvature guides.
Their curvature engine can increase the speed tens of thousands of times, allowing the spacecraft to easily reach several thousand times the speed of light.
However, Jiang Cheng couldn't make such an advanced curvature engine. It was something that only the top cosmic civilization could play. The curvature engine Jiang Cheng wanted to make was not that advanced.
The curvature engine Jiang Cheng plans to study this time can shorten the space twenty times, which means it can increase the speed of the spacecraft twenty times.
In the design, the speed of the spacecraft manufactured by Jiang Cheng is half the speed of light.
So after installing this curvature engine, the speed can reach ten times the speed of light.
The flight speed of ten times the speed of light is sufficient for the time being, at least in the solar system.
By then, it will only take a few minutes to travel from Mars to the Earth. This speed is about the same as grabbing a snack at the door.
Ten times the speed of light is enough for Jiang Cheng to explore nearby galaxies. For example, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system, is only about five light-years away.
This distance can be reached in only half a year by flying at ten times the speed of light.
In other words, when Jiang Cheng sends a spaceship to Proxima Centauri, it will only take half a year.
However, it still takes too long for a spacecraft that travels at ten times the speed of light to go to places that are light years away.
But when it comes time to go to such distant places, Jiang Cheng may have a better warp engine.
Jiang Cheng only needs to develop a better curvature engine to increase the speed of the spacecraft again.
Therefore, the curvature engine is the most important technology of interstellar civilization, which is related to the issue of flight speed.
If you want to increase the speed of the spacecraft, the only way is to use curvature guidance. There is no room for improvement in the speed of the spacecraft itself.
Basically, the speed of all civilized spaceships is about half the speed of light.
It's not that the speed cannot be increased, it's just that after the speed exceeds half the speed of light, too much energy is required to continue accelerating.
The faster the speed, the more energy is required to accelerate. This is a basic law of the universe that cannot be circumvented.
Accelerating to half the speed of light is the most energy-efficient option, and spacecraft are basically designed this way.
Therefore, what limits the speed of a civilized spacecraft is the technology of curvature induction.
When Jiang Cheng decided to develop the curvature guide first, he immediately got into work.
However, Jiang Cheng still needs a lot of materials to make the curvature guide.
The curvature engine requires a lot of materials, many of which are rare materials.
The rarest material among them is platinum, and the Curvature Trauma requires a lot of platinum to produce.
This is Jiang Cheng's real purpose of mining platinum on Mars, and it is also the material Jiang Cheng needs the most now.
The biggest use of platinum is to make curvature guides. This material is in great demand even by high-end cosmic civilizations.
That's why Jiang Cheng made arrangements on Mars in advance to mine platinum as a metal on a large scale.
Jiang Cheng may have wasted a lot of platinum in the process of developing the curvature trigger.
The technology of curvature induction is very complex, and it may not be possible to successfully manufacture many units.
Once platinum is used on the curvature guide, it cannot be recycled again.
So Jiang Cheng's next experiment was a process of wasting a lot of platinum.
During the development process of the curvature engine, things like platinum were consumed.
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