"Hiss—"
As Chen Yu started the super-light engine, the ship's hull shook violently, and strange airflows sounded.
Everyone on the ship can clearly feel the rotation of their bodies.
"This is the spacecraft adjusting its direction." Chen Yu explained: "Aim the left sphere containing dark matter at Proxima Centauri, and the right sphere is used to release dark energy for expansion. The spacecraft will remain stationary throughout the process and should not It’s going to be bumpy again.”
Sure enough, when the slight tremor ended, the ship's hull returned to calm.
bright sun.
A pitch black sky.
The dazzling galaxy…
Everything is as still as a picture.
"Then... when will the spacecraft be able to exceed the speed of light?" A young man in the barrage team asked tentatively.
"It's already exceeded now." Chen Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Exceeded?!"
Hearing this, except for some professionals in the reward group, the other interactants were all surprised.
The fat man with the ID name Tai Zhu even lay on the ground, eyes wide open, and carefully looked at the starry sky under his feet: "There is no movement at all outside?"
"Snapped."
Raising his hand, Chen Yu expertly snapped his fingers, and a virtual projection screen suddenly appeared in mid-air.
In the middle of the screen, several series of numbers are displayed.
[Speed of light×1.2]
[365371km/s]
[Distance to destination: 9457.7 billion kilometers.]
[Estimated time: 1355 days.]
"The speed of light is the fastest moving speed we currently know. In a vacuum, it can reach nearly 300,000 kilometers per second. It can circle the earth eight times in one second. It only takes eight minutes to go from the sun to the earth. From the earth to The moon only takes two seconds. It is true that such extreme speed is already very fast in the eyes of humans, incredibly fast. But on the large scale of the universe, it is not much different from a crawling snail."
As he spoke, Chen Yu looked back and pointed at the slightly blue sun in the distance: "We are like snails, and the sun is like a mountain. Even if we reach 1.2 times the speed of light, if we want to pass through the Oort cloud and fly out of the entire solar system, It also takes close to a year. So from our perspective, nothing is moving. The speed of light, it's really slow."
"Even the speed of light is so humble in the universe, and travel below the speed of light is even more difficult. Maybe when a civilization truly masters dark matter technology, the universe will be open to it... "
[Fear.]
[Without personal experience, you will never realize the emptiness of the universe.]
[Suddenly autistic.]
[Autism +1.]
[+250.]
[To the universe, we are not even viruses...]
[Human beings are so weak.]
[If dark matter cannot be mastered, it will not be able to fly around the universe. If it can't fly all over the universe, there won't be enough dark matter. Isn’t this an endless loop?]
[It seems that we have become the masters of all things on earth, and in the universe OL, we don’t even have a novice village?]
[It should be a newly created account...]
[Where has the female assistant gone?]
"Snapped!"
Clapping his hands to attract everyone's attention, Chen Yu stretched out two fingers: "Then continue to speed up, twice the speed of light."
[Speed of light × 2]
[5987310km/s]
The deep space "wallpaper" remains unchanged, but if you look carefully, you can find that all the stars behind are slightly blue.
This is due to the strong blue shift caused by superluminal speeds.
And all the stars in front are glowing slightly red...
The front is red and the back is blue, finally giving humans a reference point, proving that the speed of the spacecraft has exceeded the speed of light at this time.
Holding out five fingers, Chen Yu said in a calm tone: "Five times."
[Speed of light × 5]
[1487462km/s]
"Buzz!"
At the moment when it exceeded five times the speed of light, for unknown reasons, the starry sky around the spacecraft was faintly distorted.
"It's a space lens."
Chen Yu dutifully explained: "At five times the speed of light, the Kree diffusion effect inevitably occurs in the independent space surrounding the spacecraft due to the contrast between the front and back, which can be understood as deformation. Therefore, from our perspective, it is like a A 360° force bends the glass, creating a lens effect.”
"Ouch~"
Everyone in the barrage group suddenly nodded.
The astronauts in the reward team opened their toolboxes, built equipment, arranged sensors, and began filming and analysis.
"Continue." Chen Yu stretched out his hands and spread his fingers: "Ten times!"
[Speed of light × 10]
[2975611km/s]
When the spacecraft "moves" at a speed exceeding the speed of light ten times, the distortion of the surrounding space becomes gradually apparent. The blue shift in front and the red shift in the rear almost completely cover up the original color of the star.
"Uh-huh!"
At this moment, a flash of light suddenly flashed across the outside of the spacecraft, startling everyone.
"What the hell?"
"What the hell is that?"
"I thought I was dazzled..."
An interactor at the Red Bank Observatory adjusted the equipment scale and said casually: "It's Jupiter."
"That's right." Chen Yu nodded: "The one that just flew past was Jupiter. Because the speed of the spacecraft was too fast, when it passed Jupiter, our dynamic vision was not enough to capture its image. Then, continue to accelerate, twenty times! "
[Speed of light × 20]
[6046227km/s!]
"Fifty times!"
[Speed of light×50]
[0.15 astronomical units/s]
"1 AU represents the distance between the Earth and the Sun. That is, at our current speed, it only takes seven seconds to reach the Earth from the Sun."
Chen Yu slowly became excited: "Fifty times the speed of light is just the low speed of this spacecraft. Continue, 100 times!"
[Speed of light×100]
[0.3 astronomical units/s]
Reaching a hundred times the speed of light, the blue shift and red shift phenomena become more and more intense, but all stars, including the sun, are still motionless...
The horror of the universe was vividly displayed in the eyes of 170 million people in the live broadcast room.
"That's crazy." Ma Wuqian lay on the transparent ship wall, seriously observing the deep space that seemed to remain unchanged forever. His thinking, spirit, consciousness, and outlook were all greatly impacted.
"Human beings are so small..."
He suddenly realized that the huge business empire he had worked so hard to create, from the perspective of the solar system, was nothing more than an ant in the ant colony lifting a rice grain.
It looks great, but is actually insignificant.
If humans become extinct tens of millions of years from now, there will really be no trace left. Only emptiness and silence remain, blending into the main theme of the universe...
Including the astronauts, everyone else had mixed emotions.
Several young people in the barrage group faced the vastness, and even had a faint impulse to commit suicide in their hearts.
Such a humble life of just a few decades has experienced study, life, creation, work, exhaustion, and hard work... From crying for food, struggling to survive to dying of old age, what is the meaning
“…”
As an "astronaut" who has set foot in the universe countless times, although Chen Yu cannot be said to be indifferent, he is not as sentimental as them.
He raised his hand, stretched out five fingers, and said in a calm tone: "Continue to accelerate, five hundred times."
[Speed of light × 500!]
[1.5 astronomical units/s!]
Under the crazy speed of 15000 kilometers per second, the originally arrogant and indifferent starry sky was finally conquered and began to shift visible to the naked eye...
And inside the spaceship, frightening changes also occurred.
(End of chapter)