Cyber ​​Weird Experience

Chapter 77 Beyond the Light Cone
When the corresponding particle appeared on the other side of the moon, the whole world was boiling.

Human beings who are trapped on the edge of life and death finally see the light at this moment.

From then on, the speed of light is no longer a barrier for human beings, and even time and space can still be traversed by human beings.

At the moment when the experiment was successful, Qian Lei excitedly opened several bottles of champagne.

The bet was successful!

The thoughts of him and his students have been recognized by the universe.

The theory of traveling across time across latitudes is correct!
Holding the wine bottle, he sat in a wheelchair, staring at the bright galaxy, in a daze.

"Elbers, our assumptions about multi-dimensional space-time were correct! There really are infinite time and space, and endless possibilities."

He poured the champagne on the ground, had a toast with his old friends, and then returned to his research room.

What humans want to transmit is not just a few particles.

But billions of humans!

Now, human beings have stood in front of the mountain gate of time and space transmission.

Next, there are endless mountains to climb.

Qian Lei sighed.

Scientific research is like a game of chess, just pass one level at a time.

So, when all human beings were celebrating, he quietly returned to the laboratory and continued his research.

At the level of elementary particles, it is space-time itself.

That's why Cheng Yan's theory writes that injecting energy does not allow particles to travel through time and space, but allows time and space to change its coordinates.

It is still possible for one or two elementary particles to change coordinates.

But extended to the macroscopic level... That's hundreds of billions of trillions...Countless particles change coordinates!

Its complexity increases exponentially.

On the other hand, transmitting a single particle does not care about the structural stability of the particle system at all.

Just send it over.

But to teleport humans, the structural stability of the particle system must be considered.

Once a mistake is made, after the person is teleported, it is likely to lose arms and legs, and may even disperse into a pool of elementary particles...

It's not like Qian Lei lost his kidney inexplicably after being teleported there.So he started a new study.

What should be done to make the structure of such a huge particle system still stable during the transmission process?

time and space...

He smiled wryly.

Spacetime itself is unstable.

Quantum theory itself shows that the motion of particles is indeterminate.

The coordinates at which the electron appears are not a fixed location at all, but a cloud of probability.

Everything is full of uncertainty.

How do you stay solid in a particle system that looks like it's "playing tricks on you"?

Moreover, the particles that make up human beings are moving every minute!
They move with each other, forming a fragile balance, and this is where DNA, this is where RNA is, and this is where proteins are, and where there are cells, bones, muscles, and nerves.

This is how humans...

In the process of transmission, not only must the particle system be kept stable, but also keep them on their original trajectory...

This requires extremely complex calculations.

Calculate the energy required for each particle to change its coordinates.

This amount of calculation... Qian Lei smiled wryly.

It is estimated that human beings will not be able to figure it out in a lifetime.

He originally wanted to do some calculations on the quantum computer in the laboratory, but after thinking about it, he decided not to.

So what if you figure it out?
There are still so many unknowns at the bottom of physics, and no amount of calculations can maintain the stability of the particle system.

An unknown energy or an unknown disturbance will cause the entire particle system to collapse.

He couldn't help feeling a little doubtful, could it be that his thinking was too complicated?

Maybe there is an easier way.

Macro teleportation can be performed without many parameters and calculations!
So what is it?

He flipped through the thesis library on the computer and found a clue.

It turned out to be the case.

However, at the moment he held the pen, a knife pierced deeply in his heart.

what happened?

……

Another round of death full of confusion and regret.

The memory scene was reversed accordingly, and Ning Yuan also moved forward step by step with the immersive experience.

After about dozens of scenes, through a few words, he understood the ins and outs of the matter.

resource crisis.

The construction of the lunar base has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, almost all of mankind's possessions.

Everyone was looking forward to the experiment, but Qian Lei postponed the experiment for five years.

in five years.

Because resources are dedicated to experiments, there is no extra resource allocation, so that the whole society has been hanging on the steel wire.

Under the steel wire is an abyss called famine.

At first, under the full deployment of the state, the society walking on the tightrope was able to operate safely, but over time, the tightrope also became precarious, and it was difficult to bear the weight of hundreds of millions of people.

As Murphy's Law says, bad things, as long as there is a little probability, will eventually happen.

Sure enough, the wire... broke.

Prices are soaring, disasters are rampant, and countless people who have no money and no food are forced to take to the streets, commit murder with knives, and fill their stomachs.

For a while, it was a mess of words.

The hunger of these people was precisely caused by Qian Lei's experiment, so people all transferred their anger to Qian Lei.

For a while, rumors spread.

A large number of people began to suspect that this particle crossing experiment was just a hoax.

I began to suspect that this is actually just a means for the upper class to make money.

I began to suspect that Chen Anshi and Cheng Yan's theory was wrong from the very beginning, after all, there was the jewel that destroyed half of the continent before them. Now, everyone began to doubt whether it was true or not.

As round after round of corrupt officials were exposed, and a sum of unknown money was proved, people began to become angry.

They hated Qian Lei and this experiment that deprived them of everything.

So, under the guidance of caring people, these angry crowds began to attack the laboratory in groups.

If it were not for the obstruction of the army, this experiment would end soon.

But it was also the obstruction of the army that made the mood of the whole society more intense.

Qian Lei, who worked hard in the laboratory, knew nothing about the outside world.

He doesn't know what's going on outside, he doesn't know the social turmoil, he only knows...

This is the last hope of mankind.

Five years later.

Although his experiment has achieved fruitful results, human beings have finally fulfilled their dream of traveling through time and space, and the world is full of joy.

But those who have had everything taken away by the famine, don't think so.

They hated Qian Lei and this experiment, so on a dark and stormy night, they broke through the blocking of the army and massacred the researchers.

What a disaster.

Qian Lei, who was trying to survive for human beings, finally died under the knife of another piece of human beings who were trying to survive.

Ning Yuan couldn't help sighing as he looked at the terrifying scene revealed by the few words of those researchers in the memory space.

The entropy increase of riots will eventually destroy all order.

……

In the following time, it took mankind decades to quell the riot.

This riot has caused human resources to become more strained. If it weren't for the loss of a large number of people, the disappearance of those to be allocated would have resolved some of the resource strain...

Otherwise, society would immediately collapse.

At this moment, civilization is caught in a kind of dilemma.

Or, human beings seal up knowledge, voluntarily give up advanced technology, return to the early days of industrial civilization, and shrink underground.After the next millennium, the nuclear fallout decays and the earth is reborn.

Only in this way can human beings be reborn.

Or, take the final gamble and find a method that allows people to cross the vast universe and reach the other shore.

But it's hard to say whether the remaining resources can support a new teleportation experiment.

If the experiment fails, everyone can expect what happened next.

Human beings will return to the Middle Ages, or even worse, the Stone Age amidst the violent wars.

After dozens of meetings in many countries, a goal was finally established.

Unsuccessful, they become benevolent.

Start a new round of teleportation experiments.

So the lab was restarted, with stricter security and... more thorough resource tilting.

At this moment, human beings seem to be crazy, vowing to fight this dark universe to the death.

After all, in the spring and autumn of thousands of years, human civilization started from the first bonfire, and now it can grasp the light of the sun. Human beings are naturally proud.

Human beings are unwilling to return to civilization.

Who is willing to cut off their roots of wisdom and fall into reincarnation?

That's why there was this crazy gambling fight.

The one who took over Qian Lei's position was a young woman named Guan Ya.

This is the result of mutual buck-passing.

No one wants to bear the burden of the entire human race, so under mutual shirk, the fate of mankind is carried on her body.

Guan Ya reluctantly accepted the position.

After all, she is the one with the shortest qualifications and no background in the entire laboratory.

And only she has the deepest theoretical research on Qian Lei. In her university graduation thesis, she wrote about the expansion of Qian Lei's theory.

"Application exploration of multi-dimensional space-time technology".

After she took over the important task at the age of 25, she was in a hurry for a while.

All along, she was just a nerd.

She lived to be 25 years old, and she didn't even know how to put on makeup. Apart from reading and memorizing materials, she hardly had any social interaction.

This time, when she was asked to lead and manage such a huge experimental project, she was immediately distraught.

But fortunately, management is not much more difficult than physics. After spending a little bit of brain cells, she began to make a difference.

Qian Lei, at the last moment of his life, has already written down the future direction of time travel.

Exactly what she thought.

Warp flight.

In general relativity, a magic spell is proposed.

The maximum speed of matter is the speed of light.

When matter is accelerated to the speed of light, its mass becomes infinite, so no matter can break through the speed of light.

Similarly, there will be no transmission of any information that can exceed the speed of light.

Because information needs material as a carrier.

But obviously, there are existences in the universe that exceed the speed of light, such as the expansion speed of the universe.

The current observable universe is 465 billion light-years away, and the farthest galaxy recedes at a speed of 1074777.75 kilometers per second under the expansion of the universe, which is about 3.58 times the speed of light.

The expansion of space is far greater than the speed of light!

Therefore, the concept of curvature flight was born.

By tightening the space-time in front and expanding the space-time behind, creating a curved space bubble with negative pressure, with the help of the movement of space, it can fly at super-light speed.

This theory is more like a science fiction concept than a scientific theory.

There are a lot of difficulties that need to be solved.

For example, the energy of bending space-time far exceeds the total energy of the universe, which is impossible for human beings.

However, Cheng Yan's particle transmission experiment proved that vacuum decay can solve this problem.

At the same time, Qian Lei's experiment also showed that energy can be borrowed from other time and space.

Not only that, because the elementary particle itself is the space-time, so how to bend the space-time, and create the technology of curved space bubbles, there is also a solution.

The curvature engine is just around the corner.

But the trouble with warp flight is not just bending space-time, there is another big problem.

Because the bending space bubble is running at super-light speed, the operator of the spaceship has no way to send any information to the front, or receive any information.

This also means that there is no way to control the spacecraft at all.

It just so happens that Chen Anshi's theory solves this problem, and human beings can transmit information across time and space.

At the same time, in order to ensure the stability of the particle system inside the spacecraft, there must be a stable space-time bubble wrapping the spacecraft.

For this time and space, the spaceship wants to be in a static state, so as to avoid the spaceship being torn apart by the accelerated space.

Creating a piece of time and space... It's almost impossible.

But Qian Lei's theory pointed out the direction for Guan Ya.

Using the high-dimensional space, let the spacecraft hide in another three-dimensional space-time, thus avoiding risks.

Although there are still a lot of technical difficulties that need to be overcome, the arrow is on the string and has to be launched.

Guan Ya hesitated for a moment, then submitted the construction plan of the warp speed aircraft.

The predecessors have already paved the road, and I just need to follow the road and go to the end.

Soon humans started construction projects in full swing, even though the resources were extremely tight, they wanted to manufacture the first warp speed spacecraft.

After all, across the endless sea of ​​stars, on the other side, there are endless resources waiting for all beings.

Then fight for it.

The cold comes and the summer goes, and six years pass by in a flash.

Guan Ya has also grown from a management novice to a man who can lead a party.

As well as managing research projects, she is also very knowledgeable in theory.

In the past six years, she filled in many loopholes in Qian Lei's theory and created a complete warp flight theory.

According to her theory, the construction of the warp speed vehicle has been extremely smooth, and it has been successfully completed so far, and it is in the final acceptance stage.

When the New Year's bell rings, human beings will also break through the barrier of the speed of light, thereby leapfrogging civilization.

Humans have waited too long for this moment.

After repeated adjustments, the various indicators of the spacecraft were consistent with Guan Ya's theoretical data. As the New Year's zero approached, Guan Ya nervously stood by the launch pad, watching the aircraft displayed on the screen.

Whether it can penetrate this dark universe and bring boundless sparks to mankind depends on this trembling.

"Academician Guan, are you nervous?"

A colleague handed over a cup of coffee and asked.

Guan Ya stared at the screen for a long time before taking the coffee and said with a smile, "Of course I'm nervous. After all, this is warp flight. It used to be a sci-fi concept, but we didn't expect it to be created by us."

"Yeah, I didn't expect that we really made a space-time vesicle." The colleague said with emotion: "During the first phase of the experiment, I was really scared to death. The things in the vesicle were pulled into long and thin strips." ribbon."

"Haha, after the object passes through the high-dimensional space, it is just an afterimage in the three-dimensional space." Guan Ya said with a smile: "Mr. Qian's concept of ascending the dimension really shocks the past and the present."

"Yeah, it's a pity that Mr. Qian is the last..." The colleague sighed, and then said: "Let's not talk about this, I remember that in the science fiction novels I read when I was young, the warp drive was driven by dark energy, but I didn't expect that we didn't Didn't use it."

"Dark energy...haha." Guan Ya smiled softly: "Who said we didn't use dark energy? Dark energy is the driving force for the expansion of the universe. We must rely on space expansion to slide, and it must be indispensable."

"That's right." My colleague said, "Although they can't be seen or touched, they are everywhere."

"If the experiment is successful." Guan Ya said excitedly: "We humans have finally surpassed our destiny."

"Fate..." The colleague pondered for a moment, then understood: "You mean... the light cone?"

"That's right, it's the light cone." Guan Ya said: "Flying at warp speed, breaking through the light cone, we also broke through destiny and got rid of the cradle."

The two looked at each other and laughed.

light cone.

Light travels along the time axis in a cone, which physicists call a light cone, and it is impossible for anyone outside the light cone to understand what is happening inside the light cone.

So, within the cone of light is destiny. (from "Three Body")
In this cone of light, all the causes and effects of human development are contained. The entanglement of these information cannot escape the curse of the speed of light. Therefore, the cone of light of human beings contains all the destiny of human beings.

Similarly, there are too many unknown events in the universe, which are flying towards human beings at the speed of light.

But human beings are outside the light cone of these events, so the fate of human beings, and the fate of these unknown events, will not have any intersection.

If human beings complete superluminal flight, then human beings will escape their destiny.

Beyond the three realms, not in the five elements.

Outside the light cone, human beings can see their past selves. If they can exchange information with the past, then human beings have the ability to change their destiny.

destiny……

Guan Ya and her colleagues unanimously thought of the century-old sufferings experienced by human beings.

If he could travel back in time and space and tell Cheng Yan his theoretical flaws, then human beings would not suffer.

But it may also cause a grandfather paradox and cause bugs in the world, which is uncertain.

The bell of the new year begins to ring.

Guan Ya came to the launch pad, took a deep breath, and pressed the button to start the spacecraft.

This spacecraft is an unmanned detection spacecraft. If the warp flight is successful, the aircraft will send back information.

With the button pressed, the spaceship quickly breaks through the first cosmic speed under the huge thrust of the rocket booster, and quickly breaks through the earth's atmosphere.

Once in vacuum, the booster disintegrated and the ship's warp drive began to spin.

At this moment, everyone is nervously staring at the screen in front of them, looking forward to the success of the warp drive.

After about a few seconds, under the gaze of everyone, the spaceship turned into long and thin ribbons and disappeared into the vast universe.

Only a circle of distorted star marks remained in place.

Was the experiment successful...

While Guan Ya was thinking, a piece of information came and the whole laboratory was boiled.

The content of the message is a picture.

A picture taken of the earth in the vacuum of space!

The earth that was photographed was not the current earth, but... the earth two years ago.

When the images were compared and verified by the computer, everyone jumped up happily.

Earth two years ago.

This means the spacecraft is at least two light-years across!
Warp flight, success!
After so many disasters, human beings finally found a way out of the cradle.

……

Ning Yuan hid in Guan Ya's shadow, looking at the cheering and happy researcher like a child, he couldn't help getting excited too.

It's not easy.

How many generations of hard work and how many turbulences the society has experienced, human beings finally come here.

The memory space created by Modong Military Industry is really vast and deep.

Amidst his emotion, he saw Guan Ya silently resigned from his position and passed it on to his colleagues.

The unmanned warp flight was successful.

Then the next step is to study manned flight.

She wants to sit in the spaceship and see what kind of scenery is beyond the light cone.

Then, in the position of management, it is impossible.

So she was willing to give up the glory of leading manned warp speed flight to others, resigned from her post, and became a soldier of the project again.

While maintaining the completion of scientific research tasks, she began to strengthen her body and strive to make her body up to the standards of astronauts.

Due to working at a desk all year round, her body is very poor compared to professionals.

In order to make up for the gap, she conducted a rather rigorous devil training. This training, three years passed by in a hurry.

With the experience of the first warp-speed spacecraft, the speed of human beings building the second warp-speed spacecraft has become very fast. In just three years, the second spaceship is waiting on the launch pad.

Guan Ya put on a heavy spacesuit, stepped into the cockpit with a firm gaze, and there were three colleagues who accepted the mission with her.

Listening to the roar from the rocket booster, feeling the trembling spacecraft, watching the ever-approaching starry sky.

She felt an unspeakable joy.

"Chen Anshi, Cheng Yan, Qian Lei, your wishes will finally come true. Human beings will not be trapped on the earth." She said with a smile: "The universe is so big, we can finally look around casually."

After the spacecraft enters space, the rocket boosters are unloaded one by one, circling in the orbit of the earth.

The curvature engine started, and after a roar, Guan Ya saw the starry sky being pulled into countless slender ribbons.

This is the performance of the space being stretched.

"What is the scenery beyond the light cone?"

Guan Ya looked forward to it curiously.

After the slender ribbon passed, the spaceship entered a vast darkness.

The darkness is like thick lead water, only wrapping the spacecraft, as if something is constantly squeezing the hull, and the plates made of titanium are constantly making abnormal creaking noises.

After a while, the darkness permeated the cabin, and black drops of water seeped in through the gaps in the shell, floating randomly inside the cabin.

Guan Ya looked suspiciously at the water droplets floating in front of her eyes, and asked in confusion, "Water?"

How can there be water here?

Before she could figure out what was going on, the deck rushed out of the darkness.

An overwhelming light shone into Guan Ya's eyes.

At this moment, she looked at the entire space.

This is an endless black sea, as black as an abyss.

There is a second black sandy beach by the sea, and there are tall palm trees swaying in the wind around the beach.

In the black sea, there is a huge and twisted monster, which seems to be composed of countless tentacles. On its body, there is an extremely huge javelin, which is emitting bright light.

The monster kept waving its twisted tentacles, trying to pull the javelin out of its body.

But the tentacles it stretched out were too small, and there was no way to move the javelin even the slightest bit.

Ning Yuan, who was hiding in Guan Ya's shadow, was extremely shocked in his heart.

Isn't this forever night?
How could this happen in the memory space?
Guan Ya looked at Yong Ye's huge body, shocked and puzzled: "This is... what is it?"

However, before she could finish her thinking, the spaceship went out of control, and all the joysticks failed.

The warp speed spaceship crashed headlong into Yong Ye's body.

(End of this chapter)