The ILHCRC press conference was over.
The sensation caused by this quickly occupied the headlines of major newspapers through the microphones and cameras in the hands of the reporters.
Everyone Daily: "The success of the Z particle has opened the door to the future of physics, and it has also opened the door to the future of our civilization!"
Jinling Evening News: "63.6 seconds!"
Wall Street Journal: "The speed of light is no longer unsurpassable!"
The Sun: "The universe is no longer far away from us!"
The Times: "…"
Whether it was the print media or the television media, whether it was the print media or the three-dimensional media, they were all flooded with the keywords "Academician Lu", "ILHCRC", and "Z particle".
What did faster than light mean?
Perhaps very few people could fully understand the academic significance of this. Most people didn't even know what the Z particle was.
But for the vast majority of people, their imagination of the future was highly consistent!
One day, human footprints would set foot on a distant planet in some form. One day, the seeds of civilization would be carried far away by the solar wind or something else.
So far, the farthest probe launched by humans had only just left the boundary of the solar system. Even with the science that humans were proud of, it would take hundreds of years to reach the nearest star system.
But almost no one doubted that the fate of mankind would be locked in this blue mother planet forever.
Now, the successful opening of the hyperspace channel had undoubtedly opened a door for people's imagination.
Even though it still seemed like a beautiful and distant dream, at least now, the word "distant" had been given a tangible meaning.
Just like everyone had witnessed, this small particle not only changed the physics world, but it completely changed the future of all of mankind!
In the face of such a major historical moment, who could remain calm?
Because of this, when faced with this epoch-making research, almost the vast majority of media outlets showed almost the same enthusiasm, and they reported on it without any hesitation.
At the press conference, the Secretary-General of the ILHCRC had made it clear that even if the Z particle successfully opened the hyperspace channel, it did not mean that human civilization would have hope of entering the interstellar era. Greed did not extinguish people's longing for the distant starry sky.
A well-known foreign aerospace enthusiast forum.
Ever since the BFS spacecraft crashed on Mars, the forum was getting more and more popular.
However, this situation had recently undergone an earth-shattering reversal!
After the news of the success of the Z particle experiment spread, the heated discussion on the forum almost blew up the server.
Even many of the big names who had been around for tens of thousands of years had remembered their accounts overnight. They suddenly appeared in the sight of the new netizens who had just registered and participated in this discussion that was almost flooding the forums.
[This is unbelievable! Hyperspace channel! You know what that makes me think? This reminds me of wormholes!]
[But I heard that the secretary-general of the ILHCRC seems to have a pessimistic view on the use of hyperspace technology to achieve interstellar navigation? It's too difficult to maintain the hyperspace channel.]
[Secretary-General of the ILHCRC? Luo Wenxuan?! What does he know about aerospace!!!]
[Ahem, don't say that. Even though he's not as good as Professor Lu, he's still an outstanding young physicist …]
[I disagree! Even if we can't use this technology to achieve faster than light navigation, we can at least achieve faster than light communication. Originally, it took 270.7s for a text message to reach Mars, but because we took a shortcut, it only takes 207.1s, a full minute faster! And I heard that this isn't the best shortcut. Once we find the best hyperspace route through more powerful supercomputers, we might be able to call Mars from here as easily as calling from New York to China!]
[It's not just communication, there's also astronomical observation. The star maps we see now are all rays of light from various stars hundreds or even thousands of years ago. If we can use some way to get light or signals to reach our galaxy faster, we will be able to know what the planet we want to go to looks like now! Not hundreds or even thousands of years ago!]
[The Z particle clock isn't cheap. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to create a hyperspace channel that can't even exist for five minutes, this dream seems beautiful, but the price is too high!]
[Any technology is expensive when it first comes out, but we always have ways to make it better, right?]
…
Beijing.
Chang 'an Avenue.
In a conference room decorated with a solemn atmosphere, an old man in a Chinese tunic suit finished reading the report in his hand, and his expression couldn't help but change slightly.
Without any hesitation, he put down the report in his hand and looked up at Director Li, who was standing at the desk.
"It really only takes 207.1s?!"
"Absolutely!" Director Li nodded seriously. There was a hint of excitement in his respectful tone. He continued, "I was at the command center at the time!"
On the same day that the experiment ended, he took the maglev train that had only been open for less than two months. He returned to Beijing from Jinling as quickly as possible. He brought the report he wrote on the way to Chang 'an Avenue.
Even now, he could still vividly remember the moment when the counter's reading was printed on the screen. Even if he made a mistake on other things, he would never make a mistake on this matter!
The old man couldn't help but ask, "Then, what about the missing 63.6 s? Where did it go? "
Director Li: "I don't know the specific theory very well! It seems to involve very complicated physical principles and mathematical calculations. Academician Lu has explained it to me many times, but I don't really understand it. "
The old man stared at Director Li eagerly and spoke.
"Hurry up and tell me! Tell me as much as you know! "
Director Li gestured with his fingers and tried to give a vague explanation based on his own understanding.
"To put it simply, aren't the Earth and other planets pulled by gravitational forces? It's like they're tied together by a string. Even though this thing can't be seen in three-dimensional space, it's real. "
The old man couldn't help but ask, "Then what?"
Director Li: "Then they used the Z particle to pull the string, and it vibrated in the high-dimensional space like a zither string. Because of the theory of relativity, gravity itself is the bending of matter to space-time. Now that the curvature vibrates, it looks like space is shaking. Some of the roads become longer, and some roads become shorter — "
The old man pondered for a while and said thoughtfully, "In other words, the photon that arrived first … took the shorter road?"
Director Li slapped his thigh and nodded in praise.
"You're so smart! It took me a long time to understand this thing. "
Haha.
I don't need you to tell me that.
The old man sitting behind the desk pondered for a while and spoke.
"How feasible is it to use this thing to achieve faster than light navigation?"
If warp travel could be achieved …
The impact of this thing on China would probably be even greater than the impact of nuclear fusion!
Not only did it mean that China would be able to get priority tickets to develop distant planets, but it also meant that the Chinese civilization would achieve a complete transformation from a terrestrial civilization to a space civilization!
Even the president, who had always been calm, couldn't help but breathe a little faster.
Director Li guessed what the old man was thinking.
Even though he didn't want to destroy the vision in his mind, considering the pros and cons, he answered truthfully after hesitating for a while.
"According to Secretary Luo, the feasibility of achieving faster than light navigation … seems to be a bit difficult, and the cost of the Z particle clock is indeed very expensive. In just a few minutes, it can burn down a device comparable to a small fusion reactor. I'm afraid it's not a suitable choice to use it as a medium. "
"Secretary Luo?" The old man was slightly taken aback. He frowned and said, "Who is Secretary Luo?"
Director Li's expression was a little awkward. He quickly explained.
"It's the secretary-general of the ILHCRC, the one who replaced Professor Lu to give a report at the press conference some time ago."
"Oh, that young man … is a promising young man." The old man smiled politely and nodded. After being silent for a while, he put on a serious expression and continued, "But I still want to ask Academician Lu for his opinion."
Director Li: "…"
Seeing that Director Li didn't speak, the old man continued, "Where is Academician Lu now? If it's convenient, can you invite him to Beijing? Or I can go to Jinling. "
"This …" Director Li's face showed an awkward expression again as he said, "I may not be able to contact him now."
The president was taken aback. He hurriedly asked.
"What's going on? Is he sick again? Is it serious? "
This happened during the controllable fusion ignition last time.
As soon as the ignition was successful, before there was time to celebrate, Professor Lu fainted and became unconscious.
Later, the 301 Hospital checked for a long time, but they couldn't find anything wrong with him. Now, the 301 Hospital had a special department responsible for studying what was going on with his illness at the time.
"He's not sick, I think he's fine." Director Li looked at the concerned expression on the president's face and said, "It's just that as soon as the experiment was over, he went on a retreat again …"
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