In the face of the extremely high value of interstellar mines made from such gravity bombs, it is meaningful to carry out customized capture plans according to their different flaws.
"Secondly... the environment we are in now is not a war environment, nor is it located on the edge of a star.
Interstellar mines were born for war environments. Their nature requires that they must be extremely concealable and blend into the environment as much as possible. However, we have reason to believe that in the face of ever-changing environments in the universe, such as interstellar dust clouds, edges of stars, edges of river systems, inner star systems, etc., interstellar mines are most likely to have different models.
And we have been able to determine that these interstellar mines were originally placed on the edges of stars.
If we speculate based on this point, then, if the interstellar mines originally customized for the edge environment of stars are now far away from any stars and in the environment of interstellar space, can their concealment remain the same as before? "
If a submarine with extremely high concealment at a depth of thousands of meters in the ocean is moved to the surface, it will lose any concealment.
If a soldier who is lying in ambush in the grassland and has made various disguises so that even wild animals cannot detect him is moved to the desert, he will be as eye-catching as a light in the dark night.
Concealment is relative to the environment. This is a very simple truth.
At this moment, the environment of those interstellar mines has changed.
Don't think that the vicinity of the star and the interstellar space you are in at this moment are all space, so the environment will not change. In fact, for advanced civilization—even human civilization at this moment—the two environments are very different.
One is most likely to be within the stellar circle and is constantly blown by stellar winds. The material density may be as high as millions of particles per cubic centimeter. The other has nothing but high-energy radiation from the universe, and the material density may be as low as per cubic meter. Just a few particles.
So, can these interstellar mines be found using differences in the environment?
After listening to Zhao Changxing's analysis, everyone's faces showed thoughtful expressions.
What I thought was absolutely impossible to do now seems... not that difficult.
Zhao Changxing changed the subject and continued: "Of course, I am just proposing an overall idea. The specific details still need to be studied by experts. But in the final analysis, these gravity bombs are too important for us. It is said that they have The strategic significance cannot be overstated. We must not let go of this opportunity to improve our strength! If there is an opportunity, we must take it, and if there is no opportunity, we must create opportunities!"
It seemed that they were infected by Zhao Changxing's emotions. At this moment, facing Zhao Changxing's order, everyone stood up subconsciously: "Yes!"
Different choices mean different fates. But this time, everyone knew that because of Zhao Changxing's persistence, human civilization might really have another destiny from now on.
Now that the big principles have been determined, many scientific workers will need to devote energy and time to solving the subsequent details.
It is not easy to find such interstellar mines that are suitable for use in places with high material density at the edges of stars. They have properties that can be detected in the current interstellar environment. Especially when people actually know nothing about the operating principles and design concepts of this kind of interstellar mine, it is even more difficult to find this property.
But this is the only place people can take advantage of.
The interstellar mines created by at least a fourth-level super civilization can be predicted to be quite concealable at least for civilizations of the same level. In other words, it is not easy for civilizations of the same level to find them one by one, let alone human civilization.
This road is obviously completely blocked, and the only thing that can be used is the change in the environment at this moment.
However, the density changes from high to low, the stellar wind changes from present to nonexistent, and the battlefield environment changes from fierce to peaceful. What exactly do these changes mean that these characteristics can be exploited?
Nobody knows.
Scientists from the original Moyunlitar civilization, headed by Villagash and Zhuang Yunwei, as well as scientists from human civilization, have made every effort to explore this issue.
However, after realizing that the scientific research power was not enough at this moment, Zhao Changxing decisively issued an order to wake up all the scientific workers related to this matter who were in hibernation and let them all devote themselves to the research on this matter. .
As a result, hundreds of thousands of people woke up from hibernation.
This means greater material and energy consumption, which puts greater pressure on the Yuanhang spacecraft's already small material reserves. But Zhao Changxing still chose to do this.
In fact, Zhao Changxing also possesses considerable knowledge and is even qualified to participate in this research. But he focused more on logistical organization and arrangements.
As a civilized leader, he knows very well that his value is not reflected in scientific research work.
When faced with this kind of thing, no matter how smart or excellent a person is, it is only the strength of one person. Doing these logistical and organizational tasks well can enable hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers to exert greater power.
Time slipped away quietly under such circumstances.
Scientists first proposed the first solution.
This solution is very simple and crude. Scientists plan to divide the sphere with the Yuanhang spacecraft as the center, a radius of 100 million kilometers, and a total volume of approximately 419 trillion cubic kilometers, into 419 trillion squares with a volume of 100 million cubic kilometers, and then The core of each block creates a super strong light source to provide enough reflection light for interstellar mines hidden in the dark, so that they can be found.
After realizing that this plan required too much material and too much time, and did not have practical operational significance, people further modified the plan, adjusting visible light to other forms of electromagnetic waves, and greatly expanding the volume of a single block. This reduces the number of blocks to be searched to approximately 40 million.
But this still has no practical significance. At the same time, this has also reached the accuracy limit predicted in the theory and cannot be expanded any further.
So the plan was abandoned.
After this, the second plan was proposed.
The concept of this plan is to still use the Yuanhang spacecraft as the center of the sphere, and then set up a spherical mask with a radius of 100 million kilometers. Assuming that this mask emits uniform light everywhere, then any object in this sphere will Objects will definitely cast their own shadows on the center of the sphere called the Yuanhang spacecraft.
At that time, by measuring these "shadows", it will be possible to determine in which direction objects exist on the Voyage spacecraft. Further observations in that direction can then determine the distance.
This solution seems feasible in theory. The main problem is how to build a spherical mask that is huge enough with a surface area of 1.26 billion square kilometers to encompass the entire spherical space with a radius of 100 million kilometers.
It is obviously unrealistic and has no operational significance to actually build a mask with such a huge area. But through some special methods, it seems that similar effects can be achieved.
For example, projection technology, etc.
But after further analysis, the projection technology was also dismissed. Human civilization at the moment does not have such a level of technological strength.
After that, another group of scientists proposed another idea based on this plan. That is to say, there is no need to manually set up this spherical mask, but to use the natural environment to achieve an effect similar to the spherical mask.
Cosmic microwave background radiation.
It is a natural "light mask" so huge that it occupies the entire universe.
The cosmic microwave background radiation exhibits a high degree of isotropic radiation intensity. That is to say, if the Yuanhang spacecraft is used as the center of the sphere, the observed radiation intensity should be the same no matter which direction it is observed in all directions - of course, after removing the influence and interference caused by one's own movement and various stars. .
So, theoretically speaking, after removing the interference from one's own motion and various stars - because these objects are certain and can be accurately observed, their influence can be accurately removed - then the observed universe The difference in microwave background radiation is most likely caused by the tiny objects that exist near the Yuan Voyage spacecraft.
At that time, through this difference, the coordinates of those objects can be roughly located.
The specific implementation process will of course be hundreds of millions of times more complicated than this. In actual operation, people also need to consider distance factors, etc., but the basic principle is probably this.
So, the only thing that needs to be solved now is the issue of observation accuracy.
Does human civilization have the ability, with the current level of science and technology, to create observation equipment with sufficient precision to observe the differences in cosmic microwave background radiation caused by those objects?
After further calculations, people came to a very definite answer.
cannot.
The conclusion is that there is a huge order of magnitude difference between the accuracy required to execute such a scheme and the accuracy available to human civilization at this time.
I am afraid that even if the super civilization that is at least level four comes in person, it will not be able to achieve such accuracy.
This plan also declared bankruptcy.
Until all the scientific researchers related to human civilization were awakened, and after hundreds of thousands of scientists studied, discussed, tested, and speculated for more than a year, a new plan was proposed.
In the main control room of the Yuanhang spacecraft, Zhuang Yunwei reported to Zhao Changxinghui in a slightly hoarse voice: "We can only say that if the shell materials of those gravity bombs are similar to those of their spaceships, then this method may, may be Effective."
