When Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming left the Cangqiong space station, they were over the Americas.
The two of them were floating in an orbit at an altitude of 800 kilometers, looking at the sun in the distance and the land of America.
Fan Xiaoming said with emotion: "Westerners started the Age of Discovery and were five hundred years ahead of us. But we started the Space Age. I don't know how many years we can be ahead!"
"Who can say clearly what will happen in the future," Su Zhe said. "Jokingly speaking, if aliens with more advanced science and technology discover the earth, they might wipe us humans off the face of the earth."
"It's possible, but it's just a possibility." Fan Xiaoming said, "Aliens! I guess I won't be able to see them in my lifetime."
"This is not certain! Maybe aliens will visit the earth sometime." Su Zhe said.
"No! What I want to see is that we actively discover aliens, rather than being discovered by aliens." Fan Xiaoming said.
As the two of them spoke, the main engine of their armored space suit started.
After leaving the orbit, the two of them kept flying at an acceleration of 1.2 g.
While lowering their altitude, the two flew over the American land and across the Pacific Ocean.
In the second half of the race, the speed of the two continued to decrease.
At this time, the wings of the two armored spacesuits spread out, continuously receiving the light blue beam.
"Not to mention, after the upgrade of the armored space suit, its battery life has been greatly improved. Returning from an orbit with an altitude of 800 kilometers only needs to be recharged. I believe that it will not take long to recharge without recharging. Then, you can fly directly into space wearing an armored space suit," Fan Xiaoming said.
"It is impossible to rely on current super batteries unless nuclear energy is used." Su Zhe said, "miniaturized nuclear fission or nuclear fusion."
"This... this is difficult to achieve." Fan Xiaoming said.
"No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it! Let's not talk about the issue of miniaturization. If we don't develop controllable nuclear fusion technology, it will be difficult for us to leave the solar system." Su Zhe said.
The energy source of the light pillar project is the sun. The farther the distance, the more difficult it is to transmit its energy.
It is unrealistic to rely on light beam engineering to provide energy to explore the universe beyond the solar system.
For now, the most ideal source of energy for exploring the universe is controllable nuclear fusion.
Not only is the energy density high, but the raw material, hydrogen, exists in the universe!
"This is true." Fan Xiaoming said, "But there is no rush now. After all, it will take a long time to develop the solar system."
"Yes! It's not urgent, but research should be put on the agenda." Su Zhe said.
As the two chatted, they came to the sky above Tamu Desert.
After a while, the two of them stopped smoothly at the test airport.
After changing their clothes, the two took the flying car back to their residence.
Fan Xiaoming said to Su Zhe seriously: "According to your request, a scientific research team of 10,000 people studying the human body has been formed, of which 3,000 people are focused on studying the human brain. What do you think will be done next?"
These ten thousand people are composed of people from various disciplines, including those studying mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, etc., including all basic disciplines.
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Among them, those studying medicine and biology account for the largest proportion, with the two together accounting for more than 50%.
Su Zhe thought for a moment and said, "Let them collect and sort out past research results on the human body first. During this time, I want to take a look at these research results and lay a solid foundation for our future research."
The main purpose of choosing such a topic is to understand the mechanism of the human body and fundamentally solve the problems of human birth, aging, illness and death.
"Okay!" Fan Xiaoming said with a smile, "It's just you. Most people can't do such research at all. This is a whole subject! For example, I can only do physics-related research, not biology and chemistry."
Su Zhe smiled and said: "To be honest, the current division of subjects has great disadvantages. Once you learn a subject, your thinking is easily bound by this subject, and it is difficult to look at the problem from a comprehensive perspective, but you have to admit, Division into subjects reduces the difficulty of learning knowledge.”
"What you said, do you think everyone has the same brain as you! You know, the vast majority of people are ordinary people." Fan Xiaoming said, "But the school can cultivate such talents alone. Of course, only true Geniuses are worth cultivating.”
"Yeah! You reminded me." Su Zhe said with a smile, "We can set up an experimental class and learn everything regardless of disciplines to see if we can cultivate scientists with all perspectives."
"Yes! Yes! This is a good idea." Fan Xiaoming smiled, "Take the study of the human body as an example. It will definitely involve all disciplines. How can a person like me, whose thinking is restricted by a single discipline, conduct comprehensive research? It's hard to say. If so, I don’t know some knowledge about chemistry and biology at all, so how can I consider the overall situation?”
"That's right! You don't even know the existence of the other party, how can you make a judgment!" Su Zhe nodded, "The day after tomorrow, we will remotely participate in the completion ceremony of the permanent base on the moon! After the ceremony, the principal can return to Earth on his way Let’s talk about the experimental class.”
Fan Xiaoming thought for a while and said, "You don't want to lead this experimental class yourself, do you?"
"That's what I think." Su Zhe said with a smile, "But entering the experimental class requires a certain assessment. To put it simply, geniuses who are not talented cannot enter the experimental class."
Fan Xiaoming smiled and asked, "Do you think a genius like me can enter the experimental class?"
"Do you want me to tell the truth or a lie?" Su Zhe smiled.
"Needless to say, I know the result." Fan Xiaoming smiled sympathetically, "Then how many students do you plan to enroll in this experimental class?"
"I set an assessment standard and recruit as many people as they pass. If none of them pass, then none will be recruited." Su Zhe said bluntly.
The two chatted from the flying car to their residence.
They chatted about some details in the living room of their residence, and after they were basically finalized, the two of them went to sleep.
At four o'clock in the morning the next day, Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming arrived at the control hall of the test airport early.
Sit in front of the big screen and look at the still-flying solar energy collection station and light energy transmission station displayed on the big screen.
At this time, both are very close to their destination, and both are slowing down.
As for the pictures currently displayed on the big screen, the former was five minutes ago, and the latter was fifteen minutes ago.
Ninety million kilometers away in space, the solar collection panels of the solar collection station are half-expanded.
Its main engine is working hard to reverse thrust, allowing it to enter Mercury's orbit at the right angle and speed.
Whether it is speed control, orbit entry, etc., they are all automatically controlled. After all, the distance is too far, and it takes more than ten minutes for the signal to go back and forth.
After the solar collection station was successfully put into orbit, its solar collection panels began to unfold.
In a short time, the solar energy collection station was fully deployed, with its fully deployed area covering nine square kilometers.
After fully unfolding, the solar energy collection station is fully activated.
After the sunlight shines on the solar collector panel, it is converted into light of a specific wavelength by the solar collector panel.
After these lights of specific wavelengths are concentrated together, the light of specific wavelengths is transmitted to the terminal through a high-power optical energy transmission cable, which is the optical energy transmitter, that is, the beam channel generator.
Relatively speaking, the principles of the two are the same and can be converted into each other.
But in general, a light energy emitter is a light energy emitter, and its main task is the transmission of light energy.
When specific light is concentrated into a light energy emitter, there are usually two options. Either to disperse the light of specific wavelengths and return it to the universe, or to emit a concentrated beam in a specific direction so that it can be transmitted by light energy. station, or accepted by the energy usage terminal.
Such as space cities, various types of spacecraft, etc.
At this time, the main part of the collected energy returns to the universe, and part maintains the operation of the entire solar energy collection station.
Its most important part is to power numerous simplified versions of heavy photon aerospace engines.
When the solar energy collection station is operating normally, some of its engines are always working.
The reason is to maintain the relative position of the solar energy collection station.
You must know that whether you are using a terminal or an optical energy transmission station, they are far apart.
However, light energy transmission is point-to-point, which requires accurate positioning in space. Only in this way can point-to-point light energy transmission be achieved.
Earth, the control hall of the Tamu Gobi Test Airport.
Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming looked at the pictures and data that happened nearly six minutes ago displayed on the big screen.
Fan Xiaoming said excitedly: "Not bad! The solar energy collection station has successfully arrived at its destination. Now we are waiting for the light energy transmission station."
"Yes!" Su Zhe said, "The distance is too far, remote control is completely impossible, we can only rely on automatic control."
"No way! That's the fact." Fan Xiaoming said, "According to the current plan, many space cities will be built in the solar system, with the purpose of being able to control them nearby."
"It is still necessary to develop instantaneous information transmission technology." Su Zhe said seriously.
"I also know that it is necessary, but not only does such technology have no basic theory, but based on the current theoretical basis, instantaneous information transmission technology is impossible to achieve." Fan Xiaoming sighed.
Su Zhe nodded and said: "If there is no basic theory, we will do our own research. There is no need to regard the current basic theory as a golden rule. We can think of it this way. The current basic theory is imperfect and we need to continue to demonstrate. Dare to think Only if you dare to do it, if it is said from the beginning that the speed of light cannot be surpassed, then why bother studying it and just go home and farm."
The two chatted and looked at the big screen.
On the large screen, the light energy transmission station has reached its destination, and the beam of light with a specific wavelength of one hundred meters in diameter emitted by the solar energy collection station has been shot in a specific direction.
It displays sixteen minutes of footage and data.
At this time, above the ecliptic plane of the solar system and two astronomical units away, the light energy transmission station has received a beam of light with a diameter of one hundred meters.
Almost at the same time, the light energy transmission station emitted a beam of light in the direction of the earth.
Similarly, 99% of the light energy received by the optical energy transmission station will be transmitted to the terminal or other optical energy transmission stations.
Other light energy will maintain the operation of light energy transmission stations.
After a sixteen-minute flight, the light beam emitted by the optical energy transmission station was extremely accurately illuminated on the optical energy receiver of the geosynchronous orbit spaceport.
Almost at the same time, the space port and the beam channels on the ground and the moon were completed.
Starting from solar collection stations in Mercury's orbit, sunlight of different wavelengths is collected and converted into light of specific wavelengths, thus forming a beam with a diameter of one hundred meters.
Then, after flying for sixteen minutes, the light beam was changed in the direction of transmission by the optical energy transmission station.
After another sixteen minutes, the beam shone on the spaceport in geosynchronous orbit.
At this time, four sub-screens were displayed on the big screen.
They are solar energy collection stations, light energy transmission stations, geosynchronous orbit spaceports, and beam channel generators in lunar orbit.
Su Zhe and Fan Xiaoming looked at the big screen nervously, fearing that the process of light energy transmission would be interrupted.
Another hour passed, and the process of light energy transmission was maintained.
At this time, Su Zhe, Fan Xiaoming and everyone in the control hall cheered.
This process of light energy transmission can be maintained for a long time, which shows that the first attempt of the light pillar project was successful.
It also indicates that there will be a steady stream of energy use.
Unfortunately, at this stage, these light energies can only be used in the construction of beam channels. As for other uses, they have to wait for the completion of the Sanmen Project and the completion of the construction of other domestic light energy receivers.
Even so, it is worth cheering. At least the country no longer has to supply energy for the beam channel. This greatly reduces the burden of domestic energy supply.
But for a real solution, we need to wait a little longer.
Fan Xiaoming looked at the big screen, then at the already bright window, and said: "It's done! Now you can use the beam channel unscrupulously. You don't have to follow the strings like before. The remaining five solar energy collection stations The materials for the two light energy transmission stations can be transported, the materials for developing the moon can also be transported on a large scale, and the detectors lined up to be launched can all be launched."
"Yes! Yes!" Su Zhe smiled, "Let's go have breakfast. We have a rest today. We will still be full for the next period of time, but it will only be a month. When all the staff are trained, we will We don’t have to do it ourselves, we can do other things.”
"Yes! We still have a lot to do, and there are many topics that we need to study." Fan Xiaoming smiled.
With that said, the two stood up and left the control hall.
On the way to the cafeteria, Su Zhe asked: "It's better not to rest today. A scientific research team to study the human body has been formed! So, let's go back and give them a lecture today so that they know what the scientific research team is going to study!"
"Is this...really no rest?" Fan Xiaoming asked seriously.
"Well! Resting is just for reading. It's better to give lectures." Su Zhe said.
"Okay! I'll make arrangements right away." Fan Xiaoming said, "Then I set the time for today's afternoon. The location is in the school indoor gymnasium, which can seat 10,000 people. Is it feasible for three hours at a time?"
Su Zhe nodded and said, "Okay!"
