Chapter 93
energy?
Energy is actually a very general concept.
People have given many definitions of energy, such as energy is a measure of the possible changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of mass, or a measure of the transformation of material movement, or a measure of the ability of an object to do work, etc. Even in the interstellar age, although people frequently use the concept of energy, no one can really explain what it is, what its essence is, and where it comes from. This is something that is both familiar and unfamiliar to everyone.
Time has energy, space has energy, light has energy, waves, air, heat, nuclear, flowing water, radiation, electromagnetism, etc. all have energy, invisible fields also have energy, all objects have energy, even a sesame seed, and - according to the mass-energy equation - the value of their energy is still extremely terrifying.
Energy is everywhere, but the specific value of energy is relative. For example, potential energy. If a stone is placed in a certain position in the air, you can say that its potential energy is zero; if you look at it from another position, this value suddenly becomes 100; if you look at it from another position, its potential energy may become a thousand times greater than before. But the stone is still a stone, it has not moved, and no strange changes have occurred, but for people in different positions, the energy it possesses is very different.
After Wandou said that the light Rong Yuan saw was actually energy, he thought of many things in an instant. Then he realized that what he saw was just relatively active energy, such as a cup and a drop of water, which still looked the same in his eyes, and did not show any particularly obvious differences due to the difference in mass. It can be said that the ability of his eyes at this time was still relatively superficial, just like the merits and virtues in the past were just a string of numbers in his eyes, which only showed some of their surface characteristics.
But even so, the world in his eyes is very different.
A flower bloomed in the void.
Countless rays of light converged together, and it was impossible to tell the distance between them. The colors changed in a wonderful way. When they converged in the middle, they only showed one color, which was a faintly blue and blazing white light. From a distance, it looked like a silently burning flame, quiet and beautiful. It was hard to imagine what kind of intense and destructive changes were going on in it.
Rong Yuan knew what it was without looking at the star map.
That's a wormhole.
Moreover, it is an extremely rare and stable space jump point that is not recorded in the Interstellar Alliance star map.
This is the dark star field, and the exploration ships of the Interstellar Alliance have not yet explored here. Because exploring unknown star fields is the most dangerous and deadliest profession in the universe, there is no other. Especially wormholes, among the ten thousand discovered wormholes, there may be less than one wormhole that allows explorers to return safely. People feel that the star fields they have mastered are large enough, and the resources they have are enough to meet the needs of everyone for tens of thousands of years, so there is no need to conduct such dangerous exploration. Therefore, the pace of interstellar exploration has gradually slowed down in recent years, and even stagnated. However, if someone finds such a wormhole that is large enough for starships to enter and exit and is very stable, and reports it to the Interstellar Alliance, they can even get a habitable planet or resource planet as a reward.
The reason why Rong Yuan knew about this wormhole was that fifty years ago, he once drove a tattered spaceship through it and narrowly escaped death.
At that time, he didn't have the eyes he has now, and he didn't know that this was a wormhole that could connect to the Landia Empire. When the almost broken spaceship stumbled out of the wormhole, he didn't know where he was, nor how much time had passed. He just felt so tired that he couldn't speak for himself to survive again.
Thinking of those days in the past when he longed for death but was never favored by the god of death, Rong Yuan lowered his eyes, no longer fascinated by the stunning scenery.
Wandou seemed to have sensed something, and looked up at him, calling softly, as if afraid of disturbing something, "Rongyuan..."
Its long eyelashes trembled, and Rong Yuan looked down at it, his eyes as gentle as ever. He gently touched its back and said, "It's okay... Alpha, inform Xiaohu and the others that the spacecraft will be performing a space jump, and let them all enter the hibernation cabin."
"Yes," Alpha replied. Since it boarded the spaceship, it has taken over the control system of the spaceship, so it can be said that the entire spaceship is its clone.
"Space jump?" After hearing the announcement on the spaceship broadcast, Lor said, " So, there is a space jump point ahead of the route? Semillian, have you heard of it?"
Semillian shook his head and said, "The star field around here is dark in the alliance's star map. I don't know anything about it."
Lor thought about it, shook his head and didn't pursue the matter any further.
Several people entered the hibernation cabin before the countdown ended, but Rong Yuan stood in front of the porthole, watching the huge flower getting closer and closer. When the spaceship approached the wormhole, the hull was attracted by the strong gravity like a moth to a flame. At this time, even without any power, the speed of the spaceship would increase, until the light turned into a series of blurred, thin and silky lines in Rong Yuan's eyes, and the whole world seemed to become two-dimensional.
It seemed like many years had passed, yet it seemed like just a moment, the spaceship passed through the wormhole and appeared in an unfamiliar star field.
"Correct the time... the time correction is complete. The time taken to cross the wormhole: six years, forty-five days, seven hours and five minutes. Correct the position... the position correction is complete. The current location is: the second spiral arm of the Milky Way, G2V8, D3003, S3L17." Alpha said.
Strong gravity will not only distort space, but also time. The time in a wormhole is completely different from the time flow in the outside world. Therefore, when traveling through a wormhole, you not only travel through space, but also through time. The time difference between the two sides of the wormhole commonly used by the Interstellar Alliance generally ranges from a few days to a few months, but there are also some wormholes where the time difference between the two sides can reach dozens or even hundreds of years.
Although the wormhole that Rong Yuan chose felt like only a moment, in fact more than six years had passed.
The star maps stored by Alpha were among the most detailed in the entire interstellar alliance, but it only recorded the positions of some stars in the nearby star fields, and no more detailed information. Rong Yuan manually adjusted the course, but it would take at least seven or eight years to reach the destination, so he also entered the hibernation capsule and handed over the rest of the affairs to Alpha.
This lonely spaceship in the dark universe tilted its bow and headed towards an imperceptible light in a very distant place.
Si Mu combed his hair in front of the mirror, pinched a strand of naughty hair with his hand, and bent it into a satisfactory arc, then he smiled brightly at the handsome young man in the mirror, put his hands on the wall and exerted a little force, and the whole person floated out. He walked out of the bedroom, grabbed the handles on the four walls, bypassed several narrow corridors, and came to the largest room in the spaceship.
The room was filled with odds and ends, such as green plants spreading their leaves in a transparent ecosphere, chameleons crawling around, spiders weaving webs, a small pot of flowers, test tubes filled with unknown liquids, instruments of various shapes, and even a half-man-high fish tank with a few fish and small jellyfish. On one wall of the room was a window that took up one-third of the wall, and outside the window, a huge star with yellow and white stripes was approaching.
Si Mu's body floated in the air, and he walked around the room, carefully checking whether all the items in the room were fixed and intact. He focused on checking the plants, animals and insects in the eco-sphere, and greeted them one by one.
"Mary, you are so beautiful today. Do you need me to water you more? Your little feet are still so lively. Daddy loves you the most... Ah, my baby, are you pregnant? Don't worry, I will take good care of you... Big guy, it's dawn, it's time to get up... Red girl, you still have to behave well today..."
Seeing that his beloved little ones were in good condition as always, Si Mu nodded contentedly, floated to the wall, and turned on a black camera fixed on the wall. At the same time, a square screen under the camera flashed, and Si Mu's face appeared on it.
"Hello everyone, I am your dear space experimenter Si Mu. Today is the 433rd day of our space voyage, and also the 433rd day of our live broadcast. I have already announced to you three days ago that today is a special day! Because our spacecraft will pass by the fifth planet of the Mingyang Galaxy - Hudan Star!"
At this time, in addition to Si Mu's big face, a few lines of words appeared on the screen one after another:
【Good morning, Si Mu. 】
[We are going to pass through Tiger Dan Star today, right? ]
【What experiment do you want to do? 】
The spaceship that Si Mu was on was the 13th spaceship flight experiment being conducted in Xijizhou. The spaceship not only had to observe several major planets in the Mingyang system at close range, but also had to conduct some space experiments. The mission of Si Mu, the only astronaut on the spaceship, was to take care of the animals and plants being experimented on, and to broadcast the entire process live to the audience on Zhongwu Star. Because of the long distance, the live broadcast signal would always be delayed.
He glanced at the audience comments on the screen and said with a smile: "We will not do any experiments . Our main task is to observe Hudan Star from a close distance. Hudan Star is the fifth planet in our Mingyang Star System. Its volume is 300 times that of Zhongwu Star, and its mass is 67 times that of Zhongwu Star. Its rotation speed is..."
Si Mu pointed the camera at the huge celestial body outside the window, while reading the information he had memorized. As he was talking, he suddenly found that the comments on the screen suddenly appeared like a gusher, and they were all the same:
【Look behind you! 】
【Look behind you! 】
【Look behind you! 】
The densely packed comments that almost completely blocked the entire screen seemed to indicate the audience's anxious and shocked mood. Si Mu raised his eyebrows in surprise. This was not his first time to travel on a spaceship, nor was it his first time to approach Hudan Star, so his curiosity about this planet was not as strong as the audience's. But since so many people were urging him, he still turned around obediently -
A huge spaceship with a firebird painted on it that was full of exotic beauty and seemed to be beyond the technological level of the time slowly passed by the window...
