In the past few decades, the development of human aerospace technology has made rapid progress. As humans' exploration of the universe becomes deeper and deeper, 's idea of exploring the depths of the interstellar are becoming stronger and stronger.
However, the universe is so vast that compared with it, humans and the earth seem so trivial.
According to statistics, the observable diameter of the universe in alone reaches 93 billion light years , which is a huge range that even light cannot reach. Moreover, the universe is still expanding outward at a speed that exceeds light. If the speed of light is just based on the speed of light, humans will never be able to reach the boundaries of the universe. Besides, The human spacecraft is far from reaching the speed of light . Exploring the universe is just an out of reach dream!
The currently flew from the earth's farthest detector Voyager 1 has not yet flew out of the solar system. Some scientists even believe that humans are blocked in the solar system by an invisible force . Even if the limits of human technology are exhausted, they cannot break the barriers outside the solar system.
Want to break through the limitations of distance and explore the depths of the universe. A spacecraft that reaches the speed of light is the most basic condition. After all, our closest star distance is also 4 light years away from . But in Einstein's theory of relativity, The speed of light is the fastest speed in the universe . Can the interstellar journey really only stay in the imagination stage, and we can never reach the distant depths of the starry sky?
and Einstein's General theory of relativity gives us hope to fly " super-light speed " . In general relativity, Einstein believes that when technology reaches a certain level, human class will have the ability to bend, compress or even tear in three-dimensional space-time. The conscious shaping of space-time may become a window for humans to break through the speed of light. How difficult is it to shape time and space? The physical knowledge that humans have now mastered may not be able to understand the origin of time and space. In the traditional sense, transforming space is simply a deity-bound power of gods.
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has given people a glimmer of hope. The innovation of quantum entanglement theory and the creation of quantum informatics have made people realize that relativity may not be a bumpy truth in the universe.
In the 1990s, Miguel, a physicist at the University of Wales, proposed the concept of "warp engine" . The warp engine can use the driving force generated by space expansion to drive the engine to shrink forward at an extremely fast speed. The infinite picture of the warp engine advancing is similar to Doraemon's space-time gate . In Miguel's vision, this may be the only way for humans to break through the limit of light speed. Although the idea of a warp engine far exceeds the current technical background, it sounds like it does not violate the laws of nature, and it is much less difficult to change time and space in theory and practice.
Simply put, it is to artificially create an "space-time bubble" in space-time. space-time bubble is equivalent to the outer protective film of the space-time running. The space compresses around the space-time running, pushing the "space-time bubble" to move at super-light speed, thereby driving the spaceship in the space-time bubble to move forward together. This is like a shrinking version of the universe expanding outward at super-light speed.
In the super-light motion of space-time bubbles, space-time motion itself does not transmit any information , nor does it violate Einstein's special theory of relativity . According to the energy required to expand space-time, the warp engine is also divided into various levels. The most advanced level 9 warp engine can exceed the speed of light by 100,000 times. If the warp engine can really become a reality, the dream of human beings to roam the universe will no longer be far away. Of course, if you want to reach different engine levels, the energy required for each level will also increase exponentially.The most critical question of whether the
can become a reality is that according to the calculation of energy, the energy required to form the initial space-time bubble may also exceed the sum of the energy released by the sun. But The total energy consumed by humans in history is less than one-3.8 billion of the solar energy . This huge energy consumption is also a warp engine that looks like a fantasy.
According to Kardashev's theory of cosmic civilization , only when human civilization reaches the second level can it be possible to create Dyson ball . The current human civilization level is only 0.7 . Even if you want to achieve a first-level civilization that can get rid of the energy crisis and use renewable energy as you wish, humans are still far from each other. No one knows how long it will take for humans to truly reach the level of civilization where warp engine technology can be used freely. Perhaps with the destruction of the earth's ecology and climate, the earth will not give humans such a long time to develop, and humans may eventually be buried in the long history of the universe at the threshold of development.
The curiosity and exploration of unknown things are the driving force for the progress of human society. Although it seems out of reach, countless scientists have explored forward in the field of warp speed engines. Recently, Harold G. White, chief scientist of NASA's warp speed engine project, announced: The research team led by him successfully discovered a real "curvature bubble". Although this "curvature bubble" is very small, it can only reach the level of microns. However, this is a huge leap to bring theory to reality, gradually expanding from subtleties and finally making breakthroughs. Isn't it the significance of scientific research?
Of course, in addition to the warp engine theory, searching for wormholes throughout the universe may also be one of the ways humans can travel without interstellar . With the advancement of human physics and aerospace technology, theories such as black holes and gravitational waves have been confirmed. Perhaps in the near future, warp engines and wormhole technologies will become reality . Human beings will start real interstellar travel, and human beings will also step into the depths of the starry sky.
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