Chapter 1302 207.1s!

It's our turn.

Almost as soon as the order was issued, the entire command room was like a machine, and every researcher and engineer sitting in this machine was like a gear on a clockwork, running step by step stand up.

On the orbit of Mars tens of millions of kilometers away, the two circular rings surrounding the black metal ball are like the rims connected on the globe. Driven by a small electric propulsion engine, they control the The sphere in the center of the rim slowly moves in direction.

Finally, a larger hexagonal rivet-shaped protrusion was aligned with another Z particle clock floating in the geosynchronous orbit tens of millions of kilometers away.

In the center of the rivet-like protrusion, as the side of the shell covering the surface was moved away, the complex and delicate optics were exposed in deep space.

At the same time, a solemn and calm command sounded in the ground command center.

"Turn on the high power laser calibrator."

Order issued.

The signal transmitted from the ground command center was received by the Alpha Z particle clock floating in the synchronous orbit.

And almost at the same time as the order was received, an invisible infrared light shot straight to the distant Mars from the laser calibrator exposed on the outside, and was captured by the β-Z particle clock floating in the orbit around Mars .

Like a perch biting a hook, the two spherical Z particle clocks surrounding the rim aimed at each other's launch ports under the guidance of the laser, and drew a line in the dark and deep sky that could not be caught by the naked eye, but A bond that really exists.

Looking at the two metal spheres connected by red lines on the large floor-to-ceiling screen, as well as the constantly changing orbital parameters displayed on the screen, and the prompt of [Calibration Successful], Director Li standing in the command room almost raised his heart to his throat Not far away, Luo Wenxuan, Edward Witten, and a group of physicists who were invited to the scene also unconsciously clenched their palms.

The critical moment is coming.

Regardless of whether Lu Zhou's hyperspace theory is correct or wrong, this is definitely a moment that can be recorded in history.

Even CERN has never done such an expensive experiment. Even without calculating the launch costs, the sum of the cost of the two Z particle clocks and their accessories is already approaching the 500 million mark.

If successful, they made history, and they made the future.

And if it fails...

This will probably become the most expensive of all the fireworks that have been let off in human history.

"The launch port is open!"

"Open successfully!"

"Core ignition preparation - ignition!"

Following a series of orders, after more than 200 seconds of waiting, the two Z particle clocks separated by tens of millions of kilometers vibrated slightly at the same time.

The emission array composed of hundreds of thousands of laser sources was ignited in an instant, and the pulsed ultraviolet light containing 13 million joules of energy was shot from all directions to the ignition target at the center of the sphere with almost no dead ends.

The inside of the huge hollow metal sphere was instantly filled with ultraviolet light. Even the light that is not irradiated on the ignition target is reflected by the eight thousand pieces of titanium-containing phosphate glass evenly distributed inside the spherical shell, and converges on a single point.

Almost at the moment when the laser array was lit, the shell of the fuel pellet with a diameter of about 5 mm on the ignition target was instantly vaporized, and under the high temperature of 100 million degrees, together with the deuterium-tritium fuel inside, it was vaporized. was lit.

The energy comparable to that of a star is released in an instant, pushing the lead core inside the sphere to collide, squeeze, gasify, and ionize. In this constant friction and collision, the Z particle that is swinging in the high-dimensional universe is finally captured This terrifying power caught the tail!

In the ground command center, the researcher sitting in front of the work station suddenly let out an excited cry.

"Gravity anomaly signal observed!"

The moment Lu Zhou heard the report, he gave the final order without any hesitation.

"Start the photon source!"

"yes!"

With the help of the electric propulsion engine, the two intersecting rims firmly fixed the spherical Z particle clock in its original position, and under the guidance of the infrared beam, it maintained the alignment of the photon source emitter and receiver .

At the same time, in the photon source located at the front end of the Beta Z particle clock in the orbit around Mars, electrons and positrons collide in an instant.

The entangled photons burst forth in a split second, as a train of invisible sparks shoots out.

One of them went straight forward along the original track, while the other was captured by the gravitational field disturbed by the Z particle vibration, and projected into the disturbed gravitational field, along an almost identical but not completely consistent trajectory , to the receiver tens of millions of kilometers away.

Time seemed to be frozen at this moment.

Looking at the beating timer on the big screen, Lu Zhou's heart beat almost in sync with it.

Also staring intently at the beating seconds, Director Li kept muttering something in his mouth, as if praying, waiting for the final result of the experiment.

And standing behind him, Secretary-General Luo, Professor Witten, Professor Wilczek, representatives of IMCRC's national councils and scholars who were invited to the scene also maintained almost the same movements, standing there like sculptures , turned his gaze to the big screen, and stuck to it.

Finally, the instant the number on timer No. 1 jumped to 207.1s, the atmosphere in the command center froze there as if frozen.

The remaining second is as long as a century.

And when it completely crossed over, the No. 2 timer that continued to beat was like a tube that detonated explosives, completely detonating the frozen atmosphere in the command center!

Cheers sounded like a storm, and people clenched their fists excitedly, or waved their fists, or threw their hats, documents, and even pens into the sky.

The boiling atmosphere almost knocked the ceiling over.

People of different skin colors, speaking different languages, left the same excited and moved tears.

Looking at the No. 2 timer that continued to beat and finally stopped at [270.7s], Lu Zhou's Adam's apple moved slightly, and a relaxed smile finally eased on his tense face.

Timer No. 1 is fixed at 207.1s.

In other words, the first photon to reach the receiver has traveled a total of 65 million kilometers.

Compared with the straight-line distance of about 85 million kilometers between the two Z particle clocks, this photon "saved" at least 20 million kilometers of distance!

Under the premise of the principle of the constant speed of light, there is only one explanation left for this photon to reach the "terminus" ahead of time...

And the control group of homologous photons that reached the "terminus" immediately afterwards, and the countdown on the No. 2 timer that was frozen at 270.7s, also proved his conclusion again.

And it is proved by a full 63.6s time difference!

At this moment, all doubts and arguments were settled in an instant.

Under the witness of everyone, the vibrating Z particle disturbed the invisible but real gravitational bond between the earth and Mars, and thus changed the curvature of space-time, straightened the wrinkled space-time, and opened a new path. A hyperspace channel beyond the three-dimensional space itself.

Perhaps this is not the best course.

It is even fragile like soap bubbles blown by children to the sun, and rugged like a mountain path paved with gravel.

Somewhere unseen, there must be a better way in this universe to create a more stable, "straighter" hyperspace flight path, to make that photon fly in a shorter time-not even a second. Time to reach the distant Mars, and even beyond the solar system, the frontier of the Milky Way.

However, its presence is still so dazzling.

It is like a vast and long epic, the first note sung by a poet.

Perhaps in the story woven with countless notes, there will be countless heroes and great men on the stage, but even so, even if all their great achievements are added together, they cannot match the light that bloomed at the first moment.

Maybe it's too far away to talk about that right now.

But one thing is for sure.

That is Lu Zhou standing in this command center, once again proving him and his theory——

is correct!

Ask for a monthly ticket~~~