Chapter 53 Strange Spaceship!

"Hello everyone, I'm Alpha Rimbaud, from Tesla Institute."

The speaker was a young man with a somewhat immature face, just in his early 20s. He was a little timid and nervous when he saw so many people in the audience.

"Today, I want to announce my research results to everyone, about the vacuum zero-point energy of the Noah spacecraft, quantum fluctuations and energy conservation..."

This young man may be a little inexperienced, and he talked about quantum theory right away, which made people confused.

He kept playing PPT, changing various calculus formulas, and said a lot of things that only physicists could understand, and other people were simply confused.

But the people below were still well-educated. They sat there even if they didn't understand, and quietly watched this rising star in the scientific community (pretending to be cool).

After Rimbaud finished speaking, there was a silence below, and no one asked him questions.

"Uh...does anyone have any questions?" He felt that the atmosphere seemed to be a bit problematic, so he could only stand on the stage awkwardly.

The experienced Dr. Felix certainly knew what Rimbaud had done wrong. A great scientist should try his best to take care of the younger generation in the institute. Although Felix had read Rimbaud's paper a long time ago.

He stood up from his seat and asked encouragingly: "Mr. Rimbaud, can you tell me how you discovered this problem? Please be as straightforward as possible."

As if he had talked about what Rimbaud was most proud of, his expression began to become confident. "As you know, the mass of the Noah spacecraft is conserved. No matter how much stuff is put in it, its mass remains unchanged when weighed from the outside."

"This is very magical and a fact. Otherwise, we can't push something with a mass of hundreds of millions of tons, even a nuclear bomb with a yield of 1 billion tons."

"Yes, that's true." The people below nodded. This has always been something that many scientists don't understand.

"We have reason to believe that alien civilizations have hidden this part of the mass in a way we don't know, maybe space science, or other technologies... However, this mass is not disappeared, but hidden, because the people inside are still alive, this part of the mass is real and has not been lost."

"Then, I have an idea. Since this spaceship is so magical, is energy conserved? Does the law of conservation of energy apply to this spaceship?"

"The mass of the spaceship is constant at 1.03 million tons. We have put almost billions of tons of things in it, so will it lead to non-conservation of energy?" Rambo said on the stage.

"Dr. Rambo, please explain why putting things in the spaceship will lead to non-conservation of energy?" Someone asked, and they began to be curious about Rambo's research.

Dr. Rambo immediately explained: "According to the kinetic energy formula under macroscopic low-speed conditions: E=(1/2)mv^2, the kinetic energy of an object is proportional to its mass and proportional to the square of its speed. So the question is, inside the spacecraft, do our objects with a mass of billions of tons have kinetic energy?"

"Everyone knows that the speed of our spacecraft is about 28km/s, so do the people in our spacecraft have the same speed?"

"If we have no speed, then the kinetic energy is zero, and energy is still conserved."

"If we have the same speed as the spacecraft, then where does the kinetic energy of billions of tons of matter come from at such a high speed? Who gives us kinetic energy?

Our nuclear bomb engines or chemical engines cannot provide such high kinetic energy at all. Does this energy come out of thin air? Is energy really conserved in the spacecraft?"

In a series of questions, everyone was thinking, nervous, and panicked. This question is obvious, and it can be said to be very simple. If the things in the spacecraft have kinetic energy, then where does the energy come from?

Could it be that the law of conservation of energy has been overturned at this moment?

A young scientist, only 22 years old, at this moment, began to challenge the most classic theorem in physics - the law of conservation of energy!

Energy will neither be created nor disappear out of thin air, it will only be transformed from one form to another, or transferred from one object to another, while the total amount of energy remains unchanged.

The law of conservation of energy is one of the universal basic laws of nature, also known as the first law of thermodynamics, and is the foundation of the entire scientific edifice.

If he succeeds, then the scientific edifice will collapse, the entire history of science will be rewritten, all science and technology will become unreliable, and a large number of papers will become waste paper.

The human civilization built on this technological edifice will become a ruin...

Everyone present turned pale, and an incomparable fear appeared in their hearts. What will happen if the law of conservation of energy that we have used since childhood is really wrong?

Humans simply cannot imagine...

The law of conservation of energy must never be overturned!

"So what is the speed of the things inside our spacecraft? Zero? Or does it have the same speed as the spacecraft?" A scientist below asked, his tone trembling a little, and it was obvious that he was extremely uneasy.

"I'm sorry... After testing, our speed is the same as the spacecraft." Rambo said.

"At first I was also very shocked. Energy is not conserved?! Of course, I believe in the law of non-conservation of energy like everyone else... But we must find an explanation for this phenomenon.

Since the kinetic energy of the material inside the spacecraft cannot be given by the nuclear bomb engine, either the energy is generated out of thin air, or it is an unknown and powerful energy source that we have not discovered that gives this part of the kinetic energy. "

After hearing this, the people below immediately became noisy and talked about it. If energy is still conserved, it will be easier for people to accept it. It would be good if energy is conserved... Rimbaud's words have aroused the curiosity of many people. Where does this energy come from? Coming? What is that powerful energy source?

Rimbaud laid out a bunch of facts to prove his point, "I think there is a factual basis for the fact that our internal speed is the same as the external speed of the spacecraft.

First, we walked from the inside of the spacecraft to the outside without any relative motion with the spacecraft, which shows that our speed, both in size and direction, is highly consistent with the spacecraft. "

"If our speed was zero, as soon as we walked outside the spacecraft, we would be instantly left behind because of the inconsistent speed. However, this phenomenon did not happen, so our speed is consistent with the spacecraft."

"Of course, I also did another experiment. According to the relativistic effect, the time flow of objects with speed will slow down, which is the slow clock effect. I placed two cesium atomic clocks inside and outside the spacecraft at the same time. After a while, I found that the atomic clock showed The time is exactly the same.

This shows that the speed inside and outside the spacecraft is the same, and we will also be affected by the relativistic effect inside the spacecraft. "

Many people nodded. These two facts showed that the material inside did have speed, and it was the same as the spacecraft.

"In that case, Dr. Rimbaud, where does the kinetic energy of the objects in the spacecraft come from?" A scientist couldn't help but ask.

"I think that our kinetic energy comes from the vacuum zero point energy. We use quantum fluctuations to borrow energy from the vacuum..."

Quantum fluctuation means that the uncertainty principle allows a small amount of energy to be randomly generated in a completely empty space (pure space), provided that the energy disappears again in a short time. The greater the energy produced, the shorter the time that energy exists and vice versa.

Quantum fluctuations seem to violate the law of conservation of energy, but this kind of fluctuation occurs anywhere in space, and the energy exists for a very short time. When the time comes, it will disappear, so on a large scale, the law of conservation of energy and has not been destroyed.

"But now, this part of the energy has become people's kinetic energy. The energy seems to be generated for no reason, but its essence comes from the zero-point energy of vacuum..."

People who don't understand it don't understand it at all, but those who understand it suddenly sigh, it's really a god-like technology!

(It may be a bit brain-burning, but it is also necessary for science fiction novels. There is not much content, and it will pass soon...)