In particular, Dr. Henry Glassman of the "Infinity" was complaining to Chang Wei crazily, saying that their light-speed spacecraft was simply garbage!
Even their light-speed spacecraft use the traditional curvature mode, but it is inefficient and very environmentally unfriendly!
I won't elaborate on the "Halo"; after all, it's humanity's first independently developed lightspeed spacecraft, so its somewhat subpar performance is understandable. It requires an hour of continuous acceleration to reach the speed of light, but to the Light Chasers, it's a sitting duck. It's at best a Level 2 civilization, no more.
Although the Seed's acceleration was much faster than the Ring, it still couldn't reach the speed of light in under a minute, let alone compare to the Light Chaser's light-speed engine.
There are two main types of Light Chaser's lightspeed engines: one mounted on a large structure, and one on a smaller one. While their power levels may differ, their acceleration is measured in milliseconds! The slowest one can reach lightspeed in just 5 seconds.
It would be fine if your acceleration was slow, but the most unpopular reason for light chasers is that they will form slow fog at the tail of their voyage, which is a low-speed-of-light zone formed after the space is folded.
In the low light speed zone, the speed of all objects will become extremely slow. Once you accidentally fall into it, if you don't have the corresponding escape technology, you may never be able to fly out.
Although the elasticity of space will allow the curvature wrinkle to gradually dissipate and eventually recover, the time it takes is extremely long. If several adjacent low-speed-of-light zones appear in succession, the recovery time can be said to be endless.
On the original path created by the slow fog, it was impossible to use lightspeed or superluminal travel again. This was because the young man in front of him had recklessly cleared the "ground" to facilitate his own speeding, leaving no way for those behind him to escape.
This behavior is extremely selfish and has caused irreparable damage to the entire universe.
It's true that curvature distorts space, creating a potential difference that propels you forward. But why the hell do you just crush and overturn every "tile" along the way? Do you think other people won't use this road anymore? Do you think it's disposable?
Ultimately, it's because their technology isn't up to par. They don't have the "spacetime bubble" that can smooth out the curvature wrinkles behind them while sailing.
If I had to describe it vividly, the light-speed spaceship in the "Three-Body Problem" universe is just like a person who takes a big dump and doesn't wipe his butt. It makes people want to vomit!
Chang Wei looked into it in detail and felt that the reason why Dr. Henry Glassman and others were extremely angry was that the slow fog was difficult to clear.
With the Light Chaser's current technology, repairing the low-speed-of-light zone is no problem. However, the problem lies in the disproportionate efficiency, cost, and complexity of repair and production.
Others can create countless low-speed-of-light zones by just flying around in a spaceship. How long will it take you to repair them?
Especially in this universe, governed by the laws of the Dark Forest, countless lunatics could, at any moment, recklessly drag others down with them. The resulting cosmic destruction unfolds moment by moment in every corner of the interstellar universe. Human civilization, however, is nothing more than a pathetic, hopeless ant beneath the walls of eternity.
For example, the captured singer's civilization also possessed a two-dimensional foil capable of easily destroying human civilization. However, they weren't the strongest in the universe. There were always civilizations more swift and technologically advanced than theirs. For example, the current solar system crisis was a dimensionality-reduction attack unleashed by an unknown civilization! In the end, the Light Chaser attempted to track down the perpetrator, but they had already fled, not even staying to observe the outcome.
Such cautious and indifferent attitude towards life is just like their duty - "cleaning up the garbage in the universe".
However, Chang Wei knew that these "cleaners" were merely the lowest forms of existence within their respective civilizations. On the scale of the entire universe, they were insignificant specks of dust!
In the original novel "The Three-Body Problem," it's mentioned that this universe originally possessed ten dimensions, a time known as the "Pastoral Era." This "Pastoral Era" not only possessed unimaginable cosmic laws, but even the speed of light could reach "infinity"!
However, due to the constant wars between civilizations, the universe has been continuously reduced in dimension, the laws of the universe have gradually collapsed, and the speed of light has been reduced to 300,000 kilometers per second. Today, the four-dimensional universe has been shattered, and the cycle of conflict has returned to the three-dimensional universe, and is evolving towards the two-dimensional universe.
This is absolutely terrible!
Therefore, relying solely on the kindness and righteous actions of a certain civilization is simply a drop in the bucket and cannot change the status quo!
Moreover, ultimately, the universe is nothing more than an infinite chain of cause and effect. Civilization is a 5,000-year sprint, and true power lies in the hands of time. All human imagination pales before it. For example, you can't imagine what a war that spanned ten dimensions, radiated billions of light years, and lasted for tens of billions of years would have looked like in the universe.
Chang Wei was also self-aware. In this perilous Trisolaran universe, he couldn't afford to be too conspicuous and make enemies everywhere. He actually took Zhong Kai's words to heart. At the very least, he couldn't let the death prophecy take advantage of him and send him off so easily!
As the saying goes, if you don't seek death, you won't die. Since the goal can be completed step by step, let's just stick to the main rescue mission. Forget about provoking other unknown civilizations and the Zeroers.
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