Zhao Yi was to attend a space conference organized by the National Space Administration, or to be precise, by its subordinate Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center.
The Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center, as the na suggests, is responsible for aerospace engineering and lunar exploration projects and is the core of the Aerospace Bureau’s technical and operational efforts.
Actually, the Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center is a new departnt, established only about ten years ago when the Aerospace Bureau set the direction for lunar exploration and created a dedicated lunar and aerospace departnt to handle related affairs.
Dostic aerospace R&D is even more challenging than aeronautical R&D, as M Country, which holds the most advanced technologies in the aerospace field, has decided to forbid its aerospace bureau from cooperating with the China National Space Administration, forcing any technological issues encountered in dostic aerospace developnt to be solved via independent research.
Independent research, it’s extrely difficult.
Aerospace R&D is very complex, involving a wide range of technologies, and although developnt has progressed from nothing to the astonishing results we see today.
For instance, there have been significant advancents in various models of launch vehicles, the launching of reconnaissance satellites, and breakthroughs in manned spaceflight technology, among others.
Dostically, there is absolute support for the developnt of the aerospace industry because space exploration represents the general direction of human technological advancent.
Earth is very small, very small.
So small that it cannot accommodate too many people, so small that resources have beco the core of international contention, so small that human-made weapons could cover the entire Earth several tis over.
On such a small Earth, there is extrely limited room to maneuver.
War speaks volus to this issue.
Today, major countries are engaged in intense competition, but everyone knows that a major war between the great powers is almost impossible because the Earth simply couldn’t withstand it.
It’s very reasonable to say that a third world war would result in human extinction.
The universe is like an ocean.
Earth is like a small boat.
A few people rowing their small boat across the ocean—because the space on the boat is limited, everyone wants to sit more comfortably, so they jostle each other for that limited space.
But strong people are almost impossible to co to blows with, as making too much noise could capsize the small boat, and everyone would fall into the water.
What should be done in such a situation? Find land or other boats to gain more space.
That’s the importance of space developnt.
Of course.
Now, talking about ’finding land or other boats’ may seem a bit premature, but working on related technologies and increasing our understanding of space is definitely the right direction.
The Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center has many large-scale developnt projects including manned spaceflight, space station, manned lunar landing technologies, Mars exploration, and so on, each of which draws considerable attention.
This conference of the Aerospace Bureau also serves as a summary of the technical reports for the developnt projects.
Each project’s principal and the relevant technical leads have to report on their projects and plan for future technological R&D.
In fact, it’s just like an ordinary company where each departnt head talks about their departnt’s progress and plans for the next stage, pretty much ’what we have done’, ’what to do next week’, ’which technologies to tackle’, ’what’s the key point’, etc.
As one of the few ’listeners’ at the Aerospace Bureau’s conference, Zhao Yi just felt sleepy. He was really interested in aerospace technology, but not in work reports.
The Aerospace Bureau’s conference would last about two days, with several sub-departntal etings in progress.
After listening for a morning, Zhao Yi couldn’t bear it anymore, but fortunately, he t Zheng Guoyan.
Zheng Guoyan was the head of the Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center. After attending the eting, he found Zhao Yi and laughed, "Academician Zhao, after listening for a morning, how do you feel?"
"Sleepy~"
Zhao Yi replied listlessly.
This answer was completely unexpected, Zheng Guoyan was stunned for a mont and then laughed heartily, "You’re really straightforward, it does make one want to sleep. But, for us, this eting is very important."
Zhao Yi nodded in agreent.
Zheng Guoyan took Zhao Yi to have lunch together, found a small room in the restaurant, and started talking while eating, "I am very interested in anti-gravity technology. Ever since I knew about this technology, I’ve been wondering whether it could be applied to aerospace. Academician Zhao, what are your thoughts?"
Zhao Yi said, "I haven’t given much thought to its application problems, and I’m not familiar with aerospace technology..."
Zheng Guoyan nodded with a smile, "Then you can tell , what can anti-gravity achieve?" After saying that, he added specifically, "Not the technical principles."
Zhao Yi wasn’t worried about confidentiality issues.
Zheng Guoyan, as a top leader in the aerospace field, would only know about the anti-gravity technology through disclosure from higher levels, his position was already high enough to be in the know about the secrets, and inviting Zhao Yi was public, so there was no issue of inquiring about confidential technology privately.
Zhao Yi nodded and discussed so of the technical possibilities achievable with anti-gravity.
Zheng Guoyan listened in surprise, having previously learned about such technologies, but only from high-level eting reports, knowing that so anti-gravity could be achieved. Hearing from Zhao Yi about the continuous stacking of anti-gravity, and the ’perhaps’ cutting off of Gravitational Waves and other professional issues, he was even more astonished.
Aerospace technology was already the pinnacle of human high-tech, but compared to anti-gravity technology, it seed quite ordinary.
Aerospace technology is high-tech, anti-gravity is black tech!
How could a technology that only exists in science fiction movies and human imagination suddenly be researched?
Zheng Guoyan took a deep breath, continued discussing the anti-gravity issue with Zhao Yi, and ca to several conclusions, the first being that anti-gravity devices could only be built on land or large platforms.
Spacecraft and carrier rockets’ takeoff and landing might be able to utilize anti-gravity technology, and the technology itself may introduce a completely new launch and landing thod.
However, this will require very detailed substantiation, involving the anti-gravity device itself, as well as design issues related to the launch equipnt.
It’s extrely complex.
Moreover, the coverage area of the anti-gravity device includes outer space, which could potentially affect the operation of satellites in outer space.
This is a very important concern.
Zheng Guoyan had discussed the anti-gravity issue with Zhao Yi, then took him on a tour of the aerospace departnt. Together they visited several research and developnt centers and saw a lot of space-related technological developnt.
Zhao Yi was very interested in space solar panel technology because solar energy is light energy, rooted fundantally in the energy carried by photons.
In space-related projects, energy is extrely important. Far from Earth’s surface, the only accessible source of energy in space is light energy.
Zheng Guoyan brought a technician to help introduce Zhao Yi to space solar panel technology, mainly discussing the operation of solar panels in the harsh space environnt, what kind of issues they generate, and how to solve these issues.
This part of the technology is external; it has nothing to do with the microscopic photons.
Zhao Yi learned about the relevant technology, not to improve it, but in hopes of gaining a clearer understanding of the characteristics of photons.
Clearly.
It was impossible here.
Space analysis was his research direction; anti-gravity was the breakthrough in space analysis, and as far as experints and applications of anti-gravity were concerned, photons were the best choice because they were the easiest to produce.
Other particles, like neutrinos, might yield better anti-gravity effects if their spins could be controlled, and perhaps hold more research potential, but neutrinos are currently uncontrollable and therefore beyond the scope of research.
Other particles also have their respective flaws.
As Zhao Yi listened to the technician’s explanation, he pondered the issues of photon anti-gravity and space research. He was just listening for the most part, but when the technician got into the details of the solar panel operation and ntioned a particular term, it caught his attention.
"Internal rotation..."
"Rotation?"
Zhao Yi suddenly frowned and interrupted, asking, "Wait, did you say rotation?"
"Yes, what about it?" the technician was sowhat puzzled, not understanding Zhao Yi’s aning.
"Rotation, rotation..."
Zhao Yi kept muttering softly, repeating the word many tis. He then simply sat down in a chair next to him and continued murmuring ’rotation’.
Rotation was very important! When a superconducting material is electrified to produce an ionic lattice spin, it generates an anti-gravity effect, and photon spin also produces an anti-gravity effect. The principle of the anti-gravity device is to induce a certain degree of spin in photons.
So...
What if the anti-gravity device itself were to spin?
It’s not just a theoretical question but also a technical one. If the anti-gravity device spins, it could greatly simplify the complex internal design of photon pathways and, at the sa ti, the overall rotation of the device would generate a certain degree of chaotic effect, causing the photons to rotate on a larger scale beyond their own spin.
What would happen then?
"If the device itself spins, a rapid speed will create chaos..."
"This kind of chaos might also affect the anti-gravity effect, but what specific effect would it produce?"
"Would the chaotic anti-gravity effect expand and cut off a larger area of the gravitational wavefront? Would the chaotic section spread outwards, possibly in parallel or in an up-down direction?"
"Or perhaps achieve a certain level of equilibrium in the anti-gravity effect?"
"Or maybe... nothing would happen at all?"
Zhao Yi sat in the chair contemplating carefully, while others stood by watching, wanting to ask sothing but not daring to interrupt.
Zheng Guoyan, the technician, and the others saw Zhao Yi suddenly sit down to think, incessantly muttering to himself, and they didn’t know what to do.
It was Zheng Guoyan who reacted quickly, urging the others to leave and only guessing outside, "Academician Zhao must have thought of so critical point; don’t disturb him at all costs!"
"Right, Xiao Li, stay nearby and see if Academician Zhao needs anything..."
"Okay!"
"Really want to know what it is!"
"Academician Zhao’s research, huh? Maybe it’s about solar panel technology?"
"Hopefully."
"Academician Zhao, really looking forward to it!"
"..."
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