The Lunar Base vehicle that could garner such a sigh from Edward Witten is indeed high-tech, but the current base vehicles are still imperfect.
At the launch center to which Yixing belongs, the base vehicle is constantly undergoing testing to ensure that all parts can function normally.
The current base vehicle had just completed its first assembly, and would have to be disassembled and reassembled two more tis, with so necessary equipnt added.
The most important of these are the safety and replacent devices, such as solid fuel and special solid fuel generators.
This equipnt is generally not used, but in the event that the solar energy transmission devices fail, the solid fuel generators beco the temporary alternative power source.
In addition, the base vehicle still needs to add two sets of tire chanisms, two types of high-tech tires, capable of adapting to different environnts to ensure the base vehicle can operate continuously in the harsh conditions on the lunar surface.
Even if it encounters severe potholes or soft terrains, the base vehicle is able to employ the spare tires to leave the obstacle zone and continue advancing.
Such a high-end Lunar Base vehicle naturally requires corresponding manufacturing costs.
The material and equipnt costs of the Lunar Base vehicle alone exceeded two hundred million, and when adding maintenance, upkeep, labor, electronic devices, and so on, the expenses easily surpassed two and a half billion.
And that’s not all—it doesn’t take into account the value of the software and AI systems.
Zhao Yi was very satisfied with the Lunar Base vehicle he had designed himself, and he hoped to continue improving it, ensuring the safety of astronauts while also hoping the vehicle could play a certain role in the subsequent construction and use of the lunar base.
After visiting the Lunar Base vehicle, the theorists began to work on the design for retrofitting the space shuttle.
The retrofitting of the space shuttle mainly involved adding a few devices, including a mini Z-wave device and a space link device.
In addition, the space shuttle needed to upgrade its automatic control system to ensure more flexible remote control and intelligent operation of the newly added devices.
This task would require Yixing’s software team.
Two days later.
The Space Information Technology company and the Z-wave experintal group’s technical team arrived; they would be responsible for the design of the spaceship retrofitting.
Yixing’s computing team also arrived.
Zhao Yi imdiately explained the computing team’s tasks, pulled out the roughly developed frawork and asked them to add new features to the spaceship’s intelligence system and make targeted upgrades.
The hardware retrofitting of the space shuttle was relatively simple work, just adding a few devices, and the subsequent task was to adjust the coverage of the devices to ensure more detailed experintation.
Electronics and intelligent system improvents and upgrades would take a longer ti, requiring at least half a month.
Zhao Yi of course wouldn’t spend half a month working on a software system; he rely provided the frawork and direction and let the computer team write the detailed code, then he continued to work with the few mbers of the theoretical group on the ’Voidon hypothesis’.
The ’Voidon hypothesis’ had many aspects to be researched and called for detailed multi-faceted verification.
This allowed for continuous research, using the void-child hypothesis combined with various physical theories to refine the properties of Voidons.
The theorists were full of fighting spirit, investing one hundred percent of their passion into the research because they specialized in theoretical studies. Now that they had a new theory in front of them, which could be verified almost imdiately, everyone was very excited and hoped to refine it as much as possible.
However, when the research deepened, various problems surfaced.
The problem encountered that day was so big that it made so want to give up the research.
Qiu Chengwen raised a critical issue, "I found a problem when doing gravitational calculations."
"If we define Voidons as having a fixed density and a stable leaping speed, then the explanation for ultra-high compression particles fails."
"This contradicts cosmology and the Big Bang theory."
After Qiu Chengwen’s simple explanation, everyone understood the issue.
If Voidons have a fixed density and a speed limit on their leaps, then a problem arises—there would be a limit to the compression (leap annihilation) a Voidon could exert on a mass point.
The example of ultra-high rate compression should theoretically allow us to see a point, as both the Big Bang theory and Zhao Yi’s cosmology suggest that the universe initially began as a point.
The mass of this point is infinite.
When the finite ets the infinite, contradictions erge.
If this problem is not resolved, the definition of Voidons becos wholly aningless.
The theorists studied intensively for a full day and ca to no conclusions, and even Zhao Yi could not think of a solution.
What to do?
Could it be that Voidons truly do not exist?
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The problem raised by Qiu Chengwen had the theoretical group in trouble, causing Qiu Chengwen and Edward Witten to even doubt the experint.
"Can we really achieve the results we want? Maybe ti will be aningless, and nothing will happen."
"I really hope to see sothing in the experint, but how can we explain this issue?"
"Anyway, let’s first take a look at the experintal results."
Zhao Yi didn’t have a solution to the problem at the mont. Research in theory greatly needs inspiration and also requires experintal study. rely relying on conjecture certainly has its limits.
Many physical theories have been derived from experints.
The research in Quantum Physics is very convincing, as most of the conclusions in Quantum Physics are based on experintal analysis.
Now, they could only wait for the experints.
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The Voidon verification experint was planned to be conducted on a spaceship. It would be a trendous waste for the Mars-1 spacecraft to fly to space just for the experint alone.
Therefore, the Aerospace Bureau’s plan was to conduct an exploratory activity with Jupiter as the destination. The Mars-1 spacecraft would utilize space shuttle technology to quickly reach the vicinity of Jupiter, then utilize Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull, along with the spacecraft’s propulsion system, to correct the orbit and return to Earth.
The experint was set to take place after the spacecraft arrived near Jupiter and completed a series of exploratory work. If the experint went smoothly and did not damage the spacecraft, Mars-1 would, on its journey back to Earth, also make a detour to the asteroid Ceres and pass by Ceres at a distance, allowing for a series of photographic tasks.
Of course, all this was subsequent work.
After completing a series of preparations at Yixing’s launch base, Zhao Yi and the theoretical team went together to the Aerospace Bureau’s mission center.
In less than two months, the Aerospace Bureau planned to use Mars-1 to explore Jupiter. The work was very intense, but fortunately, space exploration technology was already very mature. Mars-1 could still be remotely controlled over long distances, and what they needed to do was perform a series of calculations.
The space sector’s calculation work is very complex, with many factors to consider in plotting the spacecraft’s trajectory, and the intended orbit also needing detailed justification.
Zhao Yi and the theoretical team participated in the subsequent work.
With the inclusion of Zhao Yi and the theoretical team, subsequent data collation work suddenly sped up. Whether it was Zhao Yi, Qiu Chengwen, or Edward Witten, all of them being top mathematicians, were very good at dealing with data and calculations, especially Zhao Yi, who effortlessly arrived at solutions for any problem.
All the preparatory work was completed a week before the planned launch.
The Aerospace Bureau announced the Jupiter exploration mission to the public and confird the use of the Mars-1 spacecraft.
The international response to the Jupiter exploration was not significant because, with the dostic lead in space science and technology, exploring Jupiter was not that big a deal. The focus of public attention was on two points—
One was the use of the Mars-1 spacecraft.
"Yixing’s Mars-1 spacecraft has executed a Mars landing and return mission, proving its stability and reliability."
"At the sa ti, the Mars-1 spacecraft has very comprehensive performance. Its onboard space link equipnt can transmit three-dinsional images to the ground in high clarity at close range, much clearer than what the human eye can see."
"Relying on the high-end technical performance of Mars-1, it will certainly provide more data and imagery than ordinary probes, which will allow us to gain more information about Jupiter and understand it better."
"However, is it not overkill to use Mars-1 just to explore Jupiter and not to land on any of Jupiter’s moons?"
That was one of the public opinions.
If the mission was just about exploring and photographing Jupiter, launching a multifunctional probe would suffice; there was no need to use the high-end Mars-1 spacecraft.
The other point of interest was the use of space shuttle technology.
Space shuttle technology attracted attention every ti it was used. To date, the farthest shuttle distance had only reached Mars.
Now it was a direct space shuttle to Jupiter, which would increase the distance by several tis and naturally attract a lot of attention.
Yixing publicly claid that space exploration technology could even allow spacecraft to reach beyond the solar system, but whether it could actually be done remained uncertain.
The current Jupiter exploration mission was an opportunity to see if the shuttle could be completed successfully.
If reaching Jupiter in a short ti was possible, it also ant reaching further distances easily, making interstellar exploration no longer just theory.
In fact, exploring beyond the solar system was still unattainable at the ti. Only a universe spacecraft could achieve it, and as it was continuously being tested, it certainly wouldn’t rush into extraterrestrial exploration.
This was mainly because of the power limitations of Z-wave.
The Z-wave satellites changing Earth’s orbit had severely restricted power, using only solar energy transmission technology, and could not guarantee super-strong power.
Even if they had managed to create "the brightest star in the night sky," it could only support a maximum compression of a billion kiloters at most. Beyond that distance, the compression ratio was restricted, making it aningless.
For this reason, Yixing had the "Lunar Base" plan. The primary goal of building the "Lunar Base" was to use the Moon’s gravity to construct a large-scale solar energy reception device and secure an abundance of monocrystalline thin films, creating a high-power supply to release high-powered Z-waves.
Finally, the scheduled launch ti arrived.
Early that morning, senior leaders arrived at the Aerospace Bureau’s launch center, ready to witness the experint on-site.
For most people, the work of exploring Jupiter was not important. Even if so new information about Jupiter was obtained, the real significance was not great.
What everyone cared about was the "Voidon hypothesis verification experint."
Zhao Yi and the rest of the theoretical team also arrived at the control center, their moods becoming excited and expectant, though with so concerns as well.
They hoped to see results from the experint, but also worried that nothing would happen in the experint.
This was the contradiction they felt.
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