Alchemy has been a dream of Human Civilization since ancient tis.
Throughout history, countless alchemists dedicated their entire lives to this field, but never succeeded.
Unexpectedly, during this cosmic escape journey, Tom inadvertently achieved it.
To "refine" gold from hydrocarbons seems strange, but its principle is actually very simple.
Nuclear fusion, nuclear fission, and other material changes involving the atomic nucleus are not as profound as they seem, and do not necessarily require precise equipnt to achieve.
The universe is full of interstellar high-energy radiation, and full of particles with extrely high speeds and kinetic energy.
At this mont, Tom’s fleet speed is as high as 8 % of the speed of light, so particles that originally did not possess such high kinetic energy passively gained extrely high kinetic energy upon impact, and thus high-energy interstellar particle collision events beca more frequent.
Thus, the carbon and hydrogen atomic nuclei that make up this special plastic sheet may be struck by these particles, either gaining or losing protons. This manifests externally as nuclear fission or nuclear fusion.
That’s right, in fact, during this journey, within the material that makes up the plastic sheet, these changes that can release enormous energy are happening every minute and every second.
As a result, their elental composition was also altered, and dozens of other elental atoms appeared out of nowhere in materials that originally only contained carbon and hydrogen atoms.
After refining and purification, they beca the gold bars, iron blocks, tin blocks, and the like, laid out before Tom.
Of course, the higher the atomic number of an elent, the smaller the quantity ford. This is because elents with higher atomic numbers are more difficult to form.
According to Tom’s estimation, under current conditions, an average of about 30 grams of gold will be produced out of thin air each year.
Of course, if the speed continues to increase, leading to more frequent and intense high-energy interstellar particle collisions, the efficiency of this "alchemy" will further increase.
"Take them for industrial use."
With a sigh, Tom threw these materials into various factories. The plastic sheets that had been "eroded" to tatters by these impurities were reshaped and produced to be as smooth as new again, then thrown into the warehouse, awaiting use.
In addition to the "alchemy" that even Tom found sowhat astonishing, at a speed of 8 % of the speed of light, even more peculiar phenona caught his attention.
He saw that in front of the fleet, the colors of the myriad shining stars seed to have changed slightly.
They seed to have beco a bit bluer.
This change was very subtle. Even the clone, where Tom’s consciousness resided, which had undergone hundreds of genetic optimizations and possessed super vision, could only barely perceive this.
Behind the fleet, the colors of those stars beca slightly redder, also a very subtle change.
Tom knew this was due to redshift and blueshift.
Light waves possess properties similar to sound waves. When moving forward, the wavelength of light waves shortens and their frequency increases. When moving backward, the wavelength lengthens and the frequency decreases.
And the color of light is determined by its wavelength.
Because of the fleet’s speed of approximately 24,000 kiloters per second, the colors of those stars changed.
Based on the Doppler formula corrected by relativity, Tom calculated that the stars in front had their colors shifted bluer by approximately 8.3 %, while the stars behind shifted redder by approximately 7.7 %.
Such a subtle change made it understandable that the clone could only barely perceive it.
Of course, for instrunts and equipnt, this change was extrely obvious.
In fact, in addition to the color changes perceivable by the naked eye, those stars also undergo many more changes due to the fleet’s current high-speed travel.
Stars usually emit electromagnetic waves across the entire spectrum, with the only difference being their energy levels. So electromagnetic waves, due to excessively long wavelengths and low frequencies, or excessively short wavelengths and high frequencies, have exceeded the limits observable by scientific equipnt.
However, these specific wavelengths of electromagnetic waves may carry many mysteries about the internal operating chanisms of stars.
They could not be observed in the past, but now it is different.
Because in front of the fleet, those electromagnetic waves that were previously unobservable, with excessively long wavelengths and low frequencies, now, through the blueshift effect, have their wavelengths shortened and frequencies increased, thus entering the observable range from the unobservable range, and can be captured by radio telescopes.
Similarly, at the rear, through the redshift effect, those electromagnetic waves with excessively short wavelengths and high frequencies can be brought into the observable range.
As a result, a large number of signals that Tom could not observe or capture before now entered the equipnt, revealing to Tom the mysteries hidden behind heavy curtains.
Tom vaguely felt that he seed to have pioneered an unprecedented field of astronomy.
"Beyond fields such as visible light astronomy, infrared astronomy, X-ray astronomy, neutrino astronomy, and gravitational wave astronomy, this current field... can it be considered high-speed astronomy?"
Tom knew that he had gained another ans of exploring the mysteries of the universe.
In addition to these peculiar phenona, there was one phenonon that troubled Tom more.
That was the ti dilation and length contraction effect.
Simply put, during the movent of an object, the flow of ti changes.
In low-speed motion, the change in ti flow is very small and can be ignored. Therefore, Newton’s equations of motion can be used to calculate object motion.
But at a speed of 8 % of the speed of light, the change in ti flow is no longer negligible, and using Newton’s equations of motion would result in many errors.
For example, Tom has always used neutron star positioning technology for fleet positioning.
By observing the relative positions and angles of several neutron stars whose coordinates have been predetermined with the fleet, the fleet’s precise coordinates in the cosmic starry sky can be indirectly determined.
But at this mont, due to the excessively high speed, the flow of ti has changed.
According to Tom’s calculations, at this mont, the fleet’s ti flow is approximately 0.32 % slower than the outside world’s ti flow.
That is, when 365 days pass in the outside world, only about 364 days pass within the fleet, which is one day slower than the outside world.
This leads to significant errors in the positioning system. Not only that, but changes in ti flow will also cause a series of troubles, even affecting the accuracy of scientific observation data.
Fortunately, this situation is not without a solution.
After introducing relativistic formulas as corrections, the data that had been "interfered" with was converted into raw data, and the fleet’s various operations were also cleared of interference.
Amidst these peculiar phenona, the massive fleet continued to advance at high speed.
And after the preparatory work of the previous period, the various large scientific facilities could finally begin operation.
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