Chapter 771 - 481: Using an Entire Planet as a Slingshot (Part 2)

Chapter 771: Chapter 481: Using an Entire Planet as a Slingshot (Part 2)

But actually, whether you can reach the speed of light and how much energy you can release have little relation.

Miracles brought forth by force don’t apply to light speed.

According to the principle of the constancy of light speed, the speed of light in a vacuum is constant in any inertial reference frame, approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, and it does not change due to the motion of the light source or the observer.

In other words, even if the observer’s own speed has reached 0.999 times the speed of light, the light in his view is still moving away from him at 299,792,458 meters per second.

This is also the fundamental reason why normal energy release cannot reach or even surpass the speed of light.

Because light itself is set as the limit of the cosmos, it cannot be surpassed.

If you surpass the speed of light, it means you have already transcended this cosmos, you are no longer constrained by it, which means you could destroy this cosmos anytime.

Therefore, to surpass the speed of light in a situation where capabilities are weak,

one can only rely on skill, which is Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds.

As for why light has these strange traits, and what causes these traits, humanity is still unaware, only knowing that light possesses these traits. In other words, with regards to the constancy of light speed, humanity knows "what it is without knowing why."

Wang Ye is naturally the same, the knowledge he possesses, from a macro perspective, is not much higher than that of human beings,

he still knows little about these deep rules of the cosmos. But based on his speculation, he believes photons might be a kind of stationary matter.

Based on the principles of special relativity, the faster the speed, the slower the time. When you accelerate your speed, your time flow rate becomes slower compared to that of a stationary person.

In other words, if you keep sailing a certain speed, then after some time when you return, you will find that your newborn son has grown to be as big as you. This principle is vividly reflected in the movie "Interstellar," where the protagonist experiences several planets in the universe, and even stays in a black hole for a period of time, when he returns to Earth, his daughter is already aged and lying on a hospital bed while the protagonist still retains a youthful appearance.

According to past human speculation, when an object truly reaches the speed of light, time might completely stop.

After surpassing the speed of light, one could traverse through time, making time flow backward.

Then how should one exceed the speed of light? Why is light able to move so fast?

This involves yet another principle, inertia.

Many people may have had a thought, why when jumping on a fast-moving train, you can land still standing on the same spot, rather than being thrown off by the current train carriage.

Actually, this is because people and the train have the same horizontal speed, and during the jump process, inertia keeps the person’s state of motion unchanged.

Currently, humans including various common substances, the relationship with cosmic space is also the same.

One must know that most things in the cosmos are rotating, the Moon rotates around Earth, Earth rotates around the fixed star, even the Milky Way Galaxy is still rotating around the Local Group, traversing through space at a speed of 2,090,000 kilometers per hour. But humans on such fast-moving planets are completely unaware.

This is the same as the principle of jumping on a train.

However, the speed of light is able to maintain a constant speed amidst countless variations of relative speed, in human understanding, nothing can affect the speed of light.

But in Wang Ye’s understanding, there may be one thing that can interfere with light speed.

That is the speed of cosmic expansion.

According to human research speculation, since the Big Bang, the universe has been constantly expanding,

and furthermore, the expansion speed is unrestricted, much faster than light.

Because the history of the universe is only 13.8 billion years, while the diameter of the observable universe can reach 93 billion light years.

Outside the observable universe, there is endless space, which means that the speed of cosmic expansion, is unimaginable.

Any matter such as humans, Earth, the Solar System, at this moment is expanding at speeds many times faster than light.

But all are unable to perceive it.

In other words, planets and humans are not subject to the interference of the cosmic space-time expansion.

Wang Ye speculates, this could be because the materials composing humans are all moving under a normal time flow rate, so humans find it difficult to perceive that space is expanding.

But the time flow rate of photons is extremely slow, even stopped, so it would be interfered by some things moving. This is like a person standing on a train jumping, then instantly being thrown several carriages out. But to other people normally affected by the train’s inertia, this person’s movement speed is very fast, and they disappear with a "whoosh".

But for the person being thrown out, he himself has always been stationary in that space. So strictly speaking, photons have actually always been completely stationary, but the constant stretching of time and space makes it look like it is moving, moving in any direction.

In other words, light has always been moving, but has never moved.

Of course, the above is all Wang Ye’s speculation, and there is no way to prove it, so it may sound somewhat abstract.

If, in the future, Wang Ye figures out the fundamental rules of the cosmos and has the ability to exceed the speed of light, then standing 2,000 light years away from Earth looking towards it, he might see the yet-to-perish Qin Dynasty. If he then immediately returns to Earth at superluminal speeds, he could be said to have traveled back to the Great Qin of 2,000 years ago. By then he will have truly mastered the ability to travel through time.

Because the propagation of light also requires time, especially in the vast scale of the universe, the speed of light is very slow, humans currently seeing the Sun are not seeing the Sun of now, but the Sun from eight minutes ago.

Of course, this is just a conception, basically impossible unless Wang Ye really acquires the ability to break the universe’s rules someday.

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Meanwhile.

On Earth, the International Extraordinary Response Alliance (International Transcendent Response Coalition, ITRC), a newly formed international organization as of yesterday, has officially begun recruiting various countries.

Since the organization was founded by the most developed countries internationally today, coupled with many countries indeed fearing Wang Ye’s power, within just one day, this organization has gained participation from over twenty countries.

And the reason for founding this organization, the numerous national leaders are very clear, it’s to uncover the secrets at the deepest point of the Mariana Trench. Having established this organization means their national strength is still unable to explore the secrets therein, otherwise, they absolutely would not cooperate with each other.

Cooperating together not only means joint effort, but also shared division of exploration gains. And traditionally stingy they are, it’s unlikely they would casually share this technology leading to Extraordinary with other countries. From this the danger at the depth of the Mariana Trench can be inferred.

Although most nations’ national strength is not high, each country has different advantages due to different geographical locations, if all countries set aside prejudices and gather together, the pace of human development is sure to increase many times over, the lithography machine is one example, no country in the world can independently produce lithography machines, including China and the US, but when scientists across countries gather, lend effort, they can manufacture such top technological products.

This is why they would establish such an International Extraordinary Response Alliance, only then can they unite their strength, only then can they increase the possibility of cracking the secrets at the depth of the Mariana Trench.

About five days have passed. Scientists from various countries have already gathered together, beginning to research weapons capable of fighting against Megalodon and other monsters in the sea. Under their collaborative development, a super nuclear submarine capable of high-speed navigation under the sea at a depth of ten thousand meters is gradually taking shape, and by using all the technology currently mastered, to enhance the power of torpedoes, they developed a torpedo with a hydrogen bomb as its core, naming it Hydrogen Torpedo.

At this time, Wang Ye is still soaring at high-speed in vacuum 30 million kilometers away from Earth.