Chapter 798 - 495: Pushing an Entire Planet to Crash into the Sun

Chapter 798: Chapter 495: Pushing an Entire Planet to Crash into the Sun

Boom!!!

Boom!!!!

Intense vibrations erupted from the far side of Mercury, one after another, blasting countless shards into space, dispersing in all directions, and turning into dust in the cosmos.

At this moment,

Wang Ye, transformed into a giant nearly a kilometer tall, continued to crazily strike down on Mercury.

Each blow released energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion of millions of tons.

Gradually, it was even possible to sense a slight alteration in Mercury’s orbit.

However, this slight alteration appeared extremely insignificant and powerless from a macroscopic perspective.

At this point, Wang Ye’s consciousness had been completely consumed by power, losing the ability to think stably. His originally normal physical form began to morph into a bizarre posture, with the outermost layer of skin and flesh starting to shatter, and the bones developing countless cracks, soon turning into a ruinous body.

Maintaining the Law of Heaven and Earth required an enormous consumption of energy and matter every second. Even though he was constantly absorbing the material energy beneath him, with the crust and mantle under his feet visibly sinking deeper and deeper, this energy was still insufficient to keep him intact.

The energy he metabolized was transformed into clouds of smoke and large amounts of plasma flames rising directly upwards, burning fiercely above his head and spewing into the pitch-black void.

Yet under his feet, Mercury still only slightly deviated from its orbit; the planetary belt of today’s Solar System actually holds a delicate stability. Most unstable factors had vanished over the course of billions of years.

But this doesn’t mean that this stability is constant. If a sufficiently large external force is applied, this so-called stability would still collapse, potentially leading to the destruction of the entire Solar System.

Currently, the stability of the Solar System is mainly maintained by the gravitational connection between the Sun and the planets. The Sun is the center of the Solar System, providing energy and sufficient gravity for the planets, allowing countless planets to orbit the Sun and maintain their fixed paths, avoiding chaotic movement in the cosmos and averting various potential dangers.

For small humans, this system might seem eternally stable, akin to eternity. However, the Solar System is actually a weak chaos system; it merely appears relatively stable from a micro perspective. In reality, each orbit of a planet is subtly different from the last. If another million years pass, the overall configuration of the Solar System is bound to undergo drastic changes. Perhaps the minor changes now could lead to a supernova explosion in millions or even billions of years, exemplifying the butterfly effect. If someone could live for a billion years, they would certainly witness a planet in the Solar System encountering a cataclysmic disaster.

It’s like a clock, inevitably awaiting its day of stoppage.

There is no true perpetual motion; everything will eventually perish or return to chaos.

Wang Ye’s goal is to harness this weak chaos system to forcibly push Mercury out of orbit. By disrupting the current relative stability of Mercury, he aims to have it captured by the Sun’s gravity.

But the biggest challenge remains time and energy. According to calculations, even with his current strength, augmented by the entire human strength, it is challenging to bring Mercury to the critical point of orbital balance collapse.

Even though Mercury is a small planet with a mass approximately equal to the Moon, and it is very close to the Sun, it is still a planet with an incalculable mass, and it is spinning at high speed. If you can’t counteract the force of its revolution, shaking Mercury’s orbit is nothing short of a fantasy. It should be known that Mercury is the fastest orbiting planet among the eight major planets of the Solar System, with an average orbital speed of about 47.87 kilometers per second. It is nearly twice the orbital speed of Earth, and apart from its small mass, Wang Ye essentially finds no other reason to shake Mercury’s orbit.

Although in "Wandering Earth," humanity can build planetary engines to push Earth out of its orbit and travel through the cosmos, based on professional calculations, this is nearly impossible to achieve. The thrust of one hundred and fifty trillion tons of planetary engines set in the movie might not even suffice to push Earth out of orbit. From a physics standpoint, moving a planet not ensnared by gravity is much easier than shifting a planet orbiting in a stellar system. Because there is no resistance in the cosmos, the force required to move an object is considerably low, and the only reason one would find it hard to move in space is gravity.

Therefore, pushing Mercury out of orbit is equivalent to battling against the entire mass of Mercury plus the Sun’s gravitational field, as arduous as ascending to heaven.

Assuming he could eternally maintain his current power and continuously push Mercury, it would still take at least over ten thousand years to completely push Mercury off-course, directing it straight into the Sun.

However, Wang Ye cannot wait for ten thousand years,

If he truly spends ten thousand years just to destroy such a Mercury, it would be far too counterproductive.

Nonetheless, the premise of this time scale is brute force, but who said he must use brute force and not technique?

In the cosmos, many "Four Ounces Move a Thousand Pounds" energy-saving techniques exist, such as the gravitational slingshot technique used by Wang Ye.