The Three-Body Problem: The Most Competent Wallfacer of All Time

Chapter 409 New progress in the solar system country
The title of "Lightspeed Spaceship Project Team" almost shocked Xiao En and the others.

Because the solar system country has never disclosed the research and design work of the light-speed spacecraft.

Sean's classmate Mu Lun was the first to react: "Mr. Ryder, do we already have our own light speed spaceship?"

Then the questions came and went: "Mr. Ryder, what kind of power does our light speed spaceship use?"

"When did this research start?"

Ryder smiled and raised his hands, pressing on everyone: "Everyone asks one by one."

Then he began to answer: "Currently the first light-speed spacecraft is still being designed, and I am mainly responsible for the design of the engine.

"The chief design department estimates that within 30 years, our first light-speed spacecraft will be able to conduct test flights.

"Our spacecraft uses a curvature engine. I joined the project team in 46. At that time, the project team had done more than 30 years of basic theoretical research.

"The research work started from Deterrence 13, initially led by Professor He Shanqi."

Everyone was taken aback, it started so early!And even with such a fast speed, it has reached the stage of application, and there are almost no detours!

Immediately afterwards, everyone noticed that the name He Shanqi was unfamiliar to the people present.

Ryder understood everyone's thoughts from their expressions, and he sighed: "Professor He Shanqi is a well-known physicist in the early years of Deterrence.

"For 60 years, he has devoted all his time to the lightspeed spacecraft project, so much so that you have never heard his name!

"But what I want to tell you is that he is the only co-recipient of the 'Bai Xiangdong Medal' and the 'Bill Medal' in the solar system."

The two medals mentioned by Ryder are the highest honor medals in the scientific community of the solar system country.

The "Bai Xiangdong Medal" is named after Bai Xiangdong, the founder of genetic technology in the solar system country. Those who win this medal must have achieved great scientific research achievements or theoretical achievements in their own fields.

The "Bill Medal" is named after Bill, the executor of the "Moon City Project" proposed by the Wallfacers in the early years of the crisis. Those who receive this medal must have created great achievements in science that lead the solar system country or the future of mankind.

In the published information, only 16 people have won the "Pak Xiangdong Medal" and only 5 people have won the "Bill Medal".

Sean and the others only found out today that someone else had won these two medals alone.

Ryder added: "The lightspeed spacecraft has such a high level of confidentiality to prevent Sophon from obtaining relevant information.

"Although the Trisolarans also have the ability to travel at the speed of light, the research on the light-speed spacecraft must still not be disclosed, so as not to be destroyed by the Trisolarans, or to make them take precautions.

"For now, this is still the top secret of the solar system country."

He paused and continued: "The research results of the light speed spacecraft are the results of more than half a century of hard work by a research team of more than [-] people.

"This achievement may not be announced in my lifetime, and I will not be able to enjoy the glory brought to me by these achievements.

"But I don't regret participating in this project team.

"If you are also ready to participate, please do the same mentally."

Everyone fell silent suddenly, feeling the greatness of the scientific researchers of these confidential projects.

More than an hour later, the spacecraft arrived at the Space City of the Academy of Sciences.

This space city is like a lighthouse in the scientific world of mankind, always at the highest and brightest position, even in the era when the Trisolarans provided advanced technology for mankind, they could not conceal its radiance.

Different from ordinary military or civilian space cities, this space city has a series of auxiliary cities extending from the main city in the middle. From a distance, its appearance looks a bit like snowflakes, and it also looks like radial vines.

This is because many experiments require a special environment, and many experiments are dangerous and must be sealed.

Over time, there are more and more experiments like this, and the space city of the Academy of Sciences has become what it is now.

Sean and others have seen pictures of the main city of the Academy of Sciences in the news.

The population density here is not large, so the green area is large, and there is even a small forest.

Many of the most advanced science and technology are applied in this city, where you can see all kinds of intelligent robots, and you can see strange-looking vehicles.

Of course, there are still scientific researchers on the benches on the roadside who can fall into deep thought at any time.

But the place extending outside the main city is as simple as a warship, without any greenery or decorations, just cold passages and doors with exactly the same shape.

Here, Sean and the others visited the model of the first human curvature spaceship, and listened to Ryder explain the principle of the curvature engine and the difficulties they are encountering now.

Subsequent visits gave them a new understanding of the countries in the solar system.

In addition to the light-speed spacecraft, the Academy of Sciences is also working on the next generation of engines for nuclear power: matter flow engines.

It is said that the name of the engine comes from Wallfacer Jiang Yu.

There are also the Wandering Earth Project, the Sentinel Project, etc. They have a comprehensive understanding of the solar system country's plan to deal with everyone in the dark forest.

In the future, human beings will take the earth and light-speed spacecraft to escape the solar system in batches.

In terms of cutting-edge physical materials, researchers have discovered that the properties of dark matter are different. Now they can be roughly divided into two types, one is the substance that easily affects the gravitational transmission, and the other is the substance with extremely high energy.

When visiting the physical materials project team, they also met Yang Dong, wife of Wallfacer Jiang Yu.

She is well-known in the scientific community and is the idol of many people.

Next was a visit to the artificial intelligence area. In the staff restaurant, I had lunch with Jiang Shiliu, the intelligence master of the solar system country.

Jiang Shiliu told everyone that future warships will be able to be controlled by only twelve crew members, and that in the next half century, all manual labor will be contracted by artificial intelligence.

Mankind will completely enter an era of mental work.

Of course, the interstellar immigration may delay this time, but this era will come sooner or later.

This is a stage that human beings must go through, and when the time comes, human life will undergo tremendous changes.

In the afternoon, Xiao En and others first visited the most advanced genetic engineering progress. Although the popularization of genetic technology has stopped, the research on biology has been going on.

During the visit, Xiao En and others had the concepts of Tertiary and Quaternary life forms, as well as related concepts of "the origin of life" and the power contained in life.

In the research area of ​​Tertiary life forms, there is a restricted area for visitors. According to the staff, it is the cultivation area of ​​No. [-] bacteria. This kind of bacteria has extremely strong lethality and has been tightly sealed.

Because there were too many projects to visit, they speeded up their pace and visited more than a dozen high-end industrial and agricultural technology researches like a revolving door.

These studies have already left the PDC several blocks away, even with a gap of more than half a century.

After a day of visits, although they were a bit overwhelmed, Xiao En and the others could clearly see the true appearance of the solar system country and its huge investment in science and technology.

It is stronger than the outside world's understanding of the solar system country, and stronger than they expected.

Without exception, on the way back, they all decided to join in the work of dealing with the attack of the Dark Forest, and they would be assigned to departments that either did research or did specific implementation work.

In the following two years, three more discussion groups officially disbanded.

The best of them, like Xiao En and others, have similar arrangements.

At this time, on the PDC side, the religious atmosphere has finally faded, but there is still no clear plan for dealing with the Dark Forest attack, and because of the direction problem, huge differences have arisen.

　Thanks to 【Mo Lingking】for the 500 point reward.

　　Thanks to [Kong Qi] for the 100-point reward.

　　
　
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