Wandering Meteor-Chapter 107: Increase Speed

If we say that matter is divided into macro and micro.

Then a life community can also be divided into macro and micro.

In the life community, the micro aspect is the tiny biological life of Earth Civilization, while the macro aspect consists of the colossal celestial lives like Constant Star Lu Chen and Metal Planet Wandering.

While interesting events are happening at the micro level, at the macro level, Constant Star Lu Chen continuously leads Wandering, Green Star, and Earth Civilization, flying towards the outer Galaxy Nebula using his own gravity.

As time progresses, their flying speed becomes faster and faster.

During the escape process, Lu Chen has been using the Gravity Acceleration Method. The specific steps of acceleration involve interacting with the gravity of more distant celestial bodies, letting their gravity pull him forward, and when the risk of getting too close arises, Lu Chen switches to another celestial body for acceleration.

With this continuous repetition, the entire Constant Star System’s flying speed gets faster and faster.

When the time reached fifty years of wandering, through continuous acceleration, the flight speed of the Constant Star System had reached 1500 KM/S!

Although this speed seems fast, it is only one-thousandth of the speed of light; with such a speed, it is absolutely insufficient for them to escape the Galaxy Nebula before the giant nebula collision.

This assertion is made with certainty because it has been precisely calculated by Earth Civilization.

This is the advantage of being part of a life community. When Celestial Civilization cannot accurately calculate these matters, biological civilization can use their intelligence and computers to calculate them. freewebnøvel.coɱ

In fact, since the construction of Wandering Base, Earth Civilization had already begun calculating relevant data.

A large number of Earth Civilization scientists gathered in Wandering Base, started observing the speed, distance, and trajectories of the Galaxy Nebula and Andromeda Nebula using astronomical telescopes and then calculated the time of the massive collision of the two giant nebulae from these observed data.

However, since the speed of the two giant nebulae has been continuously increasing, the time of the collision has also been continuously changing.

Initially, Earth Civilization calculated that the great collision would occur about six thousand years later, but by the fiftieth year of wandering, the time of the collision had advanced to five thousand eight hundred years later.

One can imagine, as the speed of the two giant nebulae steadily increases, the time left for them is also becoming increasingly shorter!

Of course, the escape plan is a highly complex process, involving many facets of specialized knowledge. Successful escape is not solely dependent on the collision time of the two giant nebulae but also on their escape route and speed.

They are currently located inside the Perseus arm of the Galaxy Nebula, about two thousand thirty light-years from the boundary of the Perseus arm.

Their current speed is only 1500 KM/S, and it takes 200 years to travel one light-year; to travel two thousand thirty light-years would need four hundred sixty thousand years.

In such a long period, the two giant nebulae would have already collided.

Therefore, it was previously mentioned that this speed alone would not be possible to escape the Galaxy Nebula.

Considering this situation, Earth Civilization’s scientists made a minimal time limit assumption.

They hypothesized that the speed of the two giant nebulae would continually increase, and the final collision time would shorten to four thousand years later. If they wanted to escape the Galaxy Nebula within these four thousand years, their own flight speed must reach at least half the speed of light.

This task is naturally extremely arduous.

This escape plan is proving to be much more challenging than anticipated.

Fortunately, the Wandering Alliance is now working together, racking their brains to think of ways to increase their speed.

On this day.

A piece of good news came from the Wandering Base on Earth.

It turns out that a month ago, Wandering Base welcomed a group of young astrophysicists, amongst them was a 29-year-old young scientist who had been closely following escape plan related matters since his studies. Upon entering the Wandering Base, he quickly thought of a method to speed up.

However, to be precise, it’s not about speeding up but reducing the escape distance.

Using a supercomputer to simulate the collision of the Galaxy Nebula and Andromeda Nebula, this young scientist found that the two nebulae collide in a tilted manner, causing the energy to be splashed out diagonally, and their position in the Galaxy Nebula is about a few hundred light-years higher than the Andromeda Nebula. At the moment, influenced by the gravity of the Andromeda Nebula, the Galaxy Nebula is flying downwards at a slight tilt. This means that if they fly at an opposite angle upward with a tilt, they could leave the Galaxy Nebula via a much shorter route.

Then, he started calculations with this idea in mind.

Ultimately, after rigorous calculations, he concluded that if the Constant Star System escapes in an upward 11-degree direction, their total journey to a safe position would be reduced by about fifty light-years!

"Really?"

When Constant Star Lu Chen heard this great news, he was overjoyed.

However, to be cautious, Lu Chen confirmed it many times.

At Lu Chen’s request, Earth Civilization recalculated many times.

Fortunately, each calculation yielded consistent results, proving the plan was feasible. Subsequently, Lu Chen began implementation.

According to the calculation angle and direction provided by Earth Civilization, Lu Chen, while using gravity to accelerate, also began slowly adjusting the flying angle.

However, even if the total journey was reduced by fifty light-years, the remaining distance is still one thousand nine hundred eighty light-years far. Lu Chen needs to increase the flying speed to safely avoid the massive collision of the two giant nebulae.

Seeing time becoming increasingly pressing.

Lu Chen immediately convened a meeting with Wandering and Earth Civilization to discuss methods to increase speed.

"Gentlemen, the situation is more severe than we imagined. If we rely solely on my current Gravity Acceleration Method to get the entire Constant Star System, with its massive weight, to reach half the speed of light, we would need at least five thousand years of speed stacking to possibly achieve it, but the time left for us is not enough. Do you have any better methods?" Lu Chen got straight to the point.

Wandering responded, "I have been thinking all along, but I haven’t got any leads yet."

The 29-year-old scientist of Earth Civilization said, "I do have an idea, but I’m not sure if it will work."

"What’s your name? Just put forth any ideas you have."

Lu Chen had some impression of him because it was also this person who calculated the upward flying angle.

Actually, Lu Chen didn’t know that he had met this 29-year-old scientist nineteen years ago.

Back then, this 29-year-old scientist was only 10 years old, still a little boy, who had visited the Wandering Base with his classmates and had asked a question about the levels of biological civilization in front of the Consciousness Field Receiver.