Chapter 34: The Long Voyage

Just as Wei Qingyang thought, with the addition of this batch of materials, on the Qingyang Star, various scientific problems that have plagued everyone for decades have ushered in breakthroughs.

The power computer was first successfully developed and put into practical use.

Because of the application of electric power computers, mathematics first ushered in a breakthrough, and a series of disciplines that were limited by the lagging development of mathematics have ushered in the development of a series of disciplines, such as engineering, mechanics, physics, etc. Even the development of the hydrogen bomb is no longer a theoretical obstacle.

In terms of chemistry, a series of complex compounds were developed, and several genius chemists proposed two aspects: physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry, and began to study the discipline of chemistry from a theoretical level, rather than just experiments.

The physical side has begun to move towards a more basic place, and has even begun to try to verify a series of predictions of the theory of relativity. Quantum mechanics has also made initial progress, and the understanding of the microscopic world has become deeper.

Everything is thriving forward, when the level of science and technology has probably developed to the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, that is, when the personal computer has just been launched, and the manned moon landing project has been forcibly launched and fortunately completed, the lack of population has once again become the most important factor restricting the development of science and technology.

You know, there is a great advantage for a practitioner to conduct a scientist's research. The most intuitive point is that they have a long lifespan, which means that these excellent brains will not retire prematurely, but will always fight on the front line of scientific research.

Imagine what it would be like to live with Albert Einstein, Bohr, Planck, Landau, Schrödinger and a bunch of bulls in their previous lives, and always keep up with the times, always learn, and always think?

In addition, the mental power brought by cultivation makes them far superior to ordinary people in terms of memory, mental agility, and energy, and this is not as simple as one plus one equals two, because there is still a process of communication between ordinary people, and the ideas that language and words can carry are very limited.

It can even be said that they alone can top at least four or five ordinary scientists.

And after so many years of reproduction, the initial number of more than 2,000 people has now become more than 7,000.

According to the simple calculation that one equals four, it is equivalent to more than 28,000 people. Coupled with the fact that there is basically no need to rest, it is equivalent to more than 50,000 people.

Even if we remove some young people who are not suitable for scientific research, there will be at least 40,000 people.

40,000 excellent full-time scientists, even if they only face the scientific level of the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, is still not enough.

However, the population development has almost reached a limit now, and if it grows slowly at a normal rate, the star power reserves on Qingyang Star are quite enough, but if fertility is encouraged on a large scale, no matter how much star power reserves are added, they will not be able to withstand it.

Wei Qingyang knew that in the next hundreds of years, he would probably never encounter macroscopic stars again, and he would be replenished with a large number of materials, and his current reserves would have to be spared.

At this moment, Qingyang Star is about 8.7 trillion kilometers away from the Sun, about 0.9 light-years.

Because of the application of the new protective formation and the enhancement of the protection power of the Sky Breaking Sword Formation, the forward speed of Qingyang Star has been increased to four thousand kilometers per second, and the remaining range originally took three hundred and fifty years, but now it only takes two hundred and sixty years.

Because of the slowdown in scientific and technological progress, it took more than 30 years for computer equipment to develop from electric computers to large-scale integrated circuit computers, and it took more than 40 years for its computing power to develop to the early 21 st century.

In terms of weapons, practical atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, and neutron bombs have all completed theoretical reserves, and they have been actually built after arriving in the new galaxy and receiving a large amount of material replenishment again, and some pre-research has been carried out on interstellar missiles, and several satellites have been made now, but they are only for show, and have no practical use.

The formation version of the space telescope, which has been playing an important role before, has long been retired and replaced with a scientific and technological version of the telescope developed using the latest technology, in which visible light, radio, infrared, ultraviolet and so on are readily available. The gravitational-wave telescope has also completed its theoretical reserves, but it is not yet possible to build it in reality, after all, the accuracy required for this thing is too high.

It is said that it is a technological version, but in fact, some things from the cultivation system have been added to it. For example, refrigeration, the complex refrigeration equipment under the scientific and technological system is far less practical than a simple ice technique. If it weren't for the development of interstellar missiles, Wei Qingyang would never have developed this thing about rockets.

Just kidding, what kind of missile is as convenient, fast and pollution-free as a monk flying directly into space to set orbits for a satellite?

In short, Wei Qingyang has always adhered to one principle, that is, whether it is scientific or practiced, what is convenient to use.

Regardless of whether it is a black cat or a white cat, it is a good cat if it can catch a mouse, and everything is based on practicality.

Thousands of monks and scientists have worked tirelessly day and night to produce a huge amount of knowledge. With so much knowledge, in the previous life, Wei Qingyang couldn't learn it completely, but here it is simple, not forgetting is just the most basic skill, learning all, learning all fine, but also deep understanding, flexible use, and even on this basis, the next step is the description of Wei Qingyang's state at the moment.

Those with low cultivation can only be specialists, and those with high cultivation like Wei Qingyang can be all-rounders.

Time slipped away quietly, and after another period of time, the distance between Qingyang Star and the Sun increased to 1.02 light years. At this time, the telescope controlled by Wei Qingyang discovered a macroscopic star.

It is an asteroid with a diameter of about five meters and is mainly composed of water ice, dry ice, etc. Wei Qingyang also didn't know where it came from, not even if it orbited the sun.

It just hung there alone, and it didn't need any meaning. It seems that any change in the outside world will not affect it, nor will its existence affect anything in the outside world.

But when I met Wei Qingyang, it was different.

Wei Qingyang spent a few days running and bringing it back.

It's a very valuable thing, and in a sense, it's a very well-preserved museum.

It is precisely because it does not affect others, and others cannot affect it, that the things on it can be preserved for billions or even tens of billions of years. And by studying what is on it, we can indirectly understand some of the early history of the universe.

The scientific development on Qingyang Star is extremely biased, and all the technologies that are being developed are usable, such as weapons, such as telescopes, and some auxiliary disciplines. However, the evolution and development of the universe, the evolution of stars, and so on, are very limited.

If there are conditions, no matter which discipline, even if it is humanities, economics, psychology, etc., Wei Qingyang does not want to let go.

Now let's use this asteroid to practice and make up for the shortcomings.

Science is a good thing to be in full development.

Wei Qingyang knew that this was probably the last star he could encounter that might be related to the solar system.

This distance has exceeded the range of the Oort cloud, and it is really entering interstellar space.

Even if the invisible "barrier" does not shield the gravitational pull of the sun, the matter in this space will no longer be affected by its gravitational pull.

This is the battlefield of stellar gravity.

Qingyang Star continued to move forward and sailed through the void for a full hundred and seventy years. Just as Wei Qingyang estimated, in the past one hundred and seventy years, he really did not encounter any macroscopic stars.

At this moment, it is about a light-year away from Proxima Centauri, and it is possible that it has entered the extent of its Oort cloud.

The reason why it is possible is because Wei Qingyang has no way to be sure.

Proxima Centauri is a small star whose influence can extend less than a light-year. But South Gate 2 is a triple star, with three stars, which together have a mass much greater than that of the Sun, and maybe all three of them have the same Oort cloud.

But it is also possible that in the gravitational battle of these three stars, all the frozen stars that make up the Oort cloud were thrown away, so it is possible that there is no Oort cloud at all.

Wei Qingyang's knowledge of the evolution of stars is extremely limited, and he cannot draw conclusions on this issue for the time being.

It is worth noting that above this distance, Proxima Centauri has been separated from the two stars Nanmen 2A and Nanmen 2B and can be seen separately - previously, because the three stars were so close to each other, they could only see one point of light.

Wei Qingyang's telescope still couldn't directly see the planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, but through the occultation method and the stellar perturbation method, he could already more intuitively determine that the planet did exist.

This planet is the ultimate goal of Wei Qingyang's voyage.

It was when he knew that there was a big planet here that he chose this place as his target. Otherwise, when he arrived at a star system, there were no planets, and a star was stupidly big and stupid, and Wei Qingyang would be dumbfounded.

No matter how small the star is, it is also a star, the wind above it is extremely violent, and the star power is extremely violent, even Wei Qingyang can't get close, let alone use the star power on it to survive.

After another few decades, an irregular asteroid with a maximum point of about 13 kilometers and a width of 7 kilometers appeared in Wei Qingyang's field of vision.

Wei Qingyang's heart suddenly became excited.

There is no doubt that this is an asteroid belonging to the South Gate 2 triad star system.

This is the first time that Wei Qingyang discovered a macroscopic star after discovering the asteroid with a diameter of only a few meters more than 200 years ago.

It was also the first time to see a macroscopic star outside the solar system.

Wei Qingyang knew that the two galaxies at the South Gate, Proxima Centauri, were really about to arrive.

The centuries-old voyage is finally coming to an end.