Faster-Than-Light Experiments (Part 2)

The faster-than-light experiments were conducted many times and lasted for a period of nearly a year, but Huo Gu and the others finally managed to practicalize faster-than-light technology.

During this period, they discovered many problems, for example.

The mass of the gravity rings was very large. Although it was kinetic mass, the particle streams moving circularly inside the rings at near-light speeds could be approximately regarded as a whole. The energy required to move the gravity rings was equivalent to the energy required to deflect the particle beams.

Due to the gravity of the particle beams, the protons of the gravity rings were tightly bound together. Moving such an object that reached neutron star density was no easy task.

Therefore, the turning capability of faster-than-light organisms was a big problem.

In the case of immobile megastructure organisms like the Rippling Megastructure, the problem of consumption did not matter much because the consumption could be replenished at any time. However, faster-than-light organisms served as mobile units; if turning a direction required consuming a huge amount of energy, then they needed to carry a massive amount of antimatter.

Otherwise, if they exhausted the antimatter after making a few turns, how could they enter combat?

Fortunately, the problem could be solved, which was similarly utilizing negative matter for deflection. By releasing the negative matter generated on one side of the forward gravity rings, when the repulsive force lost balance, the faster-than-light organism could achieve a turn.

Moreover, the energy consumed was very small. After all, producing the negative matter did not require the faster-than-light organism to invest energy, so it only needed to consume the energy of switching the valves.

Then there was the structural ring at the back for storing negative matter. As the negative matter increased, the repulsive force would strengthen.