Each explanation of the technology left the academicians in awe. While they could understand and accept the technology of four-dimensional networks, the theories of Basic Space and Basic Energy were simply astonishing and unbelievable. However, when Academician Liu demonstrated how to transform a huge block of iron with decent purity into an energy ball smaller than a sesame seed, the academicians were finally convinced.
Academician Zeng's string of technological achievements left Gao Zhengyang blushing. Compared to these technologies, he indeed had nothing to offer. However, Academician Zeng didn't care about his old friend, who had cried his heart out when they first met but had now returned to normal. This time, he finally managed to suppress the guy.
Back in Earth's era, the two were not only best friends and classmates, but also fiercest rivals. Outside of academics, they were so close they could share a pair of pants. Academician Zeng was born in a rural area and his family was not well-off. Gao Zhengyang had helped Academician Zeng a lot. However, when it came to academics, the two immediately became rivals, each wanting to outdo the other.
Unfortunately, Gao Zhengyang was the kind of person who came from a good family, was good-looking, and was also smart. Whether it was during their school days or after they both entered the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gao Zhengyang was always slightly better than Academician Zeng. But now the situation has reversed. The old grudge of a thousand years has finally been avenged. Looking at Academician Gao Gao's face, which was flushed red, Academician Zeng was overjoyed.
However, Academician Zeng is not young anymore. He was happy for a moment but did not show it too obviously. After all, there were many other academicians present who had already worked very hard, and Academician Zeng did not want to embarrass them.
Academician Liu took over from Academician Zeng's detailed explanation of Basic Space and Basic Energy, as well as the concept of Perfect Structure. Academician Liu's explanation was clear, logical, well-structured, and well-organized, which made everyone nod in agreement and occasionally exclaim in admiration.
However, these explanations and exchanges are only the most basic ones, and the purpose is to help everyone understand and accept the concept. It will take some time for everyone to get to the application stage.
It took Academician Zeng and Academician Liu more than four hours to explain the basic theories of these few things. They were so tired and their throats were parched that the staff brought them lunch. After they finished eating, they continued talking.
"Thank you all for sharing your knowledge so generously. Please accept my deepest bow." After saying this, Gao Zhengyang Gao Zhengyang deeply.
" Old Gao, why are you doing this?"
"No, it's absolutely necessary. This is all your hard work, and now you've taught it to us without reservation. Even from the perspective of answering your questions, I should bow to you. These things have troubled us for many years, and today I finally have the answers. I guess I've gotten a bargain. Unfortunately, Gao Zhengyang abilities are limited, and I haven't produced any useful results over the years. The only thing I can offer is our communication methods. Although you no longer need them, I think you can continue to research them. Perhaps you can find a method for spatial teleportation within them."
"What, spatial teleportation?"
"Yes."
"Speak quickly, speak quickly, don't waste time bowing."
"Stop pretending. I know you're about to burst out laughing right now, aren't you? Don't tell me you aren't."
"No, no, absolutely not," Academician Zeng said, feigning seriousness.
"No? I know every single hair on your body. Fine, go ahead and laugh. I'll take this round as a loss. I've won so many times already, losing once is no big deal."
"Okay, you guessed right. Now just tell me."
"I'm not doing this because of you, but because of the other academicians. Otherwise, I'd suffocate you."
"Fine, fine, fine, who cares about whose face? As long as you say it, I don't care if I lose face."
"This is a phenomenon we discovered by chance. I believe we've all experienced the failure of quantum communication during warp drive. For a long time, we could only communicate using electromagnetic waves. Then, by chance, we discovered that when two stars in a binary star system were transmitting signals using electromagnetic waves, the signal transmission time was 0.001 seconds shorter than expected. If it weren't for good luck, no one would have bothered to check this signal transmission time."
"We immediately investigated this phenomenon. The distance hadn't decreased, but the time had. When either the receiver or the transmitter moved away from the star's vicinity, the time shortened by 0.0005 seconds. If both the signal source and the receiver moved away from the star's vicinity simultaneously, the electromagnetic wave transmission time returned to normal."
"Is that so? We've been in the binary star system before, how come we didn't notice it?" Academician Zeng asked.
"That's why I said we were lucky. Do you guys ever measure the exact distance between two celestial bodies when you have nothing else to do? There's no need for that at all. We immediately realized that it was because of the influence of the two stars on the surrounding space. The rotation of the stars caused space to move, so the electromagnetic waves in space were also accelerated."
"Wait a minute, Old Gao, if that's the case, the acceleration of spatial motion, which in turn accelerates electromagnetic waves in space, wouldn't that mean we've already achieved faster-than-light speeds in such a space?"
"What's so strange about that? Space is the carrier of all matter. If space accelerates, it will naturally accelerate any matter or energy within that space. Stop interrupting me and affecting my train of thought."
"Okay, okay, you can continue. Hehe."
"At the time, we were struggling with communication problems. When we discovered this phenomenon, we immediately improved the warp drive. We used several warp drives to distort a spherical space to an extreme degree and placed a signal inside. Then, we inserted a small hole in the center of the sphere created by the warp drive to allow the signal to propagate out. We tested the signal propagation speed from the outside, and as expected, the signal transmission exceeded the speed of light."
"What's the use? Signals transmitted in this kind of space would definitely become very chaotic, making it impossible to use as a carrier to transmit information," Academician Zeng interrupted again.
"Shut up. You say it can't be done, but we did it anyway. We discovered that regularly warped space doesn't affect signal transmission. In other words, what you call increasing space density is fine as long as the space density is balanced. We spent a lot of time improving the warp engine. Calling it a warp engine is no longer appropriate; we call it a space compressor. The space compressor compresses space and then sends it out through a small hole, like a syringe. That's how the signal was transmitted faster than the speed of light."
"However, our method has many limitations. First, the compressor needs to be very large, so we built a special communication ship for this purpose. Second, long-distance transmission requires directional launch. Third, the communication distance is still very limited, and the delay is significant. The maximum signal transmission speed is a thousand times the speed of light, the same as the spacecraft's travel speed, which cannot be exceeded. Fourth, the signal error rate is also very high, especially when performing warp drive. We have to send each message at least ten or twenty times in succession before the other party's computer can decipher it."
"Electromagnetic waves travel through space, much like a car traveling at high speed on a highway. However, in this transmission method, it's not the car that's moving, but the entire highway, and the highway's speed is a thousand times that of the car."