Wandering Meteor-Chapter 131: Fairy Descends to Earth

When the Light Synthesis Civilization joined the Wandering Alliance and the matter was settled.

Lu Chen of Constant Star then focused on utilizing the Constant Star Propeller to accelerate towards the edge of the Galaxy Nebula.

During the upcoming escape journey, the entire Wandering Alliance was destined to be extremely busy.

On a macro level, Lu Chen from Constant Star needed to continuously use the Constant Star Propeller to accelerate, bringing the Wandering Star System back to half the speed of light; the Wandering, whose planetary mass had grown to 102, had to revolve around the periphery for protection.

On a micro level, the Light Synthesis Civilization had just joined the Wandering Alliance, and Earth Civilization still had to collaborate with the Light Synthesis Civilization to build their dwelling place. Fortunately, the population of Earth Civilization was not too high currently, only over four billion, a number far less than its peak, and accommodating seventy million Light Synthesis People wasn’t much of an issue.

Actually, Lu Chen initially wanted the Light Synthesis Civilization to settle on Green Star.

Unfortunately, since Green Star was not yet part of the life community, if one day Green Star decided to leave, the Light Synthesis Civilization would have to change their residence again, which would be quite troublesome. Therefore, before finalizing, the Light Synthesis People could only temporarily reside on Earth.

Moreover, there are quite a few benefits for the Light Synthesis Civilization to reside on Earth.

After all, with the living conditions of the Light Synthesis People, they not only don’t need food but also breakdown the carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere, making Earth’s ecological environment even better.

Though entering the nuclear era had significantly reduced pollution on Earth and cut down a lot of carbon dioxide emissions, some were always present. Now with the assistance of the Light Synthesis People in breaking down carbon dioxide, it actually saved Earth Civilization some maintenance costs.

This was also one of the reasons Earth Civilization agreed on their inclusion, sympathy and rescue being just superficial reasons, whereas real benefits were the main factor.

Besides the coexistence issues of the two civilizations, the most important thing now was to escape from the Galaxy Nebula and avoid the collision crisis of the giant nebula. Hence, under Lu Chen’s request, the science team within Wandering Base was continuously monitoring the situation of the two giant nebulas, constantly correcting previously calculated data to assist Lu Chen in leading the Wandering Alliance to escape the Galaxy Nebula more swiftly.

However, the escape route was now confirmed, with the remaining improvement being in escape velocity. Earth Civilization had always been contemplating whether it could accelerate the Wandering Alliance to the speed of light.

To verify this, Earth Civilization had simulated countless times using calculations. Unfortunately, because of the existence of mass, any objects that possess mass could not exceed the speed of light through acceleration.

This seemed to be a universal rule; though the specific reason remains unknown, given the lack of dense atmosphere in space, generally not causing deceleration, theoretically, as long as continuous acceleration is provided, matter should keep accelerating until reaching the speed of light, or even surpassing it.

Unfortunately, the actual situation doesn’t align with the theoretical speculation.

For example, large mass objects like the Wandering Star System and Cosmic Battleships, no matter how they accelerate, once they reach half the speed of light, couldn’t increase their speed at all.

Similarly, photons no matter how they are accelerated, can’t exceed the speed of light.

Thus, the scientists within Earth Civilization speculate that limits to the velocity of matter may not only involve the Four Basic Forces but also the distortion of space caused by mass.

In other words, higher speed and larger mass are merely superficial phenomena; in reality, it’s the distortion of space caused by mass. When an object with mass moves, the space distortion caused by the object also moves, resulting in resistance from space, thus limiting the maximum speed.

This speculation also explains why only basic particles like photons, which can reach the speed of light, are unable to surpass it.

Because the rest mass of a photon is zero, its moving mass is very small, having minimal influence on cosmic space, thus this type of lightest particle’s limit speed can reach the speed of light.

Naturally, any particle that is heavier than the photon and other basic particles certainly cannot reach the speed of light.

If one wishes to attain, or even surpass, the speed of light, then surely it cannot be achieved through propulsion acceleration.

After all, countless theories in dynamics have already proven that the speed of light is unsurpassable; one must use other methods (non-dynamic technologies) to exceed it.

The reason for such certainty is that in the Universe, no superluminal matter has ever been observed, although some superluminal phenomena do exist.

But those are achieved through special means, none of which are achieved through propulsive acceleration.

Such as the mysterious quantum entanglement phenomenon, or the unknown cosmic expansion speed (exceeding light speed).

Even theoretically feasible technologies like curvature engines and wormhole technology are not within the realm of dynamics, but rather that of spatial studies.

This also indirectly indicates that space is one of the factors limiting speed, only by resolving space factors can one exceed the speed of light.

If Wandering Alliance wishes to reach, or even exceed, the speed of light, it currently can only place its hopes on the team that is working on the space energy project.

Unfortunately, from what has been reported back by the project team, it seems that day is still far off; currently, they can only escape Galaxy Nebula at the extreme speed of half the speed of light.

The escape plan is an immensely lengthy process.

In a brief moment at the macro level, countless changes occur at the micro level, like seas turning into mulberry fields.

After wandering for 231 years, Earth Civilization, with the help of the genetics of Light Synthesis People, enhanced life extension technology once again, elevating the lifespan of Earth People to 1,000 years. The two civilizations have fully integrated into a unified society, with interactions reliant on language wave translation headsets. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com

After wandering for 1,100 years, Professor Yang Wenye, who had devoted his life at the Wandering Base, handed over the position of Head of the Space Energy Project to the younger generation due to old age, and started to enjoy his last romantic moments with his wife Wan Liqi. They planned to first travel around Earth, then the Wandering Star System, and finally end their lives in outer space.

After 2,000 years of wandering, the Wandering Star System continued flying at half the speed of light and was very close to the border of Galaxy Nebula.

After wandering for 3,940 years, the Wandering Star System finally reached the border of Galaxy Nebula at half the speed of light. Due to both giant nebulas being very close to each other, people on Earth could directly observe the Fairy Nebula in the starry sky opposite with their bare eyes.

It was an incredibly vast giant nebula, with rays emitting outward from the center of the nebula, mingling with scattered light from constant stars within, together forming a dazzling, bright, and spectacular disc-shaped sea of stars.

Because the light was so intense, even under the glaring sun, one could clearly see a disc-shaped sea of stars stretched across the heavens above Constant Star Lu Chen and within the Universe, as if about to pour downward.

The sight of the Fairy Nebula was like a real fairy descending to Earth, overwhelmingly radiant, making any other starlight pale in comparison; the normally visible stars in the deep night were now all subdued by the light of the Fairy Nebula, making the night on Earth seem like twilight.

When seeing this scene with the naked eye, every Earth Person and Light Synthesis Person knew that the most critical moment had arrived.

Feeling the oppression of the Fairy Nebula, they couldn’t help but become nervous and uneasy.

From the current distance, the two giant nebulas were essentially close together; the collision of the giant nebulas had indeed occurred. Whether they could successfully escape the Galaxy Nebula and avoid the devastation of the stellar winds during the collision of the giant nebulas depended entirely on the Sun Dad of the Central Constant Star!