11 Rolands Public Lecture Part 2 (1/2)

Professor Newton was silently contemplating the shocking statements of the Immortal King in the midst of all the uproar and chattering.

He was a governmental retiree and a current senior academician in the Royal Neverwinter Academy. His lectures were highly sought after while he himself remained humble and sagely; garnering a popular following between the young scholars of the empire. He was even more popular than the current superstars in the entertainment industry.

What he was proud and valued most, was his family name.

It was coincidentally similar to the Newtonian mechanics introduced by the Immortal King 3000 years ago. A lot of information under the Newton series disseminated in the Physics' textbooks had made his family very popular for generations. In addition, through the efforts of his ancestors, his family had contributed greatly to the advancement of academics' study of many fields and thus established themselves as distinguished scholars and academicians.

This morning when he was having his routine morning tea, the Roseberry tea leaf inside his mug floated vertically.

He knew something good might happen today. It has been a series of bad news for months; Newton was having a heartache every day when he read the Graycastle Electronic Bulletin daily on his old dusty gray contactor. He was one of the few people who rejected the implantation of the Neural Connector, saying he's too old for it already. Nobody forced him since he had just retired from his governmental position at that time.

During noon, he got a message from his old colleague through his faithful contactor. The Immortal King himself was going to give a lecture!

He immediately cancelled his class which was scheduled after lunch and even made an announcement telling his students about the upcoming public lecture.

Good things should be shared.

A panicked student sitting beside him asked in a whisper, ”Are we going to die Prof?!”

”Hush, little one. Let's listen first. The Immortal King never betrays our expectations.” He patted the little girl's head. She was the genius girl who topped his class for two years consecutively.

He concentrated and focused on Roland's voice.

The immortal king's voice reverberated again after everyone has calmed down and refocused on him. ”We have two options that we can consider.” He raised two fingers, showing a 'peace' sign.

”First option; a mass fleet of space carriers carrying everyone inside.”

”These carriers speed must be able to exceed the speed-of-light to make the journey possible within our lifetime. The carriers' body or more accurately the surrounding forcefield must be strong enough to withstand bombardment from space particles such as debris, asteroids and such, while maintaining the high velocity. It must move out of the sun's explosion range before the 50 years was up. Currently, we don't have the technology to make a spaceship with this speed and capabilities because this is an unexplored region.”

”To achieve this, I have come up with a theoretical calculation that might make it possible. Let's call it the Alcubierre Warp Drive, or simply a Warp Drive.” Newton saw his idol smiled bashfully and was curious why.

[Is this Alcubierre Warp Drive spoken by His Majesty got some problems maybe?] Newton pondered.

Truthfully, he was someone who was very interested with what's beyond their home planet and had derived several postulates based on his long-term understanding of physics.

Newton saw the immortal king passing a tablet-like device to their crown princess, Princess Linneia, and asked her to project the information for all the audience to see. It was scribbled with strings of mathematical formula, the main Alcubierre metric and its modified derivatives.

Seeing the string of formula, Newton's hand trembled! He closed his fingers into a fist.

”Prof?! Are you alright?!” The lovely girl beside Newton realized something was wrong with their class' favorite lecturer. Deep down she was worried this old professor might got a heart attack under her care. She was beginning to panic again.

Newton ignored her and stared at the projected formula with seriousness while contemplating something.

[This is the completed version of my postulates! Fascinating! I never know it could be derived this way!] Newton was getting more and more excited.

”The Warp drive utilized negative energy to contract the space in front the spaceship while expanding the space behind simultaneously. The region moves along while carrying the spaceship as the spaceship stays in a normal region within the region. This region will be generated by White's warp ring in the shape of a torus.”

The immortal king gestured to Princess Linneia to switch the diagram to how a warp-bubble evolved into a warp-ring reduced the energy needed to be powered with new sets of equations as accompaniment.

”Some of you might notice from these equations, their questionable relevancy. I will tell you the truth. The equation present here was merely theoretical. There will be a lot of problems arises from them. It will be up to you to verify and make it possible.”