Chapter 731 (1/2)

Although it is impossible to accelerate faster than the speed of light directly, some ingenious means can be used to bypass the limitation of relativity, so as to achieve the purpose of exceeding the speed of light.

That's how the curvature engine was created, and it's also a device to fly faster than light.

A spaceship with a curvature engine can travel faster than light in space.

Although this seems to violate relativity, it is a technology that can be implemented.

In fact, the curvature engine does not violate the theory of relativity, because it is achieved by means of side effect.

Curvature engine may sound very tall, but the truth is very simple.

The space of the whole universe is not flat, but full of all kinds of folds. The size of these folds is curvature.

When the curvature is zero, the space is completely flat, and the greater the curvature, the bigger the wrinkles.

Curvature engine is a kind of technology that uses space folds to drive spacecraft.

If we can change the curvature of space, we can increase the wrinkles in the space, which is equivalent to shortening the distance between two points.

Draw two points on a piece of white paper. The nearest distance is not a straight line between the two points. Instead, fold the white paper directly and let the two points touch each other directly.

Although curvature engine can not make two points coincide, it can greatly shorten the distance between two points.

So the curvature engine is not really beyond the speed of light, but it folds up the space and shortens the distance in the middle.

To put it bluntly, the curvature engine does not increase the speed of the spacecraft, but shortens the space in which the spacecraft is located.

If a spaceship needs to reach a light-year away, but its speed is only half the speed of light, it will take two years to reach its destination.

But when the spacecraft started its curvature engine, the wrinkles in space quadrupled.

Originally, a light-year journey for a spaceship has become a quarter of a light-year distance.

In this way, it only takes half a year for the spacecraft to reach its destination a light year away.

All in all, the spacecraft's speed exceeds the speed of light, reaching twice the speed of light.

In fact, it's not that the speed of the spaceship is getting faster, it's still half the speed of light, but the distance is shortened to one fourth of the original, which makes the overall speed four times faster.

The curvature engine actually shortens the distance in space so that the spacecraft can travel faster than light.

The curvature engine is a device that increases the space wrinkle by changing the curvature, and finally increases the speed of the spacecraft.

So the curvature engine doesn't violate relativity, it just bypasses the limitations of relativity.

Of course, curvature engines can do more than that. Quadrupling the speed is not the limit of curvature engines.

The better the curvature of the engine, the bigger the space wrinkles will be, and the more speed the spacecraft will eventually increase.

Super civilizations that can span the entire universe have very advanced curvature engines.