Chapter 48: The Ultra-Quiet Space Quantum Research Base on the Far Side of Deep Space

In June 2112, in the Martian Era: Summer.

As Dongjun City in the northern hemisphere of Mars, this year's summer is colder than last year's winter.

It seems that the first-generation Martian immigrants living in the low-gravity environment have a relatively high average lifespan.

According to the research results on the average lifespan of the first-generation Martian immigrants, people who grow up in a high-gravity environment and live in a low-gravity environment can significantly increase their average lifespan.

Song Han has provided important contributions to this research, by being the subject of the research.

"So you're also inviting me to join your research laboratory?"

After pondering for a long time, when it almost made people fall asleep, Song Han slowly asked:

"Asking a retired sports practitioner like me to join your deep space laboratory?"

"By the way, what exactly does your laboratory research?

Is it legitimate?"

"Well, it's a bit complicated to explain."

The person who came pondered for a while, as if organizing his words to try his best to make this 120-year-old man, who is the longest-lived person on Mars, a founding builder of Dongjun City on Mars, a retired director of the Sports Development Bureau, and an honorary member of the Mars Management Committee of Dongjun City, understand what he was saying.

"After nearly a hundred years of development, the quantum discipline has now expanded in a very broad direction.

And the development of general-purpose quantum computers in recent years has further stimulated the in-depth expansion of the microscopic quantum discipline.

This has caused many subdivided microscopic quantum fields that we have developed over more than 100 years to overlap to varying degrees.

For example, in the currently popular quantum mechanics, quantum biology, and quantum communication, there is an intersection in the study of quantum entanglement and the origin of consciousness."

Song Han nodded as if he suddenly understood, but he didn't understand a single word.

"It seems that I can't help you with any of these things you mentioned."

"You're being too modest. As long as you are willing to join us, it will be the greatest help to us."

Hearing this, Song Han stared blankly into the clear eyes of the person in front of him. Combining with his past experience of being studied, it took him a long time to realize.

This person also wants to take him there to be studied!

"Where is your laboratory?"

"Pluto."

"That's so far away!"

The person asked cautiously:

"The universe is so vast. Don't you want to go and have a look, Mr. Song?"

Hearing this, Song Han looked at the person in surprise. After a long time, he retracted his gaze and began to look around his small room.

In a moment of stillness that made him long for movement, he really wanted to go out and take a walk. After all, if he didn't go now, he would never be able to do so in his lifetime.

"When are we leaving?"

"As long as you're ready, we can leave at any time!"

"Then let's go!"

...

"In 2053, when the National Quantum Information and Quantum Technology Laboratory was conducting research on ultra-long-distance quantum communication, it was found that when the ultra-large quantum entanglement communication device was activated, the staff within a hundred meters around the experimental device all experienced varying degrees of 'déjà vu'. "

Song Han blinked his cloudy and confused eyes at the other person.

Confirming the clarity of the eyes, which was just like when he gave lectures to his subordinate research workers, Fang Mingyu quickly explained:

"It means that they suddenly felt as if they had experienced the scene in front of them before. This phenomenon is collectively referred to as 'déjà vu' in the scientific community."

Song Han nodded expressionlessly, indicating for the other person to continue.

This was the secret to his years of stable leadership on Mars.

Seriously and earnestly pretending not to understand.

"According to the latest scientific research, the occurrence of this phenomenon has many complex reasons.

Our brain has a memory cache area. When you see something or encounter something, the memory is first stored in the cache area.

If the cache overflows in a person, causing subconscious conflicts, and the fictional scenarios in the human brain will also give rise to corresponding feelings.

It's just that this time the 'déjà vu' occurred too regularly, so regularly that these several reasons can basically be excluded.

Later, Professor Wenhua put forward a hypothesis: a disorder in time and space.

Under the framework of the unity of time and space, in our world, exceeding the speed of light is equivalent to surpassing the underlying physical rules that we currently know, which means entering a world that is difficult for humans to understand.

From the perspective of the light cone in Einstein's general theory of relativity, there are many time and spaces in this world, and each time and space operates according to general laws. They are parallel and generally do not intersect, just with a sequence in time."

Hearing this, Song Han suddenly understood.

"Everything within the light cone is fate."

Fang Mingyu savored Song Han's words. The more he savored them, the more he felt that this sentence concisely and appropriately summarized the concept of the light cone.

Song Han continued to nod enigmatically and didn't explain anything.

After all, there are so many new science fiction literary works coming out every year. Except for these old guys like them, who would bother to read the science fiction works from a hundred years ago?

He glanced at Song Han in surprise and continued:

"But there are also exceptional cases, where time and space intersect!

Quantum entanglement communication itself exceeds the limit of the speed of light, which is equivalent to opening a super information transmission channel.

This gives the human thinking information around the communication base station the opportunity to entangle with the thinking information outside their own dimension.

Based on this, Professor Wenhua speculated that the essential connection between quantum entanglement may be a super-dimensional connection beyond our current time and space dimension."

By the time Fang Mingyu finished introducing the origin of this research project, their group had also reached the boarding gate of the space elevator.

Inside the spacious elevator, a closed metal cabinet beside them was particularly eye-catching.

"Wow! You've already prepared my coffin so quickly!"

"Mr. Song, you're just joking!"

The person accompanying him turned pale with embarrassment upon hearing this. After all, the old man in front of him could be said to be a banner of Mars. He quickly explained:

"This is a specially made balanced load negative pressure chamber. It's mainly because we considered that your age might make it difficult for you to resist the load brought by the space elevator, so we specially had someone prepare it."

Song Han chuckled, waved his hand, and lay down in it:

"You young man, you can't even take a joke. I lie in this thing once a year when I go to the simulated high-gravity fitness square in the low Earth orbit to exercise."

When the group flew out of the elevator and took the shuttle orbital vehicle towards the spaceship berth, Song Han looked at the huge spaceship full of a sci-fi style at the berth and sighed:

"After decades, this interstellar spaceship finally has that feel!"

"This is our latest generation of the Milky Way manned series spaceship. It is equipped with an experimental heavy matter decay engine, a large-thrust electric propulsion engine, and sixteen attitude adjustment engines. After continuous acceleration, it can reach a maximum speed of five-thousandths of the speed of light!"

"So how long will it take us to fly to Pluto?"

"Three months! Mainly, the initial acceleration and the application for the flight path are more troublesome. Now the southern hemisphere of Mars is in a period of war. But it will be better once we get out of the gravitational flight path of Mars!"

"Is that three months in Martian time or Earth time?"

"Uh, Martian time!"

Song Han sighed: "It's too slow! When will we be able to travel faster than the speed of light like in science fiction novels?"

Fang Mingyu explained:

"The cross-space quantum information network has just emerged, and cross-space movement is still completely out of the question.

Actually, three months is already very fast. After all, for most of the acceleration time, we have to be in the hibernation chamber for forced hibernation to resist the acceleration. The actual feeling is only about a little over a month."

Hearing this, Song Han turned his head to look at the other person's youthful face and shook his head helplessly:

"You don't understand!"

Four months later in Earth time.

"Mr. Song! Welcome to Charon, the National Quantum Information and the Origin of Life Research Institute: the Ultra-Quiet Space Quantum Research Base on the Far Side of Deep Space."