Deep Space Wandering Fleet
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Chapter 312: Chapter 311 Super Graviton Cannon Chapter 312: Chapter 311 Super Graviton Cannon As the appointed time arrived and all the preparations were complete, “The Kunlun Mountain” suddenly fired a small electromagnetic gun. The projectile, flashing with a blue light, surged forward… Upon reaching its predetermined location, it gently exploded like a firefly.

The scientific name for this electromagnetic gun is “Super Graviton Cannon,” which sounds very cool, but in reality, aside from its kinetic energy, it doesn’t have much offensive power.

It was also incredibly expensive to produce. The projectile was made of low-temperature condensed states and certain special subatomic particles, capable of mimicking the superfluid phenomenon in condensed state physics, creating a kind of graviton superfluid, and achieving local gravity shortcuts.

This gravity shortcut caused the originally balanced cosmic strings to vibrate slightly.

Following that, the gravity inherent in the cosmic strings themselves was reawakened!

At that moment, a very strange gravitational field was generated!

The Kunlun Mountain itself and the surrounding ships attached to it, like kites with their strings cut, were all sucked toward the sudden great gravity ahead, beginning to accelerate wildly.

All the crew were tense as the various parameters on the screens changed continuously, and the closer they got to the gravitational node, the faster the spaceship accelerated.

Even though this type of exercise had been tried countless times in the past few years and theoretically shouldn’t be problematic, everyone still couldn’t help feeling a bit anxious.

“Report, Captain, the gravitational wave variation is at 1.4% from the expected value, within an acceptable range!”

“The difference in gravity between the bow and the stern of The Kunlun Mountain is growing, currently at 60,909.3 Newtons! All parameters normal, all components online!”

Zhang Yuan, seated in the Captain’s Room, spoke loudly, “Constantly monitor the spaceship’s course, maintain the correct direction.”

“Be aware of any asteroids that may be drawn towards us.”

“The current acceleration of the spaceship is 199.8 meters per square second, continuously increasing… 200, 201, 202…”

“First gravitational acceleration, estimated countdown…”

“10, 9, 8, 7…”

If someone was unaware, it would be very strange to them that under such intense acceleration, the people inside the spaceship weren’t feeling much, nor were they crushed.

Even trained astronauts could only withstand about 10 Gs of acceleration, and now there was at least 20 Gs!

Nevertheless, everything was still in the same state as usual… The non-living areas remained in a state of weightlessness, and the people inside the living areas were living normally without any sensation.

This is because this phenomenon is quite similar to free falling.

Gravity is a macroscopic force, uniformly acting on every atom in a spaceship or human body, so if there were no reactive forces, humans would hardly feel the effects of gravity.

Einstein had this thought experiment when he proposed the theory of special relativity.

What would happen if a person fell from a high place?

Ignoring air resistance, a person’s inertial mass and gravitational mass would offset each other, making the person feel utterly weightless, as if gravity did not exist at all. Such accelerated falling is not much different from a state of zero gravity.

A zero-gravity environment is precisely the playground of special relativity, elevating the equivalence of inertial mass and gravitational mass as a fundamental principle, which then led to the birth of special relativity.

Thus, using gravitational acceleration, even under such high overloads, The Kunlun Mountain wouldn’t exhibit noticeable elastic deformation, and the passengers wouldn’t feel much, showcasing its true superiority!

Otherwise, if propulsion through engines were used, even though they could achieve an acceleration of 200 meters per square second, it would have already turned The Kunlun Mountain into a pile of space debris!

“3, 2, 1, 0!”

With the countdown complete, suddenly, the gravitational source once again went quiet, and all the spaceship’s overload instantly disappeared.

Yet the disappearance of acceleration didn’t mean the disappearance of kinetic energy; the speed had already increased from the original 25 kilometers per second to 40 kilometers per second!

Almost doubled!

This is the propulsion method using cosmic strings… gravitational acceleration!

A small round of applause broke out in the control room.

Zhang Yuan sighed with relief, glanced at the data on the screen; this acceleration had been very successful, with the current speed of The Kunlun Mountain reaching 41.22 km/s.

If this were in the past, it would have required a massive amount of nuclear fuel for propulsion to reach this speed, but now, it was achieved with just a small projectile.

Even though this projectile was expensive, compared to consuming massive material resources for propulsion, its cost and propulsion efficiency were superior by many magnitudes.

“The cosmic string truly is the high-speed highway of the universe. If one can find it, it can be readily exploited. If not… sigh, especially for those civilizations distant from cosmic strings, one can only say their luck is too poor, including the original Earth. Is this a form of selection…”

He muttered to himself, then spoke out loud, “All fleets, activate the auxiliary engine power system, adjust the formation’s direction, report the operational status of the ships.”

He turned to his assistant and said, “Collect the data from this gravitational acceleration, observe the surrounding environment, if there are no problems, the next gravitational acceleration will start in 15 days.”

“Understood.”

In reality, humans are entirely capable of triggering even greater gravitational fluctuations. Indeed, using cosmic strings to generate gravitational forces akin to those of the Sun also wouldn’t be a problem!

Although it’s only for a fraction of a second…

But invoking such immense gravity would also produce significant risks.

The first is too much acceleration might damage the spaceship. Although gravity would almost uniformly act on every atom, its magnitude decreases with the square of the distance. This means the forces on the bow and the stern of The Kunlun Mountain are different.

If the difference in gravity is too great, it would stretch the spaceship like spaghetti, the same principle that a black hole uses to pull in matter.

The second point, this is within a planet system, although major gravity can quickly increase the spaceship’s speed, it could also disrupt the planet’s own rotation.

Some nearby asteroids might be quickly drawn in, and if they hit the spaceship, it would be more loss than gain.

Moreover, there’s a human base behind, there’s no need to disrupt the normal orbit of the planet with strong gravity.

That’s why so many escort ships are equipped near The Kunlun Mountain, partly to enhance military strength, and partly to forestall any approaching asteroids, even those the size of a fist, which would be detected and melted by laser weapons.

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