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Chapter 482 - 302: Rushing to the Moon and Extraterrestrial Anchor Points

Chapter 482: Chapter 302: Rushing to the Moon and Extraterrestrial Anchor Points

Chen Yun had ascended into space that day.

Around the globe, top leaders from powerful countries had entered a state of emergency preparation; some even initiated a certain level of combat readiness.

After all, when an object the size of a person could maintain supersonic speeds ten times over, make sharp turns, and stop abruptly at high velocities,

that object then became truth.

A reality suspended over everyone’s head like the Sword of Damocles.

It was utterly unstoppable.

Meaning, even if it had no firepower, strapping a nuclear warhead to it instantly turned it into a strategic weapon capable of striking anywhere directed.

As this object ascended from deep within Hua Country,

as it performed fancy maneuvers in the atmosphere at high speeds,

every capable nation that detected this scene immediately experienced an intellectual climax, their hearts instinctively quivering with the movements of the object.

They all feared that Hua Country was going to flip the table.

The terror they felt was akin to hearing that India was launching missiles.

Who knew where this object was headed?

Was it merely a test? Or was it intended to destroy someone’s satellite? Or could it change course in space and head directly towards a location on Earth?

These questions remained unclear.

Hua Country itself was in the same boat.

Though other countries made peace inquiries, which bombarded their communication lines, the fact was they were equally bewildered.

Even if they hadn’t shown it publicly.

In reality, the shock and confusion were absolutely substantial.

Apart from dispatching numerous reconnaissance teams to the projected launch site, they also deployed a plethora of lasers, smoke, and electromagnetic disturbances to prevent other nations from viewing specific details via satellites.

However, in the midst of confusion and fear from Hua Country and many others,

Chen Yun, as the instigator, was solely focused on heading towards the Moon.

He was unaware of everything happening on Earth.

Or more precisely, he wasn’t concerned about the events transpiring on Earth.

When he decided to shoot into the sky, he naturally understood he would attract attention.

But that was unimportant.

Just as humans don’t concern themselves with the thoughts of insects.

Chen Yun’s attention, in fact, was more concentrated on the increasingly close Moon.

With his current abilities,

Spiritual Position allowed him to quickly accelerate to around ten times the speed of sound, and due to the absence of resistance, he could keep accelerating, ultimately maintaining roughly ten times the speed of sound due to factors like air resistance being non-existent.

Therefore, the time taken to reach the Moon did not expend over thirty hours, since that was the theoretical time required at a constant speed of ten times the speed of sound.

Under continuous acceleration in the vacuum of space,

he reached even greater speeds, finally taking about only eight hours.

In a vacuum, an object not acted upon by an external force will either move at a constant velocity in a straight line or remain at rest.

Chen Yun’s consistently applied force created an acceleration, allowing him to continue accelerating in the resistance-free cosmos.

So, theoretically, Chen Yun’s speed in space wasn’t merely ten times the speed of sound.

It seemed he could undertake the interstellar travel he had previously abandoned?

However, this was still theoretical.

Having spent eight hours arriving near the Moon, Chen Yun realized that the continuous acceleration process under Spiritual Position had a progression.

It wasn’t about suddenly reaching a certain speed,

but rather about continuously increasing speed under the acceleration boost provided by Spiritual Position, a process that also significantly consumed time.

Another important point was,

such continuous acceleration seemed limitless, but in reality, it could only reach up to the speed of light, and accelerating to the speed of light would take a very long time.

And most critically,

the speed of light is the fastest possible speed, theoretically impossible to surpass.

Yet even at this maximum speed of light,

it was still far from sufficient for interstellar travel.

In the Universe, even light needs a prolonged period to traverse certain regions.

For Chen Yun to start interstellar travel, he would need to exceed the speed of light, or possess space technology.

With these thoughts,

Chen Yun entered the Moon’s gravitational field.

Normally, according to Newton’s law of universal gravitation, every object exerts gravitational force on all other objects around it, this influence theoretically being infinite.

However, this influence decreases rapidly with increasing distance.

Thus, at a certain point on the straight line between Earth and the Moon, the gravitational forces from the Moon and Earth cancel each other out. This point is known as the L1 point in the Lagrange Points.

At this point, the gravitational forces of the Moon and Earth on an object are in balance, hence it can be said that their gravitational effects are equal at this point.

This point is roughly 4,700 kilometers from the Moon.

What Chen Yun referred to as entering the Moon’s gravitational field meant that he had crossed the Lagrange Point L1, and the gravitational effect exerted by the Moon had officially surpassed that of Earth behind him.

However, this does not imply that the Moon’s gravitational influence is confined to just this distance.

In reality,

the gravitational influence of the Moon extends far beyond this.

For example, the tidal effects of the Moon on Earth are global, meaning that even on the opposite side of Earth, the Moon can still cause tidal phenomena through its gravity.

After Chen Yun crossed the Lagrange Point L1,

the Moon could be said to be within arm’s reach.

After all, with only a little over four thousand kilometers left, compared to the total journey of over three hundred thousand kilometers, he was practically upon the Moon’s surface.