From ancient times to the present, human beings have always had unlimited fantasies about the universe and want to explore the universe, and now human beings have finally mastered the ability to explore, but they still know very little about the universe, and even the solar system is difficult to fly out. Although today's technology is advanced enough for us, if we want to truly explore the universe, we must master more advanced technology, and the first thing to do is to increase the speed of flight. It is precisely because the speed of flight is so slow that it is impossible to explore the vast universe, but if the speed of flight can be increased to the speed of light, then everything may be possible.
But nowadays, it is not easy for humans to do even the speed of sound, and it is possible to increase the speed of spaceships to the speed of light? Musk, who has always been keen to challenge the impossible, recently unveiled a major plan to work with NASA to develop a light-speed engine. How fast is the lightspeed engine? It can fly at 99% the speed of light without using any fuel, and it can reach Mars in 13 minutes and the moon in 1.3 seconds. Now Musk's SpaceX and NASA have begun research, but the speed of light engine is challenging the laws of physics, and in the eyes of the outside world, the failure rate will reach 99%.
The speed of light is the fastest known speed in the universe, reaching a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, and with our current technology, not to mention achieving the speed of light, even one-tenth of the speed of light cannot be achieved. In addition, Einstein once said that all massive objects cannot reach the speed of light, can only be infinitely close to the speed of light, but even if it is close to the speed of light, it is a huge breakthrough for human beings. Therefore, Musk and NASA believe that even if it is only a 1% success rate, it is worth trying, not to mention that if it is really successfully developed, the US space advantage will continue to lead.
Not only that, but it can also make human understanding of the universe to a higher level, and human civilization has the opportunity to usher in another continuation, of course, it may also be destruction. So can Musk's lightspeed engine really be achieved? In fact, it is possible to increase the speed of flight to infinity close to the speed of light, but it will take a long time, and decades may be hundreds of years. Musk and NASA can make up their minds to develop it now, and to some extent they are already ahead of the world, but if they can't develop new technologies, the earliest start of research and development may not be the first to achieve.
In addition, after the realization of the light speed engine, it is not necessarily possible to explore the universe freely, because human beings cannot adapt to the environment of other planets, so in addition to the speed problem, human beings want to go out of the earth and out of the solar system, and they also need to master more advanced technology. And this means that for hundreds of years to come, human beings will have to stay on Earth, but this is actually nothing, considering the vastness of the universe and the laws of the dark forest, stepping out of the universe is not necessarily a good thing.
(Text/Xi Le)