I Created Scientific Magic-Chapter 691 - 573: Tearing Apart the Satellite, Gravitational Time Dilation Effect

Chapter 691 -573: Tearing Apart the Satellite, Gravitational Time Dilation Effect

The discussion about the time dilation effect didn’t last long; after all, they would know if it was real or not once they returned.

Following that, Vittorio began experimenting with reducing speed, hovering, turning, drifting, and most critically, testing the weapon system!

That’s right, weapons!

The disc-shaped spacecraft they intercepted was originally equipped with a very powerful weapon system, but most of it was either damaged or had been depleted. The only thing that was still relatively intact was a neutron cluster launcher!

This time, they were going to test its power!

The next moment, the front end of the disc-shaped spacecraft split open to reveal a launch port, from which approximately one hundred thousand fist-sized neutron clusters were ejected, targeting a satellite orbiting the Brown Star!

Its diameter was around one thousand five hundred kilometers. Next to it, the spacecraft was like a grain of sand at the foot of a mountain, and the speeding neutron clusters were even tinier, like specks of dust.

However, these seemingly insignificant neutron clusters exploded with terrifying force, striking the surface of the satellite at nearly one-third the speed of light. In an instant, a fierce wave of energy erupted in the void!

Harrov and the others inside the spacecraft couldn’t hear any sound, but they could see the satellite being torn apart. The one hundred thousand neutron clusters were like one hundred thousand large hydrogen bombs going off simultaneously, and the surface of the planetoid was directly ripped open!

Countless materials erupted from the inside of the planetoid, and with one strike, one-third of the satellite orbiting the Brown Star was blasted away. The remaining part was completely knocked off its orbit and flew into the boundless cosmic void…

“Truly terrifying power,” Vittorio said with a grave expression.

Harrov and the others who had observed the entire process also broke into a cold sweat. Although the mass of this satellite was significantly smaller than that of the Moon, it was still a celestial body, and yet a single strike had ripped a third of it away and knocked it out of orbit.

Lynn, however, wasn’t all that surprised. In interstellar wars, destroying satellites was not a big deal. He guessed this was probably just one of the more conventional attack methods among the weapons aboard the spacecraft; otherwise, just with this kind of attack, defeating the Moon Goddess Diana, who resided in the divine realm, would not be an easy task.

“How about we call it a Scattering Particle Cannon?” Lynn suggested thoughtfully.

This method of attack, relying on intensity and pure impact, reminded him of a weapon concept from science fiction—the “droplet.”

Although the attacks were simple, the ultimate speed was ultimate power. No amount of fancy magic could compare to a punch thrown at the speed of light!

“Return to base, first to the Moon!” Lynn said, glancing at the moon soil on the Alchemy Array, which had shrunk by a full circle.

Vittorio nodded, not continuing with the experiments. The remaining neutron clusters on the spacecraft were only enough for three more uses. Being able to conduct one weapon test was already a luxury.

…

Several hours later, at the Eternal Star, in the Land of Death, a gigantic disc-shaped spacecraft slowly docked on the scarred earth.

With a mass of several hundred thousand tons, even after multiple decelerations, it still caused a high-intensity earthquake when it touched down on the ground.

When they officially stepped out of the airlock into the sunlight and set foot on the ground, all the wizards couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief. Although they had only gone for a round trip around the Brown Star before returning to the Eternal Star, the stillness and darkness of cosmic space were still immensely oppressive and frightening.

The universe was simply too vast; the planets, unimaginably large to their eyes, appeared as mere points of light during flight, invisible from a distance. Moreover, there was no sense of direction or distance out there. Rafael seriously doubted that if the spacecraft veered slightly off course, they would drift forever in endless void.

“It does seem like the time is indeed off,” Harrov said, looking up at the rising Sun.

The round trip took only about six hours and thirty-five minutes according to the spaceship’s clock, but they had departed around ten o’clock at night, and now it was already morning!

The grand wizards waiting nearby at the Land of Death also immediately came around, as there always needed to be someone on the ground to observe the flight,

Yet, a full ten hours had passed on the planet!

“There’s actually a two-fold discrepancy in time…” Vittorio said with a sense of wonder. They had spent quite some time testing weapons on the Brown Star and delaying on the Moon. Removing these factors, during high-speed travel, time flowed at about half the rate compared to the Eternal Star.

Lynn nodded too; this was not beyond his expectation.

Although the Curvature Engine was different from conventional propulsion, affecting distance directly, since time and space were unified, and the essence of time was the motion of matter, any distortion in space also meant a distortion in time.

The gravitational pull of planets causing changes in time and space is the most direct evidence, essentially a natural Curvature Engine, with its ultimate form being the black hole!

This is why Lynn dared to be certain that the Curvature Engine could surpass the speed of light, because the powerful gravitational vortex of a black hole is enough to make even light unable to escape!

Previously, Lynn was not entirely sure, his guess was based on the gravitational time dilation formula from the general theory of relativity, but now the facts have proven that Einstein was undoubtedly correct, and the Curvature Engine also causes a corresponding time dilation.

Or in other words, whether it’s extreme speed or extreme mass, the fundamental reason they can cause time dilation is the distortion of space, and the Curvature Engine directly warps space, thus affecting the movement speed of objects, which is what people commonly refer to as time!

“It looks like our real travel speed is only about a quarter of the speed of light!” Dennis muttered.

This was already a highly exaggerated figure, but after the thrill of reaching half the speed of light before, this speed didn’t seem so dazzling anymore!

Especially since they still had to face an unknown civilization from the cosmic starry sky, in Lynn’s words, the speed of light is just the basic requirement for cosmic travel!

“Relying solely on the energy provided by moon regolith is limited, even with further improvements, at most it could only reach about sixty percent of the speed of light,” Vittorio said thoughtfully, and he had previously checked the fuel reserves, just wandering around like this; they had already used up fifty percent of the ten tons of moon regolith!

Of course, the travel distance had also reached a full two billion kilometers!

Vittorio couldn’t help thinking, if merely a divine body could have such a powerful magic power reserve, what about a divine nature with a higher energy density or even the deities themselves?

Could it possibly allow the spaceship to reach or even break the speed of light!

Lynn was also considering this issue. In the short term, if they wanted to obtain the power to rival a galactic civilization, or at least ensure a certain degree of threat with their weapon systems, they could only rely on sneaky methods, which made the resources of another world extremely important.

After defeating the Master of the Undead, he had a lot of spoils of war that he had not collected, such as the entire alien realm, as well as the planes controlled by the Master of the Undead.

Now he already had a complete plan for establishing the Space-Time Gate, and perhaps he could locate the coordinates of the alien realm through the residual consciousness of the Moon Goddess Diana.

If he could capture Ellara, or even other gods from the other world, to provide power, maybe they could build a real Curvature Spaceship!

However, there was still a long way to go before realizing this dream; they had to wait at least until they had completed the improvements on the spaceship and it was ready for actual combat.

Vittorio didn’t waste a moment. After confirming that the time dilation effect truly existed, he and the group of Alchemists checked the Alchemy Array set up on the outer shell of the spaceship to see if there were any signs of damage.

After this test flight, he had a great many ideas.

Meanwhile, Aurora, Harrov, and Anthony were responsible for researching the spaceship’s weapon systems and replicating the antimatter fusion reactor, preparing to weaponize Lynn’s Antimatter Cannon as another powerful weapon against the gods! free𝑤ebnovel.com

Although the spaceship’s particle cannon was very powerful, with only three shots left, they couldn’t always rely on that, could they?

The production of neutron clusters was also a problem. Now only Lynn managed to create them, but it also took quite a bit of time.

Mere Divine Power wasn’t enough to control neutrons directly, like controlling elements and electrons, and could only indirectly affect them; he couldn’t afford to spend too much energy here…

Lynn stretched out his hand, and a phantom crystal instantly appeared in his palm. This was the signal source he had intercepted before. Although Lynn had blocked it, he had not destroyed it outright.

First, to study the alien’s quantum communication technology, and second, based on higher-dimensional perception abilities, he could trace the signal source to locate the other party’s position.

Lynn speculated that although the civilization that made the disc-shaped spaceship had the ability to observe higher dimensions, they probably couldn’t do so at will like him, likely needing some instrument to locate, unable to directly sense the location as he could, which was one of their important advantages!

However, there was bad news too; according to his observation, as of today, the distance between them had shrunk from several tens of light-years to within ten light-years. It seemed just as he had suspected, the other party possessed the capability to traverse long distances in space.

It made sense, after all, a real interstellar civilization couldn’t possibly lack wormhole technology; otherwise, a single flight in the vast universe would take hundreds of years. By the time your fleet arrived, who knows how far the enemy’s technology would have evolved.

Lynn could only hope this was the closest spatio-temporal coordinate to them from the other party; otherwise, the council would have very little time left.

With this in mind, Lynn took out an entangled quantum particle, ready to experiment with establishing a space-time channel.

First, create a space-time node between the Eternal Star and the Moon, which will make collecting ‘energy’ much more convenient…