Chapter 702: Chapter 583: The Moon Goddess Drained of Divine Power
Under the empowerment of Divine Power’s potent energy, the space surrounding the spaceship was bent into an arch shape, narrower at the front and wider at the back, propelling the several-hundred-thousand-ton vessel forward at an unimaginable speed!
However, Harrov and the others inside the spaceship could not feel how fast it was moving at all, for they had completely lost any point of reference.
Before, they could roughly determine their position by relying on distant celestial bodies, but now the light screens in front of everyone, which should display the outside scenery, seemed to be malfunctioning, showing nothing but chaotic points of light…
Rafael immediately turned his head towards Aurora and asked in puzzlement, “What on earth is going on? Councilor Aurora, could it be that your Projection Magic is broken?”
Aurora looked at the projection screens in front of her and also furrowed her brows.
She was certain that there was no issue with her magic, yet the screen that should be displaying the view in front of the spaceship was nothing but a bizarre cluster of colored light points, and the screen showing the view behind was completely dark.
“This is the proof that the spaceship has reached, or perhaps surpassed, the speed of light!” Lynn explained with a smile.
Harrov and the others paused for a moment, then turned to Lynn with a mix of surprise.
“I suppose you haven’t forgotten how we are able to see things, have you?” Lynn reminded them.
“It’s because our eyes receive electromagnetic waves that can be recognized and then transformed into corresponding images in our brains,” Alade was the first to answer, they had not forgotten such fundamental theory and then they realized what Lynn meant by the light screens.
All the scenes they saw were actually information brought by light!
Since light travels extremely fast, for those on planets moving at low speeds, the exchange of this information is almost instantaneous, and even the power of legendary wizards would struggle to detect this subtle delay caused by light traveling across distances.
But now it was different, as they were traveling faster than the speed of light, the stream of information carried by electromagnetic waves would be accelerated and ‘crash’ towards them.
“It’s quite similar to a sound barrier…” Dennis smacked his lips, quickly thinking of a similar phenomenon, which was the sound barrier encountered by fighter jets breaking the speed of sound.
However, light has no mass, so the barrier it presents to the spaceship is minimal.
Lynn nodded, this phenomenon was similar to the redshift and blueshift produced by the expansion of cosmic space, only much more exaggerated.
To put it more aptly, as they traveled faster than light, the incoming stream of information was being compressed, as if one were watching a video and pressed the speed multiplier several times or even dozens of times.
In cosmic space, the only thing they could see, and indeed the most abundant thing, was the light of a multitude of stars. Countless light points flitted across the projection screen at high speed, naturally turning into a chaotic mass of lights and shadows.
As for the light behind them, since its speed was less than that of the spaceship, it could not catch up with them at all, which is why the projection screen turned pitch black.
Indeed, this ‘delay’ in the flow of information was already present during the previous test flight at half the speed of light, for the Curvature Engine differs from conventional propulsion methods. To them, light… that is, the speed of information transfer, is not constant.
Only they were in the dark, vast expanse of cosmic space, which made it hard to notice this detail.
“Then how are we supposed to locate our target now? If we were to engage in combat, aiming and attacking would pose a significant challenge,” Harrov inquired thoughtfully.
After some thought, Lynn acknowledged that this was indeed a pressing issue that needed resolution. Thinking it over, he then responded,
“Perhaps we could approach it from a higher dimension…”
In Low-dimensional Space, the speed at which information can be transmitted cannot break the speed of light, which is limited by the rules of the universe. Therefore, the next step can only be taken from a higher dimension.
There were two methods he could think of: the first was to use Quantum Entanglement technology for positioning.
For example, they had visited the Brown Star once before, and Lynn had smoothly left a quantum marker there. Through the high-dimensional effect of Quantum Entanglement, they could determine the real-time position of this planet even while traveling faster than light.
The second method was to include the entire area within the domain of the divine realm and establish a four-dimensional space-time model. In this way, no matter where the spaceship flew, he could discern its orientation.
Both methods had their drawbacks. The cosmic space is far too vast, and even the space of a single-star system is at least billions of times larger than that of the Eternal Star. To transform it into a divine realm would require an astronomical amount of Magic Power.
As for quantum markers, although they are useful and low-cost, only requiring three different coordinates within the current star system, they would enable one to determine their current position based on the relative distance between the spaceship and the markers.
But this is only suitable for travel within a star system. The span between stars is measured in light-years, and it is utterly fanciful to expect to determine a precise location with just a few quantum markers, let alone locating an enemy during flight.
The assembled wizards all began to ponder this issue, which they were encountering for the first time. However, by pooling their ideas, they did come up with some strategies.
For example, Harrov suggested that since the information stream they obtained was accelerated, if they knew by how many times it had been sped up, they could naturally calculate their exact speed of travel, as the speed of information transfer is a fixed value, that is, the speed of light.