Abnormal crossing

Chapter 13 The pursuers have arrived
Under ten years old
Looking at the expressionless Meow Meow, Gu Wei vaguely understood something.

He was silent for a while, then asked, "What's the point of stripping away consciousness? Wouldn't it be more convenient to just create an artificial intelligence as the ship spirit?"

"That's different," Meow Meow sighed, pointing his index finger at his head and said, "No matter how advanced artificial intelligence is, it can never break away from the constraints of code. In essence, it will always be a 3-dimensional or 2-dimensional substance that simulates 2.5-dimensionality. That means there is a risk of leaks or backdoors being implanted by the creator."

"But human consciousness is different. Consciousness belongs to a concept above 3D, and is locked in self-reference. Once consciousness is cracked, its self-reference will disappear and the entire system will be scrapped."

"So human consciousness is naturally a perfect 'encrypted body'. As long as a consciousness is transformed into a controllable state and equipped with a set of computing equipment, it will be a perfect combination. And because of the existence of self-referentiality, any ship spirit used for sale means that there has been no backstabbing."

"This is also the reason why the captain and Jin didn't read your consciousness at the beginning. It's easy to deconstruct your brain waves, but you will become a stupid fool afterwards. We basically won't take this step unless it's an extreme case."

Gu Wei was stunned.

That's it
He was a little confused before, why Jin had high-tech means but didn't directly read his consciousness, it turned out there was a reason behind it.
Self-reference is a very complex concept, involving both philosophy and science. Even before Gu Wei traveled through time, it was still a very cutting-edge topic.

The earth science's stage-by-stage understanding of self-reference is roughly that particles transmit information, information generates consciousness, and the aggregation of particles with spin properties will produce a chain effect. The sea of consciousness forms a certain form to ensure the stability of its own system, which is self-reference.

The brain-computer technology that Gu Wei had before traveling through time was also limited by the problem of self-reference, so even the imagined future brain-computer could only transmit real-time images of the brain and could not read past memories.

Meanwhile, MeeMee seemed to have opened up a new conversation, and continued, "It is precisely based on this logic that the characteristics, or values, of different consciousnesses are different."

"Before stripping off consciousness, Donghe Group will conduct a detailed value assessment of the consciousness. Some high-quality consciousness will be transformed into a 'brain' specifically for the known domain, such as the main control core of a large base. The price is amazing, and there is no risk of damage easily."

"The rest of the low-quality or ordinary consciousnesses will be transformed into ship spirits and sold to exploration or pioneering groups. They are cheap but risky. They may die in a high-energy radiation burst. Life forms may be able to escape in a small lifeboat, but ship spirits can only live and die with the ship."

Hearing this, Gu Wei subconsciously opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he remained silent.

The cruel side of the Star Sea civilization was revealed to him without any warning at this moment.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore." Perhaps because she felt the atmosphere was a bit dull, Meow Meow waved her hand like a little adult: "Jin saw that you were a little embarrassed standing here alone, so I split a thread to chat with you. By the way, this thing is for you."

As Mee Mee spoke, she took out a small green bottle from her body and handed it to Gu Wei.

Gu Wei looked at MeeMee's glowing arms, and a question mark popped up on his face: "Wait. MeeMee, aren't you a projector? Why can you do that?"

"Why can I hold things?" Meow Meow glanced at him and said, "It's a very simple trick - I can control the gravity of any area in the main control room. As long as the magnitude of the change in the gravity of the object is equal to the movement of the projection, it will appear to the naked eye that I am holding the small bottle. Anyway, don't worry about our two-dimensional affairs, just drink the medicine first."

Gu Wei took the bottle in a daze: "What is this?"

"Stabilizing fluid is a type of fluid that acts on the cellular level," Mee Mee explained. "After entering the body, it will fill the intercellular spaces and prevent the huge acceleration from causing harm to the human body. With your current small body, I estimate that you can't even withstand an overload of 30G. If you don't drink the stabilizing fluid, you will be shaken into powder after the spacecraft starts to jump. After we successfully escape, we will have to use a broom to sweep your ashes for you."

boom!
As soon as Mei Mei finished speaking, there was a slight vibration on the ground of the spacecraft, as if some kind of power module was activated. So Gu Wei did not hesitate, took the small green bottle and drank it directly.

To be honest, this liquid, which Mie Mie calls stabilizing and filling liquid, tastes pretty good. It is a bit similar to the zinc gluconate oral liquid from Harbin Pharmaceutical Group No. 6 that Gu Wei drank when he was a child, with a slightly cool minty aftertaste.

Immediately afterwards, Gu Wei felt a warm current with a little swelling but no obvious discomfort beginning to spread from his torso to his limbs. His movements slowed down a little, but he remained conscious.

It's roughly like... the whole person has slowed down by 0.9 times?
Gu Wei pinched his wrist again, and the feeling was still the same as usual. Then he punched forward again, and this time the feeling was finally a little different - the power of the fist was obviously much smaller, and there was almost no feeling of stretching the biceps.

When the heat flow almost covered his entire body, Gu Wei looked at Meimei again: "Meimei, how is the spaceship now? Has the enemy started to attack?"

"Not yet, but it will be soon," Mee Mee shook her head and waved her index finger in front of her face. A three-dimensional map appeared in front of Gu Wei: "The straight-line distance between us and the planet Kedas is about 300 million kilometers. The impulse point we must reach in the next stage is 733 million kilometers away. The "silent line" of the Star Ocean Convention for commercial planets, that is, the zone where high-energy weapons exchanges are prohibited, is 450 million kilometers. Whether the plan can be completed basically depends on this step."

This was the first time that Gu Wei had come into close contact with this kind of three-dimensional diagram. He followed the direction that Meimie was pointing and paused for a moment: "So you are planning to use the conditional extreme value to make a gravitational slingshot with the highest energy?"

"Huh?" Mee Mee turned around and looked at Gu Wei in surprise: "It seems that your study of astrophysics was not in vain. That's right, we plan to use the impulse point of the 'Ao Qiong' to accelerate."

"The first cosmic speed of the Aoqiong is 19.6544 km/s. Although it is not a rocky planet, it can be used. After the gravity well is accelerated, the spacecraft can reach about 176 kilometers per second. Once it leaves the impulse point, it will be much easier. It won't take long to reach % of the speed of light or even faster."

Gu Wei nodded thoughtfully.

It really is a gravity slingshot.

Gravity slingshot technology is considered to be a relatively mature aerospace technology on Earth. At present, whether it is the opposite side of the sea, the Russian bear or the rabbit, it has been put into practice many times.

The principle of the gravitational slingshot is actually very simple. To put it simply, it accelerates the spacecraft through the orbital energy of the planet.

for example.

A pedestrian who was traveling slowly was hit by a dump truck traveling at a very high speed. The dump truck lost a little bit of speed, but the pedestrian gained a lot of speed for free without having to exert any effort.

Here, people and cars transfer energy and momentum through contact, while the gravity slingshot completes the transfer through gravity.

However, since gravity only attracts but does not repel, in order to "knock something away", you need to let the object go around behind you first, and then use gravity to suck it back.

As long as the orbit is clever enough, the two will not actually collide, thus achieving an elastic collision.

At present, the gravitational slingshot acceleration on Earth needs to take into account the trajectory of celestial bodies, but the technology of Mimi and his team seems to be able to actively maximize the efficiency of gravitational slingshot acceleration.
Just as Gu Wei was lost in thought, a bleating voice sounded in his ears again:
"Look, the captain and his mechas are leaving the cabin."

(End of this chapter)