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Chapter 10 (Quality Tumor 2): Bulldozer

In December 2029, Liangguo Sazhou Rocket City

Michael Max's Esbay Space Technology Company owns the world's largest heavy-lift rocket, the Falcon 5. It has a diameter of 50 meters, a payload capacity exceeding 100 tons, and most remarkably, it is reusable and recyclable.

It was as if Espe had opened a door for humanity to reach space, and commercial orders poured in.

The annual Esbey Company customer appreciation event is underway, and Michael became the focus of attention as soon as he appeared. His highly inspiring speech brought the enthusiasm of the attendees to its peak.

The buffet dinner began, with guests chatting and laughing in small groups, wine glasses in hand.

The Space Agency of the United States is, of course, Espeon's most important partner, and Professor Braun and his daughter Daphne Braun were among the invited guests. Michael walked up to the father and daughter with a smile, greeted the professor, and then said to Daphne:

"Today's clients are all very interesting. I'll introduce you to them in a little while."

"Michael, congratulations! The Birdwatch 5 reuse experiment was a success! That's fantastic!" Daphne beamed with a radiant smile, then asked Michael, "My explorer, is the next stop the moon or Mars?"

“It seems I can no longer achieve anything on Earth.” Michael gave Professor Braun a meaningful look, and said in a mysterious low voice, “I will have to fulfill the other half of my dream and go to Mars.”

Daphne was secretly delighted. Since joining the Liangguo Space Agency's Lingshen Star exploration project, her main research focus had been Mars and the asteroid belt.

Daphne's doctoral dissertation was titled "The Development and Rules of the Space Industry." The so-called space industry is nothing more than humanity's better utilization of space resources. From the perspective of engineering and technical difficulties and cost savings, the feasibility of developing and utilizing the asteroid belt is even higher than that of the moon.

Michael picked up a glass of champagne from the waiter's tray and led Daphne and the professor to the interesting client he had mentioned: "This is President Masao Asaya of Fusheng Kingdom Giant Island Company. His collaborative project with our company is very interesting."

After introductions and pleasantries, the Braun father and daughter learned about Giant Island Company's highly creative project proposals.

Giant Island Company is a well-known construction engineering company in Fusheng Country. Since 2009, it has been developing intelligent construction machinery.

With the significant improvement in AI computing power, remotely controlled intelligent machinery has made leaps and bounds in progress.

By 2020, Giant Island Company had undertaken a dam construction project in Fusheng Country. The construction of the dam was entirely carried out using remotely controlled AI equipment, with excavators and bulldozers working together 24 hours a day on the construction site.

Giant Island Company set a world record by building the first large-scale building without any human intervention on site.

Starting in 2021, Giant Island Company collaborated with research institutions in Fusheng Country to achieve engineering collaboration for ultra-long-range control of AI-powered intelligent machinery, with a control distance reaching an astonishing nearly 10,000 kilometers.

As far as telecommunications and remote control are concerned, there is no technological difference between 10,000 kilometers and 380,000 kilometers. The astute Daphne immediately grasped the interesting point Michael had made, and she exclaimed:
"Mr. President, are you planning to commission Michael to send AI excavators and bulldozers to the moon for mining?"

Asaya Masao looked at the wise lady who had seen through the mystery with her words and smiled proudly.

Daphne Braun thought of her own thesis, and a sense of unease welled up in her heart.

The lunar surface is rich in rare metals, and bringing them back to Earth would have enormous economic value. The soil on the moon is loose, and the cost of excavation and sorting is extremely low compared to Earth. Therefore, even if Giant Island Company pays Espe Company a huge transportation fee, it may still obtain unimaginable profits.

This is precisely Daphne's dilemma: humanity will inevitably need to utilize space resources sooner or later, but how should they be used? And what rules should be established for commercial development?
Daphne understood that it would be extremely difficult to persuade the president to postpone the development project, given her position. However, she couldn't help but have a deep conversation with President Asaya.

Michael gestured for the professor to go to a quiet corner, and said to him:

“I signed a confidentiality agreement. Daphne doesn’t know the secret of Tesla’s theory, does she?” Michael asked after the professor nodded in confirmation. “Could you tell me about the lunar experiment based on Tesla’s theory that you mentioned to me last time?”

The professor then began to recount his lunar experiments.

In 1936, Nikola Tesla submitted his paper "The Dynamic Principle of Gravity," in which, in addition to the already verified superluminal wave hypothesis, he proposed a new theory of gravity.

Both Newton's classical theory of mass gravity and Einstein's general theory of relativity are derived from the phenomenon of objects moving in space. An object moving at a constant velocity in an inertial frame of reference has acceleration toward the center of gravity in a gravitational field.

Nikola Tesla redefined inertial frames and gravitational fields, arguing that all forms of motion originate from the distribution of energy density.

A uniform distribution of energy density in an environment constitutes an inertial frame of reference. However, if a high-energy-density "gravitational source" exists, the energy distribution in its surrounding area will be uneven, instead spreading outward in a spherical shape, with the energy intensity decreasing with the square of the distance.

Whether in an inertial frame of reference or a gravitational field, the laws governing the motion of an object are as follows: during the motion, the energy density of the environment remains constant, and the object maintains a uniform motion; when moving from a region of low environmental density to a region of high density, the object accelerates, and vice versa.

Nikola Tesla's theory of gravity can be summarized in one sentence: the motion of an object is caused by the uneven energy density of the environment, and the object moves toward and stays on the iso-energy density line where the absorption and emission of energy are balanced.

More abstractly, the motion of an object is a mapping of the energy density distribution of the environment.

When an object maintains uniform motion, its trajectory must be a line of equal energy density. This can be inertial linear motion, circular motion, or circular motion around a gravitational field.

When an object undergoes variable-speed motion, its trajectory must cross different energy density lines. The gradient vector of the energy density lines determines the direction and magnitude of the acceleration.

The above-mentioned laws apply to a child's marbles, an apple falling to the ground, a rocket launching into space, the energy level transition of an electron, and the Earth's orbit around the sun.

Michael blinked, looking at the professor in astonishment, and said, "Tesla believed that gravity is not caused by mass or the curvature of spacetime, but by uneven energy density. This is going to revolutionize physics!"

The professor nodded deeply and said, "I also find Tesla's theory of gravity to be absurd and ridiculous. Therefore, I designed an experiment to investigate it."

In 1968, as the lunar exploration program of the National Space Administration was progressing rapidly, scientists discovered that when small spacecraft flew low over the moon, their actual orbits did not match their calculated orbits. If no human adjustments were made, the spacecraft would crash onto the lunar surface.

In 1972, after the Helios 16 mission concluded, the astronauts released a small satellite orbiting the moon. They discovered that the satellite's trajectory fluctuated wildly, indicating that it was subjected to extremely uneven lunar gravity, until it eventually crashed.

Observations and calculations over the past few decades have revealed the mystery: the gravitational acceleration on the lunar surface is not uniformly distributed. Contrary to common sense, the gravity at the peaks of the lunar surface is lower than the average, while the gravity at the valleys is higher than the average.

Scientists have offered an explanation: these lunar depressions, known as maria, were formed by asteroid impacts. After the impacts created these deep valleys, the lunar mantle beneath the surface rebounded and bulged, increasing the mass of the subsurface layer at the impact point. Scientists have figuratively called this increased mass a "mass nodule."

The largest mass on the Moon is located in the southeastern corner of an impact crater called Mare Imbrium, which is very deep, reaching a depth of 6 kilometers below the lunar reference surface.

"Michael, if we use a lot of materials, such as space debris that fills near-Earth space, to fill this 6-kilometer-deep hole in one corner of Mare Imbrium, do you think the gravity will increase or decrease?" the professor asked.

“Of course it will get bigger. According to scientists, there is already a mass nodule beneath the Imbrium Mare. With the addition of extra mass, the gravity in that area will naturally increase.” Michael looked at the professor with puzzlement, finding this method of dealing with space debris very interesting.

"No matter how absurd Tesla's theory of gravity may be, we have to admit it is a scientific hypothesis because it can be falsified. Of course, it can also be proven true," the professor replied.

Professor Braun designed the "mass tumor" experiment based on Nikola Tesla's theory of gravity. If the gravity does not increase after the Rain Sea is filled in, but instead returns to normal, that is, even smaller than the gravity caused by the so-called mass tumor, it will be inexplicable by any existing theory of gravity and will become irrefutable proof that Tesla's theory of gravity is correct.

The professor regretfully told Michael that although his experiment was good, turning the moon into a landfill for human space debris would cause huge environmental and ethical controversies, so the experimental plan was shelved.

The astute Michael seemed to understand something and said to Professor Braun, "You want to use Giant Island Company's bulldozers to fill in that corner of the rainy sea?"

The professor laughed and said, "Yes, bulldozers."

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The poem composed of collected verses at the end of the chapter:
How different it is from looking at the moon in the middle of the sky, Tang Dynasty, Su Ting
Multiply both ends by the change in magnitude. (Yuan, Liu Shen)

Only then did I know that under the rock valley, there was clarity and strict order.

The moon shines brightly, round and full. (Song Dynasty, by the Buddhist monk Jujian)
(End of this chapter)