Hot Wavelength

Chapter 19 (Saturn's Rings 1): The Great Solar Flare

6500 million years ago, Venus
Back at his lodgings, a weary Nikola Tesla washed up, climbed into bed, and quickly fell asleep.

These days, he has been traveling back and forth between Earth, Venus, and Mars, and he is really exhausted. Fortunately, he has finally come up with a preliminary plan to deal with the Venus crisis, and he is just waiting for the Alliance's approval.

The knocking woke Nikola Tesla. He groggily opened his eyes, waved to turn on the light, but there was no response. The room remained dark. The power was out.

He fumbled to open the door, and Abbott called anxiously from outside:

“Nikolai, get dressed quickly and come with me. Something big has happened around Saturn.”

The hallway was pitch black, as was the road leading to the Academy of Sciences building; there really was a power outage, a widespread power outage.

For over 80 years, while Nikola Tesla was in a coma, Abbott had been researching his theory of superluminal waves. To convince the skeptical mainstream scientists, Abbott planned to erect a device 18 kilometers high on Taurus Island, Venus.

If Tesla's theory is correct, this device will be able to receive the wavelength of superluminal waves in its entirety, thus becoming an inexhaustible source of clean energy, also known as a superluminal wave power station.

Abbott's proposal not only met with unanimous opposition from his peers, but even he himself was unsure about the side effects of the hyper-light power station, given that the Venusian humans knew too little about the nature of hyper-light waves.

Thus, the experimental Saturn power station project was born. Saturn is far from Venus, separated by Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. Even if the Saturn superluminal power station had any side effects, it would not affect Venus.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has the most moons, while Saturn has only a few moons, the largest of which has a diameter of over 10,000 kilometers, larger than Mars. The Venusian people named it Sedna.

The satellite Sedna has a semi-major axis of 38 kilometers, which is comparable to the distance between Earth and the Moon.

With the support of the Venus Union, Abbott's team spent over a decade building a 38-kilometer-long flexible carbon fiber tube structure on Sedna's equator, which always faces Saturn.

To ensure structural stability, a massive metal space capsule was constructed at its midpoint, approximately 19 kilometers away, for personnel to live in and for maintenance and monitoring.

At the end of the structure is a huge metal sphere, suspended hundreds of kilometers above Saturn, where Saturn's powerful gravity stretches the entire structure taut.

With the introduction of hypersonic waves, the workstation located on the surface and at the center of Sedna converted thermal energy into electrical energy, and the first hypersonic power station built by Venusian humans in the solar system was successfully completed.

Because the Sedna power plant was experimental in nature and limited by transportation capacity and construction costs, its power output was much smaller than that of the later-built Venus Tower Island power plant, only on the order of one millionth.

The thermoelectric conversion rate of the hypersonic power plants could not reach 100%, causing overheating inside Venus. After the crisis, the Venusian Academy of Sciences assessed the situation and shut down several of the Venusian hypersonic power plants.

However, because the Sedna power station was far away and had extremely low power, it was preserved in order to better study the properties of hyperspectral waves.

A few hours ago, the residual superluminal heat that had been accumulating inside Sedna, Saturn's largest moon, finally erupted, causing the massive icy moon to burst open.

Debris is scattered around Saturn's equator, with chaotic chunks of ice and rock colliding and spinning at high speeds, stretching for nearly a million kilometers. Saturn has become blurred, shrouded in massive clumps of ice and rock.

Take the Sun as an example. Superluminal waves come from all directions. Because their wavelength is smaller than the Sun's diameter, enormous energy is injected evenly and causes the star to undergo nuclear reactions, making it glow and generate heat as if it were ignited.

Because Saturn's diameter is smaller than the wavelength of hyperlight, hyperlight waves originating from Saturn's direction diffract around the Sun's surface and are blocked by Saturn, resulting in a decrease in the surface temperature of the corresponding region of the Sun.

If other obstructions are added, causing the surface temperature of this area to drop further, sunspots are formed, which in turn cause an explosion in the high-temperature region at the edge of the sunspot, called a solar flare.

Sedna's explosion disrupted the original balance, and Saturn, carrying a mass of ice fragments spanning millions of kilometers, blocked hyperlight waves over an even wider area.

The sunspots at the corresponding locations grew rapidly, triggering solar flares that significantly increased the sun's extremely low-frequency radiation power. This caused low-frequency resonance with the Venusian power grid, resulting in a large-scale power outage on Venus.

Nikola Tesla followed Abbott to the emergency command center of the Venusian Academy of Sciences building. Backup generators were already running, and multiple survey telescopes were being adjusted and focused on Saturn. Abbott pointed to the large mass of ice fragments on the screen and said, “Nikola, repairing and restoring power is not our job. What we need to do is assess the impact of Sedna’s explosion on solar activity and even the entire solar system as quickly as possible.”

Faced with this sudden turn of events, Nikola Tesla was momentarily at a loss for what to do. After organizing his thoughts, he said:
"The most significant impact I can think of is, of course, sunspots and flares. This chaotic structure, spanning millions of kilometers, is obviously unstable. Once it dissipates and stabilizes in some form, solar activity may return to normal."

"Slowly dissipate? How long will that take? During this time, we Venusians will suffer from off-the-charts solar flares and solar winds." Abbott said, pressing Tesla into his special chair. "I've already inputted Sedna's data into your external brain. Connect to the Lightning Ball and think about it deeply."

The answer Nikola Tesla received through his external brain connected to the Lightning Ball startled him at first. He then deactivated the connection and slumped into his chair. Under Abbott's urgent questioning, Tesla slowly said:
"The external brain is a computer; it's different from us humans. It gives cold, hard answers, and the worst possible results. Whenever Jupiter and Saturn align, it triggers stronger solar activity. So what will happen now that Jupiter is aligning with this giant ice mass of Saturn, Abbott?"

Abbott felt a chill run down his spine. He grabbed a tablet, found the planetary conjunction periodic table, and muttered to himself in despair:
"The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter occurs every 20 years. We're really unlucky; the next conjunction won't happen for another 3 years."

Tesla's addition was like adding insult to injury, he said:

"Even more unfortunately, three years from now, the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter will be exactly on the line connecting the Sun and Regulus, resulting in the most intense sunspots and flares in history."

“Three years… By then, will we Venusians still be alive? Nikola, think of something!” Abbott said desperately.

"If that's all there is to it, I believe that even widespread blackouts, coupled with the abnormally high temperatures that occur every 20 years, won't wipe out humanity on Venus. Remember, we are resilient," Tesla said firmly, adding as if to reassure Abbott:

"The good news is that when Sedna exploded, the power station structure was outside the sun. It had broken into two pieces, which crossed over and were spinning as they flew out of the solar system, not towards us. And that chaotic mass of ice will form beautiful rings under the influence of Saturn's gravity."

Abbott couldn't help but ask, "What's the bad news? I'm not interested in the beautiful rings that will form on Saturn in the future."

Seeing the anxious Abbott, Tesla hesitated, then stood up, clenched his fist, and said to Abbott:

"Stop waiting for the Alliance's approval process. Prepare a spaceship for me. I want to go to Earth immediately and start conducting lunar mass tumor experiments using space debris."

Abbott, filled with doubt and a sense of foreboding, asked, "With Saturn facing such an urgent crisis, why would you still be thinking about conducting that lunar mass tumor gravity experiment?"

Nikola Tesla looked at Abbott with heartache, unsure whether he should tell his poor old friend the truth. He said with deep regret:

"Abbott, I really hate myself for coming up with this so-called theory of superluminal waves. It can be said that the crisis facing the people of Venus is caused by me, this scientific madman."

Abbott grabbed Tesla's arm and said:

"This isn't your fault, and it's not a question of who's right or wrong right now. We must never give up hope and effort. Did you go to Earth to conduct experiments because you thought of a solution to the crisis?"

Tesla, unable to contain himself any longer, answered with difficulty:
"I didn't come up with a good solution; I was afraid that my theory of gravity might also be correct, in which case we would face an even greater crisis."

Abbott was startled again and asked:

"Are you saying that humanity on Venus will be destroyed?"

Nikola Tesla, hating the answer his external brain connected to the lightning ball gave him, roared uncontrollably:
"Not just the Venusians, the entire solar system will be destroyed!"

&
The poem composed of collected verses at the end of the chapter:
Wild and vast, cold stars touch the earth, bright, Zhang Xuan
Even solid ice can still ripple with lingering waves. — Huang Ren (Qing Dynasty)

Xuanyuan did not value nameless guests; Tang Dynasty, Dai Shulun

Even with a long rope, what can be done? (Song Dynasty, Lin Yong)
(End of this chapter)