Chapter 1583 Academician Lu's "Knot"?

January 14, 2126.

For the civilization of the earth, this is definitely a historic moment.

On this special day, the International Seminar Summit on Space Elevator Engineering held by the Pan-Asian Cooperation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration officially came to an end in the form of a joint statement.

Witnessed by representatives of major regional alliances around the world, Li Guangya, chairman of the Pan-Asian Cooperation, read out the guidelines for the use of the Jianmu space elevator in a friendly and solemn tone, and reiterated the diplomatic principles of peaceful coexistence of the Pan-Asian Cooperation, which won the The applause of the audience.

On the same day, more than ten engineering ships departed from the Moon Palace spaceport, carrying construction materials brought in from the Mars colony, rushed to the construction site of the space station at the top of the space elevator, and started the welding of the main structure of the space station.

Legend has it that Jianmu is a bridge connecting heaven, earth, humans and gods, and it is also a divine ladder for Fuxi, the emperor and other oriental gods to go back and forth between the world and the heaven. Therefore, this space station has been given a mythical name——

That is, the "Tianting".

On the second day after the summit ended, the office of the chairman of the Pan-Asian Cooperation Headquarters.

Seeing Academician Ge walking into the office, Chairman Li Guangya, who was proud of the spring breeze, stopped the work in hand, and smiled like a spring breeze to Academician Ge who entered the door, and said in a gentle tone.

"What did Academician Lu say? Did he agree?"

Before going to Jinling, Academician Ge had asked him for instructions in advance. After all, for such a major project as the space elevator, especially for a position as important as the chief designer, only the chairman of the board has the power to appoint it.

In fact, before Academician Ge went to Jinling, he had already signed the document appointing Lu Zhou as the chief designer of the space elevator project. As long as Lu Zhou had no problems, he could take up the position at any time.

Out of consideration for the interests of Pan-Asian cooperation, Li Guangya certainly hoped that Lu Zhou could be the leader of the entire space elevator project, instead of taking the title of general consultant and dissociated from the entire project team.

Especially after seeing the Pan-Asian Academy of Sciences Orbital Research Institute's frantic response to this super project, he was even more determined.

He knew very well what the director was thinking, but Academician Ge didn't say anything.

After all, that person's strength is obvious to all, and he, who was on the judging committee at the time, had witnessed this with his own eyes. If someone else was to be the chief designer, he might still be a little bit unconvinced, but if it was that man, he would not only be convinced, but he would also be convinced.

But the problem is that everyone thinks so, except Lu Zhou himself...

"...he refused."

"Really?" There was not much surprise on his face, but after Li Guangya was silent for a while, he finally sighed, "It's such a pity... If he can lead the whole project, we can at least save Take half the detour."

Seeing the regretful expression on Li Guangya's face, Academician Ge hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"There's something... I don't know if I should say it."

"whats the matter."

"In fact, when I visited him, he happened to be in the laboratory. According to his own introduction, he seems to be researching a technology related to hyperspace channels... If I remember correctly, it should be called Z Particle oscillator."

As he said that, Academician Ge gestured with both hands, the shape of that weird device. However, this kind of gesture obviously did not make Li Guangya understand more clearly, but made people more confused.

"Hyperspace channel? What is that..."

"In fact, I don't know much about it, but according to his own statement, through this device, a straight channel can be opened between two points in the curved space, so as to realize warp speed navigation and superluminal communication—"

Before Academician Ge could finish speaking, Li Guangya stood up from the chair abruptly with his hands on the table.

"Variation at warp speed?! Faster-than-light communication? Can this kind of thing really be done!"

Since entering the space age, communication distance has always been a major problem restricting the continuous expansion of human space activities. Taking the Mars colony as an example, the straight-line distance between Tiangong City and Shangjing City is as short as 55 million kilometers, and as far as 400 million kilometers. Even at the shortest distance, it takes three minutes for a message to be sent from Earth to Mars.

If it happens to be in a relatively distant location, the delay time of information will be longer.

Although it is only a short three minutes, in this highly informationized age, not to mention three minutes, even one second is enough for many things to happen.

Due to communication barriers caused by communication delays and high communication costs, the society on Mars and the society on Earth have always been severely disconnected. If it is said that Guanghan City and other cities that Pan-Asia cooperates with are just regional discrimination, then the Mars colony and the cities on Earth can be described by two worlds——

The latter is the benchmark of civilized society, while the former can only be regarded as an existence between civilization and barbarism. Even the poorest town on the earth will feel more civilized than there, even if the life there may be more Some sense of technology.

If there is a special communication technology that can exchange information beyond the speed of light and reduce the communication delay between the earth and Mars to less than one second, its significance is self-evident.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Li Guangya's expression on his face was so excited after hearing the news.

"I don't know if it can be realized. Even Academician Lu himself seems to think that this research is worth a try..." Academician Ge sighed, and continued, "In fact, compared to the Thoughts, I care more about his thoughts.”

Li Guangya: "What do you think?"

"During the conversation with him, I felt that he might be a little bit cornered."

Sitting back on the office chair again, Li Guangya frowned.

"...Is it because of life problems?"

"Probably, but the main reason may be because of the emotional aspect." Seeing Li Guangya who was frowning slightly, Academician Ge nodded and said with a complicated expression, "I can feel that he loves Li Guangya very, very much during the conversation with him." His fiancée... even after 100 years, he still misses her."

Li Guangya did not speak, but quietly waited for him to continue.

"...He also told me that he plans to build a starship, the kind that can fly out of the solar system to Tiancang V. This is a promise he made to his fiancée a hundred years ago, but now he plans to realize it by himself This commitment. I don't want to judge whether his ideas are realistic, what I want to say is that when we ask him, we may have ignored his feelings all the time."

"If this knot cannot be untied, he may never be able to get out of the past."

In fact, although he didn't make any comments on the surface, subconsciously, Ge Huaizhi almost acquiesced that he was doing something out of the blue.

With the current technological level of human society, there is no basis for cross-galaxy navigation at all. Even the most advanced starship of the Pan-Asian cooperation can only reach the edge of the Kuiper belt at the farthest cruising distance.

Moreover, this is still a theoretical cruising distance. No one has actually flown to such a far place, and there is no need to fly there.

Not to mention Tian Cangwu, which is ten light-years away.

Even if you go, it is a one-way ticket with no return.

"One hundred years..." After listening to Academician Ge's words, Li Guangya pinched the center of his brows with a headache, and didn't know how to comment for a while, "I don't quite understand this kind of feeling, after such a long time... ...the person is long gone."

Although the average life expectancy has increased now, few people in that era could live to be over a hundred years old. And if you take ten thousand steps back, even if you really live for that long, you still have to become an old woman by now, right?

To be honest, what he didn't understand the most was the attitude of those "old popsicles" towards the relationship between men and women.

Just a fiancee.

Is it worth being so persistent?

In the 22nd century, even getting married is only a pleasure for a few people.

...

After Academician Ge left, Li Guangya fell into trouble.

If it's just a trouble in life, he can say without exaggeration that as long as Lu Zhou brings it up, he can find a way to help him solve it. But this kind of emotional matter, he is really out of control.

Turning his gaze to Secretary Wei sitting in the office, Li Guangya pinched his brows with some trouble, and asked casually.

"What do you think about this matter?"

After thinking for a while, his office secretary spoke.

"From a personal point of view, the best way to heal emotional wounds is to start a new relationship."

"A new relationship?" Li Guangya nodded his index finger on the desk, and said with a sigh, "That is to say, we still have to find a way to find him a partner?"

"I have to admit that this is the most efficient way."

Li Guangya's brows twitched as he never thought that one day he would be a guest matchmaker.

But thinking that if he could add more "concerns" to Lu Zhou in this world, maybe he would give up that "unrealistic" idea.

Of course, FTL communication is still very attractive to him, but it is still too dangerous to go to Tiancang Wu or something!

It's just that the problem is...

Can ordinary women really catch his eyes?

Not to mention cultivating feelings, it may not be easy to find a common topic.

"I admit that your proposal is indeed very attractive, but... are you sure that there are women who can arouse his interest?"

A confident smile appeared on Secretary Wei's face.

"There are still such people."

"Oh?" Li Guangya raised his eyebrows with interest, "Who?"

"Do you still remember the documentary by the Great Power Scholar?"

"I think any citizen of the Pan-Asian Cooperative would have watched it as a kid...Of course, are you talking about the new remake or the original old version."

"It's all the same, there is no difference in the plot." After a pause, Secretary Wei continued, "If I remember correctly, it was mentioned in that documentary that he had a Ukrainian student named Vera Puyu Yi."

"...I seem to have a little impression," Li Guangya asked after touching his chin, "Is there any problem with that person?"

"Out of my interest in historical research, I specifically checked her information. As one of the outstanding mathematicians in the early 21st century, she has won many mathematics awards such as the Fields Medal, and is also one of the most proud students of Academician Lu. One. And there have been rumors from the outside world that the relationship between the two may be closer than recorded in historical materials..."

"This is unofficial history after all," Li Guangya shrugged his shoulders, "Besides, this is the 22nd century, and no one has—"

"On the contrary, because of the late stage of lung cancer, she underwent cryogenic hibernation and went to the future to seek treatment. Even, according to unverified literature, part of the reason for the establishment of the frozen human rights and interests protection fund was to treat her. sick."

"And according to my investigation, not only has she not been thawed at this moment, but she is also in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration!"