An Adventure to Guoker Planet

Chapter 9 - A Conversation about the Flying Saucer During Our Ride(3/4)

Of course, all this can be artificially altered. When the flying saucer takes off, we use an artificial field to place the surrounding space of the flying saucer into an energy field. This allows us to artificially change the spacetime around the flying saucer. Departing from this special energy field is completely different from departing from our planet. As a result, people on our planet do not have to wait for 100 years; they might only need to wait a few hours, depending on the strength of the energy field."

Suldair’s words were beyond my comprehension.

"We Earthlings have also observed your flying saucers and noticed their sudden, intense acceleration. The passengers inside must experience immense forces. How do you mitigate the forces experienced by passengers inside the flying saucer? Or are your people’s bodies special, capable of withstanding forces hundreds to thousands of times greater than humans can?" I asked.

"Flying saucers travel with zero or minimal mass, so the force on passengers is acceleration multiplied by mass. If the mass is zero, even with immense acceleration, the force on passengers remains zero or very minimal. With zero or nearly zero mass, the collision and friction forces with other objects are also zero or extremely minimal. This also explains why flying saucers make no sound when flying through Earth’s atmosphere," the physicist Suldair explained. I seemed to grasp some understanding and continued to ask, "How can one build a flying saucer? Or rather, how is a flying saucer built?"

"You want to return to Earth and build a flying saucer?" Willie countered, "If you build a flying saucer, you’d just hop on it and run around everywhere."

"Ha, ha," Suldair laughed, "If Brother Qian accidentally flies it near Mars and doesn’t know how to return, that would be a big problem."

"Then Brother Qian might as well live on Mars," Willie said mockingly, "If he has a girlfriend on Earth, that’d be tragic for them. They could only miss each other sadly. Isn’t that a common scene in their movies?"

"I don’t have a girlfriend, and I don’t want to go to Mars." I wanted to counter their mockery but held back.

Norton said, "How could Brother Qian alone build a flying saucer? If he grasped the principles of the flying saucer and the people of his planet believed his theory, Earthlings would crazily invest resources to develop flying saucers, just like when they developed the atomic bomb. Only then, it’s possible for Earthlings to build a flying saucer."

"How much would it cost to develop a flying saucer?" I asked.

"It would cost about the same as it did to develop the atomic bomb on Earth," Norton replied.

"It’s impossible. When Brother Qian returns and tells his Earth compatriots about the flying saucer, how it works, and how to build one. Ah, guess what? His Earth compatriots would say, ‘Oh! Where did this madman, this lunatic come from, spouting nonsense,’" Suldair continued mockingly. Suldair’s words were harsh, but this outcome seemed most likely.

"Then your flying saucers must carry a lot of energy. What kind of energy do you use?"

"Nuclear or neutron energy can be used. Don’t forget, during long-distance inertial flight, flying saucers don’t need energy. Only at the start, when taking off and the mass turns to zero to transition to the spacetime state, does it require a huge amount of energy. When the flying saucer takes off from our planet, we first use external electrical energy or field energy to significantly reduce the mass of the flying saucer to a minimal amount," Norton reminded me.

"Why are your flying saucers shaped like round disks, and in which direction do they fly? What does the propulsion system of a flying saucer look like, and how does it work? Can you explain it simply?" I asked.

The round edges of the saucer are an annular cavity containing a stream of charged particles.

These charged particles are of the same charge and repel each other, so their density cannot be increased. By making these charged particles move rapidly in a circle, we can convert the electric field into a magnetic field, which allows us to increase the density of the charges.

The door of a small flying saucer is usually located at the bottom. If it were on the side, it would disrupt the circular flow of charged particles. Large flying saucers typically carry high-power artificial field scanning equipment that scans the saucer’s shell, putting it into an excited state, and allowing personnel to enter and exit directly through the shell, generally eliminating the need for a door.

When flying at the speed of light, the direction of movement is perpendicular to the disc surface of the saucer, and it follows a right-hand screw rule. Imagine holding the saucer with your right hand; the direction of your four fingers wrapping around matches the direction of the charged particles moving inside, while your thumb points in the direction of the saucer’s movement.

If the flying saucer arrives in the airspace above your Earth, in a quasi-excited state, it can fly at any speed less than the speed of light and can also be manually piloted. Its flight direction can be in any direction along the side of the saucer."

"When the flying saucer is above Earth, does it install a conventional engine like the airplanes on Earth to stir the air for flight?" I asked.

"No. Our approach is to transition the saucer from a quasi-excited state to an excited state, allowing it to move at the speed of light. However, the flight time is set to be extremely short, so after flying a very small distance, it returns to a quasi-excited state, then transitions back to an excited state and flies another small distance. The saucer continually switches between these flight states to fly. This method of flight is also controlled by computer programs or with assistance.

"Flying saucers are actually quite similar to the accelerators found on Earth.