Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 217 Earth's Supercomputing
Seeing Professor Lu Zhaoming's somewhat gloomy expression, Jiang Yang, even though he already knew the outcome, couldn't help but ask the question.

"How much is the difference exactly?"

"Ten thousand kilometers."

Lu Zhaoming said in a low voice, "Even according to the optimal black hole orbit calculation, our Earth is still 10,000 kilometers away from the correct position."

"Being just 10,000 kilometers short, the black hole's gravity isn't strong enough to apply a sufficient velocity increment to Earth; it can only flatten Earth's orbit."

Jiang Yang remained silent.

Ten thousand kilometers seems like a long distance, but if this distance is spread over two months, it only means a speed change of about 1.8 meters per second.

Compared to Earth's original speed of about 30 kilometers per second, this is only a speed increase of one in tens of thousands.

Completely insignificant.

但……仅仅1.8米每秒的速度增量，对于地球这样庞大的星体来说，却需要足足9.67*10^24焦耳能量，大约等同于2.31*10^15吨TNT炸药同时爆炸。

In the previous life, our side created 3.6 million hydrogen bombs with a yield of 10 megatons each to intercept that black hole. The energy released by these bombs was approximately 64 times that of all those hydrogen bombs combined.

This is assuming all energy is channeled onto Earth without any waste. Even a small amount of waste can multiply the effect by over a hundredfold.

Humanity has already exhausted all its resources to manufacture 360 million hydrogen bombs. To increase that by a hundredfold is simply impossible.

Jiang Yang sighed softly.

Looking at the floor beneath his feet and feeling the immense size and weight of this planet, Jiang Yang felt utterly powerless.

A speed increase of 1.8 meters per second may seem insignificant, but for the human world, it is an insurmountable chasm.

Okay, in that case, there's no need to assess whether human civilization can continue on Earth after leaving the solar system...

At that moment, another expert whom Jiang Yang did not recognize pressed the speak button.

After receiving permission, he looked at Lu Zhaoming and said, "Professor Lu, if it's only a difference of 10,000 kilometers, we might not be powerless to help."

I remember Comrade Jiang Yang once reported that in our previous life, we used all the resources of the world to produce 3.6 million hydrogen bombs with a yield of 10 million tons of TNT. This energy was not insignificant.

So, is there a way for us to make use of this energy?

Instead of detonating them on Earth, the plan is to use them to alter the orbit of an asteroid, leveraging the asteroid's existing kinetic energy to accelerate Earth.

Jiang Yang suddenly looked up.

Indeed, the wisdom of the masses is boundless. I hadn't thought of this myself, nor had Professor Lu Zhaoming's team, but someone else had.

First, use a hydrogen bomb to influence the asteroid's orbit, propelling it to collide with Earth. This would give Earth a sufficient speed boost to catch up with the black hole, allowing it to use the black hole's gravity to alter its orbit and escape the sun's gravity...

At least in theory, there is no problem with this chain.

So……

Jiang Yang quickly began to do mental calculations. The next moment, his previously slightly passionate heart returned to its icy state.

Sure enough, just as he had mentally calculated, Professor Lu Zhaoming also shook his head after a moment of calculation.

"To apply a velocity increment of 1.8 meters per second to Earth, the equivalent spherical diameter of this asteroid would need to reach approximately 40 kilometers."

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 8000 million years ago was only 10 kilometers in diameter, but this asteroid has a mass 64 times that of the former.

If it can help our civilization continue, an asteroid impact isn't unacceptable. It's just that such a large asteroid is hitting us…

He murmured, "The entire Earth's crust will be shattered by the impact, and we will perish before the sun even destroys us."

The expert paused for a moment, then looked up again: "Then, instead of hitting the Earth, what if we hit that black hole instead?"
"If Earth can't get through, can we get that black hole to come through?"

Lu Zhaoming shook his head again: "It's not feasible either."

That black hole is too massive and too small.

Jiang Yang frowned slightly.

He vaguely remembered something, like two cranial nerves in his brain desperately trying to connect to form a complete brain circuit, with each nerve extending a synapse towards the other, but still missing a little bit to connect.

Something else is needed to fill in the missing piece so that the neural connection will be complete...

Jiang Yang was thinking hard.

He knew that he didn't need to consider the technical details or how to implement them; all he needed to think about was the overall framework.

What can be used to fill that missing link?
Earth, the Sun, black holes... what else?
Jiang Yang suddenly paused for a moment.

In addition to the three mentioned above, there is another massive celestial body in the vicinity of Earth.

moon.

Although the Moon's mass is only 1/84th that of Earth, seemingly small, its mass alone is about 30 times greater than the entire asteroid belt.

If that asteroid were to collide with Earth, it would lead to the premature extinction of the human world.

If it were to collide with a black hole, it would be too small to have a significant impact on the black hole.

"Then..." Jiang Yang said in a deep voice, "Could we do this: let this asteroid collide with the moon, change the moon's orbit, and then let the moon collide with that black hole, change the black hole's orbit, and bring it to a suitable position, thereby applying a sufficient speed increase to Earth?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming paused for a moment.

He closed his eyes again and began to think rapidly. After a moment, he opened his eyes, grabbed a computer, and started typing rapidly on it.

Regardless of their status, whether they were leaders or service personnel, everyone present held their breath and waited quietly.

More than half an hour passed before Professor Lu Zhaoming finally turned on his computer.

His expression was complex, a mixture of excitement and heaviness.

"By combining orbital data of celestial bodies such as black holes, the moon, Earth, and the asteroid belt, preliminary simulation results show that as long as we can find a suitable orbit, we can collide that black hole with a suitable location!"

With a buzz, a murmur of discussion instantly filled the conference room. Jiang Yang's heart was also instantly filled with excitement.

What a twist!

The simulation results show that it is feasible, so it is probably feasible in reality as well!

So what if there's no stable orbit? So what if the sun expands? So what if the world freezes over due to lack of sunlight?

Escaping the solar system, no matter how many hardships and dangers lie ahead, at least our civilization has once again found hope for its continuation!
The 360 million hydrogen bombs in the hands of human civilization are the first domino in this giant domino effect.

A small asteroid, this is the second one.

The moon is the third image.

That black hole is the fourth one!
Even the smallest first domino can cause the massive fourth domino to collapse.

Through countless cycles of rebirth and the repeated destruction of civilizations, have they finally found a way to end this apocalypse?

Seemingly unaffected by the excitement of the crowd, Professor Lu Zhaoming's expression remained somewhat somber.

"Don't be too happy yet."

The buzzing of voices abruptly ceased.

He said slowly, “The simulation shows that such a track exists, but finding it... is not so easy.”

This is far too complex, involving all the large celestial bodies in the entire solar system, as well as tens or hundreds of millions of asteroids, and directly relating to the relative velocities, positions, and masses of Earth, the Moon, black holes, and certain asteroids.

Jiang Yang was somewhat confused: "We have enough supercomputers. Didn't you use those supercomputers before to simulate and calculate that the black hole doesn't have a stable orbit?"

It doesn't make sense that we could simulate and calculate it before, but now we can't complete the same orbital calculation, right?
Professor Lu Zhaoming shook his head again.

"The computing power required is on a completely different scale."

If this were a lottery draw, the previous confirmation that the black hole did not have a stable orbit only confirmed that among the potentially millions of lottery tickets, there was no fixed number.

Subsequently, it was confirmed that there exists a trajectory that allows us to push the black hole to the right position in a complex way, much like confirming that among millions of lottery tickets, there must be one that is the jackpot number.

Now, our goal is to calculate this complex trajectory, which, using a lottery analogy, is like finding the winning ticket from millions of lottery tickets.

He looked at Jiang Yang: "The required computing power difference could be thousands or tens of thousands of times."

"Even mobilizing all the world's supercomputers wouldn't be enough?"

"Far from enough."

"How much is left?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming pondered silently for a moment before saying, "More than 100 times."

Jiang Yang knew that at this moment, the total number of supercomputers of this scale in the world was about 1.

In the short term, the human world has absolutely no ability to build 100 million supercomputers with the same performance.

Even if the entire world were to exert its full power, it would be impossible to achieve.

From this perspective, it seems impossible for the human world to gather enough computing power for this mission.

Even if you know that there must be one jackpot ticket among this pile of lottery tickets, you can't find it if you don't have the calculation ability.

In reality, it means that even though we know there must be a way for humanity to eventually escape the solar system and flee the expanding sun through a domino effect, we can't calculate the specific parameters to execute it.

This is a seemingly unsolvable problem.

But Jiang Yang did not feel any heaviness because of this.

Instead, a smile appeared on his face.

"Is it just computing power? That's an easy problem to solve. We solved it once in our previous life."

Facing the numerous attendees, he solemnly stated: "We can requisition all of the world's hundreds of billions of personal computers, servers, mobile phones, wristbands, etc., and adopt a large-scale distributed computing approach to incorporate all the chips in these devices into orbital computing."

This is how we precisely controlled the trajectories of 360 million hydrogen bombs simultaneously in our previous life.

Earth's supercomputing!

(End of this chapter)