Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 408: The Possibility of Using the Vanishing Cabinet for Deep Space Travel

"The Vanishing Cabinet has already maximized its capabilities," Sainz said. "By analogy with firearms, under current conditions, the performance of firearms has reached its limit, the efficiency of gunpowder has reached its limit, and the efficiency of the barrel has also reached its limit. Extending the barrel will have the opposite effect."

"...That's true," Minxue said calmly, "The only way to do that is to increase the caliber, or improve the bullet and add more gunpowder."

"When charging more gunpowder, we also need to consider the pressure that the barrel can withstand. When we talk about the limit, we mean all limits, and the pressure has also reached the limit... It seems that the only way to do this is to increase the caliber. By analogy with the Vanishing Cabinet, we need to increase its volume.

Put it this way... Do you feel that it is very similar to the space gates built in some fantasy or science fiction worlds? If you want to teleport farther, you just make the space gate bigger?"

"It's a bit like that... The tea in the cup has gotten cold... I'll change it for you... Isn't this very clear? Is there anything you need me to help you sort out?"

Sainz let the half remaining tea in his hand fly away, "But think about it, can any private person build a space gate or a teleportation array? If you want to build a space gate that is big enough, you need enough support.

We can now build our own vanishing cabinets. Time plays a big role in our worldview. In some worldviews, just collecting materials would leave us helpless."

Minxue disagreed and said, "Why think so much? We live in the current world, so of course we only need to consider things within the current worldview."

"I know," Sainz took a sip of the new tea. "I mean, I have my own limits. Even if I use all my abilities, how big a vanishing cabinet can I build?"

"What is your current precise control range?" Minxue asked.

"It's less than 6 meters. It used to be 5 meters and it's increased a little bit now," Sainz said weakly. "I think it won't be more than 10 meters when it reaches the bottleneck."

“……” Minxue was silent.

The reason he asked this was because this was the limit of how accurately Sai could manufacture a precision item.

It is not the limit of his ability to use magic to control the movement of objects, but the limit of the influence of his "superpowers", the limit of his "soul perception", and the limit of his ability to operate precisely. Sometimes, the subtleties of certain objects cannot be seen by magical feedback alone, and he needs to use more subtle and direct perception to "see".

If an item exceeds the range of his ability to perform precise manipulations, he can no longer guarantee its quality.

If the quality of something like the Vanishing Cabinet, which concerns life, cannot be guaranteed, then... what's the difference between that and gambling with your life.

Sainz didn't know whether the existing vanishing cabinet could allow him to travel freely between the synchronous orbit and the ground, but he thought it probably could.

It seems impressive at first glance, but what is 4 kilometers in the universe?

The closest celestial body to the Earth is the Moon, 38 kilometers away;

The sun, which can be seen by looking up, is 1.5 million kilometers away;

The closest planet to Earth is Venus, which is 4050 million kilometers away at its closest point;

Mars, the often-mentioned "alien home", is 5500 million kilometers away at its closest point and 3 million kilometers away at its farthest point, with an average distance of 2.25 million kilometers.

Further away are the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud.

This is still within the influence of the solar system, not to mention what is beyond the sun's gravity.

Forty thousand kilometers is nothing when compared to these distances that are often measured in billions or even light years!

Whenever Sainz thought of this inadvertently, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Fortunately, Sai is not the kind of person who dwells on trivial matters. Just as Old Deng said, each generation has its own responsibilities. Sai secretly encouraged himself in his heart, "Let's fulfill our own responsibilities first, and let the younger generations worry about the road ahead."

Do your best and accept the worst.

"Do you think stacking cabinets is feasible?" Sainz said to Minxue, looking at the tea in his hand. "Since our ability means that the size of the cabinet is bound to be limited, why don't we build a few more cabinets?"

Minxue's voice seemed to be interested. "Like batteries connected in series?"

"More precisely, it is 'the longest possible particle acceleration channel'."

"This is what you want me to refer to, right?" Min Xue said, "You mean to build a lot of disappearing cabinets and connect them all in series?

There are many problems here. The first one to be solved is the problem of the directionality of the fluctuations... Well... Although this problem is difficult, it is not the most difficult one. Since the spatial fluctuations of the disappearing cabinet have directionality, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will figure it out sooner or later.

The final question is how to solve the series connection problem. The disappearing cabinet is not a battery that can be connected to wires. Each of them operates independently, so how can they run at the same time? If they are allowed to run one by one in sequence, it is still equivalent to only one, which makes no sense.

Even if you line up 9999 cabinets and open the first one and go in, the next cabinets will still not work.

You have to be in all 10,000 cabinets at the same time to make them work."

"That's what I'm saying," Sainz said, as if to verify. "Putting them in a row definitely won't work, so what about using nesting dolls?"

"Matting dolls! Yes, nesting dolls!" Min Xue's voice was full of surprise. "Matting dolls will definitely work. Matryoshka can ensure that all cabinets are open at the same time. As long as the control is good, they can also be closed at the same time. If it is adjusted in advance, it is not difficult to ensure the directionality of the space fluctuations is consistent."

"Brother, you are a little too optimistic," Sainz said, pouring cold water on him. "Let's not talk about how difficult it is to tune all the vanishing cabinets to the same frequency. Even if this goal can be achieved, there is still an important problem to be solved. They are used by nesting dolls. Will there be cracks at the moment of activation?"

"Yes! How to solve the layer cracking problem?" After Sainz's reminder, Minxue also reacted. The disappearing cabinets are used by nesting dolls. How to ensure that they will work together to transport the innermost things away, instead of the outermost disappearing cabinet sending away the second-to-last layer, the second-to-last layer sending away the third-to-last layer, and so on...

Moreover, with so many layers of disappearing cabinets nested together, if there are really 10,000 layers, during so many transmissions, if there is even the slightest mistake in one of them, the cabinet will be destroyed and people will die.

They both fell silent at the same time.

In fact, if we can really create a nesting doll product that can be used stably, the easiest problem to solve is how to move it to a distant place. We only need to build three disappearing cabinets.

The first step to go outward is to place one of the cabinets in a button space, and use another cabinet to send the button at maximum power to the deep space, thus establishing a stable space gate between the deep space and the local area.

Sainz scratched the top of his head in annoyance. "Alas, there are too many problems. Let's not consider it for now. Maybe we can find another way in the future."

Minxue also agreed, "Yeah, don't worry, let's eat first!"