As the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope, the successful completion of the "Tianye" project means that China's major scientific and technological infrastructure has been further improved, and mankind's exploration of the unknown universe has a deeper perspective. The success of the "sky eye" reflects China's wisdom, China's technology, China's power, but also highlights China's role.
To the world's scientific and technological community, "Tianye" provides the research tools needed to explore the universe. "From the stars of the universe to the fundamental particles, human scientific discoveries and technological innovations are increasingly inseparable from "grand" research instruments. The astronomical community usually believes that less than 1% of the universe is luminous matter that humans can see. Scientists often use radio telescopes to enhance their ability to observe the universe. In this regard, the sensitivity of the "eye in the sky" is more than 2.5 times that of the world's second-largest single-aperture radio telescope, and its high sensitivity is likely to help scientists make breakthroughs in the detection of low-frequency gravitational waves, the origin of fast radio bursts, interstellar molecules and other cutting-edge directions.
Significance and value of China's eye in the sky
"China's eye in the sky" significance▼
I. Not to realize economic benefits or search for exotic celestial bodies in the short term
1. FAST's main goal is not to realize economic benefits in the short term, but rather it will be used to scan the cosmic background for microwave radiation, to observe and study distant signals and matter in the universe.
For example, the gas in the middle of the universe, microwave lasers, and pulsars, to achieve the most basic understanding of the composition of the universe's material and evolutionary history, and to satisfy human exploration of the unknown universe.
2. FAST will likely search for more exotic celestial bodies for observing pulsars (the dense residue of massive stars after supernova explosions), exploring the origin and evolution of the universe, the evolution of galaxies and the Milky Way, etc., and even searching for interstellar communication signals to carry out explorations of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Selecting millisecond pulsars with stable pulse signals from pulsars is expected to be applied in the field of space vehicle navigation in the future
(Strange celestial bodies surviving on bloodsucking)
Secondly, it will help in data storage and computation in the field of information sciences
1. FAST, as the "world's first eye" in radio astronomy, has a great influence on data storage and computation. "The need for data storage and computation of FAST is also "astronomical".
Astronomy, as one of the first scientific fields to experience the information explosion, has always been known for its large volume of data and complexity of data types
2. In the short term, FAST's computational performance needs to reach at least 200 trillion times per second or more, and its storage capacity needs to reach more than 10 petabytes (1 petabyte (PB) is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes (TB))
With the time and the deepening of its scientific mission, FAST will have a greater need for computational performance and computational capacity.
With the passage of time and the depth of the scientific mission, the demand for computational performance and storage capacity will explode, and the amount of data and computation will be even more "staggeringly large".
(Amazing scientific big data)
"China's eye in the sky" is valuable to ordinary people
It can help solve the crises facing mankind
Compared with the general livelihood projects, the FAST telescope is too far away from the ordinary people,
Compared with the general livelihood projects, the FAST telescope is too far away from the ordinary people.
Many people will not see the benefits of the present, and feel that it is a "useless waste of money".
This is not the case!
▼"Hertz discovered how radar works when he confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves, thus influencing the course of World War II, while the GPS we now use can be traced back to the first satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. Before Tu Youyou stood on the Nobel podium, we weren't even sure where to go with the research that was set up more than 40 years ago, but the discovery of artemisinin saved millions of lives around the world, especially in developing countries"
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The FAST research involves a number of high-tech fields, such as antenna fabrication, high-precision positioning and measurement, high-quality radio receivers, and the development of a new technology. and measurement, high-quality radio receivers, sensor networks and intelligent information processing. So, in the long run, FAST is likely to help solve the crises that humanity is currently facing
In 1970, a Zambian nun, Sister Mary Jucunda, wrote a letter to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, the associate director for science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, asking if there were still so many children on Earth who couldn't eat. How can you afford to spend billions of dollars on programs on Mars when there are still so many small children on Earth who can't eat?
Every year, roughly a thousand new technologies developed from the space program are used in everyday life, creating better kitchen utensils and farm equipment, better sewing machines and radios, better ships and airplanes, more accurate weather forecasts and storm warnings, better communications, better medical equipment, and even better everyday gadgets.
You may ask?
Why design the life-support system for the astronauts' lunar module first, instead of building remote sign-monitoring equipment for heart patients first. The answer is simple: important technological breakthroughs in solving engineering problems don't come straight out of the box; they come from challenging goals that inspire a strong spirit of innovation, imagination and determination, and the ability to marshal all of our resources
Space exploration doesn't just give humans a mirror to look into; it gives us new technologies, new challenges, and a spirit of enterprise. It will give us new technologies, new challenges, a new spirit of enterprise, and an optimism and confidence in the face of serious realities.
I believe that what mankind has learned from the universe is a testament to Albert Schweitzer's famous line: "I look to the future with anxiety, but with hope. The "Eye in the Sky" has enriched the innovative practice of super engineering. The reflecting surface composed of 4,450 reflecting units, the feeder module controlled by six steel cables weighs 30 tons, the measurement angle is accurate to 8 arc seconds on a scale of 500 meters, and the acceptance capacity of the satellite data will be increased by 100 times.......The extraordinary features of the "Eye in the Sky" The extraordinary features of the "Eye of Heaven" are all over the place. There is no good thing in the world to sit back and enjoy. Such a world-renowned super project as the "Eye in the Sky" unites the ingenuity of the Chinese people and is saturated with their hard work and sweat. It is the systemic advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics of "concentrating efforts to do big things" that makes the major scientific and technological infrastructure needed for high-quality development come to fruition. It can be said that the success of the "eye in the sky" has once again contributed to the world of China's development experience.
For the future of the world, the "eye in the sky" has become a footnote in the construction of human destiny***similarity. In the face of the vastness of the universe, the unknown world and the potential of science and technology, mankind is a community of interests, responsibilities and destinies. From its birth, the "Eye in the Sky" has been tasked with a global mission. From the start of construction to the national acceptance of just nine years, "eye in the sky" produced more than 300 papers, found 146 pulsar quality candidates, in the international very long baseline interferometry played an important role ...... "eye in the sky "This great project is another precious gift that Chinese civilization contributes to the world.
"The people are the creators of history, and the people are the real heroes." Behind the "eye in the sky" is the great spirit of creation, the great spirit of struggle, the great spirit of solidarity and the great spirit of dreaming that the Chinese people have cultivated, inherited and developed in their long struggle. It is this national spirit that has made the "eye in the sky" a success, and injected strength into the development of China and the progress of human civilization.