Chapter 588 Incredible Space Folding
Seeing the gloomy expressions of Ning Chen and Song Xiyun, Hayes quickly said with a smile:
“Of course, you two don’t have to worry too much about this. The problem is, after all, the distance between us and them is dozens of light-years away. If it is just a matter of one light-year, it will not have any impact on the lives of our two civilizations, just the two of us. The current capabilities of civilization may not be able to do this, and even if our capabilities are combined, we cannot create such a large folding space..."
Ning Chen’s response to Hayes This conclusion also expresses great recognition. According to Ning Chen’s estimation, with the current capabilities of Blue Star Civilization, I am afraid that it can only create a space fold of one-tenth of a light-year. This is undoubtedly very different from this “space civilization”. Huge gap.
But if you want to fold this space to make it even bigger, the difficulty level does not increase by addition or multiplication, but by an exponential level.
This means that it is definitely not an easy task for this "space civilization" to create a larger-scale folded space. Even if they are given another hundred years, they may not be able to create a folded space that is ten light years away. .
This can be said to be a blessing among misfortunes, but after feeling that he had escaped disaster, Ning Chen was also very curious about how this "space civilization" achieved this technology.
According to Ning Chen’s previous analysis, if you want to create such a space folding effect, you can only rely on the huge attraction of the black hole. To achieve space folding of a full light-year scale, the black hole that needs to be created is undoubtedly Very huge.
After a simple calculation, Ning Chen knew that such a large energy consumption was completely unbearable by the current Blue Star civilization, and it was also a figure that was completely unimaginable.
"Mr. Hayes, how do you think this 'space civilization' achieves this? According to the technology we know, it should be impossible to achieve this goal, right?"
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Hayes nodded when he heard this and said:
"Indeed, until now I still can't figure out how they did this. If it is just through the annihilation of antimatter and positive matter, the release of If they use the huge energy to create a black hole, I will never believe that they can accumulate such a huge amount of energy. But in fact, they did do this, because what we see is. I won't lie..."
Ning Chen and Song Xiyun were also unable to figure out this matter for a while. The three of them couldn't help but fell into silence, silently thinking about the reasons.
A few minutes later, Ning Chen seemed to suddenly think of something, and said with a very surprised expression:
"If... I mean if such a situation exists, then all of this is It makes sense!”
Seeing Ning Chen like this, Hayes and Song Xiyun immediately felt very curious.
"Mr. Chen Ning, please tell us what you have discovered as soon as possible."
"Actually, I have always had a hypothesis before that the universe we are in is not the universe. The whole part can even be said to be only half of the 'universe'. Of course, the universe I am referring to is a universe mainly composed of positive matter. I guess that somewhere, there is also a universe composed of antimatter. "
Song Xiyun had heard of Ning Chen's hypothesis before, but because there was no evidence to confirm Ning Chen's conjecture, they did not continue to investigate in this direction.
This was the first time Hayes learned about this theory. While feeling that Ning Chen's theory was very novel, Hayes also realized that Ning Chen's guess was indeed possible.
"This is really a theory full of creativity and authenticity! When we studied the beginning of the universe, we have always been a little surprised as to how the large amounts of antimatter were annihilated by matter. If they are not real have been annihilated, but they are all gathered in places that we have not yet discovered, then all this can be explained clearly."
"Yes, this is my core idea about this hypothesis. Now we can start from it. At the beginning of the Big Bang, we began to conduct simulations to examine the development process of all these situations..."
While speaking, Ning Chen began to evolve through his brain's biological computer, and at the same time, These evolutions are reflected on the screens in Hayes' home.
“According to the theory of the Big Bang, at the moment after the explosion, there was a large amount of matter and antimatter in the universe. We can think that the beginning of the universe was nothingness, because these matter and antimatter were in After annihilation, no residue will be left behind. They were originally created from nothingness..."
When the evolution of these simulations progressed to a certain extent, the situation began to undergo novel changes. .
"After the first Big Bang, these matter and antimatter were quickly annihilated together, returning them to nothingness. However, after similar situations occurred countless times, they finally no longer completely gathered together, but were instead Separated by the dividing line, two universes with completely different properties were born..."
Hearing Ning Chen's words, Hayes quickly asked in surprise:
"Chen Mr. Ning, are you saying that the Big Bang happened not only once, but many times, or even countless times? Then the time for the birth of the universe was much longer than we originally thought!"
Every time the universe expands and shrinks, it takes hundreds of millions of years, but in Ning Chen's opinion, this is not an incredible thing.
“Yes, Mr. Hayes, these times do sound very long, but time is a concept created by us. From a physical perspective, time can even be said to be fundamental. No matter how many times they perform this process, it will not affect the birth of the universe, because the universe has no 'time'."
After a few seconds of silence, Hayes couldn't help but sigh and said:
"Huh... what a great hypothesis. If the Big Bang really happened more than once, then it is entirely possible that there will be some small probability The result. The cosmic environment we live in now is the most ideal situation formed after countless Big Bangs."
"Yes, because after this Big Bang. After that, a barrier was cleverly created that could hinder the annihilation of matter and antimatter, so that they would no longer annihilate like this, but each formed their own cosmic space, because this barrier does exist in theory. Our Blue Star civilization has already conducted such research..." As he said that, Ning Chen introduced the relevant concepts to Hayes. Looking at the actual research results, Hayes also knew that this was not A concept that Ning Chen proposed temporarily.
In fact, before Ning Chen performed cryonics, he had already created a relatively simple antimatter barrier, and used this technology to hinder the annihilation of matter and antimatter to improve Improve the collection efficiency of antimatter.
Of course, the antimatter barrier created by Ning Chen is definitely not on the same level as the antimatter barrier existing in the universe, but there is no obvious difference in their core principles.
"Mr. Chen Ning, I feel more and more that you are no longer a simple scientific research enthusiast. These things are very secret information. Even a professional researcher like me doesn't know. You How did you know?”
Both Ning Chen and Song Xiyun felt a little nervous when asked by Hayes, because this was indeed a somewhat unexplainable result.
However, Ning Chen quickly calmed down and said to Hayes calmly:
"To be honest, Yun Xi and I were both scientific researchers before, but we stopped later. He has become a professional scientific research enthusiast. This is indeed very internal information. I hope Mr. Hayes can keep this secret and never leak this information."
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"Don't worry, this is the default rule in the scientific research community. I will definitely not do anything so stupid."
Although I still feel a little suspicious about the past of Ning Chen and Song Xiyun, but this After all, it was Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's privacy, and Hayes would not go too far into pursuing the matters behind them.
After being briefly interrupted, Ning Chen continued to explain his reasoning about this matter.
"Mr. Hayes, what I want to say is that this 'space civilization' must have made some huge discovery recently to be able to create such a large-scale folded space. Maybe they have found the pros and cons The barrier between matter and opening a hole in this barrier is a very dangerous thing, because it means that they may have obtained endless antimatter..."
"Hey... ...If this is really the case, their danger level will indeed rise by more than two levels immediately, and this is a very unfavorable thing for the entire universe, which will accelerate the annihilation of positive matter in our universe. It will even significantly reduce the lifespan of the universe.”
If Ning Chen's hypothesis is indeed true, when all these matter and antimatter are annihilated, the universe will return to nothingness again.
“Yes, this is indeed a very scary thing. Of course, there is another possibility behind this, that is, they just discovered a large amount of antimatter, but it did not come from that antimatter universe. Antimatter. According to my theory, there may also be some antimatter spheres in the universe. Because their appearance is covered by a positive and antimatter barrier, they can be preserved intact in the positive matter universe. "< br>
"Well, if this is possible, it is indeed a much more ideal result. It's just that we are currently unable to accurately judge the situation, nor can we determine how they did it. Hey, this feeling of unknown is really uncomfortable.”
But Hayes will not care too much about this matter, after all, no matter how fast this “space civilization” develops. Come on, before Hayes gets old, they will definitely not be able to expand their power to their own galaxy or the galaxy of the Blue Star Civilization. It can be said that this will not be related to Hayes' safety, at most it is only related to his. The safety of descendants.
Hayes is not a very "righteous" person. He feels very satisfied to be able to enjoy his life and do something he likes within a limited time.
But Ning Chen and Song Xiyun obviously don't think so. Even though they have said that they will live in a leisurely state for the rest of their lives, when the crisis that threatens the entire civilization really arises, They will definitely not sit idly by.
"Mr. Hayes, thank you for the information you provided us today. I think it's time for us to go back and study some of the recent events in this 'space civilization'."
Ning Chen Hayes' attitude was a bit surprising, because even a professional researcher like Hayes was not shocked by this, but Ning Chen, as a scientific research enthusiast, reacted so fiercely.
"Mr. Chen Ning, it seems that this matter is more important than your research on the evolution of intelligent creatures. I am really curious as to what field of research you have mainly done before. Ah? ”
“Our research direction is relatively complex and will not be limited to a certain small direction, but will be conducted in any direction of interest. In addition, what I want to say is, When the entire civilization is facing a threat, everyone needs to make their own contribution and work hard to fight the crisis, even if they are just a scientific research enthusiast.”
"Sure enough, you Blue Star people still have this kind of collective consciousness. The emotional factor is really a good thing. In our civilization, ordinary people will not think about these things at all. They will only think about how to abide by the rules of civilization. Living my life under restrictions seems to be the right thing to do to have more emotional factors in my body..."
After leaving Hayes' house, Ning Chen temporarily He no longer went to graduate school on the evolution of intelligent organisms. Now all Ning Chen could think about was how to find out the truth about how this "space civilization" could do this.
Song Xiyun was also thinking about this matter, which caused no communication between the two of them for the time being.
It was not until the flying car took them back to their home that Ning Chen said:
"Song Xiyun, I think we must find out the truth of this matter as soon as possible. This matter The importance of things is far beyond our imagination, and it is not as simple as it seems.”
(End of this chapter)