Die on Mars

"Why did the Orion 1 spacecraft disappear?" Tang Yue was surprised, "Do you know the reason?"

"have no idea."

The old cat is very straightforward.

"Didn't you say you have enlightened?"

"I have realized it," the old cat replied, "but I have not realized it."

In the past three months, Tang Yue has discussed with Lao Mao more than once the reason for the disappearance of the earth. They put forward many hypotheses, but in the end they were all overturned - they really could not think of any reason why a planet with a mass of 600,000 A huge sphere weighing billions of tons evaporated from the earth. This supernatural phenomenon is completely beyond Tang Yue's imagination. The physics currently mastered by mankind does not support this inference.

The most powerful weapon ever produced by mankind is the AN602. It also has a well-known legendary nickname - the Big Ivan. This is a hydrogen bomb with an yield of 50 million tons. The fierce idiots during the Cold War detonated it in On the Novaya Zemlya island in the Arctic Circle, when the thing exploded, it set off a mushroom cloud 60 kilometers high. The power was equivalent to ten times the total ammunition consumed during World War II.

Thermonuclear fusion is indeed the most powerful way of releasing energy that humans can currently master. Physicists have liberated the power inside the atomic nucleus. This is a revolutionary progress, and humankind's understanding and control of the world have taken a step forward. reached a new level.

But the sun has been there silently fusing for five billion years.

From the perspective of the large scale of the universe, fusion is a very common reaction. If the mass of Jupiter increases by another thirteen times, deuterium fusion will also occur inside it due to the huge gravity, and it will transform from a giant gas planet into a giant gas planet. A brown dwarf... The power humans control is far from enough to shake the planet.

The disappearance of the earth cannot be caused by humans. If human civilization had this ability, the earth would have exploded a hundred times already.

Finally, Lao Mao threw out two opinions.

One is a natural phenomenon.

You must know that the Milky Way and the solar system themselves are also in motion. If someone observes the solar system from a static angle relative to the outer space of the solar system - then the solar system is not a rotating disk, but a rotating spiral.

The old cat said that there may be situations in the universe where physical laws are not conserved - to be honest, he was really desperate before he said such words that shook his worldview.

What if the physical laws in the universe are not conserved everywhere, and space is not as flat as people imagine, and the earth is so unlucky that it accidentally falls into this pit.

Then he disappeared.

The second is advanced wisdom.

So far, humans have not discovered any other advanced intelligent creatures - except chimpanzees on Earth.

But this does not mean that there are no other civilizations in the universe. Although the Fermi Paradox has not yet been solved, the old cat said that the earth is gone and the Fermi Paradox is nothing.

Can anyone explain the disappearing earth paradox?

It is actually very irresponsible to blame everything on extraterrestrial civilizations. Although aliens have been blamed a lot for hundreds of years. If you draw a circle in a wheat field and build a stone statue on an isolated island, they say it is their fault. It seems like Aliens like to play in the mud on the earth every day when they have nothing to do, but aliens have never shouldered such a big responsibility so far - they are responsible for the demise of a planet and billions of lives.

Look at this pot, it’s big and round.

The earth and the moon disappeared together. Obviously, everything within 380,000 kilometers from the earth was lost. This covers 99.999% of human existence, including everything in low-Earth orbit and synchronous orbit. Spacecraft.

Lao Mao did the math and found that the only man-made objects left in the solar system are the Kunlun Station on Mars, the Joint Space Station, communication relay satellites and a bunch of retired old detectors.

There are still travelers and pioneers who have flown far away and disappeared, new horizons beyond the orbit of Pluto, Huygens on Titan, a bunch of gadgets thrown by the Soviets on Venus, and died in the vastness after running out of energy Mariner Dawn in Deep Space.

These are all the legacies left by human civilization to the world.

None of them can be used. The travelers have probably flown into the Oort cloud at this time. In 70,000 years, it will visit Proxima Centauri. When this kid ran away from home, he never thought about coming back.

It's depressing to hear.

But what is surprising is that Orion 1 also disappeared.

When the earth disappeared, the Orion 1 spacecraft had just set off from the Mars Joint Space Station and entered the Earth-fire transfer orbit. It was still far away from the earth. Why did Orion 1 also lose contact?

In the first few days after the earth disappeared, Tang Yue still tried to contact Orion 1 with great hope. Captain Wang and others were on the Orion 1 spacecraft. There were survivors and food supplies on the spacecraft. But unfortunately, the moment the earth disappeared, Orion 1 also evaporated. It was Ophiopogon japonicus who discovered this first.

In the past three months, Tang Yue and Lao Mao have worked tirelessly to analyze the possible location of Orion 1, not letting go of any possibility, hoping to find the spacecraft. In the end, both of them gave up, and they had to admit that , Orion 1 is indeed missing.

The old cat said that this was probably someone outside shooting at the solar system, killing two birds with one stone, and connecting the Orion spacecraft with the earth.

"Buddhism has gradual enlightenment and epiphany." Lao Mao said, "Gradual enlightenment is the enlightenment that comes step by step, and epiphany is the enlightenment that comes quickly and directly. I had gradual enlightenment and epiphany at the same time. I used a two-pronged approach to understand the possible reasons for the disappearance of the Orion 1 spacecraft. "

Tang Yue frowned.

"As a robot, you can actually say such idealistic words? Aren't you afraid that Asimov will come to you in the middle of the night?"

"This is not idealism. For robots, gradual enlightenment and epiphany also have mathematical explanations." Lao Mao replied, "The so-called gradual enlightenment is the exhaustive method, which lists all the possibilities in the world one by one. For example, using the inexhaustible method To prove the Riemann Hypothesis using the following method, this is the gradual enlightenment proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.”

“Where’s the epiphany?”

"Epiphany is a random method. For example, if you are given a number axis, you can randomly poke points on the number axis to find rational numbers... This is the epiphany selection method of rational numbers."

"What is the success rate of those two methods?" Tang Yue asked.

The old cat shook his head slowly.

"zero."

Tang Yue put on the Mingguang Armor and was about to go out to inspect the Kunlun Station. He unfolded the solar panels and slowly opened the door of the airlock. Suddenly, his feet gave way and he fell to his knees on one foot.

"Tang Yue?" Old Mao came over and helped him up, "What's the problem?"

Tang Yue stood up holding on to the wall, looked down at the floor, was stunned for a while, and shook his head, "No problem, I accidentally lost my footing just now."

The old cat patted his helmet visor and said, "Good Luck."

"Tang Yue, go back quickly." Maidong on the screen waved.

Tang Yue gave a thumbs up, turned around and got into the airlock.