Earth Era

In the end, Zhao Lan did not choose to sue the media who violated her name and portrait rights and privacy rights. Because Zhao Lan felt that doing so was too troublesome. Anyway, most of the time I will stay in the sky survey observation base tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth, and I can't find myself in some troubles. If I want to sue those media, I have to go back to the earth and spend a lot of energy Zhao Lan didn't have the interest and time to prepare materials and deal with lawsuits, so he simply didn't bother to pay attention to them.

It's just that some good people found Zhao Lan's personal contact information from nowhere, and Zhao Lan suffered a lot from being harassed during this period. But after turning off all non-essential communication methods, those people disappeared, and Zhao Lan finally became clean again.

The time was slowly spent in this day-to-day work and occasional leisure. After the Mars Port personnel delivered the new spaceship to Zhao Lan, the thief Li Yunfan and the spaceship he had lost also returned. Gradually faded out of Zhao Lan's mind. Life is very peaceful, but Zhao Lan has always believed that tranquility is the true meaning of life.

But a letter from the Central Academy of Sciences broke Zhao Lan's peaceful life. Attached to the letter was a transfer order, which required Zhao Lan to immediately hand over the work in the sky survey and observation base, and immediately report to a newly established organization called "105 Research Institute". As for what the 105 Research Institute is and what its main responsibilities are, nothing is mentioned in the transfer order.

Zhao Lan was very confused by this, but he still had to obey the orders above. So Zhao Lan went through the resignation procedures, and then drove his "New Silvia" spaceship to the commercial road, and then came to the designated place through the commercial road, and saw No. 105 who came to greet him Director of the Institute, Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong is a slightly serious thin middle-aged man. He wore a neat uniform, had neat hair, and his expression was always like a rock, never changing once.

"Hi Zhao Lan, welcome to the 105 Research Institute. Become a member of the 105 Research Institute. I hope that in the future work, you can get along well with your colleagues." Shake Zhao Lan hands. Zhang Hong said with a serious face: "The 105 Research Institute is a newly established institution, and many living facilities are not yet complete, so the living environment may be a bit more difficult. I hope you can adapt here as soon as possible."

Zhao Lan asked with some doubts: "Director Zhang, living conditions are trivial matters. I have never made any demands on this, but... what is our 105 Research Institute responsible for? Why did you transfer me here? Work? What specific position will I be in charge of?”

"The reason why you were transferred here to work is because you first discovered the disappearance of celestial bodies." Zhang Hongyan replied concisely: "I have a document here, and you will understand after reading it. What I need to remind you is , the confidentiality level of this information is top secret, and it is strictly forbidden to leak it before obtaining permission."

"Okay." Zhao Lan nodded and took the document from Zhang Hong. Zhang Hong then turned around and left the office: "You are the last colleague who came to report, and now all the employees of our institute have arrived. The institute will have a plenary meeting at seven o'clock in the evening, and our 105 research All the staff of the office will attend. There will be a dinner after the meeting. Please pay attention to the time and don't miss it. By the way. From now on, this office belongs to you."

"I see, thank you." Zhao Lan nodded. So Zhang Hong left.

Zhao Lan sat on the office chair and opened the file. The first thing Zhao Lan saw was the title of the document. A line of very striking black characters.

"Preliminary research and data collection on the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of celestial bodies."

"Since the disappearance of the quasar numbered 23490917DA1E was confirmed, in the following months of observations, we have confirmed the abnormal disappearance of 104 stars. The same as the first disappeared quasar, the quasars of these stars The disappearances were all sudden, and all radiation was lost in a very short period of time, no matter what band of observation equipment they were in, they could no longer find their traces. Before disappearing, none of them showed any abnormalities sign."

"We suspect that the 105 confirmed disappearances are only part of the abnormally disappeared stars, and we have not found more abnormally disappeared stars. Because statistics have found that the 105 disappeared All the stars are at the level of the river system, and none of them is a single star. With the current observation capabilities of our human civilization, at such a long distance, we can only see the existence of the level of the river system. Therefore, we There is reason to believe that besides the one hundred and five abnormally disappearing celestial bodies of the river system level, there should be more celestial bodies that we could not observe have disappeared."

"According to the statistics of the position, there is no regularity. The statistics show that these disappearing celestial bodies are not concentrated in any direction, but present the same characteristics in all directions, and there is no logic or connection between the position distributions. So we can preliminarily confirm that the disappearance of abnormal stars is not a special event in a certain place in the universe, but it is actually a common occurrence in the universe.”

"The statistics of the distances revealed some unusual things. We found that all of the one hundred and five disappeared celestial bodies were extremely far away from the earth. The farthest celestial body is the quasar numbered 23490917DA1E, also It is the first discovered anomalously disappearing celestial body. The latest data shows that the distance between it and us is between 9.971 billion and 10.462 billion light years. The nearest celestial body is numbered The galaxy is 23350812BQ2W. It is an irregular galaxy with a diameter of about 90,000 light-years and a total mass of about two-thirds that of the Milky Way. The distance between it and the earth is about 8.3 billion to 8.6 billion light between years."

"At the same time, the table based on the discovery time and distance shows that the later the anomalous disappearing star is found, the closer it is to the earth. We don't know what this means, and we don't know whether it will pose a potential threat to the earth. We don't know when these potential threats will explode and actually manifest themselves in front of our eyes. We don't know anything."

"The Central Academy of Sciences organized experts to conduct some analysis on the abnormal disappearance of such celestial bodies, trying to explain the event within the theoretical framework, but so far there has been no progress. A total of seven hypotheses have been put forward. These Hypotheses include nebular occlusion theory, gravitational lens theory, light deflection theory, etc., but all of these hypotheses have loopholes that are difficult to justify, so we can think that the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars is still an unsolved mystery, and we need to continue to study .”

"It has been suggested that the phenomenon of the anomalous disappearance of stars may be related to the recent supernova explosion of Eta Carinae, because from the timeline, the first anomalously disappearing star occurred shortly after the explosion of Eta Carinae. But within the existing theoretical framework In the present study, it is difficult for us to find any possible causal connection between these two things. If it is said that the explosion of a stellar-level star affects the entire universe and causes more than a hundred celestial bodies at the level of river systems to disappear. It's too sensational. However, some people have made supplements to this theory. Some people believe that the explosion of Eta Carinae is not the cause of the abnormal disappearance of stars, but another manifestation of the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars. In other words, it is the cause of the abnormal disappearance of stars. It explained the reason for the abnormal disappearance of 105 stars, and also caused the explosion of Eta Carinae. But we are unable to demonstrate this matter for the time being, and we cannot find any evidence to prove or falsify this statement."

"We suggest that the Central Academy of Sciences set up a "105 Research Institute" to study such phenomena to continue to pay attention to and study such events, continue to search for and count the disappearing celestial bodies, and explore the physical mechanism behind such phenomena. "

"Appendix: List of Abnormally Disappeared Celestial Objects: Number 1: Quasar... Number 2: Galaxy..."

After this document is a series of long lists. Any one on this list represents a galactic-scale object. Many of these objects are even larger in mass and diameter than the Milky Way. But they have disappeared from human sight, and human beings have made many efforts, but there is no way to find them again.

As for the reasons for the disappearance of these stars, no one knows.

Zhao Lan read this document in just a few minutes, and then fell into shock.

"It turns out that the disappearance of quasars I discovered is not an isolated case. There are many other stars in this universe that have also disappeared together." Zhao Lan thought silently, "One hundred and five river system level What kind of celestial body... What kind of stalwart power can cause this kind of thing to happen? The most important point is that the abnormal disappearance of stars is not concentrated in one direction of the universe, but is almost randomly distributed throughout the universe , Could it be that... this kind of power can have an impact on the entire universe at the same time?"

The universe is too vast, and human beings are too small. Facing such a majestic force, any human being will be in awe. But the team of scientists is such a group of people, the more awed they are, the more they have to figure it out.

This is destined to be a very difficult thing, but as long as it is meaningful to human civilization, no matter how difficult it is, people need to do it. Zhao Lan knew that for at least the next few years, and possibly her entire life, she would probably devote herself to this matter. (to be continued ~^~)