Earth Era

Obviously, the name of the 105 Research Institute comes from the one hundred and five river system level celestial bodies that have disappeared abnormally. But Zhao Lan and all the staff of the 105 Research Institute knew that if there were no accidents, this number would definitely continue to rise. As for what it means and what it means to the earth, it is just like what is written in that top-secret document, no one knows.

After all, these things are too far away from the earth-even the nearest disappearing star is more than eight billion light-years away from the earth. But science is to have this kind of forward-looking, before it approaches the earth, scientists have to figure out all this. If you wait until it finally comes near the earth to study it, it will be too late.

The 105th Research Institute was built two million kilometers away from the earth, where it revolves around the sun at the same cycle as the earth. In this way, it is always on the back of the earth and will never be disturbed by sunlight. It can be regarded as a medium-sized space research base in general, but it is still being expanded, and various observation and research equipment are being transported from the earth and moon bases. When it is finally completed, It will become the largest space scientific research base built by human civilization.

After all, the unknown actually means progress in a certain way. For the development of science and technology, the scariest thing is not that you can't find the answer to the question, but that you can't find the question at all. The bigger the question, the more gains can be obtained after solving it. The abnormal disappearance of stars this time is a big question. The scientific circles of human civilization hope that by unraveling this question, some physical theorems will be born again. It would be even better if the basic theory can be developed by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Lan and a group of scientific elites mobilized from all over the world began to explore this issue. This may be a very complicated issue, so the 105 Research Institute has a very high authority in this regard. If scientists or departments in any field are needed to cooperate or help, it is often only necessary to send a letter to the Central Academy of Sciences. The organization department of the Central Academy of Sciences will forward the letter to the corresponding scientific research department, and that scientific research department will immediately mobilize its forces to answer the questions from the 105 Research Institute.

But in the early stages of research it was not so complicated. In fact, the work of Zhao Lan and his colleagues is more about finding and observing distant celestial bodies in the celestial sphere to see which celestial bodies have disappeared anomalously, and then explore the commonality between these anomalously disappeared celestial bodies. characteristics and possible internal connections. There is no breakthrough in the theoretical aspect yet.

Just like what Zhao Lan thought at the beginning. As expected, the number of abnormally disappearing celestial bodies continued to increase. Under the observations of the 105 Research Institute and reports from other observation bases, this number has increased from 105 to 876. It has more than doubled by eight times. And all this happened in less than a month.

Zhao Lan faintly felt that the speed at which the stars disappeared abnormally was accelerating, and they were constantly approaching the earth. So far, the closest anomalous disappearing celestial body to the earth is less than seven billion light-years away.

Zhao Lan and her colleagues still don't know what that means. When Zhao Lan looked up at the starry sky, Zhao Lan even felt a huge monster appeared in the depths of the endless universe, and this huge monster was devouring the universe where the earth existed from the edge. It is getting closer and closer to the earth, and will eventually swallow the earth...

Except for scientists who are interested in paying attention to this matter, the abnormal disappearance of stars has not yet had any impact on the world of ordinary people. Because those stars are invisible to the naked eye, the disappearance of those stars will not be noticed by them. But Zhao Lan couldn't help but have such a terrible scene in his heart: the stars in the night sky of the earth also began to disappear one by one, and finally, the night sky of the earth became pitch black, without a single star. , not a single star can be seen...

Zhao Lan can't even sleep all night because of these terrible scenes. Zhao Lan couldn't imagine how terrifying the dark sky without any stars would be—although such scenes would appear on cloudy and rainy days. But that was different from now. Even if it is cloudy and rainy, Zhao Lan will know that those stars have not disappeared. Instead, he hid behind the clouds. And now, those celestial bodies are really disappearing...

In the night sky of the earth. The dimmest stars that can be detected by the naked eye are sixth-magnitude stars. There are no more than 10,000 stars that can be seen on the entire earth, including the southern and northern hemispheres. Among the less than 10,000 stars, most of them are within 10,000 light-years from the earth. The farthest celestial body that can be seen with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, and the distance between the Andromeda galaxy and the earth is about 2.5 million light-years.

More than 2.5 million light-years is a small number compared to 7 billion light-years, but Zhao Lan knows that as long as the stars continue to disappear and the distance between them and the earth continues to shrink, there will always be one day. The Andromeda galaxies would disappear, those only a few thousand away from Earth. Even hundreds of light years, a few light years of stars will disappear...

Where did the vanished stars go? Zhao Lan didn't know. Will the earth disappear too? If the earth disappears, will human beings disappear along with it? Zhao Lan didn't know either.

Zhao Lan's mood was always a little low, and the worries in his heart were always lingering. Zhao Lan even began to be a little afraid of the dawn - because the research institute is located on the back of the earth, there is actually no dawn, but researchers including Zhao Lan are still used to arranging their work according to the schedule on the earth, and they are still used to Every morning at six o'clock is called dawn—because it is time to start working at dawn. If there is no accident, once you start working, you can always notice that the number of abnormally disappearing celestial bodies has begun to increase more or less. Yes, ranging from a dozen to as many as dozens, there will always be new disappearance reports submitted every day.

Every day when it's time to get off work, the researchers in the institute will gather together to hold a regular meeting to discuss the news and new ideas they have gained during the day. But so far, no idea that can reasonably explain this matter has been put forward.

It's just that there is a consensus that has been accepted by all researchers, and everyone believes that this inference should be reasonable and in line with the truth.

The inference is that the abnormal disappearance of stars should have nothing to do with the stars themselves. This inference sounds very strange and counterintuitive, but it is supported by firm logical reasoning.

Because obviously, if the abnormal disappearance of these stars is caused by the stars themselves, according to the data of the distance and the time required for the transmission of light signals, they must satisfy the requirement that "the disappearance time of the stars and the distance from the earth have the same One-to-one relationship”, that is to say, the star 8 billion light-years away from the earth will disappear 8 billion years ago, and the star 6 billion light-years away from the earth will disappear 6 billion years ago. They must strictly meet this condition, so that the disappearance time of stars observed from standing on the earth can be gathered in such a short period of time as they are now.

And this is undoubtedly impossible. After all, those disappearing stars are not a small number, they are the abnormal disappearance of hundreds or nearly a thousand stars. If there are only two stars disappearing at the same time from the perspective of the earth, it can be explained by coincidence, but nearly a thousand stars strictly follow this law, and it cannot be explained by coincidence.

That's why the staff of the 105 Research Institute made this inference, that is, the abnormal disappearance of stars has nothing to do with the stars themselves. Then the next inference can be drawn, those stars that seem to "disappear" have not disappeared, they still exist in this universe, but for some special reasons, they cannot be seen from the earth .

This inference was generally accepted by the researchers, so the research direction of the researchers focused on finding possible reasons for this phenomenon other than the cause of the star itself.

The theory of dust cloud obscuration believes that the solar system at this moment is running into an interstellar dust belt, and the dense interstellar dust cloud blocks the starlight shining on the earth in all directions, which leads to the disappearance of stars. This inference satisfies the above conditions, but it also has unexplainable fatal loopholes. If all the above-mentioned stars are to be covered up, the dust cloud must be very large and thick, so it must be observable by human beings. However, humans have not noticed any interstellar dust clouds of a certain scale around the solar system. Moreover, the dense appearance of star anomalies has never occurred in the past few months. If this phenomenon is explained by the theory of dust cloud obscuration, then it is obvious that a few months ago The solar system has not yet entered into this dust cloud, but after only a few months of operation, has the solar system moved deep enough into the interior of this dust cloud, so that the starlight of so many stars is blocked?

The theory of gravitational lensing also faces the threat of its own loopholes. Although it can explain the abnormal disappearance of one or several stars, but this phenomenon occurs in all directions of the universe. Could it be that so many strong gravitational sources appear in so many different directions of the universe at the same time? This is too much of a coincidence. (to be continued ~^~)

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