Earth Era

In today's regular meeting, Zhang Hong, the head of the institute, counted today's observation data, and then said: "I have a new idea about the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars. I can't find any evidence for my idea, so I'm not responsible for the veracity of this idea. I'm just bringing it up in the hope that it can inspire some people."

"Now the focus of the anomalous disappearing celestial bodies is all on their long distances, and everyone is trying to find something from the distance, using dust cloud occlusion theory or gravitational lens, space mechanism and other things to answer this matter, but Don’t forget, distance also means time. Those abnormally disappearing stars all existed in the early days of the universe billions of years ago, and the environment of the universe at that time may be different from the environment of the universe now. Looking for some possible explanations from the aspect of time."

Using the reason of the change of the cosmic environment to explain the principle of "distance is the ratio of time to one to one" followed by the disappearance of stars is also barely explainable, so everyone began to discuss Zhang Hong's new ideas.

This idea is just a general directional proposal, and it is very difficult to verify it, but this is not a new direction of verification. But Zhao Lan felt that this explanation was untenable. Because there is one of the most obvious loopholes that cannot be answered: If it is due to the difference in the cosmic environment that this kind of star disappears abnormally, then...why has this phenomenon never been discovered by humans before? Why did this phenomenon appear intensively until now?

All attempts to explain such phenomena with "necessity" will be countered by this logic.

"Director Zhang, I don't agree with your point of view." Zhao Lan stood up and said, "I don't think...the anomalous disappearance of stars is actually not an inevitable event, that is to say, it is not because of the inevitability in the evolution of the universe. It is caused by certain mechanisms that will appear. Whether it is the theory of nebula occlusion, or the theory of gravitational lens, or the theory of the cosmic environment you are raising now, I can use a logic to refute: If the truth is like this, then why We have never discovered this phenomenon before? Why have we never discovered stars that have completely disappeared due to dust occlusion, nor have we discovered stars that have disappeared due to changes in the cosmic environment?"

Zhao Lan's words silenced all the colleagues attending the regular meeting. Because everyone found out that Zhao Lan seemed to be right. It seems that it is.

"I think...the abnormal disappearance of stars is not due to some "inevitable" reasons. It is due to accident." Zhao Lan continued: "Only accidental phenomena can explain this event, and can explain "why?" We have never found "this logical loophole before. I think ... the direction of our future work should be closer to looking for accidental events."

Zhang Hong was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "Is it a coincidence...Zhao Lan, you seem to be implying that this incident was deliberately done by some forces...You seem to be implying aliens with super powers The presence."

Zhang Hong's words seem to have no beginning and no end, but just like Zhang Hong can easily understand Zhao Lan's words, Zhao Lan can also clearly understand Zhang Hong's words.

A star is formed. Then after a long time, because of the difference in mass, it has different endings, or it turns into a white dwarf smoothly, or turns into a neutron star after a supernova explosion, or turns into a neutron star after a supernova explosion. A black hole...these are inevitable events, they obey the laws of physics.

Inevitable events are repeatable and verifiable. For example, something like a star exploding must not happen only once in the universe. It was there in the past, and it will be found in the future as well. It can be observed by people and then explore the laws that exist in it. Chances are different. Accidental events are random, and perhaps they will recur within the scope of the universe. But at least compared to the collective of human civilization, it has no or only very low frequency repeatability.

Suppose there is a law of physics in the universe that causes the universe to flicker every 10,000 years. And assuming that the lifespan of human civilization is less than 10,000 years, then in the entire life cycle of human civilization. Human beings can only see this flicker once, and this flicker only happens once compared to human civilization. Then it is accidental for human civilization. Because it only appears once, it will undoubtedly be more difficult for humans to parse it.

And since this phenomenon has never been discovered in the past since human beings have the means of astronomical observation, the following inference can be made: the reason for the abnormal disappearance of stars has never appeared in the past hundreds of years. And if we push it backwards, we can draw the conclusion that all the physical processes that have been understood by people and that have been detected and understood in the past hundreds of years cannot be the cause of the abnormal disappearance of the stars. Even if the physical process is involved in this event, it must be only a part of it, and it cannot be the whole, outside of the physical process. There must also be entirely new physical processes that have never been understood.

This is the difference between accidental events and inevitable events. This distinction seems very complicated. But to simplify, it can still be explained in one sentence: any theory that tries to explain this phenomenon must first satisfy a premise, that is: the theory must have a period interval of at least four hundred years. Because four hundred years is the length of time that human beings have the corresponding observation technology, and at the same time, if the theoretical interval period is less than four hundred years, then it must have caused a similar anomalous disappearance of stars within four hundred years , and if this is the case, then humans should have discovered this phenomenon at least once in the past.

And measured by this standard, the theory of nebula occlusion is undoubtedly unqualified, and the theory of gravitational lens is also unqualified. Because these two possibilities have always existed in the universe, and in the past, they never caused this phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars. At the same time, the cosmic environment theory proposed by Zhang Hong is also unqualified, because it also cannot meet this standard.

Therefore, from now on, any theory that tries to explain the abnormal disappearance of stars must first meet two conditions. First, the phenomenon has nothing to do with the stars themselves. system to explain.

In this way, the possibility that the anomalous disappearance of the star is a "natural event of the universe" is greatly reduced, and correspondingly, the possibility that the anomalous disappearance of the star is "caused by human force" is greatly increased. And this person in the artificial can't refer to human civilization, so... it must be referring to some kind of individual or individual aggregate with great power and self-awareness.

And the name of individual aggregate is usually called... alien civilization in the common language of human civilization.

Zhang Hong can naturally figure out the twists and turns, so Zhang Hongcai directly said that Zhao Lan was implying the existence of an alien civilization with superpowers.

In the face of Zhang Hong's doubts, Zhao Lan did not flinch: "The anomalous disappearance of stars caused by the intervention of certain superpower alien civilizations, this explanation is not entirely correct."

"What kind of alien civilization can have the ability to affect many river system-level celestial bodies in different parts of the universe at the same time...?" Zhang Hong murmured, "I can't even imagine it."

"If divided according to the classification of the Kardashov index, the civilization that can utilize the energy of an entire river system is a K3 civilization, the civilization that can utilize the energy of an entire galaxy cluster is a K4 civilization, and the civilization that can utilize the energy of an entire supergalactic cluster The civilization is K5 level, the civilization that can utilize the entire supergalactic cluster complex is K6 level, and the civilization that can utilize the energy of the entire visible universe is K7 level... Then, I think it is possible to use scientific means to cause the disappearance of so many celestial bodies at the level of the river system The level of civilization is at least K6.5. And our human civilization has just passed the threshold of K1 civilization." Zhao Lan said without hesitation, "That kind of civilization is really real for us. God-level civilization, in the face of such a civilization, it is impossible for us to have the slightest ability to resist. This is different from the original solar civilization. The solar civilization has reached the K2-level civilization level above the reverse fusion layer technology, but their comprehensive technological strength, It’s not even comparable to our human civilization back then.”

The term "K6.5 level civilization..." caused all the staff in the regular meeting to fall into silence.

That is an almost unimaginable super civilization. For such a civilization, it is possible to destroy a star with a backhand, destroy an entire river system with a single breath, or even trigger a certain process to destroy the entire universe. It is impossible to imagine the existence of this kind of civilization with the poor imagination of human beings.

That's a gap that makes people feel hopeless.

"If there really is a K6.5-level civilization, and the abnormal disappearance of stars is really caused by this civilization, then what is the point of all our efforts? Even if our technology develops for another 10,000 years, the most optimistic It is estimated that it has only developed to the level of K2.6 civilization...and we don't know if our human civilization can last for 10,000 years." A colleague murmured. (to be continued ~^~)

PS:  Where is the monthly pass?