Earth Era

After hearing Zhao Lan's words, Rodriguez replied: "Of course, Miss Zhao Lan, of course you have this authority. Please come with me to my office, and I will share all the information about that strange space. Leave it to you."

Zhao Lan followed Rodriguez and took the elevator down the stands. On the way to the office, Zhao Lan once again appreciated the hugeness and advancedness of this base. The countless intertwined cables, countless display screens and buttons made Zhao Lan feel a little dazzled. Although Zhao Lan often conducts relevant scientific research and calculations, this is the first time Zhao Lan has seen such a scene.

Zhao Lan also saw a fully enclosed building that occupies a very large area compared with other buildings. Zhao Lan had already noticed this when he was on the stands just now. It was a cuboid box-like building with a length and width of about 200 meters and a height of more than ten meters. Unlike other buildings, its top was also closed by a metal plate, so it could not be seen from anywhere. internal structure. When passing by the gate of this building, Zhao Lan saw that the heavy metal plate gate was tightly closed, with a very advanced and complicated combination lock installed on it, and a very conspicuous "" Anyone not allowed to enter without permission" text warning.

If the existence of this base is a secret, then this cuboid building is a secret among secrets. The warning words on it are obviously to warn the staff inside the base, and this means that even the staff inside the base probably do not have the authority to go inside.

Rodriguez noticed Zhao Lan's expression, and also saw Zhao Lan's curiosity about this cuboid building. But Rodriguez just smiled lightly and didn't give any explanation for it.

Walked all the way to Rodriguez's office, and then Rodriguez picked up the microphone to give some instructions, and a moment later, a staff member sent a thick document.

"You can watch here slowly, it doesn't matter how long it takes." Rodriguez said, "If you need any help, please press this alarm bell, and I will come here immediately."

"Okay. Thank you." Zhao Lan replied, and Rodriguez left the office. By the way, he closed the office door.

The office is spacious, and the various layouts are full of modern technology. This office belongs to Rodriguez, and Zhao Lan can tell from the layout of this office that the owner of this office must have a high status in this base.

"Rodriguez probably belongs to the level of the general manager. When Li Yunfan is away, Rodriguez is probably in charge of the daily operation of the base." Zhao Lan secretly guessed, but didn't think about it in this regard. too deep. Zhao Lan didn't want to. I am also not interested in knowing too deeply about this hidden underground force. Zhao Lan is just an ordinary scientist, and in the foreseeable future, Zhao Lan has no plan to break his living situation.

Zhao Lan picked up the stack of materials, and the conspicuous title on the first page came into Zhao Lan's eyes.

Zhao Lan read silently: "The logbook of the seventh Jupiter expedition."

What the document begins to describe is clearly a space voyage, and the destination of this space voyage is clearly Jupiter. This document describes in detail the departure, journey, destination and return of this interstellar spacecraft, ranging from the latest scientific research discoveries in field exploration to the air circulation system information of the spacecraft during its voyage. All recorded. Zhao Lan was not interested in these details, but what this document generally told Zhao Lan was a little surprised.

The government of human civilization has not led the manned landing activities of Jupiter and its satellite system, and private Jupiter exploration activities are strictly prohibited—almost every year there will be media reports that adventurers encounter accidents and eventually die in space. But according to the records on this document, the founder of the base named Li Yunfan has carried out at least seven Jupiter landings, and returned successfully each time.

"If even an underground person has the ability to land on Jupiter and its satellite system... it represents the entire human civilization. The human government that can mobilize the resources of the entire human civilization is of course also capable of landing on the Jupiter system, and it is a much larger-scale landing operation. But the human government has never taken any action in this regard. From this point of view...the government is too conservative. Perhaps...the human government has lost the courage and interest to continue exploring space, and only satisfies achievements so far.”

This situation made Zhao Lan sigh in his heart. But Zhao Lan also didn't get too entangled in this matter. Zhao Lan flipped through these messy records, and directly turned to the most critical record.

This is a record made from the first perspective of Li Yunfan. In this record, Li Yunfan wrote: "During the return journey of the seventh expedition to Jupiter, I chose a brand new route that no one has traveled before. But during the journey, I discovered some Very strange thing."

"During this return trip, I have been observing the river system numbered 23920917BQ1. This is a distant river system that is very far away from the earth, at least seven billion light-years away. This ancient river system seems to be experiencing a new A round of star birth, which means many things. So I have always been interested in it. But for some reason, when I advanced to a distance of about 70 million kilometers from the orbit of Mars, in my telescope All traces of this distant river system were suddenly lost."

"The forward speed of the Yuanwang spacecraft I was traveling relative to the sun was 220 kilometers per second, and after I continued to sail for about eight hours, this distant star appeared again in my telescope. The traces of the river system. This made me very puzzled. The fuel reserves in the Yuanwang spaceship were still sufficient, so I controlled the spaceship to slow down, and then slowly returned to the area just now. It was exactly as I expected In that way, this distant river system once again disappeared from my field of vision."

"I drove the Yuanwang spacecraft back and forth in this area continuously. After hundreds of attempts, I finally roughly measured the length, width, and height of this area. These three data are 6 million kilometers, respectively. Two million kilometers, 1.3 million kilometers. As long as I am in this area, my telescope will not be able to observe that distant river system, as long as I leave this area, that distant river system will reappear."

"Because of the fuel limit, I had to leave this strange area and return to Earth. Then, after a few months of rest, I drove the spaceship to this place again. This time I conducted a survey of the strange area. More detailed measurements have finally outlined the general appearance of this area, and it has been determined that it is advancing towards the inner solar system at a speed of about one kilometer per second. If there is no accident, it will approach the earth in about four years. At that time, it may overlap with the earth, but what kind of impact it will have on the earth is unknown."

Attached to this passage is an image, which is irregular in shape, probably like clouds in the sky, some places are long and others are short. Obviously, this image is the appearance of the strange space measured by Li Yunfan.

"I lead some scientists, and with the help of my reputation in the scientific community, I obtained some help from other scientists on the premise of ensuring that the existence of this strange space is not exposed, and then I have some questions about the nature and origin of the strange space. I started research. I tried to find out why some specific distant celestial bodies could not be observed within this space. During the research, I found that besides the river system numbered 23920917BQ1, there are other total More than 300 recorded galaxies cannot be observed in this space, and the positions of these galaxies in the celestial sphere are different. This negates the possibility of being blocked by interstellar dust clouds and other reasons. "

"The team I lead made a lot of speculations and conducted a lot of research work, and finally came to the conclusion that "the phenomenon of abnormal disappearance of stars has nothing to do with the stars themselves", and "this phenomenon is an accidental phenomenon, and it has never been observed by us before." We have reached "two conclusions. But it is limited to this. Besides, our research has not gained much until I accidentally measured pi once in this strange space."

"There is no doubt that pi is a fixed value, and it will not change due to changes in the environment. No matter where you measure pi, it should be the same value. But... all I have in this space The measured pi is slightly larger than the pi measured under normal circumstances. The 80 millionth place of the normal pi is two, but the 80 millionth place of the pi I measured here is not two, but It is three. I then measured the sum of the interior angles of the triangle, and the conclusion is that... the sum of the interior angles of the triangle here is less than one hundred and eighty degrees."

A word immediately popped up in Zhao Lan's mind, Lobachevsky space. The situation described in Li Yunfan’s material fits well with the Lobachevsky space. Only in the Lobachevsky space can the pi be greater than π and the sum of the interior angles of a triangle be less than 180 Spend.

"However, Lobachevsky space is just a concept in mathematics, how could it appear in the real world..." Zhao Lan was full of doubts. (to be continued ~^~)

PS:  Second update~