Earth Era

According to Rodriguez, the mass of the black hole in the base is about 100 million tons. Calculated according to Schwarzschild's formula, the event horizon radius of such a black hole is only about one point five times ten minus sixteen meters. For comparison, the radius of a proton is about 8.5 times ten minus sixteen meters. In other words, the size of a black hole with a mass of 100 million tons is only about one-sixth the size of a black hole. Proton size.

This is completely within the scope of the microscopic world, and it is naturally impossible for the human eye to see it. No matter how huge its gravity is, calculated according to the gravity formula, the gravity has shrunk sharply to only about 7,000 times the Earth's gravity after one centimeter away from it, and this number is difficult to cause changes in light visible to the naked eye.

So this black hole is actually invisible. But now Rodriguez said, "I have a way for you to see it," which made Zhao Lan feel strange.

But after a moment, Zhao Lan suddenly understood, "Well, Rodriguez is probably going to feed the black hole."

Black holes are invisible. In real astronomical observations, people cannot see the black hole except to infer its existence through its impact on the surrounding space and matter. Its influence on the surrounding space is generally divided into three aspects: one is gravitational lensing, the other is attracting surrounding stars to rotate around it, and the third is eating.

If an astronomical telescope sees a sudden distortion of a certain river system in the sky, or observes two identical river systems at the same time, then people can probably know that a black hole has passed between this river system and the earth. And it uses its own gravity to distort the light transmitted from the river system to the earth, so that strange phenomenon appears on the earth. This is the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. And if people observe a star or a neutron star rotating around an invisible point, then people can probably know that there is a black hole there. And if extremely strong gamma rays and X-rays suddenly burst out in a certain place, then people can probably know that there is a hungry black hole there that is frantically devouring surrounding matter.

These three phenomena can mark the existence of black holes. Therefore, although people cannot see black holes directly, they can still find black holes through various phenomena. But it is obvious that the small black hole in the base cannot be marked through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing or star rotation. Then there is only the last possibility left, which is to mark the existence of the black hole through its feeding.

"Miss Zhao Lan, you are the first scientist outside the base to actually see a black hole eating." Rodriguez said with a smile. "Today happens to be the day when our base helps government research institutions deal with hazardous waste. About a ton of hazardous waste will be dropped into the black hole. You can watch the whole process."

"Really...?" Zhao Lan felt faintly excited.

"Yes." Rodriguez nodded, "In the past, when the government disposed of these hazardous wastes, it had to pay about 5,000 human coins for each gram of waste, and the company founded by the boss offered The price is one thousand human coins per gram of waste. We have saved the government four-fifths of the waste disposal funds. And all we need to do... is just to throw them into the black hole, that's it Simple."

Zhao Lan couldn't help but shook his head in disbelief. If there are one thousand human coins per gram, one ton is one billion human coins... This price is enough to buy your own Sylvia spaceship.

One billion human coins is a wealth that ordinary people cannot accumulate without eating or drinking in their lifetime. As a scientist himself. However, his total monthly income is only a little more than 10,000 human coins. If it were not for the special award from the government, which gave him a spaceship in the name of his ancestor Zhao Huasheng, he would never have been able to do so in this life. Afford a private spaceship. For Li Yunfan's base, one billion human coins is just as simple as feeding a ton of dangerous waste to a black hole.

"This... it's too easy to make money." Zhao Lan thought silently, "No wonder Li Yunfan was able to accumulate so much money in a short period of time."

"Look... they're already starting," Rodriguez said, pointing to another display screen.

So Zhao Lan saw several staff members wearing full-body protective clothing operating a forklift-like machine and placing a tightly sealed large box on a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt continued to rotate, transporting the box deep into a machine.

"This machine is the entrance to the black hole. Black holes are too dangerous. In order to prevent accidents, no one, including all matter, except this conveyor belt, is allowed to go near the black hole." Rodriguez He introduced, "You see... it has been processed by an electric field. The instrument that binds the black hole will control its movement through the electric field and accurately drop it into the black hole."

Through another monitor, Zhao Lan saw that the large iron box wrapping the black hole began to slowly expand, expanding from two meters to about eight meters before stopping. A hole with a length and width of more than half a meter was opened on it.

"Before the box is opened, the vacuum inside the glass cover has been evacuated, so there is no need to worry about the black hole accidentally eating." Rodriguez said.

Zhao Lan nodded. If there is not a vacuum inside the glass cover, the black hole will first absorb all the air around it, and then under the action of air pressure, the air in other parts will continue to converge towards the black hole. Until the black hole finally sucks out all the air in the glass enclosure. And if the glass cover and the base are connected to each other, then the black hole will absorb the air in the entire base. And if this base is connected to the natural environment...then the black hole will stay here. It could also one day suck the Earth's entire atmosphere into itself. Of course, the most likely scenario is that after the black hole absorbs a certain amount of air and increases its mass to a certain level, the electric field-bound instrument can no longer support its existence in the air, and it will fall directly, and then penetrate everything to reach the The center of the earth will eventually swallow up the entire earth.

The box containing dangerous waste finally appeared inside the glass cover, then suspended in the air and began to slowly fall toward the black hole. As it fell, a number on the display kept jumping and expanding. Zhao Lan knew that that number showed the size of the black hole's gravity that the sealed box was experiencing at the moment.

When it came to the gap in the iron box that bound the black hole, the gravity reading was one-thirty-seventh. The distance is five meters, that is to say, when it is five meters away, the gravity of the black hole it experiences is one-thirty-seventh of the gravity of the earth.

When the distance is shortened to three meters, the gravity of the black hole it experiences is about one-third of the Earth's gravity.

When the distance is shortened to one meter, the gravity of the black hole it experiences is about two-thirds of the Earth's gravity.

Coupled with the gravity of the earth itself, the gravity it experiences is nearly twice the gravity of the earth. But twice the gravity of the earth has no effect on the material of this sealed box.

As the distance between it and the black hole became shorter and shorter, until it was only two decimeters away... something strange happened. This black hole can be approximately regarded as a particle, but this box is a macroscopic object and cannot be regarded as a particle. Therefore, there must be a gap in the distance between its different parts and the black hole. Just like now, the distance between its center and the black hole is only two decimeters, but the distance between its edge and the black hole is still about 5.8 decimeters. This will cause a huge gravitational gap. The pressure on the part two decimeters away from the black hole is seventeen times the Earth's gravity, while the gravity on its edge is only twice the Earth's gravity.

As a result, the center of the sealed box began to bulge toward the black hole, and the bulge became smaller toward the edge. As the electric field control instrument controlled it to get closer and closer to the black hole, the bulge in the center of the sealed box became larger and larger until the distance was only four centimeters... The bulge was pulled by more than 400 times the gravity of the earth. Next, it finally broke. So a thin strip extended from the sealed box toward the invisible black hole. When the matter was only one centimeter away from the black hole, the gravity had risen to 6,800 times the Earth's gravity. When the distance shortened to When the distance is only one millimeter, the gravity is 680,000 times that of the Earth. When the distance is shortened to only one tenth of a millimeter, the number is 68 million times...and this number has exceeded the neutron star. Gravity strength.

So the whole box was torn into pieces. It was pulled into a long strip by the black hole, and began to rotate crazily around the black hole. During the rotation, it was gradually swallowed into its body by the black hole. During the rotation process, these materials collided, so extremely bright visible light was emitted, which was extremely dazzling in the dark box. Zhao Lan knew that this was only what he saw. There were also a large number of gamma rays and other radiation bands released in the wavelength bands that he could not see.

This process continued for a while, and then all the matter was swallowed up by the black hole, and darkness and silence returned to the box. Up to one ton of hazardous waste, which required human civilization to pay a billion human coins to dispose of, was easily swallowed up by the black hole, completely and completely disappearing from the visible universe. (To be continued ~^~)