Earth Era

The cold Siberian night is finally over. Today's weather is very clear, the sky is blue, and it seems that the fragrant lake water of Lake Baikal can be smelled in the slightly blowing air. The fly in the ointment is that it is too cold here.

After breakfast, Zhao Huasheng sat in his tent, flipping through some materials. After a while, Zhao Huasheng called out: "Mengzhuo?"

Monjo lifted the curtain and walked in, "I'm here."

"Let's go." Zhao Huasheng said, "It's time to go back."

"Where are you going?"

Zhao Huasheng pondered for a while, and said, "Let's go to Equator City."

Equator City is actually not a city, its area is even larger than a country. In the latest geographical division, the government has divided all the oceans, mountains, and land that belong to the tropics into Equatorial City. It is a vast area with the equator as the center, starting from the equator, extending 2,500 kilometers from the south to the north, with a total width of 5,000 kilometers. The total area of ​​this area is as high as 200 million square kilometers. Of course, this is the total area including mountains, deserts, oceans and many other uninhabitable terrains. After removing these places, the area that can be lived is only less than 40 million square kilometers.

All human resources and construction capabilities are tilted towards these 40 million square kilometers of land.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements." Mengzhuo nodded, turned around and was about to leave.

"Let others arrange the itinerary, Mengzhuo, I have something to ask you." Zhao Huasheng said.

Mengzhuo issued instructions to other staff members, and then returned to Zhao Huasheng's tent.

"During this period of time... how far has our human society's research on the sun progressed? Is there anything I need to know?"

"A lot of things have happened in this more than a month." Monjo nodded, and said: "Let's talk about the solar exploration first. With the efforts of many telescopes, detectors and scientific researchers, we The physical process of the emergence of low-temperature material belts on the surface of the sun has been preliminarily analyzed, and this process has even been reproduced in the physics laboratory."

"Oh? There is such a huge breakthrough? Hurry up and show me the relevant information."

Monjo nodded. It seemed that he had expected that Zhao Huasheng would have such a problem a long time ago, so he prepared the relevant materials early in the morning. After Zhao Huasheng made the request, Mengzhuo touched it from his arms, took out a stack of materials and handed it to Zhao Huasheng.

It took Zhao Huasheng about half an hour to read this document.

The reaction process, physical equations, and reaction models are listed in detail on the information. With Zhao Huasheng's scientific literacy, it is not difficult to understand this information.

To put it simply, this physical process is like this: under the extreme environment on the surface of the sun, nuclear fusion reactions may also occur in thin matter. It's just that this kind of fusion is different from the core fusion that supports the sun's burning and heating. It does not use hydrogen or helium as the fusion raw material, but uses elements heavier than these two elements as the raw material.

In the chain of fusion reactions, elements lighter than iron fuse to release energy, and elements heavier than iron, including iron, fuse to absorb energy. Of course, this is under normal conditions, and the nuclear fusion process happening on the surface of the sun at this moment is different from this. The materials involved in fusion are lighter than iron, but they also absorb energy rather than release it.

This fusion mode is named "reverse fusion" by physicists.

As for why reverse fusion occurs, this involves the difficult and obscure physical mechanism of the microcosm, which physicists still don't quite understand. They just know that reverse fusion does exist and is happening right above the surface of the sun.

The factors that trigger reverse fusion may be related to the movement of certain materials on the surface of the sun and the strong magnetic field, and may also include many other extremely harsh conditions. Physicists still don't quite know what the specific conditions are, but one thing is certain, that is, this reverse fusion process is extremely rare, even so rare that among the tens of millions of stars that astronomers have observed so far, This phenomenon only occurs on the Sun.

Then what is happening on the sun today can get a reasonable explanation. The quality of the sun does not decrease, the volume does not change, and the pressure does not change. It is only because a reverse fusion event has occurred on the surface of the sun, and the energy radiated by the sun is absorbed by the "reverse fusion layer", which leads to the solar radiation level. reduce.

But this brings up three new problems. Among these three questions, the first question is, what is the first driving force?

What is driving this reverse fusion phenomenon on the surface of the sun? According to the physicist's evaluation, the conditions produced by the reverse fusion reaction are too harsh, and the physicists spent endless efforts to reproduce this phenomenon only three times in the laboratory, which means that in the natural environment The chances of this happening spontaneously are extremely low.

On the information that Zhao Huasheng read, a physicist described the probability of reverse fusion occurring naturally: "It's like we walked into a primitive jungle where no human beings have set foot in for tens of millions of years. But unexpectedly, there happened to be a tree that had grown into a "family" brand wardrobe, we opened the door of the wardrobe, and even found that even the partitions and clothes rails had grown out of the wardrobe."

This is an almost negligible probability. Then the question arises, humans have never discovered this phenomenon on other stars in the universe, why does it appear on the sun? Is this a coincidence, or is there some force behind it?

The second question is, what force is maintaining the existence of reverse fusion?

Based on the limited understanding of the phenomenon known as reverse fusion, physicists have become certain that a number of conditions are required to sustain reverse fusion. Even if it really appeared above the sun, it couldn't last for a long time. Just like a house, if no one cleans it, it will not be able to maintain a clean and new look. So, what is the force that makes the reverse fusion layer not only exist all the time, but also expand to almost envelop the entire sun?

Another physicist left a sentence on this information: "This seems to mean the existence of aliens. I would rather believe that these things are done by aliens than believe that this is in the sun. It naturally appeared on the top, and then naturally evolved into such a big one."

The third question is, where does the energy absorbed by reverse fusion go?

Reverse fusion will also form new elements, but this element is very unstable, it can only exist in the natural environment for a very short time, and then it will explode, release all the absorbed energy, and restore it to its original state. Elements. That is to say, generally speaking, reverse fusion does not absorb energy, nor does it release energy. It simply stores energy in itself for a period of time and then releases it.

But...why have humans never observed the phenomenon of energy release on the sun? Where did all that lost energy go?

Zhao Huasheng closed the folder, and said thoughtfully: "This is an ideal Dyson sphere model. Think about it, if we can artificially manufacture such an inverse fusion layer, and then have a way to collect and preserve those "inverse fusion layers." If there is no matter, the stars will become our inexhaustible source of energy. Perhaps in the future, our spaceships no longer need any chemical and nuclear fuel, and only need to store some antimatter to complete the tasks we want to do now. An unimaginable interstellar voyage."

"So, what do you think?" Monjo asked.

"I have no opinion." Zhao Huasheng put down the folder and stood up: "The existence of the reverse fusion layer implies the existence of an alien super civilization in many ways. This alien super civilization has at least reached the K2 level. They He took a fancy to the sun, so he arranged a Dyson sphere outside the sun to collect the energy of the sun and use it for himself. As for why the sun was chosen—who knows? Maybe the sun really has something special. "

"This kind of argument has no value." Meng Zhuo shook his head and said: "After confirming the existence of the reverse fusion layer and related physical mechanisms, many scientists in the Scientific Research Department of the Crisis Management Center also believe that this is done by alien super civilizations, and even Because some optical and radio telescopes have been allocated to search for possible alien civilization spacecraft and signals, but human beings don’t care about these things, human beings only care about how to solve the current problems.”

"Many physicists, social psychologists, science fiction writers, etc. have formed a group, and this group is discussing if this K2 level civilization really exists, why they just ignore us and don't contact us, and discuss whether we should Take the initiative to contact them, and what kind of attitude should be used to contact them. Scientists are still speculating on the social model and culture of the possible K2-level civilization, and what method should be used to persuade them to let the sun go, and how to communicate with them. They touch, if they touch, will they anger them and cause the destruction of the earth and so on."

"There are more experts evaluating the information left by Li Qi and the role you will play in this incident. Combining with previous data, the experts believe that Li Qi had something to do with this K2 civilization a long time ago Contact, and then secretly found the weakness of this K2-level civilization, and then told you the method of defeating this K2-level civilization through hints."

"Yes, they are doing these things now." Mengzhuo spread his hands at Zhao Huasheng.