Earth Era

The matter of the Red Heart spacecraft has been affecting the hearts of all human beings. Since the ship regained contact with Earth, more details about the ship have been revealed. The physical status of the astronauts, the degree of damage to the spacecraft, the progress of repairs, etc., every message will get people's attention.

Under the guidance of many experts at the ground control base, the damaged parts of the Red Heart spacecraft have been properly repaired, and the astronauts' bodies are getting better day by day. Only on the sixth day after the contact was restored, the spacecraft recovered at least 70% of its functions. This means that the solar exploration mission is finally on track again.

Just like what a TV host said, "During the Red Heart spacecraft incident, whether it was Zhao Huasheng's decisive early warning, the efforts of many experts at the ground control base, or the astronauts' willingness to risk death, The spirit of threatening to stay on the job is a necessary factor in the continuation of this solar exploration mission. This is not just a victory for one spacecraft, it is a victory for all of us. In the face of this In the course of the second solar crisis, our human civilization has achieved such a major achievement for the first time."

These five astronauts have been awarded many honorary titles before returning to Earth, and have become veritable heroes in human society. And Zhao Huasheng also gained a more outstanding reputation because of this successful early warning.

Everyone is guessing what Zhao Huasheng discovered, what was deciphered from the fragmentary information, such as some trivial messages from Director Li Qi, or some data obtained by the Solar Probe, these What do things mean to human society, and why does Zhao Huasheng hide these things from human society.

"No, it's not that I refuse to announce my conjectures to human society. It's really not the time to announce these conjectures. Because one of the most important arguments in my conjectures has not been confirmed by actual observations. Now It is irresponsible to publish speculation. As soon as I confirm that these things are correct, I will publish them immediately. In fact, the Red Heart spacecraft is doing this right now. My speculation Whether it is correct or not, the result will be obtained soon." Zhao Huasheng said.

As a result, human society is slowly moving forward amid expectations and guesses.

"Watson, I have good news today." Today, Zhao Huasheng received a call from Wang Tang, "Up to now, the Red Heart spacecraft has almost been repaired. Although some functions are still unavailable, the mission of observing the sun has been completed. It can be executed. In about another hour, a new batch of solar surface luminosity change data will be sent back to Earth."

"Very good." Zhao Huasheng replied, "I have been waiting for this moment for a long time."

"I've been waiting for a long time too." Wang Tang said with a smile, "Have you finished analyzing the light change data sent back before? Have you found anything?"

"Not found." Zhao Huasheng said, "It seems to be just some garbled codes, and the experts didn't find anything of practical significance from it. But I believe my judgment, as long as a month at most, we will be able to find us from here. Get what you want."

Wang Tang said: "I hope so. You must know that this solar storm event has seriously reduced the material reserves on the Red Heart spacecraft. The originally calculated four-month stay has now been shortened to three months. After three months, regardless of whether we have discovered anything, the Red Heart spacecraft must return. At that time, the telescope on the Red Heart spacecraft will lose its current resolution accuracy when it leaves the sun.”

"We will find out soon." Zhao Huasheng comforted Wang Tang, and then hung up the phone.

An hour later, a new batch of information sent back to Earth by the Scarlet Heart spacecraft came to the building of the Deciphering Department. Those linguists, logicians, and cryptography experts once again entered the busy work.

Time passed quietly like this for five days. On an ordinary afternoon, an exclamation suddenly came from a large office in the building of the Deciphering Department.

"Bill, take a look at these data. These data seem to be a little weird. You can quickly import these data into the program and analyze them to see if there is any relationship between them..."

Almost all the world's top logicians, linguists, and cryptography experts have been gathered here to participate in the analysis of these data. And now, one of the experts seems to have discovered something.

His face turned red from being too excited, and even his hand holding the pen trembled a little. He suddenly stood up from his seat, unaware of the documents he accidentally dropped on the floor and the chair brought down by his actions, he just shouted excitedly until another logician The expert trotted all the way to him.

Before he could be polite, the expert pointed to the data on the document in his hand, and shouted excitedly: "Look, after converting the sun's surface luminosity into a mathematical numerical description, this numerical value is continuous at different positions. It appeared seventeen times, and every time it appeared, it was followed by another value. In addition, this value also appeared many times, and there was always a gap between it and another value. More than fifty values, if this is formed naturally, then it can only be said that this is too coincidental, so coincidental that it is unbelievable."

There were just some messy numbers on that document, which made ordinary people feel dizzy when they saw it, but in the eyes of this expert, these numbers seemed to represent something magical.

"Which area did you get the data from?" The expert named Bill saw the mysteries hidden among these numbers after just looking at it for a while. He, too, immediately became agitated.

"Well, the area number is No. 36472... Wait, the data collected in No. 36473 also shows the same logical distribution pattern."

"Okay, assistant! You immediately go to inform the ground command center of the Scarlet Heart, asking them to send instructions to the spaceship, and immediately point the telescope equipped on the spaceship at the areas of 36472 and 36473. Probing, don't stop until the next order is received!" Bill immediately issued an order, "At the same time, report this matter to Watson, immediately!"

Area 36472 is an area about 130,000 kilometers away from the sun's equator. The length and width of this area are both 142 meters, which is the highest resolution accuracy that can be achieved by the telescope equipped on the Scarlet Heart spacecraft at the current distance.

The signal carrying the ground command ran through space for nearly eight minutes, and was finally received by the antenna on the Red Heart spacecraft. After transcoding, this information was broadcast to the ears of the astronauts in the form of voice.

"Guys, it seems that the ground command center has achieved some results..." Captain Raggle said, "It seems that something unusual is happening in the areas of 36472 and 473. Okay, come on, Let's adjust the telescope and see what's there..."

The luminosity change data about these two areas were continuously collected, and then sent back to the ground command center, and then transferred from the ground command center to the information deciphering department under the scientific research department.

The news that a logical connection was found in the luminosity change signals collected in these two areas spread throughout the entire deciphering department in an instant, and almost all experts were recruited temporarily to participate in deciphering the information.

After more information about the luminosity changes in the area was converted into numerical information, experts discovered more unusual things from these numerical values. At this moment, they are almost certain that there is some kind of logical connection between these values—and since there is a logical connection, it must mean that these values ​​​​mean certain information. However, because the number of samples is too small, they are temporarily unable to decipher the hidden information.

"Damn it, are you sure that the data is still obtained from those two areas? Why did the logical connection between the values ​​disappear and they become garbled characters? What? Are you sure? The instrument is not wrong? Well, then Continue to switch to the next target for observation."

I don't know why, the signal obtained from these two areas, which originally had a logical structure, turned into garbled characters again. The experts had no choice but to continue to wait. After resuming the observation, the experts waited another full day before arriving at the third area where a logical signal was sent.

This area is numbered 59380. The information in area 59380 disappeared again after maintaining a logical connection, but at this time, the next area with similar characteristics was discovered.

No. 59380, No. 61145, No. 63289... Areas were discovered one after another, and all of this information was collected by the telescope equipped on the Red Heart spacecraft , and sent back to Earth.

All the experts were summarizing and summarizing and logically analyzing all night long. With the help of a powerful electronic computing system and thanks to the huge number of samples, the experts' research finally made a breakthrough.

So, finally a stack of not too thick documents was handed over to Zhao Huasheng.

"This is the signal that the experts have deciphered from the sun," Munjo said.