Starting from a top student and marching towards the sea of ​​stars

Chapter 588 Incredible Space Folding

Seeing that Ning Chen and Song Xiyun both had gloomy expressions, Hayes quickly said with a smile:

"Of course, you two don't have to worry too much about this problem. After all, we are dozens of light years away from them. If it is just a one-light-year instantaneous shuttle, it will not have any impact on the lives of our two civilizations. However, with the current capabilities of our two civilizations, I am afraid we can't do this. Even if we combine our capabilities, we can't create such a large folded space..."

Ning Chen also expressed his approval of Hayes' conclusion. According to Ning Chen's estimation, with the current capabilities of the Blue Star civilization, it may only be able to create a space fold of one tenth of a light year, which is undoubtedly a huge gap between this "space civilization".

However, if you want to fold this space to make it even larger, the difficulty level does not increase by addition or multiplication, but by exponential level.

This means that it is definitely not an easy task for this "space civilization" to create a larger-scale folded space. Even if they are given another hundred years, they may not be able to create a folded space with a distance of ten light years.

This could be said to be a blessing in disguise, but while feeling that he had escaped a disaster, Ning Chen was also very curious about how this "space civilization" had achieved this technology.

According to Ning Chen's previous analysis, in order to create such a space folding effect, one can only rely on the huge gravity of a black hole. And to achieve a space folding on a scale of one light year, the black hole that needs to be created is undoubtedly very large.

After a simple calculation, Ning Chen knew that such a huge energy consumption was completely beyond the ability of the current Blue Star civilization to bear, and it was also a number that was completely unimaginable.

"Mr. Hayes, how do you think this 'space civilization' can do this? With the technology we know, it should be impossible to achieve this goal, right?"

Hayes nodded and said:

"Indeed, until now I still can't figure out how they did it. If they just used the huge energy released by the annihilation of antimatter and matter to create a black hole, I would never believe that they could accumulate such a huge amount of energy. But in fact, they did it, because what we see will not lie..."

Ning Chen and Song Xiyun were also unable to figure out this matter for a moment. The three of them fell into silence, silently thinking about the reasons.

A few minutes later, Ning Chen seemed to suddenly think of something and said with a very surprised expression:
"If... I mean if such a situation exists, then all of this makes sense!"

Seeing Ning Chen like this, Hayes and Song Xiyun immediately felt very curious.

"Mr. Chen Ning, please tell us what you have discovered."

"In fact, I have always had a hypothesis that the universe we live in is not the entire universe. It can even be said that it is only half of the 'universe'. Of course, the universe we live in is mainly composed of positive matter. I guess there is a universe composed of antimatter somewhere."

Song Xiyun had heard of Ning Chen's hypothesis before, but because there was no evidence to confirm Ning Chen's guess, they did not continue to explore in this direction.

This was the first time Hayes had learned about this theory. While feeling that Ning Chen's theory was very novel, Hayes also realized that Ning Chen's conjecture was indeed possible.

"This is a really creative and realistic theory! When we were studying the birth of the universe, we were also a little surprised how the large amount of antimatter was annihilated by the positive matter. If they were not really annihilated, but just gathered in places we have not yet discovered, then everything can be explained clearly."

"Yes, this is the core idea of ​​my hypothesis. Now we can simulate the universe from the beginning of the Big Bang to figure out the development process of all these situations..."

As he spoke, Ning Chen began to evolve through his brain's biological computer, and at the same time projected the evolution process onto the screen in Hayes's house.

"According to the Big Bang theory, a large amount of matter and antimatter existed in the universe at the moment of the explosion. We can assume that the universe was originally nothingness, because after the annihilation of these matter and antimatter, no residue will be left. They were originally created from nothingness..."

When the evolution of these simulations reached a certain level, the situation began to change in new and strange ways.

"After the first Big Bang, these positive and negative matter quickly annihilated each other, returning them to nothingness. However, after similar situations occurred countless times, they finally stopped gathering together and were separated by a dividing line, giving birth to two universes with completely different properties..."

Hearing Ning Chen's words, Hayes asked in surprise:
"Mr. Chen Ning, are you saying that the Big Bang didn't just happen once, but happened many times, or even countless times? Then the time it took for the universe to be born must be much longer than we originally thought!"

Every expansion and contraction of the universe takes hundreds of millions of years, but in Ning Chen's opinion, this is not something incredible.

"Yes, Mr. Hayes, these times do sound very long, but time is a concept created by us. From a material point of view, time can even be said to not exist at all. No matter how many times they go through this process, it will not affect the birth of the universe, because the universe originally has no 'time'."

After a few seconds of silence, Hayes couldn't help but sigh and said:
"Huh... What a great hypothesis. If the Big Bang really happened more than once, then it is entirely possible that some small-probability results will appear. The universe we live in now is the most ideal situation formed after countless Big Bangs."

"That's right, because after the Big Bang, a barrier was cleverly generated that could prevent matter and antimatter from annihilating each other, so that they would no longer annihilate each other, but instead each formed their own universe. This barrier does exist in theory, because our Blue Star civilization has already conducted such research..." As he spoke, Ning Chen introduced the relevant concepts to Hayes. Looking at the tangible research results, Hayes knew that this was not a concept that Ning Chen came up with on the spur of the moment.

In fact, long before Ning Chen performed human cryopreservation, he had already created a relatively simple matter-antimatter barrier, and used this technology to prevent the annihilation of matter and antimatter to improve the efficiency of collecting antimatter.

Of course, the matter-antimatter barrier created by Ning Chen is definitely not on the same level as the matter-antimatter barrier existing in the universe, but there is no obvious difference in their core principles.

"Mr. Chen Ning, I feel more and more that you are not just a simple scientific research enthusiast. These things are very confidential information. Even a professional researcher like me doesn't know them. How did you know them?"

When asked this by Hayes, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun both felt a little nervous, because this was indeed a result that was somewhat inexplicable.

However, Ning Chen quickly calmed down and said to Hayes as if nothing had happened:

"To be honest, Yunxi and I were both researchers before, but we stopped professional scientific research and became research enthusiasts. These are indeed very internal information. I hope Mr. Hayes can keep this secret and never leak this information."

"Don't worry, this is the default rule in the scientific research community. I will definitely not do anything so stupid."

Although he still felt a little suspicious about Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's past, this was Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's privacy after all, and Hayes would not delve too deeply into the things behind it.

After a brief interruption, Ning Chen continued to explain his reasoning about the matter.

"Mr. Hayes, what I want to say is that this 'space civilization' must have made some great discovery recently to be able to create such a large-scale folded space. Perhaps they have found the barrier between positive and negative matter and opened a hole in this barrier. This is a very dangerous thing, because it means that they may have obtained endless antimatter..."

"Ah... If that's the case, their danger level will indeed rise by more than two levels. And this is a very bad thing for the entire universe. It will accelerate the speed of annihilation of positive matter in our universe and even greatly reduce the life of the universe."

If Ning Chen's hypothesis is indeed true, when all the positive and negative matter are annihilated, the universe will return to nothingness again.

"Yes, this is indeed a very scary thing. Of course, there is another possibility behind this. That is, they just discovered a large amount of antimatter, but this is not antimatter from the antimatter universe. According to my theory, there may be some antimatter spheres in the universe. Because their surface is covered by the positive and antimatter barrier, they can be preserved intact in the positive matter universe."

"Well, if this is possible, it is indeed a much more ideal result. However, we are currently unable to make an accurate assessment of the situation, nor can we be sure how they did it. Alas, this feeling of the unknown really makes people feel uncomfortable."

However, Hayes would not care too much about this matter. After all, even if the development speed of this "space civilization" was so fast, they would definitely not be able to expand their influence to their own galaxy or the galaxy of the Blue Star civilization before Hayes got old. It could be said that this would not affect Hayes' safety, but at most the safety of his descendants.

Hayes is not a very "righteous" person. He feels very content as long as he can enjoy his life within the limited time and do things he likes.

But Ning Chen and Song Xiyun obviously wouldn't think this way. Even though they have said that they will live a leisurely life in the rest of their lives, when a crisis that threatens the entire civilization really emerges, they will definitely not sit idly by.

"Mr. Hayes, thank you for the information you provided us today. I think it's time for us to go back and study the recent events of this 'space civilization'."

Ning Chen's attitude made Hayes feel a little surprised, because even a professional scientific researcher like Hayes was not shocked by this, but Ning Chen, as a scientific research enthusiast, reacted so violently.

"Mr. Chen Ning, it seems that this matter is more important to you than your research on the evolution of intelligent creatures. I am really curious, what field did you mainly research in before?"

"Our research directions are quite diverse. We are not limited to a small direction, but we will conduct research in any direction we are interested in. In addition, I would like to say that when the entire civilization is facing a threat, everyone needs to make their own contribution and work hard to fight this crisis, even if they are just a scientific research enthusiast."

"Sure enough, you Blue Star people have more collective consciousness. Emotional factors are really a good thing. In our civilization, ordinary people don't even think about these things. They only think about how to live their lives within the constraints of civilization rules. It seems that it is the right thing to let me have more emotional factors in my body..."

After leaving Hayes' house, Ning Chen temporarily stopped studying the evolution of intelligent creatures. Now all Ning Chen was thinking about was how to find out the truth about how this "space civilization" could have done this.

Song Xiyun was also thinking about this matter, which meant that there was no communication between the two of them for the time being.

Only after the flying car had taken them back to their home did Ning Chen say:
"Song Xiyun, I think we must find out the truth of this matter as soon as possible. The importance of this matter is far beyond our imagination, and it is not as simple as it seems."

(End of this chapter)