Genius Club.

Chapter 279 Weird! Space-time particles!
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At Hongqiao Airport, the Boeing plane roared and accelerated, rushed onto the runway, raised its head, and flew southwest to Guizhou...

The Lunar New Year is coming soon, and it is the peak season for returning home.

Even the first-class cabin, which is usually sparsely populated, was packed today. Fortunately, the cabins are all independent wraparound cabins, so the space is still very spacious and the privacy is well protected. Most passengers either closed their eyes to rest or watched programs on the small TV.

Last night, after receiving Liu Feng’s excited call, Lin Xian booked the earliest flight to Guizhou.

【Space-time particles, found! 】

This exciting news not only excited Liu Feng, but Lin Xian was also eager to hear it.

The earliest.

When Liu Feng proposed different Planck scales in different time and space, space-time gaps, and space-time particles that penetrate the wall of space-time...

Lin Xian didn't say he didn't believe it.

But I didn’t really believe it too much. It felt like listening to a fantasy novel.

So I never thought about it deeply.

Just think, let's wait and see; before we actually find the space-time particles, studying space-time clocks and space-time curvature are all meaningless.

After all, these subsequent theories must be based on the premise that space-time particles exist to be meaningful, otherwise, they are just empty words.

And now.

After three months of searching at the Guizhou Sky Eye, Liu Feng finally found the existence of space-time particles.

Tiny particles from other time and space...

A Planck scale different from the current universe...

A benchmark for measuring changes in the curvature of space-time...

A reference for judging the deviation of the world line...

It is difficult for Lin Xian to describe his current mood.

To sum it up...

I can’t believe that such a thing as space-time particles really exists!

and so.

Without further ado, Lin Xian decided to go to Guizhou Sky Eye to find Liu Feng immediately, to learn about the observation results in detail and to formulate the next capture plan.

Now, Lin Xian was wearing a blindfold, lying on his back on the seat which was as flat as possible.

In his empty mind, he was still thinking about the thoughts that were suddenly interrupted by the dance yesterday -

What is the purpose of Jask, the world's richest man and member of the Genius Club, coming to find me this time?
It looks like just a simple greeting.

He also studied the wax block of the seal that was stuffed into his mouth. There was nothing hidden inside. It was just an ordinary wax block, and it wasn't particularly exquisite... It gave people the feeling that it was a handmade work made by Jask himself.

But whether it is exquisite or not is not important.

The authentic and unique logo of the Genius Club on the wax block is the best proof of Jask's identity.

There is no doubt that unlike Ji Xinshui, who is a peripheral member or reserve but is only given a glimpse of the future, Jask is definitely one of the official members of the Genius Club.

Lin Xian was very sure of this.

Because believers like Ji Xinshui, who worship and want to join the Genius Club wholeheartedly, have always been very cautious and careful. His timidity is fully reflected in his fear that he will miss the qualification to join the Genius Club because of doing something wrong or saying something wrong.

Therefore, he always kept things like Copernicus, the seal of the Genius Club, and the style of the invitation letter deep in his heart, and never mentioned them even to Ji Lin, the person he trusted the most. This was enough to show how much he valued and was cautious about them.

But Jask...

No one cares at all.

He directly handed the wax seal to himself during the handshake and revealed his identity:
“I am a member of the genius club.”

This made Lin Xian very confused.

I am not a member of the organization, can I tell others about this? What is Jask's purpose in revealing his identity to me?
Do you want to train yourself to be a lackey like Ji Xinshui who works hard for him?

Or……

Want to win me over? Want to become my teammate?
Or...

Just like the oriole, Jask also has his own unique purpose, so he is guiding himself and reminding himself?
"Hey……"

Lin Xian let out a long sigh.

too messy.

As more and more members who are suspected to be or similar to the Genius Club appear around him, the nature and essence of the Genius Club becomes more and more confusing.

Presumably, the answer to this question will only be revealed after receiving an invitation letter from the genius club and actually joining it, right?

"See you in heaven..."

He murmured the words Jask had left behind.

How should this be understood?
Sky, space, moon, universe...

Where exactly is heaven?
He pushed aside the blindfold and looked out through the porthole next to him.

The plane has now left the airport and is slowly gaining altitude. It will pass through the troposphere with strong winds and turbulence and reach the stratosphere for a stable flight.

As the height increases.

The buildings and cities on the ground quickly shrank and became model-sized ornaments. Then, after the plane sank into the clouds, everything in sight was pale and nothing could be seen clearly.

After the altitude rises for a while and breaks through the clouds, you can overlook the rolling sea of ​​clouds below, as if you are standing in a fairyland.

When the plane reaches a higher altitude and reaches the stratosphere above 1 meters for stable flight, the rolling sea of ​​clouds will become scattered cotton candy due to the distance, and the originally unclear ground scenery will become clear again.

This is an altitude of more than 1 meters, which is the normal flight altitude of civil airliners. Generally speaking, the maximum flight altitude of civil airliners is 1 meters, which is already its limit.

This height...

Is this what Jask meant by heaven?
Lin Xian came back to his senses and looked at the small TV in the headache cabin seat in front of him. He felt that VV had been unusually quiet since the fireworks last night.

"VV?"

He tried calling out.

"I'm here, Lin Xian."

VV's voice sounded depressed.

"what happened to you?"

Lin Xian was a little surprised:

"After setting off the fireworks for Zhao Yingjun yesterday... you became silent, as if you had lost your energy. What were you thinking about?"

"I don't know, Lin Xian..."

VV said in the Bluetooth headset:
"I obviously didn't think about anything, but... I had an indescribable feeling, as if I was in a bad mood."

"Mood?" Lin Xian chuckled:
"Don't you understand or comprehend emotions?"

"I really can't understand it."

VV replied:

"But even if I searched all the databases, I couldn't find a word that better fits my current state than 'mood'. It's really hard for me to describe this feeling. I can't just say that my memory is in a mess, my hard drive has too many bad sectors and data fragments, my CPU's silicone grease has dried up and the temperature is too high, or my network cable has been chewed by a mouse, causing the network speed to slow down, right?"

After another silence, VV said:

"Lin Xian, I think I need to take a break for a while. I feel like I have to think this matter and this state of mine through. Perhaps... this is also part of my iterative evolution. I don't know what I will become after I break through this bottleneck, but... if I don't break through this level, I won't be able to convince myself, and I will also feel confused."

Lin Xian nodded:
"I understand."

He thought of the end of the third dream, the Rhine Sky City that rose and fell like a heartbeat, and the shabby trash can that seemed to have come to life.

What counts as life?
What is the real mind and soul?
perhaps……

This is the crucial evolution that VV is breaking through:
"Go ahead, VV, but you still have to protect my safety. Pay attention to the danger signals within a few kilometers around me, and notify me immediately if there is any danger."

"Don't worry, Lin Xian."

VV said calmly:
"What I mean by rest is not to use my computing power for learning and iterative evolution. Instead, I use all my energy and computing power to think about the problems that are bothering me, just like meditating. This does not affect my protection of you, nor does it affect my 24-hour surveillance of Jask."

"If you need anything, just call me immediately and I will definitely show up right away."

Say it.

There was no sound in the headphones.

Lin Xian knew that VV had left.

This kind of telepathy is really a magical thing.

It is clearly just a data stream, without quality, entity, or any specific location.

but.

Lin Xian could indeed feel VV's departure.

This is probably the emotion that even humans themselves cannot figure out.

……

Guizhou, Pingtang County, Dawodang, the feed cabin of the Sky Eye radio telescope.

"Lin Xian, come and have a look." Liu Feng pulled Lin Xian to the front of the lab table, pointed to the messy pile of drawings in front of him, and pulled out one:
"Look, these are the capture parameters I input into the Sky Eye radio telescope. Through these parameters, we can analyze the weak signals scattered in the universe at all times, so as to--"

Lin Xian waved his hand and interrupted Liu Feng:

"Skip the process and just tell me the answer."

"it is good."

Liu Feng was simple and clear. He pushed all the messy papers in front of him aside, took out a globe in a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner, and placed it on the table.

“This is Earth.”

After that, he took out a pen holder and placed it a little further away from the globe:

“This is the sun.”

Then he clenched his fist and placed it diagonally above the globe:
“It’s the moon.”

"In fact, the positional relationship of these three celestial bodies is constantly changing, moving quickly, and changing positions at any time in the universe. But in order to make it simple and straightforward for you to understand, I will demonstrate it like this first. After all, you don't care about some details. You just need to understand what space-time particles are and where they are."

"That's right." Lin Xian nodded:

“Let’s start the show.”

"I originally thought that these [space-time particles] that can pass through the cracks in the space-time wall should be very small, because according to my previous inference, these particles must be small enough to pass through the Planck gap."

Liu Feng spoke faster and faster:
"But! According to my observations, this is not the case! The space-time particle I observed is very large! Of course, this large size is only relative to microscopic particles. According to calculations, the size of this space-time particle should be about the same size as a baseball, a fist, an apple, or an orange!"

"So big?"

Lin Xian frowned:

"How could such a large thing possibly pass through the wall of time and space? Not to mention the wall of time and space... it can't even penetrate a brick wall or a tennis net. How can it travel through time and space? Unless the wall of time and space is not intact, with a crack, a hole, or even collapsed."

"Yes, that's what you said!"

Liu Feng looked serious:

"Now, it's no longer a question of cracks in the wall of space-time. The fact that space-time particles of this scale can be observed is enough to prove that—"

"【There are cracks in time and space!】"

"We don't know where this crack is or how big it is, but it is definitely much larger than the microscopic scale we imagined! Just think about it, since a space-time particle the size of an apple or a baseball can penetrate through it... then there are so many things that can penetrate through! For example, energy, physical matter, and -"

"【people】."

Lin Xian replied in a low voice.

The image of the Riddler Huang Que emerged in his mind. He recalled her azure glass pupils that were like luminous bodies, and her mysterious and prophetic abilities... He raised his head and looked at Liu Feng:

"【Time Traveler】."

Lin Xian said word by word:
"Since cracks can exist between time and space, and since space-time particles can pass through, then other things must also have a way to pass through. A thousand-mile dam is destroyed by an ant hole, that's the reason. Of course... quoting this allusion here is not quite appropriate. I just want to express that if space-time cracks are allowed to appear within the rules of the universe and the rules of time and space, then there must be time travelers!"

"Actually, I'm more curious. You said..."

"[Is it the time traveler's behavior of traveling through time and space that created the time-space rift; or is it that the time-space rift appeared first, and then the time traveler could appear?]"

"This is a question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, the rule or the phenomenon. What do you think?"

Ok……

Liu Feng held his chin and thought for a while.

Lin Xian always has a lot of ideas and comes up with some inexplicable but constructive opinions.

Time travelers are a setting that often appears in movies and novels. To be honest, Liu Feng didn't think about it in this direction at first.

This is also a question that cannot be verified or falsified.

The famous physicist Hawking once conducted a "time traveler" experiment to prove that there are no time travelers in the world.

Without telling anyone, he held a "Time Traveler Party" alone in a classroom. Then the next day, he sent out an open invitation on the Internet, stating the location of the party and inviting time travelers to attend the party last night.

According to his logic.

If time travel is really possible in the future, then those time travelers will definitely be able to see the invitations they sent out, and then appear in the classroom where the party was held at that time yesterday.

however.

No one came to the party last night and Hawking was the only one in the room the whole night.

So, he used this interesting logic experiment to rule out the possibility of time travelers.

Of course... this experiment is not rigorous and is somewhat taken for granted. But his ideas do provide a new way of thinking in many fields and still have some teaching significance.

Do time travelers really exist?

Of course Liu Feng wasn't sure either.

He didn't believe it before.

but……

At the moment, Lin Xian is right.

Since space-time particles from other space-times can come to their space-time through space-time cracks, why can't humans do the same?

"I think..."

Liu Feng licked his lips and said:

"If I have to make an assumption, I think a space-time rift must appear first before time travel can be realized and time travelers and time travelers can appear."

"But if you dwell on this, there will be no end to it. The next question is - how did the space-time rift appear? Was it man-made? Or is it a natural phenomenon? After all, a space-time rift would not appear for no reason, right? There must be a trigger."

"Okay, Lin Xian, let's not talk about this for now. I haven't finished telling you about the space-time particles yet."

Liu Feng took a step towards the table, took out a tea egg, and placed it on the other side of the pen holder, which was now the symbol of the sun:
"We assume that this tea egg is a space-time particle, and its trajectory is like this."

Liu Feng held the tea egg in his left hand and let it pass directly past the sun, then flew straight towards the earth without any arc.

finally.

The tea egg hit the globe, symbolizing that the space-time particles reached the earth's atmosphere.

"That's it."

Liu Feng explained:
"It is impossible to find out where this space-time particle first appeared or where the space-time crack is. Anyway, it is now passing the sun quickly and flying straight towards the earth."

"According to my preliminary estimate, it will take about two months for it to reach the Earth's atmosphere, but I can't analyze its specific trajectory because this space-time particle is really amazing. Its... its movement trajectory is very irregular and keeps changing irregularly, but its general direction remains unchanged. It is indeed heading towards the Earth."

"Moreover, this space-time particle is indeed something from outer space-time! Do you know how amazing it is? I analyzed its wavelength data and found out... this space-time particle is very stable! Stable to the point of abnormality! It has no mass, no entity, and is not affected by any external forces! It does not react with any matter!"

"It's as if... it's as if this space-time particle is not on the same level as our universe! We can only see them in the same picture with our naked eyes, but they are not on the same level at all. Can you understand this magical feeling? It's like a ghost... You can see it, but you can't touch it; you can't attack it, you can't interfere with it, and you can pass through any object. To put it in a more mysterious way, it's like being outside the Three Realms and not in the Five Elements."

"I understand."

Lin Xian nodded.

Rather...

It is precisely because of such characteristics that it may be a space-time particle, which makes it more reasonable in theory.

Ok……

Ok?
"wrong."

Lin Xian suddenly thought of something:

"No, no, no...something is wrong."

He turned his head and looked at Liu Feng, feeling the air in the feed cabin gradually becoming colder:

"You said that this space-time particle is not affected by any external force, but this is unscientific!"

"Our Earth, the Sun, and even the Milky Way are not static in the entire universe, but are all moving very fast. The Earth revolves around the Sun under the gravitational force of the Sun; the Sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way under the gravitational force of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way; the Milky Way itself is rotating, and the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are attracting and approaching each other, and are expected to collide in 40 billion years..."

"So, the position of our Earth in the universe is constantly changing and moving. I've told you before that the Earth revolves around the sun at 30 kilometers per second and around the Milky Way at 220 kilometers per second."

"The root of this series of movements is the attraction of [gravity]. And you just said that the space-time particle is completely unaffected by any external force. If it also obeys Newton's laws of mechanics... now there is no external force acting on it, it should always move in a straight line in the universe at a uniform speed, and it should be getting farther and farther away from the earth, or even be thrown away in the blink of an eye!"

"If it can be attracted by gravity, then there is no problem for it to fly towards the earth, just like a meteorite or comet, which is reasonable. But...if it is not attracted by any external force, how can it chase the earth, chase closely behind, chase straight behind, rotate and change direction with the earth, and never lose it?"

……

……

This discovery made Lin Xian think carefully and feel terrified.

This is not a natural cosmic phenomenon!
It seems as if the space-time particles are coming to find the earth with a goal and purpose!
"Yes."

Liu Feng lowered his head and gently rotated the globe with his hands:
"That's why I asked you to come here on purpose. This is also something I can't figure out. According to the normal laws of cosmic physics, it is not subject to any external attraction or interference, so it is definitely impossible for it to chase the Earth in space."

"Or, it could be that it can control its own direction, but this is unlikely because space-time particles do not have such a complex structure. Everything is very transparent and thorough."

"So, if we rule out the possibility that space-time particles can adjust their directions by themselves, then there is only one truth and answer—"

Liu Feng raised his head, looking at Lin Xian with a serious expression:

"[There is something on Earth that can attract space-time particles!]"

"Or should I say..."

"【It's a space-time particle, looking for it!】"

(End of this chapter)