Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 193 Don't be intimidated!
If we can't find a solution ourselves, surely those top scientists who stand at the pinnacle of humankind will have one?
With the collective wisdom of so many people, how could there not be a solution?

It was precisely because he had the support of the entire civilization that Jiang Yang was not too desperate.

He always believed that as long as he could bring back this intelligence, the scientists would always be able to come up with a solution.

But now it seems... I was wrong.

Faced with this sudden black hole, even these scientists standing at the pinnacle of civilization were helpless.

The intelligence he brought back this time had also driven them to despair.

The civilization that once seemed omnipotent, always able to come up with a solution no matter what intelligence they brought back, no matter how desperate or difficult the intelligence was, and always their strong support...

This time, I was also in despair.

The Reaper civilization, with its unimaginable technology that surpassed the limits of human civilization's imagination, completely crushed everything that human civilization was proud of, making everyone in the conference room clearly realize one thing.

Even if we knew the truth, there would be absolutely no possibility of changing the future.

It was, after all, a black hole. Although its mass was so small that it had never been found in the universe before, it was still a black hole, a black hole large enough to devour everything.

Even if you turned the entire Earth into a hydrogen bomb and bombed it, it wouldn't be able to damage it in the slightest. Instead, it would absorb some of the energy and become even stronger.

There is only one mechanism known to humankind that can damage black holes.

Hawking radiation.

Similar to the negative mass in the underground passage during the first apocalypse: only particles with negative mass among the virtual particle pairs that the black hole devours can cause its own mass to decrease until it perishes.

This is a spontaneous physical mechanism that occurs continuously around every black hole.

Apart from this, no known theory can impair the mass of a black hole.

However, the larger the mass of a black hole, the longer its lifespan. At this moment, this black hole, with a mass three times that of Earth, has a lifespan of 1.2 x 10^52 years, which is 8.7 x 10^41 times the current age of the universe.

Even a black hole with a mass equivalent to only Mount Everest would have a lifespan of 3.2 x 10^22 years, which is 2.3 trillion times the age of the universe.

This is without considering the cosmic microwave background radiation. If this factor is taken into account, the lifespan of black holes would be even longer.

Because the larger the mass of a black hole, the lower its temperature, even lower than the cosmic microwave background radiation of 2.725K.

According to the laws of thermodynamics, their mass will not decrease, but will instead continuously draw energy from the microwave background radiation to cover the mass lost due to Hawking radiation, causing them to continuously increase in size.

Only black holes with masses as low as around 100,000 tons have lifespans shortened to a few months or a year.

Relying on natural mechanisms like Hawking radiation to wait for black holes to disappear would take forever, even until the end of time and the universe.

So... what can we do?
Looking at the silent leading experts from their respective fields and disciplines, Jiang Yang's heart sank.

In the silence, Sun Changhe suddenly chuckled softly.

A smile appeared on his aged face, and there was no heaviness in his soft laughter.

All eyes turned to him.

Sun Changhe slowly said, "Yes, a black hole is indeed something to despair about."

It's like a giant appearing before ants; just looking at him is enough to make the ant colony lose all will to resist.

No amount of perseverance, courage, wisdom, struggle, or unity matters in the face of this giant.

But perhaps we're all mistaken. Is the ants' true objective to defeat this giant? Just as our true objective right now might be to destroy this black hole?

No, it is not.

Don't be intimidated by the enemy's strength!

The ants never thought—at least not at this stage—about defeating this giant; all they wanted was to survive and reproduce.

Just like us right now, must we destroy that black hole?
If that's the case, then we certainly have reason to despair. I would advise everyone to give up any resistance, enjoy these last 86 days of your life, spend time with your loved ones and family, do things you've always wanted to do but never had the chance to, and make up for some past regrets.

but!

We are not thinking about destroying that black hole right now!
All we want is to survive, and for our civilization to continue!

That's all!

At this point, Sun Changhe's smile vanished abruptly, replaced by utmost seriousness and solemnity. His voice, no longer gentle, became stern.

"Fellow countrymen, don't be fooled by the little tricks of the harvester's civilization!"
They want to scare us, to make us subconsciously associate the continuation of civilization with the destruction of black holes, equating them as one and the same thing.

However, these two are unrelated in a certain sense!
We don't necessarily need to destroy that black hole to ensure the continuation of our civilization!

A ripple of emotion stirred within Jiang Yang.

"Director Sun, without destroying the black hole... how can civilization continue?"

On behalf of the thousands of participants in the virtual conference room at that moment, he asked Sun Changhe this question.

Sun Changhe's voice remained serious: "I am not a scientist, and I cannot analyze this issue from a scientific perspective."

I can only consider the question from a common-sense and strategic perspective: how exactly did this black hole appear next to Earth?

Jiang Yang was somewhat puzzled.

I already answered this question before.

"It appeared suddenly without warning."

Did it really appear out of nowhere?

His gaze toward Jiang Yang was stern, making Jiang Yang feel as if he had become a primary school student, being severely questioned by his teacher.

His brain instinctively started working quickly, trying to figure out where he had gone wrong.

The next moment, he suddenly froze.

Indeed, really... did it appear suddenly?
This universe is a physics-driven universe. Our scientific theories may still be relatively basic and not deep enough, but the major aspects are generally correct.

Just as the existence of relativity does not negate Newtonian mechanics, does it mean that Newtonian mechanics can be denied?
No, people simply recognize that Newtonian mechanics is an approximation of matter moving at low speeds; it has limitations, but it is not wrong.

So... even if the Reaper civilization's technology is advanced, can it negate our existing scientific system?

That's also not possible.

So, are there really black holes that defy the laws of physics and suddenly appear around Earth without any warning?
I'm afraid not.

If it can't be... then how did it come about?
(End of this chapter)