Reborn Before the Apocalypse: My Backing is the Nation

Chapter 98 Neutrino Oscillation

Negative matter, negative energy?
He knew that negative matter and antimatter were different. Antimatter also had positive mass, and when it encountered matter, all of its mass would be converted into energy and released as high-energy photons.

This is a more violent way of releasing energy than a hydrogen bomb.

Humans have already successfully created antimatter and have gained considerable understanding of it. For example, positrons used in some hospitals for cancer radiotherapy are a type of antimatter.

Negative matter, however, is matter with negative mass.

Based on the physics knowledge he had learned from those previous cycles, Jiang Yang suddenly thought of a certain celestial body that existed in the universe.

Black hole.

Because its gravity is so strong, nothing can escape from within the boundary of a black hole. This is because its escape velocity exceeds the speed of light in a vacuum, which is the upper limit of speed achievable by any object in the entire universe.

Even so, according to current physics research, the mass of a black hole will gradually shrink.

This leads to a contradiction: if no matter can escape a black hole, not even light, then how can the mass of a black hole shrink?
A physicist, after conducting research, proposed a theory: it is not that matter escapes from inside a black hole, but rather that matter or energy with negative mass enters the black hole from the outside.

To put it in more vivid terms, virtual particle pairs are constantly and randomly generated in the vacuum of the universe. In this pair of particles, one has positive mass and the other has negative mass.

They annihilate each other within a very short time after their birth, leaving no external impact. Therefore, from a macroscopic perspective, the law of conservation of mass-energy still holds true; matter cannot be created or destroyed out of thin air.

But around the black hole, the situation changes again.

There are three possibilities for this pair of virtual particles to enter the black hole: 1. Both particles enter the black hole and the mass of the black hole does not change.
2. Positive particles enter the black hole, but negative particles do not. However, the entry of positive particles into the black hole causes the black hole's boundary to expand, and the expanded boundary will subsequently engulf negative particles, while the black hole's mass remains unchanged.

3. Negative particles enter the black hole, while positive particles do not. Negative particles cause the black hole's boundary to shrink, creating conditions for positive particles to escape.

From the outside, it appears as if the black hole is continuously releasing radiation, causing itself to shrink.

In reality, it was particles with negative mass that entered the interior of the black hole.

So it seems... the culprit in that lunar underground tunnel that caused the corrosion of our spacesuits and weakened the hydrogen bomb's energy is actually the same as the cause of the shrinking black hole's mass: negative mass?
Jiang Yang murmured, "Hawking radiation, virtual particle pairs?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming said in a low voice, "You can understand it that way."

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Jiang Yang let out a soft breath.

He knew this was just a conjecture, and there was no guarantee that it was true. But even if it was a conjecture, it was the only one that the best team of scientists in China, and most likely in the world, could come up with.

No wonder Professor Lu Zhaoming couldn't understand why his hydrogen bombs, with a total yield of hundreds of billions of tons of TNT, couldn't destroy that underground chamber in his previous lives...

The reason is clear.

There is a high probability that a "negative energy field shield" exists around that underground chamber, enveloping it.

Let alone a hydrogen bomb with the equivalent of hundreds of billions of tons of TNT, even if the yield were increased tenfold, it probably wouldn't be able to break through this defense.

At the same time, it is highly likely that there are no blind spots.

Even if our technology were to suddenly advance, enough to send a massive engineering force to the moon and then dig another tunnel from another direction, it would most likely be impossible to break through this defense. But what should we do then?
Without breaking through this defense, it is impossible to enter the chamber, destroy its facilities, and thus prevent the apocalypse.

Sun Changhe looked solemnly at Lu Zhaoming: "Professor Lu, do you have any ideas on how to break through this layer of protection?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming shook his head sadly: "No. This is completely beyond our current technological level. All our methods have been ineffective before."

Silence fell over the online meeting room.

Jiang Yang was filled with anger and resentment.

Through countless reincarnations, countless people have devoted themselves to this cause, and one great hero after another has bravely sacrificed their lives, ultimately uncovering a part of the truth about the end of the world.

But now that things have progressed this far, they've encountered yet another obstacle?

And this time the barrier looked so solid that there was no hope of breaking through it.

There must be a way, there must be!
I have reincarnated dozens of times, endured the pain of death dozens of times, and overcome one obstacle after another to get here. I did not come here to be weak and give up!
His mind was filled with images of all the things he had experienced and all the people he had met in his past reincarnations.

Road maintenance workers who died from exhaustion on construction vehicles to ensure the safe transport of rockets, workers who gave up their rest to ensure the timely supply of parts, researchers who suffered heart attacks in the laboratory while working on developing plans, and astronauts who perished in the blaze of rocket explosions...

This is a war concerning the entire nation and the entire civilization.

For this war, people united and overcame one difficulty after another, and solved one obstacle after another.

How could you park here?!
At this moment, all the participants, whether researchers or administrators, were racking their brains to think.

Jiang Yang's brain was also working at a rapid pace.

He knew that he was indispensable at this moment. Not because he was particularly outstanding, but because his ability to loop through time naturally gave him a trait that no one else possessed.

I can take a more detached view of the current predicament.

No one but yourself can do what you do, no matter how much you remind yourself to break free from existing frameworks.

Just as without the change in gravity, no matter how long astronauts train on Earth, they can never truly know what it will feel like to set foot on the moon.

In this state of mind, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Jiang Yang's mind.

He pondered deeply, weighed the options repeatedly, and tried his best to grasp that spark of inspiration.

The next moment, he suddenly looked up, staring straight at Professor Lu Zhaoming, and asked, "Do neutrinos belong to positive energy?"

Professor Lu Zhaoming paused for a moment: "Of course. Neutrinos have positive mass, a fact that has been fully confirmed by the 'neutrino oscillation' phenomenon."

The so-called neutrino oscillation is...

Jiang Yang didn't listen to his further explanation, but interrupted him directly: "Since neutrinos have positive mass, how did they penetrate this layer of negative energy field that surrounds the entire underground cavity?"

(End of this chapter)