ccnovels Chapter 438 Gram-class black hole
Chapter 438 Gram-class black hole
The neutron star impact test finally officially began.
To this end, the front-line scientific research team has specially allocated 3,500 transport spacecraft to be responsible for the launch of the neutron-7 detector.
After they fetched the detector from the space carrier, they flew to the vicinity of the designated neutron star and dropped the detector strictly according to the plan.
It simply won’t work without a strict plan. The reason is that neutron stars are too small and the surrounding space is too "crowded".
The radius of this neutron star is only 10 kilometers. Based on this calculation, the surface area is only more than 1,000 square kilometers.
In order to eliminate the interaction between detectors, scientists have divided a fixed release area of about one square kilometer for each detector.
Only in this way, during the process of falling towards the neutron star, they will not cause errors in observations due to collisions and mutual influences.
And because the detector will explode with powerful energy when it falls on the neutron star, and this energy will also interact with each other and interfere with the detection of dark force radiation, the distance and time interval of the release also need to be specially regulated.
In this way, the entire neutron star is divided into 1,200 release areas. In each release area, the interval between two detectors is 3 minutes.
Calculated this way, 24,000 detectors are released per hour.
It will take a total of about 37 years to launch all the 7.7 billion detectors planned. Add some redundancy and the time comes to 40 years.
At this moment, the first batch of 1,200 detectors was launched.
They began to fall towards the neutron star in free fall in different directions and at the same distance.
Under the previously confirmed release time and release coordinates through precise calculations, these 1,200 detectors hit each impact zone of the neutron star with an extremely even distribution at almost the same time.
At this moment, the energy equivalent to the simultaneous explosion of tens of trillions of tons of TNT exploded violently from the neutron star.
Unfortunately, the outside world was basically unaware of the impact of such a violent explosion.
Because the original radiation energy of neutron stars is extremely high, far exceeding this number. The increased energy at this moment is like an extra ant on an elephant, and will not be felt by the outside world at all.
Three minutes later, the second batch of 1,200 detectors arrived, following the route of their predecessors, and accurately hit the predetermined impact zone again.
During that extremely short observation window, these detectors completed the only mission for their existence. They took a very brief look at the planet, collected some extremely rare data, and then were shattered into pieces.
The images they took of the neutron star show that in front of them is still a flat land filled with fierce and hot white-blue light.
After many times of extinction, the scientists truly saw that the land was as flat as an absolute plane, with no bulges or depressions on it, and it was completely a whole.
Moreover, different places are almost identical, and there is no difference from the surrounding environment at all.
And people clearly remember that just three minutes ago, an 8.15-ton detector hit here, releasing energy equivalent to the explosion of tens of billions of tons of TNT explosives.
But now, everything is gone.
No debris from the probe, no traces of the explosion, nothing.
The materials that made up the detector were under unimaginably high pressure. Not to mention the chemical structure, even the atomic structure could no longer be maintained.
They have been completely integrated into this neutron star and become part of the neutron star.
After the second batch of detectors came the third batch.
Batch after batch of detectors hit it non-stop, as dense as raindrops, and unusually long-lasting.
So far, this series of collisions has continued for a full year. A total of more than 200 million detectors were buried on it.
But in the vast space, this neutron star is still floating quietly, maintaining its previous appearance and posture, and its orbit and speed have not undergone any detectable changes.
The violent energy released by the detectors made by humans hitting it was like ants eating a mountain, without any effect.
At this moment, the total observation time has slowly accumulated to about 9000 seconds. A large amount of data was generated and underwent the most rigorous analysis and testing in the human scientific community.
Unfortunately, so far, there is no evidence of the existence of dark force radiation.
People are undeterred.
There are still a steady stream of detectors being transported from the nearby galaxy. Around neutron stars, the frequency of 1,200 collisions every 3 minutes remains unchanged.
No matter what the future holds, as long as we continue to collide, continue to collide, and continue to collide, it will be fine.
After a full 35 years of impact, the neutron star finally produced some changes that could be detected by the outside world.
It was observed that the neutron star's radiation in the gamma-ray and X-band bands was enhanced by about one percent. At the same time, its magnetic field has also undergone some changes.
With the observation accuracy of level 4 or even level 3 civilization, it is enough to detect these changes within a range of 500 light years. At that time, they will know that some unnatural changes must have occurred around this neutron star.
Because this change is obviously not caused by the neutron star itself.
Based on this speculation, it may be possible to infer that a certain civilization is conducting a super-large-scale impact test around this neutron star.
But it doesn't matter. The human scientific research fleet has no intention of covering up these traces.
Because people know that there is no intelligent life within 500 light years around this neutron star. The nearest civilization is 986 light years away.
When the light carrying these changes reaches that civilization, humans have already completed the detection mission and left.
Time is still slowly passing. In a blink of an eye, 40 years have passed as scheduled, and a total of 7.7 billion detectors have all hit the neutron star.
But the evidence of dark force radiation that people expect has not appeared.
But this is normal. After all, it is only half of the expected detection time at this moment. From a probability perspective, the probability of discovery and non-discovery is half and half.
In this case, just keep on hitting.
In the nearby galaxies, countless factories roar day and night. Large transport ships and giant spacecraft shuttle back and forth, still transporting detectors in a steady stream.
In the 66th year of the impact plan, after humans have hit a total of 12.5 billion detectors, a team of scientists who have been analyzing these data for decades released a shocking news to everyone.
They believe that they have found evidence of the existence of dark force radiation!
The research team found that in a certain impact test, the gamma-ray energy in the neutron star radiation captured by the detector deviated from the normal value by about 5%.
This anomaly appeared by chance, and only one case has been found so far, and it has not been found in the detection data of other detectors. But after a series of derivations and calculations, the research team believes that this is because the detection window of this detector just happened to catch up with some convection movements inside the neutron star.
After a detailed analysis, a large number of scientists agreed with this view. So the subsequent impact plan was immediately adjusted accordingly.
Monitor the convection model inside the neutron star and wait until this convection occurs before impacting!
According to theoretical predictions, after making this special adjustment, the probability of capturing this anomaly in future impact tests will increase to about one in a million.
That is, on average, one out of 1 million detectors will capture this anomaly.
Subsequently, people conducted up to 10 million detector impact tests. The data generated was again taken for testing and analysis by scientists.
In the end, multiple scientific research teams announced at the same time that they detected a total of 9 abnormal events in this sample! Basically consistent with theoretical predictions!
At this point, the entire human scientific community was boiling.
What does it mean to be consistent with theoretical predictions? It means that we can even determine at this moment that our theories about dark matter and dark energy are correct!
If the theory is incorrect, how could it be so coincidental? How can the prediction be so accurate?
The entire civilization has been greatly inspired by this incident. Countless scientific researchers have once again devoted themselves to subsequent research with greater enthusiasm and high morale.
Yes, confirming the existence of dark particles is indeed a very significant achievement, and it can even be called a milestone achievement.
But the matter is not over yet. There are still too many studies to be carried out in the future.
However, with this achievement, people can develop existing theories again on this basis, and the experiments conducted will be more targeted.
The impact test is still going on, but the frequency has been reduced to about 600 per hour, and the impact method is no longer as fixed as before, but various, with different impact areas and angles.
Scientists are studying the types and properties of dark particles in this way.
In addition to the impact test, more new methods of studying dark particles have been proposed by scientists on the basis of existing theories. So large-scale construction around this neutron star has started again.
Human theories about dark matter and dark energy have entered a stage of rapid development.
In the blink of an eye, several decades have passed. During this period, with the full efforts of Han Yang and the entire human scientific community, the mysterious veil covering the dark particles was unveiled layer by layer, and finally revealed its truest face.
A magical particle with non-zero mass that always runs at superluminal speed in the universe. The farther the distance, the faster the speed. The rules they follow are different from any matter that people can directly see in the universe.
At this time, people are still facing the last hurdle.
At present, the existence of dark force particles has been basically confirmed, and a theory specifically used to describe the laws of operation of dark force particles has been proposed and has withstood the test of experiments and observations.
So, how can the theory describing dark force particles be unified with the existing theory describing visible matter?
After all, the universe is unified, and the underlying physical rules it follows should also be consistent. It is impossible for the same universe to require two sets of theories to explain it.
People know very clearly that this is the fundamental theory that determines whether a civilization can be promoted to level five, the secret force theory.
At this moment when the understanding of dark particles is developing rapidly, scientists have quickly put forward many conjectures. Moreover, people are a little surprised to find that compared with the difficulty of unifying the strong interaction force and gravity, unifying the dark force does not seem to be that difficult.
The biggest difficulty in unifying the basic force of dark force into the current theoretical system seems to be initially confirming the existence of dark force, studying the properties of different dark force, and constructing a theory to describe them.
After completing these preliminary tasks, the follow-up becomes simple.
This seems to be the exact opposite of the strong interaction and gravity.
People have long confirmed the existence of these two basic forces and developed theories to describe them, but it is extremely difficult to unify them later.
At this moment, discovery and research are very difficult, but unification is simple.
But whether it is simple or not is also relative. It is simple for a human civilization that is developing vigorously, has a strong scientific research foundation, and has Han Yang, but it may not be the case for other civilizations.
Under the leadership of Han Yang, the human scientific community quickly integrated multiple conjectures about the dark force theory, continuously iterated and improved, and finally integrated a mathematically complete, logically self-consistent, and able to A unified theory that fits the rest of physical theory.
Many famous scientists are very optimistic about this theory.
“It’s so beautiful and perfect, how could it be wrong?”
Not only scientists, but even Han Yang also feels this way.
However, I feel that after all, there is no way to count, and everything still has to be judged by experimental data.
It is not difficult to test this theory, at least not for human civilization. All it takes is to build a particle collider that is huge enough and has a high enough energy level to create a black hole with a mass energy of more than one gram.
At this moment, the main human fleet has once again parked at the edge of a galaxy, where it will be supplying for about 100 years and accumulating supplies for the next voyage.
It just so happened that we took advantage of this period of abundant supplies to build this unprecedentedly huge particle collider.
In the end, after millions of scientists and engineers participated in the design and manufacturing, and Han Yang dedicated 1.5% of his computing power to it, it took 26 years to finally build this super giant machine that met the requirements. The particle collider was built.
The experiment is about to begin. (End of chapter)