Chapter 2819 Prologue
Wandering Earth, the sun will explode in 400 years, so it is decided to install an engine on the earth to wander, but there is a problem here. Scientists say that the sun will have a helium flash in 400 years, so will it really happen?
Can scientists say 100%?
Even if disasters have occurred on the earth, disasters often happen to humans, which does not mean that there is definitely something wrong with the sun.
To carry out the Wandering Earth plan, you have to pay a tragic price. First, the earth stops rotating, and the tsunami, earthquakes, and various geological disasters generated by inertia alone can kill many people. Then escape, when the earth's atmosphere escapes, and it is far away from the sun, the surface will be low pressure, low oxygen, and low temperature, which is no longer suitable for human habitation, but the population entering the underground city is limited, and many people will die.
Many people will die in the two eras of braking and escaping alone, not to mention the wandering era of 2,500 years. Human beings have only 4,000 to 5,000 years of clear historical records, and 2,500 years is half of the previous human beings. No one knows what will happen during the wandering process.
How to face these problems?
Scientists cannot guarantee it either. They can only say that they will do their best and leave it to fate. Science is not 100% accurate. But according to the data they observed, the sun is burning faster and a helium flash is expected to occur in 400 years. So is this phenomenon short-term or long-term, reversible or irreversible? Can scientists answer?
Scientists cannot answer. They will definitely say that this is the setting. With the setting, the earth can wander and reflect the various brilliance and darkness of human nature at the critical moment. Anyway, the sun is going to have a helium flash, believe it or not.
Scientists cannot come up with 100% evidence, although the data they have observed so far is indeed true.
But the trend of their observation data is that the sun will have a helium flash in 400 years, but whether this data will change in the future is something scientists cannot be sure of. Maybe the sun just caught a cold and will be fine in a few years, of course, it may also be that the cold caused various complications and died directly.
These data can prove that the sun has caught a cold recently, but it is impossible to know whether it can recover or die.
Some people say that experience is a strict teacher. It always practices first and then teaches. But experience cannot always be right. Experience tells humans that the sun will rise as usual, and it has been like this every day for the past 4.6 billion years. Will the sun go against human experience one day?
Now is the time when science and experience collide. Science says that the sun has a severe cold and may die. Experience tells us that the sun will rise as usual.
At this time, the manager of the earth is like Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu. Various counselors give various suggestions, all of which are reasonable, and I don’t know who to listen to.
Will a helium flash happen or not? It depends on how the leader judges.
"If it happened thirty years earlier, I guess they wouldn’t be so entangled." Duran said, because thirty years ago, they were still in the Cold War. If they encountered such a problem, they would definitely make a fuss and immediately come up with various plans. But now everyone is just making do. How to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm and how to take the initiative to let them break their bottles and jars?
Let’s talk about the helium flash 400 years later? I’m afraid it will have no effect. It’s impossible to mobilize everyone’s enthusiasm.
Then military control? There will be all kinds of problems at that time. And not only domestic problems, but also international problems. The world really can’t unite.
So Duran thinks the best way is to pretend that nothing happened. When the helium flash occurs in four hundred years, the Earth will be able to invent some freezing facilities. Then just launch the frozen people.
Anyway, the Earth now has the heavy nuclear fusion technology to burn stones, and it is very mature. As long as there are stones, it can burn for hundreds of years. It is not difficult to build a spaceship.
There is a wandering era in the middle of the Wandering Earth, which is divided into three parts: acceleration, uniform speed, and deceleration. The acceleration and uniform speed parts require planetary engines to propel, while the uniform speed part does not require engines. The uniform speed part takes about a thousand years. It is a long and silent period of time. All mankind hides underground and quietly waits for the Earth to enter the deceleration period.
Two thousand five hundred years can experience twenty-five histories. I don’t know how many generations have lived in different eras, and their perceptions of wandering must be completely different.
Just like the same Tang Dynasty people, living in the Zhenguan era, the Anshi Rebellion era, and the late Tang Dynasty must have completely different feelings. Establishing hegemony, losing hegemony, and destroying the empire, the feelings of the people must be huge.
The evaluation of Wandering Earth in different eras is definitely different. Just like now, people living in the "quasi-wandering era" are arguing and arguing over whether to believe that helium flash will occur and whether to accept the wandering plan.
No one knows whether the sun's cold will get better or turn into a terminal illness. There are many people who die from colds every year, so don't think that colds will not kill people. After all, scientists have also said that the sun's cold may become more and more serious, and there is no sign of improvement at present, and it may turn into a terminal illness.
Duran sat at the barbecue stall, eating barbecue and watching TV. It was obvious that the possibility of extinction in 400 years could not mobilize everyone's enthusiasm at all. All everyone could see was the mortgage and car loan in front of them, and they didn't care about the crisis in 400 years. Everyone should do what they should do, anyway, just watch the show.
At this time, even scientists were divided into several factions, some were anxious and some were not. Many scientists think that the sun may recover. After all, their data only show the drastic changes during this period, and the area they investigated is not the entire sun. Maybe it will be fine after a while.
Everyone has a fluke mentality, and scientists are no exception.
However, there is also something called Murphy's Law, that is, the more you worry about mistakes, the more likely they will happen. So the sun will directly turn into a terminal illness, and then helium flash in 400 years, when the entire solar system will be affected, and the last energy released by the sun will rush into the universe. And the people on Earth will be completely evaporated.
Duran looked at everyone's performance and knew that the Wandering Earth Plan would be very difficult to implement. I really don't know how countries will overcome all objections.
Of course, it's an economic calculation. The "Vagabond Project" will manufacture more than 10,000 engines, each of which is about the same height as Mount Everest. During this project, the global economy will explode and the unemployment rate will be cleared. Even if there is no wandering, the energy of the planetary engine and the underground city can completely solve the energy problem of the earth.
But is the engine environmentally friendly? Won't it cause global warming? Humans want to enjoy the convenience of industry as well as green mountains and clear waters.
Where is the environmentally friendly and stable energy these days? Wind, tide, and solar energy are environmentally friendly, but they are unstable. Heavy nuclear fusion is not environmentally friendly, but it is absolutely stable. It can be done by burning stones. Moreover, if the sun is really going to disappear, it would be good for the earth to run behind Jupiter or outside the range of helium flash.
If the sun does not have helium flash, just treat it as a power plant. If the sun has helium flash, just run away. This is a compromise.