Chapter 226 Crazy Rotation

"Five...five million tons! How is this possible?! That alien device is only so big, how can it have a mass of five million tons? Ye Luo, have you found a new bug?" After hearing After Ye Luo's answer, Wei Feng's eyes immediately widened.

"No, Captain, I didn't have a bug." Ye Luo replied with a calm tone, "If you don't believe me, I can give you these data and let you calculate it yourself. Although this is incredible, I I have to say that this is all true. By the way, Captain, I remind you again that the five million tons I mentioned is the lower limit of the mass of this alien device, not its exact mass. Its mass can only be greater than five hundred tons It’s 10,000 tons, so it can’t be smaller than 5 million tons. As for how big it is... I’m sorry, I don’t have enough data to calculate, so I can’t tell you the answer.”

Wei Feng fell silent. Because the hibernation period was short this time, Wei Feng's physical damage was not much. So Wei Feng's mind is very clear at this moment. But precisely because his mind was clear, this result made Wei Feng find it difficult to accept.

The Xinghai spacecraft is so big, what is its total mass? That alien device is only so big, how could its mass be dozens of times that of the entire Xinghai spacecraft? What materials is it made of? What material has such a high density?

Thinking of this, Wei Feng immediately asked again: "What is the lower limit of its density? Among the materials we know, what kind of material has such a high density?"

Now that the volume and mass lower limit of this device are known, it is very simple to calculate its density lower limit. So Ye Luo immediately answered: "The lower limit of its density is 76 kilograms per cubic centimeter, which is about 76,000 times the density of water. Among the materials known to us humans, there is no material with such a large density. Density. Well, for comparison, the density of a white dwarf is about one thousand kilograms per cubic centimeter. Although the density of a white dwarf is much higher than the lower limit of the density of the alien device, it can still be roughly considered that its density is the same as the density of a white dwarf. Belonging to the same magnitude.”

"How is this possible?" Wei Feng murmured, "With such a high density...doesn't the material it is made of have no electron degeneracy pressure?"

When ordinary matter is compressed to a certain extent. Electron degeneracy pressure will prevent its volume from shrinking further. Electron degenerate matter usually exists on white dwarfs and is created by the huge gravity of white dwarfs. If a piece of white dwarf material leaves the white dwarf. Without the huge gravitational pressure, the white dwarf material will explode instantly and return to normal matter. This is due to the existence of degeneracy pressure.

Obviously, ordinary matter cannot have such a huge density, and it is even more obvious that this alien device is not in a high gravity environment like a white dwarf at this moment. According to common sense, it should be impossible for it to maintain such a state of existence. But it exists like this, and Wei Feng has to believe it.

Then there is only one explanation left. This device has extremely high technical content. The unknown civilization used unknown technology to create it, allowing it to maintain such a state of existence in a low-gravity environment.

This means many things. The first point is that the technology that can create such a thing must be very superb. If it can be obtained, its construction method can be analyzed, and then human civilization can master this technology, the technology of human civilization may be produced. It is not impossible to make another leap to open that dead knot.

Its value is simply immeasurable. But things are very contradictory. Its mass is too great, which means that Wei Feng cannot capture it. It's like a poor man clearly sees a golden mountain in front of him, but he doesn't have enough strength to move it.

This is a very frustrating thing. In the face of cruel reality. Wei Feng had to give up the idea of ​​capturing it.

But at this moment, Ye Luo spoke again.

"Captain...I have received some new data. These data...I don't know how to judge it. You should take a look."

"Oh?" Wei Feng was a little curious, so he climbed up from the hibernation cabin and came to the display screen.

Wei Feng saw the image of the alien device in front of the display screen, but it was spinning rapidly at the moment. Its screw-shaped body is rotating crazily with a point on the nut as the center. And Wei Feng was certain that it had not rotated before.

Wei Feng suddenly froze there.

"This is not a real image of the alien device. This is the data sent back by the sensors equipped on the four thrusters. I did some processing on the data and constructed this picture through a model. If we If the data is correct, I believe that the actual movement of the alien device at this moment should be similar to what is shown in the picture."

"So... Captain, can you understand the information conveyed in these images?" Ye Luo asked quietly.

Wei Feng nodded. Said: "I can understand it. The fact that it started to spin itself conveys two messages. One, it is not as high-tech as we previously speculated. Two, we still have a chance to capture it."

"Yes." Ye Luo replied, "As long as the heaviest part of it is disassembled, we can obtain the rest of its instruments."

"That is a black hole...a miniature black hole that is almost certainly created artificially." Wei Feng sighed, "Although our human civilization also has the ability to create miniature black holes in the laboratory, they exist The time can only be calculated based on the length of Planck time. If this miniature black hole can be obtained, it will certainly greatly promote the technology of our human civilization. But unfortunately, it is too heavy and we did not capture it The only way is to bear the pain and throw it away, and then obtain the remaining parts of the instrument."

When Wei Feng saw the image of the instrument rotating, he came to the conclusion that there was a black hole inside. This seemed very unorganized, but this conclusion was reached after rigorous logical thinking.

There is a very simple truth, the greater the mass, the more difficult it is to change its state of motion. Therefore, if the density of this instrument is really as high as speculated, then the push of the four thrusters should not change any of its motion states. What it was like before, it will be like now. It didn't spin before and it won't spin now.

But now it is spinning, and it is spinning around some part of its structure. This means that the mass of the rest of its structural parts is actually very low. Most of the mass of the lower limit of five million tons is concentrated on its rotation point. At the same time, that rotation point and the alien The way the devices are connected determines that the device can only move without changing distance.

What kind of motion is a state of motion that does not change distance? It's obviously a circular motion. Now, the alien device's wild rotation around its point of rotation was clearly circular motion.

Only by determining this can its current state of motion be reasonably explained.

Based on the exclusion of the parts of the alien device that are moving at this moment, we can get the upper limit of the volume of that rotation point. Dividing the lower mass limit by the upper volume limit gives you the lower limit of density for that heavy object. This is a very simple calculation process. After just a mental calculation, Wei Feng came up with the calculation result: the lower limit of its density is ten tons per cubic centimeter. This is already ten times the density of a typical white dwarf star, but far from the density of neutron star material.

And this density is only the lower limit of its density. Depending on changes in total mass and volume, its real density may be many times this number.

And... white dwarf and neutron star matter cannot maintain such a dense state of existence after leaving the star and losing the restraint of huge gravity. Of course, the possibility of maintaining the state of existence by unknown technology cannot be ruled out here, but Wei Feng can be sure that that kind of technological means must be very superb, and it may not even be tens of thousands of years more advanced than the current human civilization.

A dense state of matter maintained by super technology is one possibility, and another possibility is a dense state that does not require super technology to be maintained. The only dense state that does not require super technology to maintain is black holes. Obviously, a black hole with the mass of the sun is a black hole. A black hole with a mass of one thousand tons is still a black hole. It is not like a white dwarf or a neutron star. A white dwarf with the mass of the sun is a white dwarf. A black hole with a mass of one thousand tons is a white dwarf. The white dwarf star material will turn into ordinary matter.

Then what the core heavy object is becomes a question of probability. One possibility is that the heavy object is a dense state of existence maintained by advanced technology, and the other possibility is that it is a miniature black hole. The technological content of micro black holes is much lower than that of white dwarf or neutron star matter.

Based on preliminary observations of this alien device, such as looking at exposed pipes, cables, channels and the like, it seems unlikely that it has such a high level of technology. This also means that the probability of "super technology" is extremely low, and the probability of micro black holes is correspondingly extremely high.

Therefore, after seeing this alien device start to spin crazily driven by four thrusters, Wei Feng immediately concluded, "First, its technical content is not as high as we had previously speculated. Second, we still have a chance to capture it" and believe that it contains a miniature black hole.

Obviously, as long as Wei Feng finds a way to throw away the black hole, he can capture this alien device in his hands. (To be continued ~^~)