Chapter 365 Black Hole

Looking at the old couple who were constantly discussing the details of life after returning to the countryside after paying off their debts, Lu Ming didn't know what to feel.

He realized that there was a high probability that the rural life that the old couple longed for would never be realized. Because from now on, the old couple will always be shrouded in the haze of doom.

There may be countless tribulations waiting for them in the future, and this tribulation will not happen until the suffering they both suffered has caused enough mental trauma to their dead son, giving him enough "reasons" to commit suicide. past.

Lu Ming sighed and couldn't bear to look any further. Instead, he stood up from the bench and continued to walk forward aimlessly.

The climate in summer is really changeable. Lu Ming hadn't gone far when he felt that the sky seemed to be getting darker. He raised his head and saw that the sky had been covered by dark clouds at some point. The originally hot wind blew a little more coolly.

Some traces of moisture from raindrops gradually appeared on the ground.

It's raining.

Lu Ming walked to the small shop nearby, bought an umbrella, opened it, and continued walking aimlessly.

Pedestrians began to hurry. The original prosperity and excitement disappeared in an instant. People left and there were no more people on the street except vehicles.

The rain gradually became heavier and pattered. Even though Lu Ming was holding an umbrella, his clothes were a little wet from the raindrops. He did not move forward, but came to the eaves of a store and stood here quietly, just like the other people taking shelter from the rain.

Rumble, rumble...

A bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and a few seconds later, a muffled thunder sounded from the distant horizon. Several cars parked here were startled and sounded the alarm, which was very ear-piercing.

Lu Ming watched quietly and waited quietly.

There was water on the road, seven or eight centimeters deep. They are not stationary, but rushing towards a floor drain, like a rushing river.

At first, the floor drain was still exposed, and the accumulated water could only flow in from next to it. But as the rain increased and the water accumulated, the floor drain was soon covered by the water. The stagnant water no longer just flows in from beside it, but takes on a vortex shape and is absorbed by it crazily.

Lu Ming's attention was quietly attracted by this floor drain. He was fascinated by the floor drain and the swirling water pouring in. He stood there in a daze, not even noticing that the wind blew raindrops and wet his pants.

The storm lasted for only half an hour. The rain gradually decreased and eventually stopped completely. People taking shelter from the rain left each other, the dark clouds in the sky also dispersed, and the bright sunlight shone down, making the sky and the earth bright.

Lu Ming took one last look at the floor drain, put away his umbrella, turned around and left, returning to the base.

He turned on his computer, logged into a website, and entered the word "black hole" in the search box.

This is an academic exchange website that brings together the latest research results of all scientific researchers in human civilization. Lu Ming searched for these two keywords, and tens of thousands of related articles were immediately found.

The first and most popular article describes the research paper on the observation of gravitational waves by gravitational wave antennas that has been making a lot of noise in the past few years and even shocked the whole world.

In the distant space more than a billion light-years away from the solar system, there are two black holes orbiting each other crazily. One of them has a mass of about 36 times the mass of the sun, and the other black hole has a mass of about 29 times the mass of the sun.

The two black holes collided violently and eventually merged into one. But the mass of the black hole after their merger is only about 62 times the mass of the sun. A mass equivalent to three suns disappeared.

Research shows that the masses of these three suns were all converted into energy during the merger process, and were eventually radiated into the universe in the form of gravitational waves, shaking the entire universe.

It finally reached the earth after more than a billion years and was sensed by mankind's newly built gravitational wave antenna.

Lu Ming had learned a lot about this incident and knew it very clearly. He just didn't expect that after so long, this incident would still be so popular in academic circles.

Perhaps this is because of its groundbreaking status.

Lu Ming did not look at it again, but looked at the next one.

The second article is an article that uses mathematical models to try to explore the internal structure of black holes. It is full of complicated and difficult to understand formulas and derivation. It is so complicated that Lu Ming can't understand it, so he just skips it.

The third article was about studying the specific mechanism of black holes formed by supernova explosions, but Lu Ming didn't pay much attention to it.

The fourth article was about studying the theoretical process of the direct formation of supermassive black holes at the time of the Big Bang. Lu Ming also didn't pay much attention to it.

Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7...

Lu Ming scrolled down bit by bit and searched bit by bit. A few hours later, Lu Ming saw an article that interested him.

"Some research on ultra-high energy level particle collisions at the OATI particle collider."

Lu Ming had also heard of the name of the OATI particle collider and knew that it was a new generation of particle collider built with the latest technology.

A particle collider is a large-scale scientific research equipment mainly used to study the microstructure of matter. To put it simply, a particle collider accelerates two beams of particles so that they collide at extremely high speeds. Once collided, the smaller particles that make up the particle will be "knocked out" - just like two watermelons colliding together at a very high speed. The skin of the melon will be directly smashed, and the seeds and pulp inside will be "knocked out". , juice, etc. will all be knocked out and thus be observed by people, and people can study their properties to improve today's physical theories.

Obviously, the higher the total power of the particle collider, the more it can accelerate the particle beam to a higher speed, the harder the impact, the higher the probability that the internal particles will be "collided", and the research effect will be better. The better.

The OATI particle collider is a large-scale scientific research equipment with ultra-high power. Lu Ming heard that its power consumption is even comparable to that of some small cities.

What is particularly noteworthy is that because the collision energy level of this particle collider is so high, it even has the theoretical possibility of producing micro black holes.

Black holes are formed because the density is so high that no physical force can block the force of gravity, and matter collapses infinitely.

However, mass is equivalent to energy.

If the mass per unit volume exceeds a certain range, it will collapse into a black hole. Because energy and mass are equivalent, it can be known that if the energy exceeds a certain range within a unit volume, it will also collapse into a black hole.

The energy imparted to the particles by this particle collider is such that it is theoretically possible that when two particles collide, the energy exceeds the threshold and collapse into a black hole.

When this particle collider was being built, there was a wave of opposition and protests around the world. Because people are generally worried that the miniature black hole created by this particle collider will escape control and fall into the earth, swallowing the entire earth.

But this is obviously impossible in reality.

The lifespan of a black hole is related to its mass. The smaller the mass, the shorter the life. A black hole with only a particle-level mass has a lifespan so short that it cannot even be observed. Even if it is really formed, it will disappear the moment it is formed, and there is no way it will have time to swallow up the surrounding matter.

The article Lu Ming saw at this moment was a study and discussion of some unknown phenomena in the particle collision process.

The article describes that in a certain collision, after observation and calculation, it was confirmed that the energy of the final reaction particles exceeded the energy before the collision.

This is very strange. After all, mass and energy are conserved. Energy, or mass, will not be generated out of thin air for no reason. The energy before the impact and after the impact should be equal. Why is there a little more?

This article discusses, studies, and calculates this phenomenon.

Lu Ming is not a particle physicist, let alone an experimental physicist. He did not have enough theoretical knowledge to analyze this phenomenon. But the phenomenon still caught his attention.

After thinking for a while, he dialed Lu Qingliang's phone number.

"Help me contact the OATI Particle Collision Laboratory. I want to visit researcher Hu Xiaozheng."

Hu Xiaozheng is the scientist who led this experiment and wrote this article.

During the call, Lu Qingliang perked up: "Lu Ming, what do you have in mind?"

Lu Ming smiled and shook his head: "It can't be called an idea. I'll talk to Researcher Hu first."

"Okay, I'll contact you right away."

After confirming the visit, Lu Ming bought a plane ticket and went directly to the city where the particle collision laboratory was located. In an office full of papers, books and computers, he saw a slightly thin man wearing glasses. Researcher Hu Xiaozheng is wearing a white coat.

"Is this Chief Lu? Hello, hello. I was notified that you wanted to ask me some questions."

Researcher Hu Xiaozheng closed the book, put down his pen and stood up. He stretched out his hand from a distance, looking very talkative, and saw that Lu Ming was very enthusiastic.

Lu Ming shook hands with him and said, "I'm sorry for disturbing your work."

"It's okay, it's okay. If you want to ask anything, just ask. It's strange that someone in our line of work can still deal with your security department."

Obviously, researcher Hu Xiaozheng’s curiosity was also aroused. Because even he couldn't think of any way in which his research project could be related to Lu Ming, so that a high-ranking police chief could directly visit him.

"Well, it's actually some personal questions. I want to ask you some details about the research on 'increased particle collision energy'. It's purely my personal curiosity and has nothing to do with the security department."

Researcher Hu Xiaozheng smiled and said: "I understand, I understand, keep it secret, right? Don't worry, I won't ask anything else, just treat it as curiosity."

Researcher Hu Xiaozheng's expression of "I've seen through everything, but it doesn't matter, I'll act with you" made Lu Ming a little bit dumbfounded.

Without further argument, Lu Ming organized his words and asked: "Regarding the phenomenon of strange increases in energy, do you have any new research results recently?"

"Yes, there are some." Researcher Hu said: "At present, the possibility of instrument failure can basically be ruled out. Because it can be reproduced, although the reproduction rate is not high, only one-tenth. But as long as it can be reproduced, it can be proved that it is not an instrument failure."

Recurrence means repetition. In scientific research, this is a very important concept.

For example, you say you created a high-temperature superconductor in the laboratory, and then someone else followed your process and it turned out that they couldn't create it. If you were asked to repeat it yourself, you couldn't create it either. So how can you let others do it? Do you believe you actually made it?

Others will just think you are talking nonsense.

However, not only did you create it yourself, but others can also create it according to your method, then this proves that you have really developed a method to create high-temperature superconductors. Others have nothing to question, and you can just sit back and wait for the prize.

At this moment, the phenomenon of strange increase in energy can be reproduced, which basically proves that it is real.

Hu Xiaozheng continued: "It's not an instrument failure, not an external influence, or a calculation error. My team has been studying this phenomenon recently. At present, we are more inclined to have it related to vacuum fluctuations. Of course, we just tend to think that. At present, mathematics The model has not been made yet, and the few existing evidences are not very solid.”

"Vacuum fluctuations?"

Lu Ming was greatly surprised.

The law of conservation of mass and energy actually only works at the macro level. On a micro level, it's actually inaccurate.

Mass and energy are not conserved at the microscopic level.

Even in an absolutely empty vacuum, some particles, such as pairs of virtual particles, will randomly emerge from the vacuum. One of these two particles has positive mass and the other has negative mass.

After appearing out of thin air, within a very short period of time, the two particles will annihilate each other, leaving nothing behind, and then disappear out of thin air. This is vacuum fluctuation.

"Yes." Hu Xiaozheng nodded and said: "We suspect that the excessively high energy level may have affected the virtual particle pair, causing the particles with positive mass to change from virtual to real, which ultimately led to an increase in the overall energy. The escaping particles with negative mass Mass particles may be annihilated with other particles or the materials of the collider. Unfortunately, we cannot measure the mass of the collider during this process. Whether the response is reduced due to the annihilation of negative mass virtual particles. the quality of."

"This process seems to be similar to Hawking radiation?"

"Yes. Chief Lu also knows about Hawking radiation?"

"I've heard some." Lu Ming casually said, "Do you have any other guesses?"

"There are some, but the probability may not be high."

Hu Xiaozheng casually told some other speculations and gave Lu Ming a solid science lesson, which took a long time to finish.

Lu Ming sorted out his thoughts and asked: "So, is there such a possibility? Is it possible that this extra mass comes from... the future?"