Chapter 368 Micro and Macro

Until now, we are only 8.6 light-years away from the sun - although this distance is very far away, even if we travel at the speed of light, it will take a full 8.6 years to reach it, but given the huge scale of the universe, this distance is completely within reach It's quite far away. No, it should be described in terms of front and rear feet.

It was too close.

When a star with a high probability of being a black hole was actually discovered at this distance, Professor Wen Chengcheng realized that it seemed that Mr. Lu, who had a mysterious origin...had such a prediction early on.

But how is this possible?

No one could predict in advance what exactly would be there.

Faced with this question, Lu Ming could not answer. He could only say perfunctorily: "Good luck, hey, I am also interested in celestial bodies like black holes, so I sponsored you to look for them."

Professor Wen Chengcheng did not become suspicious.

"So that's the case. Well, Mr. Lu, I'll immediately organize the manpower here to conduct the next step of confirmation. It probably won't take long. When further discoveries are made, I'll notify you immediately."

"good."

After hanging up the phone, Professor Wen Chengcheng was in high spirits.

Today is different from the past. In the past, he was just an ordinary scientific researcher, but now he is the person in charge of an entire large project.

Not only that, if it is finally determined that it is really a black hole, then he can even make another leap and complete the transformation from an ordinary scientific researcher to a famous scientist.

His name may even be printed in textbooks and be remembered for thousands of years. As for the rest of the honors, there is no need to say more. Various awards will definitely be received.

Now several more famous and powerful scientists have joined his team. The rest, including the team leaders of three telescopes, also joined here.

After formulating the follow-up observation and data analysis plan, the newly formed team immediately got into intense work.

The vast space, the vast sky. There is no distinction between up, down, left, right and front. No matter which direction you look here, you can only see the stars in the sky.

No matter which direction it moves, no matter how fast it flies, the surrounding scenery does not change. There is only seemingly eternal darkness and loneliness.

Under such circumstances, a completely "invisible" celestial body passed by quietly.

It releases almost no radiation to the outside world. There is only a little bit of something called "Hawking radiation", and because it is too weak, it is completely obscured by the cosmic microwave background radiation and cannot be detected at all.

It cannot be seen by the naked eye or detected by any detection tools.

Its passing directly distorted the surrounding space. If there was a person here looking at it, that person would be able to see that the entire starry sky was distorted as it passed by. It's like looking at distant scenery through the hot air of a fire on the earth.

This is a black hole in a "dormant" state.

The dormant state does not mean that the black hole cannot swallow matter close to it. Rather, it is precisely because there is no matter approaching it at this moment, and there is no matter for it to swallow, that it is in a dormant state.

Once matter approaches it, is bound by its strong gravity, and is eventually swallowed by it, this dormant black hole will immediately be activated and release the powerful power it contains.

This is a vast and empty space. There are no macroscopic stars within a range of up to two light-years nearby. But it's not empty here.

It's possible that dust thrown out by many different exploding stars was brought together for various reasons. They have roughly equal speeds and directions, gather together, and move forward in the vast space like a "cloud".

This dormant black hole plunged into this interstellar molecular cloud. Strong gravity comes into play, and interstellar dust clouds begin to spin and be swallowed up by it.

The gravitational pull of the black hole accelerates the interstellar dust that is too close to it to extremely high speeds. They circled around the black hole crazily, and an accretion disk was formed.

Where matter is plentiful, an accretion disk orbiting a black hole can be extremely bright, even emitting brighter light than a massive star. Even more extreme, it can even emit light brighter than the entire Milky Way, such as quasars.

——At the center of the quasar is a supermassive black hole.

But material is thin here.

Although interstellar dust clouds are called "clouds," they are nothing like the misty clouds above Earth. Its material density is still thin, even less than the material in the highest vacuum that can be created in the laboratory on the earth at this moment.

Thus, although the gravitational pull of this black hole is strong enough, the radiation power of the accretion disk formed around it is still low.

Black holes themselves are unobservable. What can be observed is the accretion disk of the black hole.

In the accretion disk of a black hole, because matter is accelerated to such a high speed, astonishing energy can be released from the friction between them. The efficiency of converting this mass into energy can even be as high as more than 50%.

This is almost one of the most efficient energy conversion methods in the universe.

In comparison, during the nuclear fusion process, the proportion of matter converted into energy is only about 0.7%. Nuclear fission is even lower, only about 0.15%.

This is a gap of dozens of times.

At this moment, in the accretion disk around the black hole, the mass of the interstellar dust is converted into energy, which begins to radiate to the surrounding cosmic space at the speed of light.

After crossing a long distance and up to 8.6 years, this radiation came to the solar system and came to the earth.

After a long distance, these radiations are already very weak. However, the detection equipment manufactured by human civilization with the highest technology can still accurately capture these radiation signals and turn them into numbers and data.

At this moment, the Black Hole Hunter project team, Professor Wen Chengcheng, is working with team members to analyze these data.

The preliminary analysis has now been completed. At this stage, there is the last and most important data, X-ray analysis.

——Of course, it is the X-rays radiated by the accretion disk around the black hole, not the black hole itself.

If the analysis results are in line with expectations, then the probability that the star is a black hole will rise to more than 99%. On the contrary, if it does not meet expectations, then the possibility of the star being a black hole is basically ruled out.

At this moment, the relevant data has been imported into the supercomputer and is undergoing the final stage of calculation and analysis.

When the final results came back, Wen Chengcheng felt his heart beating uncontrollably. He didn't even dare to look at that number. But under the expectant gazes of his subordinates, he still opened the result.

He froze there for a moment. After another moment, a look of uncontrollable ecstasy appeared on his face.

"The result is in line with...expectations!"

Everyone in the office stood up and applauded enthusiastically.

An hour after the final results appeared, Lu Ming received the notification and obtained the relevant data. After finally almost confirming that there was indeed a black hole there, he sighed softly.

It is impossible to completely confirm celestial objects like black holes at this stage, and it is impossible to say that there is a black hole there with 100% certainty. With a probability of more than 99%, generally speaking, it can be considered that there is indeed a black hole.

It was already dark now. Outside the window of the hotel where Lu Ming was located, there was a city surrounded by neon lights. There were few stars in the sky, only the brightest ones twinkling there.

Lu Ming recalled the relevant data, and then looked in a direction in the sky.

It was so dark there, nothing could be seen, nothing. But Lu Ming seemed to see the distant space several light-years away, and saw the black hole in the interstellar dust cloud that was devouring matter crazily.

It is only 8.6 light-years away from Earth.

Could it be...that its arrival really led to a series of cases that happened on Earth? It led to the birth of several masters one after another, led to the inexplicable suicide of thousands of people, and led to the tragic situation of thousands of families...

Lu Ming had vaguely thought of this possibility long after he summed up the three elements, namely, inversion of cause and effect, time confusion, and information loss.

This has a certain overlap with the conjectures about the physical characteristics that occur around black holes or inside black holes under current physical theory. Or to put it another way, that is, only celestial bodies like black holes, which have almost broken through the current physical limits, have the theoretical possibility of causing such weird phenomena.

Later, after seeing the paper published by researcher Hu Xiaozheng and talking with him, Lu Ming learned about some theoretical possibilities. From this, it was finally decided to search for black holes located around the solar system.

Even he himself was a little surprised that after this search, he actually found it. It turns out... there really is an active black hole near the solar system.

Is this a coincidence?

Of course it could be a coincidence.

But... Lu Ming first started the actual search based on a "prophecy" and the expectation that "there is a black hole around the solar system". He did not discover the black hole first and then deduced the cause from the results. Tie these two things together.

The premise for making this "prophecy" is the series of events in the fateful case and his own speculation.

This in itself means a certain tendency, which means that there is indeed a high probability of some kind of connection between the two things.

And, if this connection does exist, that is, if the series of events that happened on the earth were all caused by the influence of this black hole that was too close to the solar system, then this is how the whole thing happened.

Around black holes, there will be some strange phenomena that exceed the current theoretical level, such as "borrowing mass from the future, resulting in an abnormal increase in mass at this moment", and "destining a fate that must happen in the future, and it will definitely appear one day in the future." Abnormal reduction in mass”.

Looking at this process from another angle is that the "result" of increased mass appears now. The "reason" for mass reduction appears in the future.

Cause and effect are reversed. The timeline is confused.

How similar is this to the fateful case where the victim first committed suicide inexplicably, and then the reason for the suicide appeared in the future?

From the micro to the macro, from the inexplicable appearance or disappearance of a particle to some human behaviors in the macro world, there seems to be a big gap, but the distance from the micro to the macro may not be as big as imagined.

Although the specific process from microscopic development to macroscopical development is not clear, it is sufficient to assume that this connection does exist.

At this moment, the Wenchengcheng team discovered key evidence that there is indeed a black hole only 8.6 light-years away from the earth, which filled the last major gap in Lu Ming's logic.

Lu Ming looked steadily in the direction of the black hole, with a myriad of thoughts in his mind.

After a long time, he took out his cell phone and dialed Zhang Dingshan's number.

At this moment, in the command hall of the Blue Lake City base, both Zhang Dingshan and He Wei looked heavy.

For hundreds of families, there are hundreds of special service teams busy on the front line.

Things have not been going well in the past month or so. Several families that had already shown signs of suffering from bad luck had already nipped some dangers in the bud through their own efforts, but three families still suffered irreversible bad luck.

Bankruptcy, family destruction, illness, car accidents, accidents...

This state of "I have tried my best, but the result has not improved at all" is the most torturous to people's souls.

Not only are they torturing the families of the victims, but they are also torturing Zhang Dingshan and He Wei.

"Captain, does it really make sense for us to do this?..."

He Wei looked sad.

Zhang Dingshan was silent for a moment and said firmly: "As long as we do it, it is meaningful."

Jingle bell bell bell…

The phone rings. After answering the phone, Zhang Dingshan heard Lu Ming's voice.

"Captain, I have made some new discoveries here. I think I have probably found a way to prevent the families of those victims from suffering bad luck."

Zhang Dingshan's left fist suddenly clenched, veins sprouted on the back of his hand, and his eyes suddenly became sharp.

But his voice remained calm.

"Okay. Come back right away. We'll do it right away. The situation... is getting worse."

"Yes, I'll go back immediately."

Lu Ming got on the plane again and rushed back to Blue Lake City overnight. After flying for several hours, the plane arrived over Blue Lake City.

Looking at the lights in Blue Lake City and feeling the prosperity and tranquility of the city, Lu Ming felt a different kind of feeling in his heart.

He couldn't confirm that his method would work. But he believes that this method has a high probability of being effective.

However, those who have already suffered bad luck, and those who have committed suicide because of the "curse", have nothing to do.

"Do your best and do whatever you can to the best of your ability."

Taking a day off tomorrow...