Chapter 438 Gram-Level Black Hole

The neutron star impact test has finally officially begun.

For this purpose, the front-line scientific research team has specially selected 3,500 transport spacecraft to be responsible for the launch of the neutron type 7 detector.

After they took the detector from the aerospace mothership, they flew to the designated neutron star and launched the detector strictly according to the plan.

It is impossible without a strict plan. The reason is that the neutron star is too small and the surrounding space is too "crowded".

The radius of this neutron star is only 10 kilometers. Calculated in this way, the surface area is only more than 1,000 square kilometers.

In order to eliminate the mutual influence between detectors, scientists have divided a fixed launch area of ​​about one square kilometer for each detector.

Only in this way, in the process of falling to the neutron star, they will not cause errors in observation due to mutual collisions and mutual influences.

Because the detector will explode with powerful energy when it falls to the neutron star, and this energy will also affect each other and interfere with the detection of dark force radiation, the launch distance and time interval also need to be specially regulated.

In this way, the entire neutron star was divided into 1,200 launch areas, and the launch interval between two detectors in each launch area was 3 minutes.

Calculated in this way, 24,000 detectors were launched every hour.

It would take about 37 years to launch all the planned 7.7 billion detectors. With some redundancy, the time would be 40 years.

At this moment, the first batch of 1,200 detectors were launched.

They began to fall towards the neutron star in a free fall posture in different directions and at the same distance.

Under the launch time and launch coordinates that were confirmed by precise calculations before, these 1,200 detectors hit each impact area of ​​the neutron star in almost the same time with extremely uniform distribution.

At this moment, the energy equivalent to tens of trillions of tons of TNT explosives exploding at the same time burst out violently from the neutron star.

But unfortunately, the impact of such a violent explosion was basically not noticed from the outside world.

Because the original radiation energy of the neutron star is extremely high, far exceeding this number. The addition of these energies at this moment is like an ant on an elephant, which will not be felt by the outside world at all.

Three minutes later, the second batch of 1,200 probes arrived, following the route of their predecessors, and accurately hit the predetermined impact area again.

In that extremely short observation window, these probes completed the only mission for their existence. They took a very brief look at the planet, collected some very rare data, and then shattered to pieces.

The pictures of the neutron star they took showed that there was still a flat land full of fierce and hot white-blue light in front of them.

After many extinctions, scientists really saw that the land was as flat as an absolute plane, without any bulges or depressions on it, and it was completely a whole.

Moreover, different places were almost exactly the same, and there was no difference from the surrounding environment.

And people clearly remembered that just three minutes ago, a probe weighing 8.15 tons had just hit here, releasing energy equivalent to the explosion of tens of billions of tons of TNT explosives.

But now, everything is gone without a trace.

There are no remains of the detector, no traces of the explosion, nothing.

The materials that make up the detector, under the unimaginable pressure, not to mention the chemical structure, even the atomic structure can not be maintained.

They have been completely integrated into the neutron star and become part of the neutron star.

After the second batch of detectors, there is the third batch.

Batch after batch of detectors hit it continuously, as dense as raindrops, and unusually long-lasting.

So far, this continuous impact has lasted for a whole year. A total of more than 200 million detectors have been buried on it.

But in the vast space, this neutron star is still quietly suspended, still maintaining its previous appearance and posture, and there has been no perceptible change in its orbit and speed.

The violent energy released by the detectors made by humans hitting it is like an ant gnawing on a mountain, with no effect at all.

At this moment, the total observation time has slowly accumulated to about 9,000 seconds. A large amount of data was generated, and it was subjected to the most rigorous analysis and testing by the human scientific community.

But unfortunately, so far, there has been no evidence of the existence of dark force radiation.

People are not discouraged.

There is still a steady stream of detectors transported from the nearby galaxy. The frequency of 1,200 collisions every 3 minutes around the neutron star remains unchanged.

Regardless of the future, as long as the collisions continue, the collisions will continue, and the collisions will continue.

After 35 years of collisions, the neutron star finally produced some changes that the outside world can detect.

People have observed that the radiation of this neutron star in the gamma ray and X-wave bands has increased by about one percentage point. At the same time, its magnetic field has also changed.

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 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 deductions 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 was greatly inspired by this incident. Countless scientific researchers once again devoted themselves to subsequent research with greater enthusiasm and high morale.

Yes, confirming that dark particles do exist is indeed a very significant achievement, and it can even be called a milestone achievement.

But things are 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, decades have passed. During this period, with the full efforts of Han Yang and the entire scientific community, the mysterious veil covering the dark force particle was unveiled layer by layer, and finally revealed its true face.

A magical particle with non-zero mass that always runs in the universe at superluminal speed. The farther it travels, the faster it travels. 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 the dark force particle has been basically confirmed, and a theory specifically used to describe the operation law of the dark force particle has been proposed and has withstood the test of experiments and observations.

So, how can the theory describing the dark force particle 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 that the same universe requires two sets of theories to explain it.

People know very well that this is the fundamental theory that determines whether a civilization can be promoted to level five, the dark force theory.

At this moment when the understanding of dark force particles is developing rapidly, scientists quickly put forward many conjectures. Moreover, people are a little surprised to find that compared with the difficulties of unifying strong interaction and gravity, unifying 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 the initial confirmation of the existence of dark force particles, the study of the properties of different dark force particles, and the construction of theories to describe them.

After completing these preliminary work, the follow-up becomes simple.

This seems to be the opposite of strong interaction and gravity.

People have long confirmed the existence of these two basic forces and have long developed theories to describe them, but it is extremely difficult to unify them later.

At this moment, it is very difficult to discover and study, but it is simple to unify.

However, simplicity is also relative. It is simple for a human civilization that is booming, 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 unified theory that is mathematically complete, logically self-consistent, and consistent with other physical theories.

Many famous scientists are very optimistic about this set of theories.

"It is so beautiful and perfect, how could it be wrong?"

Not only scientists, but also Han Yang have such a feeling.

However, feelings are ultimately unreliable, and everything still needs to be verified by experimental data.

It is not difficult to verify this theory, at least not difficult for human civilization. All you need to do is build a particle collider that is large enough, has a high enough energy level, and can produce a black hole with a mass-energy of more than one gram.

At this moment, the main fleet of mankind has once again docked at the edge of a galaxy, where it will be replenished for about 100 years to accumulate materials for the next voyage.

It was just right that we took advantage of this period of abundant materials to build this unprecedentedly large particle collider.

In the end, with millions of scientists and engineers participating in the design and manufacturing, and Han Yang specially allocated 1.5% of the computing power to invest in it, it took 26 years for people to finally build this super-giant particle collider that met the requirements.

The experiment is about to begin. (End of this chapter)