Earth Era

The cold night in Siberia finally passed. Today's weather is very clear, the sky is a blue color, and the air that blows slightly seems to be able to smell the fragrant lake breath of Lake Baikal. The only downside is that it's too cold here.

After breakfast, Zhao Huasheng sat in his tent, flipping through some materials. After a while, Zhao Huasheng called out, "Meng Zhuo?"

Meng Zhuo opened the curtain and walked in, "I'm here."

"Let's go." Zhao Huasheng said, "It's time to go back."

"Where are you going?"

Zhao Huasheng pondered for a while and said, "Let's go to Equator City."

Equator City is not actually a city, its area is even larger than a country. In the newly divided geographical area, the government has divided all the oceans, mountains and rivers, and land belonging to the tropical area, within the Equator City. It is a vast area centered on the equator, starting from the equator and extending 2,500 kilometers south to north, with a total width of 5,000 kilometers. The total area of ​​this area is as high as 200 million square kilometers. Of course, this is the total area including mountains, deserts, oceans and many other uninhabitable terrains. After removing these places, the habitable area is less than 40 million square kilometers.

All the resources and construction capabilities of human beings are tilted towards the 40 million square kilometers of land.

"Okay, I'll make arrangements." Meng Zhuo nodded and turned to leave.

"Let someone else arrange the itinerary, Meng Zhuo, I have something to ask you." Zhao Huasheng said.

Meng Zhuo issued instructions to the other staff, and then returned to Zhao Huasheng's tent.

"During this period of time... How far has our human society's research on the sun progressed? Is there anything I need to know?"

"A lot has happened in the past month or so." Meng Zhuo nodded and said, "Let's talk about solar exploration first. With the efforts of many telescopes, probes and researchers, we have The physical process of the low temperature material belt on the surface of the sun has been initially analyzed, and this process has even been reproduced in the physics laboratory."

"Oh? There is such a huge breakthrough? Hurry up and show me the relevant information."

Meng Zhuo nodded. It seems that he had long expected that Zhao Huasheng would have such a problem, so he prepared the relevant materials early in the morning. After Zhao Huasheng made a request, Meng Zhuo touched his arms and took out a stack of documents and handed it to Zhao Huasheng.

Zhao Huasheng read this document in about half an hour.

The reaction process, physical equations and reaction models are listed in detail on the data. With Zhao Huasheng's scientific literacy, it is not difficult to understand this data.

To put it simply, the physical process is as follows: under the extreme environment on the surface of the sun, nuclear fusion reactions may also occur in thin matter. It's just that this fusion is different from the core fusion that supports the sun's burning heat. It does not use hydrogen or helium as the raw material for fusion, but an element heavier than these two elements as the raw material.

In the fusion reaction chain, the fusion of elements lighter than iron releases energy, and the fusion of elements heavier than iron, including iron, absorbs energy. Of course, this is under normal conditions, and the nuclear fusion process taking place on the surface of the sun at this moment is different from this. The raw materials involved in fusion, although lighter than iron, also absorb energy rather than release it.

This fusion mode is named "reverse fusion" by physicists.

As for why reverse fusion occurs, it involves the obscure and obscure physical mechanism of the microscopic world, which physicists still don't quite understand. They just know that reverse fusion does exist and is happening right above the surface of the sun.

The factors that trigger reverse fusion may be related to the movement of certain substances on the surface of the sun and the strong magnetic field, and may also include many other extremely harsh conditions. Physicists do not yet know what the specific conditions are, but one thing is certain, that is, this reverse fusion process is extremely rare, even rare among the tens of millions of stars that astronomers have observed so far. This phenomenon occurs only on the sun.

Then there is a reasonable explanation for what is happening on the sun today. It is true that the mass of the sun has not decreased, the volume has not changed, and the pressure has not changed. It is only because a reverse fusion event occurred on the surface of the sun that the energy radiated by the sun was absorbed by the "reverse fusion layer", which led to the level of solar radiation. reduce.

But this brings up three new problems. Among these three questions, the first question is, what is the first driving force?

What is driving this reverse fusion phenomenon on the surface of the sun? According to the assessment of physicists, the conditions generated by the reverse fusion reaction are too harsh. Physicists have spent countless efforts to reproduce this phenomenon only three times in the laboratory, which means that in the natural environment The probability of spontaneous occurrence of this phenomenon is very low.

On the information Zhao Huasheng looked at, a physicist described the probability of reverse fusion occurring naturally: "It's like we've walked into a virgin jungle that hasn't been touched by humans for tens of millions of years. But unexpectedly, there was a tree that had grown into a "family" wardrobe, we opened the door of the wardrobe, and even found that even the partitions and clothes rails grew out of the wardrobe."

This is an almost negligible chance. Then the question arises. Humans have never discovered this phenomenon on other stars in the universe. Why does it just appear on the sun? Is this a coincidence, or is there some force behind it?

The second question is, what force is maintaining the existence of reverse fusion?

Based on the limited understanding of the phenomenon known as reverse fusion, physicists can already be sure that many conditions are required for reverse fusion to exist. Even if it does appear above the sun, it cannot last long. Just like a house, it can't stay as clean as new without someone cleaning it. So, what is the force that makes the reverse fusion layer not only exist all the time, but also expand to almost envelop the entire sun?

Another physicist left a sentence on this document: "This seems to imply the existence of aliens. I would rather believe that these things are done by aliens than that it is in the sun. The top appeared naturally, and then naturally evolved to be this big."

The third question is, where does the energy absorbed by reverse fusion go?

Reverse fusion will also form new elements, but this element is very unstable. It can only exist in the natural environment for a very short time, and then it will burst with a bang, releasing all the absorbed energy and restoring it to the original again. Elements. That is, in general, reverse fusion does not absorb energy, nor does it release energy. It simply stores energy in itself for a period of time and then releases it.

But...why have humans never observed the release of energy on the sun? Where did all that lost energy go?

Zhao Huasheng closed the folder and said thoughtfully: "This is an ideal Dyson sphere model. Think about it, if we can artificially create such an inverse fusion layer, and then have a way to collect and save those "inverse fusion layers" If we use "matter", stars will become our inexhaustible source of energy. Perhaps in the future, our spacecraft will no longer need any chemical and nuclear fuel, and only store some inverse matter, and we can do everything we want now. An unimaginable interstellar voyage."

"So, what's your opinion?" Mondro asked.

"I don't have any opinion." Zhao Huasheng put down the folder and stood up: "The existence of the reverse fusion layer implies the existence of an alien super civilization in many ways, and this alien super civilization has at least reached the K2 level~www .novelmt.com~ They took a fancy to the sun, so they arranged Dyson spheres outside the sun to harvest the energy of the sun for their own use. As for why the sun was chosen - who knows? Maybe the sun really has something special Not necessarily where.”

"This argument is of little value." Meng Zhuo shook his head and said: "After determining the existence of the reverse fusion layer and the related physical mechanism, many scientists in the scientific research department of the Crisis Management Center also believe that this is the work of alien super civilizations, and even Yu has already divided some optical and radio telescopes to search for possible alien spacecraft and signals, but humans don’t care about these things, they only care about how to solve the current problems.”

"A group of many physicists, social psychologists, science fiction writers, etc. has been formed, and this group is discussing why this K2-class civilization really exists, why they just ignore us and don't contact us to discuss whether we should Take the initiative to contact them, and what kind of attitude to use to contact them. Scientists are still speculating on the social model, culture of the possible K2-class civilization, and how to convince them to let go of the sun, how to communicate with them They contact, and if they contact, will they anger them and cause the destruction of the earth and so on."

"There are more experts evaluating the information that Li Qi left behind and your role in this event. Combined with the previous information, experts believe that Li Qi had something to do with this K2 civilization a long time ago. Contact, and then secretly found the weakness of this K2-level civilization, and then told you the method of defeating this K2-level civilization through hints."

"That's right, they are doing these things right now." Meng Zhuo spread his hands to Zhao Huasheng.