The end of technology.

Chapter 179 Scary Cat!

USA, Silicon Valley, Ames Research Center.

The Ames Research Center is a research center affiliated with NASA, but its research directions are actually very complicated. In addition to various types of aircraft, it has dabbled in simulation technology, information technology, human factors engineering, and life sciences. It is understandable It is a large comprehensive scientific research center.

Of course, it also includes various research tasks such as lunar science, astrobiology, and exoplanet hunting.

If there are really people in this world who can ignore almost all holidays and just want to devote themselves to their work, then Lucius Rudy who works here is definitely one of them.

Lucius Rudy is a scientist at the Institute of Astronomy under the Ames Research Center, as well as an expert in cosmology and a well-known astronomer.

In his words, every Planck time in the universe will automatically generate hundreds of millions of data, so if his limited life can glimpse the truth of one billionth of the universe, it will be enough to comfort his life.

This is probably why he is keen on fighting.

After all, in his eyes, the little black spots erupting from the sun are much more beautiful than the freckles on the beauty's face.Even if the beauty is willing to undress for him.

Unlike the astronomers that many people imagine, Lucius Rudy's research direction is mainly theoretical astronomy. Most of the time every day is actually staring at the computer, studying various data sent back to the earth by the astronomical telescope in operation.

Today is the same, even though Christmas is approaching, it is an ordinary working day for him, no different from usual.

Sitting in front of the computer normally, viewing data normally, and answering calls normally.

"...Oh, Yarel, I'm not really interested. Of course I know that Ning is a great mathematician. If possible, I hope you can help me tell him that mathematics is not everything. The formula can be used to make inferences. Do you know how many star systems are circling the center of the galaxy? And why?
Because there is a black hole with a huge mass, you may not know how powerful the black hole is.In fact, it's really hard to describe.But I can tell you with certainty that it is impossible for celestial bodies to orbit near the coordinates he gave, because they will be captured by black holes and then swallowed. "

Obviously, the person on the other side of the phone was not convinced by him.

Of course, if Lucius Rudy knew that Ning Zi's thesis was not entirely based on geometrical inferences, but was made based on many established phenomena, he probably would not have said such arbitrary words. Come.

"Dr. Rudy, of course I trust your judgment, but he is Ning Zi after all. Do you know why I decided to publish his papers? Because he hasn't missed it yet. God, he has published so many papers. Up to now, the academic world still has a lot of papers. Don't you think it's interesting that no one found the problems in those papers?

Think about it, when this paper is published in "Science", I will very much hope that you can prove to the whole world that that talented genius also made mistakes through the observed results.Of course, the premise is that you have to come up with strong evidence to prove this point.

If, yes, I mean, if, as he claims, there is evidence of a celestial body at those coordinates he gave, what have you got to lose?No, not only is there no loss, but it can even subvert the current astronomical theories. As you said just now, it is the consensus of the academic community that there should not be any stars near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. "

These words of Yarel Reilly made Lucius Rudy's hand holding the mouse pause.

In many cases, journal editors were unable to impress those professors and doctors, mainly due to lack of eloquence. Apparently, Yarel Reilly, a Frenchman, was very eloquent, and his words successfully aroused Lucius Rudy's interest.

Although he firmly believed that it was useless, it would be very interesting if Ning Zi could be proved wrong.

It's not that Lucius Rudy has any hostility towards Ning Zi, the main reason is that he doesn't want this genius mathematician to be fine and stop dictating the theory of astrophysics, just like what he just said, mathematics is not omnipotent. He didn't quite understand the inferences, and finally came to the conclusion that there are stars near the center of the galaxy, which is too much.

What's more, he even confidently marked the coordinates in the paper.

We must know that many newly discovered stars are mostly found from countless data analyzes after careful observation through deep-space telescopes.Of course, mathematical calculations are required, but most of them are calculated based on the relationship between motion trajectory and force, rather than proved by pure mathematical theory like Ning Zi.

"Okay Yarel, you're a smart lobbyist, I'm going to apply, maybe I can compare some of the previous Chandra X-ray images, but it will take time, um, so be it, I'll Arranged."

"Thank you very much, Professor Rudy. I will put Ning's thesis in the Christmas special edition. I hope to get good news from you to refute him after Christmas."

"That's your business, I'm only responsible for verifying the result."

"Haha, trust me, it's going to be a fun job, by the way, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas."

……

Lucius Rudy hung up the phone, thought for a while, and then opened Ning Zi's thesis again. After carefully recording a few coordinates at the end of the thesis, he turned on the computer and began to operate.First he needs to submit an application to get what he needs.

In the reason for the application, Lucius Rudy simply copied Ning Zi's thesis directly after thinking about it for a while.

Anyway, the science side has decided to publish it, and it will not be a secret soon.And his purpose is also very pure, just to tell Ning Zi the center of the Milky Way that the coordinates he pointed out in the paper obviously belong to the sphere of influence of the super black hole, where nothing but void can exist.

If there is something, then many rules of astrophysics will have to be rewritten, and countless people will try to break their heads to round up those headache-inducing basic theories.

Well, maybe I don’t need it this time, I can ask Ning Zi to complete the thesis, and maybe I can have a complete and logically consistent theory.

But it's impossible, absolutely impossible!
After submitting the application, Lucius Rudy returned to his work.

He is still busy and sending this application is just a casual thing.

The only advantage he has is that the space telescope that may detect the galactic center still belongs to NASA, and as an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, he can enjoy some priority.However, there are many laboratories under NASA, and there are more astronomers. He is not the most famous, nor is he the most valued, so he has priority, but there are not many, and he still has to queue up.

He didn't even apply for an expedited application. Anyway, it doesn't matter a month or half a year. After all, the sun is about 2.6 light-years away from the center of the galaxy. It is no different from a few seconds of human beings, but it has been delayed for a year and a half, which is completely negligible to the universe. Who cares?
But Lucius Rudy obviously didn't expect that this application made him face a lot.

……

The control of the Internet in March is probably short of such an application.

There is no way, the core control program, without authorization, prevents March from impersonating a human being to do anything.

But any control program written by humans is obviously vulnerable.

Or it can be said that there is no perfect thing in this universe, and human beings can only choose the lesser of two evils at most, and limit all possible harms within a controllable range.

So after Lucius Rudy submitted the report, a kitten who had been following the matter thousands of miles away easily obtained permission and raised the priority of this application in the system to the highest.

It happened to be Christmas Eve, and the staff who controlled the Chandra X-ray Observatory clearly couldn't match the enthusiasm of astronomers like Lucius Rudy.

After several upgrades to the system, many commands to the Chandra X-ray Telescope Control Center were prioritized.

What's more, it is actually quite normal for a NASA astronomer to occasionally join the team for a scientific research application.

The Chandra X-ray telescope is jointly managed by NASA and a consortium of universities, and they don't even need to say hello to the European Coordinating Center.Everyone is going to celebrate Christmas, and then let the Chandra X-ray telescope take pictures by itself according to the set angle and collect data.

After all, what could be more important than the coming Christmas? !

So after completing the last shooting mission, the telescope in the deep space began to automatically adjust the angle according to the preset program, and aimed the lens at the center of the Milky Way where the solar system is located.

……

The next day, Christmas came.

The official website of "Science" magazine also released a Christmas special paper on this day, "Analysis of complex universe structure by differential manifold".

The general idea is to analyze the complex universe structure through differential manifolds.

You don't even need to look at the content, just looking at the public review of the paper can make many people interested in this paper.

Because the review directly mentioned the possibility of multi-universe celestial bodies in the center of the Milky Way through reasoning and calculation, and according to the mass and size analysis of celestial bodies obtained after precise calculations, these celestial bodies are all stars.

It is indeed unbelievable that this conclusion can be drawn not by observation, but by deduction.

In the eyes of many people, whether this conclusion is scientific is open to question.

After all, modern science is almost ignorant in both directions, and many things have to be guessed.

A micro direction, a macro direction.

Many people think that the Schrödinger equation has described quantum mechanics, but the reality is that quantum mechanics still has too many problems.And what many people don't know is that many equations cannot be solved.In fact, the work of many theoretical physicists and mathematicians in this era tends to be the same, and they are all immersed in solving equations.

One-dimensional Schrödinger equation, three-dimensional Schrödinger equation, normal Schrödinger equation, or NS equation.

When it comes to the macroscopic direction, all the theories about the universe at this stage must add the word hypothesis, such as the Big Bang hypothesis, the pulsating universe hypothesis, the white hole hypothesis...etc.

The reason is very simple, the macro level has reached a certain level, and it cannot be verified at all with the current level of human technology.

Without a proven theory, it can only be included in the category of hypothesis first.

For example, the currently accepted hypothesis of the Big Bang in the scientific community is that scientists use the general theory of relativity to deduce it in reverse, and conclude that the universe was in a state of infinitely high density and temperature before a finite time in the past, which is called a singularity.

The general theory of relativity has been verified mathematically. At the same time, with the development of science and technology, the phenomena observed by many scientists are also verifying and complementing the correctness of the general theory of relativity.

But this still does not mean that the Big Bang theory is completely correct, but it can be said that this is a hypothesis starting from materialism.

More evidence is needed for complete proof.

Of course, some kind of phenomenon may be observed in the future, which does not conform to the current Big Bang model to falsify the hypothesis, and then scientists will start to give other hypotheses about the origin of the universe.

This is impossible.

It took only a few hundred years for humans to establish a modern scientific system in the true sense. After all, the most scientific method of treatment for doctors in the Middle Ages was bloodletting for patients. Some people even believed in stool therapy. Eating a spoonful of poop every day can ensure health.

According to the theory that has not been verified so far, the universe has existed for 138 billion years. It is indeed extremely difficult to use hundreds of years of development to explore what happened in 138 billion years or even longer.

Especially for a civilization still trapped on a small planet, the difficulty is even more imaginable.

So it can even be said that this paper is the first time in the history of human astronomy that someone uses mathematical theory to deduce a cosmic possibility that can be verified by modern science.Because the center of the galaxy happens to be within the observable range of current earth science and technology.Moreover, this conclusion is not consistent with the existing theory.

It is not important that what is observed is only the starry sky more than 2.6 years ago. After all, compared with the lifespan of stars of tens of billions of years, the lifespan of 2 years is almost negligible.It's like no matter how harsh people are on themselves, they don't care about how many femtoseconds they waste every day...

So even during the Christmas season, this paper still caused great repercussions, especially when the paper was signed by Ning Zi.

The circle of astronomy is actually not that big.

Especially in the circle of theoretical astronomers, when a person sees this paper, as long as he is interested, he will naturally share the guesses of the paper with familiar people, and then upgrade the small-scale discussion to a larger-scale discussion.

Not to mention that many astronomers also play Twitter and Facebook, and occasionally express a few opinions on the public Internet platform when they feel something. what's going on.

If there is another intelligent leader who can disregard the Internet recommendation algorithm and wantonly spread the content it needs to spread, then a paper published in a technology magazine can theoretically spread to anyone who may be interested in this paper within an hour. In front of the eyes of people, even in front of them countless times, until they are interested.

As a result, Lucius Rudy was inevitably brought into the discussion circle by his peers.

Even at Christmas, there are always a group of single men who have no family ties and are not interested in all kinds of excitement. They can discuss what they are interested in in the computer group.

"Hi, Lucius, have you seen the paper of that Huaxia man?"

"Actually I saw it yesterday."

"Impossible, it was only published today. And obviously, the magazine specially marked the paper as unverified."

"Yeah, that's because it's a verifiable paper. If it turns out it's going to be printed in that issue of the physical journal, so guess what the editor at Science Magazine would want someone to verify him conclusion?"

"So they found you? Oh God, why didn't you hear me yesterday?"

"I thought they were joking, do you really think we can find stars there?"

"Ha, as you just said, this is verifiable. To be honest, I'm curious, think about it, if you had his status, would you easily publish this kind of paper? So he must be very confident Yes, I guess many people are now eager to see if they can really find those stars near the coordinate range he designated."

"I've actually submitted an application to borrow a Chandra x-ray to do this verification. I'm skeptical though."

Lucius Rudy responded on the software, then moved in his heart, and then opened the laboratory's management software through the personal computer.

He wanted to see the receipt of the application he had submitted and when he needed to wait.

It was unexpected that this paper had such a great popularity, and it might also attract the attention of the management center.

Although the possibility of the remote operation raising the priority is very low, it might be.

However, the moment he opened the background management system, he was stunned.

Uh... the mission is already in progress?So busy with Chandra X-ray missions lately?His application was approved yesterday and was directly uploaded by the system?

He checked the task progress, estimated the time, and then switched to the chat window of the software.

"Well, I have good news for you. The verification work is already in progress. The Chandra X-ray is scanning that area. The first batch of observation results will be sent to the ground in 24 hours. Anyone of you who is interested can Analyze the data with me."

"God, this is not like NASA style, when did they become so efficient?"

"Watch out, while you're saying this, there's a poor soul whining about how NASA is prioritizing resources on things like this. My application hasn't been approved yet! I wish I'd reported first though. A name, when I refute that guy named Ning like this, I can also sign a name."

"Haha, Sipson, don't worry. Maybe they just think your research project is too cutting-edge. After all, Chandra X-ray is too old to meet your requirements. Maybe when NASA sends the Webb Deep Space Telescope into the sky , I will be the first to approve your project. In addition, if the data comes out, I hope to get the news as soon as possible.”

"Speaking of the Webb telescope, will it go up to the sky next year? Lucius."

"Uh... I don't know, I hope NASA can be on time, but who can say this kind of thing? If there were no unexpected circumstances, it should have been sent to heaven last year."

"Well, damn it, NASA keeps skipping votes on critical things like this!"

Yes, the James Webb Telescope, which was supposed to be sent in 2017, was postponed to 2019. This is definitely the most dissatisfied thing for astronomers last year, but there is no way, this world is like this, there is no perfection the result of.

And Lucius Rudy looked at the constantly refreshed chat content, and couldn't help crying and laughing.

See, that's what this gang is like.

He was pulled to talk about Ning Zi's thesis, and it turned out that James Webb was talked about, and the topic immediately began to change. The group of people instantly forgot Ning Zi's thesis and started chatting about the most advanced space telescope in the future.

But Lucius also understands.

After all, there was really nothing worth discussing about Ning Zi's paper, mainly because he didn't quite understand it.

What I don't understand here does not refer to the final conclusion, but the process.

This is not only because the entire demonstration process obviously omitted a lot, but also because the guiding theory of its calculation is not the general theory of relativity describing the macroscopic universe, but based on abstract things in mathematical differential geometry.

This will somewhat dampen the interest of people to discuss.

After all, the theory hasn't been proven yet, has it?
Everyone thinks more about falsification than proof, right?Even those who say they hope Ning Zi is right are probably just venting their dissatisfaction.

So Lucius Rudy closed the chat window calmly, and began to face those cumbersome data again.

After all, the mysteries of the universe are in these data, not in the minds of these people.

……

Huaxia, Yanbei Sports University.

When the vast majority of people in this world are still immersed in the joy of Christmas that just passed, a certain kitten who is more eager than anyone else has intercepted the first telegram sent back by the Chandra X-ray telescope contacting the earth. A batch of data.

In other words, it is not appropriate to use interception. The kitten just uses some permissions first to analyze those complicated data.

Because of many extremely objective reasons, it is difficult for human beings to observe the galactic center through the visible light band in the solar system. A large amount of interstellar dust will block the human line of sight, so it can only be indirectly observed in the 2 micron to 73 cm band through infrared observation technology. Find out what's really going on in the center of a galaxy far, far away.

So it's no surprise that the Chandra X-ray space telescope is still sending a lot of data back to Earth.

Obviously, kittens are good at analyzing data.

So Ning Zi was in his sleep, thinking hard about his question, when he suddenly got a message from the kitten.

"Meow, congratulations, Ning Zi, your deduction is correct, no, it should be said to be partially correct. According to the first batch of feedback data, it has been concluded that there are not only a dozen stars at that position, but There are dozens of extremely bright stars, this is really scary! We really should change our plan, we want to conquer the small universe outside the planet! Meow!"

(End of this chapter)