I really have special powers

Chapter 161 Possibilities

Yu Ze said euphemistically: "Director Wan, suppose there is a dwarf planet that breaks in from outside the solar system. How likely is this?"

"what?"

Wan Ronglong laughed at this question: "This possibility is too small, too small..."

"Isn't this a possibility?"

Yu Ze still insisted on asking.

"It's not that there is no such possibility. Just like when you are walking on the street, you will worry about being hit by a car, but will you worry about being hit by a shark falling from the sky?"

Wan Ronglong smiled and said: "If the probability is too low from a macro perspective, it means it does not exist."

Seeing that Wan Ronglong didn't take it seriously, this attitude was actually understandable. The probability of a wandering dwarf planet breaking into the solar system was really about the same as being killed by a shark falling from the sky.

Yu Ze pointed at the white paper: "Director Wan, I have a request. Can you calculate what impact a dwarf planet with such a mass would have on the Earth's ecosystem if it fell into the sun? "

"Ok?"

Wan Ronglong looked down at the two lines of data on the white paper, shook his head and said: "No need to calculate, if a dwarf planet with this mass falls into the sun, the earth's ecosystem will collapse no matter what."

Asking an astronomer this question is like teaching an elementary school math problem.

Yu Ze nodded. The paper had already been written very clearly. The reason why he asked was not to make sure, but to lead to the next topic.

"Director Wan, let me make another hypothesis. If there is such a dwarf planet that is more than 115 astronomical units away from the earth, can we observe it now?"

Yu Ze asked again.

Wan Ronglong frowned. He didn't know why Yu Ze made so many assumptions. For another person, he might not have the patience to answer. He was very busy.

But facing Yu Ze, a special talent, he had to maintain considerable patience.

"It can't be done. More than 100 astronomical units are too far away."

"Can't the Hubble telescope work either?"

"Haha, no, how should I put it? The minimum resolution angle of the Hubble Telescope is about 0.000000254rad. So if you want to resolve stars 115 astronomical units away, the minimum resolution distance is 4369 kilometers."

Wan Ronglong did some calculations and said, "According to the diameter of the dwarf planet you gave, it is far from reaching this resolution distance, and you did not give a specific star search angle and ICRS."

"What about the Webb Space Telescope? Can it be found?"

Yu Ze asked again.

Wan Ronglong was surprised by Yu Ze's question and thought: "The Webb Space Telescope is different from the Hubble Telescope. Its detection instrument is mainly an infrared camera... Let me calculate the relevant detection wavelengths."

This calculation method is not difficult. According to the relevant formulas of the Rayleigh criterion and the diffraction resolution limit, once the aperture of the telescope and the detection wavelength are known, the minimum resolution for detecting celestial objects can be calculated.

"We have calculated that if the near-infrared camera of the Webb telescope is used, it can provide a spatial resolution of 60 milliarcseconds. At 115 astronomical units, the theoretical minimum resolution limit is 1937.44 kilometers."

Wan Ronglong quickly calculated the result: "The diameter of the dwarf planet you provided is 2500 kilometers, so it can be found with difficulty, but it can only be imaged as a point on the telescope."

"I understand, so if you find this point, can you calculate its size?" Yu Ze continued to ask.

"Well, it was difficult in the past, but if we have the infrared detection of the Webb Telescope and use the occultation method, it might be possible."

Wan Ronglong found Yu Ze’s whimsical idea very interesting and joked: “Actually, there is no need to be so anxious. Since this dwarf planet is rampaging through the solar system, when it enters the gravitational range of Pluto, it will inevitably disturb Pluto and even Neptune. Its orbit will be easy to discover when the time comes.”

"Then it will be too late."

Yu Ze said.

Only then did Wan Ronglong notice that Yu Ze's face was serious and he didn't look like he was joking.Since getting to know this strange young man, all kinds of scientific common sense have been broken, causing the domestic physics community to lament.

Originally, the physics community could study even the most bizarre physical phenomena with curiosity and calmness, and this might be something they would like to see happen.

The reason why Yu Ze's special powers made them wail is because the special powers do not follow common sense of physics.

This is not materialism that should be recognized and studied if a phenomenon exists. The premise of materialism is that the phenomenon can be studied by scientific methods and tools, but what if it cannot?

To give an analogy, a supernatural phenomenon is like a super difficult mathematical problem. Mathematicians all over the world have scratched their heads and can't find a solution. However, mathematicians admit that this is a mathematical problem and it is theoretically possible. Find solutions and arguments.

Yu Ze's special function seems to be a super difficult mathematical problem. However, after a little research by mathematicians around the world, they found that the essence has nothing to do with mathematics. It is impossible to solve it with any mathematical tools, and it will not be possible to solve it in the future. , because this essentially violates 1+1 equals 2, it is just like 1+1 equals 3, which is equal to 4, two numbers appearing out of thin air.

Therefore, the research institute is currently caught in such troubles. They seem to have found some pattern, but after careful study, they seem to have found nothing. They are all castles in the air that cannot be reproduced.

And research that cannot be reproduced is fatal in science, even if the fact of Yu Ze is here.

In the words of a materials scientist, it is like developing a piece of room-temperature superconducting material. Anyone can prove that this room-temperature superconducting material is real, but no one can reproduce the experiment. Isn't this a scam?
In Wan Ronglong's understanding of Yu Ze, this young man is quite polite, very humble, and has a good character. He can occasionally joke with humor. I have never seen such a serious side of him.

"Ahem, Xiao Yu, your idea is very interesting, but in the end it is just an idea and cannot be taken seriously."

Wan Ronglong coughed.

Yu Ze asked back: "Director Wan, do you believe in my special powers?"

"what?"

Is there anyone who doesn’t believe it now?

Wan Ronglong heard other meanings in Yu Ze's mouth, and his expression gradually became serious: "Comrade Xiao Yu, why did you come up with such an idea?"

"Director Wan, I would like to know if you can request NASA to conduct a search based on the data I provided to determine whether there is a possibility of a rogue dwarf planet entering the solar system?"

When Yu Ze said this, Wan Ronglong almost jumped up from his chair.

He stared at Yu Ze, his narrow eyes hiding some kind of consideration, "Comrade Xiao Yu, do you mean to tell me tactfully that an unrecorded dwarf planet has entered the solar system?"

"Yes."

Yu Ze looked directly at Wan Ronglong and did not avoid it: "A dwarf planet with a diameter of about 2500 kilometers, estimated to be 115 astronomical units from the sun, is entering the solar system at a speed of 120 kilometers per second, and is likely to go straight to the sun. "

(End of this chapter)