Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

The human fleet, on the periphery of the huge accretion disk, slowly rotates around the central black hole.

Circle after circle.

During this period, the huge fleet passed by the Lost Star several times.

Each time, the fleet would send more or less probes to explore the Lost Star.

At the beginning, when the probes arrived on the ground, the vengeful giant tree would carefully use its roots to make tentative attacks.

As for why it was so cautious...

Until now, the two huge craters have just begun to grow saplings!

What's more, from time to time there will be a few strange things whizzing through the air, who knows if they will attack like last time!

It's not stupid, so naturally it won't risk its life to touch the bad luck of humans again.

After several attempts, the giant tree seemed to have figured out the rules and gradually became familiar with these iron lumps from the sky.

Even because these iron lumps release a lot of radiation when landing and taking off, the giant tree will "ambush" in advance.

Just like a pilgrimage, whether it is leaves or roots, they will gather near the detector, waiting for the "gift from nature".

As for the lost giant insects, they gradually discovered this rule.

However, they are weak and obviously cannot break through the "blockade" of the giant tree. They can only "lick" some radioactive materials missed by the giant tree in the farthest outer area.

Even so, the day when the detector arrives is also a rare carnival for them-at least, the giant tree will not attack them again.

…

The time of research always passes quickly.

Especially in the study of black holes, just receiving data consumes more than 80% of the entire research process.

In the laboratory.

"Have you found any signs of the existence of gravitons?"

Lv Yongchang asked with a gloomy face.

"…"

There was no response.

Lv Yongchang took a deep breath and calmed his inner anxiety.

"Five years!"

"It has been five years since the black hole detector successfully arrived at the target area!"

"After five years of continuous observation, no trace of the existence of gravitons has been found!"

"Let alone the so-called superstring gravitational constant, we haven't even caught the hair of the gravitons!"

In the laboratory, Lv Yongchang's restless voice echoed.

As he spoke, the green background of the technology tree system seemed to appear again in his mind.

[Missing constant: Finding gravitons]

According to the prompts of the technology tree, if you want to obtain the superstring gravitational constant, you must find the so-called gravitons.

But until now...

"Yongchang..." Fang Xu said hesitantly, "Wait a little longer."

"If the time of the black hole detector is used as the benchmark, it has only been a little more than five days since it arrived at the target area."

"Don't I know about this?" Lv Yongchang's face became more and more ugly.

"Is it possible? This is why I am irritable!"

Long before the experiment began, he was ready to spend a lot of time.

But after waiting for five years, he only got a series of useless data. This fact still made Lu Yongchang a little difficult to accept.

Five years, this is five years!

In the past, five years would be enough for him to research so many technologies!

"Although the fleet's supplies are sufficient, they are still limited."

"In order to resist the gravity of the black hole, we have to consume a lot of energy every moment."

"What if, what if the black hole detector takes a year to observe the data we want?"

"This means that the fleet will have to stay here for 360 years!"

Fang Xu was silent.

Like Lu Yongchang, this problem has been bothering him.

"According to Zero's calculation, we can stay here for a maximum of 500 years."

"It seems that there is still plenty of time, but from the data obtained so far, I don't think the detector can give us a satisfactory answer within this time limit!"

"Can we really find gravitons within 500 years?!"

Lu Yongchang's voice still echoed in the laboratory.

"Then..."

He Bilin's voice came from not far away: "Professor, what do you think we should do?"

Lu Yongchang also fell silent.

The laboratory was quiet, and each academician subconsciously slowed down his breathing, fearing that he would disturb Lv Yongchang's thoughts.

"Let the detector continue to sink!!"

Lv Yongchang's firm voice suddenly pierced the silence in the laboratory.

"But this is already the limit of the detector's reach!" He Bilin's face changed slightly, and he immediately retorted, "If it continues to sink, the detector's antimatter engine power will not be enough to break free from the gravity of the black hole."

"The detector will lose the ability to maintain its orbit."

"Under the gravity of the black hole, it will continue to fall towards the black hole's event horizon until it is swallowed by the black hole!"

"This is not the most important issue."

"Once the distance between the detector and the black hole continues to shorten, the time deceleration effect will continue to increase."

"At that time, if you want to receive a complete piece of data, the time consumed will increase significantly!"

Lv Yongchang did not respond to He Bilin's words immediately, but stretched out his hand to drag over a holographic image.

He made a gesture, letting Zero clear all the data on the projection, and then said again.

"Some time ago, I have been thinking about a problem."

"Perhaps because we don't know the specific situation of the black hole, there is a problem with our original inference data."

"The space-time curvature in the area where the detector is located is still not large enough to expose gravitons directly to the visible universe!"

As he said this, Lv Yongchang raised his hand and wrote on the holographic projection in front of him.

"This is..."

He Bilin frowned and whispered softly: "What was our inference formula for the conditions for the appearance of gravitons?"

"Not bad." Lv Yongchang nodded, without any pause in his movements, and wrote down lines of profound numbers and letters like flowing water.

"Among the data sent back by the detector, several data caught my attention."

"Although they have nothing to do with gravitons, they have produced some deviations from our previous black hole models."

"The observation time is still short, and we can't be sure whether this is an experimental error."

"But if we import these deviation data into the inference process..."

Lv Yongchang's movements became faster and faster, and the handwriting on the projection became more and more sloppy.

Fortunately, the academicians present were already accustomed to Lv Yongchang's sloppy handwriting, so it was not too difficult to recognize them.

"We can easily come to a conclusion."

Lv Yongchang's handwriting suddenly stopped, and then he gently tapped a string of numbers.

"The curvature of space-time near the black hole detector is far from enough!"

ps: I will resume two updates tomorrow!