Earth Era

? Obviously, the name of the 105 Institute comes from the 105 river system-level celestial bodies that have disappeared abnormally. ≥, but Zhao Lan and all the staff of the 105 Research Institute know that if there are no accidents, this number will continue to rise. As for what it means and what it means to the earth, no one knows as it is written in the top-secret information.

After all, these things are too far away from the earth - even the nearest disappearing star is more than eight billion light-years away from the earth. But science is all about having this foresight, and before it gets close to Earth, scientists have to figure it all out. If it finally came to the vicinity of the earth to study it, it would be too late.

The 105 Institute is built at a distance of 2 million kilometers from the earth, where it revolves around the sun with the same cycle as the earth. This way it is always on the backside of the Earth, never disturbed by sunlight. It can be regarded as a medium-sized space scientific research base in general, but it is still being expanded, and various observation and research equipment are constantly being transported from the earth and moon bases. When it is finally completed, It will become the largest space scientific research base built by human civilization.

After all, the unknown actually means progress in a certain way. For the development of science and technology, the most frightening thing is not that the answer to the question cannot be found, but that the question cannot be found at all. The bigger the question, the more reward you can get after solving it. The abnormal disappearance of stars this time is a big question. The scientific community of human civilization hopes that by solving this question, some physical theorems will be born again. It would be even better if the basic theory could develop by leaps and bounds.

Zhao Lan and a group of scientific elites mobilized from various places began to explore this issue. This can be a very complex issue. Therefore, the 105 Research Institute has a high level of authority in this regard. If a scientist or department in any field needs to cooperate or help. Often it is only necessary to send a letter to the Central Academy of Sciences. The Organization Department of the Central Academy of Sciences will forward the letter to the corresponding scientific research department. That scientific research department will immediately mobilize its forces to answer the questions of the 105th Research Institute.

But in the early stages of research it wasn't so complicated. In fact, the current work of Zhao Lan and his colleagues is more about finding and observing distant celestial bodies in the celestial sphere to see which celestial bodies have disappeared abnormally, and then explore the commonalities between these abnormally disappeared celestial bodies characteristics and possible internal connections. In terms of theory, there is no breakthrough for the time being.

Just as Zhao Lan thought at the beginning, the number of abnormally disappeared celestial bodies really continued to increase. Based on the observations of the 105 Institute and the reports of some other observation bases, this number has increased from 105 to 876, a full eightfold increase. And all this happened in less than a month.

Zhao Lan faintly felt it. The speed of the abnormal disappearance of the star is accelerating, and it is constantly approaching the earth. So far, the closest celestial body to the Earth is less than 7 billion light-years away.

Zhao Lan and her colleagues still don't know what that means. When Zhao Lan looked up at the starry sky, Zhao Lan even felt that a huge monster appeared in the depths of the endless universe. This huge monster was starting to devour the universe where the earth exists from the edge, and the distance from the earth was getting closer and closer. The closer you get, the more the earth will eventually be swallowed...

Except for scientists who are interested in this matter, the phenomenon of the abnormal disappearance of stars has not had any impact on the world of ordinary people. Because those stars are inherently invisible to the naked eye, and the disappearance of those stars will not be noticed by them. But Zhao Lan couldn't help but see such a terrifying scene in his heart: the stars in the night sky of the earth also began to disappear one by one. Eventually, Earth's night sky became pitch black. Not a single star, not a single star can be seen...

Zhao Lan would even be unable to sleep all night because of these terrifying scenes. Zhao Lan couldn't imagine how terrifying the night sky would be when it was pitch black and without any stars - although such a scene would also appear on a cloudy and rainy day, it was different from now. Even on a cloudy and rainy day, Zhao Lan would know that the stars did not disappear, but hid behind the clouds. And now, those celestial bodies are truly disappearing...

In the night sky of the earth, the faintest stars that can be detected by the naked eye are sixth-magnitude stars. The entire earth, including the southern and northern hemispheres, can see no more than 10,000 stars. Among these less than 10,000 stars, most of them are not more than 10,000 light-years away from the earth. The most distant celestial object visible to the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, and the distance between the Andromeda galaxy and Earth is about 2.5 million light-years.

More than 2.5 million light-years is a small number compared to 7 billion light-years, but Zhao Lan knows that as long as the stars continue to disappear and the distance from the earth keeps shrinking, there will always be One day, the Andromeda galaxy will disappear, and those stars that are only a few thousand, even a few hundred light-years away from the earth will also disappear...

Where did the lost stars go? Zhao Lan doesn't know. Will the earth disappear too? If the earth disappears, will human beings disappear along with it? Zhao Lan didn't know either.

Zhao Lan's mood was always a little low, and the worries in his heart were always lingering. Zhao Lan even began to be a little afraid of the dawn—because the Institute was on the back of the earth, there was actually no dawn, but researchers including Zhao Lan were still used to arranging their work according to the timetable on Earth, and they were still accustomed to putting Every morning at six o’clock is called dawn—because it’s time to start working, and if there is no accident, once you start working, you can always notice that the number of abnormally disappeared celestial bodies has begun to increase more or less. Yes, as few as a dozen, as many as dozens, and there will always be new disappearance reports submitted every day.

At the end of each day, the researchers in the institute will gather together to hold a regular meeting to discuss the news and new ideas they have received during the day. But so far, no idea that can reasonably explain the matter has been proposed.

It's just that there is a consensus that has been accepted by all researchers, and everyone believes that this inference should be reasonable and consistent with the facts.

The inference is that the phenomenon of anomalous disappearance of stars should have nothing to do with the stars themselves. This inference sounds strange and counterintuitive, but it is backed up by solid logical reasoning.

Because obviously, if the abnormal disappearance of these stars is caused by the stars themselves, according to the data of distance and light signal transmission time, they must satisfy the "time of disappearance of stars and the distance from the earth in the same way" A one-to-one relationship", that is, stars that are 8 billion light-years away from Earth will disappear before 8 billion years, and stars that are 6 billion light-years away will disappear before 6 billion years. They must strictly meet this condition, and the disappearance time of the stars observed on the earth can be gathered in these short months as it is now.

And this is undoubtedly impossible. Those disappeared stars are not a small number after all, they are hundreds, or nearly a thousand, the abnormal disappearance of stars. If there are only two stars disappearing at the same time in the eyes of the earth, it can be explained by coincidence, but nearly a thousand stars strictly follow this law, and it cannot be explained by coincidence.

That's why the staff of the 105 Research Institute made this inference, that is, the abnormal disappearance of stars has nothing to do with the stars themselves. Then the next inference can be drawn. Those stars that seem to "disappear" have not disappeared. They still exist in this universe, but for some special reasons, they cannot be seen from the earth. .

This inference is generally accepted by researchers, so the research direction of researchers has focused on finding possible causes of such phenomena other than the causes of stars themselves. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

The theory of dust cloud occlusion believes that the solar system at this moment is running into an interstellar dust belt, and the dense interstellar dust cloud blocks the starlight shining on the earth in all directions, which leads to the disappearance of stars. This inference satisfies the above conditions, but it also has unexplainable fatal flaws. If all the above-mentioned stars are to be blocked, the dust cloud must be very large and thick, then it must be observable by humans. But humans have not been aware of the existence of any interstellar dust clouds of a certain size around the solar system. Moreover, the phenomenon of star anomalies has appeared intensively in recent months, which has never happened before. If this phenomenon is explained by the occlusion of dust clouds, then it is obvious that it can be considered that a few months ago The solar system has not yet entered this dust cloud, and after only a few months of operation, the solar system has moved deep enough into this dust cloud that the starlight of so many stars is blocked?

Gravitational lensing is also facing the threat of its own vulnerabilities. It can certainly explain the abnormal disappearance of one or several stars, but this phenomenon occurs in all directions of the universe. Could it be that there are so many strong gravitational sources in so many different directions in the universe at the same time? This is too coincidental. (To be continued..)

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