Earth Era

This black hole has existed in this base for more than ten years. The researchers here, including Li Yunfan, have also conducted research on this black hole for more than ten years. So obviously, there must be very perfect experimental and observation equipment here.

Rodriguez led Zhao Lan to a nearby observation room. On the way, Rodriguez said to Zhao Lan in a slightly proud tone: "Miss Zhao Lan, now you know why we are in the base. Has no waste ever been thrown out? Not even the waste of hollowing out mountain peaks and digging underground passages... Yes, we threw it all into a black hole. No matter how difficult the waste was, even The most dangerous radioactive waste, or the super-poison that can kill hundreds of thousands of people in a single drop...they're all just food for black holes."

Zhao Lan's spirit is still in a state of shock at this moment. It's a black hole, but it's also a miracle, a miracle that only the gods can grasp. But now it appeared in front of Zhao Lan like this, which made Zhao Lan not shocked.

Rodriguez continued to say: "In the early days of the establishment of our base, the boss even signed a waste treatment contract with some scientific research departments of the government. You must know that the waste produced by those scientific research departments is all waste. Extremely dangerous stuff, they used to send it to the moon and store it, because there's no room on Earth for this kind of hazardous waste."

Zhao Lan knew about this. The more advanced the science and technology of human civilization, the greater the power and the higher the danger. In the past few decades, there was even an accident. All marine creatures within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers in a certain sea area suffered from a strange disease, resulting in a large number of marine life deaths. After investigation, it was found that the cause was located here. A slight leak of waste from a deep-sea landfill in one of the deep-sea landfills led to the tragedy. After this incident, human civilization enacted laws that stipulated that all hazardous waste of S-level and above must be launched to the moon, and it is strictly forbidden to store anywhere on the earth.

"The boss claimed that he had mastered a new type of waste treatment technology. And after applying for a patent, he disclosed the technical details of the technology to the government, so the boss won the waste treatment of all government scientific research departments after the technology passed the evaluation. order. Well, this technology is true, but the profit margin of waste processing through this technology is very low. The boss has no interest in making this kind of equipment. The boss just set up a company to use the equipment on the bright side. A waste treatment company, and then secretly transported all those hazardous wastes here, and then put them into a black hole - safe, efficient, fast. Low cost. In the early days, the boss obtained it from the government through this method. With a lot of wealth, we gradually expanded the base, added a lot of equipment, and established many branches..."

There was always a faint sense of pride in Rodriguez's words, but Zhao Lan had a feeling of crying and laughing when he heard these words, which, by the way, diluted the previous shock a lot.

"This Li Yunfan is really talented... He even treats something like a black hole as a waste treatment plant... But this kind of thing is completely feasible from a technical point of view. No matter how dangerous something is, when you encounter a black hole, you can only Take off all your "hair" except for the three physical quantities of mass, angular momentum, and charge, and obediently become part of the black hole."

"Even now this contract between the boss and the government is going on. The boss has even received an honorary award from the government at least five times. You know. It's very troublesome for the government to deal with this hazardous waste. The boss completely solved the problem at a price that seemed very low to the government. Although the boss made a lot of money in this contract, it cannot be denied that it also brought a lot of benefits to the government. What?" Rodriguez said.

"Okay." Zhao Lan nodded speechlessly, "In some ways... this is indeed a win-win situation."

Rodriguez's words reminded Zhao Lan of a person. That person is the person in charge of a garbage disposal company. He has indeed received awards from the government several times, as Rodriguez said. Zhao Lan has even seen an exclusive interview with him in the media. In the interview, that person once said something pious, such as "Hazardous waste disposal is very dangerous and has a very low profit margin. But as an entrepreneur, I have to bear a certain social responsibility. Responsibility, contributing to our civilization is what I should do", "To be honest, this hazardous waste treatment plant is completely unprofitable. It is completely supported by blood transfusions from other industries under my name. But I am willing to do so. I do. I don't want to see our R&D institutions waste the money that could be used for R&D on waste disposal. As long as my factory can save even one tenth of the resources for our scientific progress, I will I'm satisfied." Zhao Lan once admired this person very much, thinking that this is a responsible entrepreneur in the new era, but he never thought that that person was only one of Li Yunfan's many identities. Moreover... Li Yunfan accumulated a lot of wealth in the early stage by relying on this kind of behavior.

"I don't know if those government officials knew the truth... what expressions they would have." Zhao Lan thought in his heart.

Under the leadership of Rodriguez, Zhao Lan finally came to a control room. This is a very spacious control room. There are at least a dozen staff in white coats working in it. There are more than 20 display screens on the walls and on the table. There are a lot of dazzling numbers constantly shaking on the top. Obviously, these numbers describe the state of the black hole and the instruments that bind it.

Rodriguez took Zhao Lan to a display screen and said, "This is the real-time state of the black hole."

But the display screen was pitch black, and nothing could be seen. Rodriguez adjusted a few times on the console next to him, so Zhao Lan saw a faint red dot in the center of the pitch-black display screen. Just a little red dot, nothing else.

"It's not visible light," Rodriguez said. "It's Hawking radiation, which is the evaporation of black holes. Miniature black holes evaporate very violently, so we can observe these processes and label them in color. "

The concept of Hawking radiation was proposed by a great scientist named Hawking long before the solar crisis. It specifically means that the vacuum is not actually empty, and a "virtual particle pair" will appear completely randomly in the vacuum. , these virtual particles have negative mass for one and positive mass for the other. Immediately after appearing, both positive and negative particles will annihilate and return to nothingness. Therefore, in the macroscopic world, matter will show the phenomenon of mass conservation. If the virtual particle pair happens to be right next to the black hole, interesting things can happen, because particles with negative mass may fall into the black hole to reduce the mass of the black hole, while particles with positive mass may escape, It looks like radiation emitted from a black hole. This theory takes into account the second law of thermodynamics and the rule that objects cannot escape from the interior of a black hole, so it once attracted the attention of many scientists, but scientists have never been able to truly verify Hawking radiation and observe its true existence. Even now, hundreds of years later, people have not really verified the authenticity of Hawking radiation. However, because of more and more theoretical and data support, Hawking radiation has basically been recognized.

An important reason why Hawking radiation cannot be observed is that the more massive the black hole, the lower the radiation rate. What people usually find are supermassive black holes. For such a black hole, the radiation rate in the calculation is so low that it is almost negligible, and it is naturally extremely difficult for people to observe Hawking radiation. But small black holes are different. Their radiation rates can be so high that they can be called terrifying ~www.readwn.com~ It is naturally much easier to observe.

As Rodriguez said, they had a black hole, and they actually observed evidence of Hawking radiation.

"If these observational data are published, it will definitely drive all scientists crazy." Zhao Lan muttered.

Rodriguez smiled lightly, noncommittal.

"Let's take a look at what a black hole looks like in a visible light environment..." Rodriguez said, reaching out and pressing a button. So the display screen in front of Zhao Lan immediately turned white. Zhao Lan didn't see anything except for a little bit of what seemed to be distorted in the center of the screen.

Zhao Lan is also a scientist. Although he does not specialize in the study of black holes, he still knows some basic knowledge about black holes. Zhao Lan made a quick calculation in his heart, and then shook his head helplessly: "This little black hole... can't be seen at all. Forget it, you'd better give me some of your research materials for me to see. "

"I have a way for you to see." Rodriguez said with a smile. (To be continued.)