The Star Knight

Opal began to yearn for the immense vast universe and starry sky, he began to ask himself, after leaving here, where can I go?At the time, his mother came from the universe, her spaceship was ruined and rusty, and she seemed to be the only passenger on the spaceship. I don't know why she gave birth to her and no longer left the B-11 star.

The next day he left the mine early, with a star map, and couldn't wait to come to Rector's shelter.

He pulled another cart of ore, but found no one in the cave.

"Rector!" shouted Opal.

In the vast wind, Rector stood on the endless stone field, and the robe fluttered in the wind.

He stood like this, motionless.

Opal looked away for a while and found that Rector had stood in this position for a long time.

After a full hour, Rector opened his eyes and turned around.

Opal asked: "What are you doing?"

Rector said: "Meditation."

Opal: "Meditation?"

Rector: "Disperse your thoughts and spirits and explore unknown areas."

Opal nodded incomprehensible, and the two worked together to pour the mine into the atomic furnace. Rector said: "3.5%."

Opal said: "You can only find these, the purity of the mine is not high."

Rector said: "Foreman didn't embarrass you?"

Opal said: "He doesn't care about this, anyway, it is used for food. I only tell him that I need to purify myself."

He and Rector sat outside the cave. Opal held the star chart against the zenith and asked, "Which planet is your home on?"

Rector said: "The place I came from is a location not marked on the star chart, which is on the central axis of the expansion point after the universe was formed."

Opal said: "I didn't understand."

Rector asked: "Do you know how the stars come from?"

Opal: "I don't know, aren't they always there?"

Rector: "Of course not. They first existed 20 billion years ago. At that time, the universe was still a point, there was no time or space. At a certain moment, it exploded, so time was launched along the explosion point, Energy is transformed into mass in the first few seconds, forming many planets. So the stars are born."

Opal said, "What was it before they were born?"

Rector whispered: "There was no time before they were born, and of course it didn't matter."

Opal was a little confused, and Rector said: "Under normal conditions, time is an axis. When you ask what happened before, you must look in the direction of the thread and re-set the point. Once you go back to the end of the thread, You will never find a more advanced line. So before time is born, there is no time, and it does not matter before."

"Because the starting point of time is defined by people, you can think of time and space as a planet like the B11 star, going all the way to the south, what will happen? Try to think about it."

Opal's face was blank, and Rector said: "You will go to the South Pole, and the concept of'South' is like'before', constantly walking forward, to the starting point, so if you stand at the South Pole, you will There is no place further south. Asking where it is south of Antarctica is like asking what it was before the start of time. It doesn’t make sense."

Opal seemed to understand something, but was even more confused. Rector said: "My place is called the Stars Church, and it is on the axis of the outbreak of the beginning. The outbreak of the beginning is a constant point. I gave you yesterday. Of the star map, the center point coordinates it uses are different from the current universal star map."

A chaos in Opal's mind subconsciously asked: "What's different?"

Rector said: "Your star map reference point is the location of the Sanctuary of Stars. The first star knight thought it was the center of the universe. And all other civilizations are called "Earth". The point serves as a relative frame of reference and uses it to define the coordinates on the star map."

Opal asked: "Will the earth move?"

Rector said: "It's movement is almost negligible for the movement between the nebula. But occasionally you use the star map of the Empire and the Republic to find a star, maybe you will find that it is not there, just because of the earth. Revolutions, solar system movements, and tiny errors caused by the rotation of the Milky Way."

Opal was completely confused. He tried to start another topic and asked, "What do you do normally?"

Rector replied: "Learn, fight, and clear all the restless existence between the stars."

Opal said: "Like cleaning up your enemy? Will you kill him?"

Rector hummed and fell into a long meditation, Opal asked: "How do you fight."

Rector frowned slightly, as if thinking about the method of interpretation, and said after a long time: "Kill and destroy are two concepts. He is a star knight corroded by dark energy. His life is very long, and he has mastered some of me. The power that I don’t know. I set out from the temple and found him for a long time, and finally he laid a trap. We met near a nebula, and finally I failed, that’s it. These days, I’m thinking about dealing with him. Method."

Opal began to imagine the appearance of Rector’s fight. He had never seen the universe, nor did he know how powerful Rector and his opponents were. Imagined it, but I couldn’t escape the scene of the miners fighting. The difference was only that Reker The special duel has become a bit larger.

Rector smiled. He didn't say anything. Opal asked again: "How old are you this year?"

Rector said: "Thousands of years old."

Opal: "Impossible! Are you so old?"

Rector looked at the star dome dreamily. The pupils reflected the stars in the sky. Opal put down the star map and asked: "How long can I live? I heard them say that humans will die in a hundred years."

Rector said: "Everyone has their own lifespan. The length is not the most important thing. The key is what you have done with limited life and what you have experienced. There is a kind of intelligent life on the mayfly of the Andromeda beta galaxy Body, their lives can only live by 0.05 seconds."

Opal: "!!!"

Rector smiled. His smile was handsome and gentle.

Opal: "Isn't that what happened after birth?"

Rector said: "Mayfly stars are a neutron star, and their size is as large as microorganisms, the speed of action is close to the speed of light, and the speed of thinking is also very fast. Our one second is equivalent to their two hundred years. The deep ivory of the universe The scholars in Tarry tried to use a particle wave converter to communicate with them, but failed."

Opal Road: "Why?"

Rector said: "Some people think they know some of the ultimate laws of the universe that exist and die, but the mayfly refuses to communicate with any alien intelligent life. And their life and death speed is too fast, the existence is too short, which is very tricky, Because you were still talking to one of the mayfly stars in the last second, as long as you blinked in the next second, it has reproduced for dozens of generations. Every second of the mayfly star has undergone 20 generations of replacements."

Opal laughed, and suddenly thought of something, said: "So their history is not longer?"

Rector said: "Yes, so some people speculate that the mayfly's civilization is the most advanced in this universe, it even far exceeds the civilization of the entire universe. Let's talk about it here, and in their history It has been developed for tens of thousands of years."

Opal said: "It's amazing."

Rector said: "Go back to rest, your workload is too great, you need to rest early, come to see me tomorrow."

Opal nodded and waved goodbye to him.

The next day Opal went to work. His mind was filled with whimsy from the depths of countless stars. Perhaps for Rector, his life was also very short-just like a mayfly.

What can I do to live longer like him?He couldn't help thinking about this question repeatedly, but he touched on a new question: what can he do for thousands of years?Do you repeat the work of mining, selling, and getting food every day?It's better to dig a mine for thousands of years, only for a hundred years, no... he doesn't want to do it for a minute.

He is right, the key lies in what you have done with a limited life, how many things you have experienced in this short hundred years.

"Hello, do you know." Opal said to his partner Locke: "Someone can live for thousands of years, do you believe it?"

Locke said: "Believe, what can't be done with money? I said last time when the foreman drank, as long as you save enough money, go to the Chiyan Galaxy, find a life medical company, re-inject your genes, and modify your physical condition. Just If you have money, you can live forever!"

Opal frowned: "How long can I live?"

Locke shrugged: "How do I know? It is possible to keep cell division at the same level as when I was young, two hundred years, three hundred years, one thousand years."

Opal asked: "How much does it cost?"

Locke said: "It is said that every genetic operation requires millions of energy units. You may be dead before you can save that amount. Save enough money first, buy a boat ticket and talk about it."

Opal's thoughts flew to the mayfly's short life span of only 0.05 seconds, until the magnetic drilling machine stopped.

No more spars could be recovered from this mine, and the miners were very upset and took off their gloves.

"I want some more bread and water." Opal said to Locke: "Can you get me some?"

Locke looked at the foreman in the distance and said, "How have you eaten so much recently? I heard you picked up a man in the desert? Where did you come from?"

The miners passed by and talked to each other.

"Another round of mine star bidding is about to begin."

"It all looks at the top. I think this year is a little dangling. There are not many mines in B11. You see, it has been dug almost. No one wants to change hands."

"When the bid was made last year, the entire exoplanet system was contracted, and the competition here is relatively less intense."

Opal motioned for Locke to whisper, "He came from the universe, and I don't know anything else. He was injured."

Locke said: "You let him come to mine."

Opal said: "No, he will not do such a thing."

Locke said: "Otherwise? Food and water are expensive."

Opal said: "I'll trade today's mine. You can change it for me. I don't want Hicks to know."

Locke took another look at the foreman in the distance. Hicks, the foreman, had a somber complexion, apparently because of the exhaustion of the minerals.

"He will find out sooner or later, and will deduct your energy point at that time." Locke said.

Opal said: "I'm not afraid of him."

Locke was trembling, Opal said: "Listen, Locke, do me a favor, I will repay you."

Locke said helplessly: "No, you are waiting here."

Locke received a list in the past, and the foreman impatiently counted the ore. It was opal to exchange it for extra. He used two big car mines to get a lot of bread. He had to find a way to solve Rector’s food and drinking water in advance, otherwise The next time I find a new mine source, I don't know how long.

And the long winter is coming, the merchant ship of the Red Flame Galaxy will land once on the B11 star, and sell them cold materials at high prices.In the remaining time, Opal will follow the miners who stay here to find new mines, and the foreman will return to another planet to spend the winter.

"There is no ore today." Opal explained to Rector on the rocky slope: "I changed my food and winter is coming."

Rick said in a characteristic way: "Well, you have worked hard."

The rotation axis of the B11 star is inclined at a half angle of 23 degrees to the revolution angle, which leads to a short day in winter and a long night.The temperature dropped slowly, and Opal and Rector sat on the cliff for dinner. In these days, he could only eat one meal a day. The rest of the ration was given to Rector.

Opal glanced at him from time to time, and always felt that it was not polite to call his name. Rector must be an identified person. On the B11 star, the foreman was called "Sir Hicks", and the merchants from other galaxies, To be called "Mr." Rao is so, they are not necessarily willing to trade with miners.

Rector said: "If you want, you can call me a teacher. But I believe that we are equal and there is no status."

Opal stunned and asked, "Why do you know what I'm thinking?"

Rector smiled slightly: "Are you thinking about this? I just casually said that the teacher means the person who teaches you knowledge."

Opal said: "I understand, my mother told me."

Rick nodded characteristically, and Opal asked, "What do you want to teach me today?"

Rector asked: "What do you want to know?"

Opal said: "Let's talk about the empire, the republic or something, how do they all live, what do they usually do..."

"Those things, you will know one day, the future is not far away." Rector slowly said, lying down on the open land of the cliff.

Opal lay down with him and said sideways: "Teacher, how did you get to those planets? Do you know many people? Do they respect you?"

Rector didn't answer. He pointed to the brightest star in the zenith and said, "Op, do you know that the stars you see are not what they look like now."

Opal followed what he had hoped, and hummed blankly.

Rector said: "The fastest speed in the universe is light, and nothing can exceed the speed of light."

Opal said: "I know this, and my mother also said that the best spacecraft can not fly faster than light."

The characteristics of Ryker said: "According to the archaic mass energy theorem, all objects with mass cannot move faster than light. Our location is very, very far from the alpha star Andromeda you see, even in the universe. The fastest light, coming here from the alpha star, also takes three million years."

Opal: "..."

Rector said: "Suppose a long time ago, a beam of light emitted from the alpha star, after three million years, and finally reached our planet, into your eyes, then what you see is that it is in three million Can you understand what it was like years ago?"

Opal nodded slowly, Rector said: "And even driving the fastest spaceship'Sol' in the universe, moving at sub-light speed, going between each galaxy, it will take millions, even tens of millions of years. Years."

Opal said blankly: "So how do you travel?"

Rector said: "Use Stargate."

"Our world is called a four-dimensional space. Three coordinate axes establish a three-dimensional space, and the fourth dimension time axis is the universe we live in now."

Opal understood a little bit and asked: "Is the space door a door... er, I mean from this side, when I come out there, I can cross a great distance."

Rector said: "It can be understood that ancestors of mankind found the fifth dimension connected to our space 20,000 years ago. This is a piece of history. You don't need to know too much, just remember.

Opal listened quietly, and Rector explained: "The cause of the incident was that a group of scientists discovered particles faster than the speed of light when conducting particle collision experiments. After hundreds of years of repeated surveys, it was found that it satisfied A certain condition enters the fifth-dimensional space instantaneously halfway, and the five-dimensional space shows very peculiar properties in space and time."

"If you successfully enter, as long as you advance a short distance in the fifth dimension, and then return to our four-dimensional world, you will find that you have traveled a long distance... See clearly, I give You make an analogy."

Rector pressed his wrist and shot a beam of light on his bracelet, throwing it at the opposite cliff. He explained casually: "The stone wall opposite is a two-dimensional plane, the light spot is on the left, and we are in a three-dimensional world. The two-dimensional space is higher."

"Uh." Opal nodded.

Rector turned his wrist slightly, and the light spot moved hundreds of meters in an instant. The spot changed to the end of the cliff on the right.

Rector said: "The light spot is the projection of the three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional plane. As long as I make a very small movement in a higher-dimensional space, within half a second, the angular velocity can make it translate hundreds of meters. Just Successful establishment of the projection relationship can make two centimeters in three dimensions directly equal to two hundred meters in two dimensions."

"And the same, after forming a projection connection to the four dimensions in five dimensions, you pass a kilometer road in five dimensions, which is equal to a few light years of travel. This is the principle of the multidimensional projection angular velocity."

Opal immediately said: "I see!"

Rector smiled and said: "To explore in our universe, we must use a higher dimensional space. The principle of the starry sky door is to let you enter the fifth dimension briefly and open a tunnel in this dimension. After a short journey, it came out of another corresponding starry sky gate, and you and your spaceship were able to cross the distance of millions, even tens of millions of light years."

"This theory was put into practice in the civilization of ancient mankind. The day when the first pair of starry gates successfully sailed was the beginning of the era of light. The ancestors of mankind developed the jump spaceship, began to explore the entire universe, and established the original starry sky gate. The people left the earth to colonize the interstellar, and spread their leaves. Now it is the light era 20103. After 20,000 years of evolution in human science and technology, it is what we see today."

Opal's eyes were filled with wonder.

The two did not speak. After a long time, Opal asked again: "If I want to go to space to roam, do I have to go through the starry sky gate? Where is it?"

"There are tens of thousands of Chiyan galaxies." Rector said: "Spacecraft are equipped with locators, which form a crisscross network among all galaxies, as long as you enter space, you can find them anytime, anywhere It. In fact, there is one at seven to five light minutes from here, but it is rarely used by most people, and most people do not even know the existence of this channel."

"There are no specific procedures for accessing the Star Gate, but if you land on a civilized planet, you need a specific pass to pass through the outer atmospheric space station. Without a pass, it will be difficult to walk through the universe."

Opal sighed softly and closed his eyes. The night wind became cooler. After a while, he fell asleep unconsciously.

Rickett did not let him go back today, but picked him up and hugged him into the cave where he was staying. The atomic furnace glowed warm orange.