Chapter 1141

At first, Lu Zhou thought that the hourglass shaped building was so towering that it should have many floors divided. However, I did not expect that a large number of building areas are wasted in the space between the floor and ceiling.

The continuous upward extension of the ceiling is like the sky without cloud cover. The sense of depression from the space makes the whole hall look particularly solemn and dignified.

It's like this is not a conference hall, but a court like place.

In fact, it's not only the design of this hall, but also the high conference table.

The entire conference table is horseshoe-shaped, like an unfolding folding fan, extending along the oblique upper part.

At the bottom are ordinary members of Parliament. The higher they are, the higher their status and status are. At the top of the table are the ministers of departments, the speaker of Parliament, and even the ruler of imperial power, the supreme consul.

Strange civilization.

Mingming is a materialistic value, but the form of government / governance does not give people a very efficient or convenient feeling, but gives people a religious sense of majesty.

Lu Zhou speculated that this may be related to the special philosophy and aesthetics of Jialan civilization.

As a subject of sociology, it is a very interesting phenomenon, which deserves further study. Unfortunately, Lu Zhou was not a sociologist, so he soon focused on something more worthy of his attention

The meeting began soon.

He and general Sains stood on one side of the hall, like two sculptures, which were integrated with the guards beside him and the wall behind him. After waiting for about five minutes, the consul sitting at the top of the conference table looked at Dr. Ryan standing in front of the conference table calmly, and finally opened his mouth slowly.

"You are Dr. lane?"

Dr. Lane nodded politely.

"Yes, your Excellency the consul."

"There is a rumor about the oracle in the ring world recently, and according to the intelligence investigation, all the causes seem to come from you."

There was a kind of breathless sense of pressure in his eyes. In an indisputable tone, the high-ranking Garan continued, "I want to know why you have brought so much trouble to the Empire and yourself."

"Whether it's parliament or me, or the people of the Empire, it needs an explanation."

In the face of a series of threatening views from the conference table, Dr. Lane said in a calm and dignified voice as much as possible.

"Your Excellency, I must correct your words."

"First of all, the Oracle is not a rumor. Our civilization is indeed facing an unprecedented crisis. Secondly, as a scholar, I will be responsible for every point I make, and what I say is not empty. "

There was a commotion in the hall.

In addition to those who sit at the highest positions of power, the vast majority of members looked at each other, whispered to each other, and even laughed from time to time.

Crisis?

If it had been three centuries ago, there might have been a market for this kind of argument. At that time, doomsday was rampant.

But now that the circular world has been completed, the Empire has ushered in unprecedented prosperity, and according to the current population growth rate, it is no surprise that this period of prosperity can be maintained for several centuries without any problems.

They have solved all the crises once and for all.

Now it is quite laughable to bring this argument out.

The chin was raised slightly, and the consul's face was tinged with a playful chuckle. The look in his eyes could not tell whether he despised it or simply looked at a funny joke, he continued.

"So tell me, Dr. lane, what is your so-called crisis? Is that your so-called argument about aliens?"

"Yes, not at all."

Given an ambiguous answer, looking at the consul's slightly wrinkled brow, Dr. Lane explained his point.

"I'm not sure if the crisis came from them, but it's all about them."

There was another commotion at the conference table.

Looking at the crowded conference table, the scholar continued.

"First of all, it must be made clear that our universe is not as lonely as we think. Even if no trace of other civilizations is found within 500 light-years, it does not mean that it is the same beyond 50000 light-years. If we enlarge the distance scale to the whole universe as the background, only we are special beings, but it is an accident with very low probability. "

Looking at the eloquent Dr. lane, the consul said casually.

"This kind of argument was very popular many years ago. I'm not interested in discussing it with you here. Even though they exist, if we never meet them on a time scale, what will their existence and prosperity do to us? "The Kalan civilization is not one of expansion.

Compared with the expansion of the Empire's territory, they are more keen on the unity within the race and the cohesion of the Empire. It is precisely because of this that they can be unified in the early space age, and can create such a towering star scale giant project as the ring world.

Alien civilization?

Although they had been keen to nod their heads again in the early space age, Dr. Lane turned his attention back to the conference table.

In response to the way he looked at himself, he continued.

"For your understanding, I will now present my research again here."

As he said, he took the suitcase that had already passed the security check procedure from the security personnel beside him, and took out a square vertebra the size of a thumb from inside.

With his index finger gently pressing on the square vertebra, the blue light is emitted along the tip of the square vertebra, and the blue interlaced light draws a huge image in the space.

Holographic projection?

There was a look of interest on the face of the boat.

And it's still naked eye holography and touchable interaction!

There's something. How can it be done?

He felt like a countryman just entering the city. He couldn't help being surprised at what he saw for a while.

Except for the land boat, all the people in the conference hall did not feel any surprise at the scene. They just looked at the unfolding image quietly and waited for Dr. lane to continue.

“…… We all know that there is a kind of matter between black hole and neutron star in this universe, which we call strange drop. It is composed of upper quark, lower quark and strange quark. The size of rice grain alone will weigh tens of millions or even billions of tons. "

He made a small gesture with his index finger and thumb, Dr. Lane continued.

"In order to study how to release the matter we need from the black hole, the research on the strange drop has always been a frontier topic in physics research. However, some time ago, we were very lucky to lock a strange drop located 23000 light-years away through the analysis of the gravitational wave..."

"And its volume is almost At least as big as the hologram in my hand. "

Hearing this, the face of Lu Zhou suddenly showed a look of shock.

Strange drop!

And it's still natural!?

For the physics circle of human civilization, "strange drop" has always been a matter of conjecture Or state.

The theory of its existence can be traced back to Witten's conjecture that "large strange quarks may be the ground state of strong interaction system" in 1980s. As for its origin, there are also such conjectures as QCD phase transition of early universe, supernova explosion, collision of strange quark stars and so on.

However, the conditions for the existence of strange drops are too strict. Theoretically, its contact with any matter may lead to annihilation and release more terrifying energy than the annihilation of antimatter.

Therefore, both Astrophysics and high energy physics have not found any evidence to prove their existence.

At present, the only conjecture is that the cosmic ray with the total energy of particles higher than about 10 ^ 19ev may contain a small number of strange drops. However, how difficult it is to capture such cosmic rays is known by how hard it is to collect neutrinos that are "a little cheaper".

Now, Dr. lane, in a positive tone, tells him that there is a strange blob in the universe that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye.

If all of this is true, the whole geophysics will be a sensation

Thinking of it, Lu Zhou was excited.

However, the excitement did not last long.

Because he soon thought that even if he knew the existence of this strange material, it seemed that there was no way to prove it to others.

I can't. take the setting of "game" as evidence, right?

He didn't even know where the Karan civilization was or was gone.

Think of here, land boat just excited mood, can't help falling into depression.

If only we could determine the specific coordinates of this strange drop, or get a complete observation technology.

But I don't think this part will be included in this memory.

At most, it can only make him greedy

“…… Gentlemen, think about how excited we were at that time. This is a strange drop that is big enough to be seen by the naked eye, even under natural conditions! "

"What's the use of that?" Looking at the excited Dr. lane, a member of Parliament murmured, "even the most advanced scientific research ship in the empire can't reach 23000 light-years to investigate the situation there."

The voice of this sentence is not small, just floating into Dr. Lane's ear.

Looking at the congressman, he said earnestly."Any theory is useless when it is just studied, but the key is If we don't understand it, there must be no way to make it useful. "

"In a word, my project is to study this strange drop. At first, we thought it was static, until we got a series of soap bubbles separated from each other when we analyzed the gravitational wave This is not an abstract metaphor, but something directly reflected in the image. Do you know what that means? It means that the strange droplet is indeed static in the concept of motion, but in the concept of space, it is leaping forward towards the center of the galaxy along the hyperspace light path -- "

the consul gave a light cough and said seriously.

"To point out, this is the imperial chamber. We are not interested in your physical theory."

“…… The point is that the latter discovery directly overturns our previous speculation, "Dr. Ryan said solemnly after accepting the consul's advice kindly," this strange drop is definitely not formed naturally. "

"It's made by other civilizations."

"And the civilization that made it, I'm afraid, is much more advanced than ours."