9. Storage and weightlessness
This sudden change made Wang Qi sit up from the bed again like a spring, staring blankly at the mobile phone in the cube and the empty right palm.
"My day......! Is that really good? ...... Can my phone still come out?" he whispered subconsciously.
As soon as the words fell, the Nokia in the cube disappeared suddenly.
At the same time, the mobile phone, which had disappeared, appeared in the palm of his right hand again.
"It seems that I have inadvertently unlocked another function of the cube - object transfer!or, as some weird novels on the Internet fantasize about, storage!" Wang Qi muttered to himself as he looked at the phone that had reappeared in the palm of his hand and was intact.
Unlocking the new function of the cube, Wang Qi suddenly became excited, and immediately couldn't wait to turn on the light, jump out of bed, and start using the items in the room to conduct more experiments.
Through a series of experiments, he discovered that he needed to use a part of his body to touch objects when he was transferring.
When returning items from the cube, he doesn't need to "handle", he can place the items in the cube anywhere in sight, on his hands, on the bed, on the floor, on the table, and even in his own trouser pocket and in the drawer of the bedside table, even if the drawer is closed, he can put the item in it out of thin air and let it "make something out of nothing".
Of course, there is a distance limit as well.
He tried the limit distance, and the result was about two meters within a radius of two meters with him as the center, beyond which the cube could do nothing.
Moreover, Wang Qi also found that when transferring objects, he did not need to say it, he only needed to think about it in his head.
Wang Qi happily tried all the objects that could be moved on his body and in the small hotel room, almost all of which could be moved, except for those that were too big or could not be moved, such as the bed he slept on, the walls of the room, and the shower in the bathroom.
Wang Qi thought about it, and quickly thought of the reason, this cube is the size of a cube at best, and the bed, walls, and so on are obviously beyond the volume range of the cube.
The shower in the bathroom, on the other hand, is not a stand-alone object, but is connected to the pipe in the wall by a hose.
To prove his suspicions, he removed the shower handle from the hose.
With a "close" in his mind, the shower handle in his hand disappeared in a blink of an eye and appeared in the cube.
In the experiment, in addition to the solid matter, Wang Qi picked up a handful of tap water from the basin.
"Come in!" he shouted, staring at the tap water he was picking up.
Then, with this shout, the handful of water nested in the palm of the hand disappeared in an instant.
At the same time, a corner of the cube was lit up, and a ball of crystal clear water the size of an orange appeared in Wang Qi's line of sight.
"Water balloon, how can it be a sphere?" Wang Qi frowned as he looked at the round and standard sphere in the cube. He had thought that the shape of the water would be the shape that he had made with his hands together, because water was a liquid, and it had no shape, and whatever shape the container was, it was what it was, and the liquid that had not entered the cube had become a standard sphere.
Wang Qi thought about it with his limited knowledge of physics, and thought of the video of some astronauts on the International Space Station performing to drink water, and quickly thought of a possibility:
There is no gravity inside the cube!
What is the shape of a liquid without gravity? It can only be one shape, that is, it becomes a sphere under the action of its own molecular force!
At this time, Wang Qi thought of the state of those items in the cube when he accessed some small items just now, almost all of them were floating in the cube, looking weightless.
"It seems that this should be the reason. Inside the cube is a zero-gravity environment. Even if it weren't, gravity was canceled out by some unknown force, like an astronaut floating on the International Space Station. ”
But is there really a zero-gravity environment in this world or even in the real universe? Even if it is a space station, it is not really gravity-free, but the effect of gravity is all converted into linear velocity of several kilometers per second, making the space station look like it has no gravity. As far as Wang Qi's limited physical knowledge goes, gravity, the essence of gravity, is the most basic force in the entire universe, which is ubiquitous, all-encompassing, and pervasive. The entire Earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, and the entire universe have no matter that is not affected by gravity, and even energy, such as light, is enough to deflect a star.
Simulating weightlessness on Earth is a difficult task, either by moving objects at high speeds, such as making an airplane fly in a parabolic trajectory in a vertical direction, and using the buoyancy generated by a large pool of water to cancel out gravity, NASA training astronauts are trained in these two ways. Another example is to build a cylindrical vertical air duct that blows strong wind upwards and makes people float in mid-air when the wind speed reaches a certain strength.
So, to sum it up:
To simulate a weightless environment on Earth, you either need to convert gravity into velocity, or introduce other forces to balance gravity.
Now Wang Qi is facing the following situation:
Without moving at high speed or introducing any other forces, he has a perfect zero-gravity, perhaps even zero-gravity environment. If physicists know about it, I'm afraid it will immediately subvert their cognition.
Whether there is zero gravity inside this cube, or whether gravity is canceled by other unknown forces, or whether gravity is shielded by the cube, is not something that the current Wang Qi can completely figure out.
Fortunately, it doesn't matter, and the whole laboratory will study it slowly in the future.
Although Wang Qi attended a third-rate business school in college, he has always been interested in physics, chemistry and biology, and he also studied science in high school, and his grades were quite good - certainly not in the sense of solving the test questions. After arriving at the university, he was also "in Cao Ying's heart in Han", while learning English and international trade knowledge without any taste, while reading some miscellaneous books on physics, chemistry and biology, and often paying attention to the cutting-edge research of these disciplines - naturally it can only be news and popular science relatively easy to understand, too professional textbooks are not from the teacher's explanation He can't understand it, just read it with interest.
Therefore, after getting the cube, Wang Qi did not want to use it to make a fortune like the male pig's feet in some online novels, but the first thought that came to mind was like a scientist, who wanted to study the physical and chemical properties of the cube with great interest, and wanted to know its various functions, as well as the physical principles hidden behind the functions.
He wanted not only to know what it was, but also why.
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Since he accidentally learned about the zero-gravity nature of the cube, Wang Qi, who has always regarded himself as a science student, although he studied business, naturally wanted to explore other properties of the cube:
For example, what is the specific size of a cube?
Is the interior vacuum or non-vacuum?
Temperature geometry?
Is it radioactive?
Is it possible to hold living or living objects?
As soon as he thought of this, Wang Qi couldn't wait to start experimenting with it.
However, when he inadvertently glanced out of the window, he found that the originally dark window had begun to light up at this time, and a ray of morning glow appeared in the sky, dyeing the distant clouds pale gold.
"Oops! Before you know it's almost dawn! Let's get some sleep and go back to school when we wake up. Anyway, there is neither a ruler nor a thermometer now, and it is not practical to do measurements and research. ”
Wang Qijian unknowingly played until the morning, and immediately dispelled the idea of continuing to study the cube, and was ready to sleep back, recuperate, and then slowly study it.
Before closing his eyes, he was still a little worried about whether the cube would disappear when he woke up in a few hours, and whether everything that happened tonight would be a dream, which would make him happy.
At this time, the little fear of the cube not long ago had disappeared completely, and in its place, he hoped that he could possess this supernatural treasure forever.
"Cube, cube, I hope that when I open my eyes, you will still be able to leave me. ”
Wang Qi closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.