The atmosphere in the conference room was dull, and Lieutenant General Hong Tian and the old general also frowned and watched the scientists present swallow clouds and mist.

With a wave of his hand, he called for the meeting assistant, "Open the window and let it in!"

After about five minutes of silence, the experts in the meeting skipped the philosophical theories of the shooter and the farmer and turned to the real-life problem of time loss.

The meeting lasted until five o'clock in the afternoon, and the experts at the Kuocangshan base carefully discussed the abnormal situation in the solar system, but until the end of the meeting, there was no reliable explanation for this phenomenon.

They are like two-dimensional creatures living in the target world, or turkeys raised by the farmer, who can only summarize and guess a law that meets the objective conditions through the phenomena they observe before jumping out of the world they live in.

Of course, the meeting was not completely fruitless, although it was impossible to explain the events that occurred on September 5, but they came to a relatively unanimous view: there is no such thing as a god in this world, and that the "giant hand" is the feedback given by nature to human beings, proving that its essence is far more powerful than human beings expected, and at the same time giving a warning to the constantly proud human beings.

The night of mid-to-late November had already begun to fall early, and it was already gray by five o'clock. The altitude here is relatively high, and in the evening, the wind blowing towards the mountain is cold and cold, and it has the taste of deep mountains and old forests.

After the meeting, Gao Xiang came out of the conference room and came to the corridor outside, standing on the top of the mountain overlooking the scenery below, the towering giant trees became extremely small in his eyes.

A cold wind blew from the front, just when he couldn't help but put up his collar. A middle-aged man came next to him.

Gao Xiang knew him as an astrophysicist named Zhan Hua. He is 50 years old and works at the Urumqi Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Engaged in radio astronomy observation and research work, the focus of research areas are radio astrophysics, VLBI research, still some fame in the industry, it is said to be very talented, this time he was recruited to join the XK1992-1010 program to show his ability.

"What, are you still thinking about the meeting just now?" Zhan Hua leaned on the guardrail with his back in the direction of the guardrail. Gu Zi lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and asked, "Do you want one?"

Gao Xiang shook his head and said, "How did you feel when you had the meeting just now? Especially the theory of the farmer and the turkey. It gives it a creepy feel. ”

"Our understanding of the universe is still too shallow, and if we really have a comprehensive understanding of it, we will not be so alarmed when we encounter problems...... But then again, when there are no anomalies, we scientists swear that the theories of the scientific community have explained the world well, but our theories only solve the problems we have encountered, but do not anticipate the unknown, so once we encounter new problems, our theories become fragile. ”

Gao Xiang agreed with Zhan Hua's statement. Nodding his head, he said, "After all, theories are based on observation, and how can phenomena that have not been observed be explained by existing theories?" For example, this thirteen-hour time difference, like other researchers of basic theory, does not think that 'God' is at work. However, we human beings really need to review and summarize to re-understand the vastness of the natural world. ”

"yes, when it's quiet. It gives us a sense of accomplishment that we feel complacent, and once it moves. Even just turning over is a devastating blow to the theoretical framework we have constructed. ”

Speaking of this, Zhan Hua couldn't help laughing. "But it's okay, we researchers are going to be busy next. ”

Only this kind of historical event can push human beings to break the stereotype frame and understand the world from a new perspective.

Gao Xiang nodded quietly, and also thought that there would be an uproar in the physics world next, and I am afraid that there will be a lot of cognitions and formulas about the universe that will be rewritten. As for how it will be changed, it depends on the results of the basic theoretical researchers in the future.

At the end of the conversation, Gao Xiang asked him what he thought of the farmer and the turkey, Zhan Hua shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows, this is both scientific, but more like a philosophical thing, retrospectively it will only make people dizzy, I think it is purely made up by some people to scare everyone." ”

Gao Xiang was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed lightly.

After Zhan Hua left, Gao Xiang still looked at the scenery in the distance, the sun was setting, and the layers of mountains were getting darker. He recalled what Li Hewen said at the meeting about the critical margin.

Through analysis, the critical margin is actually a standard circular surface.

Circles have always been nature's favorite and most beautiful shapes.

It was as if the heavens had cut it with a sharp toothed knife, cutting off most of the solar system from the outer cosmic starry sky with a sphere, and then most of the solar system contained inside the sphere was inexplicably missing thirteen hours.

Such a majestic power comes from nature, and it makes people shudder to think about it.

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Time passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, we entered December.

What happened in the scientific community did not cause much fluctuation in society, and news was reported on television that scientists had revised the orbits of several planets and predicted that Halley's Comet could next arrive at the Sun a day earlier than it had been.

When Su Yuan saw that Halley's comet might be subjected to stronger solar gravity due to a slight change in its orbit, resulting in greater orbital deviations, and that Halley's comet might plunge headlong into the sun to end its life after three reciprocating orbits, she said that Halley's comet was really pitiful.

Slightly larger stars, such as Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, have also undergone minor changes in their orbits, but they will not cause major chaos in the solar system for 10,000 years, and more scientists believe that a new solar system order will be constructed and that the solar system will remain a stable whole.

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At the end of November, the supercomputer cabinet that Su Caiweituo had transported over in whole trucks had been placed in Laboratory No. 3.

When he saw those devices, Gao Jun's whole person was active, his eyes exuded a green luster, and when he looked at Su Yuan's cousin, it was like looking at a Bodhisattva.

In the latest supercomputer rankings, the United States accounts for seven of the top 10 supercomputers, one in Europe and two in China. Among the top 500, China has risen from 15 in 08 to 24.

The supercomputer that Su Caiweituo transported over is a bit old and relatively large, but even the computer 20 years ago, its speed of 28 trillion floating point operations per second was only just missing the threshold of the latest world's top 500 supercomputers.

But now that the glory is gone, Gao Jun only prays that it can still run, and at the same time feels extremely heartbroken that Su Caiwei has actually let it be abandoned for nearly twenty years. How can such a big thing, which has led the supercomputer standard for about ten years, and was not surpassed by the Japanese supercomputer until 2002, can it accumulate such a thick layer of dust on its body!

What a poignant experience! Such a violent thing that even God would be angry.

December 1st, Saturday.

The sky was blue, and everything seemed so harmonious except for the slightly low temperature.

Lab 3 has a new look, with eight cabinets neatly arranged in the machine room. Through operation, Gao Jun found with tears in his eyes that this supercomputer had actually started tenaciously.

And the result of the calculation - its floating-point power of 25.6 trillion times, although not as good as the peak of 28 trillion times, such a state is very gratifying.

"By the way, where is Su Yuan, she is not here on such an important day?"

After confirming that the supercomputer could still be used, Gao Jun was in a good mood, and he was concerned about why Su Yuan didn't come. No, he realized that Su Yuan hadn't seriously participated in everyone's research for some days.

Although she has been installing supercomputers for the past few days and has not conducted research on Jade, she shouldn't be absent from work!

Ji Ye Hao held a yellowed instruction manual in his hand, and said: "In recent days, there seems to be an activity on the student union to raise funds for poor students in the southwest, and their External Relations Department is the main force of this activity, and they have been running around for this matter in the past few days. ”

"So that's the case!" Gao Jun suddenly put his elbow against Ye Hao's chest, "Master Ji, your family is so rich, why don't you be happy to donate some money to make our cousin grow face in the Minister of Foreign Relations?"

Ji Ye Hao glanced at him and said: "Don't have bad ideas, donations are not donated like this, if I donate to the event anonymously, she will definitely welcome it, maybe she will donate a little herself, but these should be placed after the event, now that the activity has just begun, I will donate, which makes people feel very purposeful." ”

Gao Jun sighed and nodded his head. (To be continued......)