Chapter 249: Sitting in the well and watching the sky
Changji Island is not heavily guarded as Wu Chang imagined. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's really just a research institute.
When Wu Chang flew to Changji Island with Mingxin, he touched the monitoring above, and soon someone came to greet him.
The greeting team consisted of five old professors with a dozen students, all obviously with the smell of books, not those sinister agents, nor soldiers with a strong atmosphere.
These are the elite of the academic community of Clark's empire, there are the great physicist Bicombe, the great mathematician Kings, the astronomer Blue, the great chemist Bowler, the biologist Lance, and the rest are young talents.
"Dear guest, thank you for all you have done for Aqua Blue. The great physicist Bicomb led everyone to salute the chief.
Mingxin translated for Wu Chang next to him.
"Well, I'm here for a Q&A session. Wu Chang said lightly: "I was forced to come." ”
After Mingxin translated truthfully, all the people's expressions changed, and they all felt the displeasure of the alien guest.
"How did those bastards do such a despicable way to our great benefactor. The great mathematician Kings said angrily.
Biologist Lance, the youngest of the old men, the best maintained, and the most well-dressed, stepped forward and said, "Mr. Guan, please believe that we have no hostility towards you, and welcome you to the Changji Observatory." ”
"This is an observatory?" Wu Chang looked at the huge telescope not far away.
"Yes, Mr. Kwan. Lens replied, "In order to facilitate the reception of the nearest gentleman, we have set up the meeting place here, and most of us have arrived here temporarily. ”
"What?" Wu Changyi frowned, "You all have to attend the Q&A meeting?"
"Of course. Lens said: "We have a lot of questions to ask Mr. Guan. ”
"No, I can't. Wu Chang said categorically: "You can only have one person to answer with me, and I can give you time to pick the questions you want to ask the most, but the time for questions and answers cannot exceed two hours." ”
As long as he participated in the Q&A meeting, the curse in him would lose its effect, he didn't want to have questions and answers with so many people, it would be annoying to watch, besides, if these people were interested in his cultivation, he didn't know if refusing to answer would affect the dissolution of the curse.
Most of them were disappointed.
Several old professors glanced at each other, and Bicombe said, "Mr. Guan, please go to the meeting room first, oh no, go to the meeting room and sit down for a while, let's discuss, Clarie, you take Mr. over." ”
"Yes, teacher. Among the dozen or so youths, a good-looking woman stepped forward, her blonde hair neatly combed.
Most of these youths were men, and there were only three women, with Clarie being the youngest of them.
"Sir, please come along. ”
Clarie led Muchang and Mingxin into a small living room, and bowed respectfully and left.
Sitting on the sofa, Wu Chang sat indifferently, he was deliberate just now, and he could easily pass the Q&A meeting, he had no reason to embarrass himself.
Mingxin sat carefully next to him, she had no intention of remembering the curse technique, but she had to write it down in its entirety and report it to the headmaster during this question-and-answer session.
If the Clark Empire is allowed to monopolize the development of technology, it may be a disaster for Aqua Bluestar.
After a while, a man came in, none other than the head of the great physicist Bicombe.
"Mr. Guan, my name is Bicombe, and I am good at physics, and at your request, I am the only one to ask you some questions. Bicomb said: "We heard that you come from a high-level civilization, presumably your technology must be very advanced there, I hope you can help us with the water blue star, so that we can develop the ability to protect our planet as soon as possible." ”
Translate truthfully.
Wu Chang looked at her and shook his head secretly in his heart, it seems that it is very difficult for Shui Lanxing to keep the secret, and the origin of what he said to Mingxin must have been known by the major forces.
"Well, I'll answer whatever you ask, and I'll try to tell you what I know. Wu Chang said: "Okay, you ask." ”
"Thank you, sir. ”
Bicombe's expression was relieved, he took out a piece of paper, but he didn't open it, and asked carefully, "Mr. Guan, will the universe continue to expand?"
"The expansion of the universe?"
Wu Chang didn't expect the old man to be the first to ask such a question, this was obviously not the question that those professors and scholars wanted to ask the most, but the question that Bicomb himself wanted to know the answer to the most.
Wu Chang shook his head: "I haven't heard of it." ”
Bicombe said incredulously, "With such a high-level civilization as yours, haven't you noticed that the universe is expanding?"
"Why do you think the universe will expand? The universe is boundless, how far can it expand?"
"Boundless, isn't the universe just tens of billions of light-years?" Bicomb's brow furrowed into a deep trench.
"Tens of billions of light-years?"
Wu Chang roughly calculated, the distance of tens of billions of light years at the speed of his void walking, it would take about a few decades, and such a large range could accommodate one or two gods at most, and there were by no means only so few gods in the universe.
He shook his head and said, "How can the universe be so small, anyway, I haven't heard that the universe has a boundary, oh, why do you think that the universe is only tens of billions of light years?"
Bicomb scratched his head, slightly embarrassed: "With our most advanced detection tools, we can only see so far. ”
Wu Chang plucked out his ears, and he suspected that he had misheard.
What kind of logic is it to be able to see so far away and think that the universe is only so big?
This is too self-righteous!
If it is just a personal idea, it can be said that it is just a conjecture, but this old man is the leader of the physics community, and he is the representative of the most profound knowledge of Aqua Blue, and it is obvious that this idea has formed a consensus in Aqua Blue.
With so many people and countless elites, is it possible that they are all so short-sighted?
He couldn't help but pout, and whispered: "Sit in the well and watch the sky!"
Mingxin did not hesitate to translate.
This Q&A was about the future development of Shui Lanxing, and she couldn't have the slightest personal emotion, so she could just translate what the two sides said in the closest tone.
Bicomb blushed and said disapprovingly: "We have proof! The universe is indeed expanding, and it is only tens of billions of light-years!"
"Oh, what evidence, tell me about it. "Wu Chang said curiously.
"Redshift, redshift is proof that the universe is expanding. Becomb confidently said: "We have observed that the farther away the star is, the greater the redshift, which is ironclad evidence." ”
"Redshift?"
"You don't know what a redshift is?" Bicombe was a little smug, "Isn't it possible that your hometown has such a high level of science and technology that has not discovered redshift?"
He explained in detail what a redshift is.
The so-called redshift refers to the fact that the energy of the light quantum becomes smaller.
When the energy of light changes, the color will change, most of the stars are visible light, and when the energy of visible light increases, it will change in the direction of purple, and when the energy becomes smaller, it will change in the direction of red, which is called purple shift and red shift.
The light emitted by an object coming in opposite directions will be violet-shifted, and the light emitted by a distant object will be red-shifted.
The phenomenon of purple and red shifts in stars can be detected by changes in the spectra of specific atoms.
"If the universe isn't expanding, why is it that the farther away the stars are, the greater the redshift is detected?" asked Bicomb rhetorically.
Wu Chang only understood a general idea, he was not specialized in scientific and technological theories in the first place, and he had lost a lot of memories, even if he had this memory, it was impossible to be deep enough to be engraved into the soul, and he could not compare it with the knowledge of the Interstellar Alliance.
But he reacted quickly, and immediately grasped the key to it, and replied: "In this way, the redshift is the energy of light that becomes smaller, and after tens of billions of light-years of distance, what is the fuss about the loss of light energy, and what does it have to do with moving away from each other! This does not prove that the universe is expanding." ”
Bicomb opened his mouth and retorted, "You mean that light quanta lose energy in the process of traveling in a vacuum?
"Why can't light lose energy?" asked Wu Chang rhetorically.
"Is there any evidence?"
"I don't have proof, and I don't need proof, but I know that nothing can be absolute. ”
"It turns out that this is just your personal opinion. Bicomb sighed, "Isn't there a record of this in your hometown's technology?"
Wuchang scratched his head: "For some reason, oh, so to speak, I have suffered some injuries and lost a lot of memories, especially some details, some things that are not very important, I have completely forgotten." ”
"Isn't that important? What could be more important than that? It's about the future fate of the universe. Bicomb exclaimed.
Wu Chang looked at him coldly, and said lightly: "Compared with these ethereal things, I care more about my life, and my relatives and friends. ”
"You, how can you be so narrow-minded!" Bicomb said angrily, incomprehensible, "people must not only live for themselves, but also think about their descendants. ”
Wu Chang simply turned his head away and ignored him.
For high-level civilizations, reproduction has been relegated to a secondary position, especially for cultivators who can live forever, branching out is a last resort option, and if possible, cultivators would rather choose to pass on.
Bicomb was stunned for a moment, then gradually regained his composure, gave a deep salute, and said, "Mr. Guan, please forgive me for my rudeness." ”
No long wave of the hand, indicating that he does not mind.
Bicomb said cautiously, "Mr. Guan, we still have some evidence. ”
"Oh? ”
Wu Chang was a little interested, what made them insist on such a comical conclusion?
"We observed the microwave background radiation and calculated its average, which is very much in line with our prediction of the theory of cosmic expansion. ”
Bicomb then went on to explain what microwave background radiation is.
"Microwave background radiation? I know something, that's space energy. Wu Chang said: "This has nothing to do with the expansion of the universe. ”
"Space energy?" Bicomb shook his head, "No, we also know space energy, it's called zero-point energy, but that needs to be excited, and it can't reach the level of microwaves." ”
"Microwave background radiation should be a part of space energy, what you observe may be the maximum intensity of space energy, there are more smaller space energy, in our hometown, this energy can be extracted, supply infinite energy, that is the infinite energy battery. "There is no long way.
"Infinite energy battery? Isn't that a perpetual motion machine, no, countless experiments have proved that a perpetual motion machine is impossible, which violates the principle of conservation of energy. Bicomb didn't believe it.
"Space energy is also a kind of energy, and if you can't use it, it doesn't mean that others can't use it. No long shrugged.
"Ah, Mr. Guan, can you tell us how you made the Infinite Energy Battery?" Bicombe suddenly realized this more valuable question, and vaguely felt that the question he was asking deviated from the original purpose of this question.
"There's nothing I can't say, as far as I know, it's the mining of a virtual and real mine, which is a substance that contains between virtual particles and real particles, and with virtual and real ore, you can make infinite energy batteries. "There is no long way.
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