Chapter 342: The Possible End of the World (2)

Is the Milky Way really so stable? Professor Wang Zhi doesn't think so.

Evidence, is there evidence?

There must be evidence, you are a vegetarian when you are a professor?

Professor Wang Zhi, through a careful analysis of some of the numbers collected by the radio telescope of the Extraterrestrial Civilization Exploration Center, seems to have probably discovered the existence of "gravitational waves" in the Milky Way.

The concept of "gravitational waves" has been mentioned many times before, so let's go into a little more detail here.

When an electric charge is accelerated, it emits electromagnetic radiation, which is called electromagnetic waves. When a pebble is thrown into a calm lake, ripples are created. And so on. When an object with mass is accelerated or violently shaken, it also emits gravitational radiation, which Einstein said, which is called gravitational waves.

If we put a pebble in the calm universe, we can still cause fluctuations, but the fluctuations are too small for even the most sophisticated instruments to capture. But what about a big enough pebble? Like, the whole galaxy shuddered!!

Well, Professor Wang Zhi has found evidence of the Milky Way's "trembling", the Milky Way's gravitational waves. What is chilling is that Professor Wang Zhi was scolded by the mainstream brick family as a madman and a fool, and several papers he wrote were not included in the magazine.

It's no wonder that there are many scientists on the earth, and they can't find evidence of gravitational waves after spending their old noses, and you are a beast, and you can analyze a number of numbers and scream, and you find gravitational waves, so it's no wonder that you are not considered a madman. However, some scientists in the East are very interested in Professor Wang's research results. Oriental scientists even invited Wang Zhi to their Oriental to do scientific research, with sufficient funds and an annual salary, but Professor Wang Zhi did not agree, not wanting to be scolded as a traitor.

Believe it or not, Professor Wang Zhi himself believes that he may have discovered the gravitational waves of the Milky Way, although the evidence is not very sufficient. If gravitational waves of the Milky Way are detected, it is likely to indicate a problem, the Milky Way is unstable.

The catastrophic consequence of the instability of the Milky Way was the creation of a galactic storm, when it was difficult for the Earth to come to an end. And this point coincides with the end of the earth predicted by the old boy of the werewolf. The old boy of the werewolf man also said that the existence of galactic storms is zĂ i!!

Everyone present was dumbfounded, only the chief of the general staff was a little disdainful in his heart, and he was all disdainful on his face. The Chief of the General Staff asked: "The Milky Way is so big, even if hundreds of suns explode collectively at the same time, it will not affect him!" What is it that makes the Milky Way unstable? ”

Hey, everyone's eyes are also full of this question, and they all feel that the chief of the General Staff has asked this question well.

Of course, the chief of the General Staff did not intend to make things difficult for Professor Wang Zhi, but just "humbly asked for advice."

Professor Wang Zhi couldn't see the disdain in the heart of the little old man of the chief of the General Staff. Soldiers have tempers, and scholars also have tempers, especially pedants, such as Professor Wang Zhi. Professor Wang Zhi is the most tolerant of doubts about his theories.

Professor Wang Zhi palely and said, "What if the Milky Way collides with a galaxy twice his size?" ”

The crowd was stunned. Although Comrade Li Erdan didn't understand it, he was also shocked at the moment.

The Chief of the General Staff then asked: "Which galaxy?" "The closest to the Milky Way, twice as big as the Milky Way, is the Andromeda Galaxy."

Andromeda is one of the 88 constellations throughout the day, located below the constellation Ursa Major, near the constellation Pegasus, and she is famous for the Andromeda Galaxy M31.

The galaxies in the universe can be roughly divided into two categories, one is made of gas and dust, and the other is a group of stars that are densely packed together, often with a spiral-like structure, also known as "spiral nebula". The Great Andromeda Nebula is one of the most typical of these spiral nebulae, which, like the Milky Way, has a "tail".

Andromeda was "too close" to Andromeda, and there was even a time when geoscientists suspected that Andromeda was part of the Milky Way.

Don't think that astronomical bricks are omnipotent and omniscient, and that they don't know much about the universe as well as geophysicists know about the Earth. Galaxies are so large that even awesome telescopes can't observe them, and some of the nebulae we see now are based on some micro-imaginary inferences. In reality, the true appearance of galaxies is likely to be far from what we imagined, and if we can't figure out the Milky Way, it is not a tail flick at all.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States held a debate entitled "Cosmic Scale", inviting the authoritative astronomical brick-builders of the whole earth to call the beast, and the content of the debate was the size of the Milky Way and the truth about Andromeda. Curtis, an astronomer who has achieved great success in determining the distances of celestial bodies, believes that Andromeda is an extragalactic galaxy, and he estimated its distance based on the brightness of the novae in the Great Andromeda Nebula, which is about 1 million light-years, much larger than the diameter of the Milky Way.

This shows how mysterious the universe is. Even now, who can guarantee that he will be able to understand the mysteries of the galaxy and Andromeda?

Even with the help of state-of-the-art telescopes, we can't see Andromeda and the Milky Way, which are bigger than we can imagine.

Both the Milky Way and Andromeda are running smoothly, the speed seems slow, and they are "too close" to each other, and maybe one day they will bump into one. Now, it seems that their "tails" have begun to contact each other, and then there will be "physical" contact, blending with each other, releasing a devastating galactic storm.

Professor Wang Zhi's conclusion is also the result of inference, and he believes that it is still very credible, and it is still in the stage of argumentation.

If you want to observe the universe, you can't do it without a space telescope, and you have to be a supergiant space telescope. Today, the largest space telescope on the planet, which our country has invested more than N billion yuan to build somewhere in the southwest, has been completed and is in the acceptance stage, and will be able to operate next year. Professor Wang Zhi would like to stay at the Space Telescope Base for a while.

Isn't Professor Wang Zhi engaged in geophysics!?

Geophysics and astronomy are inherently a good one. Besides, Professor Wang Zhi is very capable, and he just wants to make some achievements in astronomy, who dares to drip him!

If the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way collide together, then how long will it take for the Milky Way storm to occur, and how long will it take to sweep the solar system, Professor Wang Zhi can't give himself an answer, maybe in recent years, maybe hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years and millions of years.

Professor Wang Zhi is still very weak-minded, there is no evidence, and people will never talk nonsense. Unlike some brick families called beasts, they obviously don't know, so they have to talk about the number of earth-shattering ghosts and gods, and in the end it turns out that there is a difference of 108,000 miles from the real situation.