171. The Invisible Ceiling (Twenty-Nine)
Under the vivid dazzling phantom, the unique loneliness and coldness in the universe that Gu Fan felt at this time was extremely close to reality, and for a while, he did have a feeling of being insignificant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It's just that he didn't want to be led by Ye Chang all the time, so he retracted his shocked look slightly, and snorted coldly: "What does this have to do with my previous question!" ā
"Of course it does!" How do you know that Ye Chang's emotions at this time are very excited, and he said loudly: "Compared with the entire history of human beings, the life and value of individuals are not worth mentioning at all!" And how short and insignificant is the history of our human beings and even the earth compared to the scale that the entire universe has experienced? ā
"The reason why Jun Xing and Si Yue are willing to do these things that seem to you normal people to destroy their entire lives is just because they, like me, understand how ridiculous their personal life is compared to the big picture of the entire universe!"
"I don't understand a word of what you said!" Gu Fan's two sword eyebrows were almost twisted together at this time, and he said fiercely: "You don't want to say that just because human beings are destined to perish in hundreds of millions of years, it doesn't matter what anti-social and anti-human things we do, right?" ā
"Don't you see, you're a physicist, or a nihilist?"
Ye Chang didn't answer Gu Fan's question, but turned around, turned his back to him, and said lightly: "Officer Gu, do you know the 'Fermi Paradox'?" ā
Gu Fan was stunned, and before he could answer, he heard Ye Chang continue: "One day in 1950, when Nobel laureate and physicist Fermi was discussing the issue of flying saucers and aliens with others, he suddenly said: 'Where are they?' āā
"This seemingly simple question is the famous 'Fermi paradox'."
"The so-called Fermi paradox is, in fact, two seemingly contradictory inferences: 1. Aliens exist - scientific inferences can prove that aliens evolved much earlier than humans, and they should have come to Earth and exist somewhere; 2. Aliens do not exist - To date, humans have not found any clues about the existence of aliens. ā
"I don't know what Officer Gu's childhood was like, but when I was very young, I liked to climb to the roof of my family's villa in the dead of night and look up at the stars in the night sky."
"At that time, I often wondered - if there were aliens in the universe, where would they be?"
"Intelligent life that is different from human beings on Earth......
"Where are they?"
"Officer Gu, do you know that although there are only 100 billion to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, there are almost the same number of galaxies in the observable universe - corresponding to every star in the Milky Way, there is a huge galaxy. In other words, the number of stars in the observable universe is probably between 10^22 and 10^24. ā
"I won't explain the specific means of argumentation one by one, you just need to understand that even according to the most conservative estimates, there should be one hundred trillion intelligent civilizations in the entire universe."
"Even if our earth is really located on the edge of the universe, these tens of billions of intelligent civilizations will always develop to a level of development that human beings cannot comprehend - hundreds of years ago, it may have taken us a lifetime to travel through a country, but now it only takes a few hours to fly by plane, and it will be instantaneous. In the same way, the measure of greatness that we can only measure in terms of 'light years' may seem to other civilizations to be nothing more than the distance of a cup of afternoon tea......"
"What we see in our ideal should be countless intelligent civilizations that only exist in the wildest fantasies, reflecting each other in the vast sea of stars."
"But in the three million years of human history...... How many extraterrestrial civilizations have been empirically proven? ā
When Ye Chang said this, there was deep despair in his eyes, and he said word by word: "One! Piece! All! Not! Yes! ā
"Not a single one."
The angry look in Gu Fan's eyes at this time had completely disappeared, his eyes widened, and he held his breath, for fear of missing a single word of Ye Chang.
"Huh...... The reason why I am telling you this is that I hope you will be able to understand 'the theory' that I have summarized more easily in the future. ā
"Officer Gu, now I'll give you two choices."
"First, after doing everything I was supposed to do, I would take the initiative to let go of the shield and follow you to the police station to turn myself in, everything that happened after that...... No matter how appalling and frustrating it is, I am willing to take it all in. And you don't have to ask why I did it. ā
"Second, just listen to me, I don't know if you will agree with me, but I believe in your ingenuity...... If you listen to my views, you may never be able to return to the life of ordinary people. ā
"Now, do you want to hear it?"
Gu Fan's heart suddenly began to be frightened inexplicably, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was just a game after all, and what would be difficult to accept? So he took a deep breath and exhaled, "Go on." ā
"Officer Gu, are you sure?"
Ye Chang, who had always been expressionless, had a hint of fear on his face at this time, he seemed to suddenly feel a little cold, shrunk his neck, and said slowly:
"You are truly ready to take on this dark and cold universe...... Is there a brutal truth behind it? ā
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At this time, at the bottom of the levitating starship, Xiao Zihan, Lu Xifa, and Lin Peijun had already made the most basic communication, and reached the most basic consensus with Officer Liang on the next action.
"Although I am still skeptical of your words...... But the 'Yi Siyue suicide theory' you put forward is indeed very reasonable, so I can't find a loophole for the time being. Officer Liang touched his somewhat bald forehead and muttered, "For today's plan, we can only go out with all the staff to arrest Ye Chang inside the starship, and then make the next step!" ā
Seeing that Officer Liang had no objections, Xiao Zihan and the three of them each looked at each other, and finally Xiao Zihan took the lead, coughing and said: "Cough, then since this is the case, please take Officer Liang with your police officers and take the elevator with us to attack the interior of the starship!" ā
But before Xiao Zihan could finish speaking, he heard a loud noise from the starship behind him......
Boom -
Boom-boom-boom-
When Xiao Zihan and the others turned their heads in astonishment, they found that all the four elevators connecting the ground and the suspended starship had exploded, and after the smoke cleared, only a piece of metal wreckage was left for them.
Now, the huge starship no longer had any support, and it was completely floating in the air at a height of tens of meters, leaving countless people on the ground with blank expressions and looking up at this steel giant beast.
The only four ways to connect the ground and the starship are all ...... Blown up?
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PS: If you have a book friend who has read the Three-Body Problem, please feel free to read it. The so-called "cruel truth of the universe" that I conceived this time is definitely not the Dark Forest Theory.
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