"Okay, I see. So, the next thing to do is to pre-place that space before the universe separates—like a human gene pool, or a few hundred human eggs, or simply a thousand living people? ”

"At the moment we can't say for sure whether the separation of the universe will affect the biological activity of the objects placed in it, because black holes do. As we all know, black holes are hairless, and all the material that enters the black hole is shaved off, that is, all valid information is lost, leaving only mass and angular momentum. But what about the infant universe of soft separation? Maybe it will be a little warmer and retain the hair of the substance. We can only take one step at a time – perhaps never knowable. But at the very least, by putting a tombstone in the baby universe, this kind of death information should be preservable, which at least meets the requirements of Dad's original tombstone project. ”

Ji Renrui said jokingly: "That was just the poor goal when I was poor, now it's not what it used to be, two fritters can't send me away, I have to ask for a bowl of braised pork." ”

He lowered his head and talked to Chu Tianle for a while, and the latter said:

"Maybe don't be so pessimistic. Of course, black holes are hairless, but that's because of the 'brute force' of black holes, because their strong gravitational pull destroys the structure of matter. If a soft baby universe is separated by soft force, the place in it should retain the original information. He added, "The incommunicability of information refers to the relationship between two universes. If there is still some kind of complete information in the new universe, but it is completely impossible to communicate with the old universe, this does not violate the principle of incommunicability of information. "Of course, this is all just speculation. Can the new universe hold information? Is it possible to preserve living information? Can people survive? Is it even there that still follows the physical laws of the old universe? Everything is unknown. ”

Ji Renrui said categorically: "That's later." It's still an old saying, walk up first and then find your way! Since this universe is about to collapse, let's try a new universe no matter what! Changchang, you go on to say, how to achieve it? ”

"It's not difficult. As I said earlier, the technology is fully mature, so just use the existing wormhole spaceship, a simplified version. The site of the experiment can be located at a gravitationally stable point, such as the Lagrangian point behind the Moon, where objects can be stabilized with only minor adjustments. There, a group of spaceships are used to form a sphere, with the head facing inward, to excite synchronously, to ensure that the excited second-order vacuum bubble is assembled into a closed sphere, and it is enough. ”

"How many ships?"

"We're building a big sphere out of small bubbles, and there's a good analogy in the real world – a football made out of sheepskin. If you want to separate a baby universe the size of Noah, you need a number of ships that are the number of pieces on a soccer ball. ”

"It's embarrassing that I don't play football and don't know how many pieces are on a football." Ji Renrui said with a smile.

Yu Leshui responded: "There are thirty-two pieces in total, twelve are pentagonal, and twenty are hexagonal, some are black and some are white." Facing Ji Renrui's admiring gaze, she was a little proud, "I played almost all sports in middle school and college, including football. It's playing with the boys. ”

"Thirty-two, which means thirty-two ships! It seems that this is really easy - it will not be less than the total output of the world in a year, right? ”

Chu Tianle shook his head, "It's not as difficult as you think." After entering the hydrogen age, mankind has abundant financial resources, not to mention various countries, even some billionaires will build a faster-than-light private spacecraft to facilitate family space travel. We can use technical support to promote the spacecraft manufacturing industry, and when countries and the private sector have enough spacecraft, we can borrow them for experiments and return them after use. He smiled and said, "With Brother Ji's connections and incitement, I definitely don't even have to pay rent." ”

Everyone laughed. Ji Renrui said with a smile: "I didn't say it, as long as I don't have to pay for the construction of the spaceship, I'm not afraid to be cheeky to ask for a loan." Whoever the owner of the ship is, you have to give me this face. ”

"Moreover, the spacecraft parts can be standardized, the cost will be greatly reduced, and the production efficiency will be greatly improved. In this regard, Kang Lao made a good suggestion to me, suggesting the development of a new 'implosion molding method', which can even reduce the cost of the spaceship by 95%! At the time, he was proposing a hydrogen spacecraft, which now happens to be used in the baby universe. It will develop into a big industry, and it is too late to talk about it today, and then we will talk about it in detail. ”

Ji Renrui let everyone speak freely. While listening to the speech, he beckoned Pauli over, and then discussed in a low voice with Chu Tianle and Ji Jichang beside him. When the discussion was over, he put away his smile and said solemnly:

"Okay, then the project is officially established, and the Whip of God is about to roar in the air again. Our goal is to separate a baby universe of this size – one spaceship plus a thousand living people. If there is unfortunately a God's rule that we are not allowed to send a living person out of this universe, then even if we can only give away a tombstone, we must do it! Walk up first, then find your way! Just rush forward, don't care about the sky falling behind you! Mr. Hawke Pauli, how long will it take? ”

Since the beginning of the meeting, Pauli has said the first words: "Two years." ”

"Okay, there's no moisture in this time, I won't compress it anymore......"

Pauli interrupted him: "The premise is that there will be thirty-two ready-made ships at that time. ”

"I'll leave this to me. My whip will turn back and whip my ass. As for the manpower and money you need, just ask me for it. I have only one request: to put the burden on young people such as Ji Jichang, the heavier the better. Their generation is still young, and they have to be tempered quickly. ”

"Didn't say that. In addition, I also want to invite the main god Chu. ”

Chu Tianle shook his head, ", you are the main god." I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm not going to be involved specifically. Because, I want to try to find another way outside of this road, to add a layer of insurance. ”

Pauli didn't insist any longer, "Okay, I'm not reluctant. ”

The meeting adjourned, and the personnel began to leave. Ji Renrui smiled and said to his son: "I heard you be a Pauli teacher, and you are very affectionate." My son is sensible, and I am very happy. ”

Changchang was very modest, "It's nothing, it should be, it's the duty of being a disciple." ”

Pauli smiled slightly, "It's usually called something else." ”

Ji Jichang blushed a little. After he and Emma went to Egg Island, Pauli did not stop his hobbies of sunset bathing and naked swimming. Emma didn't care about this at all, but usually they bullied Pauli for not knowing Chinese (Emma was already very proficient), and often used titles like "our bare-chested teacher" on their lips, and even more outrageous nicknames, even in front of Pauli. Now it seems that this "white-haired old fox" has long been like a mirror in his heart, and he will not move when he knows it, which is really cunning. When he saw that his father was about to stare at him, he hurriedly laughed and interrupted:

"Yes, we have a more affectionate name for Mr. Pauli. It's not just him, Emma privately nicknames her dad 'Uncle Old Whip', and her mom 'Aunt Cat' - she says 'Miao Ji' means 'Meow Meow'. ”

This immediately turned the finger on Emma, who knew that Daddy would not be angry with Emma. Emma cooperated with her lover and said sweetly, "Yes, I think this is more affectionate." But I know my uncle must prefer other titles, such as 'Mother Cat' and 'Old Whip Daddy', right? ”

Ji Renrui couldn't be angry with these two living treasures, and said with a smile: "Okay, you two hurry up and change the name as soon as possible, and your mother will be relieved." Let's go, get to work! ”

4

Pauli-Ji Jichang's group began to work like crazy. They quickly completed the theoretical calculations; The drawings of the original "Noah" spacecraft were also revised, a simplified version of the spacecraft suitable for near-space tourism was designed, and finalized drawings were completed. These drawings will be released to the world free of charge, and all future spacecraft, including privately built ones, will have to be produced uniformly according to this drawing. Then they began to carry out experimental design and corresponding preparations, among which the heaviest work (the supervision of the construction of thirty-two wormhole spacecraft) was entrusted to Ji Renrui.

Ji Jichang also started another preparation at the same time - if he succeeded in isolating a baby universe, then when the second experiment came, he would enter the new universe with a spaceship and a thousand crew members, so he had to train in advance. Compared with the "Noah" or even the "Chu's", this trip is more dangerous. Could it be a boatload of corpses entering that new universe? Or is it simply compressed into a neutron cluster? Even if they live, will they be able to find a place to stay? Can you find food? Will a spaceship be able to fly in the new universe? Are the laws of physics the same as in the old universe? …… Everything is unknown.

Such an expedition is almost synonymous with "sending to death", but they must try. The reason is simple, because before so many uncertainties there was a fact that was already established: the old universe will completely collapse in a few hundred years! Only adventure can make it possible!

His father, Ji Renrui, also used the same whip to whip himself into a crazy spinning top. First of all, he went to New York to consult with General Cao, the chief executive committee member of the SCAC. General Cao, who had already had a "secret agreement" with him, was very embarrassed, because the baby universe plan was too "unreliable" - the earth would never know whether the baby universe was successful or not, even theoretically. The "Friends of Joy" as a civil society organization dared to do such a reckless thing, but no politician dared to do so. However, Ji Ren was sharp into his chest and fully exerted his three-inch incorruptible tongue. He shook his index finger and said with a smile:

"No, no, I'm not asking the SCAC to get involved in the baby universe, it's so unreliable, how can you get cautious politicians involved? I'm just saying that Friends of Joy is willing to join hands with SCAC to usher in a brilliant faster-than-light era. It is necessary to use the most preferential policies to encourage countries and private individuals to build wormhole spacecraft, and at least 32 of them will be built in the world. Friends of Joy will provide technical support free of charge, and SCAC will subsidize 20 percent of the cost, on the condition that the spacecraft must be built within two years. Think about what the world will become with thirty-two faster-than-light ships! We can achieve solar system tourism and even interstellar tourism, we can easily build factories on the moon, and we can migrate to Mars on a large scale......"

General Cao cut him off, "Yes, yes, that's enough." This is an attractive and feasible prospect that will be successfully adopted at the SCAC and the United Nations General Assembly. As for what you're going to do with these thirty-two ships in the future, I don't care, I don't know. ”

The two smiled and slapped each other's palms, and the deal was negotiated.

Six months later, Ji Renrui, Yu Leshui, Ge Qihong and others rushed to visit the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Weston, Illinois, USA. Chu Tianle didn't come with him, probably thinking about an important thing. It had been converted into a "Fermi Spaceship Hull Construction Center", and since this suggestion was put forward by Kang Buming, and because he was a senior engineer in mechanical engineering, "Friends of Le" simply appointed him as the general manager and chief engineer of this center. Some people were worried that he was too old, but practice proved that this choice was right, and this old Huang Zhong used six months to slash Xiahou Wei - the construction center was successfully put into operation, and the construction of the first hull was about to begin.

They were greeted at the airport by Aaron Dyche, who had received He Zizhou last time and is now the center's managing manager. The magical "8" appeared under the helicopter, and Dyche let the helicopter land on the periphery of the "8" first. I saw that there was a magnificent hollow sphere with jagged notches in the upper half, through which the perfect spherical mirror surface of the interior could be seen. Walking on the road, Dyche told them that this was the hollow ball produced by the first experiment that year, because the new factory could only be built in that area, so the whole moving method was used to reinforce the ten-meter soil layer under the sphere with steel beams, pad the roller bar, and move it outward for a thousand meters. "It's a monument of the times and we're definitely going to make it permanent. You know, there are the bodies of four of my colleagues embedded in it. Dyche said desolately.

The helicopter entered the hollow ball through the gap, and everyone watched its miraculous construction and mourned the four martyrs. Helicopters flew out of the sphere, and in the surrounding fields there were dozens of tents, colorful, and thousands of people meditating outside the tents. One of the most dense places is where people are queuing up to receive food, and three old ladies are handing it out. Kang Buming greeted them on the ground near the sphere, and Ji Renrui was used to fighting with him, and when they met, he said:

"Hey, Lao Kang, why are you still oily and slippery? I thought you were exhausted from building this factory in half a year. ”

"Thanks to my deputy." He pointed at Dyche, "I've always been a lazy person, and I don't use my mouth. I only gave up my ideas and requests, and left the rest to him, and as soon as the first finished product came out, I gave it up and went back to Pauli as a consultant. ”

Dai Qi smiled and said: "This is the most brilliant leadership art, and it is happy to make your subordinates tired to death." ”

Yu Leshui pointed to the crowd in the field, "Who are these meditating people?" Seems to be chanting scriptures? ”

Kang shook his head helplessly, "It's people from all over the world waiting to be saved." Now they have changed their story and say that the gateway to the new universe is not on Mount Ararat, but here. You know? Two of my old neighbors didn't dare to climb the 6,000-meter snow-capped mountain, and now they're here. My wife came here and stumbled upon them, and they've been waiting here for six months. ”

When Kang Buming visited his home last time, he promised his wife to go home in seven days, but he broke his promise, so he kept losing money in front of his wife. Later, he came to the United States to build a factory, and simply brought his wife with him. "My wife is so busy here. After the wife met two old neighbors, they inevitably went to deliver some hot soup and hot meals, and then the scale became larger and larger, and it became a porridge shed to help the victims. If this continues, the salary given to me by 'Friends of Joy' will not be enough for my wife to throw away. ”

Ji Renrui and Yu Leshui looked at each other and smiled, "Lao Kang, you don't have to cry poor, you will make a fortune soon." ”

His smile was a little weird, and Kang looked at him suspiciously, but didn't ask. Ge Qihong smiled and asked:

"Those people are waiting for the portal to a new universe to open? Do you know the exact time? ”

"You know, the Lord has told the faithful that the portal will open at the same time the next time the particle is fired. It seems that the Lord is also very good at keeping up with the times and using the power of technology. ”

Yu Leshui sighed lightly: "Actually, I appreciate them, they are also trying to find a way to survive, it is better than complete despair." ”

The group walked around the periphery of the sphere again, looked at the mottled outer wall of the sphere, Kang Buming said: "After seeing this hollow ball, I have an intuitive impression, now let's visit our production line." ”

They still flew a thousand meters in a helicopter to the location of the original hollow ball, which is the area where the accelerator was excited by particles, where the original GDF and DO detectors were located. When the hollow ball was removed along with the 10-meter layer of soil below, it left a huge pit that could fit a 3,000-ton cargo ship. The GDF and DO detectors were not restored, only the vacuum pipe, but this section of the pipe was greatly thickened, and its shape resembled that of an ordinary high-pressure tank, with a long cylinder in the middle and a hemispherical shape at both ends. The exterior of the tank is very rough, not like the appearance of high-tech equipment, it is more than ten meters above the ground, and it is supported by ordinary wood. Kang Buming led everyone to climb up along the scaffolding, came to the middle of the tank, and carefully inspected, it turned out that the tank was rough fiberboard! It is indeed unbelievable to use this kind of fiberboard as a vacuum pipe. Kang Buming said:

"The implosion molding method, to be precise, the second-order vacuum bubble molding method, you must know its principle, right?"

Ji Renrui quipped: "We know, but since you are here to be a tour guide today, don't be lazy, let's go over the full set of tour guide words." ”

"Well, I'll go through the full set of guides. This section of the vacuum pipe is made of inexpensive bamboo fibreboard, and the inner wall is sprayed with airtight paint to ensure that it can be pumped into a vacuum. The vacuum pipe is supported by a high-strength skeleton and will not be deflated after a vacuum has been formed. As we all know, after the second-order vacuum bubble is excited, all the objects in the excitation area will 'fly' outward in an instant, forming a natural accumulation on the spherical surface of the vacuum bubble, so that this vacuum pipe is instantly transformed into the tank-shaped hull we need. So it's a one-off and needs to be rebuilt every time thereafter for the next excitation. There is no need for molds in the tank production process, and there is no need for high temperatures. The formed ball wall is thin, only two millimeters thick, but you don't have to worry about its strength. It is a neutron-like substance, with extremely high hardness, strength, toughness, transparency and finish, and is an ideal material that materials scientists dream of, and it is formed by the reconstruction of protons, neutrons and other particles. He pronounced the word "reconstruction" in an accent. "After reconstruction, it has nothing to do with the material of the original object, so you don't need expensive high-strength metals, any cheap materials, such as bamboo fiberboard, earth, sand, etc. In this way, the cost of the ship will be greatly reduced, and it is conservative to say that it will be reduced by 95 percent. ”

Yu Leshui sincerely admired: "It is really to turn decay into magic." ”

"That's right. Let's talk about shapes. Products produced with this process have only one basic shape: spherical. However, by multi-point synchronous excitation and adjustment of excitation intensity, the product can also be ellipsoidal, curved sausage and canister, the latter of which is more suitable for spacecraft hulls. You see, the vacuum tube in front of you is in the shape of a tank, but please remember that the shape of the finished product has nothing to do with it, but is determined purely by the excitation mode. As long as these materials are within the excitation region, they will 'fly' outward at the moment of excitation, forming a build-up on the walls of the vacuum bubble. However, if the shape of the material stack before excitation fits the designed bubble wall shape, the wall thickness of the product will be uniform. That's why we pre-made this section of the pipe into a mock-shaped tank. ”

The crowd was amazed by this new production process. "Lao Kang, you have opened up an era." Ji Renrui said.

Kang Buming smiled and said conceitedly: "This praise is not an exaggeration at all, so I accepted it calmly." Throughout the history of civilization, the manufacturing industry has relied heavily on the primitive properties of materials, even after the invention of plastics, alloys, and nanomaterials, it is the blending of various materials above the atomic level. Now that we have reconstituted materials at the atomic level, material experts are completely unemployed in new processes, and even the cheapest materials can achieve unimaginably superior properties after such reconstruction. ”

Ge Qihong exclaimed: "It's incredible! Truly incredible! Does that mean that even junk can be used to build ships? Even nuclear waste can be used, as long as it is reconstructed at the atomic level, the radioactivity will disappear. ”

Kang Buming stared at him in surprise, and didn't speak for a long time, which made Ge Qihong a little embarrassed, and he didn't know what layman he said. After a long time, Kang Buming said:

"Disrespectful, disrespectful, I can't imagine that Vice President Ge, who has always loved to say witty things, has such a strategic vision. Xiaoge, do you know the value of your words? You have inadvertently started a new industry with an output value of trillions of yuan! But it's not for building spaceships, and the Earth doesn't need that many spaceships right now; It's for building materials! Soon the world will be full of cheap, high-performance spherical transparent houses, and the term garbage will disappear forever! He turned to everyone and said passionately, "The significance of this invention is too great to be overstated." Since the beginning of civilization, human beings have been like a giant silkworm, greedily eating green leaves, leaving behind beautiful cocoons, but also leaving a large pile of feces. And there is more and more manure: industrial waste, domestic waste, construction waste, not to mention dangerous medical waste, chemical waste and nuclear waste, etc. This is a cancer of civilization that has never been solved, because it is essentially based on the cosmic law of 'irreversible entropy increase'. People of insight fear that one day, garbage will become mainstream or even completely submerge civilization...... Now, Xiaoge has solved this problem once and for all! Xiaoge, hurry up and apply for a patent, you and I are co-branded. Don't repeat the mistake of Clark, who lost a billion pounds in space because of his carelessness with the invention of the geostationary satellite. The income of our patent is more than one billion! ”

Listening to his last joke, Ji, Yu and Ge looked at each other and smiled, their smiles were quite mysterious, which made Kang Buming a little hairy. Without waiting for him to ask, Ji Renrui smiled and said:

"Lao Kang, since you mentioned the patent, I'll reveal the treasure in advance. Yes, this is your patent certificate, about the invention patent of the 'second-order vacuum bubble molding process', I asked President Ge to declare for you, which has covered all countries in the world. Because it is an invention outside of your position, this patent belongs to you. There is also an agreement on how Friends of Joy will pay you royalties. As he spoke, he sighed, "This is a lesson in accepting the wormhole spacecraft technology, which we provided to the United Nations free of charge to make a fortune in the hydrogen extraction industry, and now they want to stop the funding for the 'Friends of Joy'." Therefore, the technology patent is still in the hands of its own people. Lao Kang, if you agree to the content of the agreement, please sign it, and then 'Friends of Joy' will start to pay you royalties. ”

Kang Buming took hard Bangbang's patent certificate and the text of the agreement, hurriedly glanced at it, and said in confusion: "I just accidentally became a billionaire?" ”

"Yes, that's right. That's why I said you don't slam the door again, don't be afraid that Mrs. Zun will give away your salary. ”

"But this invention was actually first proposed by Yangyang."

"Yes, he was the first to propose it, but the time before the 'Noah' went to the sky was too tight, and he didn't declare it or implement it, in fact, it started with you. Besides, Yangyang has left the earth, and there is no descendant left. Anyway, the patent is already yours, how you want to spend the money is your business, and if you want to send it to Yangyang dozens of light years away, it's okay. ”

"With so much money, leaving a fraction is enough for our old couple and children and grandchildren to spend, and I will donate the rest to 'Friends of Joy'."

"I said, that's your business, I'll talk about it later. Also, your joke just now can't be treated as a joke, and it is true that you have to apply for a supplementary patent for building materials. He thought for a while, "Let's take the three people who have contributed the most, Kang Buming, Chu Tianle, and Ge Qihong, as the patentees." ”

Ge Qihong was also stunned, "Me? Just because of that sentence? ”

"Yes, a word can lose the country, and a word can prosper the country. Do you remember an anecdote from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder? I can't remember the reason for the incident, maybe after the German team won a football match, he happily shouted: Let's have a drink! Later, this sentence was composed into a song and became popular all over the country, and he earned millions of manuscript fees in a daze. ”

"What a curse comes from the mouth. This time I'm done, the good days of being wide and fat are coming to an end, and I have to endure the hard work of the world's richest people. Then I will also learn to grow old, just leave some pocket money, and donate the rest to the 'Friends of Joy'. ”

Jokes aside, they decided to apply for a patent as soon as they got home, or that sentence, patents are safest in their own hands. Later, the group came down from the scaffolding, and Dyche said that it would take another hour to prepare, and asked them to go to the break room to rest first. Yu Leshui immediately said:

"No, since we still have time, let's go there." She pointed to the crowd in the distance, "They have been here for six months, and it is hard enough, the weather is about to get colder, and the days will be even harder." Ren Rui, you want to find a way to persuade them away, I know you have a way, you have shown your skills in Qi County, Lao Lu said that you used the anti-intermittent plan, the empty city plan, the beauty of the meat plan, and the serial plan, 'talking and laughing between the ashes'. ”