In the central conference room of Area A of the Earth Era, Captain Zhao spoke, "Ladies and gentlemen, this disaster is the biggest disaster in our entire voyage. A fraction of the area in our living quarters has been destroyed, more than 6,000 tons of air have been leaked, and it is difficult to even identify the source of the disaster...... Moreover, there are two unfortunate people who have not been accounted for for the time being. ”

"So the theme of this meeting is how to deal with that piece of high-dimensional debris, whether the relevant rescue matters will be carried out, and ...... How to patch up the ship and so on......"

"Next, I would like to invite Mr. Zhang Yuan, the only survivor at present, to bring first-hand information about the high-dimensional fragments."

Zhang Yuan organized his language and said what he had said in the morning.

Although the people below had heard the relevant retelling, they were still silent at the moment, and everyone was listening carefully.

If you haven't really seen it, even if you are a mathematician, it is quite difficult to visualize the fourth dimension, let alone the fifth dimension and the sixth dimension, which can only be calculated in equations, but cannot be intuitively imagined.

"Mr. Zhang, is it really nine dimensions?"

Zhang Yuan replied, "I'm sorry, I'm not sure, everything is just speculation." If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have found it difficult to describe a specific situation with human language and imagination. There is footage in the camera of the spacesuit, and I suggest that the relevant team of experts can conduct a series of studies. ”

There was a lively discussion below, and for many physicists, it was almost fanatical about the matter.

Soon, another lady asked the question in her heart: "So, Mr. Zhang Yuan, do you think there is no rescue value?" The two soldiers who were unfortunate enough to be inhaled......"

Zhang Yuan paused for a while and said, "To be honest, I don't know how to rescue. Because I was in that space, I only saw myself, not both of them. The surroundings are real nothingness......"

"Do you know that concept of nothingness?"

"That's it...... No, it's not the same as the emptiness of the universe, it's really 'nothing'! If you reach the edge of the universe, it may be what I see. ”

"So, I'm thinking that every object that is inhaled might be assigned to a different space."

"Until we fully understand the nature of the high-dimensional fragments themselves, it is unlikely that we will find out where the two of them are...... So the probability of rescue is very low. ”

At this point, several girls were already crying quietly, and they may have been friends and relatives of the victims.

In a huge conference room, only this whining sound lingered in my ears, and everyone else was silent. This kind of big truth sounds very cruel, but it is true, and conservatism is the best strategy in the face of a position that is not at a loss that cannot be resisted.

Zhang Yuan sighed in his heart. There was another sentence that he didn't say, although he didn't know what the ratio of time between the high-dimensional world and the real world was. But according to the time he felt, it was almost 1:1, whether it was running out of oxygen or energy, it would make them disappear in that space. The two brothers really had little chance of surviving.

However, in a responsible manner, he still has to say this. The high-dimensional fragments were so dangerous that he couldn't even guarantee that he would be able to escape a second time after being re-inhaled into them, let alone others.

After a few minutes of silence and a few more minutes of discussion, Zhang Yuan's message ended here.

This was followed by a second speaker.

This is an old expert who specializes in the safety of spacecraft, the dean of the School of Mechanics of the Deep Space University, and his hair has turned gray.

"Look, everyone, this is that high-dimensional fragment. It is supposed to be a creation of some advanced civilization, not a natural birth. ”

A robot is scouting the room, and the screen shows what it has detected.

Zhang Yuan looked closely and found that the thing was just a piece of broken glass the size of a fingernail. It lay quietly on the floor, without emitting light, without generating the so-called attraction, and without swallowing up the substance in the floor.

This thing is an irregular glass slag shape!

"Is it the so-called warp point? Why did it become a matter in three-dimensional space? Or is the warpage hidden inside the glass shard? ”

A series of questions surfaced in Zhang Yuan's mind.

"First of all, it doesn't seem to have a mass...... "After a few seconds, the old gentleman said, "or the mass is very, very small, so small that we can't detect it with a robot...... It is unknown material that we don't know about. ”

"However, this piece of debris can have a slight electromagnetic interaction with the material on the floor, so it can lie obediently on the floor."

"Secondly, we don't seem to have a way of knowing when it will turn on. The first time it was turned on, it was when it hit the spaceship, and I don't know how many seconds it lasted for the time being. The second time it was turned on, when Mr. Zhang escaped, it lasted a total of 244 seconds...... It's been so many days, and it hasn't been opened for the third time yet. ”

"Every time it is turned on, it will generate a gravitational acceleration of 62 meters per square second in all directions, forming a strong force of attraction. and devours all matter within a 22-meter radius of the perimeter. ”

Another video began to play on the screen, and the ball of light was sucking up the aerogel on the floor, but the gravity of 62 meters per square second was obviously not strong enough to suck it at all.

But after 31 seconds, the aerogel on the floor suddenly disappeared, and a large hole with a radius of 22 meters appeared!

"Soft things are sucked in, hard substances...... It can only be held for a maximum of 31 seconds, and then a small circle with a radius of 22 meters is formed. ”

High-frequency cameras don't capture the time when the big hole appears, whether the picture is delayed by hundreds of times, or thousands of times, the hole that is not there in the previous frame appears out of thin air in the next frame.

Zhang Yuan took a deep breath, this strange imagination, he didn't know what it meant.

Captain Zhao heard this and said, "Then everyone, if you confirm that there is no way to rescue the two soldiers, should you throw this debris into space to ensure the safety of the spacecraft, or continue to study it and find out more things?" ”

It's a time bomb that, once it happens, will cause massive damage to the ship, and there is no container to hold it, and maybe swallow a whole bunch of researchers along the way.

Even if Zhang Yuan has found a way to escape, when the time comes, not everyone will be able to escape as they are and according to the method.

Another old man stood up" ...... Throwing it out is a very reasonable solution. We are already close to our destination, and in three hundred years of sailing, we will reach our future home planet. We have inherited most of the science and technology of the earth's civilization, and we have the historiography of the new civilization as a guide, so why bother with extraneous branches in this situation? ”

Zhang Yuan frowned and did not express his opinion for the time being.

Captain Zhao asked again, "So based on the historiography of the new civilization, can it be calculated whether to keep or lose?" ”

Zhang Yuan raised his hand and replied, "Sorry, there is no way to make calculations." We can't have a mathematical model of this kind of accident......"

"But in the face of more advanced technological creations, if the risk is controllable, the probability of a negative event is relatively small."