Chapter 33: Choosing Hope
"Big guy." Under the night sky, Zuo Youcheng suddenly called Zheng Rui again.
"How?" Zheng Rui lazily answered.
"Hey, can your abilities hypnotize?" Zuo Youcheng leaned next to her and asked, "I can't sleep now, can you hypnotize me?" β
"If I can hypnotize, why don't I hypnotize myself first?" Zheng Rui asked rhetorically.
"Well, that's right." Zuo Youcheng whispered.
Zheng Rui touched his pocket and took out the lollipop that was tied to the rope and used as a single pendulum.
She pinched the end of the rope and shook it in front of Zuo Youcheng: "The ability doesn't work, I'll try the traditional method for you." β
With the cold moonlight, Zheng Rui gently flicked the lollipop swing ball.
The single pendulum begins to move.
Left.
Right.
Left.
Right.
β¦β¦
"Big guy." Zuo Youcheng suddenly said again, "Idle is idle, I'll tell you a story." β
"Let's talk about it." Zheng Rui replied.
"Here's the story......" Zuo Youcheng seemed to think about how to organize the language before saying quite cautiously, "Do you know what the closest star to the sun is?" β
Proxima Centauri, Proxima Centauri.
- Three-body problem.
"Giant pendulum?" Zheng Rui guessed.
"Huh?" Zuo Youcheng didn't react for a while.
"You remembered it from the giant pendulum?" Zheng Rui asked with a smile.
"Yes...... Yes. Zuo Youcheng was stunned, "Damn, big guy, when did you use your abilities?" The accuracy of this mind reading is too high, right? β
"Guess this one still needs an ability?" Zheng Rui couldn't help but feel that this classmate had a problem with his head, ""The Three-Body Problem", ten years ago, it could be said to be niche, but now it is rotten on the street." β
"But in fact, this series is calledβ" Zuo Youcheng retorted solemnly.
"It was originally called "Once Upon a Time on Earth Trilogy", and the content of the last two books is also "Once Upon a Time on Earth." Zheng Rui waved his hand, "But because the reputation of the first book started, it was called 'Three-Body Problem' later-when did this happen, and you still want to give people Amway?" β
"Oops, I didn't expect you to be a three-body fan...... big guy" Zuo Youcheng excitedly took Zheng Rui's hand.
Three-Body Powder...... Is it?
"The Three-Body Problem" is actually just a literary and artistic work, but "The Three-Body Problem" is far more than an objective literary and artistic work for her.
- That's her memories of her second year of secondary school.
To be honest, seeing a young "Three-Body Problem" lover like Zuo Youcheng, she was inexplicably relieved, as if her past had been inherited by a latecomer.
"Originally, "The Three-Body Problem" was going to be animated." Zuo Youcheng said, "But now that it's like this, it's definitely still a skip ticket." β
(Note: Set the default parallel time and space, please do not associate it with reality; "My Three-Body Problem" is getting better and better, I hope that the art painting will not open the sky)
"It's hard to imagine that human civilization will go back for decades, and the animation of "Three-Body Problem" is nothing." Zheng Rui commented considerably.
"But maybe, we'll be able to meet the real 'Three-Body Man' soon?" Zuo Youcheng analyzed, "You see, our current biological modifications must be beyond the reach of existing earth technology." Then it would have to be done by aliens, and the closest alien to the alien planet is Proxima Centauri, and there's a planet or something......"
"Proxima b, right within the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri." Zheng Rui added to him.
"Amazing, amazing." Zuo Youcheng clapped his hands for the words she answered.
In fact, Zheng Rui is quite disgusted that someone takes her words, but sometimes she can't help but accept other people's words. This time, it was because she took a general education class last year that featured habitable planets, so she said it in passing.
However, some people call this a "stalk", and they don't think it's annoying. But she couldn't tell whether Zuo Youcheng's applause was a joke or a real mockery.
"I'm sorry, you continued." Zheng Rui was a little embarrassed and brushed her hair.
"I mean, you see, that planet is the closest to the earth, and it's the background of the three-body civilization in "The Three-Body Problem". Zuo Youcheng said with some excitement, "And now it seems that most of them are aliens who have transformed human beings, so those aliens are likely to be from the planet Proxima Centauri, that is, the civilization of the 'three-body' planet?" - Of course, it doesn't mean that it is a three-body person like the one in "The Three-Body Problem", but at least the 'person' born from that planet, isn't it? β
"Ahem." Zheng Rui corrected him, "It may be Proxima b, but it's just a possibility." In addition to the 'three-body' planets, there are many more habitable planets that are more distant, and the emergence of extraterrestrial life does not necessarily require so-called habitability for life on Earth. β
And Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, and Proxima b's orbit is very close to the star and has been tidally locked. Although this planet is in the habitable zone, the surface environment is very different from that of the earth, and even if there is life, Zheng Rui thinks it will not be very similar.
But Zuo Youcheng said: "The problem is, if it is a habitable planet that is farther away, it is so far away from the solar system, why are they running here?" The distance of the 'three-body' star is a few .0.00 light years, and it will take more than four years to travel even at the speed of light, and it must not be too close to the speed of light, because there are some effects such as relativistic time slowing down. If civilizations farther away managed to come and find that the earth's civilizations had been destroyed, wouldn't it be worth the loss? β
"The speed of light limit is for objects with mass in space, and for space alone, at least the universe expands faster than the speed of light." Zheng Rui said, "If nothing else, at least the Alcubelli curvature engine is a 'faster-than-light' hypothesis, and isn't the wormhole - the Einstein-Rosen Bridge - also beyond the event horizon?" β
Zuo Youcheng was speechless when asked, he didn't see as many of these "crooked ways" as Zheng Rui.
"That's all right...... Too metaphysical, right? Zuo Youcheng said weakly, "With such a high-tech civilization, why do you still keep human beings?" We should be like bugs to them. β
"Well, so they're looking at the crickets now?" Zheng Rui raised his eyebrows and saidβalthough he couldn't see the expression of raising his eyebrows in the dark.
In the imagination of the ancient poor peasants, the emperor had a golden hoe, while in the imagination of the earthlings, the aliens used the earth as a jar of crickets.
"Big guy, don't say it, I'm afraid." Zuo Youcheng hurriedly said.
Half-truths.
A Form 2 teenager would not be scared so quickly, but in the face of the incomprehensible unknown, it is reasonable to feel fear.
"Don't be afraid, the sun will rise tomorrow." Zheng Ruihua used the last sentence of the second part of "The Three-Body Problem".
"Surely it will rise again?" Zuo Youcheng said softly.
For the alien civilization that can turn the human world upside down, it will probably be quite easy for them to let the earth enter the unpredictable "era of chaos".
"Of course it will rise." Zheng Rui comforted him, and he was also comforting himself, "Read less miscellaneous books, don't be idle and scare yourself." β
Occam's razor, the most useful psychological weapon at this time.
This......
This is also a kind of "heart victory", right?