Chapter 606: Vacuum Decay
Qiao Lu asked, "If space frailling is not possible, what about the state of the planetary engine teleportation tower?" ”
"Teleportation towers connected to other planes can barely keep afloat, but teleportation between two points in this plane is no longer possible."
Being able to connect to other planes is already the best result, and if the connection with all other planes is broken, everything that has been done before wandering Earth may be in vain.
Qiao Lu pondered, "In other words, we can only keep in touch with other planes through specific teleportation towers, and we can't teleport to other parts of the Wandering Earth at will?" ”
In the simplest example, if you wanted to go to the Crescent base, you only needed to go through the planetary engine portal tower to get there instantly.
Now I have to launch a rocket or take a spaceship to go up again, and I am back to the original stage of space exploration.
"It's not necessarily a bad thing." George, the representative of the United Kingdom, said,
"According to Dr. Ding, now we don't have to worry about Quantum of Solace and stay in this world all the time? According to you Chinese, if you lose your horse, do you know whether it is a blessing? ”
Qiao Lu shook his head and said, "I don't think so, if I had to choose, I would rather face Quantum World than stay in this place." ”
The quantum collapse of the Wandering Earth is at least regular, and it will inevitably occur after half a year or three months, and there is a certain probability that it will not be destroyed.
On the other hand, the three-body world is a cold and cruel dark forest, just revealing one's position will attract light particles or two-way foil strikes, and even more terrifying cosmic law weapons, which can destroy the entire galaxy without much effort.
I actually think that staying here is safer than facing quantum collapse, then it must be a brain pump!
The others didn't know the information Qiao Lu had, but Ding Yi also nodded in agreement:
"I agree with Director Qiao Lu's statement, if our speculation is correct, the entire universe of this plane is the ruins of the war of high-dimensional civilizations, then we may also be involved in it at any time and encounter something more terrible than quantum collapse."
Derek of the United States asked: "But now we can't run away if we want to, we're completely trapped here." ”
Ding Yi hesitated and replied: "That's true, yes, if we want to get out of here, we need to know more information and master some kind of key technology······
"What are the key technologies you are talking about?" Luo Feng immediately asked.
"Build a unified model of the universe!"
Ding Yi's answer surprised everyone present, this is a widely circulated science fantasy on the wandering earth, and it is also the original design of Einstein's equator among the three major projects.
Luo Feng immediately denied: "Didn't you say that it won't work anymore?" ”
Ding Yi nodded and said: "That's right, in order to establish a grand unified model of the universe, it is necessary to accelerate the particles to 10 to the 20th power of gigaitelectron volts, close to the energy of the Big Bang, with our current accelerator technology, it is still far from enough to complete the Einstein equator in time." ”
"Even if there is such an accelerator, such a dangerous experiment cannot be carried out!"
Suddenly, the holographic projection of Zhang Bin, president of the Central Academy of Sciences, also appeared in the center of the earth's wheelhouse, and he said angrily to Ding Yi:
"Have you forgotten what the consequences are? Why insist on such a frenzied idea? ”
"The quest for truth, that's why I became a scientist." Ding Yi still said without guilt.
The representative of France, Bevin, asked suspiciously: "May I ask, what are the consequences of what you are talking about?" ”
"Vacuum decay!"
Zhang began to explain that the concept of vacuum decay first appeared in a 1980 paper in the journal Physical Review by Sidney Coleman and Frank DeLucia.
Long before that, Dirac had pointed out that the vacuum in our universe could be a pseudo-vacuum, in which ghostly virtual particles appear and disappear in an unimaginably short space.
This instantaneous drama of creation and destruction plays out endlessly at every point in space, so that what we call a vacuum is actually a boiling quantum ocean, which makes the vacuum have a certain energy level.
Coleman and De Lucia's new thinking is that they believe that a high-energy process may produce a vacuum in another state, which has a lower energy level than the existing vacuum, and may even have a "true vacuum" with zero energy level.
The volume of this vacuum may start out as an atom, but once it is formed, the surrounding high-level vacuum will fall towards its energy level and become the same low-energy vacuum as it.
This makes the volume of the low-level vacuum expand rapidly, forming a spherical shape, and the expansion of this low-level vacuum ball will soon reach the speed of light, and the protons and neutrons in the ball will decay in an instant, which makes the material world in the ball all evaporate and everything is destroyed......
“······ A low-level vacuum sphere expanding at the speed of light would destroy the Earth in 0.03 seconds, the solar system in five hours, the nearest star in four years, and the Milky Way in 100,000 years······ Nothing can stop the sphere from expanding, and the entire universe will be doomed over time. ”
Hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but gasp, they thought that the consequences Zhang Bin said were just earth-level disasters, but they didn't expect it to be the ultimate crisis that would destroy the entire universe!
Everyone finally understood why Zhang Bin would say that Ding Yi's idea was crazy, there was really nothing more heartbreaking than this.
Only Qiao Lu thought about what Zhang Bin said, the result of vacuum decay is not like a dimensionality reduction blow, the fall of the high-level vacuum to the low-level vacuum will never stop, it is not similar to the dimensionality reduction caused by the two-way foil, and it will not stop until the entire universe is swallowed up.
Could it be that this is also a weapon of cosmic laws, or is it another dimensionality reduction strike?
Qiao Lu suddenly asked, "Ding Yi, I just want to ask, what will the universe be like after the vacuum decays?" ”
Ding Yi didn't expect anyone to care about this kind of thing, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "The evaporated matter will slowly re-precipitate and condense and form a new universe again. It's just that it will be one energy level lower than the previous universe, after all, the result of vacuum decay will not disappear completely. ”
"What about the specific performance?" Qiao Lu asked.
"Probably······ The speed of light in a vacuum will be reduced by one level, to about one-tenth of what it is now. ”
Hearing this answer, Qiao Lu understood that he had guessed correctly!