Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Planetary Graveyard
In the hyperspace moving state, the time inside the spacecraft and the outer universe are very different, and Mark feels that this journey has been at least two or three days, but in fact it is only about ten hours, and the lunar spacecraft is speeding along the curvature of the cosmic membrane pressed by the twin black holes.
Theoretically, hyperspace jumps can't move in a straight line, and can be understood as taking a shortcut through the curvature of the cosmic membrane, so on average, their speed has exceeded the speed of light, because they themselves are flying faster than the speed of light, slowing down the impact of the membrane expansion at the edge of the universe on them, so from Mark's point of view, time is indeed slowing down.
The lighthouse told them that this method of movement was in fact rather crude, and that at the time it was developed, his race had already begun to use the vertical jump technique, which was a more advanced way of hyperspace jumping, using a super magnetic field to directly penetrate the cosmic space membrane in its location, and cross the middle distance to reach the target point.
"We've also come up with this approach, but it's nowhere near where it comes to achieving it, and we call it a wormhole."
"You really like to call some phenomena that you don't understand holes." The lighthouse's tone was thick with mockery.
"Because it's very vivid, isn't it? It's like making two holes in the paper, straight from one section to the other. Mark said.
"You remind me of a silicon-based creature recorded in the database, they were born in the cavities inside the planet, they live by preying on trace amounts of plasma ionized at high temperatures, they are more numerous, they gain the ability to think by connecting with each other, they have a very poor ability to act, they have not escaped from their planet for millions of years, and the world in their eyes is very strange, they think that the universe is solid, and the planets are big bubbles, until they finally break through the ground, It is only after leaving the huge void that they exist that they realize the real world. The lighthouse called up its database, and an image of a huge rock creature appeared before them, with huge bodies like mountains, slow moving, and life-long-lived like real mountains.
"It's amazing that the world they realize is exactly the opposite of the real universe." Mark said.
"But who knows what the real universe looks like, the place we are currently involved in is only the tip of the iceberg for the universe, maybe we only see a partial universe?" As soon as Mark finished speaking, he was taunted by both Lighthouse and Sun Tan.
"Didn't even your former master find the ultimate truth of the universe?" Mark couldn't believe it, in his opinion, this civilization that had gone to the high-dimensional world was like a god.
"Yes, they are carbon-based creatures like you, and they also have their own limitations, maybe after they reach the high-dimensional universe, they can look back and understand all the mysteries of the original universe, but when they are still in it, I am sure they don't." Lighthouse was full of resentment with his original owner, and although he didn't say it directly, Mark could feel that the more his emotional factor evolved, the more obvious it became.
After the lunar spacecraft broke away from the trajectory of the twin black holes, they entered the next jump orbit, this time much longer and much slower, and after five more such jumps, they finally reached their final destination.
Sun Tan looked at the star map projected by the lighthouse, and it took a moment to determine his current location.
They are currently in the Aquila Nebula, 65 light-years from the Solar System, an orange dwarf that has begun to cool down, with a surface temperature and luminosity lower than that of the Sun.
Humans haven't paid much attention to this place, and the only thing Mark knows is that it is home to a very famous cosmic wonder - the Pillars of Creation. It was three huge columns of cold air made of cosmic dust and ionized gas, no one knows how they came about, when it was first discovered by the Hubble telescope last century, most people thought it was the work of aliens, and many astrophysicists have given their own explanations, but still have not fully solved the mystery of the Founding Pillar.
Until today, when it really appeared in front of all mankind, the previous conjecture was finally confirmed, it was really the work of aliens.
"Earth is just ahead, and we seem to be moving faster than we expected." Sun Tan saw the mark on the star map, the earth was directly in front of them, and the hijackers entered the jump orbit a few days earlier than them, but the two sides reached the end almost at the same time, this life and death speed, humanity has not lost yet.
"I've improved the beacon of the star map on the road, and I have taken fewer detours." Lighthouse said.
"They've stopped jumping...... Where is the earth going? Mark saw the mysterious cube shrink back in, snap back to the South Pole of the Earth, and begin to push the Earth to continue moving.
"It's not already there, it's a planetary slaughterhouse." The lighthouse's electronic sound was calm, but it sounded creepy.
"Slaughterhouse ......"
"yes, do you see those gas nebulae? That is the most intuitive phenomenon of dismantling the planet, a large amount of decomposed matter is crushed into dust, and a large amount of liquid matter in the inner core of the planet is ionized into a gaseous state, and they gather together to form such a huge nebula. The lighthouse explained to them that the huge Pillar of Creation on the screen was still majestic, but it was more of a fear for them.
Three huge nebulae of different lengths are arranged together, showing a faint dark red under the light of the starlight, like dried up bloodstains, their material weight is equivalent to more than 30,000 Earths, and it is self-evident how many planets have been dismantled here.
"I'm going to get ready to speed up." The lighthouse closed the cab screen, and the fluttering white squares were retracted into the walls, shrinking the main cab to one-third of its original size.
"Aren't you going to help us?"
"I'm not helping you, I'm bringing back the 'eggs' I want to protect, you bring your planet home, and the 'eggs' are in place, maybe it's safer."