Chapter 42: Helium Flash

Chenggong replied: "As you feared, the fact that the upper class has advanced weapons because of their deep pockets makes them look like they are on the winning side, and the civilians are just moths to the flames, but in fact, the civilians also have a great advantage. ”

Angochi said, "Oh? Where is the advantage of not having weapons? ”

"According to the ratio of 9:1 between rich and poor, the population of the common people is much larger than that of the wealthy, and they have become more combative, forming proletarian alliances and snatching weapons from government forces by various means," Chenggong said. In short, the current earth has become a purgatory on earth, and the ice castle is the only treasure that human beings crave to get, but the existing amount can only be enjoyed by 10% of the earthlings, and the remaining 90% can only be frozen to death in the ice and snow. ”

"At the moment of life and death, the earthlings not only could not unite to fight against the disaster, but also launched a world war for the ice castle?" Hai Ge had a splitting headache, and his back was chilled, as if he was also in the freezing Arctic continent.

Chenggong said: "This is probably the inferior nature of the intelligent creatures of the planet." ”

Hai Ge couldn't agree with this, and refuted: "A little ant will still fight for food everywhere in order to survive, let alone humans? Fighting for the right to exist, I don't think there's anything wrong with the proletarian union. ”

Successful Fang's head was tilted at this time, as if he was looking sideways at Hai Ge, and he said: "From a narrow point of view, your point of view is undoubtedly correct, there is nothing wrong with people fighting each other in order to survive. But if you zoom in on this issue, in a broad sense, you will agree with me. ”

Hai Ge snorted coldly angrily, "Oh? Then you can explain, how to magnify? ”

Success said: "The existence of social classes is like folding a piece of paper in half, with the rich and poor class accounting for half each." Even if you tear off the half occupied by the rich, the remaining half of the paper will still become one, and if you fold it in half, there will be two classes with one half each. No matter how many times you try, the paper will always be folded in half, no matter how small it is. Isn't the inevitable division of social classes due to the inferior nature of intelligent creatures? As long as there are classes, there will be social antagonisms, and when the antagonists fight each other to a certain extent, there will be wars, so can't the causes of wars be equated with the inferior roots? ”

"This ......" Haige was speechless, unable to find any arguments to argue with.

Broadly speaking, he must admit that success is correct, and perhaps not only Earth, but any interstellar civilization will also be reduced to such a situation when it is facing destruction, so he does not need to defend his planet.

The vast and boundless cosmic society, Hai Ge seemed to fly to the periphery of the universe to glimpse its whole, it was a huge, curved question mark, and it was successfully straightened in three words, and it became a large and exaggerated exclamation mark.

This is the end of the discussion of the opposing classes in society, and the successful analysis makes Hai Ge bow down, but he still stubbornly emphasizes that if he is an ordinary commoner, if he is also unfortunate enough to be involved in the struggle for survival, he will definitely take up the gun and fight the so-called high society to the end.

"Now that I have reached the place where the dying sun is, why do I always see the vast sea of stars and the dark cosmic background?" Haige asked.

"That's because I turned on the ship's light filtering for my husband. The portholes of the Blue Whale 700 are made of filterable fiberglass, which can filter out the glare, noise, toxic gases, etc., in order to ensure the safety of passengers in the cabin and prevent them from overreacting to the adverse environment around the orbit, so you will not notice that you have entered the super high temperature range of the sun. ”

"Glass can also be a filter?" Hai Ge was incredulous and asked, "Then you tell me, how hot is the sun at the moment?" ”

A line of bright red white letters flashed on the display - surface temperature: 20 million degrees Celsius; Core temperature: 100 million K Celsius.

"So once you open the hatch of the Blue Whale 700, we, no, me, will be exposed to 20 million degrees Celsius?" The sea singer has weak feet.

Success frankly denied: "No, it may be many orders of magnitude higher than the figure of 20 million." The prerequisite for a helium flash burst is the critical point where the core temperature of the Sun reaches 100 million K, and you can see that this threshold has already been reached, that is, a helium flash is about to occur. ”

The word "helium flash ......" has been heard many times, and each time it feels harsher than "death". It cannot be compared to death, because dying peacefully is fundamentally different from dying from dying in the explosion of the sun. In a sense, Haige would rather the earth be dead than "destroyed", and helium flash means destruction.

8 billion earthlings will be wiped out in the helium flash, this prophecy, after such a long journey of shadows, Hai Ge knows that it will not be wrong. When the hatch of the Blue Whale 700 opened, he would see the butcher's knife waved by the executioner, and he was in a hurry to get out, but he instantly lost his courage and opened his mouth to make a sound.

Knowing that Hai Ge had learned about the danger of helium flash destroying everything, but he was afraid that he didn't know much about its specific manifestation, he empathetically stretched out his slender finger from the round mechanical hand and typed a text on the screen.

Hai Ge reads:

When the sun enters the late life of the sun, hydrogen fuel is depleted, and the helium formed by hydrogen fusion forms a helium core, which contracts to resist gravity, and releases a large amount of heat when contracting. The hydrogen envelope close to the helium core accelerates fusion as the temperature rises, and the heat continues to increase and conduct to the outer layer, and the sun expands outwards to become a red giant. When the temperature of the solar core reaches a critical value of 100 million K, helium fusion begins, and then burns to produce carbon, and the helium core is in an electron degenerate state, equivalent to a small white dwarf.

When heat is released endlessly, causing thermal runaway, helium fusion will erupt violently into a helium flash. This terrifying super-energy causes the solar core to expand dramatically and undegenymize the electron degeneracies, prompting the remaining helium fuel in the core to undergo stable fusion to maintain energy balance. This is the Sun's self-help mode, and its appearance will brighten by 5 to 10 magnitudes compared to the red giant phase.

After the helium flash eruption, the Sun will shrink dramatically and will be much dimmer than the red giant phase until the carbon in the core gradually accumulates, and it enters the phase of core contraction and outer expansion again. The helium flash lasted only a few seconds, but after a few seconds, there was no sign of life left in all affected areas.

"This is the ...... of Helium Flash" After reading it, Hai Ge's brain was heavier than a block of lead, and his mind was no longer controlled by him, but was entangled in hundreds of high-energy rays. All colors faded from his spiritual world, and it was as if he were sailing in the desert.

That's what it takes to climb up to the second level of Illusion: step straight into the helium-bursting sun and experience the thrilling moments that no living creature could have experienced while alive!