Chapter 115: The Mysterious Ball

The name "Big Ball" soon became familiar to the general public. Since the asteroid landed on Earth, it has attracted countless curious explorers trying to sneak into the largest sphere expedition ever made.

However, for more than half a year, the big ball has been releasing heat stored inside him, and it is surrounded by deadly poisonous gases.

The self-purifying energy of the ocean is very strong, and after about 2 months, the temperature of the big ball slowly drops to the same level as the surrounding temperature, and after another month, the surrounding sea water is basically the same as before.

The flood waters across New Zealand have receded, and New Zealanders can go back and rebuild their homes. With global help, New Zealanders have returned to two islands that were once swallowed by the sea.

Most of the man-made structures on the island have been destroyed, most of the plants on the island have died due to the action of the sea, and the green is no longer visible, and there are all kinds of dead plants everywhere.

A large number of animals have died, seabirds can still be seen flying in the sky, and the only animals that have survived are still in the mountains, and the scene is apocalyptic everywhere.

Fortunately, the Supreme Council of the Interstellar Federation has pledged to help the New Zealanders rebuild their homeland, and to share the cost and supplies of the reconstruction among the countries.

For the sake of safety, the Supreme Council of Decision-Making sent warships to set up a cordon 100 kilometers from the big ball to prevent anyone from sneaking in.

Anderson has been obsessed with mountaineering since he was a child, and since he reached Mount Everest at the age of 18, he has so far climbed every mountain in the world above 8,000 meters, and his slogan is "Life Never Stops".

Since the big ball fell to the ground, when he knew that the height of the big ball far exceeded Mount Everest, he was moved. The first to reach the top of the big ball became the only goal in his heart, he wanted to be the tallest person to climb ever. In mountaineering circles, it began to be rumored that whoever climbed the big ball first was the greatest mountaineer of our time, and many people were eager to try it.

Anderson was also seduced by the big ball, and fell into a kind of religious-like euphoria. As early as 2 months ago, he began to prepare, he didn't need to prepare too much for mountaineering items, and he had all kinds of professional-level mountaineering equipment.

The only thing he needed to prepare was oxygen, and he climbed Mount Everest without using an oxygen cylinder, becoming one of the few people who could climb without oxygen. But the big ball is not good, the altitude is too high, and it is impossible to survive without an oxygen cylinder, so it must be prepared.

This is the sixth month that the ball has fallen on the earth, the heat has been almost released, and the harmful gases around it have been blown away by the sea breeze, and it is the summer in the southern hemisphere, which is the best time to climb the mountain.

Anderson and his three companions climbed together, and their first task was to avoid the frigates patrolling the ocean, which was designated as a military exclusion zone and no one was allowed to enter without permission.

The area of this sea area is very large, and the Supreme Decision-making Committee of the Interstellar Federation has set aside an area with a diameter of 100 kilometers as a forbidden area, but only 20 warships have been dispatched, and it is not easy to control such a large atmosphere.

In order to effectively control the area, the frigate generally flies its own UAV for long-endurance flight, monitors the target sea area, and if necessary, can also send carrier-based helicopters to verify and drive away.

If you want to break through the blockade, you must find the blind spot of surveillance, and the frigate uses shipborne radar to constantly scan the relevant sea area, and the detection distance for large ships is 100 kilometers, and the use of carrier-based helicopters can find targets 200 kilometers away, and the control range of each ship is 400 kilometers.

Coupled with the auxiliary UAV, theoretically it is completely able to cover the target sea area, but the personnel on the ship still need to rest, and the warship also needs necessary maintenance, so it is not too difficult to find the blind spot of monitoring. Generally speaking, between 12 p.m. and 4 a.m. is the weakest time for surveillance.

Anderson and his team switched to a high-speed motorboat about 10 kilometers from the outside of the exclusion zone in a large boat, and at 2 a.m. they broke through the blockade as fast as they could and rushed into the exclusion zone.

Facing the midnight waves, there was no moon, and the sky was full of countless stars, sprinkled with faint stars, Anderson stood proudly on the bow of the dinghy, sniffing the salty water from the pavement, and could already see the large ball like a hill at the sea level.

Climbing on the nearly 50-kilometer-high ball, this is an unprecedented feat of human beings, standing on the top of the ball must have the feeling of dominating the world, thinking of this, Anderson couldn't help but smile slightly.

Ling Moyu, who is thousands of miles away, is preparing a new experimental plan, and the first step he has to do is to solve the problem of the mechanism of neutrino action.

Although he saved humanity and the planet this time, the mechanism of how neutrinos work and affect the interior of atoms has not yet been understood.

If you don't understand the principle, you can't apply it more, and you don't know what to do if something goes wrong, for example, the last time you didn't succeed in preparing for a nuclear explosion asteroid, you don't know what went wrong now.

Ling Moyu is going to study the existing instruments in the control center, trying to find the working principle of these instruments through reverse engineering.

However, the progress of research is slow, many instruments and equipment do not know what they do, and there are a large number of devices with similar chips integrated inside, and the internal structure is not known at all.

However, in his research, he also found that when neutrinos are used to change the structure of matter, there is a mismatch between matter and energy.

A large part of the energy contained in the transformed atom and the energy contained in the atom before the transformation are unconsciously lost, which violates the basic principle of conservation of energy.

The conservation of energy and matter is the most basic principle of the universe, matter and energy can neither be created out of thin air nor disappear out of thin air, then that is, the disappeared energy must have a place.

Either it is converted into other energy, or it becomes other matter, but none of the energy or matter known is sufficient to explain the occurrence of this phenomenon.

Where does the energy go? Throughout the history of physics, there have been many cases where energy and matter are not conserved, and each time it has made a new leap forward in physics.

Neutrinos are one of them!

The discovery of neutrinos came from the study of radioactivity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The researchers found that in the quantum world, the absorption and emission of energy are discontinuous. Not only are the spectrums of atoms discontinuous, but so are the alpha rays and gamma rays emitted from the nucleus.

This is due to the fact that the nucleus is released when it transitions between different energy levels, which is in line with the laws of the quantum world. Curiously, the energy spectrum of β rays composed of electrons released by matter during β decay is continuous, and the electrons only take away part of the total energy, and some of the energy is missing.

In 1930, the Austrian physicist Pauli proposed a hypothesis, which believed that in the process of β decay, in addition to electrons, a new particle with zero rest mass, electrically neutral, and different from photons was emitted out, taking away another part of the energy, so there was an energy loss.

The interaction between these particles and matter is so weak that it is difficult for instruments to detect. The sum of the energies of the unknown particle, the electron, and the recoil nucleus is a definite value, and the conservation of energy still holds, but the proportion of energy distribution between the unknown particle and the electron can vary.

In 1932, the Italian physicist Fermi renamed the "neutron" predicted by Pauli as "neutrino". In 1956, Yongguo Lynes and Kewan directly observed neutrinos in experiments.

Now that some of the energy is missing, this will be the key to a new theory, and a new discovery may overturn the existing theory and open up a more ambitious theory.