Chapter 16 The Neutrino Hypothesis

Zhao Huasheng remembered many people and many things. I thought of the couple I saw that day, the old man who was the chef in the small restaurant, and every ordinary person I met on the street.

Zhao Huasheng's head began to throb faintly again. Zhao Huasheng stood up and wanted to wipe away the tears on his face, but found that those tears had frozen on his face, and as soon as he wiped them, the tears turned into ice slag and sprinkled down his face.

"I'm sorry, I see." Zhao Huasheng's voice became very hoarse.

"Watson, it's not your fault." Li Wei comforted softly: "No one wants such a thing to happen." ”

Zhao Huasheng glanced at Li Wei with grateful eyes and nodded at Li Wei.

The old man in the town sighed and commanded a few men to lift Freya's family onto the sleigh, and the group slowly walked towards the town - in order to prevent the sled dog from consuming a lot of calories and freezing to death, they did not dare to let the sled dog go too fast. At the same time, they also took off their clothes and put them on the sled dogs to help keep them warm.

I don't know when the snowstorm will be a little lesser, and the townspeople have finally returned to the town. The only pastor in the church put on a robe and began to pray for Freya's family, and the welcome banquet that originally welcomed Zhao Huasheng and his party became a funeral.

The atmosphere in the town began to become heavy and oppressive. Zhao Huasheng locked himself in his room and did not come out for three consecutive days, except for eating and solving his physical needs. Zhao Huasheng seemed to be able to smell the Freya family from inside this house, and hear their talking and laughter, but he couldn't see them anymore, never again.

The follow-up supplies arrived one after another in these three days, and it was finally time to set off. Zhao Huasheng left his room and joined everyone. Several helicopters had stopped in front of the town church, where the townspeople had arrived at their parting time.

Facing the crowd who saw him off, Zhao Huasheng said: "Don't stay in this town anymore, go to Equator City, contact the government now, the government will send someone to pick you up, don't stay here anymore, don't you know?" The weather has changed, and this place is no longer suitable for human life. ”

Zhao Huasheng can't break the confidentiality regulations, these words are all Zhao Huasheng can say.

The old man sighed tremblingly and said, "It's true that the weather is getting colder, alas, we all know it. But how can we get out of here? We've lived here all our lives, we've spent seventy or eighty long years, and we just want to grow old here quietly and die, and we don't know where to go when we leave here. Young people love to run around, they like to run around, they want to go to Equator City, let's go to Equator City, we are all old, we can't walk, just stay here, don't go anywhere. ”

Zhao Huasheng seemed to hear what the restaurant owner who was also dying old said to him.

"Anyway, I don't have a few years to live, so let's be here."

Zhao Huasheng couldn't understand the words and choices of these old people, but Zhao Huasheng knew what kind of deep feelings they were. Under the threat of death, this deep affection made them choose to stay in their homeland and refuse to leave, and Zhao Huasheng is sure that there must be many old people around the world who have the same idea.

Even if they die, they won't go.

If you don't go, you'll die.

And Zhao Huasheng didn't want them to die.

Zhao Huasheng felt a hot current brewing in his eyes, but Zhao Huasheng finally held back. Zhao Huasheng turned his head and said a little hoarsely: "Okay, then you can stay here." Wish...... I can have the power to change that before the weather becomes unacceptably cold. ”

The old people were a little puzzled, they didn't understand what Zhao Huasheng meant by this. But they still expressed their gratitude and blessings to Zhao Huasheng. Zhao Huasheng turned around and boarded the helicopter, never daring to look here again.

The helicopter took off amid a loud roar and a cloud of snowflakes rolled up by the propellers, and left the area, speeding towards the North Pole. There, the staff at the Arctic Changshan station will stay for another three days.

The Arctic is dangerous, especially now that solar radiation levels have dropped dramatically, and the dangers and harsh environment of the Arctic are beyond the limits of what one can imagine. But Zhao Huasheng still chose the Arctic as a goal. No one asked Zhao Huasheng why he did thisβ€”as long as Zhao Huasheng thought it was necessary, even if Zhao Huasheng wanted to go to the moon, they would find a way to satisfy it.

In fact, even Zhao Huasheng himself didn't know why he was going to the North Pole. It's just that there is a voice in my heart that keeps ringing, "Look at these scenes, soon they will disappear, never to be seen again." ”

The effects of reduced solar radiation levels are global. Zhao Huasheng knew that from now on, the scenery of flowers, birds and flowers, and the murmuring of streams would disappear one by one, and the ice and wind and snow would be eternal.

Zhao Huasheng is remembering all this, and Zhao Huasheng wants to remember all these scenery in his heart before they finally disappear. Perhaps only in this way, on the balance in Zhao Huasheng's heart, perseverance and struggle and never giving up can defeat the side that sinks and collapses. Zhao Huasheng is just an ordinary person after all.

Zhao Huasheng and Li Wei sat side by side in their seats and did not speak. The huge roar of the helicopter sounded unusually monotonous at this moment, like the view of the land beneath the helicopter.

It was an endless white ice field. Sometimes you can see live creatures on the ice field, such as polar bears, arctic foxes, wolves or deer. As the helicopter flies by, they look up at the strange object, as if wondering why it is flying.

"We have been worried about the impact of global warming caused by the greenhouse effect on the Arctic glaciers by melting the glaciers and affecting the ecosystems here. Well, now we don't have to worry about that anymore. Li Wei spread her hands and said, "If I'm not mistaken, at this time last year, there was no ice here. ”

"It's not funny." Zhao Huasheng shook his head.

"Don't always be that heavy." Li Wei said softly, "My brother has confidence in you, so he handed over this task to you, and in the same way, I also have confidence in my brother, I believe that my brother's choice will not be wrong." You can do it. ”

Zhao Huasheng sighed and looked at Meng Zhuo: "In the past few days, has the scientific research department made any new discoveries?" ”

"Yes." "Further observations have shown that the material that appears to be a Dyson sphere in the sun's photosphere is not an entity, but a darker and darker color due to the decrease in temperature." At the same time, some observational data suggest that it appears to occur above the Sun's troposphere and not in the photosphere as previously speculated. Of course, more observational evidence is needed to confirm this. ”

The sun is divided into three parts: the core, the radiation layer and the troposphere from the inside out, and then the atmosphere, which is the closest layer to the surface of the sun's atmosphere.

"Does this imply that the decrease in solar radiation levels is due to some physical mechanism inside the sun?" Zhao Huasheng asked.

"According to the Ministry of Research, this probability has risen to 80 percent. The possibility of intentional interference by some external force, that is, an unknown civilization, has been reduced to less than 20 percent. The Ministry of Scientific Research had suspected that the change in the sun was caused by some unknown advanced civilization, but it didn't look like that now. It's more like an autonomous change of the sun. You're a scientist in stellar physics, so maybe you can start your own speculation about it. ”

"I can't imagine any physical mechanism that could have caused this phenomenon." Zhao Huasheng shook his head, "Has anyone from the Scientific Research Department proposed a physical model?" ”

"There are two kinds. One is the neutrino escape theory, and the other is the thermonuclear fusion runaway theory in extreme environments. Of course, this is only a hypothesis, and the Ministry of Scientific Research has not been able to find enough evidence to support these two claims. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Huasheng was a little interested in his heart, "Take the relevant information and show it to me." ”

Meng Zhuo nodded, and five minutes later, he brought a stack of documents and handed it to Zhao Huasheng.

"Neutrino escape theory...... Due to some unknown reason, a large number of neutrinos are generated during the fusion process of the solar core, and due to the density of the solar core, even the neutrinos, which are extremely difficult to react with matter, cannot escape smoothly, and a large number of neutrinos assume the task of supporting the solar structure, and then after breaking away from the solar flower core, the neutrinos begin to escape freely, and carry a large amount of energy, which leads to the reduction of the level of solar radiation......"

Neutrinos are amazing particles that barely react with anything. It is also so small that it can freely travel through the entire Earth without colliding with any of the particles that make it up. This hypothesis is that neutrinos are the key to explaining all changes. But there is also a considerable loophole in this explanation.

That is, is the density of matter in the core of the Sun really so great that even neutrinos can't escape? At least according to the knowledge that Zhao Huasheng has at the moment, the density of the sun's core material is far from reaching. And, if that hypothesis is true, neutrino telescopes deployed deep beneath the Earth's surface should be able to capture neutrinos far beyond what they used to be.

"A new model of nuclear fusion has been proposed, predicting a completely new and different neutrino particle, as a way to explain the contradictions in this hypothesis. The Ministry of Scientific Research is seizing the time to test this hypothesis, and the results will be available soon. Monjo said.

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