Chapter 164: Picking Up a Black Hole
If it weren't for these scenes that Zhao Lan saw with his own eyes just now, Zhao Lan would never believe that such a terrifying monster was hidden in such darkness. No amount of power can be used to describe the horror of this power, it is too extreme, and it is too invincible.
It took Zhao Lan a long time to recover from that shocking state. Rodriguez also happened to turn off the monitoring screen of the black hole at this time, and then said to Zhao Lan with a smile: "Is there anything else you want to know?" ”
"You ...... No, how did your boss get it in the first place? Don't tell me it's from a super-miniature black hole, it's impossible. Black holes...... Completely beyond the limits of our human technology. Zhao Lan asked a little weakly.
This base has already given Zhao Lan too much shock. made Zhao Lan feel like he was living in a TV series before, so false and unreal. Zhao Lan couldn't imagine that in a corner that he had never touched, there was such an astonishing truth hidden.
Humans have actually had the ability to create miniature black holes for a long time. Hundreds of years ago, people could create miniature black holes with large particle colliders. The specific principle of creating a black hole is to create a black hole with a mass of only a proton in an instant with the help of an extremely high energy level - mass and energy are actually one, if an extremely high mass concentration can create a black hole, then an extremely high energy concentration can of course also create a black hole. The Particle Collider is one such instrument, and when two beams of particles moving at very close to the speed of light collide, their instantaneous energy levels can even reach the energy intensity of a few microseconds after the Big Bang, so a superminiature black hole was created within the Ion Collider. However, the smaller the black hole, the shorter the time it can exist, a black hole with proton-level mass, according to the lifetime formula, can only exist in Planck-scale time, and because the microscopic world is extremely empty, there is basically no matter around the proton black hole, and it has no ability to eat. So it evaporated in just a split second after it was made.
Obviously, even if the technology of human civilization develops for a few hundred years, human civilization will not have the ability to cultivate a proton black hole into a macroscopic black hole. That's why Zhao Lan has such questions. This black hole can't have been created by humans, then. Where does it come from?
"It was picked up by accident by the boss." Rodriguez smiled and said, "You know what? There are actually a lot of black holes around us, and there are endless black holes......"
"But what does that have to do with us? Those are just ultra-miniature black holes, and their presence or absence will not have any effect on us. Zhao Lan questioned.
Zhao Lan can understand what Rodriguez said. According to the latest research results, ultra-miniature black holes are actually a ubiquitous thing. Zhao Lan knows. Right here and now, on the surface of the Earth and even within the Earth, and in the entire space of the solar system...... There are endless ultra-miniature black holes that are born and destroyed, they are constantly being created and destroyed, but whether they are alive or dead, they will not have any impact on the macrocosm.
These black holes are caused by high-energy cosmic rays. High-energy cosmic rays also have extremely high energy levels, and the energy they contain is no lower than the energy level of the two beams of particles collided in the particle collider. Since particle colliders can create ultra-miniature black holes, high-energy cosmic rays can also create ultra-miniature black holes. When they collide with matter particles, they can create ultra-miniature black holes, and high-energy cosmic rays are almost ubiquitous. So ultra-miniature black holes are everywhere.
The solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field are resistant to high-energy cosmic rays, but it is inevitable that tiny doses of high-energy cosmic rays will reach the Earth's surface. This also means that at this moment, there may be hundreds of millions of ultra-miniature black holes in Zhao Lan's body, which are born and destroyed, destroyed and born...... But they won't have any impact on Zhao Lan.
That's why Zhao Lan was suspicious of Rodriguez's words. Because there is no essential difference between these ultra-miniature black holes and the black holes generated inside the particle collider, human beings do not have the technology to cultivate the black holes in the particle collider, and there is no way to cultivate ultra-miniature black holes created by high-energy cosmic rays.
Facing Zhao Lan's questioning, Rodriguez smiled and shook his head: "Oh, I didn't mean that. I'm just making an analogy. You know, black holes are very difficult to find, except for their interaction with the matter around them, which is basically very difficult to find...... Miniature black holes have a very violent evaporation phenomenon. But on a large spatial scale, these so-called violent evaporations can actually be regarded as insignificant, and we cannot find them through the evaporation of black holes. This means that there may be many black holes in the sky that we can't see, and we don't know anything about them. ”
Zhao Lan can't deny what Rodriguez said. But Zhao Lan didn't know what Rodriguez meant by this sentence.
"So......" Rodriguez continued to smile, "suppose this scenario, if there is a miniature black hole, well, the mass level is about 100,000 tons, such a black hole suddenly enters the solar system, and even comes to the edge of the earth...... Can we humans spot them? ”
A black hole with a mass of only a hundred thousand tons has a lifespan of no more than ten days, and it is difficult to imagine that it is difficult to travel such a long distance in ten days, but the focus of Rodriguez's words is obviously not here, and Zhao Lan did not dwell on this issue: "We probably can't find it." ”
"What if you happen to be only a few kilometers away, or even a few hundred meters away? Can you spot it? Rodriguez said with a smile: "More than ten years ago, when the boss flew around the earth in his own spaceship, he suddenly saw a gamma ray radiation source near him, so the boss was very curious, so he cautiously approached this thing, and then found out that it was a miniature black hole through observation...... It is orbiting the Earth at a speed of about 7.7 kilometers per second, and is losing its mass very quickly through radiation. If there is no external interference, it will probably gradually move away from the earth in the process of losing mass, and finally break free from the shackles of the earth's gravity, and then run into endless space, and finally dissipate in space. ”
"None of us, including the boss, knew where it came from, what kind of life course it went through, where it was born, whether it was formed naturally or artificially...... We don't know anything. The boss discovered it just ten days before it dissipated, and then carefully cultivated it, and finally managed to bring it back to Earth, which is what we see now. Rodriguez said, spreading his hands.
Zhao Lan shook his head in disbelief. The probability of this happening is far lower than the odds of a person winning the lottery jackpot every day for several years. Based on Zhao Lan's life experience, it is difficult for Zhao Lan to believe such a thing. Even if a person is hit by a gold mine while walking and becomes the richest man in mankind, it is far more credible than walking on the road and picking up a black hole.
"Are you sure...... It's true? Zhao Lan asked.
"Of course I'm not sure." Rodriguez shook his head, "But that's what the boss told us. Maybe there are other hidden secrets in this, but if the boss doesn't tell us, we won't explore these things, we just need to be loyal to the boss. Then again, who doesn't have a secret? Not to mention a character like the boss. Maybe you will get acquainted with your boss in the future, and the boss will tell you more secret things. ”
So Li Yunfan is a lot more mysterious in Zhao Lan's mind. The real process of this miniature black hole was obtained...... Except for Li Yunfan, I'm afraid that no one in this world knows about it.
But the understatement in Rodriguez's words still made Zhao Lan feel a little frightened. In Rodriguez's words, the description that Li Yunfan got the black hole from outside the earth should be quite credible, that is, Li Yunfan really managed to bring the black hole back to the earth from outside the earth, and then placed it in this base.
Of course, the current Zhao Lan knew that there were no accidents in this process, but Zhao Lan still couldn't help but feel afraid. If even the slightest accident occurs in the process of "bringing it back" and eventually causes this black hole to fall into the earth, the consequences will be catastrophic, and the earth will be completely destroyed. More than ten years ago, Zhao Lan was probably still struggling with the sea in middle school, and sometimes he had a little ignorant longing for things like so-called love, who would have thought that at that time, in a corner of the earth, there was a crazy guy who brought back a black hole that could completely destroy the earth......
"Okay." Zhao Lan said, "Since your boss said that he picked it up by accident, then treat it as if he picked it up." Now, please give me all your research materials on this black hole, and provide me with an undisturbed room where I need to stay for a while. ”
"I'm here to help, please come with me." Rodriguez said politely. (To be continued.) )