Chapter 4 Artificial wormholes
Rewind time to Beijing at nine o'clock in the morning on May 20, 2040 AD.
The central control center of the "Lightspeed Ring" high-energy physical accelerator below Beijing's Fifth Ring Road is crowded, and the seats for hundreds of people are full.
Invested by the Chinese government and built by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this large-scale scientific device with a cost of nearly 100 billion yuan and a radius of 50 kilometers brings together the world's top scientific and technological crystallization.
The energy consumed by it for one day of operation is equivalent to the electricity consumption of Beijing for half a day. For this purpose, it is specially equipped with a powerful power supply system.
According to the design goal of the "Ring of Light", once this device is put into operation, the target particles will accelerate infinitely close to the speed of light, and collide within the "Ring of Light" to further interpret the wonderful physical phenomena in the universe, unveil the mystery of the nature of matter, and make new discoveries in order to verify Einstein's prediction of relativity, discover unknown God particles, and study the mysteries of the universe.
At 9:30 a.m. Beijing time today, it will be the first time that the "Ring of Light" will run at full capacity after its completion, and the accelerated high-energy physical particles will collide with the set target at infinitely close to the speed of light.
For the physics community, this is undoubtedly a major event that has caused a sensation in the entire academic community.
At 10:10 a.m., the seats were filled with hundreds of the world's top astronomers, physicists and other academic leaders.
The atmosphere in the main control center was extremely tense, and the researchers and physicists in white overalls all looked nervous at the impact target of the holographic projection in the control center.
"Thirty percent energy infusion!" The blue energy progress bar on the holographic screen is constantly changing and rising rapidly.
"Sixty percent energy injection 。。。。。。"
With the rapid rise in injected energy, almost all scientists are staring intently at the hologram of the energy progress bar.
When ninety percent of the energy was injected, the Ya Que in the main control room was silent, and everyone's hearts were pounding with nervousness, their throats were dry, and they stared at the target impact area with wide eyes, waiting for the moment when the target hit.
"100% energy infusion!" As the energy injection reaches the design tender, everyone is looking forward to a new miracle in the world's most sophisticated accelerator.
At the moment when the energy injection reaches its peak, a pair of target particles begin to orbit in the path set by the "Ring of Light".
The next moment, a light and shadow formed in the target area of particle acceleration, and when it was detected that the target particles had successfully collided in the target area, the main control room suddenly burst into warm applause.
Everyone congratulated the "Ring of Light" large scientific device on its full power operation, and all instrument data showed normal, which was indeed a great event for the global physics community.
However, at the center of the particle striking the target, in about a second, a strange quantum dislocation phenomenon quietly occurs.
As a result, the most important by-product of this experiment was the creation of a miniature wormhole that could not be detected by existing equipment.
Although it is less than a millimeter in diameter and only appears for a second, just a second after the wormhole appears, the space-time passage to the other side of the universe is opened irregularly.
At the same time, a large amount of energy in the accelerator enters the wormhole and is irregularly transmitted to the other end of the wormhole exit through the space-time channel.
The danger is that when energy travels long distances, it inadvertently exposes the spatial coordinates of the Earth and the solar system in the universe.
At the same time, it is located at the other end of the exit of the artificial wormhole.
4.3 light-years away, near the blue planet of the red dwarf galaxy Centauri, in the direction of the solar system, several Maltese in blue spacesuits are sitting boredly chatting in front of the instrument.
These gray-skinned horse-eared people with a pair of horse ears look a little hideous, not only with rough skin and bared fangs, but also with a large tail full of bone spurs, and their bare skin is covered with scales, like a group of monsters.
The commander of the alert station, a tall middle-aged male Maltese, was reporting the surveillance situation to his superiors in Maltese on the holographic communication device inside the alert station, and judging by his unintelligible language and strange expressions, his superiors seemed to be indifferent to the space surveillance station.
From the indifferent attitude of his superiors, the commander of the alert station could see that the detection station he was in charge of was of no importance to the entire cosmic region monitored by the constellation Centauri.
It seems that today is another boring day for him and this space civilization alert station.
For a long time, nothing has been found in the surveillance area, and perhaps there is no possibility of any valuable living planet in the area they are monitoring. And surveillance scanning in such a dead area, where there is no life, is a waste of life and time for the highly developed Maltese people.
"Report to the commander, a weak space-time folding fluctuation signal has been found, which has been intercepted and saved by the detection device." Just when the Maltese commander thought that nothing would be gained, the voice of a female Maltese who was in charge of monitoring the equipment was excited.
"Space-time folding fluctuation? Which galaxy and by what means? As if he had discovered a great treasure, the Maltese commander showed a hint of excitement on his absent-minded face, and immediately came to the surveillance equipment.
"It's just a second, and the energy is extremely weak." A fair-skinned woman in a blue spacesuit said.
"Immediately inject the receiver energy to the maximum power, maximize the amplification and intercept the energy fluctuation information intercepted in the wormhole, and comprehensively scan this deep space area.
This kind of short-term space-time channel can never be a natural phenomenon of the universe, and it is very likely that a certain civilization has created a space-time channel formed by artificial wormholes in order to verify its basic theory of the universe, and the civilization that created this kind of channel is about to have a second scientific and technological explosion and leap to the highest end of the lower civilization, the third-level civilization star system. ”
All of a sudden, the entire Maltese space vigilance and surveillance station began to get busy, discovering new civilization signals, which was great news for these Maltese.
"The report, based on the amplification signal and the signal source, was finalized that the signal came from a yellow dwarf galaxy 4.3 light-years away from the constellation Centauri in the monitoring area." The female Maltese in the blue spacesuit reported.
"The yellow dwarf star 4.3 light years away, it looks like a savage and backward galaxy, keep watch and alert, I report to the Surveillance Headquarters of the General Intelligence Directorate of the Blue Star Galaxy." The Maltese commander said, looking at the image of the solar system displayed on the hologram.