Chapter 100: Vacuum Decay

The halt of research progress is something that all researchers find difficult to accept, and its degree of unacceptability is second only to the collapse of preconceived notions, and it has been said that every researcher on the road to success is paranoid. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is nothing wrong with that.

Because of paranoia, he succeeded, although more often he was taken to the stinking gutter.

This is known from the fact that these people have been studying the Universe Rubik's Cube day and night, even if there is no theoretical progress, they still have not given up, wantonly squandering their sweat and youth, and devoting all their energy to the study of the Universe Rubik's Cube, although it is meaningless.

Closing the log, Xiao Li's gaze swept over the other contents.

“…… When the temperature is below the critical value, the De Brow wavelength of the atom increases to the point where it can be compared to the average distance between atoms, and the wave packets of many atoms overlap together to ...... condensation. ”

This is followed by a series of formulas.

"Bose-Einstein condensate?" Xiao Li closed his eyes, and the Bose-Einstein condensate was a new state of matter predicted by Einstein, which "condensed" atoms in different states into the same state.

Someone in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s science department uses this new form to explain quantum fluctuations.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't perfectly explain quantum fluctuations."

So it was abandoned.

Xiao Li swept over one by one, there were many ideas and hypotheses put forward by researchers in the Science Department of S.H.I.E.L.D., but none of them could solve quantum fluctuations, and almost all of them stayed at the stage of being proposed, and they all failed in the actual verification process.

Because they simply can't prove that 'something is out of nothing'.

Whether it is the Bose-Einstein condensate or the atomic transition, all the conjectures and hypotheses cannot perfectly explain the 'creation of something out of nothing', let alone quantum fluctuations.

It is not clear where the particles and energy come from, where they disappear, or the mechanism by which the Cosmic Cube delays its return.

Sweeping, Xiao Li saw a very interesting hypothesis.

Virtual particles.

This hypothesis is that the Cosmic Cube is capable of infinite energy because it can transform virtual particles into real particles.

It assumes that the particle produced 'out of nothing' is a virtual particle, a particle that can never be directly detected, but whose existence does have a measurable effect.

The Cosmic Rubik's Cube, by virtue of an unknown mechanism, materializes the virtual particles, so that the virtual particles that are quickly annihilated escape the fate of returning to nothingness, thus generating energy.

"But that's not right." Xiao Li pondered for a moment, "Virtual particles can be produced out of nothing, so it needs to be annihilated when it returns to the vacuum, and it is obvious that virtual particles cannot be annihilated by themselves." ”

Xiao Li looked down, his eyes lit up suddenly, and a professor named Haisen supplemented the virtual particle hypothesis, and in its supplement, it is not only virtual particles that are created out of nothing, but also real particles.

It believes that in the process of quantum fluctuations, the vacuum not only produces virtual particles, but also produces real particles with positive and negative properties, and the two collide and annihilate each other in a very short time, so the particles fall back into the vacuum and it disappears.

The Cosmic Rubik's Cube uses some unknown mechanism or method to extract the virtual particles and leave the real particles behind, so as seen, the energy is not returned.

"Interesting." Xiao Li turned the page, and Professor Haysom added a hypothesis at the end, which was about black holes.

In a special case, such as around a black hole, a black hole is created out of nothing in the process of quantum fluctuations, and outside the event horizon, due to the gravitational force, some particles are sucked into it by the black hole, and some particles are not sucked away, so it escapes, which is the black hole radiation theory.

Professor Hayzen believes that the infinite energy mechanism of the cosmic cube is somewhat similar to that of a black hole, in which virtual particles or real particles are withdrawn during quantum fluctuations, and because the virtual particles or real particles have no object to annihilate each other, the particles overflow and cannot be returned.

But Professor Haysen also put forward a worrying theory, arguing that such proof of existence of the Cosmic Cube would raise a huge problem, namely vacuum decay.

As we all know, the vacuum is unstable, and the quantum at the higher energy level always has to jump to the lower energy level, and the vacuum that human beings are in is not really a 'vacuum'.

It is boiling with extremely brief quantum activity, ghost-like particles and energy that appear and disappear for a short time, like a random game, and their existence also reminds humanity that the vacuum in which humans live is not a real 'vacuum', but a pseudo-'vacuum'.

When the quantum transitions from the pseudo-vacuum at the high energy level to the true 'vacuum' at the low energy level, the existing universe will be thrown into a smaller, lower energy state by the quantum transition, which is called vacuum decay.

It is foreseeable what kind of tragic fate the human beings living in this universe will face.

"When the universe is gone, how can people live?" Xiao Li muttered.

This kind of theory is really terrifying, and the existence of the Cosmic Rubik's Cube proves this conjecture to a certain extent, but I don't know when the vacuum decay will come.

"Is vacuum decay possible?" Xiao Li communicated with the main god in his heart, "In the four-dimensional universe where we are located, is the quantum leaping to a low-level 'true' vacuum?" Is vacuum decay being realized? ”

"I don't know."

The answer of the Lord God was neat and clear.

"So can a god-level civilization do it?" Xiao Li asked again.

"It can be done."

"How?"

"Vacuum ball!"

The Lord God replied, "God-level civilizations have used a weapon called the 'Vacuum Ball' to destroy hostile civilizations in battle with other civilizations. ”

"The principle of it is what you call vacuum decay."

"According to my database, this vacuum ball is a low-energy 'true' real air bubble, and when it appears in a high-energy pseudo-'vacuum', it will rapidly expand and devour the high-energy pseudo-'vacuum', and at the same time destroy everything it encounters on its way, and eventually destroy the entire universe."

"The whole universe? Is this its scope? Xiao Li was taken aback.

"Yes, vacuum decay cannot be stopped, once it is generated, it will continue to devour the high-energy 'pseudo' vacuum until the high-energy 'pseudo' vacuum is completely swallowed."

"The whole universe?" Xiao Li's hands and feet were cold, "Are they dying together?" ”

"Nope."

The Lord God denied, "They are fleeing." ”

"Where to flee?"

"A low-energy four-dimensional universe."