The city of Sudbury itself is famous for its nickel mines, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is built on one of the 2,100-metre-deep nickel mines. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Deep underground, at a distance of 2,100 meters from the ground, the pressure is unimaginable to people on the ground, and at the heart of this is the neutrino observer, a 12-meter-diameter spherical container containing 1,000 tons of heavy water, the walls of the container are made of acrylic resin, 5 centimeters thick, and up to 9,600 photomultipliers are placed around the perimeter to detect photons from Lenkov's radiation.

When Maine looked at the data records for the last two weeks, he was silent for a long time before asking, "Have you contacted other observatories?" ”

"Well, yesterday we got confirmation from Gran Sasso Labs, Amundsen Scott Antarctic Station, the Super Kamiokande Probe, and the Daya Bay Neutrino Laboratory, where they also observed a surge in neutrino numbers."

Held's face was worried: "It's not this ...... I'm worried about"

Traditionally, neutrinos are ghost particles that have the ability to penetrate anything, and even if they spike, they can travel effortlessly through the Earth without much trouble.

"What, the temperature of the earth's crust is rising?"

Main looked back at him in disbelief.

"Well, since two weeks ago, at least here we've been monitoring a temperature rise of about 10k......"

In this nickel ore at a depth of 2,100 meters, there is also a cylindrical detector that continues to go up to 1,500 meters deep, which is filled with a special liquid and covered with pure water, but now it has been monitored that the temperature in the deepest part of the earth's crust has increased by 10k in the past two weeks, which is absolutely abnormal, you must know that this is not a volcanic area, and there is no possibility of volcanic pressure accumulation or even magma eruption.

"You mean that neutrinos are heating the Earth's core?"

Main shook his head: "It's unlikely, there is no evidence to prove this notion in the past. ”

Whether neutrinos will heat the earth's core has been debated, and there is a lot of debate about neutrinos, a ghost particle, which is currently less understood by the scientific community, so is there a possibility that neutrinos will heat the earth's core?

After thinking about it, there are three possibilities: if neutrinos can interact with the anti-neutrinos produced by the earth, the energy released by annihilation can indeed heat the earth's core, and there is a direct collision with electrons to produce Compton scattering, which transfers part of the energy to the earth's matter, or it reacts with the earth's material to cause the matter to fission to produce energy.

However, all three are hypothetical, and there is no evidence to prove that these three situations will occur.

"It's been two weeks and the temperature has been rising?"

"Well, it's a linear increase."

Mai En thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "Old friend, if you continue to stay here, report to me immediately if there is any situation, and I will go back immediately." ”

"Are you leaving so soon?"

Maine nodded in response to Held's question, he hesitated for a moment, and then said slowly: "Although there is no evidence, will the frequent earthquakes in Japan, Los Angeles, Iceland and other places in the past few days be related to this situation?" ”

Helde was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and said: "It shouldn't matter much, although the temperature of the earth's crust is rising, it has only increased by 10K in two weeks, even if it can last for a long time, it will have no effect if it doesn't last for a few years." ”

“……”

Maison didn't say anything, he wanted to say a guess that had just been born out of nowhere, but he was afraid that Helder would worry, so he forced the words that were about to blurt out, patted Held's shoulder, and walked towards the elevator.

……

……

After the earthquake in Japan, the government responded in a timely manner and did not cause many casualties, so it did not attract much international attention. However, the 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles has attracted the attention of the world.

According to official statistics in the two weeks since the earthquake, the 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Los Angeles has killed 247 people, injured more than 27,000 people, collapsed warehouses and houses along the coast, destroyed more than 3,700 buildings, broken several highways, collapsed some overpasses, and caused water and power outages in most of Los Angeles, with an estimated economic loss of more than $60 billion.

This is the first powerful earthquake that has struck Los Angeles since 1994, and many people almost forget that Los Angeles is actually in an earthquake zone.

Compared to Los Angeles, the volcanic eruption in Iceland is much smaller than it was six years ago, and it has not affected European flights too much, and there is not much attention.

Originally, for Lu Yuan, even if the earthquake at that time collapsed the house, there was no threat to him, not to mention that the quality of the manor house he bought was really good, and the 6.8 magnitude earthquake did not pose any threat to him at all.

Half a month has passed, and his attention has long been out of this earthquake.

But today, Lu Yuan had to sit on the chair with an ugly face, looking at the virtual three-dimensional real-time image in front of him, and he was both a little shocked and a little shocked for a while.

First of all, because of the arrangement of quantum computer arrays, Sonny was able to monitor the global network in a large area and in all directions, and basically not much information could escape Sonny's "sieve". Later, after the self-destruction of the underground base in the South Pacific, the quantum computer array was also lost, and global surveillance has never returned to its previous level.

What's more, Lu Yuan focused on letting No. 1 monitor the network at the national level, which made this happen for more than a month, and only now did he notice the abnormality.

Of course, it was precisely because of the network monitoring at the national level that he was the first to notice this anomaly.

It wasn't too late, at least he and the president were almost at the same time as the president.

In the presidential office of the White House in Washington, thousands of miles away, President Barack's dark face was very ugly, he took the document in his hand and looked left and right, and then slammed it on the desk.

Seeing that he was about to leave the presidency in a few months, he did not expect this to happen at this moment......

"Well, to make sure it's not some April Fool's joke, that is, Dr. Mayne, you're telling me now that the end of the world is going to happen soon? Are you sure 2012 has not passed? ”

"It's not 2012, it's 2016, and I really don't want to hear this kind of shoddy joke at this time," Barack sighed. ”

Maine stood opposite Barack and said with a wry smile, "Mr. President, I don't want to disturb your dinner time, but...... This is a matter of urgency. ”

"I know, I know, it's going to be the end of the world, and no one is in the mood to go to dinner, right?"

Barack stood up anxiously, "How many people know about this now?" ”

Mai En thought for a moment before replying, "There are no more than ten people who know, although some people have guesses, they can't have all the information, so ...... There will be no more than ten people who can know the specific answer and time, plus you, Mr. President. ”

"Is that the only good news?"

Barack's brow furrowed, "As much as I believe in your abilities, Dr. Maine, this matter can't be handled so simply, I need my scientific advisors and team to get involved to verify your claims." ”

"I understand, Mr. President."

Mahn understood this behavior, but he still reminded: "However, Mr. President, we don't have enough time, and according to the data collection and calculation of the global asthenosphere and the monitoring of neutrinos in the past half month, we may only have ...... time Seven years or so. ”

Seven years?

Bell shuddered when he heard this, even though he had already read the document just now, but when Maine said the time himself, he still felt a little weak.

What is the concept of seven years?

It is less than eight years for his term.

And what is seven years enough?

For seven years, the United States has not even cleaned up the battlefield in Iraq.

And if the calculations of Main and others are not wrong, the end of the world will come in seven years, and in this period, not the United States, but mankind, what can be done?

It's possible that you won't have time to do anything...... Time is too short.

(To be continued.) )