Chapter 2: The Gate of Time and Space
The aurora happened in an unexpected way. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The treacherous light flowed in front of Yi San's eyes. The graceful flow of the aurora, like a musical note, seemed a little comical to their current situation. What had been waiting for a long time happened under such circumstances, which was unacceptable to everyone. Just like you like the eight-pack abs and mermaid line of the male god, if one day your male god is naked on the street, you will understand this feeling. Although it satisfies your muscles to look at him, it will not feel good in his heart.
"The occurrence of auroras is mainly due to the solar wind carrying high-energy charged particles into the earth's magnetic field, and the magnetic field gives the particles enough energy to ionize the molecules in the atmosphere and the atoms to be excited to emit a brilliant light curtain. However, what is the matter with not seeing the five fingers just now, the current Antarctic is not the polar night. After calming down a bit, the skinny Korean guy said.
"High-energy particles? Ahn Hee-hyun, what do you say are the three elements of the aurora? The freckled French girl also came to her senses.
"Kara, you don't understand this, it's actually very simple, mainly the atmosphere, magnetic fields, and high-energy charged particles. We're going to learn this in physics next year, and it's called the Lorentz force. Ahn Hee-hyun pushed his glasses and said with a little pride.
"Kara, ignore the nerd, let me sing you a song in this beautiful aurora." The stout black man put his hands together as he spoke, and blurted out a thick b-box on his lips, the racial talent of black people should not be underestimated.
"Nick, don't make a fuss, let's figure out something, okay?" The white man looked nervous.
"John, you really don't have a talent for humor." Nick said this, but also quieted down.
In fact, everyone is very nervous, but this time it is really weird, so Nick, who usually warms up, makes them feel even more confused.
Nick and John are both Americans, taking classes at different high schools in the same state, Nick likes music and John likes literature and history, so their personalities are very different, and the only thing they have in common may be that they both like Mozart.
"It's a magnetic field!" Yi San thought for a while and said.
"Our electronics are all jammed. And it is not caused by the ordinary aurora phenomenon. Yi San continued.
"It's also possible that it is a high-energy particle." The Japanese man said too.
"Sato is right." Ahn Hee-hyun said.
"The entry of high-energy particles into the magnetic field does not affect the uncharged particles in the light, that is, neutrons, but the things that can affect neutrons are," Yi San paused, "Time, time can affect everything in the three-dimensional world, such as magnetic fields, gravitational fields, quantum fields, etc. Yi San suddenly felt that they had come here to get together because the company had done it on purpose.
"That's." Nick thought it was incredible.
"yes, you're a bit big-brained." John, who studied literature and history, also knew nothing about physics.
"Possibly! It's entirely possible! Ahn Hee-hyun pushed his glasses and said, "On January 27, 1995, American physicists discovered that gray-white smoke appeared in the sky over Antarctica. Initially, they thought that these were just ordinary sandstorms. But these gray-white smoke did not change shape with the passage of time, nor did they move. ”
"Yes, and then scientists fired a weather balloon at the smoke to detect the gray-white smoke, and the balloon was equipped with instruments to measure wind speed, temperature, and atmospheric humidity. However, once launched, the balloon rose sharply and soon disappeared. After a while, the researchers used a rope attached to the balloon to retrieve the balloon. However, they were shocked by the fact that the balloon's timer showed the time of the test on January 27, 1965. Turn back 30 years! Yi San continued An Xixuan's words.
"At first, I thought it was a problem with the equipment, but after many experiments, the result was that the time was still 30 years back!" An Xixuan's eyes looked at the flowing aurora and fell into deep thought.
"Some bold physicists speculate that there is a wormhole in the sky over Antarctica, which connects the past time and space, and is a natural space portal!" Yi San's eyes revealed brilliance, and he felt that he was about to see a miracle coming.
"People are always afraid of things they don't understand, so there's no more to these studies. Those physicists were also ridiculed and treated unfairly by conservatives. Just like when Albert Einstein proposed the theory of relativity. Ahn Hee-hyun's eyes darkened.
"It's just that there is no follow-up to the public, and I believe this study is beyond our imagination. Although human beings are afraid of things they do not understand, they are more eager to move forward and conquer. The world does not stop at fear. Yi San looked around at everyone and said.
"Yes, we don't stop at fear." Kara folded her elbows on her chest and stood up with Yi San to cheer everyone on.
"Then why don't we put a hot air balloon up there?" Nick suggested.
"No, why don't we just call for help in a hot air balloon." John cautiously proposed, as a layman.
"yes, we didn't think of that." Sato excitedly patted Ahn Hee-hyun's shoulder.
Everyone suddenly realized.
"That's right, Kong Ming lantern!" Yi San said.
Then everyone sat down on the tundra and took off all the items in their backpacks, ice axes, high beams, Swiss army knives, compressed food, nano-sized nylon ropes, folding tents, simple cooking utensils, waterproof flashlights, glow sticks, and so on.
"How does a hot air balloon work?" Kara didn't think it could help, so she found something to say to break the silence.
"Simple thermal expansion and contraction, because the temperature of the atmosphere gradually increases from the altitude from top to bottom, and the hot air mass will go upwards to form a convection with the atmosphere, and the hot air balloon is lifted into the sky by this force." Nick couldn't help but give Carakop a little common sense.
"Then why does the hot air mass go up?" Kara continued.
"Uh...... Well, it's common sense, yes, it's common sense. Nick returned awkwardly.
"When two objects of different temperatures come into contact, their temperature gradually tends to a constant value over time. The Big Bang to the cooling should be the same. I think so. Sato said.
"Speaking of which, there is another formula, Newton's cooling theorem. It is applicable to a certain range. Ahn Hee-hyun said.
"It's like a glass of boiling water and a glass of iced Coke on the table, and after a while they'll be close to room temperature." Carla understood at once.
"Well, since the hot air and cold air in the hot air balloon form a convection, the temperature becomes constant, and without convection, the hot air balloon will fall down." Carla said excitedly.
"Yes, because of gravity, so the hot air balloon has to provide a constant stream of hot air." Nick said.
"So how do you provide uninterrupted thermals?" Kara continued.
"We have this." Sato said, holding up the solid alcohol block in his hand.
John, a liberal arts student, quietly watched the heated discussion without saying a word, and seemed to be very skeptical of this plan. Yi San, on the other hand, is holding a Swiss Army knife and folding the tent's tarpaulin and fastening the cookware to the nylon rope.
"John, you break the glow stick and write a distress signal on the canvas with the fluorescent liquid." Yi San saw that John didn't know what to do and asked him to help.
"I'll write it too." Kara said as she stood up to get the glowsticks.
"Wait. The oxygen content of the atmosphere also seems to be related to altitude. Whereas, oxygen is required for the combustion of alcohol. Yi San suddenly thought of something.
"Also consider that the wind will blow the fire out." Nick also asks this question.
"Well, I don't think it's reliable, you should be more rigorous." John slumped to the ground in disappointment.
"Don't be discouraged when you encounter some difficulties, you should find a way to solve them." Nick said with a morale boost.
No one noticed that the aurora above their heads was moving closer to a grayish-white cloud that swirled towards a vortex.
The light on Ahn Hee-hyun's head was getting dimmer and dimmer. Soon they will lose their fingers here. The darkness rekindled their fears.
This lamp is a cold light lamp, which converts chemical energy into light energy. Otherwise, it wouldn't have stayed under the strange magnetic field just now. Ahn Hee-hyun felt that it was necessary to bring something emergency with him on this Antarctic expedition, and the magnetic field interference electromagnetic equipment also considered this problem. Therefore, two portable bio-cold lights were prepared.
Originally, An Xixuan wanted to show off to his friends in this situation, but this really happened, but he couldn't laugh, he just felt a little lucky.
That's why everyone won't be so flustered in the dark.
Because it is portable, there are some chemical reactive agents inside the lamp, and this cold light lamp is not used for a long time. It's all for emergencies.
The darkness slowly came, and the atmosphere instantly quieted down, only the raging cold wind slapped on the face, and the dry and cold wind blew into the throat, and it was uncomfortable to death. And Yi San had ice slag on several eyebrows, they were very nervous, their faces were sweating in such a cold weather, and they were frozen into ice slag.
"Look." Kara pointed to the white mist above her in horror.
The crowd looked up at the white cloud.
"Space-time portal!" Ahn Hee-hyun exclaimed.
The slowly flowing aurora converged towards the clouds, and the light curtain in the sky became thinner, as if the aurora was absorbed by this gate, and according to this trend, the aurora would gradually disappear, and then it would really fall into extreme darkness.
If it's a gray-white cloud in broad daylight, say it's the gate of time and space, and people will definitely say you're crazy. Because in the eyes of ordinary people, this is just an ordinary rain cloud. But now that there is a reference, and it is still in the deserted polar regions, everything has become concrete, and there is no reason why they should not believe that this is the gate of time and space. If it wasn't a space-time portal, it was beyond their comprehension.
At this moment, the cold light of the creature on An Xixuan's head dimmed, and the surroundings completely fell into darkness where he couldn't see his fingers.
Kara exclaimed. Everyone's hearts shrank, and they also fell into extreme panic.
Yi San slapped the biological cold light on An Xixuan's head hard, and the light lit up slightly. But the light had dimmed to the naked eye. It looks like the chemical block inside has run out.
This faint light dangled around An Xixuan's head, illuminating everyone's shadows, making the atmosphere even more weird.
In a few moments, they were plunged into extreme darkness, and all that was left around them was the sound of cold wind howling and heavy breathing. Everyone's hands unconsciously pulled up. Everyone could feel their heartbeats.
"Ka... Ka... There was a click, and there was a sound of cracking ice in the distance.
The heartstrings of the crowd tightened even more.
"Could it be a big carnivore like a polar bear?" Nick said quietly, trembling.
"Don't make a mess." Yi San still kept a trace of composure and said.
"I swear I'll never do this ghost project again." Kara said with tears in her voice.
"Maybe the penguin accidentally stepped on the thin ice." Yi San comforted.
Then, there was a click, and many clicks came from far and near.
A trace of helplessness poured out of their hearts, despair spread around them, and the only thing they could sit on was to hug each other. Anxiously waiting for a miracle.