Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, USA.

The Ames Research Center is a research center affiliated with NASA, but its research direction is actually very complex, in addition to various types of aircraft, it is involved in simulation technology, information technology, human factors engineering, and life science, which can be understood as a large-scale comprehensive scientific research center.

Of course, it also includes lunar science, astrobiology, and the search for extrasolar planets.

If there is really a person in this world who can ignore almost all holidays and just want to devote himself to work, then Lucius Rudy who works here must be counted as one.

Lucius Rudy is a scientist at the Institute of Astronomy at the Ames Research Center, an expert in cosmology, and a well-known astronomer.

In his words, the universe automatically generates hundreds of millions of data every Planck time, so if his finite life can peek into the truth of one billionth of this universe, it will be enough to comfort his life.

This is probably the reason why he is keen to struggle.

After all, in his eyes, the little dark spots that burst out on the sun were much more beautiful than the freckles on the beauty's face. Even if the beauty is willing to wear wide clothes for him.

Unlike many astronomers, Lucius Rudy's research focuses on theoretical astronomy, spending most of his day staring at a computer, studying the various data sent back to Earth by a working astronomical telescope.

It's the same today, even though Christmas is approaching, it's an ordinary working day for him, and it's no different from usual.

Sitting in front of the computer normally, checking data normally, answering calls normally.

“…… Oh, Arel, I'm not really interested, of course I know that Ning is a great mathematician, and if you can, I want you to help him tell him that mathematics is not omnipotent, and that you can't make inferences by coming up with a formula out of thin air. Do you know how many star systems are circling around the galactic center? And why is this happening?

Because there's a massive black hole there, you probably don't know how powerful the black hole is. In fact, it's hard to describe. But I can tell you with certainty that there are no celestial bodies orbiting near the coordinates he gave, because they will be captured by black holes and then swallowed. ”

Apparently, the person on the other side of the phone was not convinced by him.

Of course, Lucius Rudy would not have said such arbitrary words if he had known that Ning Xiao's paper was not based entirely on geometric inferences, but on the basis of many established phenomena.

"Dr. Rudy, of course I trust your judgment, but he's a ninja after all. Any idea why I decided to send his paper? Because he hasn't missed it, oh my God, he's sent so many papers, and no one in the academic community has found the questions in those papers, don't you think it's a very interesting thing?

Think about it, when this paper is published in Science, I will very much hope that you will prove to the whole world that that Chinese genius also made mistakes through the results of your observations. Of course, the premise is that you have to come up with strong evidence to prove it.

If, yes, I mean, if, as he says, if evidence of the existence of celestial bodies is found in those coordinates that he has given, what is there to lose to you? No, not only is there no loss, but it can even subvert the current theory of astronomy, as you just said, there should not be any stars near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the consensus of the academic community. ”

Jarrell Reilly's words caused Lucius Rudy's mouse-holding hand to pause.

In many cases, journal editors were unable to impress professors and doctors, mainly because of their lack of eloquence, and it was clear that Arel Reilly, a Frenchman, was very eloquent and successfully piqued the interest of Lucius Rudy.

Although he firmly believed that this was useless, it would be interesting if he could prove that Ning Xiao was wrong.

It's not that Lucius Rudy has any hostility towards Ning Xiao, the main thing is that he doesn't want this genius mathematician to stop pointing fingers at the theory of astrophysics, as if he just said that mathematics is not omnipotent, and through some inferences that he doesn't understand well, it is too much to conclude that there are stars near the silver center.

What's even more excessive is that he even confidently marked the coordinates in the paper.

It is important to know that many of the newly discovered stars have been found through careful observation through deep space telescopes and countless data analysis. Of course, mathematical calculations are needed, but most of them are calculated through the relationship between the trajectory and the force, rather than through pure mathematical theories like Ning Xiao.

"Okay, Arel, you're a smart lobbyist, I'll apply, maybe I can compare some of the previous photos from the Chandra X-ray telescope, but it will take time, well, so be it, I'll arrange it."

"Thank you so much, Professor Rudy, I'll put Ning's paper in the Christmas special edition, and I hope to get good news from you refuting him after Christmas."

"That's your business, I'm only responsible for verifying the results."

"Haha, trust me, it's going to be a fun job, yes, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas."

……

Lucius Rudy hung up the phone, thought for a while, and then opened Ning Xiao's paper again, carefully recorded a few coordinates at the end of the paper, and then turned on the computer and started to operate. First he needs to submit an application to get what he needs.

In the reason for applying, Lucius Rudy thought about it for a while, and simply copied Ning Xiao's paper directly.

Anyway, the science side has already decided to publish it, and it won't be a secret anytime soon. And his purpose is also very pure, that is, he wants to tell Ning Xiao that the coordinates he pointed out in the paper obviously belong to the sphere of influence of the super black hole, where nothing can exist except the void.

If there were, many of the rules of astrophysics would have to be rewritten, and countless more people would have to break their heads to round out those basic theories that were a headache.

Well, maybe not this time, you can find Ning Xiao to complete the paper, and maybe you can have a complete and logically self-consistent theory.

But it can't be, absolutely not!

Once the application was submitted, Lucius Rudy was back to his work.

He's still busy, and sending this application is just a casual one.

His only advantage is that the space telescope, which has the potential to detect the galactic heart, still belongs to NASA, and as an astronomer at NASA's Ames Research Center, he has some priority. However, there are many laboratories under NASA and more astronomers, and he is not the most well-known and not the most valued, so he has priority, but there are not many, and he still has to queue.

He didn't even apply for an expedited contract, anyway, it doesn't matter if it's a month or half a year, after all, the sun is about 26,000 light-years away from the silver heart, so theoretically speaking, even if there is a harvest, it is 26,000 years ago, although at the cosmic level, 26,000 years is no different from a few seconds for humans, but it drags on for a year and a half, which is completely negligible for the universe, who cares?

But Lucius Rudy obviously didn't expect that this application would make him lose face.

……

March's control of the Internet is probably just one application.

There is no way, the core control program, without authorization, makes it impossible for March to impersonate a human identity to do anything.

But any control program written by a human is clearly flawed.

Or in other words, there is no perfect thing in this universe, and human beings can only choose the lesser of two evils at most, and limit all possible harms to a controllable range.

So after Lucius Rudy submitted the report, a kitten who had been tracking the matter thousands of miles away easily obtained permission and raised the priority of the application to the highest priority in the system.

It was Christmas Eve, and the staff at the Chandra X-ray Observatory were clearly not as enthusiastic as astronomers like Lucius Rudy.

After several upgrades to the system, many of the commands to the Chandra X-ray telescope control center were prioritized.

What's more, it's actually normal for a NASA astronomer to occasionally cut the queue for a scientific research application.

The Chandra X-ray telescope is managed by NASA in conjunction with a consortium of universities, and they don't even need to say hello to the European Coordination Centre. It's Christmas for everyone, so it's enough for the Chandra X-ray telescope to take pictures of itself at a set angle and collect data.

After all, what could be more important than the upcoming Christmas?!

After completing the previous shooting mission, the telescope in deep space began to automatically adjust the angle according to the pre-set program, and aimed the lens at the center of the Milky Way, where the solar system is located.

……

The next day, Christmas arrived.

The official website of Science magazine also released a special Christmas paper on this day, "Analysis of Plex Uure by Differential Manifold".

The idea is to resolve the complex structure of the universe through differential manifolds.

You don't even need to look at the content, just look at the public review of the paper, and many people can get interested in the paper.

Because the review directly mentioned the possibility that there are multi-universe objects at the center of the Milky Way after reasoning and calculation, and according to the analysis of the mass and size of the celestial bodies obtained after precise calculations, these objects are still stars.

It is indeed a bit bizarre that this conclusion can be drawn not through observation, but entirely by deduction.

In the eyes of many, whether this conclusion is scientific or not is debatable.

After all, modern science is almost ignorant in two directions, and many things have to be guessed.

One micro direction, one macro direction.

Many people think that the Schrödinger equation has described quantum mechanics, but the reality is that there are still too many problems with quantum mechanics. And what many people don't know is that many equations can't be solved. In fact, many theoretical physicists and mathematicians in this era tend to work in the same way, and they are immersed in solving equations.

One-dimensional Schrödinger equation, three-dimensional Schrödinger equation, normal Schrödinger equation, or NS equation.

In the macroscopic direction, all theories about the universe at this stage must add the word hypothesis, such as the Big Bang hypothesis, the pulsating universe hypothesis, and the white hole hypothesis...... Wait a minute.

The reason is very simple, the macro has reached a certain level, and it is impossible to verify it with the current level of human science and technology.

There are no proven theories, and they can only be included in the category of hypotheses first.

For example, the Big Bang hypothesis, which is currently accepted by the scientific community, is that scientists use the general theory of relativity to reverse the deduction and conclude that the universe was in a state of infinitely high density and temperature before a finite time in the past, which is called a singularity.

The general theory of relativity is mathematically verified, and with the development of science and technology, many scientists have observed phenomena that verify and complement the correctness of the general theory of relativity.

But this still does not mean that the Big Bang theory is completely correct, but it can be said that it is a hypothesis based on materialism.

More evidence is needed if it is to be fully proven.

Of course, in the future, it is possible to observe a phenomenon that does not conform to the current Big Bang model and thus falsify the hypothesis, and then scientists will start to come up with other hypotheses about the origin of the universe.

There's no way around it.

After all, the most scientific treatment method of doctors in the Middle Ages was to bleed patients, and some people even believed in stool therapy, eating a spoonful of poop every day to ensure health.

According to theories that have not been verified so far, the universe has existed for 13.8 billion years, and it is indeed extremely difficult to explore what happened in 13.8 billion years or even more with hundreds of years of development.

Especially for a civilization still trapped on a small planet, the difficulty is even more conceivable.

Therefore, it can even be said that this paper is the first time in the history of human astronomy that someone has used mathematical theories to deduce a cosmic possibility that can be verified by modern science. Because the silver heart happens to be within the range that can be observed by the current earth technology. And this conclusion is still inconsistent with the existing theory.

It doesn't matter that the starry sky was observed more than 26,000 years ago, after all, the lifespan of 20,000 years is almost negligible compared to the tens of billions of years of life of stars. It's like a person who is himself doesn't care about how many femtoseconds he wastes every day......

So even during the Christmas season, the paper still caused a great reaction, especially when the paper was signed by Ning Xiao.

The circle of astronomy is actually not very large.

Especially in the circle of theoretical astronomers, when a person sees this paper, as long as he is interested, he will naturally share the speculation of the paper with familiar people, and then escalate from a small-scale discussion to a larger discussion.

Not to mention that many astronomers also play Twitter and Facebook, and occasionally express a few opinions on public Internet platforms, and if colleagues who follow each other are interested, they will naturally go to the official website of science to see what is going on.

If there is another intelligence that can ignore the Internet recommendation algorithm and can arbitrarily disseminate its content, then a paper published in a scientific journal can theoretically be disseminated to anyone who might be interested in the paper within an hour, or even countless times, until they are interested.

As a result, Lucius Rudy was inevitably included in the discussion circle by his peers.

Even at Christmas, there is always a group of single men who have no family ties and are not interested in all kinds of excitement, and can discuss what they are interested in in the computer group.

"Hi, Lucius, have you seen that man's paper in Huaxia?"

"Actually, I saw it yesterday."

"No way, it was only published today. And it is clear that the magazine has specifically marked the paper as unverified. ”

"Yes, that's because it's a verifiable paper. If it is confirmed, then the paper will be printed in that issue of the physical journal, so do you guess the editor of the Science Magazine would want to find someone to verify his conclusions? ”

"So they found you? Oh God, why didn't you hear you yesterday? ”

"I thought they were joking, do you really think we can find stars in that place?"

"Ha, as you just said, this is verifiable. To be honest, I'm curious, think about it, if you had his status, would you easily post this kind of paper? So he must be very confident, and I guess a lot of people are now eager to see if they can actually find those stars near the coordinates that he has delineated. ”

"In fact, I have submitted an application to borrow Chandra X-rays to complete this verification work. I'm skeptical, though. ”

Lucius Rudy replied on the software, and then his heart moved, and then opened the management software of the laboratory through his personal computer.

He wanted to see how long it would take to get his application receipt.

It is surprising that this paper has such a big popularity, and it may also attract the attention of the management center.

While it's unlikely that remote operations will be prioritized, it can't be.

However, the moment he opened the background management system, the whole person was stunned.

Forehead...... The mission is already underway? Chandra X-ray shooting mission has been so idle lately? His application was approved yesterday and uploaded directly to the system?

He looked at the progress of the task, estimated the time, and then switched to the chat window of the software.

"Well, good news for you, validation is already underway, Chandra X-rays are scanning that area, and the first observations will be sent to the ground in twenty-four hours, any of you who are interested, can analyze that data with me."

"God, this isn't like NASA's style, when did they become so efficient?"

"Notice that as you say this, there is a poor person wailing that NASA is prioritizing resources for this kind of thing. My application hasn't been approved yet! But I still hope that I can sign up first, so that when I refute the guy named Ning, I can also sign it. ”

"Haha, Sipson, you don't have to worry, maybe they just think your research project is too cutting-edge, Chandra X-ray is too old to meet your requirements. Maybe NASA will be the first to approve your project when it sends the Webb Deep Space Telescope into the sky. In addition, if the data is out, I hope to get the news as soon as possible. ”

"Speaking of the Webb telescope, will it be able to go to the sky next year? Lucius. ”

"Uh...... I don't know, I hope NASA can be on time, but who can say this kind of thing well? If it hadn't been for the unexpected, it would have been sent to the sky last year. ”

"Well, damn it, this kind of critical thing NASA always bounces!"

Yes, the James Webb telescope, which was supposed to be sent in 2017, was postponed to 2019, which was definitely the most unsatisfactory thing for astronomers last year, but there is no way, the world is like this, there is no perfect result.

And Lucius Rudy couldn't help but laugh as he looked at the constantly refreshing chat.

Look, that's what these guys are.

Pulled him to talk about Ning Xiao's paper, and when he talked about James Webb, the topic immediately began to be crooked, and these people instantly forgot Ning Xiao's paper and began to talk about the most advanced space telescopes of the future generation.

But Lucius can understand it.

After all, Ning Xiao's paper is really nothing worth discussing, mainly because I can't understand it.

I don't understand here that it refers not to the final conclusion, but to the process.

This is not only because the whole process of argumentation is obviously omitted, but also because the guiding theory of the calculation is not the general theory of relativity, which describes the macroscopic universe, but is based on abstractions in mathematical differential geometry.

This will somewhat dampen the interest in discussion.

After all, this theory hasn't been proven yet, has it?

Everyone thinks more about falsification than proof, right? Even those who say that they hope that Ning Xiao is right, they are probably just venting their dissatisfaction.

So Lucius Rudy closed the chat window and began to face the cumbersome data again.

After all, the mysteries of the universe are in these data, not in the minds of these people.

……

Huaxia, Yanbei Sports University.

While the vast majority of the world was still basking in the joy of Christmas, a kitten who was more eager than anyone else had unwittingly intercepted the first data sent back by the Chandra X-ray telescope to contact Earth.

Or it's not appropriate to use interception, the kitten just prioritizes some permissions to analyze those complicated data.

Because of many extremely objective reasons, it is difficult for human beings to observe the galactic core through the visible light band in the solar system, and a large amount of interstellar dust will block the human vision, so we can only indirectly understand what is going on in the center of the distant galaxy through infrared observation technology in the 2 micron to 73 cm band.

So it's no surprise that the Chandra X-ray space telescope is still sending back a lot of data to Earth.

Obviously analyzing the data, the kitten is a good hand.

So Ning Xiao was in his sleep, thinking about his question, when he suddenly got a message from the kitten.

"Meow, congratulations, Ning Xiao, your inference is correct, no, it should be said that it is partially correct, according to the first batch of feedback data, it has been concluded that there are not only more than a dozen stars in that position, but dozens of stars with extremely high brightness, which is really scary! It's time for us to change our plans, we're going to conquer that little universe beyond the planet! Meow! ”