Die on Mars - Chapter 204

c204 Day 324 (2) How to enter the second dimension

“Okay, I’ll just live with Rotten Persimmon. It’s better than being alone.”

Tang Yue sealed the curry-like dung mixture and placed it in a warm place to ferment. Then he stepped out of the garage and looked up at the gloomy sky with a frown.

I’m tired of acting, but the cargo ship still hasn’t arrived. Lao Mao really doesn’t have any artistic talent. It’s nonsense to say that he has a huge army in his chest and can arrange “Alexander the Great”. He can only play a few old movies over and over again. Hong Kong movies, in addition to “New Kunlun Inn” are “Dragon Gate Flying Cats”, and “Infernal Affairs”, imitating Tony Leung and Andy Lau standing on the rooftop of a building and holding guns.

The old cat is Liu Jianming, and Tang Yue is Chen Yongren. One said, “I had no choice before, now I want to be a good cat.” The other said, “Okay, talk to Xiaoyugan and see if he will let you be a good cat.” .

Every performance is a cat movie.

Lao Mao came over from the garage and stood side by side with Tang Yue.

“What are you looking at?”

“Looking for the cargo spaceship.” Tang Yue raised his hand to build a shelter, “How far is it from us?”

“Seven million kilometers,” the old cat replied. “If it turns on a strong flashlight now, the light of the flashlight will have to travel for twenty seconds to reach your eyes.”

“I used to think that the speed of light was very fast, but now the distance we span is measured in minutes using the speed of light. Looking back now, the speed of light is actually too slow.” Tang Yue said.

The old cat nodded. As a means of communication, the height of the ceiling of the speed of light has begun to affect human work. The delay in ground-to-fire communication can be as short as ten minutes or as long as half an hour.

“Think about it, if there are two people far apart at opposite ends of the cantilever of the Milky Way, and one of them sends a text message to the other, it will take ten thousand years. You press the send button and then look up at the stars. Ten thousand years later, It will take another 10,000 years before the radio waves reach their destination and you receive a reply.”

“This is really the longest and most tortuous text message in the universe. The communication base stations along the entire Orion cantilever have to help forward it.” Old Cat said, “What kind of text message is worth waiting for ten thousand years?”

“For example…” Tang Yue sat down cross-legged and thought for a while, “Don’t wait for me anymore.”

The old cat was stunned.

It sat down and turned to look at Tang Yue’s side face. The latter was staring straight ahead, not knowing what he was looking at.

“But you have made people wait for so long. Is it too late to send such a text message?” Old Cat asked, “It will take another ten thousand years to reply. The person who originally sent the text message should be gone long ago. At most, there is only one person left. Get off the tombstone…what kind of response will this tombstone see?”

“If it were me…” Maidong spoke on the channel, his voice was very clear, “It should be ‘received’.”

The old cat was a little unexpected, and then he laughed. This is really a fairy tale, just like “The Little Prince”, with extra loneliness and poignancy. If there really are two people like this in the world, they would spend 20,000 years just to talk about each other. Two sentences, one is “Don’t wait for me anymore” and the other is “Received”, so how does this penetrate deep into the bone marrow and span time…

“Love.”

Tang Yue sighed leisurely.

“In the past, life was short and the speed of light was very slow, but the stars were very old. The person you saw would be fixed forever and would change ten thousand years later.”

“But for the radio wave itself, subjectively it is only a moment. It saw you at the previous moment, but when it came back at the next moment, it could only see the grave.” Old Cat said, “Under the condition of moving at the speed of light, the clock The slow effect reaches its extreme, time no longer flows, and any beam of light will witness the end of the universe in the next moment.”

“So what does the world look like in the eyes of light?” Tang Yue asked, “It changes rapidly and has no shape?”

“From the perspective of photons, the world never existed.” Old Cat said, “They were born from the Big Bang, and the universe ended at the moment of the Big Bang.”

“So the best way to transcend time is actually to accelerate.” Tang Yue raised his head, “This is also the only way to resist time… If we store human relics in a box and accelerate it to close to the speed of light, then it may Can it be preserved until the destruction of the universe?”

“But this energy is unimaginable.”

“How big do you want it to be?”

The old cat thought for a moment, “It depends on how heavy the box is. If we want to save a one-kilogram box to the end of the universe and make its time pass 10 billion times slower than ours, then if we continue to accelerate to close to During the speed of light, its dynamic mass will rapidly increase to 10∧20 times its static mass, which is one billion billion tons.”

“To push such a box very close to the speed of light, a rough calculation would cost more than 10∧26 joules.” Lao Mao said, “And the total electricity consumption of the entire earth in a year is about 10∧21 joules. , so the energy of your accelerating box is enough for seven billion people around the world to use it for one hundred thousand years.”

“Storing a box outside of time would require 100,000 years of electricity consumption around the world.” Tang Yue was stunned, “The theory of relativity is really a weird and scary thing.”

“The weird thing is not the theory of relativity.” The old cat pointed to the top of his head, “The weird thing is time itself.”

“If we have this ability, I hope to accelerate the United Space Station to close to the speed of light.” Tang Yue said, “At least let humans see what the end of the universe will look like.”

“Don’t speed up the space station, I don’t want to go there.” Maidong’s voice sounded.

“That’s the end of the universe.”

“I don’t want to see anyone’s doomsday.” The girl shook her head. “Whether it’s heat death or the Great Rip, they all end with lifelessness. Why should I go across 20 billion years to see the corpse of the universe?”

“Miss Maidong is right,” said the old cat. “I have always believed that the current universe is the best because of the birth of life – from a certain perspective, it can be as large as life as a whole or as small as a seed. , one thing is the same, that is, they will only take root and sprout in the most suitable environment. The existence of you and me proves that the current universe is irreplaceable.”

“Okay, but don’t worry, girl, we don’t have the ability.” Tang Yuexiao, “Accelerating a kilogram of small boxes would require 100,000 years of human power. Accelerating the Joint Space Station would probably require converting the entire Mars into energy. …If we really want to speed up, we should actually speed up the old cat.”

“If you really accelerate me to that speed, I will be flattened.” The old cat said.

“Flat?”

“According to the telescope effect, the faster I go, the shorter the length in the direction of speed, and eventually I will shrink as flat as a piece of paper.” The old cat gestured, and the two cat paws came closer and closer, and finally overlapped with a snap. , “Become a paper cat.”

Tang Yue suddenly realized that the speed of light not only hides a way to transcend time, but also a portal to the second dimension.

It’s a pity that physics classes on Earth never publicize this. Otherwise, with the fighting power of otakus, in order to meet their wives, they might swarm over to solve these major problems.

Those who have no choice but to study physics are all tough and straight men, with their minds full of the future of mankind and the stars and the sea.

How can a wife be real in this illusory sea of ​​stars?

As long as you speed up, speed up, speed up! Accelerate to 99.999999999999999999% of the speed of light and you can meet your wives!

The old cat patted his butt and stood up, carrying bottles and cans and walking towards Kunlun Station not far away.

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.”

The old cat grunted as he walked.

“All those moments will be lost in time…like tears in rain.”

Tang Yue leaned on the garage with his arms pillowed on his head, a little lost in thought.

“Time to die.”