novelhk Chapter 693 A Family Portrait in the Universe
Chapter 693 A Family Portrait in the Universe
Chapter 693 A Family Portrait in the Universe
Melina's heart skipped a beat; things didn't seem to be going as she had imagined.
She thought the pursuit was a continuation of the war between the Yuan Shen Kingdom and the New Shen Kingdom, but now it seems that it was not, but a chance encounter.
"Why would we rob your supplies? This area is the planetary belt, not airspace."
Given enough planets, given the technological level of interstellar civilizations, they could extract elements such as geothermal energy and iron from these planets.
Interstellar civilizations would map these densely populated areas of stars into star paths, forming star maps.
Star civilizations that possess star paths will constantly update their star paths based on the time the star map was drawn and the direction and speed of celestial bodies.
While it cannot be guaranteed that the star path will be 100% identical to the actual situation, as long as it is 70% correct, the fleet sailing in the universe will not fall into a resource crisis.
Unless, of course, this fleet is stubborn and insists on traversing uncharted or unexplored airspace.
The little figure looked aggrieved: "Because absolute zero is coming! What's more troublesome is that we've discovered the void is spreading..."
Before half an hour had even passed, the little figure vanished like a punctured balloon with a bang.
Melina looked at the witch, who shrugged: "You've touched on his deepest fear."
Melina was speechless.
She realized she had been scammed.
This tiny fleet is in such a dilapidated state, where would it find any resources?
The New Divine Kingdom fleet made such a grand display, showing no mercy to the Little Man fleet; it was clearly just for show!
Because they realized that they had fallen into a mental trap, assuming that their pursuit was an extension of the war of gods.
So they simply continued to mislead themselves.
"The cunning new divine kingdom!" Melina decided to get to the bottom of this.
She bid farewell to the witch and went to find the science team in the fleet.
The head of the science group is a versatile elemental ball.
He didn't originally look like this; he transformed himself by combining data from the Star Alliance's technology and gene banks.
In his words, this is his happy haven.
After hearing Melina's retelling, he was incredibly excited: "There are many voids in the universe, but there is only one that all interstellar civilizations tacitly agree to describe with just the word 'void'."
"It was a void where the temperature suddenly dropped mysteriously, galaxies vanished inexplicably, and no conventional astronomical theory could explain it!"
"One theory suggests that this is a huge scar left by another parallel universe that collided with our universe billions of years ago."
Melina replied with a cold expression, "Never heard of it, don't understand it."
The head of the science team coughed twice, then began to explain the situation from the beginning to the second-in-command of the Star Alliance.
"As we all know, 38 years after the Big Bang, the universe finally cooled down enough for photons to travel freely. These ancient photons raced through the universe for hundreds of billions of years before finally being captured by our detectors. This is what we often refer to as the cosmic microwave background radiation, CMB."
"You can think of this as the first family photo of the universe in its infancy. In this photo, the temperature of the universe should be extremely uniform, about 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. Although there will be slight temperature fluctuations, these fluctuations are extremely small, only on the order of 1/100,000th of a degree."
Absolute zero?
Melina held her breath and decided to listen carefully.
The science team leader was so engrossed in popular science that he couldn't tear himself away: "But! In the direction of Eridanus, there is an extremely unusual and enormous low-temperature region. It is ridiculously large, spanning an astonishing 18 billion light-years."
What is this concept?
The Milky Way is only 100,000 light-years in diameter. This cold spot is 18,000 times the size of the Milky Way.
The head of the science team had long been very interested in this cavity, but because it was an extremely resource-intensive research project, the higher authorities had been reluctant to approve funding for it.
If he can convince Melina... oh ho, his good days are coming!
His tone was very infectious: "This cold spot is not only huge, but also eerily cold. Its temperature is a full seven billionths of a degree Celsius lower than the surrounding space."
"What's even more chilling is that there's almost nothing there—no galaxy clusters, no stars, and even dark matter is scarce."
"It's like a no-man's-land in the universe, a ghost town that's been completely hollowed out. About 1.6 million galaxies have mysteriously disappeared in this region. Conventional theories completely fail here."
Melina's pupils suddenly contracted.
She encountered a similar situation before, right in a primordial black hole!
However, the original black hole wasn't that large. At the time, they were so focused on escaping that they didn't pay attention to the temperature in that area.
Melina had a thousand doubts in her heart, but she remained calm and let the team leader continue.
Team leader: "Initially, we predicted that this cold spot was actually a giant void. In the web-like structure of the universe, galaxies are not evenly distributed, but rather like a spider web, with dense areas and empty spaces. This is why interstellar civilizations call it a void."
"We did discover a giant cavity near the cold spot, but further observations dealt a heavy blow to everyone. The study found that even this supercavity could only explain 20% of the cold spot's temperature anomaly."
The remaining 80% of the anomalies are still completely unexplained.
Then, some extraterrestrial civilizations proposed that in the early stages of the Big Bang, there might not have been just one universe, but countless bubble universes that were born simultaneously.
The collision of two bubbles resulted in this huge cold plate.
Unfortunately, the multiverse theory has remained just a theory and has not been supported by any practical evidence.
After the science group leader finished explaining, he looked at Melina expectantly.
At this moment, Melina's mind was in turmoil.
Her intuition told her that this cold spot on the Jiangbo constellation was very important.
If you are undecided, ask the Lord.
If the Lord were in this situation, what would he do?
The next second, Melina smiled with relief: "How long will it take to redraw a high-precision map of the cosmic microwave background radiation?"
The surprise came so suddenly that the science team leader chuckled, "It only takes one month!"
If it were in the Star Alliance, with so many resources, it could be completed in 20 days.
Melina approved his request and ordered that within a month, the fleet collect resources and supplies from nearby planets to fill the entire fleet's resource storage room.
Melina was still bothered by the matter of the villain mentioning the theft of resources.
The planets in the star system where the Star Alliance fleet is located are all ordinary iron-element planets, with low resource value, but better than nothing.
If a planet is rich in resources, how could the fleet of the New God Kingdom leave so easily?
It took a whole month for the starship to fill only two-thirds of its storage room, a pace that Melina was very dissatisfied with.
It's a pity that Xiao Hei isn't here. With him around, not a single resource of the planet would be wasted.
Fortunately, the head of the science group didn't let things fall apart.
The high-precision map of the cosmic microwave background radiation has been released, but the head of the science team turned pale, and the whole world was in a panic.
"How is this possible?! How could this happen? This is impossible! Why is the cold spot expanding?!"
No wonder he looked devastated; it's like a modern person finding a family portrait of their ancestors.
There are ten people in the family photo.
As a result, when I took out this family photo again today, oh my god, there were eleven people! And a twelfth person is slowly appearing.
Is it scary? Is it terrifying?