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Chapter 429
Chapter 429: Chapter 61: Bizarre!
Space-Time Particle!
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Space-Time Particle!
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Lin Xian whispered in response.
Images of the riddle master Huang Que came to mind, as he recalled her luminous blue pupils that resembled glowing orbs, and her omniscient, ghostly presence...
Lifting his head, he looked at Liu Feng:
“[Space-Time Traveler].”@@@@
Lin Xian said, word by word:
“If rifts can exist between spaces and times, and if space-time particles can make it through, then surely other things can find a way as well.
...
A levee a thousand miles long may be destroyed by an ant hole, that’s the principle.
Of course...
using this idiom here might not be quite fitting, but I just mean to say, if the universe’s laws, the laws of space and time, allow for something like space-time rifts to exist, then space-time travelers must also exist!”
“Actually, I’m curious about something else.
You said...”
“[Is it the act of traveling through space and time by the space-time travelers that creates the rifts, or do the rifts exist first and only then can space-time travelers emerge?]”
“This is the chicken-or-the-egg dilemma, the question of what comes first: the rule or the phenomenon.
What do you think?”
Hmm...
Liu Feng stroked his chin, pondering for a moment.
Lin Xian was always full of outlandish, and yet constructive thoughts.
The concept of space-time travelers, a common trope in movies and novels, honestly, wasn’t something that Liu Feng had considered at the onset.
It was also an unprovable and unfalsifiable issue.
The famous physicist Hawking had once conducted a “space-time traveler” experiment to prove the non-existence of space-time travelers—
He told no one, holding a “space-time traveler party” alone in a classroom, and only the day after did he issue a public invitation online, specifying the location of the party, inviting space-time travelers to attend the night before.
According to his logic.
If it were truly possible to travel through time in the future, then those space-time travelers would undoubtedly see his invitation and thus appear at the classroom during the time of the party yesterday.
However.
Last night, not a single person showed up for the party, and the room was occupied solely by Hawking throughout the evening.
Thus, with this intriguing logical experiment, he eliminated the possibility of space-time travelers.
Of course...
This experiment wasn’t rigorous and was rather presumptive.
But his approach did provide a new way of thinking for many fields, and it still had some didactic significance.
Do space-time travelers truly exist?
Liu Feng wasn’t certain either.
In the past, he hadn’t believed in them.
But now...
Lin Xian nodded.
Rather...
It is precisely because of such characteristics that it is possible to be a space-time particle, and theoretically, it seems more reasonable.
Hmm...
Hmm?
“No, that’s not right.”
Lin Xian suddenly thought of something:
“No, no, no...
Something’s not right.”
He turned his head and looked at Liu Feng, feeling the air in the Feed Cabin grow gradually colder:
“You mentioned that the space-time particle is not influenced by any external force, but that’s very unscientific!”
“Our Earth, the Sun, even the Milky Way Galaxy are not stationary in the universe; they are all moving at great speeds.
The Earth revolves around the Sun due to its gravitational pull; the Sun orbits around the center of the Milky Way due to the gravitational pull of the Milky Way’s central black hole; the Milky Way itself is rotating, and the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are mutually attracting and approaching each other, predicted to collide in 4 billion years...”
“So to say, the position of our Earth in the universe is constantly changing and moving.
I’ve told you before, the Earth orbits the Sun at 30 kilometers per second, and it revolves around the Milky Way at a speed of 220 kilometers per second.”
“The root of all these movements is the attraction of [gravity].
And you just said, that space-time particle is completely unaffected by any external forces.
If it were to obey Newton’s laws of motion...
right now, no external forces can act on it, it should always move in a straight line at a constant speed in the universe, it should be getting further away from the Earth, even being thrown off in the blink of an eye!”
“If it could be attracted by gravity, then there would be no problem with it flying towards Earth, just like meteors and comets, which is reasonable.
But if it’s not attracted by any external forces, how does it manage to pursue the Earth, following closely behind, traveling straight behind, rotating and changing direction with the Earth, never losing track?”
...
...
This discovery filled Lin Xian with extreme dread.
This is not a natural cosmic phenomenon!
The space-time particle seems to be targeting Earth intentionally!
“Exactly.”
Liu Feng lowered his head and gently rotated the globe:
“This is why I specifically asked you to come here, and it’s something I can’t understand either.
According to normal cosmic physical laws, it wouldn’t be possible for it to chase after Earth in space without being disturbed by an external force.”
“Either it can control its own direction, which is unlikely because the structure of a space-time particle is not that complex—it’s all very transparent, very clear.”
“So, leaving aside the possibility that the space-time particle can adjust its direction by itself, there is only one truth and answer—”
Liu Feng looked up, his face grim, and looked at Lin Xian:
“[There’s something on Earth...
that can attract space-time particles!]”
Or rather...
“[It is the space-time particle that is searching for it!]”
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