Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

The Ark had thought that this hourglass was so magnificent that there should be many floors split. However, it was unexpected that a large amount of building space was wasted on the space between the floor and the ceiling.

The ceiling, which continues to stretch upwards, is like a heavenly dome without a cloud cover, a feeling of pressure from space that makes the interior of the entire palace look extraordinarily solemn and dignified.

It's like this isn't a conference room, it's like a court of law.

In fact, it's not just the design of this hall, it's even the tall conference table that feels the same way.

The entire table is horseshoe-shaped, like an unfolded folding fan, extending along an oblique top.

Below are the ordinary members of parliament, the higher their status and stature, and at the top are the powerful ministers of departments, the Speakers of Parliament and even the rulers of imperial power - the Supreme Consuls.

Strange civilization.

It is clearly a materialistic value, but the political form does not give people a sense of efficiency or convenience. Instead, it gives people a religious dignity.

The Ark speculates that this may be related to the particular philosophy and aesthetics of the Coke civilization.

As a subject of sociology, it has to be said that this is a very interesting phenomenon that deserves further study. Unfortunately, however, the Ark was not a social scientist, so he quickly focused on something more worthy of his attention...

The meeting began soon.

Standing on the side of the hall with General Saynes, like two sculptures, merging with the guards beside him and the wall behind him, the ark waited quietly for about five minutes, and the consul sitting at the top of the conference table looked calmly at Dr. Ryan standing in front of the conference table and finally slowly opened his mouth.

“Are you Dr. Ryan? ”

Dr. Ryan said slightly, politely.

“Yes, distinguished consul. ”

“Recently there has been a rumor of an 'oracle' spreading around the world, and according to intelligence investigations, all the causes seem to come from you. ”

With a breathless sense of intimidation in his eyes, in an unquestionable tone, the high-powered Caviar continued, "I want to know why you're causing so much trouble to the Empire. ”

“Both Parliament and I, as well as the people of the Empire, need an explanation. ”

Faced with an overwhelming gaze from the floor, Dr. Ryan made his voice as calm and as humble as possible.

“I must correct your remarks, consul. ”

“First of all, 'the Oracle' is not a rumor, and our literature is facing an unprecedented crisis. Secondly, as a scholar, I am responsible for every point I make, and what I say is true. ”

There was a disturbing noise in the hall.

Except for those who sit at the top of the hierarchy, the vast majority of parliamentarians look at each other, whisper to each other, and even laugh from time to time.

Crisis?

If it had been three centuries ago, there might have been a market for this discourse, when the doomsday discourse would have been so arrogant.

But now that the circumferential world has been completed, the empire is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, and at the current rate of population growth, it is no surprise that this period of prosperity can last for centuries without any problems.

They have solved all the crises once and for all.

It would undoubtedly be rather ridiculous to move out of this discourse now.

The jaw lifted slightly, and the consul's face hung a slight funny smile. And he continued to say, "I don't know if that look in God's eyes is belittling, or is it simply looking at a funny joke?"

“So, Dr. Ryan, tell me, what exactly is your so-called crisis, your so-called alien rhetoric? ”

“Yes, and no. ”

A vague answer was given, looking at the consul's slightly wrinkled eyebrows, and Dr. Ryan explained what he had said.

“I am not sure if the crisis originated from them, but the causes of it all do relate to them. ”

Once again, there was a disturbing noise on the table.

Looking at the conference table, the scholar continued.

“It must be made clear, first of all, that our universe is not as lonely as we thought it would be, even if no trace of other civilizations were found within 500 light years, and that this does not mean that it is not 50,000 light years away. If you zoom in on the distance scale to the entire universe as a background, only we are special beings, but it's a very low probability coincidence. ”

Looking at Dr. Ryan, who spoke plainly from the stage, the consul said carelessly.

“This argument was popular many years ago and I'm not interested in discussing it with you here. Ten thousand steps back, even if they exist, but if, on the scale of time, we never meet them, what does it matter to us if they exist, whether they prosper or not? ”

Coke civilization is not an expansionist civilization.

Rather than expanding the boundaries of the empire outward, they are more keen on intra-ethnic unity and on increasing the cohesion of the empire. And that's why they were united early in the space age to create star-class mega-engineering projects like the ring world.

Alien civilization?

Although they had been passionate about intimate contact for the first time in the early space age, the tide was abandoned only at the end of the colonial space era.

In response to the consul's remarks, Dr. Ryan nodded in agreement with the venue and continued.

“Ideally, glorious isolation is a virtue and a wise choice, and we really don't need to talk to tens of thousands of light-year-olds… but the problem is that this time they contacted us on their own, not on our own. ”

The noise suddenly calmed down.

Just as the stereo was suddenly turned off, the whole hall was silent.

Finally, a slight surprise appeared in his eyes, and he exchanged his sights with the Speaker sitting next to him, and the consul continued to look down at Dr. Ryan, silently saying.

“Don't be alarmed! Where's your proof? ”

“I have set out my findings in a paper I published 127 light-days ago, but it is precisely because of this paper that I am in danger for my life… Thank General Sains and his Marines, if not them, I would have been sent by militant thugs and drones to see the Spirit of the Universe. ”

General Sains, standing at the corner of the conference room, responded politely with a slight heads-up.

“You're welcome, Dr. Ryan, your interests are protected by the Charter. Whether or not you end up facing a trial by law will not change that. ”

Nodded again to thank Dr. Ryan for his gaze on the table.

Responding to the gaze on himself from that path, he continued.

“For your convenience, I will now present my research again here. ”

He took a suitcase that had undergone a security procedure and removed a thumb-sized cuboid from it from a security guard beside him.

As his index finger gently pressed against the cubic body, the blue light emitted along the tip of the cubic vertebra, and the blue interlaced light painted a giant image in space.

Holographic projection?

The face of the ark revealed a colour of interest.

And bare-eyed holography, and touchable interactions!

Something. How did this happen?

He felt like a rural man who had just entered town and couldn't bear to be surprised to see anything for a while.

With the exception of the Ark, no one in the Chamber felt anything strange about the scene in front of them, but looked quietly at the unfolding image and waited for Dr. Ryan to continue.

“… we all know that there is a matter in this universe between black holes and neutron stars, which we call strange droplets. It is made up of upper and lower quarks and strange quarks, weighing tens of millions to hundreds of millions of tons just by the size of the rice particles. ”

Painted a small motion with an index finger and thumb ratio, Dr. Ryan continued.

“In order to study how to release the substance we need from the black hole, the study of strange droplets has been a frontier in physics research, and for some time now, we were fortunate enough to locate a strange droplet located 23,000 light years away through the analysis of gravitational waves...”

“And it's about the size… at least as big as this holographic pen in my hand. ”

Heard here, the face of the ark suddenly revealed a splendid colour.

Bizarre!

And it still exists in natural conditions!?

For the physics community of human civilization, "strange droplets” have always been a matter of conjecture… or state.

As far as the theory of existence is concerned, it can be traced back as far back as Witten's assumption in the 1980s that "a large chunk of bizarre quarks may be the bedrock of a powerful system”. As for its causes, there are also speculations such as early cosmic QCD phase changes, supernova eruptions, collisions with strange quark stars, and so on.

However, the conditions under which strange droplets exist are too harsh. Theoretically, its contact with any substance could lead to annihilation and release more terrifying energy than the annihilation of antimatter.

As a result, neither astrophysics nor the high-energy physics community has been able to find supporting evidence that they do exist.

The only assumption is that the total particle energy is above a very high cosmic ray of about 10 ^ 19eV and may contain a small number of strange droplets. However, you can see how hard this cosmic ray is to capture, and how hard it is to collect neutrinos that are "slightly cheaper”.

And now this Dr. Ryan, in a positive tone, “tells” him that there is a strange mass of droplets in this universe large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

If all of this were true, the entire geophysics community would be thrilled...

Thinking about it, the heart of the ark can't help but get excited.

However, this excitement did not last long.

Because he quickly thought that even if he knew that this strange substance existed, there seemed to be no way to prove it to others.

You can't take the game as evidence, can you?

He doesn't even know where this coke civilization is or where it is.

Thinking about it, the mood that the Ark had just gotten excited about, could not help but sink into depression.

It would be nice to be able to determine the exact coordinates of this strange droplet, or to get a complete observation technique.

But if you want to, this part of the memory shouldn't be included.

At most, he can only look at it...

“… Gentlemen, think about how excited we were at the time, a strange drip that was so big that it was visible to the naked eye, even in natural conditions! ”

“What's the point?” Looking at Dr. Ryan, an agitated congressman muttered, "Even the empire's most advanced scientific research vessel cannot reach 23,000 light-years away to investigate the situation there. ”

The voice of the phrase fell into Dr. Ryan's ear.

Looking at the senator, he spoke seriously.

“Any theory is useless when it's just been studied, but the key is… if we don't understand it, there's no way to make it useful. ”

“In short, the project that I am responsible for is to study this strange droplet. At first we thought it was stationary until, when we analyzed the gravitational waves, we got a series of soap bubbles that were separated from each other… it was not an abstract metaphor, but something that was intuitively reflected in the image. Do you know what that means? It means that the strange drip is really stationary on the concept of motion, but the concept of space is jumping towards the center of the galaxy along the hyperspace light path! ”

The consul coughed softly and said seriously.

“The point is, this is the Imperial Chamber, and we're not interested in your physics theory. ”

“… the point is that the later discovery directly reversed our earlier speculation,” Dr. Ryan Stone took the advice of the consul in a good way and went on to say with seriousness, "This strange drip is definitely not naturally formed. ”

“But there are other civilizations that made it. ”

“And the civilization that made it, I'm afraid, is much more advanced than ours. ”