I wrote it for about a year, during which it was more laborious to consult the data and check the physical knowledge. At present, some publishing houses have been invested, and the feedback they give is that they can be published but it takes 20,000-50,000 publishing fees and 2 years. One is that I am poor, and the other is that I am busy with game development and I have shelved this novel. Later, I thought, anyway, it is also put away, it is better to go. I remember a sentence by Liu Xinwu (a scholar of the Red Chamber), "Although the moss rice flower is small, it also learns to bloom peony." ”
Under the long-winded, I often listened to the background music when I wrote: "Horror News Mystery", "S.T.A.Y" interstellar soundtrack, "Dust" interstellar soundtrack. Friends who are interested in it also like suspense science fiction may wish to listen and watch. [Yawn]
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Chapter 1: Rays from the Kuiper Belt
It had rained for a few days in a row, and today it was finally sunny. The wind gently swayed a few beads of tall crooked-necked trees, and in the shade of the trees, the black marble graves were layered and arranged in a neat and simple manner.
Today is the death day of Yu Ming's mother, and his wife Ran Yiyang came alone to worship. Dressed in black, his face is kind and elegant. This is the ninth year of my mother's death. As last year, she brought four chrysanthemums, two white and two yellow. After walking straight down a lazy slope and then turning right, it is in front of my mother's grave.
When she walked there she found that someone had already come. Chrysanthemum petals are scattered on the side, and in front of the low tombstone is placed an old elm picture frame, which is a group photo, which is the wedding photo of Yu Ming's parents in the early years, and the wedding photos of that era are only slightly neatly dressed. There are no tribute fruits and tributes in front of the tomb.
She saw a man not far away, with his elbows propped up in a granite parapet looking into the distance, now with his back to her.
After hearing the noise, the man turned back and collided with Ran Yiyang's line of sight. She looked at it for a while before she recognized—it was Yu Ming's father—Yu Yudong. After his mother's death, Yu Ming and his father had no contact, and the meeting was almost ten years ago. Yu Yudong was a former criminal investigator, and just after he was promoted to the level of the department and bureau, he was implicated because he acted as an umbrella for a certain group. It was no coincidence that the municipal party committee had just changed the team at the time of the incident, and the bureau insisted on confirming him, and this entry was seven years.
“... Yiyang? Yu Yudong opened his mouth first, and there was a hint of surprise.
Ran Yiyang buried his head in front of the tombstone to sort out the chrysanthemum petals, this question was a little overwhelmed, did not know whether to answer, did not know how to answer. I could only turn around and nod awkwardly.
Yu Yudong has been released from prison for two years. In the past two years, Poverty and illness have been mixed, although the body was hard in the early years, but after all, it has reached the age. The gloomy and resolute face is covered with gray stubble, which can be seen that he was quite tall before, but now his back is gradually a little hunched, and he can't help but reveal some of the conditions of the next life.
He stepped forward with the smoke, "Do the math, Xie (xie) Lin has been dead for ten years, and today is the day of death." ”
Ran Yiyang nodded slightly, and whispered, "Taili is too busy, Yu Ming can't come." As he spoke, he busied himself with arranging the offerings.
"Are you all right?" Ji Yu should be in junior high school. Ji Woo is his grandson.
"Yes, all right, what about you?"
"That's it." Yu Yudong revealed a bitter smile, and his voice was old.
...
The two chatted for a few words, Yu Yudong originally did not want to mention it again, several times the words came to his mouth, and finally he plucked up the courage to ask the question he had always wanted to ask Youming.
"After I came out, I didn't contact Youming. I'd love to know, why..." His throat groaned, "Why is Xie Lin like this?" He calmly asked at this moment what had happened ten years ago.
After Yu Yudong was arrested, his wife suddenly died one night, and he still has no idea what happened.
Ran Yiyang buried his head in self-care and looked at the ground, not daring to look at Yu Yudong's gaze, only silently shaking his head, and his lips were closed unconsciously.
It is not convenient for Yu Yu to see this and ask questions.
When he learned of his wife's death, Yu Yudong had just entered the detention center and had not even gone to prison, and it was the lawyer who came to tell him the news. Until he was released from prison, Yu Ming did not come to see him, even after he was released from prison, they did not meet. The estrangement between him and Yu Ming is sandwiched between his wife's death, which is an irreparable rift. He actually guessed that his own affairs killed his wife, so he didn't want to go to Yu Ming again.
Seeing that Ran Yiyang was overwhelmed, Yu Yudong patted her shoulder with his heavy palm and then picked up the picture frame in front of the tombstone and walked away from the lazy slope.
A gust of wind blew, Ran Yiyang felt a chill, she looked at the back of her father leaving, and then thought of the night her mother jumped from the twenty-second floor, sadness and pain suddenly struck.
* * *
Yu Ming had just arrived at the observatory to go back to the office to deal with something, and when he reached the third floor aisle, he was greeted by a colleague.
"I'm looking for you." The colleague bowed to the deputy director's office.
Yu Ming winked at him and went straight to the deputy director's office and knocked twice on the door.
"Enter!" Yu Ming then pushed open half the door and leaned inward, "Shen Yuan, looking for me?" asked.
Shen Fang, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in early 2000, is currently the deputy director of the Shanghai Radio Astronomical Observatory and the director of the VLBI Research Office.
Shen Fang wore a beige shirt with some rolled bangs, looking like an academic style. The Astrophysical Journal Newsletter was on top of a pile of materials, and was casually flipping through it, when someone came in, "Come on, did you see this issue?" A related problem was solved, involving the study of the origin of 'cosmic rays'. ”
"This issue only came out yesterday, and it's not too late." Yu Ming saw Astrophysics on the table.
Yu Ming wears a black tennis shirt with a collar and brown slacks and a top. Three or seven heads, with a pair of glasses, tall and tall, about forty years old, Sven face. Twenty years ago, Yu Ming graduated from the School of Physics and Astronomy of Shanghai Jiaotong University and is currently the director of the Radio Astronomy and Technology Research Office of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with the title of Senior Engineer.
"Observational data is still not needed to fully determine the composition of the particles rotating around this region, especially the radiation characteristics." Shen Yuan gestured to the seat in front of the desk, signaling Yu Ming to sit down.
Yu Ming pulled open the chair in front of Shen Yuan's desk and sat down, ready to put his briefcase next to it, but it was full of books. Shen Yuan gestured again, signaling that it didn't matter, although it was put.
"Well, it's true that there are still doubts about where those energetic particles are being accelerated," he said as he put his briefcase down, "and we can only pinpoint the accelerated region of the particles with gamma rays of the highest band." ”
Two days ago, fast Sky Eye (currently located in Guizhou's giant radio telescope) intercepted a beam of high-energy rays with an energy of up to 3.6 beats of electron volts. At present, the National Astronomical Observatory and the Space Administration still maintain confidentiality measures on this matter, and the astronomers and physicists involved in it are only the top executives of the observatories.
"Now they [the observatory experts] are still ruling out, and they directly destroyed two detectors." Shen Fang sighed, "It is said that... According to the lens (gravitational lensing effect), there may be a small, very massive black hole in the Kuiper Belt! The rays were spewing out from there. ”
This high-energy ray jet destroyed two probes in the Kuiper Belt.
"How small?" Yu Ming's brow frowned slightly.
"The Schwarzschild radius is calculated down... Only five kilometers in size. Shen Fang showed an unconvincing expression, "Even I don't believe it myself..." Then he shook his head slightly, "It's really in the Kuiper belt." ”
The Kuiper Belt is the edge of the solar system, where it is impossible for an extreme celestial body capable of spewing out such a huge amount of energy rays. If so, then that object is at least a hundred million times the mass of the Sun, and would certainly disturb the orbits of the planets of the Solar System. To put it bluntly, the solar system will definitely be destroyed!
"Not quite right," Yu Ming muttered with a furrowed brow, "it's not unlikely." The hand unconsciously covered the stubble.
"If there were really black holes in the solar system we would have discovered them a long time ago." Shen Fang sighed and said, "By the way, you will go to Tianyan (Guizhou) tomorrow, the National Astronomical Observatory and the Institute of High Energy Physics have come down with twenty places, and we are going to set up a special group, and we have two places for you to go to the most suitable place." ”
"Then I have to take Wu Bin with me."
"Who, Wu Bin?" Shen Fang was puzzled.
Wu Bin is a relative of Mrs. You Ming, after graduation want to develop in Shanghai, also happens to be a major in astrophysics, ten years ago after graduating from Xihua Normal University, Yu Ming spent some effort to get him into the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, now the title is associate researcher, responsible for code and field observation and other related work.
"Well, he has studied the energy spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays relatively deeply, and I can't do this one." Yu Ming said, "The minimum resolution baseline of the M87 black hole in the last joint operation was what he contributed, just the name of the genus. ”
"Okay, but go as your assistant, he certainly can't take the spot." If there is a paper to be published at that time, the name cannot have him, this is no way. Shen Fang said.
Among Yu Ming's academic contributions in recent years, some technical achievements do come from Wu Bin, but he uses them in his papers and academic reports.
"Shen Yuan, in fact, have you ever thought about it..." Yu Ming asked, "This beam of radiation doesn't look like it is naturally generated?" ”
Shen Fang smiled bitterly, "Oh, you're not the only one who asks me like this." Just thinking about what this work can do is not yet to be carried out. Now the most concerned above is not the source problem but the impact problem! You know that with such strong energy, the Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere will not be able to withstand it sooner or later. ”
In fact, all kinds of rays in the universe bombard the earth all the time, but they are filtered out by the magnetic field and the atmosphere, and the components of the rays that enter the atmosphere, such as γ (gamma), protons and other stable nuclei, will react with the nuclei in the air, there is no harm, but if the intensity is too large, it is difficult to say, and even cause damage to the human body directly damage DNA.
"Given the harmfulness, sooner or later the news will be released." Shen Fang then said, "You have arranged to pass tomorrow, and I will have a meeting now." He looked at the computer and it looked like a remote meeting.
Yu Ming squeezed out a smile, "Thank you for the recognition of the Taiwan leaders for giving me such an opportunity, I do my best." ”
Shen Fang laughed wittily, "This is the first time in human history that an alien signal has been intercepted!" "With a half-joking tone.
…
Yu Ming thanked him again and again and returned to his office.
Just after getting off the elevator, I saw Lai Ying standing in the doorway of his office waiting for him in the aisle. Lai Ying is less than forty, the smell of perfume from bee waist and shoulders and hair fills the surroundings, and it is very eye-catching to paint heavy makeup to work in such a scientific research unit. She is currently employed in the General Security Department and has been divorced for several years.
Yu Ming glanced at Lai Ying, saw that he pushed the door into the office with anger on his face, signaled Lai Ying to go first, then closed the door, hung the briefcase on the hanger and pulled his face, "What's the matter?" The tone was somewhat disgusted.
"When exactly did you move in?" Or that's the problem.
Yu Ming immediately appeared with a confused look, "Ying Zi, I have very important things to do during this time, and I don't have time to deal with these." Give me some time, okay? I promise you I'll do it. ”
"Ahem! I'm going to raise the branches, and I can handle it! Lai Ying said without anger, "I didn't give you a compromise solution, you first moved to my place to live." It doesn't matter if you get married slowly. ”
"Alas..." Yu Ming sighed deeply, "It's not like this sentence to leave...."
Yu Ming and Lai Ying got on well two years ago, when both sides had their own families.
"What about me?" She asked very quickly, "I said I would leave!" Suddenly, tears fell, "Your property is all given to Ran Yiyang, you can just get out of the house." "Say it crisply.
Yu Ming saw Lai Ying in tears and coaxed and hugged, and Lai Ying slipped into Yu Ming's arms. Yu Ming kept saying,"Okay, all right..."
Then suddenly someone came in.
Wu Bin opened the door halfway and slammed the doorknob against it. In fact, Wu Bin already knew the relationship between the two of them, after all, he was Yu Ming who single-handedly entered the observatory, and the title of hiring an associate researcher, Yu Ming, also helped a lot, and it was not related to himself, there was no need to destroy his sister's family, so nothing happened.
Wu Bin was about thirty years old, with long hair that was a little greasy, wearing ordinary short-sleeved shorts and a pair of sandals. At the moment, he looked anxious.
The two of them looked a little embarrassed, and quickly separated, Lai Ying turned his back to Wu Bin, sorted out his face, brushed his hair with his hand, and used it to block his face and walked out quickly with his head down.
The sudden intrusion made Yu Ming a little embarrassed and slightly unpleasant, "How not to knock on the door!" An ass sat in an office chair, "What's the matter?" ”
Wu Bin gently closed the door and locked it back, with a panicked face, "Someone came to check on me today!" ”
Things were a little sudden, Yu Ming stared at him for a few seconds, and his mind was racing with memories. "Who...? Discipline Inspection Commission? Patrol group? ”
"I don't know," shook his head, "it's not like that either." Just 1 hour ago, I suddenly rushed to my position, told me not to move, and then took all the project information away. ”
"..."Yu Mingleng was in place.
"The computers are gone." Wu Bin continued, "But it didn't bother me, just tell me to go to work as usual these days." Feel.... It's not like it's aimed at me. Maybe the above (observatory leaders) don't know this matter yet, otherwise it wouldn't be so simple..." After saying that, he stared directly at Yu Ming.
He immediately understood that Wu Bin's meaning was aimed at him. In his early years, one of his anti-gravity papers, Magnetic Unipolar Particles and Superconductors, was included in the Tsinghua Journal of Circumlunar Physics and won national patents and awards. For decades, Yu Ming has been deeply studying anti-gravity theory, and in the name of the Shanghai Observatory, he has received several project funds from the State-owned Assets Ran (National Natural Science Foundation), but there is a considerable theoretical content that is repetitive, and Yu Ming seems to have been deliberately stuck in the progress of the project, never coming up with anti-gravity prototypes, Wu Bin also suspected that he was deliberately arbitrage of state-owned project funds, after all, this state lasted for several years.
“... Is all project information? Yu Ming stood up and asked in a low voice.
Wu Bin was already in a state of nervousness, and when asked by this question, he himself panicked and could not say a word. Judging from his expression, it was obvious that all the information had been taken away.
Yu Ming thought for a while, and his forehead began to sweat slightly. "What about the accounts with the outsourcing company?"
Outsourcing companies are designated as affiliates with the core personnel of the project, in order to avoid some legal issues, the project controller usually provides an account as a funding channel.
"Take it away..." The voice was so small that only Wu Bin himself could hear it.
Yu Ming stared at the ceiling with a sigh, as if it were a relief. Wu Bin bit his lip and looked blankly out the window.
Slowly, Yu Ming opened his mouth: "Don't panic, it's just a routine inspection, if there is really anything, it is impossible to let you go easily." We are engaged in scientific research, not fraud. The theory and foundation of the project are still there, and the failure of scientific research cannot be regarded as a fraud, right? It is impossible for scientists to return the money spent, right? So who would dare to do scientific research? ”
"The last accounts of the outsourcing companies are all traced..." Wu Bin still said in that tone.
Yu Ming didn't panic at all, "Even if they are looking at us, they don't have any evidence to show that there is a problem with the project for the time being." Instead, he said with relief, "Anti-gravity is originally a scientific exploration, the most cutting-edge scientific exploration!" Does something that has not been proven mean that we are fake? It's all right, rest assured, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Wu Bin had a helpless expression, like holding back some complaints. But after all, the person in front of him was the one who single-handedly put him into the observatory and let him gain a firm foothold in Shanghai, and he did not dare to be reckless.
"Of course I know the truth.... Ming brother. ”
...
A moment of silence brought the atmosphere down to a freezing point.
Wu Bin kept shaking his feet, looking like he couldn't hold back, and said boldly: "Funds... Funding loopholes are large. I carefully calculated the equipment and laboratory, and there was a gap of more than 20 million..."
"That's it!" Yu Ming held out his hand to interrupt him, "I know how to deal with it. ”
Wu Bin was drunk, somewhat overwhelmed, "That... What should I do now? ”
"Go to work as usual!" Yu Ming drank again.
After a moment, Yu Ming knew that he was a little out of shape, and pretended to cough twice, "Cough. There is another thing, tomorrow I will go to Tianyan with me, there will be. ”
Wu Bin nodded innocently, turned around and was about to open the door.
"Your sister told you to come to the house for dinner, when not to be busy?" Yu Ming also felt that the tone just now was slightly heavier.
...
At this time, his phone rang, and it was Fang Shixin, director of the Communication Room of the Sky Eye (Radio Telescope). Adjusting his mood, Yu Ming picked up the phone, but his mind was still on what had just happened.
"Hey, old Fang, hmmm... Yes, me and Wu Bin. ”
"After you get to Guiyang, go to the office to pick up the bus, and I've already booked the ticket for you." New words came from the other end of the phone.
"Well, that's trouble."
"By the way, what's that... Will you have two places on your desk this time? Fang Shixin asked.
"Yes, I've only just heard about it.."
"The quota is also too tight. By the way, LHAASO was also intercepted. Fang Shixin said. The LHAASO observatory in Daocheng, Sichuan Province, also intercepted the high-energy ray.
"Oh?" Yu Ming didn't seem to be interested.
"Now I'm observing 3.6 beats," laughs the other end of the phone, "that's weird!" Kuiper brought nothing! Even the energy acceleration caused by the 'ultra-high-energy cosmic accelerator' has a limit, at most near the electron volt of 1 o'clock. ”
"Isn't it temporarily identified as a black hole?" Yu Ming muttered absently.
Indeed, black holes are most likely to form an 'ultra-high-energy cosmic accelerator', which refers to a mechanism for producing rays, not a device. At that time, the radiation of the Virgo M87 black hole jet covered the entire electromagnetic wave from radio waves to gamma rays, and the huge gravitational force drove the powerful jet, causing it to travel far and wide at nearly the speed of light.
"Oh, black hole!" Fang Shixin on the other end of the phone sneered, "Astronomers are also human beings, so they have to find some reason." The implication is that it can never be a black hole, "The key is that it is in the solar system!" Suddenly Fang Shixin began to be serious, "This is not a joke." ”
"Wait a minute..." Yu Mingmuran replied.
"This could really be an extraterrestrial signal." Fang Shixin thought for a while on the other end of the phone and said.
He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics at Nanjing University, and for astronomers, discovering the unknown in the universe is their biggest excitement, so most of them believe that there is an extraterrestrial civilization in the universe. But this kind of belief stays at the level of reason, it is a selective belief, to put it bluntly, it is not a conviction.
If the outer civilization is really close, the most panicked should be them, because they are afraid because they understand.
"Let's see." Yu Ming said heavily, the other party's new words did not arouse any interest, and his attention was all on what had just happened.
Fang Shixin felt the other party's absence through the phone and changed the topic. "By the way, why did Wu Bin come this time?" He's not going to take a spot. ”
"Shen Yuan means black hole." Yu Ming took the phone and said, "The minimum resolution baseline of the last M87 joint operation was Wu Bin lane. I want to form polarization imaging through the estimation model of the material at the edge of the black hole, which is not possible without Wu Bin. ”
"That's right, too."
Without saying a few words, the two hung up the phone. When it was time to leave work, Yu Ming sent a text message to his wife Ran Yiyang: "On duty today, don't wait." Then hurriedly left the office, and Ran Yiyang replied to the text message "Pay attention to rest" and did not look at it.
On the morning of the same day, a strange and strange thing happened in Pingtang County, Guiyang.