Chapter 571: Chapter 564: A New Level of the Dark Forest Strike_1
Cheng Xin and Ai AA looked incredulously at Guan Yifan.
Guan Yifan asked the two to sit on the grass, and he laughed, "I was also shocked when I heard the news.
"I only found out through some public information that around about 120 years in the Milky Way, I forgot the exact year because I was in hibernation at that time.
"Around 120 years in the Milky Way, the Solar System State conducted the sixth 'shattering experiment' on the two-dimensional Solar System and achieved complete success.
"The two-dimensional fragment, which was already over 20,000 astronomical units in size, was compressed to zero dimensions in just a few minutes.
"Then, under the distortion of gravitational weapons, this tiny zero-dimension—which, to the universe, has an extremely small mass—
"Even though the entire mass of the Solar System was compressed to an infinitesimally small point, it was too small to reach the scale required for an explosion.
"So gravitational weapons were used to distort this zero-dimension space, and then it underwent a big bang!"
Cheng Xin said, "This, this is too fantastical. Does it mean we have mastered the theory of the big bang? Then humanity, humanity, could control the entire universe?"
Guan Yifan shook his head, "The big bang theory was our, oh, our universe model from our younger years. With the Solar System State's research on other dimensions becoming more profound, the theory that the three-dimensional universe came from the big bang has been overturned."
Ai AA seemed to have guessed something, but she still asked, "What is the latest universe model now?"
Guan Yifan also sat next to the two, "What would happen in the distant future if the expansion of the two-dimensional fragment attacking the solar system never stopped?"
Ai AA's expression became somewhat somber, "The entire universe would become two-dimensional!"
Guan Yifan nodded, "According to the latest research by the Solar System State, if the technique of safely falling into two-dimensions is not mastered, then all three-dimensional matter that passively falls into two-dimensional space will turn into two-dimensional fundamental particles.
"The vast majority of mass will enter the micro high-dimensional spaces, and the future two-dimensional space will be much lighter than the three-dimensional space."
Cheng Xin, who had been listening quietly, seemed to have an epiphany, "The universe is constantly expanding, so the force that causes the expansion of the universe is not the tension from the big bang, but rather the process of falling from four dimensions to three dimensions?"
Guan Yifan nodded, "Yes, the big bang's tension hypothesis has a fatal flaw—the universe is too symmetrical.
"Logically, if the universe originated from a big bang, then most of the matter should be on the outer edges of the universe, which does not match with what we have observed.
"At least we haven't observed that the universe has large-scale voids.
"However, experts from the scientific academy estimate that the initial formation of the universe did indeed come from a big bang, but the formation of lower-dimensional universes after that would have to utilize the dimensional fall theory."
Cheng Xin nodded, she had not used the expansion theory to explain the relative uniformity of the universe because she realized that what she had learned when she was young was outdated.
Every change in the universe model brought about a revolution in fundamental theory, it's not that the previous theories were wrong, but that the previous conclusions were correct, it's just that the explanations were wrong.
So previous theories were all dubbed "classical."
Guan Yifan continued on the topic of the solar system, "The big bang is a theory invented by the physical forefathers of humanity, and now we have discovered that it is also a kind of weapon used by advanced civilizations."
Ai AA seemed disbelieving, "A weapon?"
Then she sighed, "Yes, there is no more malicious weapon than this, it's like turning everything within a range into zero dimensions, and then unleashing an explosion that basic particles can hardly survive.
"This is like a millstone of civilization, no matter how colossal a civilization is, whether it has entered into two dimensions or not, it will be ground down into a powder more fundamental than fundamental particles!"
"This is just one of its uses," Guan Yifan added. "Some scholars from the Academy of Sciences believe that the center of the Milky Way is a massive zero-dimensional space set by an advanced civilization.
"Unlike the center of a black hole, which at least has the Schwarzschild radius, a zero-dimensional space, no matter how massive it is, lacks physical volume and dimensions in the three-dimensional sense.
"However, its gravity does exist, and the greater the mass, the stronger the gravity."
Ai AA was somewhat puzzled. "Why would an advanced civilization place such a massive zero-dimensional space at the center of the Milky Way?"
Guan Yifan sighed, "You haven't experienced interstellar wars, so you don't have a deep understanding of the Dark Forest theory."
He said, "Have you ever considered that the Milky Way might have been formed around that massive zero-dimensional space to begin with?"
Cheng Xin and Ai AA were once again rendered speechless, as if in the blink of an eye, the universe had become completely different from what they knew.
Guan Yifan continued, "The closer the stars in the Milky Way are to the center, the closer they are to each other.
"This caused three striking effects. The most direct effect is that the massive zero-dimensional space reduces the dimensions of the surrounding planetary systems and absorbs them into the zero-dimensional space.
"The second strike is that as some planetary systems draw closer and begin to attract each other, they merge into new planetary systems, but this process is a catastrophe for planets.
"A planet from one planetary system is likely to collide with a celestial body from another system, and regardless of whether the masses are comparable or one has a significantly greater mass, at least one planet will be shattered into asteroids.
"Even if a planet collides with a large asteroid, a civilization without the capability of interstellar travel is likely to perish in such a natural disaster.
"Not to mention that in the early formation of a new planetary system, the attraction between two stars presents a significant chance of them falling into each other.
"The third strike is that as the distance between planetary systems decreases, civilizations capable of interstellar travel are more likely to encounter each other, increasing the probability of interstellar wars breaking out."
Cheng Xin and company were silent for a long time, never having imagined that the center of the Milky Way, always considered a natural phenomenon, could harbor such a malicious intent.
Guan Yifan then said, "One piece of evidence for this hypothesis is the number of planetary systems in the Milky Way.
"There are eight planets and many dwarf planets orbiting around the Solar System, and although Jupiter and Saturn have many moons, there are only a few large ones.
"By that logic, the Solar System should be orbiting a much larger planetary system along with a dozen or more systems of similar size.
"For instance, Sirius, which is only a little over eight light-years away from the Solar System, is five times the size of our system, and within a dozen or so light-years around it, it is the largest.
"The key is that Sirius is more than twenty times as luminous as the Sun, which means it consumes its energy more than twenty times faster than the Sun.
"Millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago, it might have been much larger than the Sun.
"Without the Milky Way black hole, could the Solar System have been orbiting Sirius?
"Yet what we observe is a billion stars orbiting around a central point, which is quite abrupt.
"It's like an army that has only squads and platoons, and then jumps directly to the army level; it doesn't seem rational."
In conclusion, Guan Yifan said, "Although the arrangement at the center of the Milky Way doesn't have as big an impact as the Dark Forest Strikes that change the speed of photons by a god-level civilization,
"if the billions of planetary systems were to develop civilizations, all would be affected by this arrangement.
"It is clear that to suppress those who come after them, god-level civilizations have their methods, and advanced civilizations have theirs."