Volume 4: Spacetime Singularity Chapter 6 A Boson
Ai Bishui slowly fell from the air, and the appearance of the large group of monsters underground became more and more real. In the increasingly clear vision, she could see that the original individual in the center was still twisting violently, as if the replication process was still continuing.
As an unarmed ordinary person, she can no longer think of any means to prevent the replication. Perhaps she needs to investigate the replication mechanism carefully.
The mother giving birth below looked completely different from when she first saw it. Its color had changed from metallic black to a warm dark red. The air around it was also steaming violently as it vibrated, indicating that the temperature around it was quite high.
In fact, this is true. If she had a pair of infrared glasses at this time, she would only see pure white in her field of vision.
She discovered that the newly cloned individuals were not slowly "spitted out" from the mother's body as she had expected, like the birth of carbon-based organisms on Earth, but were violently fired from the inside of the original individual like the laser cannon shells commonly seen in science fiction movies.
The newly born second-generation individuals looked like balls of light from a distance. They slowly cooled down as they flew through the air, and finally turned into the same dim color as when they were first seen the night before yesterday.
When she was observing from high in the sky just now, she misjudged the speed of the launch because the distance was too far. After getting closer, she found that they were actually flying quite fast, at least much faster than the takeoff speeds of the planes she had seen at the airport before, but she didn't know whether they exceeded the speed of sound.
When she got closer, she was able to carefully observe the body shape of the monster "cub" on the ground. As expected, it also had the same complex fractal pattern as the one she had seen on the mother body before. If you don't look closely, all the patterns seem to be exactly the same, and it is difficult to distinguish different individuals through them.
Well, that makes sense; fractals of the same type should look the same.
At this moment, she recalled the abnormal movement speed before, and now it seemed to make sense. The newly generated individual did not swim over from the sea, but was launched out in a directed manner by the mother body.
But what is the force that launches it? Is it the electromagnetic cannon? Or some other interaction?
While she was thinking about this question, her altitude had dropped to less than one thousand meters. The outline of the monster in front of her became clearer and clearer. It looked like a large pool of boiling hot porridge, reflecting a light blue color under the sky filled with rolling auroras, and seemed to be emitting a faint glow.
In fact, if you observe in the dark, the light radiated during the copying process is very strong, but now the brightness of the ambient light is too high.
Although it is not yet dawn, the entire Earth's atmosphere is already illuminated by the electromagnetic radiation from the ionized nitrogen, making it as bright as day. From a microscopic perspective, the electrons outside the nitrogen atoms are constantly jumping under the stimulation of the ionizing radiation in the environment, and emit photons when they return to the ground state.
In other words, the Earth's atmosphere itself has become a giant fluorescent tube, except that without continuous energy input, its brightness continues to decay over time.
However, this scene did not surprise Ai Bishui. She was more interested in the physical mechanism of the replication process. After a closer look, she ruled out the possibility of an electromagnetic cannon, because the protozoan did not seem to have a "track" for acceleration. The launch was more likely caused by some kind of "explosion", just like the firing of a gun.
She remembered a setting in an anime she had seen before, where a high school girl could make a coin generate a huge acceleration by moving her fingers. How big a magnetic field would that require? Wouldn't it attract all the surrounding metal structures to her? Or was it that she had some kind of electromagnetic shielding built into her?
Maybe the author of the comic didn't consider these things at all. To be honest, he probably didn't understand them at all. After all, based on other plots, the author even confuses objects in the world of thought with objects in the real world. Pythagoras' coffin would be unable to hold it down.
But since there is magic in that story, we can't expect too much from the science.
Although the boundary between magic and science itself is very vague, any sufficiently advanced technology is no different from magic in the eyes of those who do not understand its principles.
When she came back to her senses from her thoughts, she realized that she was only a few hundred meters away from the monster. Although she was wrapped in the aircraft and could not feel the temperature it emitted, she could clearly feel the waves of heat from the shaking of the air.
She stared at the monster in front of her, and a crazy idea flashed through her mind.
If I bump into it myself, can I stop its replication process?
This thought only lasted for less than a second before it was rejected. Firstly, the impact might not cause much damage. Secondly, according to previous experience, the surface ring would pass directly through the middle of its body and there would be no chance of collision.
Although she still doesn't understand the mechanism of passing through.
Observer No. 1 stopped what he was doing, and Observer No. 2 seemed to sense that he was not in a good mood.
It's not necessarily that he looked worried, but from the information emanating from the air, one could sense that his mood had changed from excitement to nervousness.
“Is this a missed opportunity?”
"Hmm... I didn't catch it. I can see that it has started to replicate itself."
"So, for the sake of caution, do we need to designate the entire area around this star system as a quarantine zone in advance? Is it too early?"
The area where the solar system is located is too far away from the center of civilization. If an uncontrollable situation really arises, the cost of reinforcement will be extremely high, and the two of them cannot afford such consequences.
“This is too exaggerated.”
"According to my judgment, we should at least activate the space weapons now."
"Well, we can determine the coordinates and calibrate them first. But before that, I need to go to Planet No. 3 again. "
"You want to relocate and protect carbon-based organisms? Have you found a suitable target planet for them?"
"Well, it's about four light years away from here. We can only call the headquarters for assistance."
Tsk, this is screwed.
"Have you seen the replication process of the protozoa on this planet? What kind? Is there any threat?"
"At present, it seems to be a phase transition type. Negative entropy is generated through continuous energy input. During the replication process, the state of the system will go through multiple metastable states in a very short period of time. Each time a metastable state is reached, a 'bubble' will be generated, and the 'seeds' are thrown out through these bubbles."
"Is that A boson inside the bubble?"
"It should be."
"That means...he is one of our kind?"
“But I can’t communicate with him…”
"Don't forget that the human rights of your own people are above all else. Even if we can't communicate, we can't forcibly wipe them out as we imagined before."
"Um……"
"Did you discover the A boson in his body a long time ago?? "
"……Yes."
