Volume 5: Eternity Chapter 5 Imaginary Mass
The volcano erupted not only thick smoke, but also large balls of fierce light. Their light penetrated the thick smoke and could be seen clearly even from a long distance.
All of these were reproduced from the individuals that originally entered the crater.
"Give me the bracelet!"
Fang Cheng didn't hesitate and threw the metal ring directly in the direction of the sound.
The vibration of the floor became stronger and stronger, and it was difficult to stand on it. The large wardrobe next to the bed collapsed, and a tabby cat suddenly jumped out of it, but no one noticed it.
Before Fang Cheng had time to think, everything in front of him became pitch black.
But the darkness lasted for less than a second.
When he came to his senses, the shaking around him had completely stopped. He found that the study room in his sight was not arranged very neatly and seemed to be in the same style as during the Chinese New Year.
The heavy snow outside the window also confirms this.
"It seems you are right. There is much more snow here than at our school."
Ai Bishui was not as surprised as he was. She just slowly stood up from the bed and walked to the marble windowsill, supporting her chin with both hands on the stone sill.
"What is going on? Is this a parallel universe?"
"Pfft, do you really believe in the hypothesis of parallel universes?"
"No, I just said it casually... After all, there seems to be no other explanation... Unless we travel through time and space back to the past... But isn't this impossible in physics..."
He explained this logic in a discontinuous manner because he himself did not understand it.
Fang Cheng was also well aware that the parallel universe hypothesis had many problems, such as the problem of energy divergence that could not be solved. However, this concept had been used repeatedly in various novels and film and television works, which gave him a sense of familiarity.
This sense of familiarity gives people the illusion that "this thing might be real."
As an ordinary undergraduate student, his understanding of terms that seem very high-sounding at first glance, such as parallel universes, the technical theory of quantum mechanics, and the causal paradox, is only superior to that of ordinary people who have only read popular science books. The only advantage he has is that he has studied general relativity and quantum mechanics, although most of it is self-taught.
After all, if you really study these things, there is a high possibility that you won’t be able to find a job in the future.
"So we're really back in time now?"
"If I'm not mistaken, that should be it. It's probably the Chinese New Year now. By the way, do you have anything to eat at home now? I'm so hungry. I'll tell you after I'm full."
"I think there should be some... I'll look for it for you..."
When Fang Cheng went out to the living room, he deliberately glanced at the almanac. He should have been at his grandmother's house at this time last year, but now the house was empty.
He opened the door of the large refrigerator in the restaurant, and there were still a few Spanish mackerel dumplings left that he had not finished eating before leaving.
"Then let's cook this... there's still quite a bit left, it should be enough for one meal."
Fang Cheng poured out all the dumplings, thawed them out while boiling water. Then he turned around, took a few cloves of garlic from the shelf beside him and threw them into the mortar.
"Wow, you made it look like a ritual, even pounding garlic."
The girl next to him suddenly said something, and he realized that she was behind him.
"The water won't be turned on for a while anyway, so I'm just sitting there doing nothing..."
"Then don't you want to figure out why we can go back in time?"
As Fang Cheng was pounding the garlic, he gradually realized that his hands were shaking, and in the well-heated room it was obviously not because of the cold.
After calming down, he found that his heart was beating wildly, which was the result of the large amount of adrenaline secreted just now.
All this kept reminding him that he really came here from a thrilling future and was the "same" person as before.
At this moment, "Why can I go back to the past" is no longer the most important thing he wants to know. He is more curious about why the girl next to him can still be so at ease when the world is about to be destroyed?
She had been too calm from the very beginning, and when the monster was first born she seemed to have no fear of the imminent danger, as if she was not human and did not care about the fate of humans.
In fact, ever since he first saw the information about aliens and became convinced that there really were aliens in the world, he began to suspect whether there were already alien spies around him, and the first suspect was naturally the most abnormal person in his social circle.
In fact, for his overly small social circle, the existence of Ai Bishui greatly increased the variance, making him feel as if everyone he knew was more or less abnormal.
The iron pot in front of him began to bubble. Fang Cheng poked the dumplings that had been frozen hard with chopsticks and knew they were almost ready to be cooked.
"So... do you know how we got back to this time? How did you know?"
"The bracelet he gave you has the formula on it, and it's written in human language."
After all, the "writing" of aliens does not have to be words, and the so-called metal creatures, which are far beyond the understanding of earthlings, are even less likely to use symbols to express information.
"So why are they doing this..."
"I really don't know. Actually, it's not accurate to say that those symbols are formulas. They are more like the instruction manual for this thing. I just told you the principle by the way."
"Don't you think the aliens seem to have told us too much? Although they said at the beginning that we couldn't reveal too much information, they have been imparting knowledge to us through various opportunities..."
"Maybe they have their own purpose... I don't want to think about these issues."
Why don't you want to think about these things? They seem to be more important than physical problems.
"We can go back in time because this ring is not a means of transportation at all, but a conversion device."
"Isn't the term 'conversion device' a bit too general..."
"The ring can induce a transformation between tachyons and bradytons, which can first break the supersymmetry and then reconstruct it."
At this point, Fang Cheng began to not understand what was being said.
"It's like... boiling water in a pot for cooking dumplings. Water is a gas with broken symmetry. The symmetry is restored during the boiling process, but when the water vapor condenses, the symmetry is broken again and turns into white mist."
"So normally the symmetry between tachyons and bradyons is always broken. Through some kind of excitation energy, the bradyons that make up our bodies are transformed into tachyons, and then the tachyons 'float' over and gradually condense into bradyons?"
"It's not that simple..."
