Genius Club.

Chapter 551 Negative

Chapter 551 Negative
If we want to put ourselves in Einstein's perspective, we must of course use the equipment and explosion video of that time.

But it’s too long ago.

The black-and-white cathode ray tube television and the video of the world's first hydrogen bomb explosion are certainly gone.

However, snow noise can still be easily reproduced.

"I see."

Lin Xian also understood:
"The CRT itself is susceptible to signal interference, which causes snow and noise on the screen; not to mention that when filming a hydrogen bomb explosion, the radiation and rays will hit the video tape, leaving dense, crackling white snow spots."

"But...what does this mean? What did you understand from this phenomenon?"

Chen Heping waved his hand:

"This cannot be explained in words. Come with me!"

……

Liu Feng's physical condition did not allow him to go out, so after placing him on the hospital bed, Lin Xian followed Chen Heping to the laboratory without stopping.

There is a large TV here, which is not showing the scene of hydrogen bomb explosion, but a video with [snow noise] in a continuous loop.

Lin Xian was very familiar with this kind of signal interference. When he was a child, the TV at his grandfather's house was often like this. When there was no channel, there was snow, and when there was a channel, there was also snow, which greatly affected his eyesight.

Same now.

Following Chen Heping's instructions, Lin Xian stared at the TV screen full of snow. His eyes were very tired and he shed tears several times.

But Chen Heping reminded him several times:

"Don't close your eyes, just keep looking, stare straight at it."

Lin Xian had no choice but to obey.

The screen is covered with rustling white noise, which covers the entire picture. Only some black spots not covered by white spots can be seen sporadically, but the proportion of white noise is at least over 95%.

Just like that, after staring at the fluorescent white noise for half an hour, Lin Xian really felt blind...

This is no different than looking directly into the sun, and can cause severe retinal burns.

Even if he closed his eyes now, Lin Xian could still see the remaining snowflakes; not to mention opening his eyes, his normal vision was completely blocked, and the light spots left on his retina made him unable to see anything clearly, and everything he saw was covered with a layer of white snowflake noise.

"Are you ready?"

After Chen Heping confirmed it, he pulled open the curtains and pointed at the starry sky outside the window:

"Come on, Lin Xian! Come and see the starry sky outside!"

Lin Xian blinked his almost blinding eyes, came to the bedside, and looked out at the stars in the dark night sky:
"What's so good about these stars? Just now--"

suddenly.

Lin Xian opened his eyes wide and was stunned.

A normal starry sky must be a black background with white highlights.

The black part is the cosmic background, and the white bright spots are the light emitted by distant stars.

But now!
Because his retina was burned by the white screen of the TV, he saw——

【White cosmic background, black stars! 】

It's a very magical experience, an optical illusion...

"【Negative of the Universe.】"

Lin Xian said softly.

Black becomes white and white becomes black, just like the film in an old-fashioned camera; all the colors are reversed and inverted.

on the contrary……

reverse……

In an instant, Lin Xian's thoughts were opened.

If, everything becomes negative.

The black night turns to white,

White stars turned black,

The expansion of the universe turns into collapse,

Time flows forward and then backward.

Galaxies are reversing, stars are cooling, this is the end of the universe! The entire universe will be destroyed!
At the same time, since everything is the opposite, doesn't that mean...

[The largest becomes the smallest, and the smallest becomes the largest?! ]

"Yes! It's the negative of the universe!"

Chen Heping was extremely excited:
"Lin Xian, you can see it too, right? If everything is reversed, then the smallest is the largest and the largest is the smallest!"

"So this is the meaning of 42. If we can find the smallest unit of the universe, it means we have found the largest universe!"

Lin Xian rubbed his chin:

"However, this clue cannot directly help us solve the problem of the world-destroying white light. Once a negative image appears in the universe, it will be a reversal of everything and the end of everything. The universe will collapse in reverse and become the original singularity."

"[Perhaps we can destroy the entire universe by triggering a cosmic negative, but we cannot solve this world-destroying white light alone.]"

Huh?
Lin Xian suddenly reacted.

Destroy the universe by reversing everything?

wrong!

There is a way!
There is a way! !

He narrowed his eyes and looked up at the sky again.

at this time.

His retinal burns had healed, and looking at the boundless starry sky, it was still the black background with white stars, which seemed exceptionally beautiful at this moment.

"Tell me, how many advanced civilizations in this universe are paying attention to us?"

"It shouldn't be too much."

Chen Heping shook his head:

"The Earth's location in the universe is too remote. The Milky Way itself is very remote, and we are at the most remote edge of the Milky Way. Apart from the pile-driving civilization, I don't think there will be many advanced civilizations paying attention to us."

however.

Lin Xian also shook his head:

"not necessarily."

"The piling civilization can use special mechanisms to detect the danger of 42 calculated by Einstein. I believe there must be civilizations in the universe that are more advanced and more powerful than the piling civilization. We can't even imagine what weapons those civilizations use and what state they are in."

"But I firmly believe that... those more advanced civilizations must have more advanced means to monitor 42 and monitor potential cosmic dangers."

"Think about it, Mr. Chen Heping. If a low-level civilization, like us humans, arbitrarily triggers a [universe negative] that will destroy everything, will it be able to drag the entire universe down with it?"

Chen Heping spread his hands:

"The question is, how do you trigger a cosmic negative?"

"In fact, even if we take a step back, the negative of the universe is also a concept we imagine. Can time really flow backwards? Will the universe really collapse? Will everything become the opposite?"

Lin Xian closed his eyes.

Recalling the kaleidoscope of scenes when I traveled through time and space on a time machine.

That is the process of a big explosion of a singularity and then collapse.

There are also many montages that are difficult to understand.

But looking at it now...

It seems that every painting is full of profound meaning.

"I think so."

Lin Xian opened his eyes:

"But you and Liu Feng need to continue digging for more clues. We must find a way to trigger the [Cosmic Negative] as soon as possible!"

……

At the same time, in Brooklyn, the weather was crisp and clear in autumn.

CC rode on the horse Bruce and flashed through the woods. Her right hand was as fast as lightning. She pulled out a pistol from her waist at a speed that could not be seen by the naked eye and aimed it at three wild fruits on the branches in front of her.

Bang bang bang!
The aiming action was completely invisible, and three red fruits exploded in the air, with juice splattering all over the ground.

"very good."

The respected father behind him clapped his hands and clapped softly:
"Being able to instantly shoot down three small targets at such a high speed and in such a bumpy ride is truly amazing. You are worthy of being my daughter."

CC kicked the horse in the belly.

Bruce, who had already reached a tacit understanding, turned around on the spot, carried CC on his back and walked slowly towards the man.

"Compared to VV, it's still far behind."

CC jumped off the horse, stroked Bruce's mane, looked at his father and said:

"Seven years ago, in this place, VV shot three bad guys in the head despite losing his memory."

"Later, VV taught me a lot of skills and tricks. I thought I only needed more training to become a sharpshooter like VV, but now I realize... I am still far behind VV."

"His speed and accuracy are much better than mine. This is my limit now, but I still can't catch up with VV seven years ago, let alone VV in his heyday after restoring his memory."

CC's father smiled.

Shake your head:
"That's enough."

"After all, your enemy is not VV, and you will never have to fight VV. This level of shooting skills is enough. At least I think... it is enough to support you to travel a long distance to the East Sea of Dragon Country to find the safe."

!! ?
CC opened his eyes wide when he heard this:
"You agree!"

She ran over and grabbed her father's arm:
"You have to keep your word! You can't stop me anymore!"

"Do not worry."

Her father patted her head and laughed:
"You have to understand that your mother and I have been stopping you from going to Longguo to find VV. That was also for your safety."

"In fact, as early as seven years ago, I could tell that Mr. VV wanted to take you away. But you were only eleven or twelve years old at that time. How could your mother and I let you go with him?"

"It's not that I don't believe in Mr. VV's character, but at your age, your mind is not mature, your values have not yet been established, and you don't know what kind of life you want to live. So... I pretended not to understand what Mr. VV meant and kept you by my side."

"Now that you've grown up and are 19 years old, and your skills as a fighter and marksman have improved so much, your mother and I believe that you have the right and ability to decide your own life."

"So, this time mom and dad won't stop you. If you still plan to go to Donghai City in Longguo, find the safe that Mr. VV left for you, and find out whether what he said is true or false... then go ahead."

Speaking of which.

CC's father sighed softly: "In fact, your mother doesn't agree with you going to Dragon Country. It's such a long distance and takes such a long time to travel. She is still very worried about you."

"Of course, I am the same. No father would want his teenage daughter to embark on such a long journey. But... Dad knows that you have been secretly practicing lock picking and secretly learning about code cracking, right?"

"You always want to see what's in the safe, and want to know what those inexplicable words VV said mean... If VV doesn't tell you the password, you can only find a way to crack it yourself."

Pity the parents of the world.

Because CC insisted on going to the East China Sea of Longguo, there have been many conflicts in the family over the years.

But CC can also understand her parents' concerns.

That's why she has been practicing her marksmanship hard over the years, secretly seeking out various craftsmen to learn code-cracking techniques, and planning routes based on ancient world maps.

She never gave up.

One day she would go to the East China Sea of Dragon Country to open the safe and see what VV meant by "the past and the truth".

"Don't worry, I'll be fine."

CC looked at his father with a firm look in his eyes:
"VV is not only our lifesaver, but also a very important person to me. Although we only spent a few days together, he really had a great influence on me, and I have been following in his footsteps."

"Whether he is a liar or there is really a secret in the safe, anyway... I have to go and see it myself; this is a very important matter to me. I want to know the truth, and I want to know the answer between me and VV."

Then she lifted up the horse Bruce's head:

"Bruce, would you like to come with me to find VV?"

"Hey!"

Bruce yelled mentally.

It was just a young horse when VV used an automatic rifle to beat it.

During these seven years, it has been with CC, accompanying her in battles, training, and listening to CC's inner thoughts in the dead of night.

Now that it is in its prime, of course it will go to find VV with CC.

Go find that shadow,

To find the truth,

Go find that answer.

however……

"Hahahahaha, forget it Bruce."

CC's father laughed heartily and patted the horse's head:
"The journey from the United States to Longguo is long. We don't have planes or long-distance ships. You can only go north, cross the Bering Strait when it freezes in winter, and then travel south from the Eurasian continent to the East China Sea of Longguo. Bruce can't accompany you, but will become a burden to you."

CC frowned:

"Then I can't just walk there, can I?"

The father took out a small key from his pocket and slapped it into CC's hand.

CC looked down and saw:
"This is……?"

"This is the key to a nuclear battery motorcycle."

My father said softly:

"I spent a lot of effort and asked someone to get it from far away."

"Let it take Bruce's place... and accompany you to Dragon Country."

He smiled, and finally hugged his grown-up, graceful, brave and stubborn daughter:
"If you ever see Mr. VV again, remember to give him my regards."

……

As winter turns to spring, the temperature rises.

Construction sites around Donghai City are also becoming busy one after another.

Click!

In an excavation site, a string of sparks suddenly burst out, and the hard drill bit broke and flew several meters away.

"Fuck!"

The construction site safety officer was scared out of his wits:
"What's that thing down there? Why is it so hard?"

"I don't know."

The worker operating the drill looked confused:
"This drill bit always makes a noise when drilling granite. Why is it that it has become so brittle today after meeting its match?"

The foreman came over and waved:
"Get two excavators over here and dig from the side to see what's underneath!"

After a while of hard work, I finally dug out the hard object underneath.

It was a square, shiny silver safe with a nameplate and a combination wheel engraved on the front.

"Hafnium alloy."

The security officer is well-informed and can recognize it at a glance:
"This is the only thing that remains as good as new no matter how many years it has been buried. But...what on earth is hidden in this safe? It's made of hafnium alloy. It's crazy."

It doesn't matter if you don't dig.

Upon digging, they found many hafnium alloy safes underneath.

Each one was intact and shiny like silver; the more they dug, the more they found, and there were at least hundreds of safes buried underneath.

The security guard wiped his sweat:

"It's so concentrated... I don't know what this place was before. I should report it to Boss Li as soon as possible."

Soon, Li Chenggong received the information and came to the excavation site.

Several excavators and cranes worked together to neatly arrange dozens of hafnium alloy safes that had been dug out on the side of the road.

Li Cheng walked over and checked them one by one.

There are various names on the nameplates, including those from Dragon Country and foreign countries. It seems that they are products from before the super disaster in 2504.

"what?"

He wiped the dirt off the nameplate in front of him and looked at the name engraved on it:
"【Lin...Xian?】"

……

Rheinische Universitätsmedizin, Lab.

Working against the clock, the research on the cosmic negative has come to an end.

"Historically, many scientists have tried to use large particle colliders to smash tiny particles together to see what material would be produced when they smashed together."

Liu Feng pushed his wheelchair and came to the blackboard in the laboratory:
"This is actually a process of constantly searching for the smallest. Molecules can be split into atoms, atoms can be split into electrons, neutrons, protons, and nuclei, and nuclei can be further split."

"It's just like a piece of chocolate that keeps breaking in half. Is there something that is the smallest in the world? Is there something that cannot be further divided?"

"If it exists, it is the smallest. If the smallest unit is bombarded with enough energy, it will most likely cause diffusion from the microscopic to the macroscopic, which is equivalent to bombarding the entire universe in reverse, causing a cosmic negative."

"So, the key points are two--"

“1. Find the smallest unit; 2. Sufficient energy is required.”

"It must be pointed out that [42 is the smallest unit in the universe, but it does not exist in reality, but is a super-dimensional concept... The smallest distance that can be reached in our macroscopic universe is still the Planck length.]"

“That’s why I said, we must find a way to find the smallest unit 42 and single it out.”

Da da da.

Liu Feng finished writing on the blackboard and turned to look at Lin Xian and Chen Heping:

"So which of these two needs can we solve now?"

Lin Xian scratched his head:
“It seems that none of them can be solved.”

"It suddenly occurred to me that when Galileo triggered the super catastrophe, he used the collision of space-time particles... Could there be some similarities?"

"It's just that Galileo's collision shouldn't have involved the 42nd level, otherwise the power should have been much greater and directly overturned the entire universe."

Chen Heping stood up.

Walking around the lab:
"It's an interesting similarity... High-speed particle collisions can indeed generate huge energies; but the problem is that it is not realistic for us to build a large particle collider now, not to mention that neither a large particle collider nor a space-time particle collision can reach the energy level that causes a cosmic negative."

"So I'll add one more condition. To trigger a cosmic negative, an impact at least at the speed of light is required."

Liu Feng picked up the electronic chalk again and added this condition on the small blackboard:

"That is, not only do we need to find the smallest unit 42 in the concept of hyperdimension, but we also need a collision at the speed of light."

"Let's go through them one by one... In our macroscopic world, how can we find the smallest unit of 42? This is a scale that is much smaller than the Planck length, and we currently know that the only constituent objects smaller than the Planck length of the current universe are space-time particles."

Hearing about space-time particles, Chen Heping raised his hand:
"I have read the information left by your former partner, Jask. His artificial entangled space-time particles are very interesting."

"Here's what I'm thinking: if we use the overlap, entanglement, and interweaving of two space-time particles, can we use different Planck lengths to come up with a minimum value of 42?"

"This should be our only chance. The Planck length of our current universe is the same for all matter. Only two space-time particles from different time and space can intersect with each other by virtue of different Planck lengths."

"It's just... a pity that, with so many space-time particles in Jask, except for one that stayed on Earth as a receiver, all the others were sent into space; and the space-time particle that Lin Xian originally stored in the Tam Bank also disappeared in the super disaster in 2504."

"From this perspective, it seems that the breakthrough point we found with great difficulty has become a dead end again."

Hey.

Lin Xian leaned back:
"If only my safe could be found."

dong dong dong.

In the quiet laboratory, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Principal Liu, are you in there?"

"I'm here."

Liu Feng replied:

"come in."

The door of the laboratory was pushed open and Li Cheng walked in:

"I heard you were here, so I came straight to the lab to talk to you because it was urgent."

Liu Feng stood up in his wheelchair: