32 days

The ashes of the oil painting woman turned into the face of the withered old man in front of him, all of which have similar bleakness and decline.

Yi Alan smiled and said to Professor Raleigh Ron: "I came back from the 32nd, and we successfully landed on your island. It's so beautiful there..."

At this time, the world is still operating as usual.The night hemisphere is sleeping, and the day hemisphere is building, sharing the same sweet dream.

When the bad news arrived, Luo Caiyun just woke up from her restless sleep. Since it happened on the 32nd, she has been unable to rest normally at the end of each month. Usually, she can only find a gap to sleep for half a day in the early morning (this is still the time when everything is normal on the 32nd, otherwise Only a few hours of sleep can be accumulated for several days in a row).

She came to her office, glad that her task was gradually becoming easier, and now the focus on the 32nd is on Quantum Dam Island, which is better managed.

She arrived on the front foot, followed by a person who was the leader of the physical chemistry team on the 32nd.

When Luo Caiyun saw him, she was almost taken aback. He looked like he hadn't slept for several days, his eyes were bloodshot, his cheeks were swollen, and his face was so gray that it seemed that tomorrow would be the end of the world.

"Professor Li, what's wrong with you? Pay more attention to rest." Luo Caiyun quickly got up to greet him, and poured him a glass of warm water, "You are so tired, you can report later if you have anything to do, go to sleep now."

Professor Li raised those empty eyes: "There is no future, Team Leader Luo."

Luo Caiyun worried: "What's wrong? Your body?"

"We humans are doomed." Professor Li smiled miserably, "It's all doomed. We're all going to die."

With trembling hands he handed out the report written with the last of his sanity.This is actually a manifesto announcing the end of the world.

The earliest clues came from some seemingly insignificant local reports, which only appeared four or five times on the 32nd.Abnormal radiation phenomena appeared in some areas, but the effective dose of radiation was very low and did not cause harm to the human body.And they were able to discover these harmful radiations, which are far from climate, because most of the local areas have radioactive materials or radioactive weapons, so high-precision radiation detectors are installed.Occasional minor leaks may cause panic, but as long as they are discovered in time and maintained properly, hidden dangers can be resolved quickly.

When alerted by radiation detectors, someone went to screen for sources of radiation, but strangely, all possible leaks remained intact.The first time I had to let it go, and when the abnormal radiation reappeared for the second time, everyone knew the law, because this kind of radiation was only detected around the 32nd, although the effective dose was still very low , The relevant supervisor still submitted the report to the emergency team on the 32nd, and the team was reassigned to the physical chemistry team led by Professor Li.

Professor Li felt very strange. If it is said that radiation was emitted on the 32nd, then there is no reason why the radiation detectors in the rotunda of the affairs group did not respond. He dared to say that his radiation detectors were more expensive than those in other places. Better, at worst equal.

Out of this confusion, Professor Li paid more attention to radiation when it happened on the 32nd, added a variety of radiation detectors (including the radiation detector mentioned in the report), and assigned additional manpower to monitor , but never found anything.

What's even more strange is that after 32 days this time, news came from the place where the report was first made, and they still detected abnormal radiation this time.At the same time, another place submitted a report saying that they also detected abnormal radiation phenomena, which also appeared around the 32nd, and the effective dose was very low.Professor Li also deliberately called the detector model used in this place late at night, which is exactly the same as the one he added.

After submitting five relevant reports one after another, Professor Li found that all these five places were extremely important military centers.But having said that, if it is not a military center, there is no radiation detector sophisticated enough to be the first to detect abnormal radiation phenomena.But the problem is that there are more than these five military centers with excellent radiation detectors, including the affairs team he is staying in now.

Why are these five places detected?Is it a geographical reason?However, the locations of these five places are not close, and the detection time is also sequential, and there is no rule at all.

If it weren't for the highest level of secrecy, Professor Li and the radiation management departments of these five places should soon find out that they are the same, that is, they are all in the removal plan, and within 32 days, these places have been The bomb was destroyed in a mess.

If they could understand the content of the removal plan in a little more detail, they would also find that they would not start detecting abnormal radiation until their place was cleared within 32 days.

The secrecy measures set up for national security have led to information asymmetry, which has become a constraint for their pursuit of the truth.

In addition, the detected abnormal radiation has a low effective dose and is harmless, and not all areas under the clearance plan have found abnormal radiation (the main reason is that these places are only equipped with radiation detection devices that will only alert when the concentration reaches the standard, and there is no Detectors with accurate readings), so it didn't have a big impact, and it didn't attract the attention of high-level people who knew the inside story, only researchers were paying attention.

Until winter, the number of locations where abnormal radiation phenomena were found had increased to six, and the first five reported that the radiation doses they detected each time seemed to have been low, but they were actually increasing at a slow rate. If the cause is not found out as soon as possible, After clarifying the principle, they worry that it will eventually grow to the extent that it can endanger their health.

One of the locations is the Northwest Air Force Weapons Research and Development Center. The director mentioned this matter to Song Rui, the chief engineer of the center, out of concern.Song Rui noticed that the radiation appeared not when it first appeared on the 32nd, but on the 32nd after Yi Alan and the others came here, thinking that it might be related to the removal plan.

The supervisor informed Professor Li of Song Rui's conjecture, and Professor Li then made a special application to the team, confirming that the 32-day clearance operation at the remaining six locations coincided with the time when the abnormal radiation was discovered.

Professor Li also proposed to Luo Caiyun to conduct research simultaneously with the removal plan, so he learned of other confidential locations that were removed on the 32nd.Before the next occurrence on the 32nd, Professor Li provided sophisticated radiation detectors to many bases whose hardware configuration was not in place.Without exception, the abnormal radiation was detected in these places around the time of the 32nd.

At first they thought that the bomb on the 32nd had exposed the radioactive material in the base, and a small amount of radiation somehow affected the real world.However, after a long period of research on the detected radiation, they determined that this radiation was not the same as the radiation they knew, and it did not belong to the radioactive material and radioactive weapons they had stored.

Professor Li became more and more fascinated by this phenomenon. He began to arrange as many radiation detectors as possible in various places, such as downtown blocks, wilderness, construction sites, underground, river bottoms, etc. It is surprising that these very ordinary places actually There are also some detected abnormal radiation with different values ​​but relatively low.

Professor Li was very puzzled. After summarizing the similarities and differences of all the testing sites one by one, he quickly discovered an interesting phenomenon.

Those places where anomalous radiation was detected have the same obvious feature, that is, they will be very different from the same area in 32 days.Very typical are those military sites included in the clearance plan. Their information storage was formatted and the buildings were bombed out in the 32 days, but in reality they are still in good condition.

Another example is the construction site where abnormal radiation was detected later. Professor Li learned that the construction site did not start until it appeared on the 32nd. But on the 32nd it was just a grassy wasteland.

Anomalous radiation was also detected in a river that dries up in winter with a visible riverbed, which was full of water in summer on the 32nd.

From this, it can be speculated that an area on the 32nd is different from the reality, which may be the reason for the abnormal radiation.

However, some other locations where no abnormal radiation was detected, may be said to be exactly the same as on the 32nd, but that is not necessarily the case.

The real world is changing every moment, the seasons are changing, and no place is exactly the same as it was seven or eight months ago.For example, the affairs group they stayed in every day. Although all the buildings of the affairs group had been built before the 32nd, they were originally intended to be used as a physics research institute, but they were later assigned to the emergency affairs group on the 32nd.

The affairs group fills the building with various furniture, electrical appliances, and equipment to carry out daily and experimental activities.In the 32 days, the affairs group was just a group of empty buildings.

Of course, there is a big difference between the two, but why is there no abnormal radiation?

What are the essential differences between this difference and the difference between the location where the abnormal radiation was detected and the 32nd?

Almost immediately, a concept that could explain this fundamental difference emerged in Professor Li's mind: entropy.

Entropy is a physical concept proposed by humans, and its physical meaning is a measure of the degree of chaos in a system.

In a closed system, the level of entropy represents the degree of chaos.To use a simplified analogy, such as a room, if the things in the room are arranged in an orderly manner, the entropy value is low, and if it is chaotic, the entropy value is high.

The law of entropy increase related to entropy holds that the entropy in a closed system can only increase or remain unchanged, but cannot decrease, and finally can only reach the state of maximum entropy, which is the most chaotic and disordered state of the system.As the universe is a large closed system, the entropy value is always increasing, the order is slowly collapsing, and it is finally going to destruction.

The biggest difference between the reality where the abnormal radiation occurs and the 32 days is the difference in entropy.In reality, the military base is running well and orderly, with low entropy, but in 32 days, the base lost information, was in chaos, and was full of invalid energy, so the entropy was high.As for the business group, the empty buildings on the 32nd are of course orderly, with low entropy. In reality, although many items have been added, they are still orderly. Low.

However, entropy is a concept in closed systems and isolated systems, and these areas are obviously open. The earth is also an open system, exchanging energy with the outside world all the time.

But obviously the two same large closed systems, the weak parallel universe and the present universe, will have some kind of physical mechanism to quantify the entropy in their interiors, and during the process of superposition and transformation, radiation will be produced due to the large difference in entropy values ​​in certain regions .

It stands to reason that entropy itself will not have a direct impact on people. Even if a person is in an extremely chaotic system, what makes him feel inconvenient is that there is no effective energy to use, resulting in no heat for heating, no energy to fill the stomach, and no kinetic energy to walk. Rather than the concept of entropy directly attacking humans.

However, some phenomena in reality can provide reference and understanding, such as potential difference. A bird standing on a high-voltage line will not get an electric shock because the bird is small in size and the distance between its two claws is very short. The voltage between the two claws, that is, the potential difference is very small. Small, so the current flowing through the bird's body is very small.For a big bird such as an eagle, or a person, if they touch a high-voltage line, they will get an electric shock immediately.

In the same way, human beings are in a universe full of entropy, and because the scale is too small compared to the universe, entropy will not affect human beings.But the existence of weak parallel universes is like adding another conductor to form a current loop, which makes the entropy of the two universes have a "potential difference", thus causing harm to small human beings.

Therefore, Professor Li named this abnormal radiation caused by the 32nd as entropy difference radiation.

The effective dose of entropy difference radiation detected so far is still very low and will not harm the human body.

But the problem is that entropy changes all the time.Especially on the earth, because human activities often make the areas with low entropy become high in entropy, and the things with high entropy will also reduce the entropy value through industrial manufacturing.Flowers, plants and trees are also absorbing energy, transmitting energy, and consuming energy all the time, all of which are changing the entropy.

The entropy on the earth is like a pot of boiling water, one after another.

And on the 32nd, because of the greatly reduced population, the different time flow, and the destruction behavior of some people, the entropy difference on the earth in the two universes is getting bigger and bigger.

Professor Li established a model based on the data collected from multiple entropy difference radiations in the past, and found that the dose of entropy difference radiation increases exponentially, and with the development of time, more and more areas of entropy difference radiation appear.Now, low-dose entropy difference radiation can be detected on any major road when it appears on the 32nd. Some places with large entropy differences should immediately arrange for people to evacuate that area, otherwise they will be affected by entropy difference radiation .

According to his model estimation, about four or five times in 32 days, the entropy difference radiation will be enough to cause fatal damage to the human body—human beings all over the earth.

The so-called weak parallel universe has never been a resource warehouse for whatever you want, but a calm god of death.

The author has something to say:

The definition of entropy is actually a bit complicated, not as simple as I said.I remember that there was a book that used the example of a very vivid room to explain, but I couldn’t find it after searching several books. I could only give a simplified example according to my memory and understanding. The meaning is roughly that, and the novel needs The principle used is almost the same. The difference between order and disorder is good for everyone to understand.