Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 37: A Cosmic Perspective

A week later, all the Gesang people watched God's momentous event live on television. The streets were deserted as everyone gathered together, afraid of missing this once-in-a-lifetime moment.

All the Gesang people crowded in front of the television to watch the live broadcast of God's important event. It seemed that God used some kind of technology to make the television picture extremely clear so that the Gesang people could see the live broadcast more clearly.

The video begins to play, first showing three Earths: a smaller Earth (Asteroid 5e, the new Earth), two super-Earths (Ges and Tiange), and then a close-up of Gesang Star, a super-Earth, showing one of them as the "Sky Ladder." The Gesang Star people get excited, waving their arms and pointing at the screen like children, "Look, that's our Gesang Star's 'Sky Ladder'!"

What followed was something that left all the Gesang people speechless and unforgettable.

A massive portal near New Earth, Gess, and Tiange was activated, and humans emerged from it. Numerous colossal warships were already in the air. These warships were enormous; the largest was a thousand kilometers long! These humans were then teleported by another massive warship to the warship's conference center.

In the conference center, in the middle of the front row, sat a man with dark brown hair; he was Thomas, the current commander-in-chief of the Earth Federation Fleet.

"Fellow Gesang people, fellow Earthlings, today we witness a great moment together. First, on behalf of the Earth Federation Fleet, I extend my highest respect to all the scientists of the Academy of Sciences. At this glorious moment, on behalf of all humanity, I also extend my highest respect to all Gesang people. Your indomitable and tenacious spirit of civilization is worthy of our emulation. The Gesang people deserve our respect; you are equal to us, just as we have done. This live television broadcast is for all Gesang people and Earthlings. I hope we can be good neighbors, live in harmony, develop together, progress together, and explore this boundless universe together!" The Earthlings and Gesang people responded with enthusiastic applause.

Thomas then introduced the distinguished guests in the front row. These included Joss, the head of the Earth Federation government; Bi Dayou, Wendas, and Bob, the leaders of the three planets; and Kofi, the current president of the Earth Federation Academy of Sciences. Also present were Academicians Zhou Yuan, Civilization, Maria, Moore, and Poirot, among others—all individuals who have made immense contributions to human civilization.

After introducing these people, Thomas pointed to the two empty seats on his left and right, "Please be patient, the two ladies will be here shortly."

As soon as the words were spoken, two beams of light flashed, and a pale purple figure and a pale blue figure simultaneously took their seats: Aya, who was 1 meter tall, and Gaia, who was 1.7 meters tall. All the Gesang people seemed to be stunned. Virtual humans? Aya made a face at the camera, and Gaia smiled.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the lady on the left is our Moon Steward, Ms. Gaia, and the lady on the right is our Earth Steward, the beloved Ms. Aya."

Aya seemed quite pleased, waving to everyone and giving an OK sign. She glanced at Zhou Yuan, beaming, and winked at him, wondering what this girl was up to now.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now, let us prepare for the momentous occasion. I command, begin the teleportation of the sun!"

With a command from Thomas, the commander-in-chief of the Earth Federation Fleet, the order was sent to scientists near the Sun and the star Gastrodin via long-distance encrypted communication.

At this moment, the TV screen split, and images of the sun and the star Alpha Triton appeared on the left and right sides.

"The solar space vacuum energy extraction machine is ready to start."

"The solar intelligent energy suppression module is ready to be activated."

"The solar trap module is ready to be activated."

"The solar rotation disturbance module is ready to be activated."

"The solar supermagnetic pole spin adiabatic system is ready to be activated."

"The massive solar portal is ready to be activated."

"The Tiancan-5 Super Magnetic Pole Spin Insulation System is ready to be activated."

"The five super-large teleportation portals of the Heavenly Ginseng are ready to be activated."

"The anti-gravity field of Tian Shen Wu space is ready to be activated."

"The Tiancan-5 Space Gravitational Oscillation Buffer Module is ready to be activated."

"The Tiancan Five-Space Vacuum Energy Extraction Machine is ready to start."

"The Tiancan-5 intelligent energy suppression module is ready to be activated."

"The Heavenly Ginseng Five-Light Trap Release Module is ready to be activated."

"The Tian Shen Wu rotating disturbance field release module is ready to be activated."

"The solar space gravity correction calibration module is ready to be activated after the transmission."

“倒计时，10、9、8、7、6、5、4、3、2、1，开始！”

With a command to begin, the sun, a white dwarf that had been detonated by humans, seemed to have lost all its light, becoming extremely faint. The dark sun spun rapidly. About 30 minutes later, the sun suddenly disappeared. To everyone's surprise, a dark star suddenly appeared near Asclepius. This dark star was also spinning rapidly, slowly emitting light as it rotated. After 35 minutes, the star emitted the same normal solar radiance as before the sun had disappeared.

Thus, the Sun was moved to the vicinity of the star Aristocrats, becoming its companion star, and the new Earth was placed in the Aristocrats binary system!

Thunderous applause and cheers erupted from the Earth's inhabitants, who were overjoyed. The sun had finally returned! While the younger generation might not directly grasp the sun's significance, their parents had always told them stories about the sun, Mars, Earth, and the moon.

The Gesang people were dumbfounded, some even scared to death. They couldn't even imagine such a capability as moving a star. However, the Gesang people were also sensible; after their initial astonishment, they applauded enthusiastically, celebrating the successful relocation of the sun with the Earthlings.

Humans on Earth did not invade Gesang Star, but instead became neighbors with the Gesang people.

From then on, the Gesang people learned from Earthlings in every way, taking them as role models. Their technology, military, industry, and overall civilization evolved by leaps and bounds.

In the year 336 of the Galactic Era, eight years after the successful teleportation of the sun, the Earth Federation Academy of Sciences conducted more detailed and in-depth research on matter and energy. Through more than three hundred years of time-difference observations and data aggregation from various directions via Earth's super-distance "Sky Eye," and further simulated by a super artificial intelligence computer, humanity on Earth seems to have gained an intuitive understanding of the universe.

The cosmic microwave background radiation provides the best evidence for the Big Bang theory. At the moment of its birth at the "singularity," the universe was extremely small and incredibly hot. In the instant after the Big Bang, the universe expanded from the singularity into a giant fireball. Inside the fireball, energy was converted into particles of matter and mirror particles of antimatter. 10^-43 seconds later, the universe, about the size of a football field, saw a massive collision and destruction of matter and antimatter particles, instantly generating a large amount of radiation. 10^-35 seconds later, the universe rapidly expanded and cooled, forming a series of exotic particles, including quarks and electrons. 10^-7 seconds later, the universe was still too hot to form atoms, but quarks were able to combine and form heavier particles, primarily protons and neutrons. Once the expanding universe had enough protons and neutrons, they began to form the simple atomic nuclei necessary to make up hydrogen and helium atoms. In the first three minutes of the Big Bang, almost all the hydrogen and helium nuclei in the universe (the building blocks of most stars) were formed. The temperature of the universe cooled from an incredibly hot state to below a billion degrees Celsius, while its area expanded from a fraction of an atom's size to the size of the Milky Way. Thirty hundred thousand years after the Big Bang, when the temperature dropped to 3000 degrees Celsius, protons and atomic nuclei captured extremely small electrons, and the first atoms formed. Twenty million years after the Big Bang, hydrogen and helium began to accumulate, forming massive gas clouds. These clouds collapsed under gravity, forming dense clusters of atoms. As these clouds contracted due to gravity, they spontaneously combusted and formed the first generation of stars. These stars quickly exploded, forming supernovae, releasing energy that produced new heavy elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. Shortly after the birth of these first stars, galaxies began to form. Dense gas clouds and young stars clung together under the influence of gravity and dark matter, forming small galaxies and new stars. These galaxies and stars began to collide with each other, forming even larger galaxies. In stellar nebulae, dust and ice particles collide and merge, transforming smaller particles into clumps thousands of meters in diameter called planetesimals. Some clumps located in the warmer regions of the nebula are primarily rock and metal, while those in the cooler, more distant regions are mainly composed of ice. As planetesimals grow larger, their gravity attracts more matter, leading to more collisions and mergers, eventually forming even larger objects within rotating disks of gas and dust—this is how planets are born. Over billions of years, galaxies, stars, and planets begin to fill the universe. Of course, there are also some special celestial bodies in space, such as white dwarfs, black dwarfs, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, and white holes.

After the Big Bang, the universe has been continuously expanding, with energy density decreasing and energy constantly creating matter, leading to an increase in matter density. This is an evolution from high to low energy density and from sparse to dense matter density. Initially, the universe expanded at a speed faster than light. Although the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, the intrinsic speed of light decreases over time, resulting in different light-speed planes of space.

A key characteristic of the Big Bang spacetime is the existence of an event horizon: on one hand, light is constantly reflected by atomic particles, preventing it from traveling long distances; on the other hand, the inherent speed of light in the universe is decreasing, meaning some past events may not be able to transmit information to us through light; furthermore, the more distant objects recede at greater speeds, meaning light emitted from us may never reach them. In other words, there exists a limit, or past event horizon, within which only events within this limit can be observed. Therefore, even with current long-range "sky eyes," it is still very difficult for humans on Earth to clearly see events occurring in the universe.

The Big Bang also created four fundamental forces that influence the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, the weak force, and the strong force. Gravity causes stars to orbit and move, electromagnetism connects the forces of electricity and magnetism, the weak force controls the brilliance of stars, and the strong force ensures that protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei remain bound together.

If the number of matter particles and antimatter particles were equal during the Big Bang, they would have annihilated each other. However, the universe is now primarily composed of matter, so there must be some unknown reason why the amount of matter and antimatter produced by the Big Bang is not equal.

In the visible universe, 5% of stars and planets are normal matter. However, this matter cannot generate enough gravity to hold many galaxies together. There must be invisible dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is not composed of atoms and cannot reflect light or any other type of radiation. Scientists estimate that dark matter accounts for 80% of the matter in the universe. Like dark matter, scientists believe the universe is also filled with dark energy. Earth-based scientists, using long-range telescopes, have discovered that when two galaxies collide, they form bullet clusters, with one cluster rapidly passing through the center of another. During the collision, the normal matter in the cluster gradually slows down due to drag, but the dark matter does not slow down; it continues to move forward, forming a curved dark matter ring. This dark matter ring is usually invisible, but its location can be determined by the light emitted from distant galaxies that is bent by gravity. Even between stars, there is some invisible dark matter that generates gravity, causing light heading towards Earth to bend. Vacuum energy (vacuum zero-point energy) is the particle energy of matter, and these particles are still composed of elementary particles, such as atoms. Dark matter is not composed of atoms, so dark energy and vacuum energy (vacuum zero-point energy) are not the same thing.

After the Big Bang, energy produced matter, and space acquired a certain density. Since the Big Bang, space has had a definite shape, determined by the density of matter it contains. In the initial period after the Big Bang, the matter density of space was extremely low, so space was almost flat. As the matter density increased, the gravitational forces between matter attracted each other, causing space to curl. When the matter density is below a critical value, space curls into an open shape (saddle-like); when the matter density is above the critical value, space curls into a closed shape (approximately spherical). Current observations indicate that space is curled, although the degree of curling remains to be observed and determined. However, this curling makes warp drive (superluminal or faster-than-light travel) possible.

Is this universe unique, or are there many universes that humanity cannot currently observe? Some scientists on Earth believe that many universes may exist, a collection known as the multiverse. The structure of the multiverse might resemble a giant bubble pile; perhaps some universes haven't yet expanded, and perhaps some universes possess different physical laws or dimensions than our own. Theoretically, however, two universes might be connected through a rotating black hole. Since humanity doesn't fully understand the mysteries of the universe, and since we cannot observe the influence of other universes on our own, the existence of the multiverse is currently only a conjecture, and we cannot yet prove it.