Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 283: Singularity Explosion

Although Zhou Yuan expressed his belief in the theories of the five-dimensional human scientists, he still asked Lefia to tell the Holy Judgment Center that he himself had attempted time travel within the four-dimensional virtual machine, but was thwarted by the virtual machine's protection mechanisms. Does this mean that the five-dimensional human race is certain that this five-dimensional space lacks the protection mechanisms or other constraints imposed by the existence of a six-dimensional space?

Lefia naturally relayed Zhou Yuan's information to the Holy Judgment Center. However, the Human Holy Judgment Center still decided to conduct "time travel" to find companions and informed Zhou Yuan that in order to avoid damage to the super-body droplet caused by the explosion of the "residual intelligent spherical light cluster", human scientists would create a "four-dimensional space vortex fiber bundle membrane" to protect the super-body droplet.

Zhou Yuan had no idea what the human race meant by the "four-dimensional space vortex fiber bundle membrane." Since it contained the words "vortex" and "fiber bundle," Zhou Yuan guessed that this "protective membrane" was probably similar to the barrier effect of a black hole in six-dimensional space. Zhou Yuan couldn't help but think that the five-dimensional human race really had a lot of "tricks" in utilizing space, each of which was beyond the reach of three-dimensional humans.

Zhou Yuan naturally could not oppose the decision made by the Human Race Holy Judgment Center, and even if he did oppose it, it would be invalid.

The Human Race Holy Judgment Center instructed Zhou Yuan to use hyperspace to transport the warship that bound the "remnant intelligent spherical light cluster" away from the Milky Way base to another star system in the Galaxy Hypercube. Then, he instructed Zhou Yuan to allow this star system to detach from the Galaxy Hypercube. This star system first underwent hyperspace travel, and then moved at near the speed of light. After about three months, this star system stopped moving. Zhou Yuan called this star system the "Target Star System".

Zhou Yuan broadcast to all of humanity, reminding everyone not to panic if there were any anomalies in the sky. Zhou Yuan reminded humanity because he had a feeling that if the human race provided some kind of "protection" for the super-body droplet, unexpected situations might occur at the Milky Way base or even the super-body droplet itself.

Zhou Yuan, using a three-dimensional space-based long-range observation device, found nothing unusual about the "target galaxy" or the super-droplet galaxy. However, after switching to five-dimensional space technology, he observed a violent "explosion" in the "target galaxy," and incredible changes occurred in the various galaxies of the super-droplet. Each galaxy seemed to be enveloped by a "halo," and numerous similar fibrous vortex bundles appeared on their surfaces. These fractal-like fibrous vortex bundles disturbed each other, much like raindrops creating ripples on a lake, except these ripples were fibrous bundles. To Zhou Yuan's surprise, every star in each galaxy seemed to be connected to the vortex fibers by "beams of light." Inside each galaxy, every star was "thread-connected" to the vortex fibers on the "halo" surface, somewhat like an electrostatic ball.

Twelve days after Zhou Yuan issued his warning, people indeed observed anomalies in the sky. The stars seemed to be shrouded in a halo, twinkling and contracting like a beating heart. Even the sun was enveloped in a strong halo, suppressing the light at its edges, and appearing in alternating shapes of large, small, large, and small. However, these contractions and expansions of the sun had no impact on humans or other living things on Earth.

Just as Zhou Yuan was marveling at the power displayed by the human race, the phenomenon observed by the five-dimensional space technology equipment left an indelible mark on him. Shortly after the "target galaxy" "exploded," a "wrinkled tube wall" appeared around the super-droplet galaxy. The "tube wall" was uneven, and the galaxy's hypercube structure was reflected on the "wrinkled tube wall." All the galaxies of the super-droplet were "projected" onto this "wrinkled tube wall," and this "projection" was omnidirectional. As a result, the hypercube, which originally had only a little over 150 galaxies, was now filled with "galaxies" everywhere on the "wrinkled tube wall"—more than 41 million! These numerous "galaxies" disappeared and appeared repeatedly on the "wrinkled tube wall," like fleeting shadows.

Zhou Yuan woke up from what seemed like a dream, and everything returned to normal. The "wrinkled tube wall" disappeared, the "halo" of each galaxy in the super-droplet was gone, and the twinkling and contraction of stars were no longer visible.

"Big brother, I'm sorry, I have to leave you." Zhou Yuan's hand was held by Lefia, and Zhou Yuan could feel that Lefia's hand was trembling.

Where are you going?

"We are going to reunite with the mother body."

"The mother body?" Zhou Yuan didn't understand.

"Yes."

"Can we meet again?"

"I'll come looking for you again." After saying that, Lefia's hands stopped trembling, but Zhou Yuan could clearly see that Lefia's face was pale, there were beads of sweat on her forehead, and she seemed to be in pain. Then a tear rolled down her cheek.

Zhou Yuan quickly laid Lefia flat and wrapped his arms around her head, trying to use his superpowers to save her, but it didn't seem to work.

Zhou Yuan opened his ring and scanned Lefia's head; Lefia's consciousness was blank.

Suddenly, Zhou Yuan noticed a "holy light" outside the flagship. He observed that a milky white halo enveloped the entire fleet, then transformed into more than 13,000 topological manifold light clusters. These topological manifold light clusters instantly turned into long "beams of light," piercing through space like meteors, and then all disappeared into the depths of darkness.

Zhou Yuan stared blankly at Lefia's body, which was aging; her once delicate skin had become wrinkled and dry.

Zhou Yuan kissed Lefia deeply on the forehead, and Lefia's body was teleported away by light. Zhou Yuan felt as if his heart had been hollowed out.

"Master, there is a strong gravitational pull nearby."

"A black hole?"

Nana didn't respond, but continued operating on the holographic screen. After a while, Nana's voice rang out, "Master, it's a naked singularity!"

"Naked singularity?"

"Yes Master."

"What dimension are we in now?"

"Five-dimensional space".

A naked singularity in five-dimensional space? Zhou Yuan knew that a famous physicist in his source world had proposed the cosmic surveillance hypothesis, arguing that nature forbids humans from seeing any singularity because there is always an event horizon that obscures it. In the source world's general relativity, black holes are described as consisting of a singularity and an event horizon surrounding it; even light, traveling at the fastest speed, cannot escape the event horizon. Therefore, theoretically, external observers cannot directly observe phenomena inside a black hole. A naked singularity, on the other hand, is a gravitational singularity in the source world's general relativity theory that is not surrounded by an event horizon. Unlike a singularity, light and other particles have the opportunity to escape from a singularity to a distant point, and therefore, an event horizon does not exist.

Through five-dimensional space technology equipment, Zhou Yuan observed that the spacetime nearby was violently distorted. Zhou Yuan thought to himself, "Oh no, this naked singularity is closing. This naked singularity should be a spacetime gate created by the human race."

"Nana, quick! Accelerate the super-body droplet and enter the naked singularity at faster-than-light speed!" Zhou Yuan shouted.

"Yes, Master."

The super-sized water droplet was directly sucked in by the powerful gravity.

Zhou Yuan's memory was fragmented. When he regained consciousness, the naked singularity no longer existed. Behind the super-body droplet, the five-dimensional space technology equipment detected a violent distortion in space. The naked singularity closed and exploded violently, just like a movie scene in fast-forward. To Zhou Yuan, the external observer, celestial bodies such as nebulae and stars quickly formed, and a universe was born.

Just as Zhou Yuan was marveling, Nana's voice rang out again. This time, Nana's words shocked Zhou Yuan: "Master, according to the five-dimensional space technology equipment, the universe after the singularity explosion is a three-dimensional universe, very similar to your source world!"

"Light speed 4c0?"

"No, the speed of light is now 150c0."

"Is the universe still expanding at an accelerating rate?"

"Yes Master."

"Nana, why does this three-dimensional universe look so similar to my original world?"

“Master, there are three possibilities. First, it was deliberately created for you by the five-dimensional human race. Second, information spontaneously generated a three-dimensional world within the five-dimensional core, creating another timeline. Coincidentally, this three-dimensional world is very similar to your source world. The third possibility is that it may be a byproduct of the five-dimensional human race’s time travel through ‘six-dimensional space fragments’.”

Zhou Yuan lowered his head and pondered for a while, unsure which possibility was more likely.

"Nana, are you sure that's a three-dimensional universe?"

"Master, the detection results from the five-dimensional space technology equipment show that it has neither five-dimensional space structure information characteristics nor four-dimensional space structure information characteristics."

"So this three-dimensional universe is at least relatively pure for us?" Zhou Yuan hesitated for a moment before replacing the word "real" with "pure." For Zhou Yuan, the meanings of "real" and "pure" were vastly different.

"Yes Master."

"Nana, how far has this three-dimensional universe evolved?"

“Master, while we were talking, the speed of light in this universe has already dropped to 10c0.”

"Has intelligent civilization emerged yet?"

"Master, please wait a moment. I need to conduct a universe-wide scan of this world." Nana began operating the holographic screen, and after a short while, Nana said, "Master, there are currently no intelligent civilizations."

"Nana, bring the super-body droplet closer to this universe. Notify me when the speed of light reaches c0 or when intelligent civilization appears."

"Yes, Master."

Zhou Yuan needed to calm down and think about the problem. Humanity had traveled through the fragments of the six-dimensional space via "time travel," and then reunited with the fifth-dimensional mother through the naked singularity spacetime gate. But humanity had abandoned itself and others, including Lefia. Zhou Yuan didn't understand. Was it that humanity was objectively unable to pass through the naked singularity spacetime gate with them—perhaps due to differences in consciousness, or because the super-body droplet, being a three-dimensional structure, couldn't enter the naked singularity with them? Or was it that humanity was unwilling to pass through the naked singularity with them for some reason, such as not wanting him to see the mother? And what exactly was the fifth-dimensional human mother? Fortunately, as long as they were in the fifth dimension, humanity would find him; Lefia had said that "she" would actively seek him out.

Regarding this three-dimensional universe created by the Big Bang of the five-dimensional singularity, Zhou Yuan was unwilling to believe it was a product of a single timeline within the five-dimensional space. He preferred to believe it was a gift of gratitude from the five-dimensional human race. If this universe was a product of another timeline within the five-dimensional space, he wondered if another version of himself might exist within it.