Chapter 106: Carrying a heavy treasure?

The gravitational wave telescope just didn't see the alien ship because the parameters were set too small. The fastest update, and now after setting the right parameters, it did see it, and the result is even more baffling ...

The volume of the alien ship is only three thousandths of Sedna's, but the gravitational force is ten times larger, completely an order of magnitude!

"Impossible!"

It was so exaggerated that Oliver had been completely at a loss for words, as hard as if he had swallowed an egg raw.

Yes ... is so inexplicable, several people looked at each other, a sense of absurdity was born in their hearts.

"The telescope is broken?" This is the first feeling in people's hearts.

But Wade these big-headed soldiers put down their hearts, they just need to be able to scout the alien ship. The smaller circle, still docked on Sedna, was enough. As for what the mass really was, whether it was reasonable or not, that was something the scientists should consider, not their business.

Professor Thomson thought carefully and quickly found two possible reasons: first, the telescope had malfunctioned a bit, resulting in wrong observations; second, the other ship was indeed that heavy!

This is not a safety problem, but a bizarre scientific problem!

This existential crisis of mankind has not yet been fully survived, and any information related to alien spacecraft should be discussed carefully. Especially, in this somewhat strange situation ...

Oliver finally tapped out, "Call an emergency meeting!"

It was not a particularly urgent security issue, so there were not many participants, and most of those who came were famous physicists and related astronomers.

A group of people facing this problem were all frowning and puzzled.

They, like Oliver, had a sense of absurdity in their hearts, and all of them looked odd.

After a quarter of an hour had passed, it was Mr. Felix, a physicist, who came forward to speak, "... I don't think it's a problem with the gravitational wave telescope. I just compared the calculated data for the other objects on the screen and they are all correct."

"Could the telescope have made a mistake in favor of measuring the alien spacecraft? I think the probability is very small. Computers do not desert, as long as the program is fine, the probability of error is very low. Either all the calculations are wrong or all the calculations are right. ... Is it possible that in a pile of data, it is wrong to calculate the one that humans need most? The probability of this is extremely low!"

After Mr. Felix finished speaking, he sat down quietly.

Another scientist immediately stood up, his emotions are a little excited: "This is unreasonable, according to this mass as well as volume, its average density reaches 6000 tons / cubic meter, or even higher!"

"This density is six thousand times that of water and eight hundred times that of iron! There's definitely something wrong with this."

Oliver also took a pen and calculated that even if it was completely solid, its density was much higher than any human material! Osmium, the metal with the greatest density, is only 22.59 tons/m3, which is far worse than 6,000 tons/m3!

"And can a ship as heavy as ... really take off? The amount of energy needed to make it fly is massive, and I'd rather believe the telescope is wrong."

Yeah, it defies common sense!

Isn't it logical that the lighter the ship should be, the better, now how come it's the other way around?

Greenlight civilization is a real interstellar civilization, although they were put in a position by humans, no one dares to underestimate them. If they really fight, they can blow humans up in a minute!

Their science and technology is definitely more advanced than human beings. Therefore, no one feels that discussing such issues is a waste of time. Perhaps ... this question, which defies common sense, can point out a clear path for human space technology?

"First, it must be confirmed whether the telescope is wrong, or their spaceship is indeed supermassive?" Oliver knocked on the table and asked in a deep voice. If they couldn't figure this out, it would be futile for these scientists to argue.

"Do you guys have any good suggestions?"

Professor Thomson, an expert in astronomy, heard this and immediately came up with a good idea: "This is no problem ... A large source of mass will generate greater gravitational force, thus changing the trajectory of the surrounding stars. We can calculate the trajectory of these stars to estimate whether the mass of the ship is really large."

Next, some astronomical observers downstairs immediately began to design a specific calculation scheme. Such a scheme was not complicated, and it took about half an hour to come up with specific results.

The result was that the celestial bodies in the vicinity of Sedna's star were subjected to more than ten times the previous universal gravitational force! Even the trajectory of Sedna itself was altered!

The facts speak for themselves, which means that the telescope was not wrong, it was accurate!

For a while, the minds of many scientists were confused, and they stared dumbly at the screen with a sense of dullness.

"A density of 6,000 tons per cubic meter is not something that humans can do. We don't have the means to make even 30 tons/m3, there must be a reason we didn't expect!"

"Moreover, a large mass ship is very unhelpful for cosmic navigation, according to our kinetic energy formula, the greater the mass, the greater the energy consumption required ... unless all this mass is energy matter?!"

Numerous scientists crossed their ears, increasingly feeling that this situation is very odd, but can not think of a particularly good reason.

Is the gap between human and green light civilization that big?

"In addition to some natural objects ... it is difficult to imagine that there is something with such a large density."

Hearing this, Oliver suddenly had a flash of light and spoke directly: "Guys, is it possible that the other side put some high density star into the ship? For example, neutron star fragments, white dwarf fragments?"

Many scientists looked a bit odd, and Professor Ding Yidong even said nonchalantly, "Captain, the reason why the white dwarf is so dense is because its huge gravitational force squeezes the atoms tightly together, and the repulsion between electrons can only barely support the gravitational squeeze."

"If the white dwarf is cut off a piece and instantly loses the continuous squeeze of the huge gravitational force, the repulsive force between electrons will immediately prevail, and this white dwarf fragment ... will immediately expand and trigger a violent explosion!"

"The same is true for neutron stars."

Many scientists listened and nodded in agreement, white dwarf star fragments and neutron star fragments? It is simply inconceivable that these things cannot exist stably.

Oliver was at a loss for words, in fact, at this time he remembered a book, in which the Earth was smashed by neutron star fragments, and then did not think much about it, he just said it.

He thought about it for a moment, no matter how he thought about it, he felt this possibility, so he added: "If the alien civilization really has the ability to cut off a piece from a white dwarf or neutron star, then it should not be difficult to preserve these pieces, right?"

"And, like you guys said, they would spontaneously expand and explode ... If we make this explosion process slow and sustainable, would it become a new type of energy source?"

"Just like we imagine controlled fusion technology, which can be developed into a new energy source by controlling the speed of the nuclear reaction explosion. And this astral fragment, is it also possible to control the speed of explosion?"