Chapter 469 Who defines time, our mission [8600 words]

Thirty seconds before Ding Canghai discovered the anomaly, Ren Zhong was chatting with Sun Ai.

Sun Ai said: "According to your request, I suspended the automatic time synchronization function of Ding Canghai's watch, and focused on monitoring the timeline of the Third Reconnaissance Army. I used the time difference in their reconstruction of the frontline information flow communication network to calculate a strange

There is a problem with the transmission speed of the information flow, and the data does not match."

Ren Zhong: "How to say?"

"After calculation, the transmission speed of information flow in the Third Fleet is about ten light years per second. But when I just set off from the Source Star, I tried to communicate with Nanjiu Star, and the information fed back to me by Nanjiu Star was 0.404

It arrived seconds later. At that time, the distance between the two parties was approximately equal to 4 light years. If the current measured speed is used, the time difference should obviously be 0.8 seconds, which is contradictory. There is only one explanation, the information flow from the Source Star to the South Nine Star

There are two speeds. One is 10 light years per second, and the other is 1,000 light years per second. The dividing line between the two speeds is exactly 2 light years away from the source star."

Ren Zhong frowned and began to think deeply.

The information flow that exceeds the speed of light should be deeper than the underlying depth of the basic force of weak electric interaction.

He couldn't even figure out how weak electric interactions could be tampered with, let alone what kind of force could silently change the transmission speed of information flow.

The amazing thing is that although he still knows nothing about it, he has imagined such a scene in his mind.

The source star galaxy hangs quietly in space.

A transparent sphere with a radius of 2 light years envelopes the galaxy, separating this space from the vast universe outside.

"2 light years, the radius of the sun's observable gravitational influence is approximately 2 light years. The mass of the source sun is close to that of the sun, so the gravitational range should be consistent. There is a force shrouding this 2 light year radius,

It even changes the transmission speed of information flow. What is the power? What is the purpose? What is the significance? Is it a naturally occurring cosmic phenomenon or man-made?"

Ren Zhong pondered this in his heart.

Then, he issued a new order to Sun Ai, "Xiao Ai, you use the regular authority of 'Net' to query three pieces of information in the public information of the Royal Academy of Sciences."

"What?"

Ren Zhongyi gritted his teeth, "Verify whether the electron cloud of the entire ancient disk galaxy has an icosahedral structure, as well as the accurate transmission speed of information flow, and the information flow transmission speed of the source star region thirty years ago."

"This... didn't you let me check before? You said there was a risk of exposing anomalies. Why have you changed your mind now?" Sun Ai was slightly surprised.

At this time, Ren Zhong received an alert from the Third Reconnaissance Army.

Ding Canghai synchronized the frontline intelligence, and in just a few seconds, hundreds of completely dispersed reconnaissance ships lost contact for no reason.

Ren Zhong was stunned for a moment, then a relieved smile appeared on his face, "It's okay. It was because the time wasn't ripe before. Now it's just right to check. As for exposure, it doesn't matter. This information is more important."

Anyway, the pursuers have arrived, so if you die, start again, roll back everything, and check to see if everything is alright.

Although Sun Ai was still confused, he carried out Ren Zhong's order.

Half a second later, Sun Ai said: "All the electron clouds in the entire ancient disk galaxy, no matter what kind of compound they are, do have an icosahedral structure. The standard transmission speed of information flow is 1,000 light-years per second. This is the standard

The cosmological constant has been like this from ancient times to the present. It is the same whether it is the source star or other regions, and it has never changed."

Hearing this, Ren Zhong's shoulders suddenly relaxed.

He breathed a sigh of relief and lay back on the chair.

His heart was like thunder.

He murmured to himself: "I know."

Sun Ai quickly asked, "What do you know?"

Ren Zhong's lips moved, "No...it's nothing."

"It's so annoying to hide it from me again. Ah! Sure enough, it triggered a chain reaction. The Imperial Supernet is trying to break through my defense through the South Nine Star node, verify my timeline, and spy on why I want to query the information flow within the area.

Transmission speed. In the entire history of the empire, no one has ever investigated such a problem. This is as common sense as one plus one equals two. As soon as I checked, the secret was revealed!"

Ren Zhong waved his hand, "It's okay, cut off communication."

"Phew, it's so dangerous. It's been cut off. I'm just a little short of being breached."

Ren Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, I'll think about it myself first."

"Hi...Uncle, you..." Sun Ai mumbled a few words, but didn't ask any more questions.

She knew that Ren Zhong was about to enter the legendary "meditation" state again, so she didn't bother him. She just started to mobilize most of her computing power to pay full attention to the situation on the front line of the Third Reconnaissance Army.

After everything around him returned to tranquility, Ren Zhong took out his notebook again.

He put his finger on the number 7640 and thought silently, if nothing happens, when the fleet leaves the Source Star 2 light years away, he will most likely lose the ability to resurrect.

This not only made him breathe a sigh of relief, but also made him feel very lonely and a little scared inside.

He had thought before that every time he was resurrected and reset, the entire universe would be dragged back for a month.

Then he couldn't imagine how much energy it would take to achieve it.

Just thinking about it like that made his scalp numb and his thinking stagnant.

He even thought it was impossible.

If that was the case, and the entire universe was reset at the same time, he could only explain everything by saying that he actually lived in a virtual world composed of data and information, and then encountered a server rollback.

This will completely collapse his belief in life, causing him to fall into philosophical dilemmas such as "What is the meaning of his existence?" and "Is this world real?"

Of course he would avoid such speculation, it would be too shocking.

But he verified it with a Turing machine. Although he could not get a clear answer, he still believed that the possibility of this being the real world was much greater than the possibility of the virtual world.

But the real world and the time regression involving the entire universe are contradictory and irreconcilable.

Finally, after receiving new information, Ren Zhong's new conjecture gradually became more reasonable.

That is, the area of ​​return is not the entire universe, but only the observable range of the source star's gravitational influence.

Then the energy that needs to be consumed suddenly changes from infinity to an astronomical number that is huge but can certainly be quantified. It can even be expressed in units of joules, which is nothing more than adding dozens of zeros.

Moreover, combined with his own resurrection time and the difference between the timelines of Source Star and the Empire, Ren Zhong can clearly determine that in addition to consuming energy, rewinding will also consume time.

The time consumed for each rewind is exactly one second!

This is also very weird.

Because the definition of second is originally a concept created by humans.

"Second" is not a cosmological constant like the speed of light.

Humans on earth first defined the time it takes for the earth to rotate once as a day, and then divided this day into 24 equal parts, each of which is 1 hour, and then divided each hour into 60 equal parts, each of which is 60 minutes, and then divided each minute into equal parts.

It is 60 parts, each part is 1 second.

The humans on Earth who were born in the Milky Way on a tassel of the Laniakea Super Galaxy Cluster, through this series of mathematical conversions, came to this concept of length of time that is only applicable to this civilization.

As for the concept of 9192631770 times the energy level transition radiation frequency of cesium-133 atoms and the definition of 1 second of waiting, it is just a carrot pit concept created by human scientists who first determined the length of 1 second and then followed the gourd.

That's all.

The time measurement unit of the second appeared in 1884 AD. At that time, humans did not have the ability to measure the radiation oscillation period of atomic energy level transitions.

Essentially, the concept of seconds comes from the rotation of the Earth.

If you change any planet in the universe, the star it orbits will be different from the sun, its weight and density will be different, its internal structural layers will be different, and its rotation period will inevitably be different.

Even for a planet like Yuanxing, which is highly similar to the earth, the daily time error still reaches about 0.5 seconds. Although it is so subtle that it seems negligible, it still exists objectively.

Assuming that the mastermind behind the Gupan Galaxy and using the quasar super-brain to secretly enslave the four major races of mankind is really a high-level alien civilization, then the environment in which it was born must be different from that of the people on Earth, or at least there must be

There are subtle differences, and their concept of time cannot be completely consistent with humans.

Ren Zhong couldn't believe such a ridiculous coincidence.

He also doesn't think that humans are enslaving the four major races.

Because it's completely unnecessary and the logic doesn't make sense.

If the high-level civilizations above the Four Kingdoms are really high-level humans, then there is absolutely no need for high-level humans to stay away from the Milky Way and come to this small elliptical galaxy located on the Sloan Great Wall, which is billions of light-years away.

But why does my return time take 1 second?

Is this coincidence or necessity?

If it is inevitable, then whose handiwork is this?

Who defines time?

Ren Zhong scratched his head in pain.

He found helplessly that every time he seemed to be getting closer to the truth, he often couldn't get what he asked for, and instead only had greater doubts.

After a long time, he collapsed weakly.

Unconsciously, he was soaked with sweat.

He still couldn't figure it out.

…

On the dark side of the No. 2 meteorite satellite of C1915, in the command room of the small reconnaissance and communication base station, Ding Canghai was also so nervous that his face turned pale and he was sweating profusely.

He had ordered the communication base station to turn off all searchlights, and then opened the physical camouflage armor on the surface of the base station, completely camouflaging it into a dark rock shell.
To be continued...